Escape the Library

【Phantom in the picture-05】

The laughter from the woman in the painting was extremely harsh. Liu Zhaoqing was not afraid of ghosts and spirits, but this strange laughter drilled straight into his head like an electric drill, making him almost unable to think.

Xu Yishen covered his ears, frowned and said, "What's the situation? What about Xingwen and the others?"

Qin Miao said: "This painting is not right. You see, the woman in the painting is not the same as the Mona Lisa we saw at the beginning. Since this class is called "Phantom in Painting", will it be, let's come In an illusion space?"

Changes in the course names and paintings are easily reminiscent of hallucinations. After all, in real-world paintings, it's impossible for the characters in them to smile and make weird laughter.

Qin Lu said: "Sister, what do you mean, we were pulled into the hallucination space, so we cut off contact with Xingwen's group? Then how do we find them?"

Zhuo Feng thought about it carefully and said, "Either we leave here and go back to the old castle to find Xingwen; or Xingwen and the others also come to this space. Otherwise, the two groups of students will be separated by the space until the exam. There is no way to contact them at the end, in this case, the clues we found and the clues they found cannot be combined, and the results of the reasoning will be wrong."

Lin Manluo nodded and said, "Perhaps this is the biggest difficulty of the course? Because of the existence of the illusion in the painting, the clues will be scattered in different illusions, and need to be collected separately?"

The six looked at each other, Qin Lu rubbed his forehead, and said, "But Xu Feixue is not in our group. What if there are strange abstract paintings that we can't understand?"

Liu Zhaoqing said, "Let's take a step by step. I'll take a look at the situation of this painting first."

There were still weird laughter around, but Liu Zhaoqing was not afraid at all. He leaned in front of the painting "Mona Lisa" and stared sharply at the woman in the painting. It rose all the way up to the corner of her eyes, and then the lower half of her face suddenly turned into a **** mouth, like a man-eating monster!

Xu Yishen took a step back in shock, Liu Zhaoqing scolded me in a low voice, and quickly stepped back.

But the woman in the painting did not come out of the painting.

Everyone was on guard, Liu Zhaoqing raised his right hand and conjured a sharp scalpel that could be shot at any time. However, the woman in the painting doesn't attack them, just smiles at them.

The laughter that made people's spines quiver continued to sound in the dark castle, as if entering the scene of a ghost movie.

After a while, Qin Lu said calmly, "To scare people, she won't attack us."

Qin Lu hesitated for a moment and said, "What do we do next? Continue to find clues, or find Xingwen first?"

Zhuo Feng quickly made a decision: "Look for clues. I have a hunch that the clues we encountered may not be the same as the space where Xingwen and the others are located. Since we have come to this illusion, we must first study the meaning of this illusion. what exactly is it."

Zhuo Feng hates to be sloppy when encountering things. The current situation is full of strangeness. If they are in a panic and look for Yue Xingwen, they may miss some key information.

Liu Zhaoqing nodded in agreement: "Okay, continue to search for other rooms." He looked back at Xu Yishen and said, "Yishen, you just entered that room with mitosis, did you see anything?"

Xu Yishen said: "There seems to be a painting on the wall, but I didn't see it clearly. When I found that Xingwen and the others were not in the room, I was worried that the situation was wrong and immediately retreated."

"Painting?" Zhuo Feng paused and said, "Go and have a look."

The six entered the room and found that it was a studio.

In the middle of the studio is a large white canvas, next to it are colorful paint trays and a paintbrush, and three paintings are hung on the wall, all of which look like oil paintings.

In the first painting, there is a woman in a veil, with her hair tied in a bun at the back of her head, with silver hairpins on top, a beige veil on her head, and a beige shawl around her neck. A string of gemstone necklaces, and the beige dress she wears is very delicate. It looks like a rich family daughter, elegant and beautiful.

The style of the second painting is completely different from the first one. If the first one is a realistic portrait, the second one focuses more on the expression of artistic conception. A mother and son are playing on the grass, with blue sky, white clouds, green grass and flowers. , the fresh and bright scenery makes people feel relaxed and happy. The woman is holding a parasol, and a little boy is standing beside her. The whole picture looks vivid, and both mother and child are surrounded by warm sunshine.

The woman in the third painting has a completely different style from the previous two. She has three-dimensional features, her hair is tightly attached to her head, and she is wearing colorful clothes, with a long black necklace around her neck and a hug in her arms. a small animal.

Liu Zhaoqing touched his chin and walked to the painting, asking, "What animal is this?"

Xu Yishen took a closer look and said, "It should be an ermine, which is different from the white mice used for experiments in our laboratory of the Academy of Biological Sciences. It can be kept as a pet mouse. This painting uses an exaggerated method of painting. Ermines aren't that big."

Liu Zhaoqing was puzzled: "What do these three paintings represent?"

Others were also at a loss.

Zhuo Feng speculated: "The second picture, the mother and child in the sun, is the hostess and her son of this house? The first picture of a girl wearing a scarf looks very young, a bit like a wedding photo; Three... I don't understand."

Qin Lu said: "I think these three paintings should be the works of three painters, and the styles are very different. The first is realistic, much like a portrait sketch; the second is bright, a bit like an animation; the third is dark in tone It's yellowish. By the way, this third painting is a bit like the "Mona Lisa" hanging in the porch?"

Qin Miao said calmly: "Perhaps, this painting is also the work of Da Vinci, and the style is indeed similar."

Qin Lu said, "What is the connection between the paintings we found in the study next door and these paintings?"

Xu Yi touched his chin deeply and thoughtfully: "I know the painting in the next room, it is Van Gogh's classic work "Sunflower", maybe we can associate it with the black roses in the garden. What is the flower language of black roses? coming?"

He turned his head to look at Qin Miao, who reported the meaning of the flower language at the time. The latter said calmly, "The black rose symbolizes paranoid love. You are a demon and belong to me."

Xu Yi nodded deeply: "Does Qin Miao know a lot about flowers? Do you know what sunflowers represent?"

Qin Miao said: "sunflowers can also be given to those who have a crush on them, representing the emotion of 'you are what my heart desires' or 'my eyes have always followed you'."

Qin Lu said: "Sister, both sunflowers and black roses can represent admiration, but the former's love is more sunny and upright, while the latter's love sounds a little distorted and paranoid?"

Qin Miao nodded: "If these two kinds of flowers are related to the murder case, it can be said that. Moreover, the garden outside is not necessarily full of black roses from the beginning. I think the garden in front of a normal person's door is very Rarely will there be a black rose."

Xu Yishen said: "So, it is possible that the garden was originally planted with sunflowers, and then the murderer killed and buried the body in the garden before changing to black roses?"

When everyone heard this, they looked at each other.

Zhuo Feng frowned and said, "There is another problem. At that time, there was no division on the first floor, and the abstract paintings that everyone saw were the same. We lost contact after the division on the second floor. What we saw in the two rooms Is the painting the same as what Xingwen and the others saw? If not, do you have to combine all the clues to reason?"

Lin Manluo nodded: "Yes. Since we can't find Xingwen in this space, then what we see may not be consistent with what we see. We must find a way to join them as soon as possible."

When several people were discussing, the strange laughter in the castle kept ringing.

Zhuo Feng frowned and said, "Unfortunately, we don't have Ke Shaobin in our team, so we can't take pictures of these paintings with small pictures. How can we tell Xingwen's paintings? Just relying on language descriptions, I'm afraid we laymen will overlook some details."

Qin Miao suddenly said, "Take away all the paintings we have seen."

Qin Lu's eyes lit up and said, "Yes, isn't there blank paper and brushes in the studio? Although we can't mix the fake with the real, we can probably draw it!"

Xu Yishen immediately started to work, he picked up a piece of paper and a brush, covered the painting on the wall, and said: "Everyone, hurry up, each copy one, the outline is almost clear, and the color... We will not adjust it. Color, let’s draw a rough outline.”

For example, the skin and clothes color of the people in the painting, they have never studied art, it is difficult to keep the same as the original painting, but it is still possible to paint it, and then show it to Xu Feixue, maybe she can see more clue.

Xu Yishen, Liu Zhaoqing, and Lin Manluo began to copy pictures quickly.

Qin Lu was by the side to help with the tools, she turned her head to look out the window, and then her eyes widened in surprise. Qin Miao had a good heart with her, and immediately asked, "What's wrong, Xiaolu?"

Qin Lu pointed downstairs and said, "Sister, look outside!"

Everyone followed her gaze, and Zhuo Feng's face changed slightly: "Is it a sunflower?"

Under the cold moonlight, in the garden outside the castle, it was not a strange black rose, but a large field of sunflowers.

Qin Miao said: "Our speculation may be correct. The garden outside this villa was originally full of sunflowers, but unfortunately it was replaced by black roses. Since both kinds of flowers are related to 'love', then the murderer's motive is very important. It may be because of love and hatred, killing the loved one, or killing a rival in love and replacing him."

At the same time, Yue Xingwen 6 and a group of 7 people came out of the study and returned to the entrance.

In the "Mona Lisa" hanging at the entrance, the woman in the painting looked at them quietly, without any change. On the research group channel, Liu Zhaoqing's group still did not reply.

Yue Xingwen looked back at Jiang Pingce and said, "Brother Liu, they haven't come out yet?"

Jiang Pingce said: "It's possible, they won't be able to come out."

Yue Xingwen frowned: "What do you mean, after entering the illusion in the painting, unless you use the escape skill of 'Escape from the Golden Cicada', otherwise, you will be stuck there forever?"

Jiang Pingce was silent for a moment, and said, "This is just my speculation, not necessarily. Let's wait and see here."