Sister Hua and Leonard and I walked around the various cabins of the merchant ship, and by the light of the torches, we could see the situation in the cabin quite clearly, this merchant ship was not big or small, and I didn't know what cargo it was used to transport before, because almost all the cabins were cleaned, and even the hatches were unloaded.

I said to Leonard, "You guys are even better than the devils entering the village, and the sweep is really clean." ”

Leonard said with a smile: "There is no way, the Golden Islands are short of materials, and we have no channels to purchase materials, so many daily necessities can only be dismantled from merchant ships." ”

I was chatting with Leonard when Sister Hua suddenly screamed, she pointed to something on the wall and said, "What is this?" ”

We looked over with torches, it turned out to be a painting hanging on the wall, Sister Hua patted her chest and said, "I'm scared to death, what is this painting?" Yes, is it hell? ”

"Don't talk nonsense, it's just a woodblock print." What I said was very light on my lips, but my heart was magnificent, not because it was a hell on it, but because it was a classic masterpiece by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, shout.

There are four versions of the painting, created in different years, and the subject of each version is an expression of extreme pain against a blood-red background. Because the painting is extremely exaggerated in its expression and uses strange colors, it makes people feel very depressed and uneasy when they look at it, Munch uses symbolism and metaphor to reveal the worries and fears of mankind at the end of the century.

Of course, most of the impressionist oil paintings like this kind are the opinions of the benevolent and the wise, and those who appreciate it will feel very shocked, and can interpret various associations and metaphors from them, while those who can't appreciate it will feel that they really don't know what the author is talking about, and even think that it is just a bunch of messy colors and lines, disorganized.

If I'm not mistaken, Munch's cry was sold for $199 million at Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art in New York, and it's incredible that this priceless painting is now hanging before my eyes. However, it is difficult to say whether the painting in front of me is Munch's authentic handiwork, and I don't have the ability to identify its authenticity anyway.

Sister Hua was obviously a little uncomfortable with this painting, and she said to us, "This painting is too ugly, it is better to burn it on fire." ”

I took off the painting and said to her, "What are you doing when you burn a good painting?" It's good to take it back and make decorations. ”

"You're going to take it back for decoration?" Sister Hua asked me puzzled: "Aren't you afraid that you will scare yourself when you get up in the middle of the night and see it?" ”

Leonard also said: "Well, I can't appreciate this painting either, I remember that when the ship was just driven back, there were many other paintings hanging in this room, although the style is also similar to make people look weird, but it is slightly better than this painting." ”

"And where are the other paintings now?" I hurriedly asked.

Leonard shrugged his shoulders, shook his head and said, "I only know that it should be on the island, but I don't know which painting is in which person's hands, it's all worthless things, and no one cares, if you like it, I can get them all back." ”

Tyrannical Creatures! If the paintings in this room are all genuine, then the authors of the original paintings are probably angry to lift the coffin board and climb out, although I think I don't have too deep cultivation for art, but I don't want to watch these precious works of art fall into the hands of pirates and be ruined, and the most important thing is that if the world returns to normal one day, I can become a world-class rich man with these paintings alone.

I said to Leonard, "I'll bother you, these paintings are not valuable, but I like them, and if you can help me get them back, I would be very grateful." ”

Before I could finish my sentence, suddenly there was a crisp sound outside, like a huge clock striking the hour on the hour, one, two, three ......, and after ten rings, the bell stopped abruptly, and it should be almost ten o'clock in the morning.

In a huge cave, in a dimly lit environment, a bell suddenly rang, and I immediately felt creepy, and I asked Leonard, "What's going on?" How can there be a bell in this cave? ”

Leonard looked out of the hatch and said, "It's from that ship." ”

Our group immediately returned to the outside deck, Uncle Wei and they also ran out when they heard the bell, because of the special terrain structure in the cliff cave, the bell just now was still echoing gently undulating.

Except for Leonard and Joseph, the rest of us were all confused, and Lin Ruyi was even more surprised when she saw the painting in my hand, and she asked me hesitantly: "That, that's, that's Munch's cry?" ”

I nodded and said, "Well, it should be, but I don't know if it's genuine." ”

"What shout? Didn't Mr. Lu Xun write the scream? Uncle Wei came over with a torch and looked at it, and asked strangely.

I shook my head helplessly and said, "One is the literary work of a domestic master, and the other is the art of a foreign master, which is different. ”

"Oh", Uncle Wei nodded as if he didn't understand, and then asked Leonard: "What's going on with the bell just now?" Joseph said it came from a ship in the cave? ”

Leonard nodded: "Yes, that ship is very strange, of course it is also very weird, every once in a while a bell will come from above. ”

As we spoke, Leonard led us to the depths of the cave, and the further we went, the dimmer the light became, and from time to time a cold wind blew out of it, and the flames of the torches in our hands danced in the wind, and even the shadows reflected on the cave walls were distorted.

Walking to the end of the cliff cave, there was a huge cave on the cave wall opposite us, and there was a pitch-black behemoth parked in it, Sister Hua walked to the water's edge with a torch, and leaned out as much as possible to take a picture of the boat, but because the cave was too dark, and the distance was about ten meters, we could barely see an outline, it was indeed a big ship.

Leonard pointed to the ship and said, "That's from that ship." ”

I asked him, "Where and who got the ship?" ”

Leonard shook his head: "I don't know this very well, it seems that when I found this cave, the ship stopped there." ”

"It's in this cave itself?" I frowned and continued to ask, "Have you gone up there to have a look?" Is there anything special about the ship? ”

Leonard continued to shake his head and said: "I have gone up, the deck is very clean and there is nothing, there is an iron door leading to the cabin, but there is no lock on the door, only a protruding place, and we have not been able to open the door with a long time. ”

"So amazing?" The more Leonard said that, the more curious I became about the ship, and I had a vague feeling that it might not belong in this world, but was from the same place as us.

"There's something even weirder." Joseph added: "In addition to the iron door leading to the cabin, the door to the wheelhouse on the deck could not be opened, and not only did the door not open, but the window glass of the wheelhouse was also pitch black, and even if one looked inside against the glass, one could not see anything, and we tried to break the glass with our guns, but the glass could not be broken by bullets." ”

Leonard confirmed Joseph's statement, saying: "Later, Arthur was so angry that he planned to blow it up directly with explosives, but suddenly the bell rang on the ship, and the pirates were so frightened that they all climbed off the ship, and afterwards Arthur thought that if it was blown up with explosives, it would be troublesome if the cliff cave collapsed, and anyway, the strange ship didn't look like there was any treasure hidden in it, so it was better to leave it alone." ”