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Chapter 199 Phantom in the painting 02 Four strange abstract paintings...
【Phantom in the picture-02】
Yue Xingwen pressed the class selection button, and after a few minutes countdown, 13 groups were sent to the examination room.
The environment of this examination room is at night, with a bright moon hanging high in the sky, and through the "color" of the moon, you can see a strange building in front, like a European castle in a Western fantasy movie.
Zhang Xiaonian looked at the building carefully and said, "This is a typical Gothic style, with a thin shape and a towering tip, which symbolizes that we can get closer to the church."
As soon as the voice fell, a group of crows flew around. In the silent night, the piercing quack of the crows startled everyone. The shadow cast by the branches on the ground swayed like a swaying ghost.
Ke Shaobin hurriedly took a step back, rubbed the goose bumps on his arms, and whispered: "This environment is too gloomy, why do I feel that we seem to have traveled through a vampire movie and came to a vampire castle?"
Jiang Pingce said calmly, "Go in and have a look."
The crowd followed Jiang Pingce and Yue Xingwen to the castle.
There is a garden at the entrance of the castle, which is full of roses, but strangely, these roses are all black. Yue Xingwen thought it was because the light was too dark, so he turned to look at Xin Yan: "Xin Yan, borrow a light."
Xin Yan summoned a string of alcohol lamps to surround the surroundings, Yue Xingwen took a closer look and asked, "Is it really a black rose?"
Lan Yarong said: "The roses on the market are usually red, yellow, and so on. Are you particular about black roses?"
Qin Miao said calmly: "The flower language of the black rose is - you are a devil, and you are mine."
Everyone was silent for a moment, always feeling a chill down their spines.
Most of the roses in the flower beds have already bloomed, and the layers of black petals look strange under the moonlight. Yue Xingwen leaned over to observe for a while, but did not find anything special. Is the arrangement of the rose flower beds okay? Regularly, he said: "This class may be a survival class or a reasoning class, everyone should be careful not to touch the things in the castle."
Together with them, they carefully pushed open the gate of the castle.
The interior of the castle is luxuriously decorated. With Xin Yan's alcohol lamp, you can see that the hall on the first floor is an arched structure with a floor height of more than 5 meters. It is very imposing. A spiral staircase leads to the second floor.
There are European-style sofas and coffee tables in the hall, and a few paintings are hung on the surrounding walls.
Seeing the hanging painting, Yue Xingwen immediately became alert: "This class is called "Phantoms in Paintings."
Lin Manluo said, "Let Feixue go over and take a look."
Xu Feixue nodded and went to the hanging painting with everyone.
The content of a painting is a blackboard. The blackboard is painted with white lines in 6 rows of extremely messy circles. It looks like dense mosquito coils are connected together.
Yue Xingwen looked confused: "What does this mean?"
Xu Feixue said: "This painting is a representative work of abstraction, called "Blackboard", and the author is Sai Tangbury. There is an allusion to the birth of this painting. It is said that the author sat on his friend's shoulder and let the friend shake his body at will. He draws with 'sex' on the canvas, so the lines he draws are so messy."
Crowd: "..."
This painter is "sexy" enough to paint like this!
Liu Zhaoqing couldn't help complaining: "The abstract art is very abstract. I look at this painting, it looks like something that a kindergartener scribbled. I don't understand what he wants to express."
Xu Feixue said with a smile: "This is true of the abstract school. Among the 1,000, 990 can't understand it, and the remaining 10 can see different meanings. The abstract style can be popular in the art world, mainly because these paintings are full of imagination. "Cai. Looking at this "Blackboard" is like a child scribbling with chalk, but its price is tens of millions of dollars."
Ke Shaobin opened his mouth wide: "Just messing around on this blackboard? Can it sell for several hundred million yuan?"
He was obviously refreshed. A more refreshing view is still on the horizon.
Xu Feixue pointed to the two paintings and said, "This one is called "Exchange". It is a representative work of abstract surrealism. The price is as high as several hundred million US dollars."
I saw a large number of messy "color" blocks in the painting spliced together, white, orange, blue, green, black, irregular in shape, like a painting cut out of a pile of rags, I can't understand it at all, right? mean.
Yue Xingwen helped his forehead helplessly: "No wonder the course information says that abstract paintings are difficult to describe - this is too abstract, and I can't understand it at all."
Xu Feixue walked in front of the painting, and everyone saw that on the pure white background, four black lines were simply drawn. The profile of the face looked like, but it didn't look like it.
Xu Feixue said: "This painting is called "Dream", a masterpiece of minimalist abstraction."
Ke Shaobin was very curious: "How much can you sell for four lines on white paper?"
Xu Feixue said, "About 1-200 million US dollars?"
Ke Shaobin: "..."
The last painting, a vertical white line in the middle of the pure red canvas. If it wasn't for Xu Feixue's introduction, everyone wouldn't even think it was a "painting", it looked like a drawing made with a computer, and it was a very lazy drawing.
Xu Feixue said: "This painting is called "Anna's Light". The straight line in the middle and the red background were all painted by the author himself, without the help of a ruler or other tools. This painting is also invaluable and can be sold for hundreds of millions of dollars. Yuan."
Ke Shaobin gave a thumbs up: "It's 'forceful', the world of art is too profound to appreciate."
Jiang Pingce said calmly: "These paintings are expensive, firstly because they are old and valuable for collection; secondly, their authors are very famous, they were all masters of a certain genre at that time, and it is understandable that the leftover works are expensive. "
Yuexing Wentou said: "Yes, the key to auction bids for the posthumous works of our Chinese painting masters lies in the value of the collection. These abstract paintings we have seen are definitely not genuine."
Xu Feixue turned around in surprise: "Xingwen, can you tell the difference between halal and fake?"
Yue Xingwen smiled and said, "I can't tell the difference. I only know that the owner of this castle can't collect so many famous paintings of priceless value at the same time, not to mention a single painting of hundreds of millions, these paintings belong to the collection of cultural relics. Money can't buy it."
It turned out that he was judging from the price that these were imitations.
Xu Feixue agreed: "The truth is, these paintings should be copied works. Hanging here, they are likely to be clues. What do they represent?"
I really don’t understand the content of the abstract paintings. Even Xu Feixue from the Fine Arts Department has a hard time describing the meaning of these abstract paintings. Even when the author paints by himself, he thinks wildly and writes freely. It’s hard to say that they want to express. what.
Then, the name of the painting becomes the key.
Jiang Pingce said calmly: "Write down the names of the four paintings, what should be the logical relationship among them."
Ke Shaobin read it in a low voice: "The blackboard, the exchange, the dream, and Anna's light, why do I feel like a story line? The blackboard is like a school, right? But here is an old castle again, so strange."
The entire castle was empty. The moonlight poured in through the arched windows, and occasionally crows flew through the windows. The atmosphere was extremely gloo, and always felt that some demons and monsters would rush to attack them at any time.
Lin Manluo's back was "hairy" and "hairy", she said, "Do you want to split up and look for clues?"
Yuexing Wentou: "Well, let's group."
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce took Xu Feixue, Ke Shaobin, and Xin Yan to the bedroom next to the living room. A group of four girls went to the bathroom, and the rest went to the kitchen.
This bedroom on the first floor should be the nanny's residence. The layout is very simple. There is a separate washroom. There is a workshop next to the washroom. There are mopping, brooms and other cleaning tools in it, and a door leads directly to the kitchen.
There was nothing special about the nanny, Yue Xingwen withdrew and asked his teammates, "Did you find out?"
The girl group quickly reported: "There are no special clues in the bathroom and utility room."
At this moment, Liu Zhaoqing's voice came from the kitchen: "The refrigerator is empty, it looks like it hasn't been used for a long time. There are no traces of cooking left on the kitchen stove - this castle is very strange, it seems that it has not been used for a long time. live?"
Ke Shaobin said in doubt: "There are no clothes in the wardrobe of the nanny's room. It feels like this place has moved to a place long ago, leaving only an empty shell?"
Jiang Pingce said: "Don't jump to conclusions, we haven't finished searching here."
Yue Xingwen agreed: "Yes, there is nothing in the refrigerator and kitchen, it can only mean that this family does not eat here. Search the entire castle and say it again."
At this moment, Xin Yan said in a low voice, "Look here."
Everyone followed the sound and saw Xin Yan squatting beside the carpet in the living room, holding an alcohol lamp to illuminate the area around the edge of the carpet. Following his gaze, there seemed to be a pool of dark red liquid on the carpet. ' body traces. Liu Zhaoqing walked over quickly, squatted down and observed it carefully for a moment, and said, "It should be blood."
Xin Yan said, "Has there been a murder in this castle?"
Yue Xingwen was silent for a moment, and said, "It seems that we were teleported to the scene of the murder. The murderer must have escaped long ago. What about the body? Was it taken away by him, or hidden in this ancient castle?"
Liu Zhaoqing asked, "When you came in, did you smell the rotten smell of the corpse?"
Everyone shook their heads: "No!"
There is no blood or rancid smell in the castle, but because the garden is full of roses, the windows are open, and the fragrance of roses can always be smelled in the nose.
Liu Zhaoqing analyzed: "The temperature here is not low. If the body is left at the crime scene, it will rot and stink. There are ways to prevent the body from smelling. One is to freeze it in the refrigerator, but the refrigerator is empty; Enclosed in a cement wall, this method has appeared once on the construction site of the construction institute, should it not happen again?"
He paused and said, "It's just buried in the ground."
Hearing this sentence, Yue Xingwen immediately turned to look at the window.
Under the cold moonlight, in the large rose garden, black roses bloomed one after another, as if they had absorbed sufficient nutrients. He narrowed his eyes and said in a low voice, "Rose Garden."
Jiang Pingce immediately said, "Go and dig it out and see."
Ji jumped out of the window, Zhang Xiaonian summoned the excavator and carefully began to turn the ground. For a moment, the excavator seemed to touch something hard. Zhang Xiaonian immediately slowed down and said, "Something underground."
Yue Xingwen reminded: "Be careful, it's broken."
Zhang Xiaonian changed direction and started digging around, and soon a big hole was dug out.
I saw that a complete bone appeared in the pit.
The white bones glowed with a cold light under the moonlight, and the skulls were facing the direction everyone was standing.