Chapter 42 The Threat Letter Before the Exhibition
The person in charge then shut up.
It wasn't that the person in charge was frightened by Zhao Yijiao's eyes, but he could sense Zhao Yjiu's unmoved determination from his eyes, and felt that there was no need to continue to induce him, as there would be no results anyway.
The red crystal ball reflected the face of the person in charge, and in Zhao Yijius eyes, the expression of the person in charge was the word "boring".
Over there, Yu Xing finally waited until several painters completed their inspection of the oil painting with great interest, and got a positive result.
"It's a fake. It's all Clodier's fault. Haha, forgive me for laughing unkindly."
"This is really embarrassing. In fact, when I look at it, why do I feel that this painting is no worse than the one painted by Clodier himself?"
"Actually, this painting is already very good. If it was for this reason that Clodier didn't realize that it was not his own painting from the beginning, it would be excusable."
The painters talked to each other, some ruthlessly ridiculing their colleagues, while others seemed to be speaking for their colleagues, but in fact they had no effect.
Yu Xing was smiling next to him, silently watching these poor painters laugh at every step, and finally waited for a word from the person in charge.
"The result is already obvious. Congratulations, guest, you have got a place to stay in the art museum after the exhibition." The person in charge stood up and came to Yu Xing's side. The two-meter-tall man looked down at Yu Xing,
Then he stretched out a hand, as if he wanted to shake hands.
His figure became even more blurry after leaving the light of the red crystal ball. Yu Xing could only see a dark blurry shadow when he squinted his eyes. The person in charge had no breath of a living person, let alone breathing. If
If you don't look at him, you may not be able to feel that there is such a presence beside you.
Yu Xing stretched out his hand, but was prompted by inspiration the moment before he took it.
He silently took his hand back and said with a smile: "When I was identifying fake paintings just now, my hand was slightly injured and it hurts a lot. Please forgive me for being unreasonable, Mr. Person in Charge."
The person in charge paused for a moment, then Shi Shiran retracted his hand and said calmly: "Of course."
The painters at the round table were still having a heated discussion about the paintings. The person in charge turned around and spoke in a low and gentle voice, but with an unquestionable tone: "Quiet, gentlemen and ladies, we should give some to the guests who helped us.
Rewarded."
The painters suddenly lost their voice, and Yu Xing watched this scene with interest. It seemed that although the painter was chatting with the fat man sitting at the bottom on an equal footing, and was also chatting and laughing with the museum staff on the left and right of the person in charge, but
Regarding the person in charge, they are still inferior to others. Although they seem to have different personalities, at this moment, they all have a kind of obedient behavior.
For the painters, the person in charge of the art museum brought them not only a cooperative relationship at the exhibition, but also some unknown... oppression? control?
He wasn't sure, but he found this phenomenon very interesting, and maybe he would be able to learn something about it in the future.
"Please ask your companion to wait outside the door and avoid it. We will tell you all the information you should know during this time." The person in charge pointed at Zhao Yjiu, and he now looked at Zhao Yjiu with a distant look.
Not as gentle as before, but like looking at an item with no use value.
Zhao Yijiu almost sneered.
He looked at Yu Xing: "Then I'll go out and wait for you."
Yu Xing waved to him: "Okay, I'll tell you the story as soon as I get out. I don't have any scruples about you~"
Zhao Yijiu was a little surprised. He felt that if Yu Xing said this to him, it would be a bit strange and unnecessary.
It seems that Yu Xing should have said it to the other people in the room. Why? To prove to these things that don’t know whether they are humans or ghosts that they are trusting companions? But what is the purpose of doing this?
He turned around and opened the red wooden door. When he was about to step out of the room, he suddenly thought that when Yu Xing participated in the discussion of the painters just now, did he really not hear what the person in charge said to him?
Although they were all deprived of abilities and sacrifices, Zhao Yijiao never thought that he knew Yu Xing's strength before entering. What if he could hear the hidden sounds from ghosts through some principle before...
Doesn't that mean that all the inducements that the person in charge gave him just now were heard by Yu Xing? Yu Xing's reaction now becomes traceable. He himself responded to the person in charge with a sentence, and Yu Xing also wanted to use this method.
To respond to the self-righteous person in charge, after all, Yu Xing has a small mind and will seek revenge whenever he wants, especially those who do small things behind the scenes.
Zhao Yijiu felt that he had discovered the truth. He thought it was a bit funny, and he mourned for the person in charge. The malicious behavior of person in charge Bi Jing was definitely written down in Yu Xing's little notebook of grudges.
He walked out of the door briskly and did not close the door, but left a small crack.
Of course he couldn't hear the sound inside, but if Yu Xing wanted to run out, he could save the time of twisting the handle.
Seeing the person go out, Yu Xing withdrew his eyes from the person's back and turned to look at the person in charge: "Is it my question time now?"
"If you want to ask questions to understand this matter, of course you can." The person in charge always seemed so talkative. He walked to the sofa nearby and invited Yu Xing to sit on the sofa with him and talk in detail.
Yu Xing didn't want to stand next to the round table all the time. He happily came to the sofa and sat down, feeling much more comfortable. The others were still sitting at the round table, but they were quieter than before.
After he sat down, he asked the first question: "The question I want to know most now is, what is the quota I got used for? In other words, if I stay after the exhibition, are there any other activities?
?”
In fact, he had some guesses. After all, when he was on the first floor, he heard the fat man's staff and Ms. Linda mention the auction in their chat. He asked this question because he wanted to test whether the plot of the auction belonged to the art museum copy.
Or does it belong to some other building, such as a possible auction house.
In fact, during the period of appraising the paintings, he also thought clearly that the auction would most likely be a replica of another building, because if the museum plot mixed so many things, it would be too cumbersome, and there are only five places for fakes.
Well, if the final auction plot only serves five people and is more important, then it would be a waste of such a large venue.
"There are no other activities. This is also related to what I am about to explain to you about why fakes are mixed into art exhibitions." The person in charge said lightly, "With this quota, you will get help from the art museum.
We also have the opportunity to visit the collection room on the third floor of the art museum. That collection room is not usually open to the public. We will only allow guests to enter under very special circumstances."
"But what does this opportunity mean to me?" Yu Xing asked.
"That collection room contains a lot of rare items found on the island. Some of them we think we are not qualified to collect, so we can only keep them for you. If you can find your things in it..." the person in charge smiled.
, "If you are really so lucky, then you can take it away."
This was a strange thing to say, but Yu Xing realized it after a quick reaction. Is this thing talking about a sacrifice?
Could it be that the collection room of the art museum contains the sacrifices of outsiders like them? It's really interesting, how much do these plague bodies and pollutants on the island know about outsiders... After they came to the island, all the sacrifices they had on them were scattered
Is there a time difference between everywhere in the Dead Island?
Long before their bodies appeared on the island, the sacrifices had appeared on the island "for a short period of time", and some of them were collected by people in the art museum?
Yu Xing's eyes flashed, and he suddenly felt as if he had touched the tail of the chaotic time on Dead Island.
"Then I'm really looking forward to the experience of entering the collection room. Apart from this question, I still have to ask, why are fakes mixed into the art exhibition?"
"This involves some shady rats on our island." The person in charge seemed calm, but in fact there was an unconcealable disdain when he mentioned the so-called rats, "We have been preparing for this exhibition for a long time, and the nine people
We invited the painters early in the morning. After communicating with them, they agreed to do a joint exhibition together. To this end, everyone spent a lot of time preparing new paintings and also sent some of their own paintings.
Old paintings in hand."
"Well, what next?" Yu Xing said, trying to be a qualified compliment.
"As a result, before the exhibition opened, our museum received a threatening letter, which said that someone would mix five fake paintings into the exhibition. They must be real ones that the artist himself would not be able to tell apart. When the exhibition was about to end,
When the time comes, make it public, which will severely embarrass us and make those five painters a joke in everyone’s mouth.”
The person in charge said: "The letter also said that there are evil spirits in these five paintings, which will bring misfortune to the viewers. When they are announced, those evil spirits will come out of the paintings and attack the invited painters." At that time, the person who wrote the letter wanted to turn this art exhibition into a failed farce. He not only wanted to embarrass our art museum, but even wanted to kill the painters."
"That's right, the letter even said that if we don't come because we are afraid, we will announce the matter so that others will know what a cowardly bunch of pathetic ghosts we are." It has been confirmed that there is a fake in the painting. Clodier was in a very bad mood now, and he was also the most anxious. He leaned over and said to Yu Xing, "That's why we are here. Each of us will check these paintings again before the exhibition begins. No trace of counterfeiting was found except for one, and we even thought it was a bad joke..."
"But it turns out it's not a joke." The person in charge took over, "Just before today's start, there was an extra painting in our lounge. That painting was a very famous painting, and it came from an unknown person. A painter who has not participated in this exhibition, but we all know that the painting is collected by a private collector in his villa, how could he come to the lounge in good condition?"
"So we authenticated it, and everyone thought it was authentic. My colleague found the word 'surprise' on the back of the painting. The paint used in that word was consistent with the paint used in the painting. It was like a gift. The person who painted it knew that we couldn’t tell the difference between a real painting and a fake painting, so he deliberately painted a logo on the back.”
After saying this, the person in charge shook his head: "It is nothing more than proving to us that they have the ability to make imitations that are exactly the same as the original paintings, so what is said in the letter is very likely to actually happen, so in order to Just in case, we plan to ask you, who have the ability to reveal fakes, to help us identify the paintings."
Yu Xing thought that with the poor abilities of these painters, they probably couldn't tell the difference between the paintings they painted and the paintings copied by others. Maybe they didn't know what the problem was with their painting.
For example, Clodier's painting of the water ghost should have been roughly the same as his own painting before it changed, but he did not notice the lines hidden in the river in the painting. This was purely blind.
He curled his lips in his mind and asked politely on the surface: "How do you judge that we can do something that even professional painters can't do?"
"The letter said that those terrifying evil souls are hidden very deep, and they cannot be found without special methods." The person in charge said, "Then I remembered that you outsiders can always surprise people, right?"
Yu Xing roughly understood.
They just know that the methods of outsiders are very different from those on the island, so they bring them over as free labor. No, the outsiders even pay the entrance fee.
What a black heart... just hang it on the street lamp.
"So you plan to ask outsiders to help you find all five fake paintings before the exhibition ends, so that you can avoid all losses later, and the purpose of the person or persons who sent the letter will be defeated." Yu Xing concluded, Seeing the person in charge nodding slightly, he straightened his cuffs and said, "Then how are you going to deal with the person who brought the letter? They have caused such a big mess for you, so you won't let them go easily, right?"
The person in charge smiled: "Of course, but this is what we have to take care of, and it will not cause any trouble to our respected guests."
The implication is that the following matters are not Yu Xing’s place to ask.
The person in charge stood up and made a gesture to see off the guests: "We have said what needs to be said. I hope the guests can understand the inconvenience caused to you in this art exhibition. By the way, the quota for the five paintings is not limited to
One for each person, if you can find more, we also welcome you to send the fakes. In this way, you may gain more in the collection room."
Yu Xing also stood up, smiled and nodded at the person in charge: "I'm looking forward to it too. Then I'll take my leave now."
He sensed that the person in charge and other painters wanted him to leave quickly, so he waved his hands in cooperation, and then walked out the door.
Zhao Yijiu was waiting for her outside the door. When he saw him coming out, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Is there nothing in there?"
Yu Xing pulled Zhao Yijiu back, and he didn't answer until he passed a corridor: "It's nothing. Judging from the intensity of the rewards later, the remaining questioning session is just a supplement to the plot, and there is not much danger.
It doesn’t do much good.”
"Want to know what they told me?"
"I suspect that the fake paintings in this exhibition were sent by a special force."