Around eleven in the morning, all the thirteen participants gathered.
In addition to true art lovers, the only people who are willing to come to the art museum on a rainy weekend are men and women who seek romance and style in love.
Among the eight newcomers, there are a total of two pairs of lovers, a middle-aged man who came in to shelter from the rain, a wealthy second generation who has nothing to do, a young female painter, and the man named Shao Ling.
At this moment, the eight newcomers have all learned from Qin Ci the ins and outs of the horror world in the painting, but what surprised the old members a little is that this time the newcomers have an unexpectedly high degree of acceptance of this strange event. No one was rude and noisy, and no one was angry with others. They were all silent and self-sufficient, carefully looking at the old members and the surrounding environment.
"Introduce yourself." Qin Ci informed the names of several old members.
The middle-aged man was carrying a bag in his hand - before entering the painting, it was his briefcase, and he pushed the thick lens glasses on the bridge of his nose: "My name is Li Yi, the electric car broke down on the way to work, and I went to the art museum to avoid the rain. If something like this happens... please take care of others."
"My name is Yu Long, this is my girlfriend, Fang Fei." The young man in his early twenties dyed his hair with a dull blue and flaxen textured perm, and pointed to the girl standing beside him with the same hair color princess perm and long hair , The girl was very silent, looking at everyone in front of her without saying a word.
The other couple also reported their names, and they were both in their thirties. The man was shrewd and looked very thoughtful. His name was Liu Yanlei.
The young female artist was thin and her complexion looked unhealthy and pale. I don't know if it was because of her art, but her expression was a little cold and alienated, and her eyes were sometimes blurred and empty, and she said her name lightly: " Sheg."
Presumed to be a pseudonym or a stage name.
The last one who spoke was the rich second generation with platinum blonde hair. The reason why he could tell that this was a rich second generation was because he was too young, and the big carat of the same style as Beckham was on his ear. Diamond earrings are too eye-catching.
The man rolled up his sleeves and showed several old members a bracelet that seemed to be made of bronze on his wrist, and then asked: "A few brothers, let me ask, after I walked out of the painting, the watch on my hand was still there. Can you change back?"
Everyone: "..." It turns out that this bracelet is the embodiment of the degraded watch...
Wei Dong looked at him speechlessly: "Dude, shouldn't you be concerned about whether you can get out of the painting?"
"Fuck me, this watch belongs to Patek Philippe. It is worth more than my life!" said the second generation of rich.
Wei Dong: "… Baiheda?"
The rich second generation: "Patek Philippe!"
Wei Dong: "How much money?"
The rich second generation: "More than 2.9 million."
Wei Dong: "... Bai Shi Da?"
The rich second generation: "This watch is going to break, and Uncle Zhang will lose his job."
Wei Dong: "What does Uncle Zhang do?"
Fu Erdai: "A servant who specializes in maintaining my watch."
Weidong: "...Poverty limits my imagination..."
The rich second generation: "By the way, my name is Luo Yu (bù), 勏劶勏, you can call me radish or Luo Luobu."
Wei Dong: "What do you mean?"
Fu Erdai: "It just means 'strength'."
Wei Dong: "... this name... how is it a bit wretched... "
The rich second generation: "Probably when my dad named me at the beginning, he hoped that I would grow up in a wretched manner in the future."
Wei Dong: "..." You're already very rambunctious now.
Ke Xun didn't bother to listen to these two trolls and continued to talk, and told everyone about the cause and effect of the "burning rhinoceros" that Mu Yiran just said.
"Since it has something to do with the burning rhinoceros," Qin Ci said, "then we will search this ship for rhino horns."
There was no objection from everyone. They were collectively transferred from the deck to the lower cabin, and no one made arrangements. The thirteen people were naturally divided into two groups.
Two groups of people searched the cabin separately, one group searched from head to tail, and the other group searched from tail to head.
"Let me ask," Luo Yao held up his mobile phone to illuminate everyone, "Is there only thirteen people in the first few paintings you entered? There are no other people in the paintings? I mean, the people in the paintings."
"Yes." Wei Dong replied, "According to the content of the paintings, some paintings have only thirteen of us outside the painting, and some paintings also have many insiders."
"Then why doesn't this painting have an insider?" Luo Meng said, "Is this a big ship? It's on the vast sea, right? If there is no insider, how did the ship sail here?"
"That makes sense..." Wei Dong looked at his companions. "Where's the captain? Where's the crew? Could it be that some of us are the captain? Does anyone know how to sail?"
"Even if it's a painting, it should be logical and reasonable," Qin Ci nodded, "unless it's a bizarre painting with an exaggerated cartoon theme like "Pure Land". Judging from the scale of this ship If you want to make it sail long-distance, you need to rely on wind power and manpower, and the manpower should not be too small, otherwise it will be impossible to control such a large-scale ship."
"I have observed the rooms in the superstructure on the deck," Mu Yiran said. "Many of the beds and toiletries in the rooms have been used by people, which shows that there should be a lot of 'people' on board before this, and we Entering the time node in the painting is when the events expressed in the painting have progressed to a certain stage, so we may think that there used to be a captain and many crew members on this ship, but due to the development of events, only thirteen people were left in the end. The 'crew', and our role is these thirteen people."
"It seems that the disappearance of the captain and other crew members may have a direct relationship with the Burning Rhinoceros." Zhu Haowen said.
"Then why did they burn the rhino when they were idle?" Luo Meng asked.
"In order to take pictures of ghosts?" Ke Xun thought, "And then just like Wen Qiao in the story of Niu Zhu's burning rhinoceros, they all died within ten days?"
Luo Yu pointed the light of his mobile phone to him: "Then why do we still look for rhino horns? Find them and continue to look at ghosts and ghosts, and then die?"
Ke Xun squinted his eyes: "Your light is about to blind my cousin classmate. Looking for the rhino horn is not necessarily to burn it, this thing is obviously an important prop in this painting, maybe it has something to do with the seal, so it must be found. ."
"Cousin" brother Luo Meng let out an "oh", turned away the light of the phone, and turned to Mu Yiran again: "Brother, I seem to have seen you somewhere."
"Let's talk less, be more obscene, and keep looking, okay?" Ke Xun gave him a look.
"Okay, okay, you're handsome, you have the final say." Luo Miao didn't have the arrogance of the rich second generation in his temperament. As soon as he turned the light of his mobile phone away, he suddenly remembered something like "fuck off". , pointing at Mu Yiran, "I remember! You are my dad's idol! There are still pictures of you in the drawer of his desk!"
Mu Yiran: "..."
Ke Xun: "..."
Everyone: "… "
Ke Xun akimbo: "What's the situation?"
Luo Meng looked hard at Mu Yiran's face: "My dad envy you for earning the wealth he has worked hard for half a lifetime at a young age, isn't there a saying in the circle - poor play with cars, rich play Watches, real local tyrants play in art museums. Local tyrants, my little brother is polite!”
Saying that, he cupped his fists at Mu Yiran and cupped his hands.
"..." Wei Dong whispered to Ke Xun, "This kid is two more than you."
"Remember he was like this when we first entered the painting?" Ke Xun didn't ignore Luo Xun's hand that had been holding up the phone with trembling from just now, so he didn't mean to laugh at Luo Xun, "The words There are many problems and many problems. When I see a calm and reliable person like Yi Ran, I want to try my best to pick it up, like a drowning person who sees the last piece of driftwood. It’s just because of his personality, he pretended he didn’t care much at first, but in fact Only we know in our own hearts what kind of mood and state of mind we were at at that time.”
Wei Dong sighed: "Yeah, all the indecent appearances that I tried to show are actually just to force myself not to collapse completely, as if pretending not to care, you can really not care, pretending to laugh and scold, You won't be afraid."
"Newcomers like us are using self-deception to protect and support themselves," Ke Xun glanced at Luo Xun who was still circling around Mu Yiran, "Let him go, let's hurry up."
Two groups of people thoroughly searched the lower rooms of the deck twice, but still no rhino horns were found.
"Could it be that the rhino horns on the ship have been burned by the disappeared captain and crew?" Wei Dong wondered after the two groups reunited.
"It's really a loser. Rhino horn has always been a very expensive thing, right?" Luo said.
"Yes." I don't know if it was because I saw a trace of Ke Xun in Luo Xun's body, and Mu Yiran, who had always been aloof, had a very kind attitude towards him, "Rhino horns are expensive things. , maybe not in the storage room, go to the captain's room and look for it."
Everyone got on the deck, and it was easy to find the captain's room, because this room is probably the most complete room in all the rooms. In addition to the bed, there are several storage boxes, which are all clothes and daily necessities.
Qin Ci and the others had searched this room before and found nothing suspicious.
This time everyone conducted a more detailed search, and Ke Xun even squatted down and knocked on the wooden floor one by one.
It turned out that Ke Xun's brain hole was not wrong. At the head of the bed, there was a hollow under the wooden floor.
Ke Xun uncovered the wooden floor, and there was a hole half a person deep inside. There were two or three wooden boxes in the hole, and the lids of the boxes were locked.
"Then the question is, where can I find the keys?" Luo Yu said.
Everyone has searched all corners of the room just now, but didn't see any keys.
"Why are you looking for the key?" Ke Xun said, reaching out and holding the lock on the lid of the box. He pulled it hard, and with a snap, the lock was pulled apart by him.
"Awesome, big brother!" Luo Yan was surprised, "Are you the reincarnation of Astro Boy?"
Ke Xun: "... Tough on your head. Stop talking nonsense, come here, and carry the box up."
Ke Xun pulled the locks of all the boxes open, and then lifted the boxes to the ground with Luo Xun. When everyone opened the boxes, they saw that some contained bamboo slips, some contained precious jewelry, and some contained rhino horns.
"The things recorded on the bamboo slips in the box may be some very important information," Shao Ling said, looking around the crowd, "Everyone, do you know seal script?"
Everyone shook their heads one after another, seeing the eyes of the old members subconsciously looking at Mu Yiran, Shao Ling raised his brows slightly, and looked at Mu Yiran with a little scrutiny.
"The small seal script that I can recognize is very limited," Mu Yiran glanced at the opened bamboo slips, "I'm sorry I can't recognize the content on it."
"Now that the rhino horn has been found, what are we going to do next?" Liu Yanlei, a shrewd-eyed man, couldn't stop shaking his eyes, as if he was thinking about something.
"Two choices, burn, or not burn." Shao Ling looked at the crowd.
Burning, it is likely to attract irresistible forces or creatures that lead to fatalities.
If it does not burn, it may not be able to promote the progress of the plot in the painting, so that there will be no clues to leave the painting.
Thirteen people who entered the painting were caught in a dilemma.