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Chapter 158 Scarlet Beast 05┃Hunger for love.
Everyone obviously did not expect the author of this painting to have committed suicide. Another painter here, Yu Ji, asked: "This Yubei Country should be very young, right?"
"Mr. Yu, as a painter in the same city, doesn't he know Yubei Country?" Su Benxin asked rhetorically.
Yu Ji said: "I only came back from abroad last year. I have heard about Yubei Country in this city a long time ago, but I have never met. I heard about him not long ago, which is a pity."
Su Benxin sighed softly: "It is said that his depression is getting worse, that's why...I don't know much about it. Our small town is very small, and many local painters' paintings are put on consignment in the art gallery."
"Because of the painter's death, the painting before his death became non-sale?" Chi Lei guessed from the side.
Su Benxin nodded and stopped talking.
Zhao Yanbao looked at the clock on the wall of the restaurant: "At half past eight, I don't know when the night in the painting starts?"
This sentence was obviously asking the old members present, and Qin Ci replied: "As usual, it is usually after eleven o'clock."
"After all, we don't sleep in the same place. If there is a danger at night, how do we notify others?" Zhao Yanbao considered it practically.
"Our dorms are equipped with telephones, how about you?" Qin Ci asked.
Zhao Yanbao nodded: "We also have a phone there, and I have already copied down all the phone numbers."
Wei Dong: "I don't know if the old broken phone in our house can be used."
Lion: "I can use it."
Rowe got up and went to the front desk, seeming to borrow a pen and paper. He turned on more lights by the way, and the dining table suddenly became brighter.
"Write down the phone number of each dormitory and make a simple address book." Rowe sent the memo in his hand to everyone present.
This proposal is very good. Everyone started to fill in the phone number on each piece of paper. In fact, every work unit is a fixed phone number, but the extension number of the room is different.
"There seems to be no cell phone in this world." The curly-haired young man Ji Sun who has not spoken was the intern who followed Qin Ci in silence.
"In fact, I like to read mystery novels before the mobile phone era. It's better to be a little longer. Even fingerprints and DNA can't be verified." After Chi Lei said this, he felt a little out of date, so he coughed slightly and bowed his head to take a cold sip. Lemonade.
After Wei Dong watched Rowe in the same room wrote his phone number, he knocked on his head, "I remember that the phone in our room seems to be a very old dial-up phone. I never used this phone since I was a kid, I don’t know. Turn to when is the leader."
"Fang Xin," Lion said, "turn to a certain level, there will be a stumbling block there."
"Niyi's international friend knows better than me."
"Phone knows no borders." Lion shrugged.
"I'm talking about Zin'er, Ni knows Zin'er..."
Everyone here has finished writing their phone numbers, and everyone has a simple address book with a series of phone numbers in their hands.
Su Benxin whispered to Xiao Qinxian: "...So, you also live in a room alone?"
"I am the only woman in our place." Xiao Qinxian didn't bother to look at a few "colleagues" in the hospital dormitory, always feeling that these guys were deliberately against him.
"Can we two be companions?" Although Su Benxin was asking Xiao Qinxian, he still turned his attention to a few old members.
Qin Ci shook his head first: "The division of workplaces is a clear classification. If the premises are confused, I am afraid it will be regarded as disrupting the rules."
"Okay." Su Benxin didn't say anything.
Xiao Qinxian sneered: "Locking the door at night is the most important thing, let's ask for more blessings."
Chi Lei said on the side: "Our detective agency also has a room for each person, because the three bedrooms are already divided, we dare not mess with the rules."
"I think living alone is not terrible. The most important thing is to find out the rules of the world." Zhao Yanbao was speaking this time. She looked in the direction of Mu Yiran and Ke Xun: "Chu Zhiyong said, our mission It is looking for the scarlet beast of this world. As far as tonight is concerned, we have not yet started work. This is considered as unfinished, whether we will be punished tonight."
"The rules in every world are different. We have even experienced a world where the rules change every night," Ke Xun said this time. "It's off work now, and Lao Chu didn't mention working overtime. I don't think we will be punished for not finding the beast, at least not tonight."
Everyone was relieved temporarily.
But the old members find this matter more difficult. Sometimes, "unknown tasks" are more terrifying than "impossible tasks".
"It's less than nine o'clock, everyone can use an hour to speak freely," Qin Ci folded the phone paper in his hand, "If the world is not easy to start, we can start with that painting."
"This is an idea," Zhao Yanbao nodded. "In the art museum just now, we all looked at the painting carefully and even discussed it aside. Now we might as well tell our own thoughts on the painting. It might help. ."
Zhao Yanbao looked at Su Benxin and looked forward to the remarks of the art museum owner the most.
Su Benxin pursed his mouth slightly, and took the initiative to speak: "If you put aside the content of that picture, what do you think of the four words Scarlet Beast?"
Everyone didn't speak, and they didn't understand the special meaning of these four words.
Wei Dong was the first to start the association: "If you want to say these four words alone, I first thought of the red horse."
Lion said, "I think it's a red lion."
Ji Sun: "I think about the big red rhino and hippopotamus."
other people:"……"
"Japanese writer Yukio Mishima has a famous novel "The Thirst of Love", I don't know if anyone has read it." Su Benxin asked.
Few people here have read this book. Some people only said that they had heard of it. The only person who said it was Chi Lei.
Chi Lei: "Does this book have anything to do with that painting?"
Su Benxin's skin still looks white and flawless under the bright light. "It is said that "The Hunger of Love" had another name before it was published. It was changed to "Hunger of Love" because the editorial department was not satisfied with that name. thirsty"."
"Oh? What was it called before?"
""The Scarlet Beast"."
Everyone suddenly felt that it was too similar to the name of the painting, which made it impossible to distinguish whether it was accidental or inevitable.
"What's in the book?" someone asked.
Chi Lei also doesn't know how to summarize a book: "Probably, a woman's life experience of love."
"Or rather, abnormal love." It was Xiao Qinxian who spoke this time.
"All of you have read this book?" Lion asked.
Xiao Qinxian: "I'm just curious about what a woman in Mishima Yukio's works will look like. I have only read this one of his books."
Ke Xun whispered to Mu Yiran next to him: "I remember this Japanese writer is..."
"Yes." Mu Yiran nodded.
I haven't finished yet...Well, this Japanese writer seems to be gay.
"How do you talk about abnormal love?" Qin Ci asked this time. It seems that he has never seen this writer's work. "The more detailed the content, the better. Maybe it will help us."
The three women who have read this book-Su Benxin, Chi Lei and Xiao Qinxian, looked at each other and reached an agreement. Su Benxin will tell everyone-
"The heroine in the book is called Yuezi. She personally killed the two men she loved because she desperately wanted love." Su Benxin's voice became clear as the light gradually dimmed.
The restaurant is about to close, everyone cherishes this last light, and feels like a temporary group to warm up.
"Etsuko really loves her husband, Ryosuke, but because of Ryosuke's effort, she fell into jealousy after marriage and was very painful. Later, her husband suffered from a severe typhoid fever and lay on the bed to live on a respirator. Taking care of him, that kind of care can even be said to be happy and greedy, because Etsuko feels that only at this time can he really have a husband. In the original language, it means "Etsuko enjoys everything, how greedy and boring. With this miserable happiness that unexpectedly returned to her.'
"But a word from the doctor broke Etsuko's happiness-'The patient may be saved.' The husband regained health and vitality. This was not the result that Etsuko wanted. So she unplugged her husband's respirator and saw him Painful death."
"Why?" Wei Dong couldn't help asking, "Since I love him and are willing to take care of him, why should I kill him at the last minute?"
Su Benxin's gaze is a bit misty, and his expression is also a bit strange: "These things are very mysterious, and I can only explain with the words of Yuezi in the book: "If I get that kind of unreliable happiness, I would rather get a moment of happiness. At this time, I think it’s easier to see my husband’s unreliable birth than to look forward to my husband’s unreliable birth.... However, my husband’s sex is still alive, trying to betray me... the memory of jealousy has revived.'"
Everyone chewed on these words, as if they could understand, but they didn't seem to understand.
"This woman is terrible." Wei Dong took a sip of cold lemonade, feeling his teeth cold and sour.
"How did she kill the second man?" someone asked.
"The second man is Saburo, a servant in the country. This time, his feelings are more hidden. It can even be said to be Etsuko's wishful thinking, but she is very serious about it. There are a lot of texts in the book describing this feeling. This kind of energetic greed from the heart to the sex.” Su Benxin’s voice is like a radio host of the night talk program, which can be very empathetic. “This kind of charm exploration about ordinary men is probably only Mishima Yukio. Such an author with special talent can describe it in place."
Just when someone wanted to ask a question, Su Benxin suddenly said: "I remember a paragraph very clearly, about Etsuko’s obsession with Saburo, that’s what the book says-she thinks his back is like a deep ocean. , She is looking forward to throwing herself into it. Although there are people who are similar to those who throw themselves into the sea, the people who throw themselves into the sea are not necessarily waiting for death."
Hearing this, Ke Xun couldn't help but move the fingers on his legs. This description was really attractive, cruel and decisive.
Ke Xun couldn't help but glanced at Mu Yiran, only to find that the other party was looking at Rowe who was sitting in the dark with casual eyes, his eyes drooping, he lifted it up again, and looked at the clock on the wall.