Escape From the Library

【Phantom in the painting-07】

At the same time, Xu Yishen glanced at the sunflower garden downstairs through the window, and said, "Wait a minute, I'll go and have a look in the garden." After he finished speaking, he used the mitosis skill to split out five clones in an instant, Leaving one of them with his teammates, the others jumped out of the window and disappeared into the sunflower garden in a blink of an eye.

The sunflowers in the garden are blooming brilliantly, and the huge petals are flying in the wind against the moonlight, neatly, like a magnificent golden sea wave.

Xu Yishen ran back and forth in the garden, and soon returned to the room on the second floor.Holding the picked sunflower in his hand, he said: "The whole garden is full of sunflowers, and we didn't see a rose. The castle we are in is not in the same time and space as the original castle."

Qin Miao asked calmly, "Continue to look for clues, or should we join Xingwen and the others first?"

Everyone looked at each other, and Qiqi looked at Senior Brother Liu Zhaoqing, who was the oldest.

Liu Zhaoqing said decisively: "Let's find Xingwen first. I'm worried that they will wait for us in the original world. If everyone goes further and further away like going through a maze and cannot contact each other, even if they find clues, it will be difficult to pass them on. "

Xu Yishen agreed: "That's right, this time and space should not be a one-off. Since we have been here before, we can come again. First meet with other people, and everyone discusses the next strategy, and then there is still time to find clues."

Zhuo Feng said: "The question is, how should we go back?"

Xu Yi thought deeply for a moment and said, "Maybe, you can try to go back the same way?"

Lin Manluo said: "We were separated from Xingwen at the entrance on the second floor, and then we entered the room on the right, and when we came out, we found the woman in the painting of "Mona Lisa" with her mouth wide open, and the whole castle was full of people. It was her weird laugh, and later, we entered the room on the left together and saw the sunflower garden outside the window."

Zhuo Feng nodded: "Well, follow the path Man Luo said, and walk backwards to have a look."

In order to prevent everyone from getting separated again, Lin Manluo simply summoned a green vine. The soft vine stretched quickly and wrapped around the right hands of the six students. In this way, everyone was bound together and no one would be left behind.

Everyone followed Zhuo Feng out of the room on the left and came to the entrance. The lower half of the face of the woman in the painting turned into a bloody mouth, and the spine-chilling laughter came from the corridor again.

Ignoring the weird laughter, Zhuo Feng walked into the room on the right. There was Van Gogh's "Sunflower" oil painting on the wall, just like when they first entered the room on the right.

After coming out of the room on the right, the hanging picture at the entrance unexpectedly returned to normal.

Zhuo Feng saw the paper pasted next to the hanging picture at a glance. The size and material of the paper looked like Xingwen tore it from the "Dictionary of Modern Idioms". Wrote a line of bold characters: "The comic maze, go back the same way. The stairs are the portal, and the A world meets-Xingwen & Ping Celiu."

Xu Yishen's eyes lit up: "It really is a space maze, this is the clue left by Xing Wen and Ping Ce!"

Zhuo Feng also breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Go downstairs quickly."

The 6 people quickly came to the first floor along the stairs, and then they saw their teammates sitting on the sofa in the living room waiting.

Yue Xingwen immediately got up to meet him: "Senior brother Liu, are you all right?"

Liu Zhaoqing smiled and said, "It's okay, after the second floor was separated, we were transported to a fantasy in a painting."

Ke Shaobin asked curiously: "Will the woman in the painting shed blood and tears, and attack everyone with her hair?"

Xu Yishen shook his head: "No, the woman in our porch painting has a mouth half the size of her face, and keeps making strange laughter, but she doesn't attack us. There are no black roses in the garden downstairs, but sunflowers instead."

Lin Manluo asked concerned: "According to Xiao Ke, the world you entered is very dangerous, and the woman in the painting will attack?"

Ke Shaobin said: "Yes, the women in the painting floated out continuously, with blood everywhere, and Xingwen was strangled by them, almost strangled to death! Fortunately, Ping Ce reacted quickly and cut off those hairs with a triangular ruler."

Recalling the experience just now, Yue Xingwen also had lingering fears in his heart. He coughed lightly and said with a smile: "It was just a false alarm. I was always worried that something would happen to you, as long as everyone is not injured."

Jiang Pingce came over and gently pressed Yue Xingwen's shoulder, and said in a low voice, "Sit down and chat. There is no time limit for this class. We can analyze it slowly and try to grasp all the details."

Yue Xingwen nodded, pointed to the sofa in the living room and said, "Everyone, sit down."

Everyone sat down on the sofa one by one. Only then did Yue Xingwen spread out the spatial structure diagram planned by Jiang Ping, and said, "I left this diagram at the entrance on the second floor. Have you seen it?"

Zhuo Feng nodded: "I see, it was planned by Ping, right?"

He drew each world as a three-dimensional space, and marked it with letters such as A and B. The whole picture looked very intuitive, like an analytical answer to a test question on solid geometry.

Jiang Pingce said: "The two groups of us both returned the same way and successfully reunited in world A, which shows that my speculation is correct. The interior of this castle is actually a space maze. The different phantoms in the painting represent that we have entered different worlds. world."

Liu Zhaoqing scratched his head and said, "So, since we separated on the second floor, every time we walk through a door or a section of steps, we will enter a different space?"

Jiang Pingce nodded: "Yes. What did you see after the detachment?"

Qin Miao handed the painting they copied to Xu Feixue: "In the first room on the right, what we saw was Van Gogh's "Sunflower" oil painting; later on, we saw three paintings in the room on the left. return."

Xu Feixue was surprised and said, "The paintings you see after the division are completely different?"

Yue Xingwen came over to take a closer look, and said, "What we saw in the room on the left was "Starry Night", and the room on the right was "The Last Supper"; Senior Brother Liu and the others saw three paintings in the room on the left; the room on the right was "" sunflower"."

Ke Shaobin said: "Sure enough, during the half hour just now, everyone has been in different spaces and saw different clues." He looked at Xu Feixue and said, "What do these three paintings mean?"

Xu Feixue explained: "The first painting "Girl in a Light Veil" was painted by the Italian painter Raphael. It is said that the beautiful woman in the painting is his favorite woman; the second painting "Woman with a Parasol" ", the painter is Monet, and the women and children in the painting are his wife and son; the third painting "Woman Holding an Ermine" is the work of Leonardo da Vinci, which depicts a mistress of the Duke of Milan."

Yue Xingwen looked at the three paintings, and frowned slightly: "Crush, mistress, wife, the identity of the person in the painting has a gradual process, and it seems to be related to the theme of replacement and exchange proposed by Ping Ce before?"

Qin Miao added: "There are also flowers in the flower beds. Both black roses and sunflowers can represent love. In our time and space, we saw large sunflowers, but now the garden is full of black roses."

Yue Xingwen speculated: "That is to say, the family planted sunflowers in the garden at first, and then the murderer killed them, replaced someone among them, and shoveled out the sunflowers, and planted black roses in the garden ?”

Jiang Pingce said: "It is very likely that it is a love homicide. The murderer is a woman. The motive of committing the crime is to kill the other party instead."

The three women's oil paintings hanging on the wall and the Mona Lisa oil painting at the porch are all women, and there is a second face in the Mona Lisa painting, and there are strange things like women shedding blood and tears, and opening their bloody mouths. phantom.

There is a strong possibility that the murderer was a woman.

Ke Shaobin concluded: "In this bloody case, it was a woman who killed the innocent 'Mona Lisa' and replaced her with a second face? That's why the woman in the Mona Lisa painting shed tears , because she died unwillingly?"

Liu Zhaoqing reminded: "But the corpses we found were one man and two women."

Jiang Pingce said: "Brother Liu judged at the time that two of the deceased had obvious osteoporosis, the older one, and the other was very young. Such a combination is very similar to a family of three."

Yue Xingwen said: "Perhaps this young girl is the murderer's real target. She wanted to kill this girl, but was caught by the girl's parents and killed her whole family?"

Ke Shaobin scratched his head in doubt: "But, in the three oil paintings of women, there is a little boy next to the woman holding the parasol. Where did the little boy go? Are these paintings related to the murder in the castle?"

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce glanced at each other. At present, they only figured out the main logic, and many details are still not right.For example, what role does the little boy in the painting mentioned by Ke Shaobin play in the whole case?Or, does this little boy really exist?What exactly do these paintings mean?

Yue Xingwen was silent for a moment, and suddenly remembered a key point. He turned to Qin Miao and said, "By the way, I ate sunflower seeds when I was young. I remember that it was autumn. Did sunflowers bloom and mature in autumn?"

Qin Miao said: "It usually blooms in July and August, and the seeds mature in September."

Yue Xingwen then asked: "Qin Miao, do you know when the black rose will bloom?"

Qin Miao said: "It should be in full bloom in May and June, and it will slowly wither after July."

When the students around heard this, they immediately understood Xingwen's purpose of asking the flowering time of the two kinds of flowers - Liu Zhaoqing and the others saw the sunflowers in full bloom, so they could deduce that the time in that world should be in August; Outside, black roses are also in full bloom in the garden, and the time should be June.

Assuming that at the beginning, the family planted sunflowers in the garden at the door, and after the murderer killed the family, he leveled the garden and planted black roses instead, and it took two months for the roses to bloom.

The corpses dug up in the rose garden have turned into bones, and it takes about 2 years for normal people to bury their bones in the ground. Therefore, the castle world they are in should be 2 years after the murder.

And in the world where the sunflowers bloom, the murder may not have happened yet.The real time of the incident is likely to be after September, the autumn when the sunflowers mature!

Realizing this, Lin Manluo immediately said excitedly: "We saw the world of Sunflower, this family is not dead yet, maybe we can find more clues about them?"

Yue Xingwen nodded: "Well, the current world is the world after the incident. The sunflower world is before the incident."

Jiang Pingce looked at him and said, "Continue to investigate in teams, or together?"

Yue Xingwen said: "We don't divide into teams anymore. Waiting for each other will waste time. Moreover, without Xu Feixue's team, it's hard to analyze the paintings. Copying may miss the details. So, let's act together this time."

He stood up and said simply: "Let's go to the Sunflower World first."