First Film Chapter 3 Nightfall
As the music sounded, the sweet NPC reminded everyone: "It's tea time, please come to the lobby to rest~" The NPC's tone became more serious, "Be sure to wash the berry juice on your hands, and don't contaminate the color!"
There were several large and small round tables covered with white lace tablecloths in the hall. Most people sat around the largest round table. Xin Beibei and Shi Zhendong sat for a while at the small round table, and then Shi Zhendong pulled his girlfriend to join everyone.
"What year were you born in?" Guo Lixia asked Shi Zhendong suddenly.
Shi Zhendong looked a little embarrassed: "I am a tiger."
"I am a rabbit, and you are one year older than me!" Guo Lixia gave a thumbs up to her previous correct guess.
"Okay, Sister Guo, let's talk about business!" Ke Xun directly interrupted the troublesome elder sister in the group.
Guo Lixia nodded readily: "No need to talk too much, just listen to our team leader! Although our team leader is young, he has his own ways and can convince everyone!"
Mu Yiran glanced at Ke Xun who was sitting next to him, with a faint smile on his face.
Qin Ci took the lead in asking everyone: "Just now, when everyone was working in their respective rooms, did you find anything unusual?"
Everyone had just gotten familiar with the environment and had not had time to observe carefully.
He Yu, who has long bohemian hair, said: "I found that this world is completely in line with the style of Fauvism. First of all, the composition does not pay much attention to proportion. For example, the green maze and the circular pool outside the castle. We walked through the long steps to the inside of the room and looked out of the window. We can still see them clearly. This clarity is a close observation. If it is put into real life, it is impossible to achieve."
Mu Yiran nodded slightly, it seemed that he also noticed this.
He Yu continued, "Fauvism does not focus on perspective and light and shade. It is a kind of flat composition that breaks the traditional Western painting style. The color of the object itself and the shadow form a strong contrast. This painting method itself is out of touch with nature. The painter focuses on subjective feelings. This is also in line with what the Fauvists often say: painting is not an instruction manual, but our feelings!"
So when Ke Xun first entered the painting, he had a question: Is this painting three-dimensional?
"But NPC has always reminded us not to pollute colors," Mi Wei also said, "We all know that the colors of Fauvism are free, even indiscriminate. For example, in Matisse's famous painting "Woman with a Hat", the woman's face boldly uses green, red, yellow and blue, as well as the interweaving of these colors."
Guo Lixia was also attending the meeting seriously. She listened to Mi Wei's words word for word and sighed, "Can we still watch it..."
Mi Wei gave Guo Lixia a short smile: "On the contrary, those colors are very harmonious on Mrs. Matisse's face. They are full of harmony and are also highly decorative."
Guo Lixia rubbed her eyes and didn't quite understand.
Shi Zhendong nodded: "What the students said just now is very valuable, especially about the pool and the maze. Since they can be observed closely from any direction, are these two things what the painter wants to highlight?"
Several elderly people who had experienced the painting were impressed by Shi Zhendong. Qin Ci said, "We can focus on searching in those two places. Maybe the painter's signature is nearby."
Zhu Haowen also suddenly spoke up: "The name of this painting is "Shadow". The shadows in this world are indeed different. It is better to observe carefully - there may be a signature hidden in the shadow, or there may be deadly danger."
This topic was a bit heavy, and everyone subconsciously looked at the shadows under their feet. In the hall and room, everyone's shadow was the same dark purple with lemon green borders.
Qin Ci stood up and poured the tea from the teapot for everyone: "Everyone should try to eat something. We don't know when dinner will be arranged."
Ke Xun and Wei Dong were almost full. Wei Dong took a sip of black tea with sugar and milk, thinking that he should be able to hold on until the evening. "The problem now is that our daytime schedule has also been arranged by the NPC. We can only be locked in the room to work, and come out to eat and rest at set times. When can we go outside to look for autographs? We can't go at night."
Everyone fell silent; this was indeed something that needed to be resolved urgently.
Ke Xun said: "Since we are asked to work, there must be a workload, but the NPC hasn't told us yet. Once the daily workload is determined, we can divide the tasks into roles. Some people stay to work, and some people go out to look for signatures!"
Wei Dong followed up by saying, "The NPC just doesn't allow us to go to other rooms and pollute the color, but it doesn't restrict us from going out, at least not explicitly! As long as we complete the workload, we should be able to go out!"
Everyone thought it made sense, and after finishing afternoon tea, they returned to their rooms to work, trying to finish the task as quickly as possible and gain some free time.
The NPC's voice sounded again, and indeed arranged the workload for everyone: "Before dinner, each room must complete the storage of three large jars of berries. Please seize the time and enjoy the beauty brought by the labor!"
There were only two people in the red room, He Yu and Zhang Tianwei, but these two boys had good hands-on skills and quickly completed the task of working on the three large jars.
Everyone in the yellow room was also working actively. Mi Wei suddenly stopped what she was doing and asked, "Have you noticed that the color of these berries is not as bright as before?"
Miao Zipei, who is not talkative, also said: "I just noticed that not only the berries, but also the shadows have become darker in color." He then looked at the patterns on his clothes, "including the colors of the embroidery."
The door of the room was suddenly pushed open, and Zhang Tianwei and He Yu walked in. He Yu said excitedly: "Have you noticed? This world distinguishes day and night by color changes! There is no refraction of light and shadow at all!"
Several students were caught up in the excitement of discovering new knowledge: "It's hard to imagine how the night here will be expressed!"
Qin Ci frowned and said to He Yu in a stern voice: "Why didn't you wash your hands!"
Everyone was startled by Dr. Qin's sudden severity and turned to look at He Yu's hand, which was still stained with obvious red juice.
He Yu rubbed his hands: "I... I didn't pollute the color..."
"Go back to your room and wash your hands!" Mi Wei urged He Yu.
Perhaps these young people have not experienced death in this world, so they do not realize the fatal danger of such behavior. Zhang Tianwei came to comfort Qin Ci: "I'm sorry, He Yu is just such a casual person. He usually paints with his hands full of paint, and he often washes his hands hastily, so his hands are often colorful."
Qin Ci calmed down a little after seeing Zhang Tianwei's clean hands. "Student Zhang, I advise you to leave this room first. We don't know what the NPC means by 'don't bring the color to other rooms' - if the conditions are harsh, we can't visit even if we wash our hands."
Zhang Tianwei looked a little embarrassed: "Okay, I'll go out first, let's talk in the hall."
When everyone completed the task and came to the hall, they found that the color of the room had become noticeably darker. The fruits and bread on the table had almost turned gray, and everyone's shadows were slowly turning black.
"Please have dinner with us!" the NPC's voice sounded enthusiastically, "After dinner, you can go to the dormitory on the second floor to rest. The colors are still divided as before. Please remember your own color! Don't pollute the colors!"
When everyone heard about He Yu and Zhang Tianwei's fouls, they were speechless for a moment. Several students comforted each other, saying that since they did not touch fruits of other colors with their juice-stained hands, it should not be considered as color contamination.
Several people who had experienced the painting looked at each other tacitly and made a cruel analysis in their hearts: He Yu and Zhang Tianwei had committed two degrees of fouls. One was entering other rooms with colors without washing hands, and the other was entering other rooms after washing hands. Both results did not cause visible pollution to the color of the room. I don't know if they will be punished tonight.
Once someone escapes death tonight, it proves that the behavior does not constitute a condition for death, and everyone can follow suit the next day.
Shi Zhendong subconsciously looked through the window at the pool outside and found that the fountain had stopped spraying water at some point, and the green maze had turned gray-green, as if it had suddenly lost its life.
"It's getting dark, everyone should go back and rest early." Ke Xun looked up at the ceiling, but found no trace of lights there. Perhaps the world is dark at night.
Everyone went up the stairs to the second floor one after another. Mu Yiran walked to the window and looked outside again. He found that the key scenery outside had turned pure black. In order to distinguish them, the lawn, steps and other areas had turned into different shades of gray.
"From what I can see so far, this painting has very demanding requirements for color." Ke Xun stood beside Mu Yiran and looked at the print-like scenery outside the window. Even the gray was a very pure and rich gray. "The colors in this world don't have any transitions. It's a bit like a child's painting."
"The Fauves do retain the innocence of children," Mu Yiran's eyes were still fixed on the increasingly dark window, and his voice suddenly lowered: "It's better to be cautious on the first night and not go out."
Ke Xun felt a kind of happiness of being reminded, but this time he was very obedient and did not climb up the pole, but just uttered a low "hmm".
The two people walked up the dark stairs to the second floor.
The layout of the second floor was exactly the same as the first floor, and there was also a hall. The five doors that were originally brightly colored had now turned gray. Ke Xun could only knock on the door that was originally blue according to his memory: "Sister Guo, are you in there?"
There was a quick response from inside: "The team leader is back!"
The door was opened from the inside, and Guo Lixia's skirt was covered with black and white circular patterns, which looked very strange at night.
Ke Xun was still worried and knocked on the door next to him. According to his memory, this should be Mu Yiran's purple room: "Dongzi, are you in there?"
"Fuck, Ke'er, stop messing around and stop visiting people randomly!" Wei Dong's voice rang out from inside.
Mu nodded to Ke Xun and pushed open the door.
"Good night!" After saying this, Ke Xun returned to his room and found two wooden beds in the dark room.
"Team leader, she doesn't sleep in the same bed with me, and I don't want to sleep next to her!" Guo Lixia's voice rose and fell in the darkness, but her whole body was like a pattern with black dots on a white moving horizontally in the room.
Ke Xun's pattern was a white background with black wavy lines. At this moment, the pattern shook slightly: "What do you want, Sister Guo?"
"You choose, sleep with me or with her?" Guo Lixia asked frankly.
“…”
The pattern of black dots on a white background was laid directly on a bed: "Anyway, we each have a bed, you can sleep wherever you want."
On the other bed was a thin black diamond pattern on a white background. The pattern made Xin Beibei's voice: "No, I'm not used to sleeping with strangers. Besides, the team leader is a man."
"You finally know that I am a man." Wave Pattern made a tearful sound.
The diamond pattern turned over and seemed to fall asleep.
Suddenly the whole room became completely dark, as if covered by a huge black cloth, and the patterns of the three people all disappeared.
