It was a little hot in the cafe, Ke Xun rolled up the sleeves of his shirt, revealing his strong forearm, there were some bruised pinch marks on it, Ke Xun wanted to cover it up too late, so he had to explain: "Every time there is a 'stay'. The thought of spending the rest of my life in this city, I would pinch myself hard."
Wei Dong looked at the scar on Ke Xun's forearm and couldn't help cursing: "This city is a trap, a trap that wants to trick us all into it! Ke Er, you also know to remind yourself that I didn't realize this before 'revealing the secret'. , I was thinking about looking for a beast. Even now, I have to force myself to keep the word 'signature' in my head like a light bulb!"
Ke Xun put down the sleeve of his left arm, not wanting everyone's attention to be on himself: "Actually, the most uncomfortable person is Luo Wei, he is the only sober person, but he has words of suffering. We talked about Su Benxin just now, I Now I'm a little worried about Luo Wei getting along with her. - I always feel that Lion's death is not easy, he came out of the restaurant last night and had a long chat with Su Benxin."
Although Su Benxin also explained this later - when night fell, I was too scared, so I wanted to chat with an old friend. We were a kind of comfort to each other at the time. Although neither of them had animal records, they were afraid.
"I was a little worried about Luo Wei before, but the communication between people outside the city and people in the city will be blocked from some sensitive content, which may be a kind of protection for Luo Wei. Moreover, I met Luo Wei when we were grouping. He is a very smart person, and he will take precautions against Su Benxin." Mu Yiran put his right hand on Ke Xun's left arm, and seemed to caress the scars gently.
Qin Ci has finished his coffee: "Let's talk about Xiao Qinxian again. The results of her examination surprised me."
Wei Dong choked on a sip of water in his mouth. He didn't expect Qin Ci to hold back such a suffocating gun: "Pff-cough, what's wrong with Xiao Qinxian?"
"Xiao Qinxian was sent to the examination room at four o'clock in the morning. She panicked at first, and then she was extremely uncooperative, and even called manic. The medical staff had to give her a sedative to get better. She was in a state of mind at the time. Split." Qin Ci said.
Wei Dong looked serious: "I believe this, that woman doesn't seem normal during the day."
Mu Yiran wrote down something in his notebook, and then asked, "Is there any further inspection?"
"The subsequent examination is also surprising. Xiao Qinxian has a history of smoking for ten years, and also has a history of drug use." Qin Ci said, "There are also many similar self-residual scars on the body."
Wei Dong's eyes widened. Although Xiao Qinxian was quite unpopular, he really didn't see that she was a borderline woman, with a history of drug addiction? — "Isn't she a wedding dress designer? I remember that she was still doing design in a famous wedding dress shop in S City. She said it at lunch yesterday, and said that this time she was going back to her hometown to visit relatives... It was also unlucky. "
Qin Ci shook his head: "But the medical examination can't be wrong, and the scars on the body can't be wrong. If it's not self-harm, it's long-term abuse."
Ke Xun filled everyone with a cold water bottle, and took a sip of his own cup to refresh himself: "It's so messy, I feel like the whole thing is like eating a snack with several layers, there are cakes, biscuits and a lot of prestige. Whipped cream or something like that."
Wei Dong: "I hold back the foreigner, it's called 'Napoleon'..." Wei Dong did not continue his ridiculed decompression after all, because when he mentioned 'foreigner', it reminded people of Lion, the foreign photographer with a sunny smile, every time They will pay special attention to the words and say "Oh, Nis" loudly, and they will also talk about their own adventure photography experiences...
Mu Yiran took a sip of ice water, and after the two nights boiled, there was already a layer of green stubble on his face, but he did not show a trace of stubbornness, on the contrary, he added some informal dignity: "Same destination by different paths. , although the situation of Su Benxin and Xiao Qinxian seems to be tricky, they will eventually form a main line."
Wei Dong nodded, ever since he remembered the "signature", he never forgot the central idea and prepared for the painting: "Looking for an autograph on the street is like looking for a needle in a haystack, and now the only hint this painting gives us is that 'Beast', I think the signature must have something to do with the beast!"
Everyone agrees with this point, Qin Ci said: "Just now Xiaomu mentioned Su Benxin's recitation of the title page of "The Scarlet Beast", I remember what "Apocalypse" was mentioned in it, the woman riding the beast in it, on the forehead There are words. I wonder if the words on the woman's forehead have something to do with the words in the signature?"
Qin Ci's analysis caused both Ke Xun and Wei Dong to raise their eyebrows and thumbs up, and then everyone waited for Mu Yiran to analyze.
Mu Yiran: "I also made this assumption in my heart, and even imagined who this woman would be... But, after all, the woman in "Revelation" is the incarnation of a cult, and the words on her forehead are also very evil, if these If the word can be equated with the author's name..."
Ke Xun's eyes lit up, and the others seemed to think of something - "The author actually did the opposite. He painted this picture not to condemn the Scarlet Beast, but to praise it! So in this heart In the city, the beasts in people's body will be enshrined on the altar!"
Mu Yi nodded: "However, Zhao Yanbao has brought back a different voice from the university town this morning, and this kind of voice has formed a certain scale in this city. The original intention of the painter is getting harder and harder to guess."
The beast returns to its original body, and its soul is complete.
At this point the eight characters are printed on the walls of the cafe, in an avant-garde slogan style.
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At lunchtime, everyone returned to the hospital and gathered in the cafeteria to eat like yesterday.
It was the same single room as yesterday, but there were three fewer people, which made people feel depressed and depressed.
"By the way, what's wrong with Xiao Qinxian? How will her lunch be resolved?" Zhao Yanbao asked.
"She eats nutritious meals, and her mood is still unstable. Let's see her after lunch." Qin Ci said.
Zhao Yanbao looked at the food on the table but had no appetite, and only drank some orange juice: "The people in the university town are against the beast stripping operation, and they are also against the exchange of beasts. I know from them that there are some people in the society who specialize in animal husbandry. Buying some mentally ill patients at a high price, then raising them, and even feeding them some medicines that aggravate their illness, it is said that such people have a higher chance of having animals in their bodies, and feeding them properly will make animals rare."
Zhao Yanbao looked at the glass filled with bright orange juice: "It's really inhumane."
Everyone also slowly felt the decay of the city inside the golden jade exterior, and the more they saw this, the more they wanted to escape.
"We seem to be able to see this painting more and more clearly. The painter himself is probably full of contradictions." Zhu Haowen said.
Regarding the analysis of Yu Beiguo, everyone has not had time to talk to Zhu Haowen and Luo Wei, and it is inconvenient to say more at this time.
Wei Dong was already half full and raised his head: "We don't have any valuable clues here, we only know that in this city, surgeons are very respected, and today I was in the coffee shop because of Dr. Qin's work card. Free of charge."
Su Benxin looked at his 'colleague' Qin Ci and smiled: "It seems that Dr. Qin is really suitable for this place. Many colleagues in the hospital are full of praise for Dr. Qin."
Qin Ci smiled lightly and did not speak.
"Today's sweet and sour pork loin wasn't ready, it was too sweet," Ke Xun naturally changed the subject and looked at Luo Wei, "I haven't heard you speak today, how is it, did you get anything out of the trip just now?"
Luo Wei's expression was calm, not as painful as yesterday. He took a sip of the soup and said, "We are going north today, and there is a train station there, so there are all kinds of people."
"Train station?" In Ke Xun's impression, trains are often the means of transportation connecting cities. If there is a train in Xincheng, it should lead to outside Xincheng.
"Yes, the train goes out of the city." Rowe said, "The train tickets that people take also need to have special stamps, some people plan to leave the city forever, and some people go on business or run. For business, these people can’t leave the city boundary, they can only talk to people and make deals there.”
As Su Benxin, who was traveling with Luo Wei this time, he also added at this time: "Yes, those who leave Xincheng will never be able to come back, and some outsiders who want to settle in this city need to do some special treatment. , I feel like it's erasing memories or something."
Luo Wei smiled bitterly: "So, I've been trying to figure out what it means for the painter to be arranged in the city as an outsider."
The whole Heart City is full of contradictions—contradictions in and out of the city, contradictions in opposing views about the beast.
Rowe continued: "However, we met a great man at the train station today."
"Senior?"
"Yes, it's an old lady who set up a stall at the train station. She set up a Gua stall." Luo Wei talked about this person with a rare look in his eyes, "This old lady can see at a glance that the two of us An outsider."
"You two?" Wei Dong looked at Su Benxin who was sitting over there, "What did this outsider say?"
Luo Wei: "I also found it strange. When she saw me for the first time, she said in a strange dialect: How did a foreigner come here. I thought at the time that she saw that I was People outside the Xincheng area, who knew that she would say after seeing Su Benxin: The outsider also brought a foreign woman."
Everyone felt strange when they heard it. Su Benxin said: "That old lady is very mysterious, and her appearance is also very strange, even a little weird. Her eyes are different in color. However, she is really good at it, she can actually see me and I Rowe is from outside the painting."
"Did she mention painting?" Mu Yiran asked suddenly.
"No, but she said that both of us are outsiders. Isn't it strange? According to the original division, only Luo Wei is an outsider." Su Benxin said.
Luo Wei went on to say: "So she is an expert. She seems to be able to see things we can't see, including this painting and maybe a signature."