Like a thief, Fang Daichuan poked his head out of Li Sinian's room and looked around warily. Li Sinian followed behind him without knowing why, with his left hand in his pocket, as leisurely as an old man strolling in the back garden of his own home.
Most of the paintings on the tapestry have disappeared, but there are still a few puddles of water stains on the carpet.
When Li Sinian saw the hanging paintings, his expression became serious. He gently rubbed his fingers across the wet tapestry and smelled the water between his fingers.
"How is it?" Fang Daichuan asked nervously with wide-eyed eyes.
Li Sinian frowned and rubbed his fingers: "It's nothing special, it should be water, how did you find out?"
This is scary to say. Fang Daichuan rubbed the goosebumps on his arms and recalled: "I couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, so I wanted to find you, and then I saw paintings on these tapestries when I left the room. I remember When we came up, the windows in the corridor were open. I was thinking that maybe the rain had poured in and wet part of the tapestries, and the paintings were exposed. Then I turned into the one in front of your room Around the corner, I heard voices in the corridor, and I took a sneak peek, and saw that crazy kid was pouring water on the mural with a small bucket."
"Did you not see him in the corridor?" Li Sinian asked.
Fang Daichuan shook his head resolutely: "Absolutely not, I wonder if he went to fetch water from the kitchen on the first floor at that time."
While they were talking, the wind and rain outside became louder again, a layer of mist condensed on the outside of the glass, and thunder was rolling, shaking the whole island upside down. Li Sinian opened the window, and the wind and rain soaked the curtains and tapestries in an instant.
Paintings also resurfaced.
Holy light, white robe, snake with an apple in its mouth; fleshy wings, sharp horns, a two-headed dog guarding the territory. Li Sinian looked towards the dome along the painting, and saw the three sculptures as well, he frowned tightly.
"You, do you understand? I understand the battle between gods and demons. What the hell is that goddess?" Fang Daichuan asked. Li Sinian is half of Western blood at least. He is at least better than the Chinese about these gods and gods good at.
Li Sinian said hesitantly: "Blindfolded, holding a sword and scales, this is the shape of Judithia, the goddess of justice, who is in charge of justice and refereeing. The root word 'Justice', which stands for justice in Latin, comes from her name. During the Renaissance, she liked to shape her statue very much, and the shape was basically like this. Blindfolded, which means not being disturbed by external sounds, holding a scale in the right hand, symbolizes judging right and wrong. Holding a long sword in the left is a punishment for the injustice. "
"Hey," Fang Daichuan gasped, "Humanity is a verdict. I know the script. Isn't Agatha's classic novel "And There Were None" the theme? Take a group of criminals to an island and kill them all. —This boss thinks very highly of himself, and is in charge of justice, calling himself a goddess? He is also a dramatist, so he probably doesn't look very good."
Li Sinian ignored him.
Fang Daichuan looked up for a while: "But why is she wearing a black robe? Shouldn't all Greek goddesses wear white robes? They also have wings? The gods at that time didn't seem to have wings, right? Aren't all the goddesses with wings? Christian God?"
"Maybe it's not Juditia, but some pagan god?" Li Sinian shook his head while guessing, indicating that he couldn't answer this question. Snakes and dogs do often appear around Titiah. Snakes symbolize greed, desire, and worldly power, and dogs symbolize loyalty and friendship. Juditia is not tempted by power or human feelings, only rational and justice."
Fang Daichuan watched for a while, until both of them were drenched by the rain. The central air conditioner in the villa was adjusted to the constant temperature mode, which was conservatively estimated to be only 20 degrees. He was drenched and stood under the air outlet of the air conditioner, feeling cold all over his body. He closed the window.
The tapestry was full of water, and the picture didn't disappear for a moment. Twenty-four faces stared at them in the corridor.
"You just said you saw that kid splashing water on the wall?" Li Sinian remembered another incident.
Fang Daichuan nodded and shivered: "The windows should be open tonight, right? I wonder if he ran out in the middle of the night, saw the wet hanging painting, went down to fetch water, and then splashed it on the wall."
He said and looked at the window just now.
Suddenly, he thought of something, turned his head suddenly, and looked at Li Sinian in horror. A flash of lightning struck outside the window, making Fang Daichuan's face pale, and extreme fear dispersed in his dilated pupils.
Li Sinian didn't understand what he meant.
"That window!" The back of Fang Daichuan's head went numb suddenly, chills rose from his feet, and went straight to his whole head, the sky spirit cover was made of wood. He suddenly thought of a detail that made him shudder.
—When everyone returned to the room together, the window was open. When he left the room, the window had been closed, but the water stains on the curtains and tapestries were vivid. Then he pushed open the closed window and saw a white figure. He was so frightened that he ran to the corner and rang Li Sinian's doorbell. At that time, he was so terrified that he never had the time and mood to close the windows. Immediately afterwards, he saw a big play between the child and his mother, and then until Li Sinian went upstairs, they entered the room, drank a glass of wine, and then came out.
The window was tightly closed when they came out.
The windows are so high that it is impossible for children to open and close them directly. If the children went out to see the murals soaked by rain, and then went down to fetch water, the time before the windows were closed must be very short. Before Fang Daichuan went out, after the little boy went downstairs, someone closed the open window. Then Fang Daichuan opened it. During the time Fang Daichuan hid in the corner and entered Li Sinian's house, someone came out again and closed the window.
Fang Daichuan was covered in white sweat, he explained the process to Li Sinian one by one, and told Li Sinian that he was also covered in white sweat.
"According to what you're saying, there is someone who frequently goes in and out of the corridor just to close the windows in the corridor?" Li Sinian patted the bristling hairs on his arms and asked, "Why? It's just a window?"
Fang Daichuan said with a bitter face: "How the hell do I know?! What I'm most afraid of is that it doesn't go in and out at all, it just hides in the corridor, watching me come out, opening the window, hiding from people..."
Li Sinian hissed. He looked left and right, and there was no one around, only the sound of raindrops hitting the glass window outside the window, but he felt for no reason that there seemed to be a pair of eyes in the darkness, watching everyone in the dark .
He raised his eyes and glanced at the sculpture of the goddess. The blindfolded Lady Justice looked down at the corridor with pity, with a faint smile on the corner of her mouth.
"You said you saw a white shadow on the reef?" Li Sinian suddenly caught something.
Fang Daichuan nodded: "Is that you? Did you go to the cabin by the rock?"
Li Sinian took a deep breath and looked out of the window, the seaside scenery was clearly reflected outside the window. He closed his eyes, turned his head to stare at Fang Daichuan, and said cautiously: "I didn't go to the beach, I went to the wooden house on the hillside." As he spoke, Fang Daichuan clearly saw the mud stained on the soles of his shoes. There are moss and broken leaves.
"Who is that?" Fang Daichuan was completely stunned, "Except for the prophet, who else needs to run out of the house?"
Li Sinian lowered his head and thought for a while: "Now I don't know what priesthoods are there. I thought there should be 2~3 gods, but now that I think about it, it seems wrong. Do you remember that manual?" As long as the current number of players exists On the opposite side, the game is declared to continue." This is not a border slaughter game, but a city slaughter game. The priesthood of the twelve-person massacre game may be pre-female guarding, and in some places it is pre-female guarding white. I don't know which one is used here. There are thirteen of us, and there may be a third-party camp, if it’s White Wolf or Thieves, it’s okay, but if it’s Cupid, it’s troublesome.”
He quickly calculated: "There must be prophets and witches. Guards are not easy to set up in real games, and they can't be used at all. The other two priesthoods may be idiots and hunters. But idiots or hunters don't need to go out at night. …”
Fang Daichuan had never played Werewolf before, so he hurriedly asked, "How does a hunter play? What is an idiot?"
"Hunters and idiots are both from the good camp. If you get a ticket from a hunter, he can randomly take a player away from the field and die together. An idiot won't die if he is voted out. Instead, he will turn over his cards and continue to participate in the game. Participate in voting, and the werewolf will only die if he is killed," Li Sinian explained.
It was too complicated. Fang Daichuan heard one head and two big, so he chose to give up. Let Li Sinian do this kind of IQ competition.
However, Li Sinian couldn't think of any reason to go out in the middle of the night. He scratched his little curly hair and said, "Well, I'll wet the carpet at the stairs tomorrow morning. Remember to take a book from your room and stand on the stairs." Pretend to read a book, and when someone walks by, look at the carpet to see who has mud on the soles of their shoes."
good idea.
Fang Daichuan was amazed at such shameless methods.
The ink stains on both sides of the corridor had begun to slowly disappear. Li Sinian took a last look and caught a glimpse of a sentence in Gothic English on the corner of the tapestry. That English sentence is engraved on the corner in front of his door.
“It's better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven.”
Li Sinian was a little lost in thought.
"I'm still worried about one thing." Fang Daichuan looked at Li Sinian hesitantly, not knowing how to speak, "On that mural, there are only twelve people on each side. Then... what about us? We are the god on the dome Demon war? Are you really on the same side as me?"
Only then did Li Sinian suddenly come to his senses, and he hooked his lips: "No matter where we are, it has absolutely nothing to do with that shitty war between gods and demons. Think about it, your appearance is completely a coincidence, if If you can find hints about you in this villa, it would be a hell of a thing."
It makes sense, Fang Daichuan felt relieved. He turned his head to look at the torrential rain outside the window, praying in his heart, this long night, please hurry up.