Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 2080 Secret Party
When the voice of the middle-aged man named "Peter" in the oil painting fell, Pina had exactly 22 hours left on this road.

During the brief pause of the portrait, everyone in the cave silently gathered in front of the portrait of "Peter"; a small sign hung under the oil painting stated his identity and age - "Peter, 47 years old, executive director of the local mining group , the owner of the mansion on the top of the hill."

Lin Sanjiu squinted at the man with a dignified and upright face on the portrait, and asked softly, "Is there a player with pre-recorded content behind the portrait?"

"Let me take a look," Jia Jiatian said, walking around to the oil painting frame, carefully brushing the gap with his fingers - then, he shook his head at the other three people.

"It wasn't pre-recorded, so..." Pina immediately shut her mouth before finishing her sentence; because Peter in the portrait spoke again at this moment.

"Tonight's gathering was different from any previous one because we had to act first. It's just that I didn't tell anyone about the action plan...I couldn't afford to risk it."

Peter in the portrait maintains a motionless and serious expression on his face, as if he is about to open his mouth to criticize everyone who appears in front of him. "I heard the sound of a car engine outside. Someone finally arrived... A car came in the driveway downstairs. Well, whose is it? I can't see clearly."

As the sound of the portrait came to an end, the four of them looked at each other, and walked to the next oil painting at the same time.

The man in the portrait is probably in his thirties, his skin is tanned, and when he smiles, he shows a mouthful of white and regular teeth; he looks friendly and charming, and on the introduction card under the oil painting , which read "Nika, 35, local Channel [-] morning news presenter".

"...The place is too remote. It was pitch black on the drive there, and I couldn't see any cars or people." From Nika's portrait, came a monologue with a clear voice and fluent . "In fact, I have doubts in my heart... Our secret meeting has lasted for a long time, why did Peter suddenly want to invite new people to join? Or... Impossible, that would be too crazy."

"Newcomers" refers to the oil painting of myself and a group of four people, right?Lin Sanjiu thought to himself.

Including her, everyone held their breath, waiting for him to continue to explain what it was "too crazy", but Nika's portrait fell silent and stopped talking.

"Could this be happening in real time?" Pina whispered, "From Nika's monologue, he hasn't arrived at the hilltop mansion yet."

Pan Cui let out a "huh" from her nose, as if to express her agreement.

The next portrait is a middle-aged woman with thin lips, and she always has the same expression of dissatisfaction with Peter; the sign below her portrait explains the reason-"Minna, 44 years old, Peter's ex-wife , currently living alone in the city.”

"Here we are in this nasty place again," Minna's oil portrait said in a deep voice. "I don't know what he's planning to do with his secretiveness tonight? There are more things to pay attention to tonight than before, and he has invited several newcomers... I don't know why."

"It seems that the person who just arrived at the mansion on the top of the mountain is his ex-wife," Jia Jiatian laughed, "or should I call her aunt?"

"Your aunt took you to a suspicious looking party," Pina mocked, "Your family relationship is quite good."

The woman in the next oil painting looks very young, but her effort to make herself more mature and more authoritative through her dress, expression and tone is so clear that she can’t hide it—on the sign under the painting, it says "Kate, 23, popular channel host on '5 Chains' website".

"It would be great if we could record the process of a party, it will definitely be a very popular episode...but if you get kicked out, you won't be able to squeeze in again." In Kate's oil painting, there is a message A young and excited voice said, "It's the first time I've seen... Well, by the way, I can't mention this. After driving for so long, it's almost here, and I'm almost suffocated by urine! Especially at this time , the more I miss the big and beautiful bathroom in the mansion on the top of the mountain... The guest bathrooms of these rich people are bigger than my bedroom, is this reasonable?"

What did she see for the first time?
When Lin Sanjiu was puzzled, Pan Cui just touched her shoulder, and then gestured for her to take out a notebook; after taking the pen and paper, Pan Cui wrote a line of records—"This is Kate Seeing something for the first time, but for some reason she couldn't bring it up."

Everyone probed over to have a look, and Jia Jiatian even boasted, "This method is good".

Each portrait, it seems, has a brief "opening scene," and, as Pina puts it, they narrate what appears to be happening in "real time."

Lin Sanjiu proposed to go back to the portrait of Peter to verify this guess; sure enough, the monologue from the portrait of Peter changed again: "...the person brought by Ming Na is actually her nephew? This woman, really No common sense at all. Forget it, maybe the younger ones are better educated..."

"Will it be our turn to speak?" Jia Jiatian asked in a low voice, not sure when walking away from Peter's portrait; but no one could give him an answer for the time being.

In addition to the four evolutionaries, the penultimate portrait was a fat man with beards and glasses. The sign said "Lei Wen, 31 years old, director of the local security company."He seems to be a man of few words, and the opening remark is only a short sentence "Here, the other people's cars are also there", and it is over.

"So the gang is finally meeting now," Pina said. "Oh, one more."

The next painting was of a pale man with a thin face; his sign read "Scott, 38, running for local council".

"What the hell is this place," scolded Scott's oil portrait, "is it too remote? I really don't understand why Peter is making such a fuss... Damn, this road is wrong, it seems I have to turn around and go back to the road just now. If even the newcomers arrive, but I haven't arrived yet, it will be a bit shameful."

As the last portrait of a stranger, after his voice fell, it seemed to announce the end of a certain stage-the four people said that their eyes turned to the next four oil portraits, that is, themselves.

"I was invited by Nika," Pina said looking at her oil painting, "then Lin Sanjiu is my friend."

"Pan Cui is the producer partner in Kate's show, it seems that she was invited by Kate...Does an online channel need a producer partner?" Jia Jiatian frowned and said, "That is to say, we All four are newcomers who have been brought to the Hilltop Mansion...then I have a question."

The same problem is pressing on everyone's heart.

"Why did they invite newcomers?"

　I tend to suffer from insomnia during my menstrual period. In addition, I was too excited and absorbed in reading last night. As a result, my schedule was finally reversed, and I fell into mud all of a sudden...

　
(End of this chapter)