I will change the title with Illusion in the Painting instead of Phantom in the Painting.
The woman who appeared in the painting was completely different from the Mona Lisa they just saw.
They saw this woman’s face was as pale as a ghost, but her lips were bright red like blood. Her facial features were very clear, and this was more like an old yellowed photo than an oil painting.
The woman was dressed in black, with long black hair. The tears and blood were constantly flowing from the corners of her eyes.
Suddenly, Yue Xingwen felt that the roof seemed to be leaking, and the cold liquid continued to drip on his face. Yue Xingwen reached out and touched it, and realized that his hand was actually full of bright red color!
Ke Shaobin glanced at Yue Xingwen’s face and said in a trembling voice, “Xingwen, you, your face is covered in blood!”
Yue Xingwen looked back at Jiang Pingce, who also had blood on his face. The dense blood covered his face, which looked particularly terrifying.
Everyone looked at each other and realized that everyone was like this.
Ke Shaobin hurriedly wiped it with his sleeve, and Jiang Pingce said in a low voice, “Don’t wipe, the more you wipe it off, the more you’ll get.”
Those blood spilled down from the roof and soon converged into a mass that flowed rapidly towards the surroundings as if it had a consciousness. In the blink of an eye, the originally white walls were covered with sticky blood, as if a large pool of red paint had been knocked over. The blood continued to spread along the floor, and in the blink of an eye, it reached everyone’s feet——
The entire space they were in was filled with blood, as if it was a sea of blood!
This strange scene made everyone extremely shocked, and Yue Xingwen alertly said, “Everyone be careful!”
Almost as soon as the words fell, the pale-like woman in the painting hanging in the entrance suddenly poked her head out of the painting.
Her long hair flew out like lightning and instantly curled around Yue Xingwen’s neck!
Yue Xingwen only felt that the woman’s hair seemed to be taken out of the freezer. The piercing coolness ran down his tailbone straight to the top of his head. His neck was about to be strangled by this hair, and the strong sense of suffocation made his chest feel like it was about to explode. The lack of oxygen caused his brain to go haywire, and he couldn’t even get a word out as his body was hung into the air by the hair.
The surrounding students were frightened by this scene.
Jiang Pingce’s face changed as he raised his right hand suddenly, and countless light and thin like feathered triangular rulers shot out from his hand. The sharp rulers instantly cut off the black hair!
The hair on Yue Xingwen’s neck was loosened, and his hanging body fell quickly.
Jiang Pingce stepped forward and caught Xingwen steadily, and said sharply, “Go!”
He took Yue Xingwen’s hand and ran downstairs quickly, and Ke Shaobin also came to his senses and shouted loudly, “Something is wrong, this painting has become a spirit, everyone, run!”
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Asphyxiated. Senior brother Liu’s conclusion from analyzing the body was obviously correct.
Jiang Pingce tightly grasped Yue Xingwen’s hand, and the veins on the back of his hand burst out. Sensing his worry, Yue Xingwen immediately held him back and said in a low voice, “I’m fine, that painting mutated too suddenly, I didn’t react for a moment.”
Jiang Pingce didn’t say anything, and pulled Yue Xingwen to the first floor quickly.
Other students also followed, and Lan Yarong looked at Yue Xingwen worriedly, “Xingwen, how are you?”
Yue Xingwen replied, “I’m fine.”
Upon looking back, he saw that those piercing blood actually flowed down the stairs, following behind them, and chasing after them! In the blink of an eye, the entire staircase was painted with blood.
Yue Xingwen said in a deep voice, “This course is called <Illusion in the Painting>, and it’s possible that what we just saw was an illusion.”
Ke Shaobin said, “In other words, senior brother Liu may still be in another room of the castle, and we entered the illusion world, that’s why we can’t contact them?” After he said that, he shouted loudly, “Senior brother Liu, can you hear me?!”
Liu Zhaoqing was also on the 2nd floor just now, and the other party would definitely be able to hear it as Ke Shaobin spoke so loudly. However, there was no response from the other party, so there was only one explanation—— They were in different spaces and could not contact each other directly.
Yue Xingwen said, “The fact that the Research Group didn’t show any hints of which students were eliminated means that nothing happened to them, so don’t worry, let’s get out of this illusion first.”
Ke Shaobin frowned and asked, “How do we get out of this illusion?”
Yue Xingwen didn’t have a clue at present, and before he could think carefully, the people in the painting on the 2nd floor chased him down!
One after another, pale women floated out of the painting, as if they were mass-produced in an endless stream. In an instant, those people in the painting surrounded them, and their long black hair fell from the sky like a dense black giant net!
The bloodstains on the ground moved wildly like snakes. In the blink of an eye, it came to their feet, and the bloodstains were like flames that actually rose up from the ground, as if they were going to completely devour them!
Yue Xingwen’s face changed, and he immediately opened the dictionary and quickly recited the sentence, “Golden Cicada Shell!”
The control was released and the team teleported up to 500 meters.
The scene in front of them changed, and they thought that they could get out of this weird old castle and come to the rose bed outside. However, to Yue Xingwen’s surprise, he couldn’t get out of the old castle even after using the Golden Cicada Shell skill——
They simply teleported from the 1st floor to the 2nd floor.
At the entrance of the 2nd floor, <Mona Lisa> was still hanging.
This painting was actually restored to its original state?!
The woman in the painting looked kind and gentle, seemingly smiling. Her face was normal, and she didn’t shed blood or tears.
A group of 7 people stood at the entrance of the stairs, looking at the paintings at the entrance, collectively confused.
Xu Feixue scratched her head and said, “The painting has changed back to its original state. Does that mean we are back in the original space?”
Xin Yan quickly summoned a large number of spirit lamps to illuminate the entire ancient castle.
The walls were white, the floor was covered with clean marble tiles, and the stairs had no traces of blood. Yue Xingwen touched his face, and the sticky blood on his face was all gone, as if everything just now was just a nightmare.
Recalling Yue Xingwen’s bloody appearance just now, Ke Shaobin couldn’t help but rub the goosebumps on his arms and said, “It was really an illusion just now! This painting, it seems to be a switch between reality and illusion? When the Mona Lisa appears in its original form, we are in a normal castle; When the painting rotates and another face appears, do we enter the illusion realm?”
Yue Xingwen nodded. “That should be the case.”
Ke Shaobin shouted towards another door at the end of the corridor. “Senior brother Liu, can you hear me?”
They were divided into two groups just now, Yue Xingwen led the team into the left room, and Liu Zhaoqing led the team into the right room. Now that they are back in the original world, they should be able to meet up with another group of classmates, right?
Everyone was expecting Liu Zhaoqing’s familiar voice to ring out, but, after waiting for a few seconds, there was still no response.
That door was like a beast with its mouth wide open, eating Liu Zhaoqing and his group.
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other and said, “Go over and take a look?”
Jiang Pingce nodded. “En, there should be clues in that room of theirs as well.”
Everyone followed Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce to the room on the right.
It was a study room, with bookshelves on one side of the wall filled with various books, while the other wall had a huge oil painting hanging on it, which even someone who didn’t study art would be able to recognize when they saw it.
—— This was Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece <The Last Supper>.
Yue Xingwen walked up to the painting and said, “The Last Supper tells the story of Jesus and his twelve apostles in the Bible, where Jesus had his last supper with the apostles and he said, ‘Someone will betray me’.”
Xu Feixue said, “That’s right, the picture drawn by da Vinci is the different behavior of the twelve apostles after Jesus said, ‘Someone will betray me’. Judas, who ultimately betrayed him, was sitting in the 2nd seat on his right hand…” Xu Feixue pointed to Judas in the painting. “Judas is holding money in his hand, implying that he is betraying his master for money.”
Ke Shaobin adjusted his glasses and said, “The Last Supper? Can this painting be connected to the painting we saw earlier?”
Yue Xingwen carefully examined the logic and said, “If these paintings represent the story of the bloodshed that took place in the old castle, then the Last Supper may refer to the betrayal that this family had suffered?”
Xu Feixue agreed and said, “It makes sense. In The Last Supper, Jesus was betrayed by Judas; the reason why this family was wiped out, is it possible that there was also a betrayer who joined forces with the murderer?”
Jiang Pingce suddenly said, “Is it the nanny?”
Yue Xingwen looked back at him, and Jiang Pingce said, “The relationship between Jesus and Judas was like a master and a servant, and in the end, Judas betrayed his master; There is a separate nanny’s room on the 1st floor of the castle, and apparently, the family may have hired a servant to do the housework for a long time. The servant knows many of the master’s secrets and is most likely to betray the master because of profit.”
Ke Shaobin’s eyes lit up and said, “So, the theme of this painting is ‘betrayal’?”
Yue Xingwen thought for a moment and said, “Combined with the previous theme, the abstract painting <Exchange> on the 1st floor, the entrance painting <Mona Lisa> on the 2nd floor which is an overlay of human face, the insanity of Van Gogh’s <Starry Night>, plus the betrayal hinted at in <The Last Supper>, the logical clue connected is—— The nanny betrayed the masters, joined forces with the murderer, wiped out the family, and the murderer took the identity and status of the family to embezzle their property?”
Jiang Pingce agreed. “I think so too.”
Lan Yarong nodded and said, “Betrayal, replacement, exchange. It does make sense when you guys explain it like that!”
Yue Xingwen said, “The key now is, where did senior brother Liu and the others go?”
At this time, Liu Zhaoqing and the others were standing at the entrance on the 2nd floor.
The Mona Lisa in the painting suddenly smiled, a weird smile appeared on her face. Liu Zhaoqing stared at her with wide eyes and pointed at her, “Look guys, the woman in this painting seems to be smiling?”
Xu Yishen looked back, and the smile of the person in the painting made his hairs stand straight up. “Could it be that what Xingwen saw at the beginning wasn’t an illusion?”
Liu Zhaoqing cursed in a low voice, “It’s a fucking scary smile ah!” He shouted towards the door on the other side, “Xingwen, we are here in the entrance, come look at this painting!”
The door on the left was open, but there was no response from inside the room.
Liu Zhaoqing was puzzled. “Xingwen?”
Xu Yishen quickly used his mitosis to go into the room to check, and returned to his original position after 3 seconds, shaking his head and saying, “No one is there.”
Liu Zhaoqing frowned and said, “What happened?”
The next moment, the woman with a smile in the painting suddenly blinked, followed by a strange laugh of ‘giggling’ in the castle, and in the silent night, the laughter was like a magic sound.
Listening to the woman’s laughter, the six people got goosebumps running down their spines!
Spooky
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