Escape From the Library

【Phantom in the painting-08】

The three-dimensional space structure diagram drawn by Jiang Ping is very clear. He has marked the position of each space transformation on the diagram. Everyone followed the original path and quickly came to the second floor, advanced to 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 painting in the porch rose wildly, and half of her face turned into a bloody mouth, with weird laughter constantly coming out of her mouth.Sharp laughter lingered in the dark castle, constantly drilling into everyone's minds.

Ke Shaobin rubbed the goosebumps on his arms, and said, "This female ghost's voice is simply a mental attack! You are really brave enough to copy three paintings under the interference of laughter!"

Qin Miao said: "We found that she just laughed and didn't come out of the painting. Of course, don't be afraid of her."

Liu Zhaoqing quickly pulled some gauze and handed it to everyone, signaling to everyone to plug their ears. Everyone took the gauze and plugged their ears one after another. Yue Xingwen typed on the research group channel: "Next, you entered 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 other students quickly followed.

The vines of Lin Manluo connect everyone's wrists, so you don'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, motioning her to take a closer look.What I saw just now was copied by the students, so it may be different from the original painting.

After Xu Feixue looked at it, he said: "From left to right, the first painting is the object of love, the second is the wife and son, and the third is the mistress."

Yue Xingwen pondered over the three paintings 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 labyrinth?"

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 according to different spaces, maybe these paintings can also change positions and open up new spaces? "

Yue Xingwen thought about it carefully and found it very reasonable.

The order of the three paintings, the young love object, the wife and son, and the mistress holding a mouse, is not in the right order.If the mistress kills the family because she wants to replace the wife, the order should be love object, mistress, wife and children.

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

Ke Shaobin excitedly said: "It's really a maze of comic books! Maybe there are tricks on the pictures in other rooms?"

Yue Xingwen looked at Jiang Pingce, and said with a smile: "Pingce is still careful, and he thought of the key point that paintings are organs. 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, with the rest of their teammates following behind.

As soon as they entered the door, everyone's eyes widened in surprise—there was no room behind the door, but a strange illusion.They were obviously on the second floor just now, but when they walked through this door, they suddenly appeared in the garden.

In the empty garden, there is a pair of mother and child, very similar to the mother and child in the oil painting in the room. The little boy is wearing a hat, and the woman is holding a parasol in her hand. The mother and child are planting flowers in the garden.

The little boy was squatting on the ground, picking up a small shovel to dig a hole, planting a sprouted sunflower seedling in the ground, and then burying the surrounding soil in with his hands. Seedlings are sprayed with water.

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: "Great! We are planting sunflowers here. Will I have more sunflower seeds this fall?"

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

The little boy shook his head: "No way!"

Thinking that there would be endless sunflower seeds in two months, the little boy was full of motivation and continued to dig holes with a shovel.

In the early spring, the sun is shining brightly and the breeze is gentle. The picture of mother and son planting flowers together is as beautiful as a dream.The people standing beside saw this scene with their own eyes, and looked at each other in blank 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 a replay of the screen from 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 not the same, the artistic conception of the whole painting is very similar. The 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 a hat of the same style.

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, passed by Yue Xingwen, then picked up a bottle of water on the table, and walked back to the child: "Dean , drink some water, take a break and plant again.”

The little boy asked while drinking water, "When will Daddy come 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 is full of sunflower seedlings, neatly.The woman patiently took the child to water each seedling, then wiped the sweat from her forehead, and said, "Auntie Leah will make it for you if you want to eat tonight."

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

The mother and son walked into the castle while chatting.

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

Everyone followed Jiang Pingce's gaze at the same time, and saw a woman standing by the window on the first floor. A black necklace with a white kitten in her arms.

The moment Yue Xingwen looked over, the woman turned and left, 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 with indifference, even with a kind of... resentment?Yue Xingwen was startled, and asked Jiang Pingce, "Has she been staring at this mother and child?"

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 strange eyes. She should be in the nanny's room on the first floor."

Ke Shaobin speculated: "She holds a cat in her arms, does it correspond to the oil painting "The 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 features of the woman in the painting. Just now, the hostess called her 'Aunt Leia'. If I remember correctly, Da Vinci The heroine of the painting is named Cecilia Gallerani, 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 male owner of this family?"

Jiang Pingce then said: "In the painting "The Last Supper", the key word 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 squinted his eyes and looked at the garden full of seedlings, and said, "Judging from their living conditions, single-family villas, Gothic-style buildings, and a large garden at the door, the owner of this house must be rich. The hostess may Did you find your own friends and relatives to be the 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 carefully about the logic before and after, and said: "The logic line that Brother Xu said, whether it is the motive of committing the crime or the theme of the painting we found, can match. But The most important point is not right."

Jiang Pingce said, "A corpse?"

Yue Xingwen nodded: "The corpses we found were a man and two women, one young woman, and the other two elderly men and women. Assuming that the nanny committed the crime and killed the family, the bodies should be a pair of young men and women and a little boy .Although our speculation can be matched with 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 asked, "Are there any other corpses?"

Jiang Pingce said calmly: "At present, the clues are not complete. I moved the three paintings just now, and the illusion I saw when I opened the mechanism corresponds to two paintings of a woman holding a parasol and an ermine, and a girl in a light veil. , did not appear."

Yue Xingwen's eyes lit up: "Maybe, the three paintings are arranged in different order, and there may 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, and the strange laughter of the woman with her mouth wide open was heard again.Yue Xingwen frowned and rubbed his ears, walked to the three paintings, took down the painting "Girl in the Scarf", and exchanged positions with the painting in the middle again.

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

Ke Shaobin said excitedly: "It's so fun, it's just like the mechanism maze in the stand-alone game. Every time the position of the hanging picture is changed, a door and a fantasy will appear!"

Xin Yan expressionless: "Fun?"

The strange castle, the moving woman in the painting, and the eerie laughter, Ke Shaobin described it as "fun"?

Liu Zhaoqing couldn't laugh or cry and said: "Student Ke, it's not just playing games now, maybe we will fail the class."

Ke Shaobin coughed lightly: "I know! I believe that as long as we complete the mechanism of this comic book maze 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, Yue Xingwen stopped in surprise.

There was a long red carpet under his feet, and a luxuriously furnished auditorium in front of him - what he walked into with Jiang Pingce side by side turned out to be a wedding venue.