First Film Chapter 13 Tracking
When everyone arrived at the second floor lobby, Guo Lixia was persuading Shi Zhendong: "Anyway, what we need to do now is to quickly find the signature and then quickly escape from this painting. Maybe those people can still be saved."
Shi Zhendong smiled bitterly, unable to say anything. Seeing that everyone was coming downstairs, he stood up without waiting for anyone to persuade him and said, "Let's go to the first floor to eat. We still have work to do after dinner."
Wei Dong pushed open the door of his bedroom, looked inside, then closed the door and came out.
"Is Ye Ningchenyi's body missing?" Qin Ci asked.
Wei Dong nodded and sighed: "When we first met Xiao Ye, we thought she was a very good girl, enthusiastic and sensible. Who knew that she would be involved in the painting in the end..."
Miao Zipei asked: "Where are the bodies of Ye Ningchenyi and He Yu?"
"Maybe the painting is being cleaned up," Zhu Haowen answered him, "Perhaps to the boss, those who are polluted by color are the most meaningless existence."
"No matter whether it's meaningful or not, at least Xiaoye didn't feel that much pain when she left." Wei Dong thought of Xin Beibei who had lost her head and was soaked in blue liquid, and felt that Ye Ningchen was much luckier.
After everyone returned to the first floor lobby and had a simple breakfast, they divided the work. After some discussion, one person was left in each room to continue working: Wei Dong in the purple room, Guo Lixia in the blue room, Qin Ci in the yellow room, and Shi Zhendong in the green room.
Shi Zhendong had no intention of continuing the search, so he volunteered to stay and work.
There were fewer and fewer people, and only five people were left to find signatures.
The five people first found paper and pen in the drawer in the hall, and then went to the fourth floor window to look down and draw the maze. Due to the angle, it was impossible to look down at 90 degrees, so the northern half of the maze was not drawn clearly and could only be roughly drawn.
"Xin Beibei mentioned several times that she wanted to go to the maze to take a look. If she was really bewitched by the painting, then what was her purpose in going to the maze?" Mi Wei analyzed all the way. "After all, she couldn't do anything in front of everyone."
"When she contaminated Ye Ningchen's skirt with blue berries, there was someone nearby," said Zhu Haowen.
Mi Wei frowned and said nothing more.
When everyone came outside the castle, they went to take a look at the pool first.
The pool seemed to sense that someone was coming to watch, and suddenly it gushed out crystal clear spring water, and the coins at the bottom of the pool sparkled.
Several people approached the pool and carefully observed the coins. Everyone first found the coins with their own patterns. Only Ke Xun first looked for the familiar curling grass pattern, and then found the wave pattern that was unique to him.
The small flower pattern belonging to Ye Ningchen disappeared, and Xin Beibei's diamond pattern also disappeared without a trace.
The statue in the center of the pool was still that black stone thing with unclear outlines, like a huge materialized shadow.
"I have a few thoughts about shadows." It was Mi Wei who spoke.
Everyone motioned for her to continue.
"Since Xin Beibei was dragged away by her own shadow last night, can we understand that it was her shadow that betrayed her first?" Mi Wei's gaze gradually deepened. "There is no scientific explanation for shadows, but we are now in a painting that has nothing to do with science, so shadows may be given another meaning."
"What you mean is that it wasn't Xin Beibei herself who was bewitched, but more her shadow?" Zhu Haowen said.
Mi Wei nodded: "Since the painting we entered is called "Shadow", then shadows must play a very important role in the painting."
The shadow statue in the center of the pool seemed to have discovered some secret and sprayed out more and higher water to try to cover it up.
Mi Wei continued , "But what puzzles me is that the shadow can actually move Xin Beibei's body, which shows that the shadow is very powerful. But what is the big hand that Brother Ke mentioned that was pinching Xin Beibei's neck? Whose hand is that? It can't be Xin Beibei's own."
This is exactly the question that Mu Yiran was thinking about just now.
Mi Wei continued, "If there is indeed an invisible person holding Xin Beibei hostage, then are the person controlling the shadow and the invisible person the same person? If the shadow alone can hold the real person hostage, why would they go to the trouble of suffocating it? Is it just to prevent it from calling for help?"
Miao Zipei, who had been silent for a long time, also expressed his own analysis: "When a person is being dragged, it is difficult for the person strangling her neck to exert force."
"There must be something more powerful that dominates everything. When the night is completely dark, that thing should appear." Ke Xun looked at the black sculpture in the pool and felt a little uncomfortable. It felt like a black skin bag was wrapped around many people, and those people were struggling to get out.
"Let's go to the maze." Mu Yiran unfolded the drawing in his hand and walked towards the maze first.
The area of this maze is about half the size of a football field. The walls of the maze are made of dense shrubs. The fluffy green plants are neatly trimmed, and it really has a bit of the fairy-tale effect that Xin Beibei mentioned.
Five people standing outside the maze: Mu Yiran, Ke Xun, Zhu Haowen, Miao Zipei, and Mi Wei.
"It's better for two people to go in and the other three to guard outside." Zhu Haowen suggested and looked at Ke Xun, as if he had a premonition that this person would rush forward bravely.
This time, Ke Xun plans to ask for the opinion of Boss Mu first: "Mi Wei is a girl, not suitable for the maze. Miao Zipei has a scholarly air, is thin and weak, and is not suitable either. Among the remaining three people, you are the most suitable person to take charge."
Zhu Haowen: I guessed wrong. It turns out that this guy not only volunteered, but also took me along as well.
Without waiting for Mu Yiran to speak, Zhu Haowen directly gave Ke Xun an opportunity: "Then the two of us will go in."
Mu Yiran didn't say anything more and directly handed over two rope ends: "Be careful, keep the rope stretched, and pull the rope if there is any danger."
"Don't worry." Ke Xun's two words seemed to weigh a thousand pounds. He lowered his head and tied the rope tightly around his waist.
Zhu Haowen also tied the rope and held the blueprint in his hand.
When the two walked into the maze with the rope, Ke Xun felt like he had let two good dogs go...
The two people followed the drawings and slowly explored the inner circle of the maze. They not only relied on the drawings and ropes, but also made marks on the way they walked.
But actual experience is different from theory on paper, and both of them eventually went astray.
When the two walked into the first dead end, they were surprised to find that there was an inconspicuous door at the end of the dead end.
It is indeed a door, a door made of plants.
Ke Xun and Zhu Haowen looked at each other: Is there such a door in every wrong dead end?
"Let me do it, the door is green." Zhu Haowen still remembers his own color - green.
Ke Xun held his forehead and smiled: Hao Wen'er is too serious.
Zhu Haowen pushed open the green door of the plant, revealing a small space with some ropes and maintenance tools. The most eye-catching thing was an entrance on the floor.
"This leads to the underground." Zhu Haowen said to Ke Xun standing at the door.
"We don't have time to explore underground now, so we should find a way out of the maze first." Ke Xun felt the rope around his waist exerting force, and couldn't help but shouting, "We are fine, we just took the wrong road!"
The other end of the rope loosened, as if to indicate that it heard it.
The three people outside were quite reserved, and no one responded to him loudly.
Ke Xun and Zhu Haowen continued to move forward while looking at the blueprint. They would stop to look every time they passed a wrong intersection. Sure enough, there was a door made of plants hidden in every dead end. Zhu Haowen only opened two of them and found that the structures inside were similar, and there was an entrance leading to the underground on the floor.
The two people gradually reached the center of the maze. Since they entered from the northwest corner of the maze, according to the bird's-eye view, the exit of the maze was located in the southeast corner.
"It's a pity that there is no sun in this world, otherwise we can use the sun to determine the direction." Zhu Haowen looked at the blueprint in his hand. The north indicated on it was just the north in everyone's imagination - according to Chinese custom, buildings are usually built facing north and south, so everyone marked the direction of the castle as north.
"If the exit is in the southeast corner, that's exactly what I saw last night..." Ke Xun suddenly fell silent and looked silently at Zhu Haowen, who also had a cautious look in his eyes.
If these green plants in the maze can be called walls, then the current situation can be called: there are people behind the wall.
It was the sound of light footsteps walking along the path between the walls.
Even though it was broad daylight, it still felt scary.
When did this person appear in the maze? When everyone looked down at the maze from above, they did not see anything unusual.
The footsteps stepped on the grass on the ground, making a unique sound, which gradually disappeared in the distance.
"Is this person just passing by, or has he been following us?" Zhu Haowen asked softly.
Ke Xun could only rely on his intuition to judge: "I think this person suddenly appeared just now. Maybe he passed by here, or maybe he lives in the maze."
There were some things Ke Xun didn't say: There is another possibility, this person is following us.
The two of them were talking as they slowly walked forward, only then they realized that the rope was getting tighter and tighter, it seemed that it was not long enough.
Mi Wei's voice was finally heard from outside the maze: "Come out first! There are not enough ropes! Come out! Don't take risks!"
No one dared to take risks at this time, so the two of them walked back along the way they came. When they passed the center of the maze again, they couldn't help but stop.
The center of the maze is easy to identify. From the top view, you can see that there is a small circular space in the center of the maze.
A big door can be vaguely seen on the wall of this circular space.
Zhu Haowen walked forward and gently pushed open the door.
There turned out to be a simple living room inside, but what attracted the two people's attention more was the glass bottle placed against the wall, which was filled with pure red liquid.
This glass bottle is not big, less than one meter high.
The two people squinted their eyes and looked for a long time, but the red liquid was too thick and they couldn't see what was inside.
"Let's go back first." Zhu Haowen looked at the big entrance on the floor of the room and seemed to have thought of something.
Ke Xun also thought of it, and the two of them stopped talking and walked back along the way they came. With the rope as an index, the two of them quickly returned to the entrance of the maze.
The three people waiting at the entrance had concerns written all over their faces.
Ke Xun's voice was very low: "The maze and the castle are probably connected underground."
