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Chapter 178 Scarlet Beast 25┃ Outsider.
The cafe was a little sultry. Ke Xun rolled up the sleeves of his shirt, revealing his strong forearm. There were some bruises on it. Ke Xun wanted to cover it again, so it was too late, so he had to explain: After spending the rest of my life in this city, I gave myself a hard pinch."
Wei Dong looked at the scar on Ke Xun’s forearm, and couldn’t help cursing: “This city is a trap, a trap that wants to trick us all into! Kerr, you still know to remind yourself that I didn’t have this consciousness at all before I revealed the secret. I was thinking about finding a beast in my head. — Even now, I have to force myself to make the word'signature' in my head light up like a light bulb!"
Ke Xun lowered the sleeve of his left arm and didn’t want everyone’s attention to be on himself: “In fact, the most uncomfortable person is Rowe. He is the only sober person, but he has trouble talking. Just now we talked about Su Benxin, I Now I’m a little worried about Rowe and her. I always think Lion’s death is not easy. He and Su Benxin talked for a long time when he came out of the restaurant last night."
Although Su Benxin also explained this later-when night fell, I was so scared, I wanted to chat with my old friends. We were a kind of comfort at the time. Although neither of them had any animal stories, we were afraid.
"I was also a little worried about Rowe before, but the exchanges between people outside the city and people inside the city will be blocked for certain sensitive content, which may be a protection for Rowe. Moreover, Rowe and I had a look when we were grouping. He is very Smart people will take precautions against Su Benxin." Mu Yiran placed his right hand on Ke Xun's left arm, seeming to gently stroke the scars.
Qin Ci has finished drinking the coffee in his cup: "Let's talk about Xiao Qinxian again. I was surprised by the results of her examination."
Wei Dong choked with a sip of water in his mouth. He didn't expect Qin Ci to hold back such a suffocating cannon before letting it go: "Puff--cough cough, what happened to Xiao Qinxian?"
"Xiao Qinxian was sent to the examination room at four o'clock in the morning. She was panicked, and then she was extremely uncooperative, and even called mania. It was better for the medical staff to give her a sedative. She was in a state of good health. Schizophrenia." Qin Ci said.
Wei Dong has a serious face: "I believe it, that woman looks abnormal during the day."
Mu Yiran jotted down something in his notebook, and then asked: "Are there any further checks?"
"The subsequent examination is also surprising. Xiao Qinxian has a history of smoking for ten years, and also a history of drug use." Qin Ci said, "There are also many similar self-remaining scars on the body."
Wei Dong's eyes widened. Although Xiao Qinxian is quite unwelcome, she really didn't realize that she was a marginal woman, with a history of drug abuse? ——"Isn't she a wedding dress designer? I remember that she still works in a famous wedding dress shop in S City. She said it during lunch yesterday and said that this time she was going back to her hometown to visit relatives... It was also a bad news. of."
Qin Ci shook his head, "But there can be no mistakes in medical examinations, and there can be no mistakes in those physical injuries.-It is not self-harm, or long-term abuse."
Ke Xun filled everyone with a cold water bottle, and took a sip to refresh himself: "It's really messy. It feels like the whole thing is like eating a multi-layered dessert. There are cakes, biscuits and a lot of power. It’s a mess of cream."
Wei Dong: "I'm holding back a foreigner, it's called'Napoleon'..." After all, Wei Dong did not continue his ridiculous decompression, because when it comes to'foreigners', it reminds me of Lion, the foreign photographer with a bright smile. Every time I pay special attention to saying "Oh, nimen" loudly, and talk a lot about my adventure photography experience...
Mu Yiran sipped a sip of ice water. After these two nights, there was already a layer of green stubble on his face, but it did not show a trace of stubble. On the contrary, it added some informal and expensive: "Different routes lead to the same goal. Although the situation of Su Benxin and Xiao Qinxian may seem tricky, they will eventually merge into a main line."
Wei Dong nodded. Ever since he remembered the "signature", he has always kept the central idea and prepared for the painting: "Finding an autograph on the street is like finding a needle in a haystack. The only hint this painting gives us now is 'Beast', I think the signature must have something to do with the beast!"
Everyone agrees with this point. Qin Ci said: "Just now Xiao Mu mentioned Su Benxin's recitation of the title page of "The Scarlet Beast". I remember what "Revelation" was mentioned in there. The woman riding the beast in it, forehead There are words on it. I was wondering, would the words on that woman's forehead have anything to do with the words in the signature?"
This analysis by Qin Ci made Ke Xun and Wei Dong both raise their eyebrows and thumbs up, and then everyone waited for Mu Yiran to analyze.
Mu Yiran: "I have made this assumption in my heart, and even imagined who this woman would be... But, after all, the woman in "Apocalypse" is the embodiment of a cult, and the words on her forehead are also very evil. If these If the word can be equated with the author's name..."
Ke Xun’s eyes lit up, and others seemed to have thought of something--"The author actually did the opposite. He did not paint this picture to condemn the scarlet beast, but to praise it! So here In Heart City, the beasts in people's bodies will be offered to the altar!"
Mu Yiran nodded: "However, Zhao Yanbao has brought back different voices from the university town this morning, and this kind of voice has formed a certain scale in this city.-The original intention of the painter is getting harder and harder to guess."
The beast returns to its body and its soul is complete.
At this time, these eight characters were printed on the wall of the cafe in an avant-garde slogan style.
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At lunch, everyone returned to the hospital and gathered in the cafeteria to eat like yesterday.
It was the same single room as yesterday, but there were three fewer people, which made people have to be depressed.
"By the way, how is Xiao Qinxian? How does her lunch solve?" Zhao Yanbao asked.
"She was eating a nutritious meal, and her mood is still unstable now. Let's go see her after lunch," Qin Ci said.
Zhao Yanbao looked at the food on the table but had no appetite. He only drank some orange juice: "The people in the university town are opposed to the beast stripping operation, and they are also opposed to the exchange of beasts. I learned from them that there are now some people in society. Specially buy some mentally ill patients at high prices, and then raise them, and even feed them some drugs that aggravate the condition. It is said that such people have a higher chance of having animals in their bodies, and proper feeding will make them rare."
Zhao Yanbao looked at the glass full of bright orange juice: "It's really cruel."
Everyone also slowly felt the decay of this city within the appearance of the golden jade. The more they saw this, the more they wanted to escape.
"We seem to be able to see this painting more and more clearly. The painter himself is probably full of contradictions." Zhu Haowen said.
Regarding the analysis of Yubei Country, everyone has not had time to talk to Zhu Haowen Rowe, so it is not convenient to say anything at this time.
Wei Dong has eaten half full and raised his head: "We don't have any valuable clues here. I only know that surgeons in this city are very respected. Today, I was in a cafe because of Dr. Qin's work card. No orders."
Su Benxin looked at his "colleague" Qin Ci and smiled: "It seems that Dr. Qin is really suitable for this place. Many colleagues in the hospital praised Dr. Qin."
Qin Ci smiled faintly, without speaking.
"Today's sweet and sour tenderloin is not ready, it's sweet," Ke Xun naturally changed the subject and looked at Rowe. "I haven't heard you talking today. How about it? Did you get something from the trip just now?"
Rowe's expression was calm, not as painful as yesterday. He took a sip of the soup before saying: "We are going north today, and there is the train station over there, so there are all kinds of people."
"Railway station?" In Ke Xun's impression, trains are often a means of transport connecting cities. If there are trains in Xincheng, it should be outside Xincheng.
"Yes, the train goes outside the city." Rowe said, "The train tickets that people take also need to have a special stamp. Some people plan to leave the city forever, and some people specialize in business trips or business. Yes, these people can't leave the city boundary line, they can only talk to people and make transactions at the boundary."
As Su Benxin, who is traveling with Rowe this time, also added at this time: "Yes, those who leave Heart City will never come back. Other foreigners who want to settle in this city need to do some special treatment. , I feel like it is to erase memory or something."
Rowe smiled bitterly: "So, I've been trying to figure out what it means for the painter to be an outsider in the city."
The whole heart city is full of contradictions—contradictions between inside and outside the city, contradictions of opposing views about the beast.
Rowe continued: "However, we ran into an expert at the train station today."
"Superior?"
"Yes, it's an old lady who set up a stall at the train station. It's a Gua stall." Rowe talked about this person with a rare expression in her eyes. "This old lady saw at a glance, we two It’s an outsider."
"You two?" Wei Dong looked at Su Benxin who was sitting over there. "What does this outsider say?"
Rowe: "I also found it strange. When she saw me for the first time, she said in a strange dialect: How did a foreigner come here. I thought at the time that she saw that I was a new city. People outside the area, who knew that after she saw Su Benxin, they said: The foreigner also brought a foreign woman."
Everyone felt weird after hearing this. Su Benxin said: "That old lady is very mysterious, she looks very strange, and even a little weird. Her eyes are different in color. However, she is really quite different. She can actually see me. And Rowe are people from outside the painting."
"Did she mention painting?" Mu Yiran asked suddenly.
"No, but she said that both of us are outsiders. Isn't it weird. According to the initial division, it is clear that Rowe is an outsider among us." Su Benxin said.
Rowe went on to say: "So it's an expert, she seems to be able to see things we can't see, including this painting, and maybe even a signature.