Chapter 14 [Treasure in the Study I]

In the castle at night, in this old study full of old atmosphere, Du Wei stood under the candlelight around him, quietly raising his head and looking up at the oil painting on the wall. After a brief silence, Du Wei did not get a response.

He seemed to frown: "Won't answer?"

The face in the painting is still looking into Du Wei's eyes.

Du Wei smiled, but with a little ill-willedness, and he walked slowly, then pushed over a high staircase, climbed up the bookshelf, and then stretched out his hands to try to remove the painting.

The man in the oil painting showed a hint of panic on his face, and in the painting, the eyes looked at Du Wei's face, and there was already panic in his eyes.

"Whew!" Du Wei took the painting off the wall. Obviously, such a heavy thing is difficult for a weak half-grown teenager like Du Wei to lift. Du Wei felt his arms ache. But to his surprise, there was nothing behind the painting!

It's not a mechanism! It's not someone hiding behind an oil painting looking at themselves! It's the painting itself!

Du Wei became a little more serious, and carefully went down the stairs with the oil painting.

The faces of the people in the oil paintings are full of bitterness, and the eyes are even more uneasy.

"What the hell are you?" Du Wei said in a deep voice, "a figure in a painting that has come to life?"

The eyes in the oil painting are a little evasive.

"Well, this painting is a portrait of the ancestor of the Rollin family who was the marshal of the empire...... You can't be that ancestor who came back to life, right?" Du Wei smiled, then shook his head and said, "It doesn't make sense. Because that ancestor is more than 200 years old. And this painting was obviously painted by later generations to commemorate their ancestors. I'm still the same question...... What the hell are you?"

After asking for a while, but without answering, Du Wei sank his face: "Oh, don't you want to say it? ”

He pointed to the candlesticks around him: "You see, there are a lot of candles here, and if you don't speak, I'll burn you." Do you think I dare?"

With that, he turned around and took a lit candle and slowly approached the painting.

The faces of the people in the oil painting suddenly changed, undisguised panic, their eyes were anxious and begging for mercy, looking at the candles and flames that were getting closer and closer in Du Wei's hands. The person in the oil painting could only look at Du Wei pleadingly, his face full of anxiety.

Just as the flame was about to touch the canvas, Du Wei removed the candle and nodded: "Well, it seems that you really can't speak?

The man in the painting hurriedly shook his head.

"So, what the hell are you?" Du Wei's eyes were glowing! a living oil painting! Could it be something made by some kind of magic?

As for Du Wei's question, the oil painting could not answer. After being freed from the danger of being burned, the person in the painting also seemed to breathe, and then looked at Du Wei with interest.

Du Wei tried to ask a few more questions about the painting, but it was difficult for the other party to communicate because the other party could not speak. At best, the painting can barely make a nod and shake of the head. After trying hard for a while, nothing came out.

One person and one painting, just staring at each other.

At this moment, a big bell on the wall of the study slowly rang! It was already midnight!

Suddenly, Du Wei seemed to see a ray of light slowly emanating from the eyes of the characters in the oil painting!

Although the voice was a little erratic, Du Wei could hear it clearly, it was clearly the sound of people sighing!

"Listen, because I have been under a spell, I can speak briefly when midnight strikes for the rest of my life. When the bell is over, I won't be able to make a sound! Now I'll just say it again! There's a hidden secret room in this study! There are some treasures in the secret room! I can show you how to get those treasures, and then, I need your help, and one of the treasures can undo my magic. ”

Du Wei's eyes widened and he looked at the oil painting: "Are you talking?"

"Yes! The voice of the oil painting said quickly: "Now you start with the third oil painting on the wall, which has instructions. You do what you're told, and if you're not a fool, you should be able to find it......"

Boom~!

Midnight has passed, and as the last bell ends, the light in the eyes of the figures in the painting has gradually disappeared. Then the voice of the voice also stopped.

Du Wei looked up and down at the painting, and the people inside were also looking at him, with a pleading expression on their faces.

"Oh, you said you fell for a kind of magic, didn't you?" Du Wei smiled, "You said that there is a secret room in this study, and there is a treasure hidden in the secret room that can let you dissolve the magic." Right?"

Every time he asked, the figure nodded his head. With a longing look on his face.

"Well, then, is this good for me?" Du Wei laughed, "Why should I help you?"

The face of the figure in the painting changed, and then the sè of prayer in his eyes became more intense, as if he desperately wanted to say something, but unfortunately he couldn't say a word.

"Forget it, I think it's weird anyway, so I should satisfy my curiosity. Du Wei raised his hand, then climbed up the ladder to the bookshelf, and carefully observed the third oil painting on the wall according to the prompt of the figure in the painting when the bell rang just now.

The third oil painting, also a portrait of an ancestor of the Rollin family, dressed in the uniform of an admiral with a serious face...... Look at eye level, as if looking into the distance.

Du Wei examined it carefully for a while, but could not see any traces of the painting. He even tried to remove the painting and inspect the back, but found nothing.

Du Wei stood on the stairs and thought carefully for a while, he was not anxious, but patiently, re-checking every detail one by one. After checking again three times to no avail, Du Wei's heart suddenly moved, and he carefully looked at the characters in this oil painting......

Well, the eyes of the characters in the painting...... Look at eye level and look ahead.

Du Wei's heart moved! He immediately searched in the direction that the eyes of the characters in the painting were looking at!

This is on the opposite wall! The figure in the painting seems to be looking at a knight's sword hanging on the opposite wall!

Du Wei immediately pushed the stairs to the opposite side of the room. Such a tossing back and forth made a thirteen-year-old boy's physical strength a little unbearable. But a strong curiosity drove him.

After inspecting the knight's sword on the wall, Du Wei noticed that the blade of the sword was pointing at the bookshelf next to it!

He fumbled his way up the bookshelf again.

Finally, finally, he found out!

On the beam of the bookshelf, Du Wei felt a line of uneven traces, he sank down a little and felt it, and finally found that it was actually a line of text!

It's just that these words were written backwards! So, if someone accidentally touches the flower, if you don't look closely, most of them will only think it's just an ordinary pattern.

A line of text written in completely opposite directions, Du Wei read out carefully.

"The mystery lies in the night sky, and the giant spoon is the key to the way forward. ”

Du Wei couldn't help but smile bitterly.

What is this? Guess the riddle?

He sighed, slid down the stairs, and simply sat cross-legged on the ground, holding his head in agonizing over the riddle.

"The sky at night...... Huge spoon ......"

Finally, Du Wei Huoran stood up, his face showing hope again.

What's in the sky at night...... O stars!

Isn't the shape of the Big Dipper in the sky like a giant spoon?

Du Wei figured this out, and immediately searched for the bookshelves in the study!

Stars...... Stars......

The ...... in the study that has something to do with the stars Well, it must be a bookshelf with books on astrology!

Soon, through the index catalog, Du Wei found a bookshelf dedicated to astrology books, he climbed up with great difficulty to find it, and then, according to the instructions of the "spoon", carefully groped for the seventh row of the bookshelf.

He flipped through them almost one by one, and finally ......

When he twitched a book, he clearly felt that the book was unusually heavy! It was actually a metal book! And, after twitching, there was a dull click of a wheel from inside the wall......

Finally, with a bang, the entire bookshelf slowly turned on its own, and behind the bookshelf, on the wall, a black hole was revealed......