Escape the Library

【Phantom in the picture-08】

The three-dimensional spatial structure diagram drawn by Jiang Pingce is very clear. He marked the position of each space change on the map. Everyone followed the original path and quickly came to the second floor, entered the room on the right, and saw The "Sunflower" oil painting.

When she came out of the room, the corners of the woman's mouth in the porch painting rose wildly, half of her face turned into a **** mouth, and her mouth continued to emit weird laughter. Sharp laughter surrounded the dark castle and kept getting into everyone's mind.

Ke Shaobin rubbed the goosebumps on his arms and said, "This ghost-like voice is simply a mental attack! You are so courageous that you can copy three paintings under the interference of laughter!"

Qin Miao said: "We found that she was just laughing, and would not come out of the painting. Of course, we don't need to be afraid of her."

Liu Zhaoqing quickly pulled a few pieces of gauze and handed them to everyone, signaling everyone to block their ears. Everyone took the gauze and blocked their ears. Yue Xingwen typed on the research group channel: "Next, did you enter the room on the left?"

Liu Zhaoqing nodded: "The room on the left is the three oil paintings."

Yue Xingwen winked at Jiang Pingce, the two entered the room together, and the other students quickly followed.

With Lin Manluo's vines connecting everyone's wrists, everyone doesn't have to worry about being separated again.

After entering the room, Yue Xingwen found three paintings hanging on the wall. He turned to look at Xu Feixue and motioned her to take a closer look. What I saw just now was copied by the students, so it might be different from the original painting.

After seeing it, Xu Feixue said, "In order from left to right, the first picture is the object of love, the second is the wife and son, and the third is the mistress."

Yue Xingwen pondered the three paintings carefully for a moment, and said, "Is this order a bit strange?"

Jiang Pingce suddenly asked, "Can the paintings on the wall be moved?"

Yue Xingwen looked back at him: "You mean, these paintings may be the mechanism of the maze?"

Jiang Pingce said: "The theme of this class is 'painting'. All the paintings may be related to the murder case. The paintings at the entrance will change their content according to different spaces. Maybe these paintings can also change positions and open up new spaces? "

Yue Xingwen thought about it carefully and felt that it was very reasonable.

The order in which the three paintings are placed, the young love object, the wife and son, and the mistress holding the mouse, are not in the right order. If the mistress wants to replace the wife before killing the family, the order should be the object of love, mistress, wife and children.

Yue Xingwen took a step forward, tried to take down the two paintings on the wall, and switched positions. To everyone's shock, the wall in front of him actually cracked from the middle, and a door appeared!

Ke Shaobin said excitedly, "It's really a labyrinth of comic strips! Maybe the paintings in other rooms also have mechanisms?"

Yue Xingwen looked at Jiang Pingce and said with a smile: "Pingce is still attentive, thinking that painting is the key point. It seems that there are still many hidden clues in this villa."

Jiang Pingce nodded and said, "Go in and have a look."

The two walked through the door side by side, the other teammates following behind.

As soon as they entered the door, everyone's eyes widened in surprise - the door was not a room, but a strange fantasy. They were clearly on the second floor just now, but when they entered the door, they suddenly appeared in the garden.

In the empty garden, there is a mother and son, very similar to the mother and son in the oil painting in the room. The little boy wears a hat, the woman holds a parasol in her hand, and the mother and son are planting flowers in the garden.

The little boy was squatting on the ground, picked up a small shovel and dug a hole, planted a budding sunflower seedling into the ground, and then buried the surrounding soil with his hands. The woman squatted down and used a watering can. Water the seedlings.

The little boy asked excitedly, "Mom, when will this sunflower grow up?"

The woman said: "It will grow and bloom in two months. In September this year, you can eat your favorite sunflower seeds."

The little boy jumped up happily: "That's great! We're planting sunflowers here. Will I have enough sunflower seeds this fall?"

The woman's eyes were gentle, and she reached out and touched his head gently: "Yes. However, the garden is so big, will it be very hard for you to plant sunflowers by yourself?"

The little boy shook his head: "No!"

Thinking that in two months, there will be more than enough sunflower seeds to eat, the little boy is very motivated and continues to dig holes with a shovel.

In the early spring, the sun is shining, the breeze is gentle, and the picture of mother and son planting flowers together is as beautiful as a dream. The people standing beside them saw this scene with their own eyes and looked at each other in dismay.

Just came out of the dark castle full of weird laughter, but it turned out to be such a warm and warm picture, the sun was shining brightly, but everyone felt chills down their spines.

Yue Xingwen frowned and said, "Illusion. It should be the playback of the screen two years ago."

Xu Feixue said: "The painting "Woman Holding a Parasol" found in the house is similar to the mother and child we saw in front of us. Although the appearance and clothes are different, the whole painting has a very similar artistic conception. That painting is also sunny. In spring, blue sky and white clouds, grass and flowers, the style is fresh and bright.”

The picture in front of me is indeed reminiscent of that painting. In particular, the woman in front of her was also holding an umbrella, and the little boy was wearing the same hat.

At this moment, the mother and son turned their heads and looked directly at Yue Xingwen.

However, they seemed to see a cloud of air, the woman walked towards Yue Xingwen's position, passed by Yue Xingwen, picked up a bottle of water on the table, and walked back to the child: "Dean , drink some water, rest and plant again."

The little boy asked while drinking water, "When is Dad coming back?"

The woman smiled and said, "Dad is on a business trip and will be back tomorrow."

The mother and son rested for a while and continued to plant flowers.

In a blink of an eye, the garden was full of sunflower seedlings, neat and tidy. The woman patiently took the child to water each seedling, then wiped the sweat from her forehead, and said, "whatever you want to eat at night, let Aunt Liya make it for you."

The little boy said, "I want to eat steak."

The mother and son walked into the castle while chatting.

Suddenly, Jiang Pingce slammed Yue Xingwen's arm lightly, and said in a low voice, "Look over there."

At the same time, everyone followed Jiang Pingce's gaze, and saw a woman standing by the window on the first floor. The woman was beautiful, wearing a very simple dark cloth, her hair was simply rolled up, and she was wearing a long neck. black necklace and a white kitten in her arms.

The moment Yue Xingwen looked at the past, the woman turned to leave, and her back quickly disappeared by the window.

Yue Xingwen was keenly aware that the woman had been staring at the mother and child in the garden just now, her eyes were indifferent, and she even had a kind of... resentment? Yue Xingwen was stunned and asked Jiang Pingce, "Has she been staring at the mother and son?"

Jiang Pingce nodded: "Well, I noticed her from the beginning. She stood motionless by the window, staring at the mother and child in the garden with a strange look. She should be in the nanny room on the first floor."

Ke Shaobin speculated: "She is holding a cat in her arms. Does it correspond to the oil painting "Woman Holding an Ermine" that we found in the studio?"

Xu Feixue said: "Yes, holding a small animal in her arms, she looks beautiful, and her clothes are similar to the characteristics of the woman in the painting. Just now, the hostess called her 'Aunt Liya'. If I remember correctly, Da Vinci's The heroine of the painting is named Cecilia Galerani, mistress of the Duke of Milan."

Yue Xingwen said: "The nanny, corresponds to the mistress in the painting? Could it be that the nanny has an improper relationship with the host of this house?"

Jiang Pingce followed up and said: "In the painting "The Last Supper", the keyword we analyzed was 'betrayal'. In that painting, Judas betrayed the master Jesus; if it corresponds to the relationship of this family, It is very likely that the nanny betrayed the hostess, this nanny was invited by the hostess?"

Xu Yishen narrowed his eyes and looked at the garden full of seedlings, and said, "From the perspective of their living conditions, a single-family villa, a Gothic-style building, and a large garden at the entrance, the male owner of this house must be rich. The female owner may be Did you find your own friends and relatives to be nanny at home, but the nanny had an affair with the hostess, betrayed the hostess, and finally killed her in order to replace the hostess?"

Listening to Xu Yishen's summary, Yue Xingwen thought about the logic before and after carefully, and said, "The logic line that Brother Xu said, whether it is the motive for committing the crime or the theme of the painting we discovered, can match. But The most important point is not right.”

Jiang Pingce said, "corpse?"

Yue Xingwen nodded: "The corpses we found are a man and two women, one young woman and the other two old men and women. Assuming that the nanny committed the crime and killed the family, the bodies should be a young man and woman and a little boy. . Although our speculation can match the clues in the painting, it is completely inconsistent with the corpse, so this speculation must be wrong."

Liu Zhaoqing touched his chin and said, "Where did the little boy go?"

Ke Shaobin said, "Will there be other corpses?"

Jiang Pingce said calmly: "The clues are not yet complete. I moved three paintings just now and opened the illusion to see two paintings of a woman holding a parasol and an ermine, and a girl wearing a veil. , did not appear."

Yue Xingwen's eyes lit up: "Maybe, the order of the three paintings is different, and there will be other clues."

Jiang Pingce said, "Go back."

Everyone returned from the door that appeared just now, and returned to the studio on the second floor. The strange laughter of the woman with her mouth open sounded again in their ears. Yue Xingwen frowned and rubbed his ears, walked to the three paintings, took down the painting "Girl in a Veil", and switched places with the painting in the middle.

Sure enough, the wall next to it cracked again from the middle, and another door appeared!

Ke Shaobin said excitedly: "It's so fun, just like the maze in a stand-alone game, every time you change the position of the hanging picture, there will be a door and a fantasy!"

Xin Yan was expressionless: "Fun?"

Strange castles, moving women, and eerie laughter, Ke Shaobin described it as "fun"?

Liu Zhaoqing couldn't help laughing and crying: "Student Ke, we're not playing games now, maybe we'll fail the class."

Ke Shaobin coughed lightly: "I know! I believe that as long as we finish the operation of this comic book labyrinth and find all the illusions, we will definitely be able to deduce the correct murderer."

Jiang Pingce said lightly: "Go in and have a look."

The moment he walked in the door, Yue Xingwen stopped in surprise.

There is a long red carpet under his feet, and a luxurious auditorium in front of him-he walked in side by side with Jiang Pingce, and it was actually a wedding scene.