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    【Phantom in the picture-08】

    The three-dimensional spatial structure diagram drawn by Jiang Pingce is very clear. He marked the position of each space transition on the map. Everyone followed the original path and quickly came to the second floor. First, go to the room on the right and look at the picture "Sunflower" "painting.

    When she came out of the room, the corners of the woman's mouth rose wildly in the entrance painting, half of her face turned into a bloody mouth, and strange laughter kept coming out of her mouth. Sharp laughter surrounded the dark castle, constantly drilling into everyone's mind.

    Ke Shaobin rubbed the goosebumps on his arm and said, "This ghost-like voice is a mental attack! You can copy three paintings under the interference of laughter, you are really brave!"

    Qin Miao said: "We found that she was just laughing, and would not come out of the painting. Of course, you don't need to be afraid of her."

    Liu Zhaoqing quickly pulled a few pieces of gauze and handed them to everyone, signaling everyone to plug their ears. Everyone took the gauze and plugged their ears. Yue Xingwen typed on the research group channel: "Next, are you in the room on the left?"

    Liu Zhaoqing nodded: "The room on the left is the three oil paintings."

    Yue Xingwen gave Jiang Pingce a wink, the two of them stayed together, and the others quickly followed.

    With Lin Manluo's vines connecting everyone's wrists, you don't have to worry about being opened again.

    Behind the house, Yue Xingwen really found three paintings hanging on the wall, he turned his head to look at Xu Feixue, and motioned her to take a closer look. What saw just now was copied by others, so it might be different from the original painting.

    After seeing it, Xu Feixue said, "According to the order from left to right, the first painting is about the object of love, the second is about the wife and children, and the third is about the lover's wife."

    Yue Xingwen pondered the three paintings for a moment and said, "Is this order a bit strange?"

    Jiang Pingce suddenly asked, "Can the paintings on the wall be moved?"

    Yue Xingwen looked back at him: "What do you mean, these paintings may be the mechanism of the "labyrinth"?"

    Jiang Pingce said: "The theme of this class is 'painting'. All the paintings may be related to the murder case. The paintings at the entrance will change their content according to different spaces. Maybe these paintings can also change their positions and open up spaces?"

    Yue Xingwen thought about it carefully and felt that it was very reasonable.

    The order in which the three paintings are placed, the young love object, the wife and children, the mistress holding the mouse, is not in the right order. If the mistress wanted to take a wife before killing the family, the order should be the object of love, the mistress, and the wife and children.

    Yue Xingwen took a step forward and tried to take down the two paintings on the wall and switched positions. To everyone's shock, the wall in front of him actually cracked from the middle, and a door appeared!

    Ke Shaobin said excitedly, "It's really a "maze" of comic strips! Maybe there are some tricks on the paintings in other rooms?"

    Yue Xingwen looked at Jiang Pingce and said with a smile, "Pingce is careful, thinking that painting is the key point. It seems that there are many hidden clues in this villa."

    Jiang Pingce nodded and said, "Go and see."

    The two walked through the door side by side, with the other teammates following behind.

    One door, everyone's eyes widened in surprise - behind the door is not a room, but a strange fantasy. They were on the second floor just now, but when they walked through this door, they suddenly appeared in the garden.

    In the empty garden, there is a pair of mothers, very similar to the mother in the oil painting in the room. The little boy wears a hat, the woman holds a parasol in her hand, and the two mothers are planting flowers in the garden.

    The little boy was squatting on the ground, picked up a shovel and dug a hole, planted a budding sunflower seedling, and then buried the surrounding soil with his hands. The woman squatted down and sprayed the seedling with a watering can. water.

    The little boy asked excitedly, "Mom, when will this sunflower grow up?"

    The woman said: "It will grow and bloom in two months. In September this year, you can eat your favorite sunflower seeds."

    The little boy jumped up happily: "That's great! We're planting sunflowers here. Will I have enough sunflower seeds this fall?"

    The woman's eyes were gentle, and she gently stretched out her hand and "touched" his head: "Yes. However, the garden is so big, will it be very hard for you to plant sunflowers by yourself?"

    The little boy shook his head: "No!"

    Thinking that there will be more than enough sunflower seeds to eat in two months, the little boy is very motivated and continues to dig holes with a shovel.

    In the early spring, the sun is shining, the breeze is gentle, and the picture of the mother and the two planting flowers together is as beautiful as a dream. The people standing beside them watched this scene with their own eyes and looked at each other.

    I just came out of the dark castle full of weird laughter, but it turned out to be such a warm and warm picture, the sun was shining brightly, but everyone felt chills down their spines.

    Yue Xingwen frowned and said, "Illusion. It should be two years of screen playback."

    Xu Feixue said: "The painting "Woman Holding a Parasol" found in the house is similar to the mother we saw, although the appearance and clothes are different, but the artistic conception of the whole painting is very similar. That painting is also a sunny spring day. Blue sky and white clouds, grass and flowers, the style is clear and bright.”

    The picture of the eye is indeed reminiscent of that painting. In particular, the woman in the eye also holds an umbrella, and the little boy wears the same hat.

    At this moment, the mother and the two turned their heads and looked directly at Yue Xingwen.

    However, they seemed to see a cloud of air, the woman walked towards Yue Xingwen's location, passed by Yue Xingwen, picked up a bottle of water on the table, and walked back to the child: "Dean, Drink some water, rest and plant again."

    The little boy asked while drinking water, "When is Dad coming back?"

    The woman smiled and said, "Dad is on a business trip and will be back tomorrow."

    The mother and the two rested for a while and continued to plant flowers.

    In a blink of an eye, the garden was full of sunflower seedlings, neat and tidy. The woman patiently took her child to water each seedling, then wiped the sweat from her forehead, and said, "whatever you want to eat at night, let Aunt Leia make it for you."

    The little boy said, "I want to eat steak."

    The mother and the two walked away from the castle while chatting.

    Suddenly, Jiang Pingce slammed Yue Xingwen's arm lightly, and said in a low voice, "Look over there."

    At the same time, everyone followed Jiang Pingce's gaze and saw a woman standing by the window on the first floor. The woman was beautiful, wearing a very simple dark "color" cloth, her hair was simply rolled up, and she wore a long neck. A black necklace, she holds a white kitten in her arms.

    The moment Yue Xingwen looked at the past, the woman turned to leave, and her back quickly disappeared by the window.

    Yue Xingwen was keenly aware that the woman had been staring at the mother in the garden just now, her eyes were cold, and she even had a kind of... resentment? Yue Xingwen was stunned, and asked Jiang Pingce, "Did she keep staring at this pair of mothers?"

    Jiang Pingce nodded: "Well, I paid attention to her from the beginning. She stood motionless by the window, staring at the mother in the garden with a strange look. She should be in the nanny room on the first floor."

    Ke Shaobin speculated: "Does she hold a cat in her arms corresponding to the oil painting "Woman Holding an Ermine" that we found in the studio?"

    Xu Feixue said: "Yes, she holds a small animal in her arms, she looks beautiful, and her clothes are similar to the characteristics of the woman in the painting. Just now, the hostess called her 'Aunt Leia'. If I remember correctly, the Da Vinci painting The name of the heroine in the painting is Cecilia Galerani, the mistress of the Duke of Milan."

    Yue Xingwen said, "The nanny, corresponds to the mistress in the painting? Could it be that the nanny has an improper relationship with the host of the house?"

    Jiang Pingce followed closely and said: "In the painting of "The Last Supper", the key word extracted is 'betrayal'. In that painting, Judas betrayed the master Jesus; if it corresponds to the relationship of this family, it is very likely that Did the nanny betray the hostess, this nanny was invited by the hostess?"

    Xu Yishen narrowed his eyes and looked at the garden full of seedlings, and said, "Judging from their living conditions, a single-family villa, a Gothic-style building, and a large garden at the entrance, the male owner of this house must be rich. The female owner may be Did you find your friends and relatives to be the nanny at home, but the nanny had an affair with the male host, betrayed the hostess, and finally killed her in order to get the hostess?"

    After listening to Xu Yishen's summary, Yue Xingwen thought about the logic carefully, and said, "The logic line mentioned by Senior Brother Xu, whether it is the motive for committing the crime or the theme of the painting we discovered, can match. But the most important thing is It doesn't quite match up."

    Jiang Pingce said, "corpse?"

    Yue Xingwen nodded: "The bodies we are looking for are a man and two women, one young woman and the other two old men and women. Assuming that the nanny committed the crime and killed the family, the bodies should be a young man and a young boy. . Although our speculation can match the clues in the painting, it is completely inconsistent with the corpse, so this speculation must be wrong."

    Liu Zhaoqing "touched" his chin and said, "Where is the little boy?"

    Ke Shaobin said, "Will there be other corpses?"

    Jiang Pingce said calmly: "The clues in the eyes are not clear. I moved the three paintings just now and opened the organ to see the illusion. The corresponding paintings are two paintings of a woman holding a parasol and an ermine. There is a girl wearing a veil, which did not appear. "

    Yue Xingwen's eyes lit up: "Maybe, the order of the three paintings is different, and there will be other clues."

    Jiang Pingce said, "Go back."

    Everyone returned from the door that appeared just now, back to the studio on the second floor, and the strange laughter of the woman with her mouth open sounded again in their ears. Yue Xingwen frowned, rubbed his ears, walked three paintings, took down the painting "Girl in a Veil", and switched places with the painting in the middle.

    Sure enough, the next wall cracked again from the middle, and another door appeared!

    Ke Shaobin said excitedly: "It's so fun, just like the "maze" in a stand-alone game, every time you change the position of the painting, there will be a door and an illusion!"

    Xin Yan's expression: "Fun?"

    The strange castle, the moving woman, and the eerie laughter, Ke Shaobin described it as "fun"?

    Liu Zhaoqing couldn't help laughing and crying: "Ke Tong, we're not playing games now, maybe we'll fail the exam."

    Ke Shaobin coughed lightly: "I know! I believe that as long as we finish the "labyrinth" of this comic book and find all the illusions, we will definitely be able to deduce the correct murderer."

    Jiang Pingce said lightly, "Let's take a look at the door."

    The moment he walked out the door, Yue Xingwen stopped in surprise.

    There is a long red carpet under his feet, and Fang is a luxurious auditorium - he walked in side by side with Jiang Pingce, and it was actually a wedding scene.

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