Paintings of Terror

When everyone came to the lobby on the second floor, Guo Lixia was persuading Shi Zhendong: "Anyway, what we have to do now is to quickly find the signatures, and then quickly escape from this painting. Maybe those people can be saved."

Shi Zhendong smiled bitterly, but couldn't say anything. Seeing everyone coming downstairs, he didn't wait for everyone's persuasion, and stood up: "Let's go to the first floor for dinner. After dinner, we have to work."

Wei Dong pushed open the door of his bedroom, looked inside, closed the door again and came out.

"Did Ye Ningchenyi's body disappear?" Qin Ci asked.

Weidong nodded, feeling embarrassed: "The first time we saw Xiaoye, we thought she was a very nice girl, enthusiastic and sensible, who knew that she was finally involved in the painting..."

Miao Zipei asked, "Where did Ye Ningchenyi and He Yu's bodies go?"

"Probably the painting is being cleared." Zhu Haowen answered him. "Perhaps for the boss, those people whose colors are polluted are the most meaningless existence."

"Whether it makes sense or not, at least it wasn't that painful when Xiao Ye left." Wei Dong thought of Xin Bei Bei who had lost her head soaked in the blue liquid, and felt that Ye Ning Chen was much luckier.

Everyone went back to the lobby on the first floor and had a simple breakfast, and then divided the labor. After some discussions, one person was left in each room to continue working: Weidong in the purple room, Guo Lixia in the blue room, and Qin Qin in the yellow room. Thanks, the green room is Shi Zhendong.

Shi Zhendong didn't have the mood to continue searching, so he volunteered to stay and work.

There were fewer and fewer people, and there were only five people left responsible for finding signatures.

The five people first found the pen and paper from the drawer in the hall, and then went to the window on the fourth floor to look down and draw the maze. Because of the angle, it was impossible to look down at 90 degrees, so the north half of the maze was not drawn clearly. I can draw a rough idea.

"Xin Beibei mentioned going to the maze several times. If she was really bewitched by the paintings, what was her purpose for going to the maze?" Maybe move something."

"When she stained Ye Ningchen's skirt with blue berries, there was no one around her," Zhu Haowen said.

Mi Wei frowned and said nothing.

When everyone came outside the castle, they still went to the pool to have a look.

The pool seemed to sense someone coming to watch, and suddenly spouted crystal clear spring water, and the coins at the bottom of the pool were shining.

Several people approached the pool and carefully observed the coins. Everyone was the first to find the coins with their own patterns. Only Ke Xun was the first to find the familiar curly grass pattern, and then found his own wave pattern.

The small flower pattern belonging to Ye Ningchenyi disappeared, and Xin Beibei's diamond pattern also disappeared.

The statue in the center of the pool is still the black stone with an invisible outline, like a huge materialized shadow.

"I have a few thoughts about shadows." It was Mi Wei who spoke.

Everyone motioned for her to continue.

"Since Xin Beibei was dragged away by her own shadow last night, can we understand that it was her shadow that betrayed her first?" Mi Wei's eyes gradually deepened, "Shadows are scientifically speaking , there is nothing to explain, but we are now in a painting that has nothing to do with science, so the shadow may be given another meaning."

"You mean to say that Xin Beibei was not entirely seduced by herself, but more by her shadow?" Zhu Haowen said.

Mi Wei nodded: "Since the painting we entered is called "Shadow", then shadow must play a very important role in the painting."

The shadow statue in the center of the pool seemed to be spying on some secret, and sprayed out more and higher sprays to try to cover it up.

Mi Wei continued: "But what puzzles me is that the shadow can move Xin Beibei's body. It can be seen that the shadow is very powerful. But what is the big hand on Xin Beibei's neck that Ke Ge said? Who is that? hand? It will never be Xin Beibei's own. "

This is exactly what Mu Yiran was thinking about just now.

Mi Wei continued: "If there is indeed an invisible person holding Xin Beibei hostage, is the person who controls the shadow and this invisible person the same person? If the shadow alone can hold the main body hostage, why bother to suffocate it? In order to prevent it from calling for help?"

Miao Zipei, who hadn't spoken for a long time, also expressed his own analysis: "When a person is being dragged along, it is very difficult for the person strangling her neck to exert force."

"There must be something more powerful that dominates everything. When the night is completely dark, it should be the time for that thing to appear." Ke Xun looked at the black sculpture in the pool and felt a little uncomfortable, feeling like It was a mass of black skin wrapped around many people, and those people were struggling to get out.

"Let's go to the maze." Mu Yiran unfolded the blueprint in his hand, and walked towards the maze first.

The area of ​​this maze is about half the size of a football field. The walls of the maze are made of dense shrubs, and the fluffy green plants are neatly trimmed. It really has the fairy tale effect that Xin Beibei said .

Five people standing outside the maze: Mu Yiran, Ke Xun, Zhu Haowen, Miao Zipei, and Mi Wei.

"It's best for two people to go in, and the other three people to stand guard outside." Zhu Haowen made a suggestion, and looked at Ke Xun with his eyes, as if he had a premonition that this person would rush forward bravely.

This time, Ke Xun intends to seek the opinion of Big Brother Mu first: "Mi Wei is a girl, so she is not suitable for running through a maze, and Miao Zipei is not suitable for being bookish, thin and weak. Among the remaining three, the one who is most suitable for sitting It's only you."

Zhu Haowen: Guessed wrong, dare this guy not only volunteered, but also picked me up by the way.

Without waiting for Mu Yi to open his mouth, Zhu Haowen passed a step directly to Ke Xun: "Then let's go in together."

Mu Yiran didn't say any more, and directly handed over the two ends of the rope: "Be careful, the rope must maintain its stretching force, and pull the rope in case of danger."

"Don't worry." The word Ke Xun seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and he lowered his head and tied the rope tightly around his waist.

Zhu Haowen also tied the rope, still holding the blueprint in his hand.

When the two walked into the maze with the rope, Ke Xun felt like he had released two good dogs...

The two people followed the blueprints and slowly entered the inner circle of the maze. They not only relied on the blueprints and ropes, but also made marks on the way they walked.

But the actual experience is different from the talk on paper after all, and the two of them still sometimes go the wrong way.

When the two walked into the first dead end, they suddenly discovered that there was an imperceptible door at the end of the dead end.

It is indeed a door, a door made of plants.

Ke Xun and Zhu Haowen looked at each other: Is there such a door in every dead end that goes wrong?

"Let me come, the door is green." Zhu Haowen still firmly remembers the color he belongs to - green.

Ke Xun rubbed his forehead and smiled: Haowen'er is too serious.

Zhu Haowen pushed open the green door of the plant. Inside was a small space, where some ropes and maintenance tools were placed. The most striking thing was an entrance on the floor.

"This leads to the underground." Zhu Haowen stood at the door and said to Ke Xun.

"We don't have time to dig into the ground now, we should find a way to get out of the maze first." Ke Xun felt the rope around his waist tightening, and couldn't help shouting: "We're fine, we just went the wrong way!"

The end of the rope was loose, as if to indicate that he heard it.

The three people outside were all reserved enough, and none of them responded loudly to him.

Ke Xun and Zhu Haowen continued to look at the blueprints and stopped to look at every wrong intersection. Sure enough, there was a door made of plants hidden in every dead end. Zhu Haowen only opened two of them and found that there were doors inside. The structure is similar, and there is an entrance leading to the ground on the floor.

The two people gradually arrived at the center of the maze, because they entered from the northwest corner of the maze. According to the top view, the exit of the maze is located in the southeast corner.

"It's a pity that there is no sun in this world, otherwise we can use the sun to tell the direction." Zhu Haowen looked at the blueprint in his hand. The north mentioned above was just the north in everyone's imagination—according to the Chinese custom, buildings usually face the north. South, so everyone marked the direction of the castle as north.

"If the exit is in the southeast corner, that's exactly what I saw last night..." Ke Xun suddenly fell silent, and stared silently at Zhu Haowen, who also had cautious eyes.

If these green plants in the maze can be called walls, then the current situation can be called: there are people on the wall.

It was the sound of light footsteps, walking across the road by the partition wall.

Even though it was broad daylight, it was still scary.

When did this person appear in the maze?When everyone looked down at the maze from a height just now, they didn't see anything unusual in it.

The footsteps stepped on the grass on the ground, making a unique sound, which gradually disappeared in the distance.

"Is this person passing by, or has he been following us?" Zhu Haowen asked softly.

Ke Xun can only judge by intuition: "I think this person just appeared suddenly, maybe he passed by here, maybe he lives in the maze."

There are some things that Ke Xun did not say: there is another possibility that this person came after us.

The two of them walked forward slowly while talking, only then did they realize that the rope was getting tighter and tighter, and it seemed that the length was not enough.

Mi Wei's voice finally came from outside the maze: "Come out first! There is not enough rope! Come out! Don't take risks!"

At this time, no one dared to take risks easily, so the two walked back along the way they came. When they passed the center of the maze again, they couldn't help but stop.

The center of the maze is easy to identify. From the top view, it can be seen that there is a small circular space in the center of the maze.

On the wall of this circular space, a gate can be vaguely seen.

Zhu Haowen stepped forward and gently opened the door.

It turned out to be a simple living room inside, but what attracted the eyes of the two of them even more was the glass bottle placed against the wall, which was filled with pure red liquid.

This glass bottle is not big, less than one meter high.

The two squinted their eyes hard for a long time, but the red liquid was too thick to see what was inside.

"Let's go back first." Zhu Haowen looked at the big entrance on the floor of the room, and seemed to think of something.

Ke Xun also thought about it, and the two of them stopped talking, but walked back along the way they came. Because of the rope as an index, the two quickly returned to the entrance of the maze.

The three people waiting at the entrance had concerns written all over their faces.

Ke Xun's voice was very low: "The maze and the castle are probably connected underground."