Chapter 1: The Mysterious Oil Painting

"After Xia Xiaomei's death, the investigation really came to an end."

Li Yin and Ying Zi were in the living room of room 404 at night, watching the TV report on Xia Xiaomei's death. In the past few days, Huangfu and Xia Xiaomei have gone to so many places, but after investigation, the police have not moved at all.

"The judiciary is really all affected by the apartment." Midnight had almost concluded this fact: "This is tantamount to ...... The apartment acquiesces, or even encourages residents to kill each other. ”

"Yes. It is estimated that as long as he is not caught as an active criminal, there is absolutely no danger of being arrested for murder. We were completely stripped from normal society by this apartment. ”

Li Yin was very chilled when he thought of this.

At present, the biggest advantage of the sixth to tenth blood letter instructions is known - the ability to transfer back to the apartment can be used to bring the ghost into the apartment and suck it into the black hole.

I guess that's why ghosts can't get into the apartment. Even if you force your way in, you will be excluded from the apartment. However, this also ensures to the greatest extent that there will be no supernatural phenomena in the apartment.

"In other words......" Li Yin turned off the TV and said one of the biggest advantages that the current residents have: "This is the only way to completely destroy the ghost at present." Use this apartment to destroy the existence of ghosts. ”

"However, it is very dangerous to bring the oni into the apartment together. If it's a ghost with no body, or a ghost with a doppelganger, there's little point in doing so. Midnight said, "Of course, compared to the previous situation when we had no way to deal with ghosts, now we have this huge advantage. ”

However, I want to know. In order to balance the difficulty of the blood letter, the apartment will definitely weaken the restrictions on ghosts for the residents who follow the blood letter instructions for the sixth to tenth times, and even the hints on the way to live may be more subtle.

At present, not a single resident has continued to carry out the Demon King-level blood character instructions after Dr. Tang. In other words, the apartment is likely to continue to arrange six or seven levels of blood characters for newcomers who have just entered the apartment, forcing them to choose the Demon King blood word to fight once. At the same time, residents who were originally four or five times the difficulty of blood words may also face the difficulty of seven or eight times of blood words.

If this continues, how long will you be able to live in midnight? And when will all the Hell Pact Fragments be released?

"That mysterious man is our greatest hope now." Li Yin gritted his teeth and said, "If that person can really gain insight into the way of blood words, then this person must be found as soon as possible!" ”

If you can't find this person, you will definitely encounter the most terrible end in the blood letter!

At the moment, the advantages available are limited, and it is difficult to say if the hope of survival is raised. Although Li Yin and Midnight are both characters with superior intelligence, the apartment will always mislead the residents in various ways to hide the true way of life of the blood letter. There are a lot of blood characters to survive, and they are extremely obscure, and the IQ must be so high that it can only be discovered to a very perverted level.

I have to admit that many households have survived until now, and luck accounts for a large proportion. But can luck last forever? Li Yin still has four blood characters, and there are six blood words in the middle of the night. How do you spend the ten times of blood that add up?

"How do you find this person?" Li Yin was really anxious. Is this person an apartment resident or someone outside the apartment? Why did you gain this special ability?

"Li Yin." Midnight saw what he was thinking, and the surname Suo said directly: "Do you think that Ke Yinyu was able to come back alive because of his alliance with that 'mysterious man'?" And Xia Xiaomei accidentally discovered the process of this alliance, so she was killed? ”

Li Yin's mind was completely seen through by Midnight. He did have this suspicion.

"Yes, Midnight, I do have this assumption. However, if this is the case, why did Ke Yinyu say that it was Yinye who killed Xia Xiaomei? ”

"This, it is likely that the brother and sister are suspicious, and in turn escape our suspicion. As for Ke Yinye's injury, it doesn't look like a bitter meat trick, after all, the danger is too big. Xia Xiaomei probably stabbed Ke Yinye because she wanted to defend herself. In other words, the words of the brother and sister are completely lies. This possibility is not small. ”

"Hmm...... It's possible. Li Yin thought for a while and said, "However, why did you choose that pair of brothers and sisters to form an alliance?" What is the purpose of that mysterious man? That guy called you last time and didn't ask you for anything. If you want to help the householders, why do you only ally with the siblings? ”

If it's for the Hell Contract Fragment, you can also find Li Yin to form an alliance. So why......

"I think ......" Midnight suddenly said, "It may be similar to the ancient Three Kingdoms period, when Sun and Liu united against Cao." That mysterious person may be the one who killed Min and obtained the third contract shard. And for these two parties, you are Cao Ying, the most powerful prince, and to fight you, you need an alliance. That is, maybe the person is really a resident. ”

"Cao Ying? They see me as Cao Ying? Li Yin smiled bitterly and said, "I don't think that the brother and sister are Liu Bei or Sun Quan." The two of them are similar to the existence of Zhuge Kongming. ”

At the moment, in the deep rain home.

Murong Mir poured a cup of coffee, savored it, and put a CD into the machine to start playing.

An English song came out of it, and then he sat down, crossed Erlang's legs, and said to Shen Yu, who was painting in front of him, "How is it?" Have you decided, who is going to kill Li Yin? Again, I won't kill anyone for you. I chose to work with you because you can bring me fun. ”

"I know." Shen Yu didn't look at Murong Mirage and said, "For you, there is no difference between life and death." What you hate most is 'ordinary' and 'rotten'. Only blood, corpses, and ghosts can interest you. ”

"You know me very well." Murong Mirage put down the coffee cup and said with a dark smile, "Not bad." Ever since I was a child, I felt that there was no meaning in human life. Because 'living' is really too boring, defined by the framework of 'society', regulated by vulgar good and evil, there is no 'freedom', it can only be swayed by the evaluation of others, people in high positions can decide the life and death of lowly people, and they can modify the laws of the world at will. But in the end, it will become old and turn into a pile of ashes. So, for me, it's the same when you die. For me, everything is destroyed, everything is destroyed, the beautiful living body is dissected, and the ghost, an eternal existence that can not be bound by any existence, will not decay, and will not fall into a vulgar life, is what I seek the most. That apartment is really the best place for me to live! ”

"Not bad." Shen Yu finished drawing the last stroke, began to color, and said: "The good and evil that human beings wantonly defined, and words such as annihilation, [***], and depravity appeared, and it was also human beings who created the concepts of 'god' and 'demon'. But there is no God in this world. It is nothing but an illusory existence created by man's purest delusion of good and evil. Human beings live on this self-righteous self-knowledge, but that is only an illusion. ”

"I ...... I want to use that apartment as a laboratory to completely turn every resident there into a so-called 'demon'. By tearing apart the human definition of good and evil, exposing the 'beautiful shell' of human beings in disguise, and sending them to hell one by one, is the meaning of my existence. ”

"That being said," Murong Mirage said suddenly, "However, Min entered the apartment, it wasn't arranged by you, right?" Rather, it's just a coincidence, right? ”

Deep rain's brush was dipped in paint again.

"Yes. Maybe it's hard for anyone to believe, but it's true. I didn't expect her to enter that apartment at all. It's total, a coincidence. If it weren't for this reason at that time, I wouldn't have stopped trading with Xia Yuan and let him be killed by ghosts. In the more than half a year since Min entered the apartment, I have not dealt with any of the tenants. It's because I'm afraid of her existence, and I'm worried that because she's in the apartment, I'll be suspicious. ”

"I see, I killed Xia Yuan because I didn't want the residents who knew about your existence to intersect with Min and make her doubt you."

"Ironically, after entering the apartment, her hatred for me was not as strong as before, and she did everything she could to redeem her relationship with me. I knew very well that she knew that she didn't have long to live, and there was no point in hating me, so she hoped that at least before she died, she could renew her relationship with me. And when she knew that I had that 'ability', she did everything she could to come to me, hehe, I think she must be thinking, it's so good to give birth to me. Because I can be her 'tool' to get out of that apartment." ”

When she was finally finished, she began to lie down on the wall.

"Although Li Yin must be killed, I am also a little hesitant. This man has always hoped to save all the occupants. It's my best experiment, and it's a pity to kill it like that. But his wisdom is too superior, and keeping him is too detrimental to my future plans. ”

"In that case, what about killing or not killing?" Murong Mirage looked at her with interest and said, "You can let Bian Xingchen kill Li Yin." Or...... What about the resident named Shangguanmian? You can let her kill ......."

"No!" When Shen Yu heard this, his heart trembled.

Shangguan Mian was the last time, and Huangfu Yan, Murong Mi and others came to the meeting, and one of the five representatives of the new residents was the cute girl with a ponytail, about sixteen or seventeen years old. But that girl always faces everyone like an iceberg, which makes people always shudder.

"If possible, it's best not to provoke this resident...... Her dangerous surname is arguably the most terrifying of all the occupants. In addition, Ke Yinye and Ke Yinyu have already noticed me. If someone killed Li Yin, they would definitely guess that I did it. ”

Neither of those two men died, and noticed their presence.

Deep rain is starting to have some headaches. If you continue like this, sooner or later you may become aware of your existence.

When she was dealing with a tenant, she once obtained a large amount of money from a very wealthy tenant, so she was able to rent this high-end apartment. However, this money is not enough to hire killers. After all, there are only four people to kill. Killers generally count money based on the number of people killed.

"Still, it's better to let Li Yin die naturally at the hands of the ghost indicated by the blood word."

Deep rain, already has its own plans.

On this day, in Bian's house.

Starflame and Xingchen made their way to the basement and began to organize some of their storage. The house is so big and it's laborious to clean. The basement was only used once, and it stored some things that were not normally needed. Now, let's reorganize.

The basement of the house is very large, and it is stocked with old books, furniture, and paintings.

"That's a lot of stuff." Xingchen was holding a box and said, "So much ash." This is...... Something left by the people who used to be in this house, right? ”

"Well, more than two-thirds of them are." Xingyan opened a box at this time and said, "Xingchen, you can help me later." ”

"Ah, yes, brother."

In this box, there is a chess board at the top. Xingyan took out the chessboard, covering it with a thick layer of dust. He blew off the dust and looked again, and there was a box of chess pieces underneath.

"Yes, you can use it to play chess. Well, it looks pretty old, this chessboard...... Well, what is this? Oil painting? ”

From below, Xingyan took out a dusty painting clip. There are a lot of oil paintings in it.

"That's a nice drawing."

This painting depicts a woman whose face is almost completely covered in hair. The woman stood in the depths of a dense forest, her hands on her sides, her head bowed deeply.

And the painting is very realistic, it looks as if there is such a woman.

"...... this?"

The next few paintings still depict the woman in the dense forest. But in the painting in the back, the woman is closer to the painting.

One after another, the woman's body kept approaching, and soon, by the time of the last two paintings, the woman's face occupied almost the entire painting.

Xingyan flipped over to see the last painting.

"What are you looking at? Brother? This ......"

At first glance, Xingchen almost screamed in fright when he saw the woman who looked like a female ghost in the painting. And the last painting, it's black, nothing!

Underneath the chest, there are several more such clips.

"I don't know what it is." Xingyan said, "It looks like it was painted by someone who used to live in this house." It's very well drawn, both in the background and in the coloring, it's absolutely first-class. It's just, it looks like it's a female ghost? ”

Xingchen walked over, picked up the painting, and turned it over to look at it. On the back of the last painting, there is a line of text.

"Pu Miling, written on March 21, 1977".

"It's a 1977 painting?" Xingyan looked at it and said, "It's been preserved until now." It's a really nice picture. Well? Below, it seems that there are still paintings? ”

Another picture clip. There are more than a dozen paintings in it. In the painting, a man in black clothes is floating in the sky, and the man's face is covered in scars and blood, chasing a woman. It looks like it's deep in a mountain.

In the last painting, the woman is killed by the man in black, and the back of the painting reads: "Pu Miling, painted on May 3, 1977." ”

"This man named Pu Ling......"

There's no way the stars don't care. This naturally reminded him of the deep rain.

"Brother," he hurriedly asked Xingyan, "Is the original owner of this house called Pu Miling?" ”

"This ......" Xingyan thought for a moment and said, "No, it's not called that. The house was originally occupied by a family of seven and a lot of nannies were hired. Later, when the family was going to emigrate, my father bought the villa as our home in China. In fact, I thought it was a bit too extravagant, we only lived in two of us, why buy such a big place. The original owner of the house, I remember the surname Jiang, their family, there should be no one surnamed Pu. ”

However, in Xingchen's heart, he is becoming more and more curious.

"Brother, you help me find it, is there anyone else with such a painting."

Then Xingchen went to rummage through other chests and old furniture.

"What's wrong?" Xingyan asked suspiciously, "Xingchen, your behavior has become more and more strange in the past six months. Is something wrong? ”

Xingchen ignored it, but was bent on finding out if there was still such an oil painting.

Perhaps, just a coincidence.

But, is it really just a coincidence?

Soon after, he found the painting in a box. In the painting, it is still this kind of terrifying painting. There are many of them, even extremely bloody and gloomy, which makes people feel uncomfortable to watch.

"This author seems to like to draw supernatural and terrifying pictures." Xing Yan took those paintings and commented: "If these paintings are all drawn out of thin air, the author's skill is really very high. Well...... This is painted in 1978. ”

Xingchen thinks that perhaps, this is the people of the Jiang family who lived here before, and the people who have lived there before. It may also be that someone from the Jiang family inadvertently obtained the painting of this person named Pu Lingling.

This person's painting is so realistic, he can't think of the works that Shen Yu once painted.

Is Pu Miling the deep rain? However, in 1977, Shenyu was not born yet! However, who knows whether the era written behind this is true or false.

At this time, in the study where Xingyan usually reads.

On the high shelves, between the cracks of many books, a lot of blood continued to ooze out. It poured down like tap water and spilled on the ground.

Countless blood began to accumulate and gradually formed...... A humanoid silhouette!

Immediately, a pale hand stretched out from the blood!