Soul Painter

After chatting with the old man and saying goodbye to the old man, Gao Fan just drew a few more strokes when he saw some policemen coming and passing by him.

Reminiscent of the police car outside the exhibition hall, a guess of 'has something happened' flashed in Gao Fan's mind.

Sure enough, within a few minutes.

There was an exhibition hall staff standing in the center of the exhibition hall, announcing to everyone that the Centennial Artistic Achievement Exhibition was closed ahead of schedule.

"Is it the end of today?" someone asked.

"No, it's officially over." The staff of the exhibition hall replied, "Thank you for your visit and appreciation. Please pay attention to the official account of this exhibition hall. We will hold various art exhibitions in the near future, so stay tuned."

oh……

Everyone was disappointed.

Of course, the exhibition was coming to an end, and it was only one day in advance, so the disappointment was not serious.

"Have you heard? Something happened."

When Gao Fan was arranging his easel, two classmates walked past him, whispering.

"I just heard from a security guard that his colleague disappeared. The police adjusted the surveillance and found that the accident happened in the exhibition hall. It seems to be a murder case, so the museum was closed early."

Gao Fan heard it, and looked around the exhibition hall. Since it was an art exhibition, there were not many security guards, usually only five, and Gao Fan recognized everyone. After all, he was an art student and was used to observing the appearance of people around him.

As expected, there were only four security guards today. Gao Fan also had an impression of the lesser one. Gao Fan thought he was asking for leave, but the result was... missing?

Security is also a high-risk job, Gao Fan thought, but didn't care too much.

While putting away the easel, he looked at the "Gate of Hell" with some reluctance.

In the future, I will see this kind of normal oil paintings that can lower the SAN value. I don’t know what happened in the Year of the Monkey.

The fifty small paintings he copied, as well as the unfinished panorama in hand, at best only reached 20% of the original level, without reducing the SAN value at all.

With a sanity value of 76, Gao Fan stared at the "Gate of Hell", and suddenly had the idea of ​​"or I will grab it and run", but he quickly extinguished this idea in the bud, just kidding, now But the rule of law society.

One last look...

Gao Fan stared at this masterpiece drawn by someone who did not know, his eyes were like examining a naked beauty, scanning the past inch by inch. He could be said to be very familiar with this masterwork of combining Chinese and Western, but soon, a The detail made him rub his eyes.

Um?

I am dazzled?

Gao Fan blinked his eyes and looked again.

One, two, three... twenty-three... twenty-four? !

In the screen of "The Gates of Hell", under the dark red sky, on the ocher blue cliff, there should be only twenty-three humans who are about to fall into the bottomless abyss, but at this moment Gao Fan counted the twenty-fourth!

This is impossible!

Gao Fan counted again.

But the twenty-fourth person clearly climbed on the highest point of the cliff—Gao Fan drew small paintings for the twenty-three people who fell off the cliff, so it is very clear where each person is, and it is easy to distinguish Out, where the twenty-fourth person is.

The twenty-fourth person seemed to be the last to fall off the cliff, so his position was only three or four people high from the top of the cliff. There is no way to climb.

And the twenty-fourth person raised his head to the sky, the despair on his face seemed to be gushing from his mouth.

Gao Fan stared at the face of the twenty-fourth person, and subconsciously drew his portrait in the sketchbook. With a few simple strokes, he outlined a face with northern characteristics, with high cheekbones, thick eyebrows and big eyes.

It looks familiar...

Seems to be the missing security guard?

Gao Fan recalled that the day before he awakened the system, the dog-faced man standing behind him, when the dog-faced man ran away in a hurry, bumped into a security guard, and the security guard was drawing this person now, this memory made him Gao Fan shivered.

Looking at the painting again, Gao Fan's eyes were filled with fear.

At this moment, there seemed to be a distant, low barking sound in Gao Fan's ear.

Crazy, hoarse...

An invisible layer of black mist enveloped this corner of the pavilion.

It makes a kind of boiling mystery start to dance in this corner.

Every particle in the air howled and screamed.

So that Gao Fan gradually heard what the barking sound was trying to convey.

"... Stretch your body, climb to the abyss, you will gain eternal life..."

At this moment, this "Gate of Hell" turned into a strange appearance in Gao Fan's eyes. Every figure climbing on the cliff seemed to be stretching its torso and climbing down the cliff, while their torso stretched It grows so long, like maggots one after another.

no no no...

Gao Fan instinctively wanted to back away. He realized that he had been bewitched, but he didn't know where the bewitchment came from. Is this painting really magical? This magic is working on him?

Is the twenty-fourth figure, the security guard, also bewitched and turned into the desperate figure in the painting?

But how could people climb into the painting!

Gao Fan tried to struggle, but it was like falling into a nightmare. He stared directly at the painting, as if stuck, unable to get rid of it.

He doesn't know what's going to happen next, but realizes it's definitely not a good thing.

Because of the postures of those people in the painting, it becomes more vivid and strange.

Everyone not only stretched their limbs, but also twisted their heads and necks to angles that were less and less human-like.

It's like watching the gradually moving images on the subway window in the subway.

The picture in Gao Fan's eyes changed from slow to fast frame by frame. He suddenly had a realization. He used to think that the horrific gestures of these people who fell off the cliff were artistic exaggerations, but in this 'dynamic' picture, he found that it was not Exaggeration, but it's the... posture of these people.

Huh!

In the painting, a person turned his head violently. His twisted neck reached a terrifying degree of 180 degrees, and the flesh and bones on his face were pulled off to one side. There seemed to be a giant worm in his body, about to Shelled out.

Gao Fan felt as if he had been hit by a heavy hammer, and his mind was buzzing. He knew that this was a sign of losing his SAN value.

"Attention: The host has come into contact with the lower race! Sanity is polluted!"

At this time, an inorganic voice suddenly sounded.

The voice immediately recalled Gao Fan's autonomous ability, and he suddenly moved his eyes away from the painting with a gesture of "twisting" his sight.

Gao Fan took a step back and began to breathe heavily.

At this moment, the corner of the exhibition hall became clear again, and the weird black mist seemed to have never been there.

And everything just now seemed to be Gao Fan's hallucination, but he swore that he did hear the phrase "stretch your trunk, climb into the abyss, and you will gain eternal life".

What the hell is hiding in this painting!

And... the system.

Gao Fan was sure that he heard the voice of the system, and then he woke up from the nightmare-like situation.

He turned on the system, and suddenly found that his SAN value, which was originally not much, dropped by two points and became '74/0'.

This made Gao Fan's poor rationality even worse.

If I was controlled by that painting for a while, the SAN value would drop even more.

But on the system interface, there is an extra flashing text.

‘Mission: Perfectly reproduce this painting! '

The system actually sent a task.

At the same time, tasks also have rewards.

Gao Fan looked at the rewards under the task and couldn't help swallowing, because it was a bit attractive.

'Rewards: 1. SAN value 25 points; 2. "Introduction to Anatomy". '

At this time, some security guards started to drive away the people who were still lingering in the exhibition hall, and Gao Fan was kicked out. Looking at the dazzling sun outside the exhibition hall, Gao Fan was dizzy for a while, and he felt as if he had stepped into a place. Mysterious and unknown world.

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