Paintings of Terror

The red whistle whistled alone in the night, the whistle was sometimes sharp, sometimes low, and sometimes it was like a whisper, like a cry of mourning...

No matter what the tone of voice is, it all reveals strangeness.

After about half an hour, the whistle suddenly stopped.

This sudden silence seemed to be secretly brewing something, but it was even more creepy.

Salix's heart-piercing screams were suddenly heard from 410 next door. The screams were accompanied by a sound similar to the roar of a ferocious beast. No one could guess what happened in the room.

"Help! Help me!" Salix's sharp cry seemed insignificant in the roar of the beast, and the sound of something being gnawed gradually came from the room.

Hearing the chilling gnawing sound, Ke Xun broke out in a cold sweat. The pain and fear brought by wild beasts are different from ghosts, which are real and naked.

"It sounds like a canine animal." Mu Yiran maintained his usual calmness.

There was a sound of metal collisions in the next room, as if Salix was fighting back, and then the door next door opened. From the small window of 411, it can be clearly seen that Salix staggered out covered in blood. , but a huge and vicious wolf sprang out behind him—Ke Xun rubbed his eyes, and felt that this wolf looked a bit like a dog.

"Help! Help!" Although Sha Liu kept shouting for help, her eyes were full of despair. Ke Xun suddenly found that Sha Liu's left forearm seemed to be missing, and blood flowed profusely from below the elbow.

The giant wolf didn't seem to want to kill the prey directly, the current biting was more like a tease, it opened its huge mouth and dragged the willow in its mouth, as if enjoying the other party's screams.

Sha Liu finally knocked on the door of 411, but this time it was not life-saving, but: "You all go to die! You all have to die! No one can get out alive!"

Ke Xun and Mu Yiran directly ignored the curse outside, and now they separated into two rooms, waiting for the vision in room 411 to appear.

Sure enough, after the door rang, Ke Xun, who was standing in the living room, saw a woman coming out of the bedroom, wearing those eye-catching red slippers.

Although the scene was very weird, Ke Xun still didn't want to let go of any clues, and kept his eyes on the woman.

The other party didn't seem to see Ke Xun, so he walked towards the chest of drawers with a natural expression, opened the last layer, and took out a cloth bag from inside - this bag Ke Xun had seen before, and he had opened it before when he was looking for the seal, but There are some old clothes inside, so I didn't look carefully.

The woman seemed to find something from the bag, looked at it and put it back, then got up and went back to the bedroom.

When Ke Xun hurried back to the bedroom, the woman had disappeared.

The room was dark again.

The screams of Salix outside the window are still continuing, and the voice is gradually fading away. I don't know whether it is the distance or the voice of Salix is ​​getting weaker.

There seemed to be something left in the corridor outside the door, and Ke Xun couldn't see it clearly, but he could probably guess that it was the stump of a salix in a pool of blood.

"The whistle is gone." Mu Yiran looked at the place where the whistle was hung before.

"Who took the whistle?" It couldn't be that wolf-like beast.

The whistle probably fulfilled its mission, the mission of some kind of summoned beast...

Almost two hours passed, and I could still hear Sha Liu's groans from time to time. Speaking of those who died a few nights ago, Sha Liu was probably the one who died the most painfully.

A whistle pierced the night sky, and the familiar hoarse old man's voice came again: "Wangfu——you finally know you're home—"

……

It was broad daylight when Ke Xun woke up, and Mu Yiran had already gotten up and gone out.

Ke Xun went out and found that the blood and stumps from last night had also been cleaned up.

In the courtyard, everyone was standing next to the corpse covered in white cloth, including Xin Miao, who was already insane, dancing happily around Shaliu's corpse.

The old man Li Taiyong pulled Xin Miao aside and gave her a lollipop to eat.

Wei Dong kept retching by the side, and saw Ke Xun: "Fortunately, you got up late, you didn't see the corpses thrown all over the building..."

Ke Xun frowned. Although he didn't see it with his own eyes, he could imagine it.

Qin Ci said: "I just don't understand why the corpse turned white, even the hair turned white."

"Because of the backlash in this room caused by her knocking on the door," Zhu Haowen answered this question, "The room 410 where she lived was originally the room of the albino patient, and that woman died of albinism at the beginning, so she knocked on the door. Then the body mutated."

Wei Dong vomited again: "I said, why are those corpses so white..."

In the end, Salix's body was carried out by people, and the stretcher trembled, making people worried that a stump would be left behind...

The porter walked over directly, shaking the key: "Everyone is here, let's talk about 307."

Finally, let's talk about 307.

"The lame Liu used to live in 307. Lao Liu is a good man. Although he has bad legs and has not found a wife, he is hardworking and capable, and has a high level of ideological awareness. The money he saves is used to fund those poor primary schools. Speaking of Lao Liu, I have to mention Wangfu, that is the stray puppy that Lao Liu took in at the beginning, and it lasted for [-] or [-] years, and one person and one dog depended on each other.

"When those bastards from the factory came to our place to chase people away, they thought that Lao Liu was easy to talk, so they picked up the soft persimmons and asked Lao Liu to set an example and be the first to move! Wangfu saw that Lao Liu was being pushed around by those people. , got anxious, and bit the deputy factory manager's leg with one bite, and now he was in trouble. Although he was wearing thick clothes at the time and his leg was not bitten, the deputy factory manager didn't want to do it...

"The deputy factory manager didn't say anything at the time, but Wangfu was lost the next day, which made Lao Liu very anxious. Wangfu was like his own child to him. Old Liu worked day and night in those days. I went out to look for Wangfu, and my voice became hoarse. In the past, as soon as Wangfu heard Lao Liu's whistle, or the sound of Lao Liu knocking on the dog bowl, he would definitely rush out at the first time...

"It took several days before someone found Wangfu between the tube building and the concrete wall outside. The old dog was killed by those people, and was chopped up by those people, and it was thrown away in pieces. up.

"We dare not tell Lao Liu, for fear that he will not be able to bear it. Lao Liu failed to find Wangfu until his death. This is probably his knot."

It turned out that the person who wanted revenge was not Lao Liu, but Wang Fu.

As for why the red whistle appeared in front of 410, it is always a mystery.

Could it be that Lao Liu sensed the killing spirit of 410 at that time? ——Sha Liu's guidance to Qiu Lu is actually a kind of death guidance. In other words, Sha Liu is the murderer who killed Qiu Lu.

"But, how did that dog appear in 410?" Wei Dong asked.

"Because the window outside 410 was open, the dog's body was thrown into the narrow crack of the concrete wall, so Wangfu's ghost still climbed up from there..." Ke Xun said.

The concierge suddenly raised his head and looked up. Because the roof was gathered together, the light in the entire tube building was not so bright. In fact, the diameter of the patio opening was only five or six meters, and everyone seemed to be sealed in a small jar.

The concierge showed a gratified expression: "I think the momentum is gratifying, maybe it will break the ground tomorrow! You all go to eat quickly! Breaking the ground is a good thing! Let's all go out!"

The porter said and waved to Xin Miao again: "Your 215's screen window has been repaired, and I will replace it with a new one for you in two days!"

Xin Miao didn't quite understand, so she just smiled at the concierge.

Everyone was not in the mood to eat at this time, Qin Ci raised his head and looked up: "Could it be that the ground breaking is ahead of schedule?"

"NPCs shouldn't lie. It's probably because we triggered some conditions that caused the ground breaking to happen earlier." Mu Yiran couldn't figure out the reason for a while.

Wei Dong said, "If there is a total blockade before breaking ground, we will probably be suffocated to death, but aren't these people afraid?"

Mu Yiran looked at Xin Miao who was not far away: "Xin Miao is already one of them, so I shouldn't be afraid."

Wei Dong suddenly found out that Xin Miao had changed into a red dress at some point: "Could it be...the other people living in this tube building are all..."

"They are all from the soil." Zhu Haowen replied directly.

"If it is really like what the NPC said, the groundbreaking will be completed tomorrow, then today there will be a fully closed state before the groundbreaking," Ke Xun analyzed the current situation, "If we can't find the seal today, everyone probably will Get cold here."

Now there are six people left: Mu Yiran, Ke Xun, Wei Dong, Qin Ci, Zhu Haowen, and old man Li Taiyong.

The old man Li Taiyong came over: "I will accompany you to look for it."

But none of us moved the place. We have searched all the places we should look for, but now we don't know where to start.

Zhu Haowen first said: "I always think it has something to do with the mouth of the patio, after all, there will be the tip of the bamboo shoot."

"But it's not a rooftop after all. I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to climb to the mouth of the patio." Qin Ci expressed doubts.

"When the deformation reaches a certain level, the window on the exterior wall of our sixth floor is equivalent to the top of the bamboo shoot. We only need to break the window glass to do it!" Zhu Haowen expressed his thoughts.

"It's not too late," Mu Yiran said suddenly, "You guys go to the sixth floor. Ke Xun and I went back to 411. There were some visions in the room last night, maybe it's related to a big event."

Ke Xun looked at the old man Li Taiyong: "The old man should follow us, after all, the sixth floor is too high."

So, the six people were divided into two groups, three people went to 616, and three people went to 411.

Mu Yiran asked Ke Xun along the way: "What vision did you see last night?"

After all, I was in room 411 last night, and it might not be safe to openly discuss those visions, so I will save it for the day.

Ke Xun talked about the woman he saw yesterday, and suddenly looked at Mu Yiran: "Could it be that what you saw was different from mine?"

"It's not the same. I saw that woman walk into the bedroom from the living room, took out a pen and paper, faced the mirror and began to draw a portrait of herself." Mu Yiran said what he saw last night.

"That is to say, that woman can draw?" Ke Xun thinks that the word "painting" is very sensitive in the painting.

"Yes, it looks like a very professional sketch."

The old man Li Taiyong said directly: "My legs and feet are slow, you two go up and look for it first!"

So, the two went straight to 411, first went to open the grid under the chest of drawers, and found the big cloth bag from inside. Sure enough, they found a hand-sewn cloth schoolbag among several hand-knitted sweaters and trousers, which contained some letters.

Life was at stake, and at this time, regardless of whether it was private or not, the two divided the letters and began to open them one by one.

Most of the letters came from abroad, and the two gradually learned from the letters that the woman's husband had studied abroad a few years ago, where he studied oil painting.

Due to economic reasons, the man has not returned to China for many years, and the woman lives in China alone with her son, living in the Chunsun Dormitory 411 in front of her.

It can be seen that the husband and wife are very in love with each other, and Ke Xun also vaguely understands what the word "return" on the desk means.

The two read the letters one by one, but there was no letter in the bottom envelope, but a lot of papers inside. Ke Xun poured out all of them, and read them one by one. Most of them were written by the husband and wife when they were students. Written by—the two seem to be classmates in high school, and they are still at the same table, so they often pass notes to each other during class.