Paintings of Terror

"Grandma, what is bone phase?" Ke Xun decided to ask step by step.

"Here, right here," the old lady stretched out her wrinkled hand like an orange peel, and stroked Ke Xun's forehead tremblingly, "The skin on the outside of a person is called the skin, and the bones inside the skin are called the bone, and the person's face." Fate, there are seven points in the bones."

Wei Dong muttered in the back: "The old man's street fortune-telling method is accurate..."

I really would rather that her calculations were inaccurate, and that she would be like the fortune-telling scammers on the street... all of them are deceitful.

Zhu Haowen said calmly: "It is said that in the scientific world, there are also studies and theories that can judge a person's personality, adaptability, and psychological function based on the shape of the skull. Therefore, fortune-telling based on the shape of the skull is also a good idea. Not without basis."

Wei Dong: "...Your words made me not know whether to feel comforted or panic..."

Zhu Haowen ignored him, and his eyes continued to fall on Ke Xun's plump and round forehead covered by the old lady's skinny palm.

"Is the bone phase you mentioned the shape of a bone?" Ke Xun was continuing to ask further questions.

The old lady shook her head, and tapped her finger on Ke Xun's forehead: "The shape of the bone is also called the bone phase, but the bone phase I am talking about is the essence, energy, and spirit of the bone. The bone is the root of the body, so all kinds of bones are formed." Facial appearance, the spirit shown on the face of a person is actually the spirit of the bones. But ah, some spirits can be seen through the surface, and some spirits are all rooted in the bones Stick to it, what I see in your bones is the roots in your bones... It's a pity... I'm old and dim-sighted, I don't have enough knowledge, I can see, but I can't see clearly, and I don't know what I see clearly..."

"What do you mean when you say you don't know each other?" Zhu Haowen also took a few steps forward and stood by the bed and asked.

The old lady raised her eyes to look at him, withdrew her hand from Ke Xun's forehead, and gestured in mid-air: "Your bones... there are things, dark, all overgrown..."

Wei Dong Luo Kuo and Wu You shook hands together when they heard the words, "It made me feel numb all over." Luo Kuo said while rubbing his arms.

"Do you mean that the bone itself is black, or is there something black on the outside of the bone?" Zhu Haowen continued to ask.

"Not outside," the old lady shook her head, staring carefully at Ke Xun's face with her hazy yellow eyes, "it's inside."

"Is the whole bone black?" Ke Xun was also uncomfortable being stared at by the old lady, and couldn't help rubbing his face.

"No," the old lady continued to stare at him with difficulty, "some places are not dark, some places are dark."

"...Does this black and non-black place look like interlaced stripes, or is it some other shape?" Zhu Haowen asked further.

"Miscellaneous," the old lady withdrew her gaze from Ke Xun's face, and slowly rubbed her wrinkled eyelids and corners with her hands, "Oh, old man, I can't see clearly..."

"That should be mottled," Ke Xun raised his head and met Zhu Haowen's eyes, "What's the reason for this, 'that kind of thing' will make the bones black?"

"That kind of thing" is of course a picture-worthy thing, but it's hard to say it clearly in front of the old lady.

"It's bones, silly boy, bones and bones are not the same thing," the old lady patted his knee, "I have seen a lot of bones in my life, and this is the first time for people like you See, the patriarch has never taught how to solve this bone phase, alas, it's a pity for you young people..."

"Then how do you conclude that this omen of bones is not a good omen?" Wu You asked hurriedly.

The old lady sighed: "It's the first time I saw it, and my master also saw it once earlier. At that time, I was still young and I hadn't become a teacher. The thing is that I heard my master say something about him later, saying that he I've seen people with this kind of bones before, and I thought it was strange, but unfortunately I don't know how to interpret them, but within two days after I saw them, those people all died, it was a miserable death..."

"This amount of information is too much," Ke Xun said, "Grandma, please take your time and tell us carefully. You see, we young people are getting more and more handsome than each other, and you can't bear to let us go." Is something wrong? Think slowly, talk slowly, count as much as you can remember, okay?"

"Okay, okay, okay," the old lady waved her hand, and said to Weidong and the others, "Stop standing, sit down, sit down."

Wei Dong and the others responded, and found a place to sit down one after another. Ke Xun said, "Tell me about the people your master has seen, how many of them are there?"

"It's five or six people," the old lady thought for a long time before giving a vague answer, "Anyway, there are several, not one or two. My master said that I have never seen so many people with this kind of bone appearance. Definitely not just one or two people."

"Do you know how old these people are and what they do?" Zhu Haowen asked.

The old lady thought for a long time: "I remember that there are men and women, old and young, so my master finds it strange that there are all kinds of people, all of which are of the same type."

"Did your master say where you saw it?" Ke Xun asked.

The old lady answered this question quite quickly: "It's at my master's house. Those people came to find my master to start a class. It seems that they are going to do something very dangerous. I heard that my master's hexagrams are accurate. Specially, I came all the way to find my master. When my master saw it, he was shocked. He wondered why these people had such strange bones. The master didn't dare to give them a fortune-telling, and only taught a lesson about good and bad luck, but it turned out to be a big ominous... My master said, I have never seen such a fierce hexagram, which made him dare not open it for several months. Avoid this ferocity. If it doesn't happen later, something will happen to those few people."

"How did your master know that something happened to those people?" Zhu Haowen grasped the doubts keenly.

The old lady patted her leg that was hanging on the edge of the bed, and sighed: "My master is just very curious. He was young at that time, and he made such a ominous divination. He said he had seen it once in his life, and his heart was scratching." As if wanting to know what to do, I heard those people mentioning what kind of study they were going to, so I took it to heart, and ran there twice in the next three days, and I really caught sight of those people one day. He went in, and came out again not long after, and he felt something was wrong, saying that those people seemed to be possessed by a demon, and they went their own ways when they left the study. The man was shot to death randomly, and the blood hole on his body..."

"Wait...you wait," Wei Dong interrupted with a black face, "Shots to death? May I ask which era it was?"

"A few years ago or a few years ago," the old lady said, "there were wars everywhere, and it was very chaotic."

Wei Dong made up his mind, this old lady seems to be in her eighties, when her master was young... well, it was a chaotic time.

"Your master said it was like being possessed by an evil spirit. Do you know what it looks like?" Ke Xun continued to ask.

The old lady glanced at him, and answered him in a slow and hoarse voice: "My master said, when those people came out of the study, they were already soulless, no different from the living dead, and sooner or later they would die. "

This made everyone shudder uncontrollably.

"Then, did your master tell you in detail what the bones of those people look like?" Ke Xun finally reached the most critical question step by step.

The old lady seemed to have a deep memory of this incident, so she didn't recall it for a long time. She raised her skinny hand and gestured in front of Ke Xun's body: "My master said, it's the black lines coming out of the bones. A few people, the whole body of the bone is densely covered. It looks like a pattern, but my master doesn't recognize it, and I don't recognize the one on your body..."

"As for the pattern, can you tell me what it looks like?" Ke Xun asked.

The old lady looked worried: "I can't tell, there are crooked ones, some crooked ones..."

"Can you draw it?" Wu You asked anxiously. Before the old lady could react, she randomly took out a few pieces of tissue paper and an eyebrow pencil from her bag, and stuffed them into the old lady's hands, "Try to draw painting."

The old lady took her reading glasses from the bedside table, looked at Ke Xun sitting in front of her from the top of the lenses, and drew on the paper with her trembling old hands holding an eyebrow pencil. Unfortunately, after a long time of drawing, the paper was full of Trembling chaotic lines, nothing can be seen at all.

Wu You went to ask for a serious pen and paper to ask the old lady to draw again, but the drawn pattern was still a few messy lines that seemed to have been electrocuted.

The old lady put down the pen and shook her head while taking off her glasses: "No, I'm getting old, I can't see people clearly even if I can't hold the pen..."

The old man is indeed too old, and he usually trembles when he raises his hand, let alone such a relatively delicate operation as drawing with a brush.

Everyone felt helpless, but they really couldn't force it, so Ke Xun could only ask, "Then do you remember the name of the study that your master said those people went to?"

The old lady thought for a long time, and finally shook her head: "I don't remember, or my master didn't say anything."

Zhu Haowen said: "Where did your master live before? Is it this city?"

The old lady nodded: "His grandparents have lived here."

"Is there anyone in his family now?" Ke Xun asked hurriedly.

The old lady shook her head and sighed: "My master didn't do anything to raise children. He said that what he did to us was all secrets, and he would be punished by heaven. God let him go bankrupt, I'm afraid it will be retribution... Ever since I learned this trade, I have had three disasters and eight disasters every year, and I almost passed it several times, isn't it also retribution?"

At this point in the clues, it was difficult to make any progress, Ke Xun and the others wentssiping with the old lady again, seeing that the old lady was not in good spirits, they resigned and left.

"The 'living dead without a soul'..." Weidong was the first to speak until he walked out of the residential area, "Do you think... a bit like those people who died in paintings and stayed in reality Like the 'skin' in the world?"

Everyone was silent for a while.

No one would have thought that there would be such a group of people nearly a hundred years ago who had the same experience as them.

So, what is the final outcome of that group of people?

Did they all die tragically, as the old lady's master saw?

Or can someone, lucky enough to survive?