Paintings of Terror

At this moment, Xiao Kai twitched suddenly, his back seemed to be broken suddenly, and he fell forward, hitting Tian Yang's chest with his head, and then vomited a huge amount of black blood from his mouth. It was as thick as pitch, and it gushed out from his mouth and nose continuously.

"——Xiao Kai!" Tian Yang shouted hoarsely, trying to help Xiao Kai up, but just holding his arm, he was shocked to find that the black singlet that Xiao Kai was wearing outside had been soaked in blood at some point , he looked down subconsciously, and saw that Xiao Kai's ankle-deep trousers were continuously dripping with blood.

"——what happened to him?——what happened to him?" Tian Yang hugged Xiao Kai who was still twitching violently with bloody hands, turned his head, and asked Qin Ci in grief and helplessness.

Qin Ci still frowned and stared at Xiao Kai's blue-black face. The condition of this face was too strange. Its subcutaneous connective tissue seemed to have lost its adhesiveness and connection, making this face look like It was hanging on the skull, and between the skin and the skull was filled with liquefied substances—to be specific, blood and dissolved subcutaneous tissue.

At this time, Xiao Kai's eyes, nose, ears, mouth and pores of his body began to bleed outwards, and he collapsed on the sofa in convulsions, his whole body has become a bloody man.

Tian Yang wanted to help him up, but Xiao Kai's whole body seemed to be melted and turned into mud. Tian Yang lost his balance unexpectedly and sat down on the sofa.

Without Tian Yang standing in front of Xiao Kai, the people standing on the tea table also saw Xiao Kai's tragic situation at the moment. He Tang, Wu You, Gu Qingqing and Luo Wei were shocked by this situation and yelled a few times. Yiran suddenly raised his voice and shouted: "Be careful, don't be sprayed with blood on your bare skin!"

Everyone came back to their senses, and hurriedly tried their best to protect their exposed skin, but Tian Yang had already lost his mind, covered in blood, like a body without a soul, sitting next to Xiao Kai, staring blankly at him in a daze .

Xiao Kai, who was lying on the sofa, suddenly twitched violently, his limbs couldn't help but slammed hard, a large stream of thick blood spurted out from the anus, and splashed on the back of the sofa behind him, on Tian Yang's body, and even more. On high doors, walls and roofs.

The blood was even mixed with scattered internal organs.

Frightened by this situation, the girls and Luo Yao even changed their screams, and He Tang even fainted on Shao Ling's back.

Even though the other men didn't scream, they were so shocked by the scene before them that they lost their voices for a while.

Xiao Kai's blood sprayed for a long time, and the whole sofa was soaked in blood. When he finally stopped, his whole body was spread out on the sofa like a puddle of melted blood.

The dirty blood that poured in from under the door and from the gaps in the windows was still slowly accumulating, and it seemed that the influx did not stop until it was slightly bright. The level of the blood pool was only one or two centimeters away from the coffee table, and Everyone has already been drenched with sweat, which is the result of being shocked, hot and exhausted.

In fact, everyone was numb all night because their nerves were too tense, and they could hardly recall how they got through that night, and even their bodily functions seemed to have stopped.

"Let's..." Ke Xun finally spoke out first, his voice hoarse, "How do we leave here?"

Although the blood stopped gathering, it did not disappear. It was filled between the coffee table and the sofa, between the door and the window. If everyone wanted to leave the room, they had to be stained with this thick black blood.

"How about...wait and see if it will flow out through the crack of the door again?" Wei Dong also said hoarsely.

"That would be a waste of time." Shao Ling's sweat-soaked hair was hanging on his forehead, dripping with sweat. "We must hurry up and find clues to the painting during the daytime. Can't afford to delay."

Xiao Kai's death was too tragic, no one thought that it would be their turn next.

"Then, what should I do..." Wei Dong's legs trembled violently, "I can't stand anymore..."

He carried Fang Fei all night, and even Ke Xun, who was as physically strong as Ke Xun, was already exhausted. Wei Dong performed super-level this time.

"Let me down," Fang Fei said, "let me carry you instead."

"...Brother Fei, I know you have great strength," Wei Dong said in a weak voice, "but I have to save face, little brother..."

"How about I wrap my clothes around my legs and open the door through the blood?" Ke Xun said, "Guys, take off your clothes and lend me a moment. I'll go over faster, and my clothes shouldn't be soaked in blood."

"Impossible." Mu Yiran said, "Everyone is only left with single clothes, no matter how wrapped they are, they will be soaked, not to mention that you not only have to go over, but also push the sofa away and open the door."

"So, we really have to wait for the blood to flow out slowly before we can move?" Luo Kuo also said weakly.

"I doubt very much. When the blood dries up, it might just be dark again." Zhu Haowen said.

Everyone was still discussing the solution, but suddenly there was movement on the sofa.

Tian Yang kept slumped on the sofa and didn't move all night. Only then did he stand up slowly, and he was about to step off the sofa.

"Don't go down!" Ke Xun yelled.

Tian Yang turned his head to look at him stiffly, his face was splattered with terrifying black blood spots, and his voice was hoarse and shallow: "It's useless...Ke Er, it's useless already..."

As he spoke, he stepped into the knee-deep pool of blood under the sofa.

"—Hey! Don't go—" Several voices shouted eagerly, one after another, but they were powerless to stop them.

Tian Yang was bleeding, pushed the sofa away, and opened the door.

The human skin and unknown objects seen last night were gone outside the door, and the blood in the room gushed out like a gate, and it didn't take long for the blood to flow to the bottom.

Tian Yang went outside, took a few chairs from the dining room, placed them one by one from the coffee table to the door, and pushed the sofa in the middle hall to connect them, so that everyone on the coffee table would step on them and avoid touching them. To the blood on the floor, to the far outside of the house.

"Tian Yang, there will be a solution, you wait here, we will find an autograph right now, hold on!" Ke Xun looked at Tian Yang, who was lying on the ground with half of his body covered in blood, feeling mixed feelings for a moment.

Tian Yang stared at his blood-stained feet in despair, as if he didn't hear anything.

"What should we do now?" Wu You looked at a few people who could make up their minds.

"He Tang's complexion is very bad." Qin Ci reached out to test the temperature of her forehead, and He Tang stared at him with wide eyes in horror, for fear of hearing something more terrible than declaring terminally ill from his mouth.

"It may be due to lack of water and lack of sleep," Qin Ci said without changing his expression, "Finding water and food is still one of the main tasks today, I think we have to split up, given the situation last night, I think if we If you still can't find the signature today, you must make preparations in advance, find another house, and make one of the rooms into a seamless secret room, or a mechanism that can block the flow of blood. During the day, those things There should be no action, so the residential area is relatively safe. In my opinion, it is better for the four girls to stay. Fang Fei, you take them and find a suitable house and room. Get some sleep, okay?"

"No problem." Fang Fei responded, called Wu You, He Tang and Gu Qingqing, and walked towards the next house.

After the four girls walked away, Qin Ci turned around and said to everyone in a low voice: "He Tang's condition is not good, she has already started to have a low fever."

Everyone was shocked, and Luo Kuo's eyes turned red: "What should I do... Where is the signature? I have no clue until now. All the clues are scattered. Where are we going to find them?"

"Brother Qin, take the radish and Dongzi to find water," Ke Xun held Luo Kuo's shoulders, turned to Qin Ci and said, "The four of us are looking for autographs, and we came back here to meet up at noon."

"Okay." Qin Ci didn't delay, and took Luo Kuo and Wei Dong to the direction of the forest.

"You guys discuss the clues first, I'll go back as soon as I go." Ke Xun said to the remaining three people, then turned and ran to a nearby house, and ran out after a while, holding some clothes and towels in his hand.

"Wipe off the blood on your body and change into clean clothes." Ke Xun put the things next to Tian Yang, "Tian Yang, there is still time, and you can't give up until the last moment. Think about your wife and children."

Tian Yang, who was in a daze, didn't come back to his senses until he heard the last four words. He raised his eyes to look at Ke Xun, then slowly reached for the towel and wiped it on his face.

Ke Xun walked back to Mu Yiran and the others, and looked at them: "How about it, do you have any ideas?"

"Not at all." Zhu Haowen maintained his usual calmness, "Climate, blood disaster, blurred years, disordered vegetation, infrasound, what is the relationship between these and the theme of 'restart', we can only figure this out Only then will we be able to find a way to find a signature."

"Although there are many clues now, it's over here, stagnant, unable to break through the bottleneck." After Shao Ling finished speaking, he looked at Mu Yiran.

This person is younger than him, but he is knowledgeable, logical, thoughtful, calm and rational, but he is much better than anyone here, even himself who has always been a little arrogant and confident. , I have to have admiration for him, and even...a little bit of dependence on him.

It is true that there is a sky beyond the sky, and there are people beyond people.Shao Ling sighed softly.

"We seem to have a lot of clues at the moment, but we seem to be missing the most important links," Mu Yiran remained calm, "It's like we have several PVC pipes, but we don't have anything to connect them together. Like pipe joints, it is impossible to form a complete interconnected line pipe group.

"The bottleneck Shao Ling mentioned does exist now. We have thought of everything we can think of. If we still can't find the 'pipe joint', there can only be one reason - the 'pipe joint' is around us. However, we ignored it.

"Now let's think about what we have overlooked. We have checked every house here, and we have been to the forest. However, the forest area is vast, and the places we can go to are limited. The places we have been to have not been checked. Even if we want to thoroughly search the entire forest, seven days is far from enough. If the signature is in the forest, the places that are too far away are obviously meaningless, and the places that are too close have already been passed by. And nothing was found.

"So I think, even if the signature is in the forest, since we haven't found the crucial 'pipe joint' and haven't deciphered the core meaning of the painting, even if the signature appears in front of our eyes, we won't be able to see or recognize it. No, maybe even if you touch it, it won't have any effect at this time.

"And if the signature is in this residential area, it will also be because of the above reasons that we will pass by without knowing it.

"The forest and the residential area, two areas that seem to be completely independent and do not interfere with each other, since they both belong to the main body of this painting, there must be an internal connection, which may be complementary to each other, or cause and effect of each other.

"Think about the content of this painting. The subject is a human hand. Regardless of whether it is just a symbolic expression, since the painter uses human hands to express the thought of this painting, the nature of 'human' is very important. important.

"Think about the danger of death we experienced last night. Since the forces behind the painting process human skin and human blood into the death conditions used to kill us, unlike the previous paintings, there are ghosts and witches. There are ghosts, and this time the death executor is 'human', which once again shows the importance of the element 'human' in this painting.

"Then I think that in the two juxtaposed subjects of the forest and the residential area, the residential area full of 'human' elements may be the key to solving the puzzle. No matter whether the signature is in the forest or in the residential area, the key The clue must be in the residential area.

"For all the houses in the residential area, we checked the inside, outside, open space, food, and some items that seemed to be hidden clues, but found nothing, which means that we must have left something that we haven't checked, or checked There is also no emphasis on things.

"So I thought, what we're going to do next, is go through every single room here again, focusing on things that seem unimportant and easily overlooked."