After Wei Dong held the door, he felt confused. He looked at the storage of more than two cans of paint and lost the desire to continue working.
Weidong came to the window. The window was locked from the inside, so it should be relatively safe.
Soon, the speeding Ke Xun came into Wei Dong's sight. Wei Dong stared at Ke Xun without blinking as he ran into the maze.
At this time, Shi Zhendong's voice suddenly came from the door: "Is Xiao Ke okay? Why did you suddenly run out? Xiao Miao? Where are you going? Xiao Miao! Xiao Miao!!"
Miao Zipei's voice sounded excited or painful. "Don't stop me! I never force anyone! But don't block my freedom! I am willing to sacrifice for this painting! I am willing to contribute my colors!"
Wei Dong was a little hesitant, but he believed Ke Xun's words more, so he didn't move or say anything.
Soon, Wei Dong saw Miao Zipei passing by quickly from the window, and Shi Zhendong who was unable to catch up and returned disappointedly from behind.
Wei Dong hesitated, but did not dare to act rashly.
Finally , Ke Xun, Mu Yiran and others rushed over from the maze. Wei Dong breathed a sigh of relief, moved the tables and chairs behind the door, and prepared to go out.
But he heard Qin Ci say anxiously: "Everyone hurry to the colorless room in the middle! The signature is in that room!"
Wei Dong didn't know who to believe for a moment. There was a slight sound of the door opening, and Mu Yiran returned to the purple room. He made a gesture to Wei Dong to come out, then turned around and walked out.
Soon, the sound of nailing wooden boards was heard in the hall. The sound was extremely intense. When Wei Dong went out to see, he saw that all the team members were nailing the door of the middle room with wooden boards - this should have been the door of the red room, because Zhang Tianwei and He Yu left at the same time, the room turned from red to colorless.
Shi Zhendong's voice came from that room: "What are you doing?! Why do you care about me?! We need to find Xiao Miao now! He wants to give his yellow color to Shadow! Xiao Miao has been bewitched, what we need to do is to save Xiao Miao!"
Mu Yiran and Qin Ci were in charge of nailing the door. Soon Zhu Haowen and Ke Xun came in from outside, also holding hammers and other tools in their hands: "The windows have also been nailed from the outside, so people can't get out."
"Nonsense! What are you trying to do!" Shi Zhendong finally lost his mind and yelled inside, "We should stop Xiao Miao now! Let me out quickly!"
Standing outside the door were five old members who had experienced many paintings together. At this moment, no one spoke and everyone was quiet.
Shi Zhendong yelled inside, seeming a little scared: "Is there anyone there? Where are they? Where did you all go?!"
Ke Xun looked at the nailed wooden door with a complicated expression: "Brother Shi, that's not what you said just now about Xiao Miao. If he really has a suicidal behavior of polluting the color, I'm afraid we can't stop him even if we want to."
"I..." Shi Zhendong pounded on the door again, "This is not the reason why you locked me up! I'm just afraid that the history of Xiao Guo hurting Mi Wei will happen again! What if Xiao Miao takes advantage of the situation and hurts any of us? That's something no one wants to see!"
"What Shadow needs urgently right now is the color yellow. I'm afraid Miao Zipei is not in the mood to hurt others." Ke Xun said.
Wei Dong also nodded vigorously beside him: "I just heard Xiao Miao say that he is willing to sacrifice himself for this painting, and he will never force others."
The room was silent, and Shi Zhendong's voice slowly regained its previous rationality: "What is your purpose? Why do you want to control my actions?"
Ke Xun looked around the entire hall. At this time, the reflective glass doors had been temporarily blocked by wooden boards. "When someone is alone in the hall, they are easily bewitched by shadows. In addition to our shadows on the floor, they are also bewitched by all reflective objects, such as mirrors, glass, and eyes that can reflect our own shadows."
Shi Zhendong remained silent inside.
Ke Xun continued, "I was almost bewitched this morning. The shadow that bewitched me came from the reflection on the glass cabinet door. I couldn't understand why the angle at which I sat was facing the glass cabinet door. You know, it's actually very awkward to put the chair in that position.
"When you and Miao Zipei came out of the bathroom, I had already discovered that Miao Zipei had been bewitched. At that time, you pulled out a chair and asked me to sit down and talk about this matter. I found that the position of the chair was exactly the same as in the morning, which was just right for my figure to be fully reflected on the glass cabinet door. I became suspicious at the time, and thinking back carefully, it was you who asked me to come over and sit down for breakfast in the morning, and it was you who led me to that dangerous seat.
"Because of my previous experience, I tried not to look at the glass door, but when I looked into your eyes while talking, and saw my own reflection in your eyes, I was almost bewitched. - Three coincidences, are they really all coincidences?
"Just now you kept emphasizing to me that I should find a way to protect myself and not make unnecessary sacrifices just to stop Miao Zipei. In fact, you were buying time for Miao Zipei, and you foresaw that Miao Zipei's sacrifice would be suicidal. Perhaps he was deceived by you."
Shi Zhendong's laughter rang out from inside the door: "Xiao Ke, you are really a joker. I don't have that much ability. Stop imagining and open the door quickly. We don't have much time!"
It was Mu Yiran who spoke again: "I have always had doubts about Guo Lixia being bewitched. Yesterday morning, you were in a bad mood because of Xin Beibei's matter, and you went down from the fourth floor to the second floor alone. About two minutes later, Guo Lixia was a little worried about you, so she went downstairs to see you. After about two or three minutes, we all went downstairs together, and when we got to the second floor, we saw Guo Lixia talking to you.
"Based on that time, Guo Lixia had almost no time to be alone in the lobby on the second floor, but you had two minutes of alone time in the lobby. During this time, you were bewitched, and you immediately bewitched Guo Lixia who came to enlighten you."
Shi Zhendong laughed: "You made me the boss behind the scenes. Why don't you tell me how I bewitched Guo Lixia?"
"Because I couldn't figure this out before, I couldn't judge. Today, after listening to Ke Xun's words, I realized that you used your eyes at that time." Mu Yiran said slowly.
"Then why doesn't the clock change? Every person who is bewitched will cause the clock dial to change color." Shi Zhendong argued.
"That's a misunderstanding," Mu Yiran said, "Only when people accidentally break into other rooms or actually pollute the colors will the clock change - and you have been following the prompts given by the picture, but have not actually taken any action to pollute the colors. Therefore, you will not be suspected by others, nor will you be swallowed by the black shadow. - Because you have never violated the death conditions.
“All those who are bewitched will not become strangers. They will retain their original personalities, but become more extreme in some aspects. Similarly, these people will be limited by their own IQ and EQ and create events of different styles.
"Mr. Shi, you are much smarter than those people before you. You are very good at lurking. From yesterday morning till now, it has been more than 24 hours, but you have been patiently looking for the right target and opportunity. Your action today is to use Ke Xun to cover up Miao Zipei - your main target today is Miao Zipei, because Shadow urgently needs yellow."
Ke Xun didn't think of this: "You mean..."
The person who answered him was Zhu Haowen: "Once he succeeds in bewitching you, he will push you to the forefront and draw everyone's attention to you, so that he can cover for Miao Zipei."
Shi Zhendong's laughter suddenly rang out from the room: "You youngsters are quite capable, but it's too late now! Even I don't know where Miao Zipei ran to. He went straight into that black building! There's no way you can find him!"
Shi Zhendong was answered by silence, as if there was no one outside.
There was indeed no one in the hall outside, and everyone walked out of the door quietly. They first checked the first three floors of the circular building, but did not find Miao Zipei , so they went directly to the building in the center of the castle.
"Is it the middle window on the third floor?" Qin Ci looked up and estimated the distance.
Everyone nodded. Just now in the maze, Mu Yiran discovered the answer to the mystery through observation.
——When standing in the northeast corner of the maze and looking towards the castle, one of the castle's glass windows reflected bright light. Because there is no sunlight in this world, this reflected light is very strange and should be a foreshadowing.
"Did you check this room when you came here yesterday?" Wei Dong asked.
"The buildings here are all pitch black. We could hardly move once we entered. We couldn't see anything even with the lighting from our cell phones. We barely made it to two rooms and then came out in the dark." Qin Ci tried to climb the protruding rocks on the outer wall of the building and found that going to the third floor was not impossible.
Zhu Haowen followed Ke Xun and climbed up: "I hope there is a bright world inside this window."
The five old members climbed up to the third floor quickly or slowly. Ke Xun was about to smash the glass window with the prepared stone, but found that the window was not locked. With a slight pull from the outside, the window opened completely.
Thanks to Zhu Haowen for his good words, this room is really bright.
When everyone first walked in, they were so bright that they could hardly open their eyes.
When everyone got used to the brightness here and finally could see the surrounding scenery clearly, everyone was surprised.
The ceiling, floor and multi-faceted walls of this room are all made of mirrors. When people walk in, it is like entering the inside of a diamond, with each person's image being refracted in thousands of corners.
Ke Xun looked at the room full of "people" and felt a little dizzy.
"Everyone, be careful not to be bewitched by your own shadow," said Zhu Haowen.
“This, this… It’s hard not to be bewitched!” Wei Dong rubbed his eyes, looking at the crowded people in the mirror. He couldn’t even find himself at all.
Qin Ci cautiously stopped moving forward: "I don't think it's right. The people in the mirror are not just us."
Wei Dong let out a low shout and took two steps back: "That one over there, that's Zhang Tianwei!"
Ke Xun looked over there, but saw Xin Beibei leaning over and smiling at him in a mirror on the ceiling. The smile was a little narcissistic, as if the girl was taking a happy selfie with her cell phone.
"Are we still going in?" Qin Ci hesitated, and saw He Yu looking up at everyone in the mirror on the floor. Suddenly, he leaned forward with his whole face, dipped his hand in paint, and started to paint a bright red pattern on the mirror.
"Miao Zipei! Are you there?!" Ke Xun suddenly yelled.