Paintings of Terror

Shi Zhendong and Zhu Haowen finally finished their workload before two o'clock, and now everyone is gathered in the hall on the second floor.

After hearing about the changes in Zhang Tianwei's body, everyone said nothing under the stunned expressions—except for the panic of the unknown, and the helplessness in the face of these many changes.

Miao Zipei looked up at the clock on the wall, feeling a little puzzled: "The color has changed again."

Everyone looked up after hearing the words, but they didn't find any obvious difference.

Only Ye Ningchen said: "It seems...the blue color has more components, not so much cyan, but rather indigo."

"We laymen really don't know the specific color classification," Shi Zhendong looked at his little girlfriend who also studied art, "What is indigo?"

Although Xin Beibei's professional knowledge is average, she still knows the basics: "Indigo is the color of blue and purple combined, but I don't think the current clocks are indigo."

Miao Zipei's eyes are like a highly accurate instrument for distinguishing colors. He squinted his eyes and looked carefully for a while: "The color is undergoing a very slight change, slowly transitioning from cyan to indigo. It remains unchanged, and the green that matches it is gradually turning into purple. I believe that after 10 minutes, everyone will be able to see a very standard indigo color."

Shi Zhendong was a little impatient: "What does the color change of this clock mean? Although I don't remember the specific color change you mentioned, but these colors are very mixed, and blue, indigo and the like are not among our five colors. middle."

"Let's ask Miao to elaborate on each change, and let's try to analyze them one by one," Qin Ci said.

Miao Zipei was about to tell everyone in detail, but was interrupted by an exclamation.

The voice came from Ye Ningchenyi, who stood up from the chair in horror and kept shaking her skirt: "Oh my god, my skirt is stained with other colors!"

Everyone's first reaction was to stay away from this girl immediately, after all, polluting color is the biggest taboo in this world.

As soon as Ye Ningchen calmed down, she felt more and more like a plague god. At this moment, she took the initiative to stand far away, holding the hem of her skirt stained with blue juice, and sobbing softly.

Ye Ningchenyi's long dress was embroidered with small lavender flowers, and at this moment, an inconspicuous part of the skirt was stained with a touch of blue—this fresh and soft color, but at the moment it looked very glaring.

"Who is from the blue team?" After Ke Xun said this, he suddenly realized that he was from the blue team.

Guo Lixia and Xin Beibei in the same group also stood up without knowing why: "This...we will wash our hands well every time we step out of the room."

Ye Ningchenyi's entire face turned pale with fright: "What should I do, do I pollute the color? When did this happen? I have never entered any other room!"

"As long as you don't enter the work room with color, it's not considered pollution!" Ke Xun thought of this, and quickly pulled Ye Ningchen towards the bathroom: "Try it, maybe it can be washed off!"

Ye Ningchen, just like Feng Lunyin, hurried to the bathroom and turned on the faucet, then scrubbed back and forth with soap.

People in the hall looked very serious. Zhu Haowen said: "It is currently impossible to determine when she got the blue color. If it was in the morning, then the room has been polluted by now."

"Don't worry, this analysis should lead to conclusions," Ke Xun thought carefully about everyone's schedule today, "Xiaoye has never entered the blue room, so the only explanation is that the people in the blue group accidentally put the color into the blue room." I brought it out, and accidentally dyed it on Xiaoye's skirt."

Both Guo Lixia and Xin Beibei frowned with innocent faces.

Ke Xun continued to analyze: "Except for the green room, everyone has finished their workload before lunch, so after noon, no one else has entered the work room. That is to say, if the blue color is dyed after noon, Then it's probably fine after you wash it off."

Everyone nodded silently, and Shi Zhendong also analyzed: "The dangerous time is in the morning. From morning to fruit time, there are only four people working. At that time, the only person who had access to blue juice was Guo...Xiao Guo."

Guo Lixia became anxious all of a sudden: "Why did I become me?! I have been working hard all morning, and I wash my hands well before I come out, and I am very careful, because I am afraid that I will bring my color out! What happened to He Yu yesterday No one is afraid!"

Shi Zhendong hurriedly said: "Xiao Guo, don't worry, this is a positive analysis, and I didn't say it was you."

Ke Xun comforted Guo Lixia a few words, and Guo Lixia calmed down, but she still couldn't help muttering: "This is bad luck, I can't do my job well..."

Shi Zhendong continued: "During the fruit time at ten o'clock in the morning, everyone gathered in the hall. This is an important time, and it is also the first opportunity to stain the small leaves with blue paint; later, everyone went back to the room to work together and went out again. It's lunch time, so that should be the second and last time."

At this time, Ye Ningchen also came out of the bathroom, his face still as pale as paper: "After washing it several times, it seems that it has been washed off, and I don't know if it will help."

We all don't know how to comfort her, all the words are pale now.

"Xiaoye, who did you have close contact with this morning?" Ke Xun asked, after all, being able to touch the hem of the other party's skirt should require relatively intimate movements.

Ye Ningchen recalled it carefully for a long time: "I don't remember who I had close contact with. During the rest time in the morning, I was mostly with Mi Wei..."

Mi Wei's color was yellow, which was the first reason why she was ruled out of suspicion.

"I don't think it's morning," Mu Yiran said, and this sentence attracted everyone's attention, "When we left the first floor at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, the clock was still blue, and we will be here again at two o'clock, Miaozi Pei found that the color of the clock had changed, transitioning from cyan to indigo, and indigo is just a combination of blue and purple, which should not be a coincidence.”

Everyone carefully filtered the words of Mu Yiran, and Miao Zipei looked up at the clock that had become pure indigo: "Indigo is a combination of blue and purple, and Ye Ningchenyi's skirt itself is purple, and it is stained with Blue, the combination of these two colors is just indigo! Could this be the inspiration that clocks give us?!"

Everyone was dumbfounded.

Mu Yiran nodded slightly: "Miao Zipei first discovered the change of the clock from white to orange. Orange is just the combination of red and yellow. It reminds me of yesterday's color pollution incident - He Yu didn't wash off the red on his hands. The paint enters the yellow room, can this be understood as a combination of red and yellow?"

Everyone nodded thoughtfully, completely believing in this hypothesis: "It turns out that the change of the clock is to reveal the polluted color! Every time a color pollution event occurs, the pattern of the clock will change color accordingly!"

Mi Wei still grasped the incomprehension: "But, what does cyan represent? After orange is cyan! Cyan is the combination of blue and green, and the time when the clock turns cyan is this morning! At that time everyone If you are not in the work room, what chance is there to pollute the color?"

Everyone fell into silence again, and Ke Xun felt that his head was getting bigger: "Although the source of cyan cannot be explained at present, the previous analysis should be reasonable. We all have seen the formation of orange and indigo."

Ye Ningchen was still at a loss: "But, what should I do now..."

"Anyway, everyone has already finished their work, so don't go into any work room for now." Qin Ci had no better way.

Ye Ningchen nodded in a panic: "But, what about sleeping at night? Our bedroom door is also colored!"

Ke Xun thought of something, and raised his head to meet Mu Yiran's eyes. The two frowned at the same time, as if neither of them had fully figured it out.

Guo Lixia also felt that this little girl was very pitiful: "Hey, why don't you just stay in the lobby on the second floor all night."

"Does that count as violating the rules..." Ye Ningchen became sleepy, as if he had been declared terminally ill.

No one dared to say this, after all, the NPC asked everyone to go back to the room of their respective colors to sleep.

As soon as I thought of the NPC, the familiar music sounded, and the NPC's voice was so sweet that people wanted to strangle her: "Congratulations everyone for completing today's labor tasks~ Afternoon tea is ready in the dining car, please open the lobby door to pick it up yourself ~ After afternoon tea, everyone can take a stroll around and enjoy the scenery of the castle!" The NPC emphasized his tone as usual, "Remember not to pollute the colors! Remember!"

These words hit Ye Ningchenyi's heart heavily, the girl was so frightened that she didn't even have tears, she looked at Mu Yiran in panic at this moment: "Team leader, what should I do?"

Ke Xun didn't expect that Mu Yiran would be elected as the team leader by Zi Zi, and he was a good match for him...

Mu Yiran looked at Ye Ning Chenyi with rare gentleness in his eyes: "Maybe there is still a glimmer of life after the color is washed off, don't sleep in the lobby at night, that is in itself a violation of the rules."

Xin Beibei seemed to think of something suddenly: "Think about the red bedroom, because of He Yu, the whole room has lost its color! If she really pollutes the color, will the purple bedroom also..."

There is unshakable determination in Mu Yiran's eyes: "Painting also has a bottom line, especially when it comes to the conditions of death, which are almost perfect and harsh—the innocent will never be hurt because of a certain person."

Wei Dong also said: "Xiao Ye, you can go back to our house without worry, we are not afraid! If there is any danger, maybe the two of us can help you!"

Ye Ningchen was very moved and nodded hastily.

At this time, Guo Lixia had already pushed in the dining car, on which there were beautifully arranged western-style pastries in the shape of a round tower, and a glass vessel with a thin neck and round belly, filled with bright red pomegranate juice.

Everyone was somewhat resistant, and all chose ordinary tea.

"We still have to keep looking for autographs. We can't waste the precious time during the day." Qin Ci ate the delicious cookies with a blank expression.

"This castle is composed of many groups of buildings. We only know the square building we are in, and the circular building on the other side of the corridor only understands the fourth floor. We must find a way to figure out the whole castle." It was Shi Zhendong who spoke.

Xin Beibei quickly said: "And outside the castle, we only saw the pool this morning, and we haven't had time to look at the maze yet!"