"As for how to find the source, I think it may be necessary to trace back nearly a hundred years ago. I don't think this matter started nearly a hundred years ago, from the predecessors of these art museums we have inquired about. It can be seen that there are basically some privately-run study and painting shops. These people are thousands of miles apart and are unlikely to be related to each other, so there is no possibility of setting up such a large bureau together.
"So I think that group of people are also passively drawn into the painting, and the people who built the study and painting shops are probably also influenced by the power in the dark, so they built the shop in that position. It can be seen that it was the first With that power and its 'designated' location, the later study and painting shop came into being.
"So we have reason to doubt whether this force existed earlier? Was there a third group of people who also entered the painting in a different form earlier
"Only going all the way back to the source is it possible to find a way to crack it."
Ke Xun listened carefully to Mu Yiran's words, and said, "But the more you go up, the harder it will be to check. Which era does it have to be traced back to? Besides, there are only thirteen people in the painting each time, such a small group of people. Death, it is difficult to attract more attention and record it in the book, I am afraid we will not check it anywhere."
"This is indeed the most difficult problem to solve," Mu Yiran said. "Let's put it aside for now. What we need to do now is to check the surveillance video of all art museums, and second, to wait for news from Wu You. Maybe we can find some clues in the pattern of the bones."
Ke Xun nodded, Mu Yiran relayed the thoughts just now to the group into the painting discussion group, and asked Zhu Haowen to get the monitoring of other art museums.
In the following days, all the members of the painting group began to work day and night. Everyone was submerged in the huge surveillance video data, and they worked hard to find a glimmer of hope that could bring everyone a glimmer of hope. Those similar Face.
After two or three days like this, there was finally a little exciting news from Wu You - a junior of Grandma Tai's "daoist friend", who will show the bones.
So all the members of Jinhua Lun went to City C to gather again, and waited for the master who could read the bones at Grandma Tai's house.
Grandma too did not expect that there would be so many people with such a strange and ominous appearance. She was really frightened, and kept chanting words in her mouth, as if she was praying, and seemed to...
The master who looked at bones was around forty years old, and his face was really indifferent and thorough. However, when he first saw these ten people standing in a row in front of him, he was shocked and even stepped back. It took three or four steps before barely standing up.
"This—" The master of bone physiognomy didn't know what to say for a while, and his eyes wandered back and forth on everyone in surprise.
Mu Yiran was the first to speak, calmly speaking, slowly and clearly sending his voice into the ears of the master of bone physiognomy: "You don't need to speak first, after listening to what I have said, then decide whether to open this mouth or not.
"We can't tell you anything about your bones.
"We're not sure if you're going to be implicated once you help us decipher the bones.
"If you think you can't analyze the bones for us, please leave as soon as possible, without saying a word, and don't mention this to anyone.
"If you can analyze the bones with your cognition, but you can't tell us, please nod your head.
"If you can analyze the bones, but you can't express it in words, and don't think it will be backlashed or implicated, please try your best to implicate us.
"Finally, if possible, I would like to draw as much of our bones as possible."
The master of bone physiognomy looked at Mu Yiran for a long time with a complicated expression, and finally took the pen and paper prepared in advance without saying a word, and compared the bones of everyone one by one, thinking and drawing.
This was a long and torturous process, and everyone just stood there quietly, no one spoke.
It wasn't until it was dark outside that the master of bone physiognomy finally completed the ten paintings of bone physiognomy. Everyone just breathed a sigh of relief, but they saw that the master suddenly rubbed the ten paintings and threw them into the copper basin used by grandma to burn paper to worship the gods. , in a flash.
The master didn't leave a single word, and left Grandma Tai's house in a hurry, leaving everyone in the house looking at each other in dismay.
This does not include Ke Xun and Mu Yiran.
But seeing Ke Xun's long legs lift up to the table, he took off a mobile phone from the chandelier that was directly facing the top.
"What's the situation?" Wei Dong expressed surprise on behalf of everyone.
"Yi Ran considered everything in advance," Ke Xun told everyone while wiping off the footprints on the table with a rag, "Guys, remember, our mobile phone is a bug in almost all paintings. , since the last known event of entering the painting happened nearly a hundred years ago, and it is very likely that the source of the event is still further back, I and I speculate that even if the force behind the scenes can control some functions of the mobile phone, It is also impossible to fully grasp this technology product that is many years beyond its era, so maybe with this thing, we can escape its 'surveillance' to a certain extent."
Everyone suddenly realized, but Shao Ling was more cautious and said, "Can you make sure of this? Don't forget, the power of painting can control some of our behavior even in the real world, for example, as long as we tell outsiders about the incident in the painting. If you listen, you will be attacked, which means that it can still monitor us.”
"I think this kind of monitoring is limited," Mu Yiran replied, "Although I don't know how it works, if the force behind the painting is committed to making us live in the most dangerous state, they will not tolerate us. We have been exploring and discussing in the V letter group all the time, as well as all the investigations we have launched recently.
"If it really wanted to, or could stop us, we would be long overdue.
"From this, it can be inferred that what 'painting' can do is to monitor our external communication behavior in a certain way. For example, it is similar to a literary website that blocks some taboo words. When this word appears, it will be displayed as '□□', and I think the principle of restricting our words and deeds by painting is basically the same.
"And this time, we neither disclosed the taboo content directly to the master of bone physiognomy, nor did the master of bone physiognomy give us direct feedback based on our hints, we turned it through the mobile phone in the middle, I think it should not affect him. Or ourselves.
"There are so many capable people in this world, how can the power behind the painting ensure that someone we pass by on the road won't be a capable person like a master of the bones? If you are killed by the behind-the-scenes power of painting, then I think the ability of painting should be far more powerful than what it shows now, and it will not be so laborious to select people into the painting.
"Besides the particularity of mobile phones, I tend to do this not within the scope of 'illegal operations' and will not be punished by painting. Of course, if you think it will endanger yourself, you can also raise it, and we will think of other ways. ."
When the words fell, everyone shook their heads. Shao Ling lowered his eyes and thought for a while, and finally nodded in agreement: "That's it, after all... Whether we are inside or outside the painting, we all need to risk our lives."
Grandma Tai was invited to another room when the master of bone physiognomy came. At this moment, there are only all the artists left in the room, so there is no need to shy away. Everyone gathered around Ke Xun and stared at the phone in his hand. .
Ke Xun called up the video he just took, and saw that the picture was still clear, and the master of bone physiognomy also deliberately set his body back when drawing, leaving the entire drawing paper.
It can be said that this master of bone physiognomy is worthy of being a long-standing and well-informed old river and lake. He is extraordinarily careful and keen. After entering the house, he has already observed the surrounding environment. Obviously, the mobile phone on his head has not been ignored by him.
Everyone stared at the screen displayed on the mobile phone screen without blinking. As the pictures of everyone's bones appeared in full, the expressions on everyone's faces became more and more surprised and confused.
But I saw strange patterns drawn with black ink on the snow-white paper. It looked simple and neat, but it was alive-but it was mountains, rivers, water, fire, clouds and thunder, dragons and phoenixes, beasts, strange objects, and even faces. Terrible ghosts.
But the most surprising thing is that three of the ten people have completely different bone patterns from others.
It was a texture similar to a rope, densely packed and tightly wrapped around the bones of these three people, it seemed that these three people were sinners who had never been forgiven for their heinous crimes. So tightly bound that the soul is howling and wailing.
These three people are Shao Ling, Ke Xun, and Mu Yiran.
"What, what's going on..." Wei Dong looked at Ke Xun and Mu Yiran in shock, "Why are the three of you different from ours? Is this texture really the texture of a rope? What does it mean?"
Before Mu Yiran or Ke Xun could answer him, Shao Ling thought for a while and said, "Let's not talk about the texture of these three ropes, but the bones of the other pictures, I think the texture is familiar, it seems like..."
Shao Ling frowned and thought hard. Everyone didn't dare to disturb him, so they didn't make a sound. The room was still and the needles could be heard. Suddenly, a few coughs from the great grandma came from the next room, which interrupted Shao Ling's thoughts for a while, and Shao Ling subconsciously moved towards Looking in the direction next door, my eyes were blocked by the house wall, but I saw an old brass mirror hanging on the wall.
Shao Ling raised his brows and said, "It's the texture on ancient bronze utensils! Especially these patterns of water, fire, clouds, thunder, dragons, phoenixes and beasts are the most commonly used."
"But it stands to reason," Fang Fei, who rarely speaks, suddenly said, "Don't such textures generally imply good luck? Why does it appear in such a sinister situation."
"And these textures are not all such auspicious patterns, there are also beasts and some strange-looking creatures." Wei Dong, an artist, is more sensitive to the details of the patterns than others. "Look at this Creatures like fish, with bird wings, and these three-headed birds, smiling so weirdly... It doesn't feel auspicious at all."
"The three-headed bird, is it the crow in the sun?" Luo Yu said.
"That's a three-legged crow," Wu You said, "Dongzi, take a closer look. This three-headed bird has several tails, and I can't tell the difference."
Wei Dong took the phone from Ke Xun's hand, looked closely at the bottom of his eyes for a while, and said, "It seems to be six tails."
Wu You's eyes lit up: "Really?! Are you sure it's six tails?"
"I'm sure," Wei Dong nodded firmly, "Look at my sharp eyes."
"..." Wu You raised his eyes to look at the crowd, "I do know a bird with three heads and six tails, it seems to be called 'Hui Hung'!"
Mu Yiran and Shao Ling nodded at the same time: "The strange beasts in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas"."
"If you say that," Wu You pointed to the fish with bird fins on the phone, "then this kind of fish should be the 'Panfish', and it is also a strange beast in the "Book of Mountains and Seas". The mandarin ducks are the same, wherever they appear, there will be floods."
"...So Huatui'er is tattooing our bones according to the illustrated version of Shan Hai Jing in black and white?" Wei Dong said with a "I'm afraid I didn't encounter a sand sculpture".
"This result is indeed... why is it so sand sculpture," Ke Xun also scratched his head, "then dare to ask what kind of beast or foreign object in the "Shan Hai Jing" that hemp rope is?"
Wu You spread his hands.
"No, this style of painting is not like the style of the illustrated edition of Shan Hai Jing that has been published now," said Shao Ling, taking the phone from Wei Dong's hand and looking carefully for a while, "I look more like… Common patterns on bronze wares of the Zhou Dynasty.”
While talking, he took out his mobile phone and operated it for a while, and then turned the screen of the mobile phone to everyone to see: "Look, the patterns of Shang Dynasty bronzes are in this style, the upper left is the animal face pattern, and the upper right is the Kui pattern and the dragon pattern. , and below, there are cattle, sheep, elephants, tigers, horses, birds, snakes, cicadas, silkworms, and toads, and then there are phoenix patterns, cloud and thunder patterns, and vortex patterns, etc., carefully compare the textures displayed on the bones, are they very similar in style?"
"That's right," Wei Dong was the first to agree, "It's definitely the same style."
"So what do you mean?" Qin Ci looked at Shao Ling.