The identification of the identity of the deceased was a big surprise to Yue Xingwen. It was Leah, who they suspected as the murderer.
Leah’s parents died in a car accident. After she was adopted by the Roland couple, she held the cat and hung a bug device around the cat’s neck to monitor the family’s movements all the time. If she knew that her parents’ deaths were related to the Roland couple, she certainly had a motive to kill the Rolands to avenge her parents’ deaths, then kill Daisy to take her place as the madam of the family.
Now, the deceased buried in the garden was actually Leah, which showed that their previous reasoning was all wrong.
Yue Xingwen looked back at his teammates and said, “The person who died is Leah, who will be the murderer? Daisy and Rhodes, Alice and Jack, it should be among these four people.”
Ke Shaobin guessed, “Could it be, because Leah knows too much, she was silenced? After all, she had been holding the cat and listening to the movements of these people. She must know many secrets of the family.”
Liu Zhaoqing touched his chin and said seriously, “There are three corpses we found, among them, Roland and his wife are both over 60 years old, why did the murderer kill this elderly couple? It can’t be to silence them as well.”
Ke Shaobin scratched his head. “Yes, there are three deceased, the cause of death was mechanical asphyxiation caused by strangulation of the neck. The murderer must have planned the murder, it seems unreasonable if it was only for the purpose of silencing them.”
“Let’s organize the clues from the beginning!” Jiang Pingce took out the map he drew and said, “This old castle is a maze composed of many paintings, and behind each painting corresponds to an illusion world, and some plot fragments can be seen in the illusion world.”
He spread out the map in front of everyone and pointed to the very beginning. “We are currently in world A. In other words, the murder scene where the body was found, there are four abstract paintings hanging in the living room, namely <Blackboard>, <Exchange>, <Dreamland> and <Anna’s Light>. Because the content of the abstract paintings is jumbled, we can’t understand what the artist wants to express. We extracted the key words from the name of the painting, speculating this murder case is related to ‘exchange’.”
Yue Xingwen said, “Maybe there is also an illusion behind these four paintings, and we haven’t opened them yet?”
Jiang Pingce nodded and continued to point to the next world. “World B on the 2nd floor, we found the hanging painting <Mona Lisa> at the entrance hall. The figure in this painting will change dynamically, either splitting open a bloody mouth and emitting a strange laughter, or the woman in the painting turning into a second face and shed tears of blood. Every time the women change, it means that we enter a different world.”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “I think that <Mona Lisa> painting at the entrance is the key, maybe there is also a mechanism in it? It’s just that the painting is so scary that we haven’t had a chance to analyze it yet.”
Xu Feixue followed this topic and said, “We have unlocked the illusion of the famous painting <Starry Night> by Van Gogh in world C, <The Last Supper> in world D, and the three paintings of women we found in the drawing room of world E.”
With Jiang Pingce’s map, everyone’s thinking suddenly became much clearer.
Ke Shaobin took a picture of the map and transferred it into his laptop, drawing a route. “Let’s start from the beginning. I think the illusion clues in the current painting are a bit messy. If we start from the 1st floor, we may be able to sort out the context of the whole story.”
Yue Xingwen agreed. “Okay. Look and see where the abstract paintings are located.”
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Liu Zhaoqing laughed. “This is a world famous painting, is it okay for you to erase it?”
“Let me try it, the eraser skill of the Art Department can temporarily erase the designated area, and it has no effect on the painting itself.” Xu Feixue said that and raised her right hand. An eraser appeared in her hand and she controlled the eraser to gently slide over the area painted on the <Blackboard> and wipe off the pattern on it.
Surprisingly, when the blackboard was wiped clean, the originally messy canvas actually turned into a ‘TV’ framed screen, and began to show them a picture——
In the elementary school classroom, the little girl stood alone in the back, drawing on the blackboard, which was supposed to make a blackboard report.
A few classmates around her were fooling around. A boy passed by her and accidentally knocked over the chalk box in her hand, spilling colorful chalk all over the floor, the boy didn’t apologize, instead, he turned behind her with a smile, casually picked up the chalk, casually scribbled patterns on the blackboard, saying, “Leah, did I draw well?”
Leah ignored him, leaned over calmly, picked up the chalk on the ground in turn, erasing the ghostly drawings the boy had mischievously scribbled with a chalkboard eraser, and continuing to draw seriously.
The image on the blackboard was constantly enlarged, and the final painting was clearly visible.
——It was a cluster of blooming sunflowers.
After the video in the painting ended, Yue Xingwen looked at his teammates. “Leah has been very talented in painting since she was a child, and the hanging paintings in this old castle might have been left behind by her. I think the woman with tears of blood in <Mona Lisa> painting on the 2nd floor is her, right?”
Jiang Pingce said, “It can be interpreted like this. Leah is the main character of the story.”
Ke Shaobin asked, “Does the boy who is making trouble next to her and scribbling on the blackboard with chalk like her?”
Xin Yan frowned. “Like? Isn’t this like picking on a fight?”
Ke Shaobin smiled and patted him on the shoulder. “That’s something you don’t understand. Children’s thinking is immature and will have childish behavior of ‘bullying the person they like’. In particular, some little boys will do all kinds of things to attract the attention of the person they like, including putting chewing gum on the other stool, loosening the other’s ponytails, and putting bugs in the other’s pencil case.”
Xin Yan looked at him speechlessly. “You did this when you were a child?”
Ke Shaobin coughed lightly. “No, no, no. I’ve seen others do this!”
Jiang Pingce said lightly, “Ke Shaobin’s statement is correct. The boy who was causing trouble in the scene just now, most likely likes Leah and wants to get the other party’s attention. Combined with the subsequent plot, the boy should be one of the brothers, Rhodes and Jack.”
Liu Zhaoqing touched his chin thoughtfully and said, “Appearing in the same class means that they are in the grade. We still don’t know these young people’s ages. Is Leah in the same class as her brother Rhodes, or with his brother Jack?”
Yue Xingwen said, “Continue to look at the next painting.”
The first <Blackboard> gave everyone a lot of inspiration. They didn’t expect after erasing the original messy patterns in the abstract painting, a dynamic playback of the plot would actually appear in this painting.
The second <Exchange> was also a representation of abstract painting, with blocks of different colors spliced together in a haphazard manner.
Just as everyone was confused, Yue Xingwen suddenly said, “Xu Feixue, I remember that the Art Department has three skills, which are brush, eraser, and color palette, right?”
Xu Feixue nodded. “Yes.”
The corner of Yue Xingwen’s mouth curved up and said, “I see. These four abstract paintings need to be unlocked with the Art Department’s abilities. The first <Blackboard> has a messy chalk pattern on it, and just now after erasing the pattern with an eraser, an illusion in the painting appeared. The second <Exchange> is a patchwork of different colors. I think you should use the color palette skill.”
Xu Feixue’s eyes lit up. “It makes sense! The course exam requires that there must be a member of the Art Department, which is probably to let the Art Department students unlock the mechanism in the painting.”
Lin Manluo said excitedly, “Gerat. Feixue, do you know how to use the color palette for this painting?”
Xu Feixue looked at the painting and thought about it carefully, and said, “The overall tone of this painting is warm, plus sunflowers appear many times in this story. There are also large areas of yellow and orange tones in this painting, I will adjust to a color close to sunflowers to try.”
The first painting of <Blackboard> had an in-painting plot with a cluster of blooming sunflowers as the final freeze frame. This <Exchange>, the overall tone was close to the color of sunflowers, and everyone agreed with Xu Feixue’s judgment.
She spread out her right hand, took out the color palette of the Art Department, took the color in the lower left corner of the painting in front of her, and then used the skill ‘Palette Rendering’ to temporarily turn the whole painting into a yellow-orange color.
Sure enough, the painting also turned into a TV-like screen, and began to play a plot.
The story came to high school. Leah had become a beautiful girl, she was wearing a school uniform, sitting quietly in the classroom. There was a boy in the corner of the classroom, but Leah’s eyes were always on the textbook.
A moment later, the end of class bell rang. Two girls with long blonde hair appeared at the door of the classroom. One of them smiled and shouted, “Leah, come out. I have something to tell you.”
Leah walked out of the classroom and asked lightly, “What happened?”
The girl said softly, “I’m in group A this summer camp, are you in group B? Can we switch?”
Leah was puzzled and asked, “Why do you want to switch?”
The girl blushed slightly, and said in a soft voice, “A boy I like is in group B, let’s switch, I want to talk to him. Anyway, it doesn’t matter which group you are in, right?”
Leah was silent for a moment and nodded. “Okay.”
The girl took out a blue card from her pocket and handed it to Leah. “This is the pass card of group A.”
Leah took the card, took out an orange card and handed it to the other party, and both of them quickly exchanged cards.
The girl’s eyes lit up and she said excitedly, “Great, thank you. I’ll come back and bring you a gift!”
Looking at her bouncing and turning away, another blonde girl said helplessly, “It’s my sister’s temper, I really don’t know what she likes about that boy. It’s against the school rules to exchange groups in private, so don’t tell anyone ah.”
Leah nodded. “Don’t worry, I won’t say it.”
The girl turned to leave, and Leah held the blue card in her hand as if nothing had happened as she returned to the classroom.
The playback was over. The <Exchange> painting presented the plot of Alice exchanging summer camp groups with Leah for the boy she had a crush on in high school. What did this have to do with Leah’s death?
Yue Xingwen was silent for a few seconds and said, “Continue with the next painting, the clues are about to be strung together.”
Thanks for the update 😍
I feel dissonance, because they are in castle, but have modern technologies
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