First Film Chapter 4: Death in the Second Dimension
In this dark and bottomless world, Ke Xun has been trying every means to sense his own existence. At one point he even had an illusion: could it be that his eyes have disappeared?
About three minutes later, the room returned to normal.
The diamond pattern probably closed its eyes just now, so it didn't notice anything unusual.
The dot pattern spoke Guo Lixia's voice: "What happened just now? Was there a power outage?"
"..." Sister Guo always has a way to make Ke Xun at a loss for words.
The diamond pattern rolled over, "What's wrong?"
"It's okay, let's go to sleep." Ke Xun didn't want to cause everyone to panic before going to sleep.
In this room, except for the two gray beds, the rest was bottomless black. Ke Xun didn't want to sleep on the floor that was like a black hole. He looked at the two women on the two beds and finally lay down next to the polka dot pattern.
Guo Lixia made way for him and said, "Let's sleep with our feet facing each other. It won't take up much space."
Ke Xun took the pillow Guo Lixia handed over and lay down on his side at the other end of the bed. When a person's vision cannot be extended, other senses will be particularly sensitive, such as the sense of smell. Ke Xun felt that the air was filled with a faint smell of paint, without a trace of life.
After a while, Guo Lixia's snoring could be heard in the room.
“It’s so noisy…” The diamond pattern on the other bed muttered a few words and soon fell silent.
Ke Xun had no desire to sleep. The heads of both beds were facing the windows. Ke Xun slept at the other end, so he was facing the window.
The window in the middle of the night is like a silhouette.
The light grey window frames have intricate patterns, and the night outside is lighter than the darkness inside, like a large piece of ink-blue coarse cloth.
Ke Xun couldn't figure out what the "three dark minutes" just now meant, and what kind of power could allow all creatures to completely blend into the night, or into another world.
The temperature in the room was just right at this time, and there were no quilts prepared for everyone on the beds, so in the darkness, the three patterns representing three people were clearly black and white, and extremely eye-catching.
The pattern of black dots on a white background on Sister Guo's body kept rising and falling with her snoring, while the narrow diamond pattern belonging to Xin Beibei remained motionless, like a piece of decorative wallpaper.
Ke Xun gradually felt sleepy. The silhouette-like window created a monotonous hypnosis, as if everything before his eyes could be turned into a painting that could be passed down for thousands of years as long as it was properly preserved.
Because of the habit of being alert in the previous paintings, Ke Xun seemed to have one eye open even in his sleep - especially without Mu Yiran by his side, he lost an inexplicable dependence and responsibility.
So, when the room fell into complete darkness again, Ke Xun suddenly woke up.
The first thing I noticed was that the silhouette-like window was gone, the polka-dot pattern Guo Lixia beside her was gone, Xin Beibei on the bed over there was gone, and my own wavy pattern also disappeared as if it had been splashed with thick ink.
The good news is that Guo Lixia's intermittent snoring still rises and falls in the room with an extremely real feel.
Everyone was there, but was obscured by the sudden darkness.
If flowing water has a source and light has a light source, then darkness should also have its source. In Ke Xun's imagination, the source of darkness is something like a squid's ink sac, which will spray out when needed and dye the world black.
Ke Xun stood motionless in the darkness, carefully using his hearing and sense of smell to distinguish the differences in this world, so when a corner of the window suddenly appeared in the darkness, Ke Xun almost screamed.
The silhouette-like window suddenly revealed a corner of complex patterns in the darkness, and then more and more patterns appeared, as if magical plants were growing in the darkness, gradually half of the window was revealed, and then almost the entire window.
Everything in the room reappeared: two gray beds and three people with different patterns on the beds.
Ke Xun stared at the window without blinking. If he guessed correctly, the so-called black source should come from the window.
The window was never fully visible, and the middle section was as dark as the room. The darkness was sometimes wider and sometimes narrower, slowly changing.
Ke Xun felt like something was blocking the window, but because of his line of sight, he couldn't tell whether the black thing was inside or outside the window.
The darkness in the window gradually narrowed, finally forming a final black tip.
The complete window finally appeared, but Ke Xun found that the pattern on the window was a little different from before.
This pattern change still occurred in the middle section of the window. Ke Xun blinked his eyes, and his eyes too much - if you look closely, there seem to be many other patterns hidden in the window lattice patterns. Ke Xun tried hard to distinguish the shapes of the other patterns, but because they were all black and white, he was dazzled in the end.
This complex pattern is just like the black belt just now, constantly changing in width, but it is not as naturally smooth as the black band, but is in danger of crumbling at all times.
Ke Xun bravely got out of bed and tried to see the pattern clearly. Finally, he vaguely saw the window lattices.
Ke Xun felt dizzy after watching it, and when he returned to bed, the complex pattern had finally disappeared.
What is certain is that the pattern is outside the window lattice, and by analogy, the darkness just now should also be outside the window.
Could it be that something passed through the window? According to the trajectory of that thing, it was moving horizontally from right to left, so the next window it passed through was the purple room next to the left side of the blue room - Mu Yiran and Wei Dong's room.
As for where this thing starts and ends, it is unknown...
In short, the room has now returned to its original state.
Ke Xun felt like he had experienced a dark night like an "Oscar-winning animated short film."
When people opened their eyes in the morning, they were a little uncomfortable with the bright colors they saw. Xin Beibei was the first to get up. She patted the azure pillow and placed it neatly on the bedside.
Xin Beibei's white skirt has a beautiful sky blue diamond pattern, which complements the golden shadows under her feet.
The familiar music sounded again, and the NPC's sweet voice arrived as promised: "Good morning, everyone! Welcome to the first floor lobby to enjoy a delicious breakfast! After breakfast, please continue to enjoy the wonderful work. Today's task is still to store three large cans of berries! Please remember, don't pollute the color!" The NPC seemed to slow down, and suddenly changed to a strange tone: "Of course, the room without color can be entered and exited freely, please feel free to do so."
Ke Xun's heart sank, and he quickly got out of bed and put on his own navy blue cloth shoes: "Everyone hurry up and get up, something might have happened outside."
Sure enough, many people in the hall gathered in front of a door, with gloomy looks on their faces.
This door is the red door located in the middle of the five doors. However, at this moment, the door, which should have been a bright red color, has turned into a lifeless grayish white.
He Yu and Zhang Tianwei, who had committed a foul last night, happened to live in this red room.
Qin Ci walked forward and prepared to open the door.
Xin Beibei screamed, "Don't come knocking! This door is so weird!"
Shi Zhendong came over to comfort his girlfriend: "The NPC has already said that you can enter and exit the door freely after it loses its color."
The door had been pushed open by Qin Ci, and the first to walk in were Ke Xun, Mu Yiran and other "old members" who had experienced painting. Shi Zhendong followed closely behind, and also told his girlfriend: "You girls wait at the door, don't come in."
Xin Beibei stayed at the door obediently, but Guo Lixia went in without thinking, followed by Mi Wei and Ye Ningchen.
The room soon erupted with women's terrified screams.
Xin Beibei was shaking with fear in the hall, moving further and further away from the gray door.
If she had the courage to walk in, she would find that not only the door had lost its color - the entire room had become pale and empty, including the corpse lying on the bed.
He Yu's body almost merged into the pale bed sheets. His eyes were open, and even his eyeballs had become as transparent as glass balls. His hair and eyelashes had completely turned into a shabby grayish-white color, as if they were made into plaster body art.
Several students couldn't help crying. There was sadness in their cries, but more of it was fear.
Guo Lixia slowly approached the team leader Ke Xun and asked, "Is this a fake person?"
Ke Xun: "... "
Mi Wei was the first to stop crying: "Where is Senior Tianwei? Where is he?"
Yes, there were supposed to be two people living in this room, but now only He Yu’s body was found, but Zhang Tianwei was missing.
Ye Ningchen wiped his red eyes and said, "Let's go find Senior Zhang. We should be able to find out the truth when we find him! Could it be that Senior Zhang was captured by someone because he witnessed all this?"
Everyone felt that Ye Ningchenyi's analysis was too naive, but they couldn't bear to expose it.
Ke Xun suddenly said: "Xiao Ye is right, Zhang Tianwei must have been dragged away by someone."
Mu Yiran looked at Ke Xun with his deep eyes: "Did you also notice something strange in the window last night?"
Ke Xun nodded and asked everyone: "Does anyone remember what the pattern on Zhang Tianwei's clothes looked like?"
As expected of art students, these students are very sensitive to patterns. They all said, "His clothes are all moon patterns, crescent moons, red."
Guo Lixia couldn't help but complain when she heard this: "According to the old saying, a red moon in the sky means there will be trouble from demons."
Although everyone knew that the red moon was a natural phenomenon, they were all a little concerned about what Guo Lixia said. After all, in ancient China, the blood moon was indeed unlucky, and in some European legends, the red moon would evoke mysterious dark forces.
Zhu Haowen said directly: "I think the death last night has nothing to do with the pattern of the clothes. The premise is obvious. Someone in this room broke the rules. The deceased not only wandered around the room, but also did not wash his hands."
The newcomers were silent, having experienced for the first time the price of defying the rules.
Miao Zipei bravely looked at "He Yu" on the bed: "Don't you think the state of the corpse is strange? Just like what the aunt said just now, it looks like a dummy. The term dummy is actually not accurate. The corpse looks more like a flat person - he has completely lost his shadow!"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone bravely began to observe the corpse. No wonder they felt the whiteness was very strange just now, but due to some psychological reasons, they did not want to look at the corpse any longer. Now it seemed that the corpse had lost all its three-dimensional shadows, as if it was some unexpected alien body, not in the same dimension as everything around it.
