Paintings of Terror

In room 402, there is a strange imprint after the fire.

The ceiling and walls of the room were blackened by smoke, but other furniture and furnishings were not affected in the slightest.

The light in the room was very dark, and the big window facing the road was also blocked by a concrete wall. Regarding this, most people did not show any strange expressions, except for Weidong and Zhu Haowen, who were obviously surprised by the weird concrete wall. Frightened and puzzled.

On the big bed in the back room, two-thirds of the bedding was burned to ashes, while the other third was intact.

Wei Dong turned pale, and stood beside Ke Xun: "This... how did it start to burn? Could it be that the bedding spontaneously ignited? This is too evil."

Mu Yiran looked at the undamaged half candle on the table next to him, and felt that something was wrong.

Everyone soon discovered this strange phenomenon. Zhi Tiao picked up the half candle squatting in the small tea bowl, where a lot of solidified wax oil had accumulated: "This... the candle is not the source of the fire?"

Qin Ci looked up at the blackened ceiling and walls: "Judging from the walls, the fire last night should have been huge, and even spread to the outside."

——"No, these walls have always been black." It was Xin Miao who had just appeared at the door who spoke, and Sha Liu was standing beside him.

"It's always been black?" Qin Ci was puzzled.

Xin Miao looked determined: "The three of us... The three of us opened the door to look at the house yesterday evening. The house was dark. Later, we went downstairs to find the porter. He said that the house cannot be changed, and we cannot live in it... … asked him to open the door for us to go out, and he didn't agree."

"Aside from the black walls, is there anything else strange?" Mu Yiran asked.

At the moment, Xin Miao was calm and forbearing. After Sha Liu's persuasion, her instinctive desire to survive finally outweighed her fear. At this moment, she just wanted to cooperate with everyone to find asylum: "We just looked at the house at that time, and then I went to the small restaurant downstairs to eat..." Xin Miao looked at the room in front of her again, saw the half-burned bed, and couldn't help but shiver, "The two of them are more courageous than me. Big, I always thought that last night was time travel, and their ability to adapt is better than mine."

"We went back to the house after turning off the lights. We each played mobile games for a while, and then...the two of them had to go to the bathroom, and it would be bad when they came back..." Xin Miao recalled yesterday's scene.

Sha Liu asked next to him, "What's wrong?"

"When they came back, they said that there was a ghostly face outside the window of the public toilet... because Tina likes to play tricks and scare people, and she also likes to tell ghost stories. I was timid, so I thought they were scaring me on purpose," Xin Miao said. Then they sobbed again, "They said that this place can't be lived, and they want to go out to discuss with you, and then we all go to the old porter..."

"I half believed what they said, and I was very scared in my heart. It was dark outside, so I didn't dare to go out at all! The three of us didn't remember which house you all lived in. We only vaguely remembered that the other two women seemed to live in 410 ..."

So last night they knocked on the 410's door, and when they didn't get a response, maybe they were afraid, so they could only leave first, planning to spend the night and leave the apartment tomorrow morning.

Everyone heard their knocking on the door last night, and as long as the angle of the room is right, some people also saw the window of 402 with candlelight.

"What about after they go back to the house?" Ke Xun thought of Tina who dyed her hair gray-blue, she was quite fearless, and always felt that this person would not be able to calm down even when she returned to the room.

Sure enough, Xin Miao continued: "None of us could fall asleep, and everyone was a little restless. Later, Tina started packing her backpack and planned to leave overnight. In fact, we did leave the room again..."

Xin Miao's face became ugly, and her eyes couldn't help looking in the direction of the public toilet: "That staircase...we went up there before the lights were turned off. The stairs are obviously next to the public toilet... Who knows, when we When I tried to leave in the middle of the night, the stairs were gone."

"What?!" Qiu Lu was the first to express surprise, "The stairs are gone?!"

Xin Miao's lips turned white with fright: "Now it's there again... It really disappeared last night! The public toilet is still there, but the place where there should be stairs is flat! It's as if there were no stairs there..."

"Then you panicked and went back to your room?" Ke Xun asked.

"Yes, we didn't dare to go anywhere. We locked the door tightly and felt unsafe. Then we all huddled together and slept...until the next morning..."

Sha Liu patted Xin Miao's back to comfort each other, and looked at Mu Yiran and Ke Xun: "Qiu Lu and I go to the women's bathroom to have a look, I don't know if that grimace is still there."

Qiu Lu was a little scared and hesitated to move forward.

Shouzhu said from the side: "If there is no one in the women's bathroom now, let's go in and have a look together."

The others had no objection, so Xin Miao went with everyone, thinking that the safest place is only where there are many people, even in broad daylight.

Mu Yiran walked behind, did not go in, but stepped towards the direction of the stairs, and Ke Xun stood behind: "I believe her words, the stairs may have really disappeared last night."

Now the stairs are clearly in front of my eyes, and there are saint warrior stickers posted by children on the mottled handrails.

But who can tell clearly what happened in the painting?

Mu Yiran stood at the stairs, as if thinking about something.

Ke Xun looked at the four points in the circle of the apartment, each point is an exit, the stairs are the exit of the solid, and the toilet water room is the exit of the liquid.

"You said, did all the stairs disappear after the lights were turned off last night? If that's the case, then there's no need for the concierge to remind us not to go up and down the stairs at will." Ke Xun expressed his opinion.

Mu Yiran's cool eyes stayed on Ke Xun's face for a moment: "In terms of time, will this disappearance happen every night, or only on a specific night?"

Ke Xun felt that the other party sprinkled mints on his face, his face was refreshed, and his head seemed to be much clearer: "In other words, the disappearance of the stairs may be closely related to the death event that night, and the death event last night was designed as a fire. , once the two girls who were burned wake up in time, they are likely to push out the door and escape, and the stairs are the preferred direction for people as an emergency passage.”

The mints in Mu Yiran's eyes came again, and he nodded slightly: "By analogy, the whole apartment is involved in the death design, and adjustments will be made for each death event. This time, only The hardware facilities of the apartment, in the future, maybe someone will participate in it."

Mu Yiran's tone was calm, but the content of his words made people feel horrified from head to toe.

Others had already come out of the public toilet, and the result was that there was indeed a grimace outside the window of the women's toilet. It was graffiti painted on the concrete wall outside.

"Ke'er, why is there a concrete wall outside the window?" Wei Dong came to Ke Xun's side, "Is it like this on all your fourth floors?"

Ke Xun nodded: "Are you all right on the sixth floor?"

Everyone went downstairs while talking, it's time to gather at Wumei Restaurant.

"The windows on the sixth floor are still quite bright, but I just feel suffocated." Wei Dong looked at Zhu Haowen who was walking in front, "My roommate kept complaining about a headache last night. But when I’m angry, I’m lucky to have the Eight Immortals tube you gave me to hold it up, otherwise I should have been sent to the hospital for oxygen.”

As Weidong said, he also took out the Eight Immortals tube in his hand, unscrewed it, and took a deep breath: "No wonder the concierge said he was panicking when he lived on the sixth floor. I understand this feeling."

Mu Yiran suddenly asked: "Besides the physical discomfort last night, is there any other abnormality in your room?"

Wei Dong scratched his head: "We both fell asleep last night, and we still felt headache and chest tightness when we woke up in the morning, so we left the room quickly."

"Are you still uncomfortable now?" Ke Xun asked.

"It's strange, it will be fine as soon as you leave the sixth floor." Weidong himself couldn't explain why.

When Qin Ci passed by the third floor, he went to the 307 where he lived to help the old man Li Taiyong out. Since the old man was too old, everyone did not let him know about the death for the time being.

The concierge is already waiting for everyone at the entrance of Wumei Restaurant: "Before eating, let everyone talk about 402."

Is the NPC going to take the initiative to explain the crime last night?

The concierge shook the big key chain in his hand: "Since Liao Xin passed it on to us to cut off the power at night, the big guys can only do it in the dark. Xiaobai, who used to live in 402, the student of the college entrance examination, can only light wax to study every night, and read a book one day. I fell asleep when I was too tired, and I caught a candle and lit the book, which caused a fire.—Of course, this was last year."

Everyone was analyzing the purpose of the NPC's explanation, and the porter said: "So we must pay attention to fire safety and have common sense of fire fighting! Let's stop here and go eat."

Wei Dong couldn't help asking: "Then do we have any tasks during the day?"

"What do you tenants like to do, it's not my business!"

"Then can we go out the gate?" Qiu Lu asked hastily.

The concierge's face turned cold: "The gate has already been blocked by the developers, and even the cement wall has been built. Whoever goes out will be a traitor to Chunshui Dormitory!"

The big guys rushed into the restaurant with a haha, and Sha Liu reminded Qiu Lu: "Our purpose is to find the seal, and only by finding the seal can we leave this world!"

Qiu Lu has also been forced to believe this evil story: "But there are so many people living here, should we search from house to house?"

"It is impossible for the seal to be in someone else's house. We must contact these death incidents to find out the main thread or trigger point. The seal can only be hidden in places related to these." Sha Liu's voice gradually increased, so that those who were killed for the first time Anyone who enters the painting can hear it.

The proprietress Wumei led everyone into the only standard room of the hotel. There was a big round table inside, and a simple breakfast was already set on it-millet porridge, steamed buns, and cold side dishes.

Ke Xun Weidong feels that the treatment here is not bad for the "eating bran and swallowing vegetables" who have experienced the first two paintings.

Fifth Sister also said: "If you want to order a la carte, you can pay extra. We also have eggs, fried cakes, steamed buns, preserved eggs and lean meat porridge."

Everyone has no appetite to eat, let alone order.

Ke Xun glanced at Fifth Sister: "Let's have another boiled egg, how much is it?"

At this time, you should be full. Finding the seal is a very exhausting task.

"An egg costs 11 cents, and [-] people will count it as [-] yuan for you!" Wumei was a happy person.

Ke Xun gave the money to Fifth Younger Sister, and asked with a smile, "Who is that Liao Xinchuan whom the uncle mentioned just now?"

The fifth sister replied while keeping accounts: "It is the former director Liao of the factory!"

This answer surprised everyone. They thought that Liao Xinchuan should be the so-called Hong Kong developer, but they didn't expect another factory manager to appear.

This time, the person who spoke was the old man Li Taiyong who had always been taciturn: "Girl, is our factory still there?"

"Yes, but it's different from before. I don't understand the principle of the joint-stock system, so after going around, the whole factory now belongs to those few shareholders! Even the land of the factory and our Chunsun dormitory belong to them." They are gone! Director Liao takes the lead!"

Lee Tae Yong fell silent again.