Paintings of Terror

The whole night is like a car driving silently in the dark. No one knows where the end point is or what will be encountered on the road.

Ke Xun looked at the gradually clear colors in the room. If this change could have a name, it would be called "Dawn".

Ke Xun specifically checked the window that was nailed full of wooden boards, and the gap left was so narrow that even a chopstick could not pass through it.

Where is Guo Lixia?It is really strange that no one is alive and no corpse is dead.

Finally, Ke Xun saw a ball of paper at the base of the wall below the window, just like a ball of waste paper crumpled up in real life.

Ke Xun really didn't remember anyone using paper in this room, so he picked up the ball of paper with some doubts, and the weight was probably about the same as a piece of ordinary A4 paper.

Ke Xun unfolded the paper, and found that the shape of the paper was a bit strange, it didn't seem to be the traditional square shape, and it felt indescribably smooth.

As the paper slowly unfolded, Ke Xun's heart sank little by little. When the whole paper was laid flat on the table, Ke Xun's heart also fell into the deep valley of ice.

"Ke Er! Are you alright? Come out!" Wei Dong's voice came from outside the door.

Ke Xun rolled up the piece of paper with complicated emotions, held it in his hand, and opened the door.

Everyone's complexion was not good, instead of the early panic, it was more of a kind of resignation and helplessness.

"What happened to Mi Wei?" Ke Xun had already guessed the result.

Miao Zipei's voice was very low: "Mi Wei didn't suffer much, it's similar to what happened when Ye Ningchen left."

Shi Zhendong looked through the open blue door: "How is Guo, Xiao Guo?"

Ke Xun walked to the table in the hall with a solemn expression, and spread out the piece of paper in his hand on the table.

Wei Dong took the lead to go over and look: "What is this? Is it a villain? This is..."

"This is Sister Guo." Ke Xun no longer looked at the horrifying little human skin.

Hearing this, Wei Dong was startled, and boldly took a closer look at the "little man" on the table. To be exact, it was a piece of human skin whose heart had been emptied, about 30 centimeters high. Laid limply on the table, looking at the facial features, it was indeed Guo Lixia.

Although everyone has seen or heard of the tragic scene of Zhang Tianwei and Xin Beibei in the glass tank before, none of them are as shocking as "Guo Lixia" this time.

This unspeakable "corpse" is now lying on the table in front of everyone. There is no need to enter the circular building, and there is no special big glass tank. The pieces of paper that may be overlooked are clearly in front of everyone's eyes.

"Is this how it unfolded when you first discovered it?" It was Mu Yiran who asked.

"No, it's like a crumpled ball of waste paper..." Ke Xun said.

Zhu Haowen also took a closer look at "Guo Lixia" on the desktop: "So it turns out that the black shadow probably used the previous method to forcefully drag its prey to the window, but the human body cannot pass through the window gap, and the black shadow can't I would like to waste such ready-made color resources, so I can only pick colors on the spot.”

"On-site color selection? How to get it?" It was Miao Zipei who asked.

Zhu Haowen shook his head: "Probably only Hei Ying himself can explain this clearly."

Even if you can't get the specific operation method, you can still imagine the situation last night. Guo Lixia's body should be forcibly squeezed out the color. The method is probably similar to squeezing the color in a glass jar, but the method is more brutal and cruel. As a result, the whole person was completely emptied, and even the human skin wrinkled, and finally shrank into a ball like a ball of waste paper.

It's like we are drinking some kind of packaged beverage. When we draw it forcefully, the outer packaging bag will wrinkle together.

Ke Xun couldn't help but think of Guo Lixia's voice gasping in pain last night.

"If this method is also effective, why did the black shadow try so hard to drag the person away?" Shi Zhendong boldly took a closer look at Guo Lixia's body, and found that although the body was as flat as paper, it still had a light color. The facial features and hair can still be seen clearly, and the polka dot pattern on the clothes can still vaguely see some light blue.

Qin Ci soon discovered this: "This method can't completely absorb the color of the opponent, and torturing people like this is probably the limit of the black shadow."

Ke Xun seemed to have thought of something, and when he was anxious, he rushed downstairs: "Hurry up and go to that pool to see if Sister Guo's coins are still there!"

Everyone suddenly thought of something, their hearts tightened, and they listened to Mu Yiran's arrangement: "The troops are divided into two groups, one team goes to the pool downstairs, and the other team goes to the circular building, and then gather in the lobby on the first floor."

Several people quickly divided into groups. Miao Zipei was about to rush downstairs with Wei Dong Mu Yiran, but Mu Yiran said: "You go to the sixth floor, you probably need to identify the colors there."

Miao Zipei seemed to understand, but still nodded and followed Qin Ci and others upstairs.

When Ke Xun came to the pool, although he was mentally prepared, when he saw the coins with circular patterns at the bottom of the pool, he still couldn't accept the fact.

Neither Mu Yiran nor Weidong spoke, it was hard to imagine that Guo Lixia was still alive.

"Give Sister Guo a good time." Ke Xun's voice was so low that it was almost inaudible.

Today's "Guo Lixia" is being held by Mu Yiran. Mu Yiran walked to the side of the pool with a silent expression on his face, and completely submerged this little human skin in the water until a few minutes later, the dot coins in the pool Only then gradually disappeared the texture.

The human skin was completely floating on the water, floating like garbage.

Ke Xun directly dug a half-deep hole by the pool with his hands, buried "Guo Lixia" in it, and muttered in an inaudible voice: "I have wronged Sister Guo, when your son comes back from abroad, let me let you go." He kowtows to you well."

Wei Dong stood aside, feeling very uncomfortable. He still remembers that when he first entered the painting two days ago, Guo Lixia was involved as an innocent person. She just wanted to find a place where the water could be turned on.

However, among these people who entered the painting, who came and went back and forth, which one is not innocent?

But Mu Yiran's eyes stayed on the maze, as if thinking of something, he walked to the edge of the maze, stood at the northeast corner, and looked into the distance.

"Yi Ran, what did you find?" Ke Xun turned around and asked.

Mu Yiran squinted his eyes, as if he wanted to see something in the distance clearly. When Ke Xun asked, he replied, "It's nothing special. I just heard something moving in the maze, so I came over to listen."

Ke Xun frowned: "Who is the Minotaur you mentioned yesterday?"

Wei Dong looked at his iron body: It's really rare that you can remember such a long name.

"The Minotaur had the head of a bull and lived in the labyrinth. It is said that boys and girls should be sacrificed to him as tribute." Mu Yi left the labyrinth and walked towards the castle with the two of them. "Later, the archaeologist During the archeology of Crete, the remains of this labyrinth were really discovered. There are a large number of linear characters on the clay tablets inside, among which there are records of this type: seven women from Athens, one boy and one young girl Names, etc., these records are just in line with the statement of the priest Minotaur."

Ke Xun looked at the top of the castle and was passing the members through the open-air corridor, and his gaze stayed on the floors of the circular building for a moment: "Do you think that the black shadow's extraction of people's color is also like a kind of sacrifice?"

Wei Dong looked at the pool that could record life and death: "There is also the setting of the pool, which seems to have a sense of ritual."

"If it is really a color sacrifice, then who is it used for sacrifice?" Mu Yiran tried to analyze, "These colors add up to black, does the black shadow use black to make itself stronger, or does it have other uses? "

"I always feel that only when there is an entity, there will be a shadow. These two things are interdependent and indispensable." Ke Xun looked down at his own shadow, "The law of this world is also the same. The dead will lose their color. At the same time, the shadow will be lost-I think this law also applies to the shadow itself."

"That black shadow is already powerful enough, how big must it be!" Wei Dong couldn't even imagine.

"The Fauvism sometimes magnifies something that it wants to express, such as the shadow that this painting wants to express." At this time, several people have returned to the hall, and Mu Yiran continued, "Although the shadow is big enough to cover everything, But its physicality may not be large."

It just so happened that members of the other team had just come downstairs to the lobby. Zhu Haowen heard Mu Yiran's words and thought: "If the shadow has an entity, then the actions made by the entity should be consistent with his shadow. According to our According to the previous analysis, the big shadow can control our shadow to control our physical body, so what was the entity of the big shadow doing at that time?"

Mu Yiran's eyes suddenly lit up, but he didn't say anything, instead he looked at Miao Zipei: "What new discoveries do you have?"

Miao Zipei said: "The fourth and fifth floors are still red and blue, but the door to represent the color is tightly closed, and the sixth floor is pure purple. Whether it is the clock on the wall or the purple liquid in the glass tank, it is all the same. It is the purest purple, with equal red and blue."

Qin Ci asked Mu Yiran and Ke Xun: "Is this the purple you saw yesterday?"

Ke Xun scratched his head, feeling that it was difficult for him to give everyone clear information on color recognition.

Mu Yiran: "The purple we saw yesterday is slightly reddish."

Miao Zipei suddenly realized: "That's it! It seems that someone added a small amount of blue to the purple liquid today, which made the red and blue colors equal, and thus extracted the most accurate and pure purple!"

As for how the small amount of blue color came from, everyone knew in their hearts, and Guo Lixia's poor thin corpse appeared in their minds.

The voice of the NPC sounded again, announcing that today's labor task is still three big jars of berry storage, and then invite everyone to have breakfast.

Now that there are only seven people left, the work tasks are particularly heavy, especially in the blue room, where Ke Xun is the only one, even if he works non-stop, it will take at least half a day to complete.

"Have you ever wondered why the NPC never showed up? We have never encountered such a situation in previous paintings." It was Zhu Haowen who spoke.

Suddenly there was another sneer in the hall, it was clearly from an NPC.

"It's probably too ugly to be seen." Ke Xun raised his middle finger in the void.

"..." Zhu Haowen looked at Ke Xun, "Or maybe this person can't show his body, so he can only broadcast his voice to us through the radio."