Chapter Ninety-Three: The Picture Scroll Code

[April 7, 2018 at 2 o'clock in the afternoon]

In the room where everyone was having dinner, everyone stood up, and no one touched the red sofa. Zhang Xiaoqian stepped forward with the reasoning note in his hand and came to the middle of the crowd. Yin Fei'er followed.

Ling Yu said just now that she had understood the meaning of the contents of the four paintings in the middle of the exhibition hall, according to the reasoning of Han Mo and the others before, they thought that although yesterday's exhibition hall and today's exhibition hall were the same except for the furnishings inside, the size of the room and the position of the scrolls on the wall were the same. But they thought that yesterday and today were not the same room, and the two rooms were exchanged at midnight last night.

The sound Han Mo heard in this room should be the sound made during the exchange of rooms. The gap in the floor is also a passage through which the room moves. So they suspect that there must be a secret passage in this museum.

And implies that the content of the secret passage is on the four paintings in the exhibition hall. The content of the painting, the order of the painting, and the time of the painting are 1905, and Ling Yu has already unraveled the hints on the painting.

It was at this time that Ling Yu wanted to explain why he couldn't find the secret passage even if he knew the expression on the painting, Zhang Xiaoqian spoke, and he stepped forward with his note. It seems that everything has been described in the note.

I guess he thinks that this way is much more vivid than just dictation. Then Zhang Xiaoqian put his notes on the table, and everyone bent down and got closer to the notebook.

The content on the note is very clear, when she was sitting next to Zhang Xiaoqian just now, Yin Fei'er saw all the processes of Zhang Xiaoqian's depiction of these contents, so what Zhang Xiaoqian wanted to say, Yin Fei'er probably already understood it very well. After all, she is a genius among lovers of mystery games.

Ling Yu, Han Mo and the others looked at the content on the note, the content was very simple, it was all stick figures drawn by Zhang Xiaoqian with a neutral pen. In fact, it is a simple re-depiction of the four paintings I just saw in the exhibition hall.

A pile of books, a shelf, a woman's back, three bowls of noodles. This is the content of the famous paintings in the original exhibition hall, and on Zhang Xiaoqian's notes, Zhang Xiaoqian just briefly depicted it.

He only drew one book of a pile of books, the shelf and the woman's back were also briefly depicted, and the three bowls of noodles on the original scroll, he only drew one bowl of noodles. Ling Yu looked at the contents of the scroll and nodded, because if she were asked to depict it like this, she would choose to express it like this.

After that, Qin Jian looked down along the content of the notebook, and Zhang Xiaoqian only wrote down a time in his notebook, 1905. It is true that the time below the four paintings is the same, so it is enough to use one to express it. Seeing this, the corners of Qin Jian's mouth couldn't help but rise upward, he seemed to have understood what Zhang Xiaoqian and Ling Yu wanted to express.

However, the people present, Chu Ming, Shu Xiaoran and others are not very clear. There was nothing else on the note but that, and they sat down on the couch behind them in the direction they were standing.

Zhang Xiaoqian didn't sit down, he was still standing in front of his notes, and Yin Fei'er was also standing beside him. Some of the people in this room have already understood this matter, and some are still waiting for Zhang Xiaoqian's decryption.

Glancing at the clock on the wall, it was already a little past two o'clock in the afternoon, and it was almost a quarter of an hour later. Zhang Xiaoqian placed his finger on his notebook and pointed to the contents of the four paintings he had just depicted.

"Come and see," he was about to begin to narrate, "Actually, the four paintings in the exhibition hall are just trying to express a content, and if each painting represents a content, you can extract a keyword from it, and first look at the first painting." ”

As he narrated, he placed the index finger of his right hand on the book he had just depicted, and he described the book in a very simple way, with only a few simple strokes, and then Zhang Xiaoqian continued: "If you were asked to look at this painting and choose a keyword from it, what would it be?" ”

He seemed to be guiding them little by little to unravel the answers to the four paintings.

"Books?" Chu Ming spoke first, the two eyes behind his heavy glasses had been looking at Zhang Xiaoqian's reasoning notes, and they had never left. In his opinion, this painting is just a few simple books, and if you have to name one of the key words, then the word must be "book". In itself, he thought it would be numbers, but Zhang Xiaoqian had only drawn one book of the original bunch of books. There are also three bowls of noodles that were originally drawn, and now only one bowl is drawn. So he thinks that these paintings should have nothing to do with numbers.

After Chu Ming finished saying what he thought was the keyword, Zhang Xiaoqian on the side nodded and continued: "Yes, that's the word." ”

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Xiaoqian moved his finger to another picture, the shelf, and then continued: "Look at this one again, if the keyword on the painting just now is 'book', then the keyword we want to choose for this painting is 'shelf'." ”

"The shelf?" Shu Xiaoran said.

"Yes, it's the shelf." Zhang Xiaoqian emphasized to Shu Xiaoran again. And at this time, Wen Ya, who was sitting next to Han Mo, also spoke: "Bookshelf? ”

Wen Ya connected the word that Chu Ming pushed out just now with the word Shu Xiaoran said, and then said the word "bookshelf" in passing. She subconsciously looked at the bookshelf across the window, in the entire museum, there was only this one of the bookshelves they had seen so far, could it be that this was the bookshelf?

But the reasoning is not over, Zhang Xiaoqian then moved his finger to the third painting, everyone looked at the content of his painting, and the original painting on the scroll is very different, Zhang Xiaoqian painted a simple back, what umbrella, rain and cheongsam or anything at all, and it is obviously a woman's back, but the back of the person's head painted by Zhang Xiaoqian is really difficult to distinguish whether it is a man or a woman.

Zhang Xiaoqian also realized that he was a little embarrassed, but he continued to say, on the third painting, he now depicts only a simple back, but this look is enough.

"The third painting depicts a woman's back, but the most prominent place on this painting is the woman's back, so if there is any key word in this painting, it is the word 'back'."

"Now let's look at the last painting." When Zhang Xiaoqian was speaking, his fingers had already been placed on the last painting, and he simply drew a simple bowl of noodles.

"Is it a 'bowl'?" The one who spoke was still elegant, and she looked at the painting with a bowl of noodles, and the most conspicuous thing was of course the bowl that held the noodles. So she wondered if the key word for the painting would be "bowl".

But at this time, Ling Yu, who had never spoken, spoke at this time: "It should be 'noodles'!" ”

Ling Yu got up from the sofa, walked to Zhang Xiaoqian's side, looked at the reasoning notes on the table, and then continued to explain what Zhang Xiaoqian did not finish:

"The last painting is a bowl of noodles, we were easily confused by the number of bowls at first, thinking that this painting would be related to the number '3', but Zhang Xiaoqian avoided this for us very well, he only painted a bowl of noodles, and the bowl was also a simple drawing of a few strokes, mainly the 'noodles' inside."

"If the last word is 'surface', plus the three keywords extracted above, and linked together, what will you get?"

After Ling Yu finished speaking, some people had already begun to mumble in their mouths. Connecting these four words together, and at this time, Yin Fei'er stepped forward, picked up Zhang Xiaoqian's reasoning notes and said:

"That's right, these four words together are 'the back of the bookshelf'!" She said as she looked at the bookshelf in the room. Then he turned around and continued: "I think this is the purpose of the four paintings connected together in this exhibition hall, to tell us what is on the back of this bookshelf, maybe it has something to do with the secret passage we just speculated. Yin Fei'er said as she returned her reasoning notes to Zhang Xiaoqian.

"Then why don't we take a look now?" Wen Ya is still a little strange, obviously she already knows that there is something strange on the back of the bookshelf, why these people are still sitting on the sofa and not moving.

At this time, Qin Jian said: "Miss Wenya, you may have forgotten something. ”

"Huh?" Wen Ya thought about the appearance of the four paintings in the original exhibition hall again, as well as the content of Zhang Xiaoqian's notes just now. Then, as if something had crossed in front of her eyes, she looked back at Qin Jian, who was talking to her just now, and then said, "The time below the four paintings is 1905!" ”

"Yes, this is the time, you should remember what Ling Yu said just now, even if we now know what the four famous paintings want to express, but we still can't find the entrance to the secret passage."

"Well, I remember, but what does it have to do with 1905?"

"I think your fiancΓ© should know this better." Qin Jian looked at Han Mo who was beside Wen Ya when he spoke to Wen Ya.

Then Han Mo also sat up from the sofa: "It seems that Officer Qin has already guessed the password information. He glanced at Qin Jian first, and then said to Wen Ya and everyone in the room: "In addition to the above contents, what we can see on these four paintings is that there is also a time, yes, it is 1905, and these four paintings are all at this time." ”

"You may not know that I came to this room last night and found four light bulbs on the four windows of this room, and I also found a button in the middle of the dial of the clock on the wall when the clock struck zero."

"At the beginning, I thought that this button was the switch to turn on the four light bulbs on the window, but when I pressed it, I found that the light bulbs did not respond, and then according to some of the columns just now, if these four paintings are hinting at the entrance to the dark passage, then the time above 1905 should also tell us when to turn on this switch!"

"Are we going back to 1905? That's whimsical, isn't it? Wen Ya said.

After that, Han Mo laughed twice, feeling that his fiancΓ©e was a little inexplicably cute, and then said to Wen Ya: "Although we can't go back to 1905, we can experience any time every day. ”

"Oh? What does that mean? ”

"What do you think would come to mind if 1905 represented a time, not as a year, but as a time of day, and split these four numbers into two parts?"

After Han Mo finished speaking, Wen Ya was silent for a while, and in her mind, thousands of thoughts were converging, and finally it seemed that she had found the final exit among many roads.

After a long time, he slowly said a point in time in Wenya's mouth: "19:05!" ”