There are dead fish floating on the black water, four dead fish in the snow.
The whole negative exudes a sense of ignorant horror for no apparent reason.
"What about the other negatives? Take them out and take a look." Mu Yiran had already taken the tweezers from Mai Peng's hand, and the tweezers held this negative of the dead fish.
Under the faint red light, Mai Peng opened the envelope and poured out a few small negatives, carefully pinching the toothed edges of the negatives with his hands to avoid sticking fingerprints on them.
All the negatives are similar, all with black dots of different sizes on a white background.
Qin Ci stared at one of the negatives: "The shape of these fish is different from the previous ones, some resemble willow leaves."
"There are fish that look like willow leaves." Du Lingyu said, frowning and looking at the negative, only to feel that these fish were very stiff, standing there in a daze, looking at it for a long time People are numb.
Qin Ci squinted and looked at it for a long time: "It looks like a fish, but it doesn't look like it. It's too small to see clearly. It has to be enlarged."
"All the negatives are here?" Mu Yiran asked.
Mai Peng held the empty envelope: "Yes, it's all here."
"Then turn on the lights again to see more clearly." Mu Yiran said.
Several gauze lamps in the room were all lit up, and the eerie crimson atmosphere just now was replaced by warmth and warmth. Luo Meng's tense heart relaxed a little at this time, and he also leaned over to look at the negatives.
"Brother, what did you see?" Luo Meng stretched his neck and looked at the negative in Ke Xun's hand.
Ke Xun strictly followed Mai Peng's request, using his index finger and thumb to lightly clamp the zigzag pattern on the top and bottom of the film, so as to keep the picture as clean as possible: "Look at the radish, there is only one fish in this photo."
This is also a white negative, with a diamond-shaped flaky black fish taking up almost the entire picture. Because of the large size of the image, you can even clearly see the fish's eye, which is a gray dot.
"This fish is not completely floating on the water. It has gray water ripples on its body. I always think it is alive." Luo Meng could not imagine how this photo was taken. "It seems to be close to Swimming on the surface of the water, and swimming sideways upwards, strange, don't fish breathe with gills? Isn't its gills exposed on the water? Oh my god, did I also learn to analyze, and also use biological Knowledge, brother, please praise me."
"It doesn't seem to be in line with the principle of fish swimming," Ke Xun also felt that this picture reflected some problems, "I also think there is a mystery in these fish, but unfortunately these negatives are too small and the colors are reversed. If you can enlarge it, you can All right."
Luo Yao also looked at Mai Peng next to him: "You can use one can to develop film, can you use another can to develop photos?"
Cao Youning spoke first: "It's not that simple to develop photos. First of all, you need an enlarger. It's a machine, and it can't be made by hand! Even if we have Maishen, we can't do it."
It turned out that Mai Peng had the title of a god among these photographers. At this time, he fell into a state of hard thinking. After a long time, he said: "This world seems to have no electricity. If you make an enlarger by hand, you need at least one The light chamber composed of electric lamps also needs a photo magnifying lens produced by a professional manufacturer. With these two things, I can find a way to assemble the others - using two convex lenses on the front and back, a simple lens group can be formed. As for the skin cavity and The film holder should be fine."
Luo Meng listened in astonishment, this time he was convinced that he had really met a great god, but it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and just using electricity can make people stumped: "We have electricity in our mobile phones, and in your cameras. Is there a battery too?"
Mai Peng shook his head with a wry smile, and sucked in his breathless nose: "It's not as simple as you think, what I need is a real light bulb, even if it's not a special light bulb for milky white amplification, just ordinary LED lights can be used—in This light brigade, if they have electric lights, why bother lighting so many lanterns."
"Those imaging and other things are too complicated. Now we just want to enlarge the negative, even if it is in the reversed state," Zhu Haowen said suddenly, "Can you use a magnifying glass?"
"Do you have a magnifying glass there?" Mai Peng asked hurriedly.
Zhu Haowen: "No."
Mai Peng: "Oh... ah ah ah ah ah ah! I'm sorry."
Zhu Haowen: "..."
Ke Xun said: "The magnifying glass is not a very high-tech thing. Maybe it can be bought at the store here. We saw the market downstairs just now, and we can also try our luck there."
"It just so happens that I also need a magnifying glass here." It was Qin Ci who spoke, "I have a medical book in my package. The words on it are very small, and the light here is relatively dim, so it is very difficult to identify."
The word "medical book" seems to bring some hope to everyone - if you get sick here, at least there are ready-made doctors around who can treat you according to the medical book.
Lu Heng said: "I don't know if the medical skills in this world are the same as the outside world. My grandfather opened a Chinese medicine clinic. I also learned some simple Chinese medicine knowledge when I was a child."
"No wonder I have your signature in this medical book." Qin Ci said.
"Lending a book to sign?" As soon as Lu Heng heard the word "signature", he couldn't help being a little sensitive - if everyone wants to make a painting, don't they just look for an autograph.
Speaking of which, Qin Ci was also a little bit incredulous: "This is my habit of using books, my books often have a large bookmark on the title page folder, and I will ask everyone who borrows this book to sign the bookmark, This can be considered an obsessive-compulsive disorder. - I didn't expect this to be captured by the painting."
Weidong: Brother Qin, your nickname must have been librarian or something when you were young, right? Sorry, it's crooked.
Lu Heng continued to ask Qin Ci: "Do you mean to say that there is my loan record on the bookmark of your medical book?"
"Yes, I have your borrowing signature, but unfortunately there is no date." Qin Ci is also a little regretful about this. If there is a date, you can understand the age of this world.
Mu Yiran heard the conversation between the two, and seemed to have thought of something, with a slightly heavy expression.
Ke Xun and Luo Meng had already walked to the door at this time: "We try to find a way to find the magnifying glass, we can't all wait here."
Soon several members joined the team looking for the magnifying glass, the door of the room opened and closed, and the room returned to silence.
Mu Yiran put the negatives back into the envelope by hand, and then put the envelope back into the black developing tank. At the same time, he looked at the developing powder for developing film in the developing tank, and finally his eyes stopped at these things. The owner - Xi Shengnan's body.
"I don't mean to offend, after all, everyone's package will have some personal traces on it," Mu Yiran looked at Xi Shengnan and said, "Did you take similar photos in your previous life? Or Have you seen any of these things in the photo?"
At this time, Xi Shengnan was taking care of a wooden jewelry box. There seemed to be some hairpins and bracelets in it. She closed the box without looking closely: "I have never seen such a strange fish, and I have never photographed it. Pictures like that, those things are like this jewelry box, which is foreign to me."
Mu Yi lowered his eyes, and when he opened them again, there was a hazy candlelight in his eyes: "At present, we have not found a clear clue, but the problems have come one after another, we might as well brainstorm ideas now, everyone will put their own ideas. Say it, even if it's outrageous, it doesn't matter."
Mai Peng rubbed his nose, which was completely blocked, and the severe cold caused him some pain: "My biggest question at the moment is that everyone was healthy before entering the painting, why did I suddenly have a severe cold? This is not common sense. "
Mu Yiran heard the words, nodded, and wrote it down in a notebook with a pen: "This is indeed not common sense."
"I also have a question," Du Lingyu raised his hand, "it's actually a trivial matter, but I feel very strange, why the perfume smell on my body has completely disappeared, the 'thief rose' The smell is very persistent and impossible to disappear without a trace.”
"Okay, everyone continue talking." Mu Yiran took a pen and wrote it down again.
"My question is," Zhu Haowen, still standing beside a gauze lantern, also spoke at this time, "Why does this painting know so much about each of us, first of all knowing our surnames, and then according to our original The memories and habits of the world have arranged props for us, and even if this painting follows a role-playing route, it is impossible to find out what each player likes."
player? Shao Ling looked at Zhu Haowen unconsciously, and suddenly understood why this person could live through nine paintings all the way. This person seemed to regard all the painting worlds as pure game clearance.
Shao Ling said: "This is also the biggest mystery in my heart. Because I can't grasp the center of the world, I feel very confused, and this painting 'knows' each of us so much, which makes people feel terrified."
Mu Yiran's face remained unchanged, and he lowered his head and recorded everything with his pen.
Xi Shengnan has packed up his package, and now the developing tank has been confiscated, and it is placed in the public cabinet.
Xi Shengnan seemed to have lost his previous spirit, and said in a low voice: "This painting is indeed terrifying, it not only captures our hearts, but also restores the characters in my works to this world. The world itself is completely different from the world of my novels, I am very confused and pessimistic, always thinking that I will be the most unlucky one."
Du Lingyu said comfortingly: "Sister Xi, don't think about it, maybe it's just a matter of time. Xiayu may be the first character we found in the work, and maybe we will find other things later."
Xi Shengnan smiled bitterly, feeling that Lu Heng next to him patted his shoulder, as if trying to give him strength.
When it was Qin Ci's turn to speak, he just shook his head: "I'm already in a mess, this world is beyond my imagination. I think the most terrifying thing is that we have to continue to play the role in the caravan, and many things can't be said. , and don't dare to ask too much about the NPC, so I can only guess by clenching my fists. For example, we can't take out these weird fishes on the negatives and ask others. Seeing through our identities as outsiders was countered."
Several newcomers felt more and more difficult when they listened to Qin Ci's words.
"Xiao Mu, what did you think of?" Qin Ci asked.
Mu Yiran stopped writing after recording: "What bothers me the most is the time record, there is no borrowing date in your borrowing list, and the business travel records I have in my hand do not have a clear date, such as business travel records. The team came to the Fluorite Brigade. I can only make a rough calculation based on the seasonality of the goods traded and exchanged. We probably spent half a year in the Fluorite Brigade. When we came to the Lantern Brigade this time, we drew seven vertical lines, maybe It means seven days, or maybe it means something other than time."
Qin Ci frowned: "My borrowing list reads like this: Lu Heng borrowed books from the lamp brigade, and Lu Heng returned them to the lamp brigade. There is no description of the date at all."
Mai Peng seemed to have remembered something, and sucked in his nose that was red from the cold: "When we first came here, I felt some vertical lines on the wall of the corridor, and it happened to be seven."