The people outside knocked on the door and came in, and attached themselves to Elder Zhuo's ear to report it, and the voice was inaudible.

"Please come in, I'm waiting for him. Elder Zhuo shouted.

The other man outside the door immediately led a woman dressed in black to enter, and then silently withdrew with his companion, closing the door with his backhand.

The woman's nose is high, the tip of the nose is large, and she has a pale yellow over-the-shoulder curl, showing obvious mixed-race characteristics.

"I invited you here today to hear your old story. If you do well, you will be rewarded, and if you don't do well, you will not be able to keep your current job. Therefore, we have to listen to the most detailed and true version, don't make up for it, don't make things around, just facts and details, do you understand?"

The woman agreed in authentic Jinan dialect: "Yes, I understand." Facts and details, do not make up blindly, must be. ”

Elder Zhuo waved his hand: "Let's go, everyone is waiting." ”

I noticed that the woman was wearing a red armband on her arm that read "Spring City Cleaning" and was supposed to be a cleaner at the sanitation department. She wasn't too old, she was probably around forty-five. Judging from the chapped skin on her face and the back of her hands, her life is probably very poor, and she has been in the embarrassment of shrinking food and clothing for a long time.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what I want is a secret in the church - that is, a cannibalistic mural of unknown origin. As long as foreigners came to China, the murals existed for as long as they were, so much so that the older generation warned the next generation not to approach the villas and churches of foreigners, and not to mention cannibalistic murals, which would bring terrible luck to people. According to my grandfather, the mural originally existed in the backyard of an American villa on Jinger Road, and was a family heirloom of the villa's owner, Romid. In the spring of 937, when the war at the front was tight, Romid joined the foreigners' anti-Japanese pistol regiment, never returned, and died on the battlefield. As a result, the villa was confiscated by the old government, left unused, and the furniture, antiques, calligraphy and paintings inside were looted several times, and the remaining broken things were given to the church administration by the authorities, including this cannibalistic mural. "The woman.

"How does it eat people?" asked Elder Zhuo.

"It's like a python, and it eats people by sucking. Simple, it can generate thousands of kilograms of suction through its own body, instantly sucking young people into a dry layer of human skin. "Woman.

I pay attention to the woman's expression as she narrates, and every time she reaches a critical point, she blinks continuously and sticks out her tongue to lick her lips. In micro-expressions, this is the standard action of "making up topics", that is, those key plots are made up, not real.

The mural can't eat people, because I personally experienced the horror of sucking a large living person into human skin, so I can see it clearly, and the real weird suction is the stone wall opposite the mural, not the mural.

Therefore, this woman's words are not worth believing.

Similarly, many of the strange things in the city that have been passed down by the population of old Jinan are mostly false rumors, which cannot withstand scrutiny and exploration.

"Is this the mural?" asked Elder Zhuo, pointing to the projection screen.

The woman stared at the picture for a while, and nodded vigorously: "Yes, that's it." ”

Elder Zhuo asked again, "Do you know where it's hiding now?"

The woman nodded again: "I know, after giving birth to a dozen strange frescoes eating people, it became a hoodoo and was smashed and discarded. It was smashed into sixteen pieces, each of which was capable of sucking people's lives, and was later sold by do-gooders to Europe, the Americas, and Australia, where it continued to brutalize people around the world. In the past ten years, there have been nearly 100 tragedies of cannibalism in murals around the world, all of which have been harmed by it. ”

I don't want to interrupt her, and there is no need to expose her, otherwise, she won't be able to get Elder Zhuo's bounty.

As a cleaner at the bottom of society, it is not easy for her to make these things up, and she deserves some reward, and she should be an extras with lines in a film and television drama.

"Good, good. Elder Zhuo circled around the woman and burst out laughing.

The woman was startled and quickly covered her mouth with her hand.

"You've told the same story very well, and according to you, you've told the same story to tens of thousands of tourists from out of town, charging a hundred yuan each time. Let me ask you, where did you hear this story?" Elder Zhuo asked in a low voice.

The woman was stunned, her face was red and white for a while, and under the forced gaze of Elder Zhuo, she had to tell the truth: "I listened to the uncle of the store opposite the church, and I added some oil and vinegar to make it up." I'll talk about what tourists like to hear, and it's not illegal anyway, it's just a mix of food. ”

Elder Tu, who hadn't spoken for a long time, suddenly asked, "What is the surname of the uncle in the sales department?"

The surname Ni is rare, and among the people I know, only Red Sleeve Zhao and Bing'er have this surname.

The woman nodded and admitted: "Yes, his surname is Ni, and everyone nearby calls him Uncle Ni, so I will call him too." ”

Elder Zhuo's eyebrows rose upside down in an instant, like two long knives out of their sheaths, and he waved his hand and shouted, "You three hurry up...... Arrest that guy surnamed Ni, he's a traitor to the Beggar Gang, go, go, go-"

Elder Tu, Elder Lin, and Elder Meng jumped up at the same time, slammed the door and rushed out.

I listened attentively, and the two outside the door did not dare to slack off, and directly followed the three elders and left.

"The surname is Ni, the surname is Ni, it turns out that you are hiding here! You also know that this mural is valuable, and you also know that there are treasures in the church, you also know it...... Your two daughters are in my hand, and this hand, the two of them are the kings in my hand...... If I hold them, it is equivalent to holding your heart and soul baby, can you still go against the sky?haha, I see how you play it?Grasshopper after autumn, I see how you jump......" Elder Zhuo muttered to himself angrily, leaving the woman there.

"I ...... Give me the money, I have to go back. Leader, I still have to sweep the floor, or the administrator can't find anyone when he comes to check, and he has to deduct my salary. Leader, okay, give me some money, can't let me spit in vain, right?" the woman begged in a low voice.

"Wait, wait, your reward is indispensable!" Elder Zhuo sneered.

The woman looked back at me and said pitifully: "Big brother, you help me talk to the leader, it's really not easy for our group of street sweepers to come and go in the wind and rain." Please, big brother, help me plead for mercy......"

Her eyes are not black and white, but half yellow and half blue.

I came into contact with her eyes and immediately noticed that there was a strange glow shining in those two eyes.

If she was really a cleaner, I would definitely pity her, even if I paid for it myself, I wouldn't let her be in vain for a long time. However, that look told me that she standing in front of me was by no means a good person.

I was just about to open my mouth when the scene in front of me suddenly "stopped".

It was as if the room had suddenly been encased in pine resin and turned into a stagnant amber. I saw everything, my mind was normal, my eyes were clear, but I couldn't move. It's not just me who is "frozen", everything in my field of vision is "frozen"—Elder Zhuo still maintains his eyebrows upside down, still staring at the woman viciously, the folding fan in his hand is half-open, and he makes a point point.

In the room, only the woman was free to move.

She took a step forward, reached into Elder Zhuo's breast pocket with her right hand, took out a piece of white paper folded in half, gently unfolded it, and spread it flat on the table.

On the white paper was a simple map, scribbled and rough.

I watched with my eyes, and there were more than a dozen text marks on the map, namely "churches, secret rooms, transportation roads, large ditches, broken bridges, stairs, mirror rooms, gates, spillways, water gates, exhaust fans, cable pipes" and so on.

Looking at the direction of the lines, I could easily understand the meaning of the map. This is a map of the underground passage leading from the Hongjialou Church to the Mirror Room.

It seems that Elder Zhuo knows exactly the same situation as the Qin Wang Hui knows, they all reach the ravine-broken bridge through the underground troop transport road, find a way to cross it, and then reach the mirror room.

It can be seen from this that Elder Zhuo is "Xiang Zhuang dancing the sword, intending to Pei Gong", and "Western murals" is just a disguise, what he really wants to do is to reach the mirror room from the underground and start a more complex plan.

"Single-mindedly sending people to death? It's really incomprehensible, knowing how dangerous the underground troop transport road is, one by one, all of them are like headless flies, indiscriminately breaking in and sending them to death. Why don't people know how to cherish their lives? They don't know the preciousness of life until they die? Hehe, life is precious, and love is even more valuable. If it is for the sake of freedom, you can throw both—such a good verse, enough to stir the deaf, why can't you save the damned ghost? You have come here, neither for fame nor for profit, just to enter the Chamber of Mirrors. Why? Why? Does everyone want to go back in time and space through the mirror room, and go back to the past? Modern people are too ignorant to know that they are always happy, and I, as a cleaner who sweeps the streets all day long, can live a good life in this day and age, and I have endured the eyes of others...... It seems that I will never understand the thoughts of rich people, so forget it, don't waste time here, goodbye, goodbye bye......"

The woman turned and walked out silently.

Suddenly, she stopped, turned around, and looked at the curtain.

The picture is originally static and magnified, and within ten steps, you can clearly see the facial features of the person in the painting.

"How does this one look like her?" the woman held out the index finger of her right hand and tapped her fingernails lightly on the curtain.

Ever since I first saw a Western mural, I have associated the 108 people in the painting with the 100 Dan 8 generals of Shuibo Liangshan, which has formed a fixed concept in my subconscious. So, I don't look at each one of them anymore, because I've always looked at them as a whole.

At this moment, the woman's fingernails pointed at a female general, with two knives stuck in her back, and a cyan rope wrapped around her right arm, and a red trap at one end of the rope.

As soon as those who are familiar with "Water Margin" hear the description of weapons, they will understand that this female general is known as "Yizhang Qing" Hu Sanniang. On the battlefield, she threw the rope out, snared the enemy's neck, and pulled it hard, and the enemy was about to fall off his horse and be captured.

In modern warfare, this kind of rope is rarely used, and it is one of the outdated and unpopular weapons.

The woman paused and whispered again: "It's weird, this woman is 100% like Sister Red?"

I tried to discern the appearance of the female general in the painting, and then I thought of the woman's words, and suddenly my mind lit up, it turned out that her "red sister" actually referred to the red sleeve move.

At this moment, the "stagnancy" of the scene in front of me is naturally the result of the control similar to the "hysterical technique".

The appearance of the red sleeve move can only be regarded as mid-to-upper, and if it is a hundred points, it can only play eighty points, which is far lower than Bing'er. However, if the appearance of the Red Sleeves is close to the person in the mural, it is a very strange thing.

"It's so strange, it shouldn't be just a simple coincidence, but ......" The woman scratched her head slightly, unable to give an answer herself, "Forget it, let's go see Sister Hong first." ”

She turned around and hurried out.

Elder Zhuo and I were both imprisoned, so naturally it was impossible to stop her, so we could only watch her leave.

This time, Zhuo Chang was too light on the enemy, and he actually lured the wolf into the room when the situation was good, so that his side fell into a passive situation of being slaughtered by others.

The woman reached the door and stretched out her hand to push the door.

At that moment, the door opened automatically, and a long knife sparkled straight at the woman, passing through the woman's abdomen, and the tip of the knife half a foot long peeked out from the back.

I was taken aback and stared intently.

The murderer succeeded with a knife, and immediately drew the knife and stabbed again, and stabbed four times in a row, and the knife was clear.

The woman had no power to fight back, because the killer held a knife in one hand and choked the woman's neck with the other, making it impossible for her to break free.

I saw it really, but I couldn't stop it.

The murderer let go, and the woman spun and fell, adding ten blood holes to her body, and blood gushing outward.

After assassinating the woman, the murderer did not flee away, but after a pause of more than ten seconds, he dodged in and stood by the door.

Outside, someone approached while talking, and the voices were none other than Elder Lin and Elder Meng.

"Well, Lao Ni has died a long time ago, and it is impossible to move under the noses of the beggars. The area around Hongjialou is the territory of the beggar gang, and the brothers in the gang come and go, and I don't know if I pass by the door of the church thousands of times a day, can I not see him? Forget it, go back to Lao Zhuo, don't listen to outsiders to do a few random jobs, or do the right thing, get the murals back early, divide the money early, and go their separate ways early......" Elder Lin was indignant.

Elder Meng sighed: "100 million? Even if there is 100 million, how much can our brothers share? In my opinion, if he gets 100 million yuan, he will have to divide more than half of it, and the three of us can only drink the bone broth left over from him. I can see through it, people in this world are all mercenary, and the more they shout that people who don't make money and don't make money, the more they value money very closely, for fear that others will interfere......"

"Forget it, go in again, go in again!" When the two arrived at the door, Elder Lin and Muddy reminded their companions to shut down.

The door was half-hidden, and Elder Lin, who was walking in front, had just shown his head, and Elder Tu slashed it out, hitting the other party in the chest.

Elder Lin outside the door shouted and retreated, but he couldn't escape, probably being stopped by Elder Meng.

Elder Tu's knife skills were very exquisite, and his techniques were extremely flexible, like an experienced butcher, he slashed seven or eight times in a second, and the place where the knife fell was from top to bottom, all of which were the vital parts of Elder Lin's body.

The door opened, and Elder Meng pushed Elder Lin in.

"It's done. Elder Tu shouted in a low voice.

Elder Meng let go, and Elder Lin fell to the ground limply.

"Kill them quickly!" Elder Meng said coldly.

Elder Zhuo and I couldn't move, so we had to be slaughtered in this situation.

"Kill Lao Zhuo and leave the summer stone. The Chamber of Secrets is weird, and only he can help us. "Elder Tu.

The two of them talked, but their hands and feet did not stop, and they immediately rushed towards Elder Zhuo.

"I know, you don't like me, no matter how diligent and capable I am, you think I'm an outsider. Why? Just because I used to be good brothers with Lao Ni. You have done it more than once, I can betray Lao Ni back then, and I can betray you in the future. So, you never believed me. I have to tell you right now, you're so accurate about people. I have a backbone in the back of my head, and when I see who is against whom, I will never be honest and be a slave to others. Old Zhuo, don't worry, we will spend ...... for you for 100 million" Elder Tu put the long knife against Elder Zhuo's eyebrows, and smiled and teased.

I won't die for a while, but not necessarily once I get my hands on the mural.

Suddenly, I noticed a movement in the projection on the screen, and where the woman had pointed, a figure slowly stretched out and walked out of the crowd.

If this change is placed in another scene, the audience must find it very interesting, thinking that it is a kind of sensory dream enjoyment, and it is also a great innovation in the art form. However, at this moment, the room was covered with blood, and the murderer had already found the next target, and even the air had become extremely bloody.

I shook my head vigorously and looked intently, and the moving figure was "Yizhang Qing" Hu Sanniang. After she left the crowd, she walked straight out of the frame, growing larger and larger until she leaped out of the frame like a magic show.

She put her right index finger to her lips and made a "boo" gesture to me.

I can't tell if this scene is real or not, but even if I want to, I can't move, so it's better to just stay still.

"Don't do more, let's do it. Elder Meng urged.

Elder Tu sighed, and seemed to be a little regretful: "Lao Zhuo, you can be regarded as a useful talent in the Beggar Gang, if you don't die today, you may become the next gang leader." However, you are narrow-minded and can't tolerate Lao Ni, nor can you tolerate me. So, you have to die, just like Old Ni, and if you die, you won't stand in my way anymore—"

That knife never went in, and where the tip of the knife was hit, the skin on Elder Zhuo's eyebrows had sunk. With such a fast knife, it only takes a little force to pass through the head and peek through the tip of the knife from the back of the head.

It's a pity that he wanted to express his feelings in front of his prey too much, and he missed the best fighter.

When the man in the painting came out, the situation in the room changed again.

It turned out that Elder Tu and Elder Meng were also fixed, and the situation was exactly the same as me and Elder Zhuo. The only one who could move at the moment was the person who walked out of the painting.

"The realm of 'hysteria' is as pervasive as everyone imagines, like mercury pouring into the ground. I've always been here, listening to your past. My father is dead, but the Ni clan will always exist, and once this seed of revenge is planted, it will break through the ground. Uncle Zhuo, Uncle Tu, Uncle Meng, and Uncle Lin, who is dead, we can make a break today. You killed my father, everyone has done it, and I will return it to you tenfold today......"

She was wearing the clothes of ancient people, but her tone of voice and demeanor were safe.

There was a folk biography of "Immortals in the Painting" in Lao Jinan, and there was also a record of "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai" that "the people in the paintings became immortals", so I intuitively believed that the red sleeves had become the immortals in the paintings, carrying the blade of revenge, and came from the painting, drawing the final end to this bloody massacre.

(Tianjin)