Chapter 172 140. Started painting
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Then the old man started to turn over the pages. White Eyes, as if falling into a state of confusion, laughed wildly.
Shadow over Innsmouth...
"In the story, residents with fish faces appear, mixed with the blood of ocean monsters."
Li Ming took a few steps back, wanting to hide somewhere, but he felt there was nowhere to escape. At this moment, Sato next to him touched his shoulder with his elbow.
Not far away, there were two men in trench coats, staring at this place from the shadows. Both men were very large, and because their hats were held down so low, their faces could not be seen clearly.
Li Dang was a little slow, and then he saw what they took out from his arms, which was a pistol. He further peeked at their appearance hidden under their hats -
It was a pistol. The muscles are covered with scales, and the face with wide slits for eyes and mouth looks like a fish in a pond.
“What the hell is this?!” Li Dang screamed in disgust, and then he was pulled away by Sato beside him.
"We are in the light now, and they are in the dark. If they want to attack us, we will not be able to hide, so it is better to leave the scene now. We have proven that this first incident is related to those myths. , so in order to ensure our safety, We'd better leave as soon as possible."
"You're right, that's true. So where is our next goal? Is it the place where the second incident occurred?" Li Dian narrowed his eyes. His eyes were a little dazed, "I remember that if I went to investigate the case without permission, If you do, you will be arrested by the police... This is the instinctive memory in my brain."
"No, as long as we seize the opportunity and leave the scene quickly while they start investigating. And generally speaking, there is only one policeman in charge of an area. I Even if we are caught, the young policeman will interrogate us. He should understand what we are doing."
"That's true, but you seem to believe that more and more. The police? I am somewhat suspicious of his motives." Li Ming hesitated.
"It is useless to doubt his motives. We can only keep our own safety at present and consider other things."
Sato stretched out his right hand and patted the shoulder of the young man next to him. Finally, he raised his head and looked into the distance. The scene in front of him was near the scene where the second incident occurred.
When the two inquired about the death of a nearby college student, they found a three-story rental apartment surrounded by yellow police seals. Then they could see a college student-age man with a clean face walking out of the apartment.
"Hey, have you heard about an incident that happened here?" Sato said without much politeness.
But the young man in front of him didn't seem to notice his polite question, maybe because the impact of the incident here was too great for him, he responded like a zombie.
"The police again? Or are you private detectives entrusted to investigate?" The young man's eyes wandered, "Forget it, these are not very important. Let me introduce myself first. I am the deceased. My friend, my last name is Kurosawa.”
Kurosawa?
Why is this last name so familiar?
Why can't he always remember...
Li Dang frowned. This sudden surge of memories suddenly hit his brain, instilling it like a tide, and finally washed away Looking at the rocks in my mind.
“That guy has been talking about having strange dreams for weeks, about meeting an old woman with a disgusting rat, and as you can see, this is the end of him .”
"Can you believe it? There are footprints in that guy's room! Yes, those footprints are from mice, definitely from mice."
"Although we don't clean this apartment very actively, but It's still very clean, there's no way there's anything like a rat's nest, so how could he..."
The young man shook his head vigorously, trying to put the nightmare memories behind him.
"Forget it, these are not very important. You can continue the investigation, or you can choose to leave... I just want to see him one last time..."
The mouse in the room.
"Dream in the Witch's House"
"The student was corrupted by the dream about the witch driving the human-faced mouse, and finally lost his life."
This incident also corresponds, so the first Three incidents...
Li Ming and Sato looked at each other, and soon understood what they were thinking about each other, and they came to the location of the third incident together.
This is a somewhat abandoned river beach. In a corner of the river beach covered by grass, there is a hillock filled with soil. The hillock is ten meters in diameter and 50 centimeters high. It is surrounded by yellow police banners. seal.
The hillock is actually not round, but star-shaped, and there are traces of excavation in the center of the cart.
"At the Mountains of Madness"
"A race that has been sleeping in the Antarctic since ancient times buried its kindred in star-shaped tombs."
Just as the two of them were While looking at each other, Li Ming received a message on his cell phone. I received a message from a stranger. I opened the message and found that there were two picture attachments in the content. They were a picture of a nearby map and a foreign hotel. In addition, there was a short line of text on the map. Marking an old mansion somewhere near here.
“Are we going?”
Sato just asked tentatively. At this moment, his status has changed from active to passive. Isn't this a great improvement for the two of them to form a temporary combination?
“Of course I want to go. I always feel that this mansion has a huge connection with the incident we are investigating now, and I have a strong hunch that as long as we go to the mansion to investigate the truth, we will definitely be able to Got the key clue."
"You have the final say." Sato smiled and nodded.
When they decided on the direction, they arrived at the place marked on the map and found that there was an old mansion there with no nameplate at the entrance.
"So this is it...I thought it was somewhere in the corner." Seeing the eyes of the young man next to him cast here, Sato immediately smiled, "That's it, about this mansion I also know some of its history”
"There was an artist who moved here almost a year ago. He usually stays at home and is famous in the neighborhood for being a weirdo with weird and incomprehensible forms. Reporters came to interview him, but there was never a trace of him, even if he was... I asked the neighbors nearby, but no one had a direct conversation with him. Other than these, I don’t know much about it.”
Why is he an artist again?
Li Ming sighed impatiently and found out after walking to the mansion in front of him. The entrance was not locked, and although there was a doorbell, there was no response no matter how hard I pressed it. As the ringtone rang, Li Ming found that he had received a new email on his phone. The content of the email only contained a few words -
"Go in and find the studio."
The two looked at each other and entered the mansion together. The first floor had the living room, dining room, kitchen and steps leading to the second floor. The second floor had bedrooms and a large studio.
The dining room, living room and bedroom are decorated with various curious paintings, and there is a nameplate with the name of the painting underneath the frame of each painting.
《《Class》》
“In the church cemetery there are some bipedal monsters with dog-like faces, sitting in a circle around a child and teaching him to eat corpses , depicting such a scene, witnessing such a blasphemous painting always gives people a strange feeling."
""The Eating Ghoul""
"A scene depicting monsters with dog-like faces devouring humans."
""Subway Accident""
"A large group of monsters with dog-like faces emerged from the subway station. The attacking crowd crawled out from the cracks in the platform, depicting this "
"Are these things ghouls? I remember seeing descriptions like this in books on the bookshelf before. As a kind of monster that eats human corpses, why do ghouls Appearing in these paintings?" Sato narrowed his eyes.
"Who is the owner of this foreign mansion..." Li Ming also made such an expression. He kept thinking about it, but he never got the correct answer.
"But it's funny to say that anything related to artists is basically related to these blasphemous monsters. I'm afraid this is a common problem among artists all over the world."
"That's right. But let’s think about it first, what kind of scene we will encounter in the studio later. After all, in such an environment, I’m afraid it won’t fit the current situation if we don’t encounter something.”
"Then don't expect anything to happen to us." Sato complained.
The two smiled at each other and headed to the second floor of the mansion.
As soon as you enter the studio, the first thing you see is a man sitting on a chair with the back facing the door. In front of him is a huge painting depicting a campus somewhere. The male There was a notebook hanging by his feet. When the two entered the room, the man did not react at all. If you look closely, you can notice that he is in an abnormal state at this time.
A knife was inserted into the man's chest, and a large amount of blood seeped out from the wound. The man held a paintbrush in his hand, and the tip of the pen was stained red by the man's own blood.
It seemed that until the moment the man died completely, he had been describing the campus scene in front of him with his own blood.
This painting of a campus stained red with blood depicts human death. There were a large number of corpses piled on the ground, and six human beings were placed on six circular pedestals.
Dazzling clouds surged in front of the light emitted from the ground, and a spherical collection of surging foam appeared between the gaps.
The notebook contains a man's diary.
"I had a strange dream. Who was that person? Although I can't remember his appearance, the beauty made people instinctively frightened. The person said that I need six thrones, and I must paint for them. "
"The six thrones are the gateway to the new world The door, in order to open it I have to paint, according to the man, I will be the fifth, so scary, don't look at me with those eyes."
"Start painting. , but there is no progress at all. I have pictures in my mind, but no matter what No color can match this painting."
"I haven't slept for three days and three nights. I felt uncontrollable fear when I met that person, but it was beyond the reach of the hostages. The lurking chaos crawling out from the bottom of the cosmic abyss , please wait, I have to complete the painting as soon as possible, and for this I need endless paint."
"I finally found the color, he has been here from the beginning, so that's the color. Is it acceptable to exist? 》
The diary ends here, and the last page is stained red with blood.
The answer is obvious. The blood is the paint that those people asked for. What kind of new world would allow them to use blood as paint and human beings as sacrifices to open the door to the world.
Welcome to the new world.
This originally meant a warm welcome, but at this moment it seems particularly scary.
After discovering the body, they looked at their mobile phones. They realized that there was no signal at this moment. Although the landline phone in the room was connected to the phone line, there was no way to contact the police. They didn't know if the phone line was out. problem.
When I had no choice but to walk outside, the ground suddenly began to shake violently. The shaking lasted for several minutes before finally stopping, and the sound of sirens reached my ears.
“Just now, a strong earthquake occurred throughout the city. Some buildings collapsed and fires broke out on the streets in the city. Citizens, please go to a safe place to evacuate.”
Those who have been affected by the major earthquake Due to the impact, buildings everywhere have collapsed, and there are many cracks on the road. Black cumulonimbus clouds are rolling above. There are only six places in a circle, and in their centers. There are gaps in the clouds, which can be seen from There is a glimpse of the sky.
Each opening in the clouds is facing directly below where this series of events occurred, as well as a park some distance away, and in the center is a radio tower. Low hills.
This scene...
It is almost identical to the painting I saw in the mansion.
The two of them went to the park together without speaking. Due to the impact of the earthquake, there was no one around. When they started exploring the park, they both heard a buzzing sound similar to the flapping of insect wings. sound.
A strange creature flew over just like this. Sato quickly held it tightly in his hands with quick eyes and hands, and finally squeezed it hard. Just like ice cubes turning into water, the body quickly melted and disappeared.
At a certain place, someone applauded and walked over: "As expected of Li Ming."
Turn around, I met him during the incident with Professor Shirai The policeman was standing there, dragging the body in his hands. There were traces of corrosion by something like acid everywhere on the body, and his face maintained an expression of extreme fear as if he had seen something terrifying.
"What is going on? Why do these incidents have a lot to do with reality? Do you know something?" Li Ming glared at the policeman in front of him and asked loudly.
(End of this chapter)