Yes, if most of the other walls in the room are hung with decorations such as weapons and animal heads, then the wall in front of you is the most empty one. There are no decorations hanging here, only a colorful oil painting, although the entire wall only has oil paintings.
, but behind the oil painting is a huge circle that looks like a Western formation no matter how you look at it. The circle is all red, as if it were painted with blood, and the actual area basically covers a large area.
Half of the wall, and inside the circle are drawn various strange symbols that are difficult to understand. The types of symbols seem to be complicated, but in fact they are neatly combined and intertwined with each other, without any trace of chaos. Therefore, under the interweaving of many symbols with unknown meanings,
What appears to be a magic circle appears and is clearly drawn in the center of the wall. Not only that, if the magic circle is painted in the center of the wall, then the oil painting is also hung in the center of the magic circle.
At this moment, staring at the magic circle on the wall, He Fei's eyes widened, his whole face full of doubts, and Zhao Ping, who was standing side by side, were both immersed in inexplicable astonishment. The two of them were like this, and so was Cheng Ying, including
Kong Ling, Chen Shuihong, Tang Meng, Qiao Mengting
Everyone, including Xie Xiaona, was like this. Even Chen Xiaoyao, who usually talked the most nonsense, was stunned by the scene in front of him. He didn't know what to say for a moment. After all, no one expected that such a seemingly luxurious room could be hidden in such a place.
Weird scene?
But then again, even though the scene was weird and the picture was weird, as a unique person who felt uncomfortable even if he didn't speak, Chen Xiaoyao didn't remain silent for too long. As soon as he regained consciousness, he looked at He Fei and asked:
"Hey, Lao He, what's on the wall? What is this painting? Why can't I understand it at all?"
As a unique Maoshan Taoist priest in China, Chen Xiaoyao is indeed considered to have extraordinary abilities, and his research on supernatural issues has reached the level of erudition and proficiency. It is true to say that, but his erudition and proficiency are limited to Eastern China, involving at most
When visiting countries with similar civilizations around them, they simply turn a blind eye to Western culture, which is basically a blank slate.
It is conceivable that Chen Xiaoyao is a novice when faced with this weird figure with obvious Western characteristics in front of him. His actual understanding level is not even as good as other people who are present. Therefore, it is natural that as a Westerner,
Chen Xiaoyao, who had little understanding of Xiaobai, was dumbfounded when he saw the pattern. He instinctively asked He Fei next to him. As for He Fei...
Seeing Chen Xiaoyao's curious inquiry, He Fei immediately answered him, but his tone was a little uncertain: "Well, this thing feels a bit like a magic circle? It seems like this thing has appeared in many Western fantasy movies."
"Magic circle? What is the magic circle?" Seeing He Fei's casual response, Chen Xiaoyao became more confused and asked again with his eyes wide open. He perfectly explained what it means to ask if you don't understand. Unfortunately, this time He Fei didn't ask again.
I can't answer that, because even
He himself didn't understand the meaning of the magic circle. Since he was ignorant, how could he dare to talk nonsense? Seeing He Fei hemming and hawing and keeping silent, Chen Xiaoyao decisively changed his target and turned his eyes to the side, looking at the other person.
A gentle and gentle man.
Perhaps he was aware of Chen Xiaoyao's gaze, or perhaps he had already seen something through observation. The moment Chen Xiaoyao looked at Zhao Ping, the man narrowed his eyes slightly, and at the same time turned his head and said something to everyone present.
, a solemn observation summary:
"It's certain that this is the star array, which is a unique supernatural technique in ancient Europe!"
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If you want to know whether someone is knowledgeable, you can start from many aspects. The most critical point is the accumulation of knowledge. The accumulation of knowledge relies on one's own knowledge. In other words, only those who are knowledgeable can have the prerequisites for knowledge accumulation. So
, relying on his excellent personal knowledge and years of accumulated knowledge, after staring at the graphics for a moment, Zhao Ping spoke first and made a conclusion in a relatively affirmative tone, concluding that the array in front of him was a star array involving Western magic.
Zhao Ping's knowledge was obvious to everyone present. Seeing the bespectacled man's affirmation, everyone, including He Fei, chose to believe it. In fact, even if Zhao Ping didn't say it, they almost had a guess, and the guess was just like He Fei's a few seconds ago.
As Chen Xiaoyao answered, the shape is very similar to a magic circle. No matter how you look at it, it looks like the starry magic circle in many fantasy movies. The reason why Zhao Ping said it clearly was to eliminate doubts and directly set the tone of the question.
"Starlight Array? The name is quite interesting, but what is its specific function?" Hearing Zhao Ping's affirmation and seeing others nodding, Chen Xiaoyao, who had always been curious, did not hesitate to ask again, further locking in the question.
The underlying point is clear, but the implication is very simple, that is, I don’t care what this thing is called, I just want to know what the function of this weird circle is?
so……
When Chen Xiaoyao asked persistently, the crowd looked at Zhao Ping again, but this time Zhao Ping did not answer, but turned his eyes to look at Cheng Ying.
Seeing Zhao Ping looking at Cheng Ying without saying a word, everyone suddenly realized this time! They almost forgot that there was an international killer with a deep understanding of Western culture at the scene. In this case...
"I do have some knowledge about the Starlight Array, but it is only at a theoretical level and cannot go into the deeper levels." As expected, when everyone looked at her, Cheng Ying nodded and admitted without any ink, and then finished the next sentence.
After being reminded in advance, I began to explain and popularize to everyone a piece of knowledge about superpowers that I have dabbled in due to my personal hobbies:
"Just like the Taoist magic represented by Maoshan Taoism exists in the East, the West also has its own unique supernatural means, and magic is the most typical representative. Due to the lack of documented records, the specific means of magic are unknown.
I don't know, so I can only use various sayings circulated in modern times as a reference. Magic is said to be
A magic method that uses the spirit to control and utilize natural elements. Anyone who can control natural elements can often be called a mage or magician. A powerful mage can even embody the elements in a visible way to the naked eye.
Outside, you can attack, defend, heal, and even add various states to others, etc."
"Of course, the above are just conventional magics. If we apply Westerners' own terminology, it can be called light magic."
Because she has been active in various European countries all year round, Cheng Ying has a really good understanding of Western history and culture. In addition to refreshing everyone's world view once again, she also conducted an analysis and interpretation of what magic is. At this point, Cheng Ying became slightly more confident.
There was a pause, but everyone present, headed by He Fei, did not think that the explanation ended here. After all, the key point had not yet been touched upon, and the key point was undoubtedly the strange graphics close at hand. The result was certain. After just one pause, Cheng Ying continued
Supplement, elaborate again, just...
After the pause, when Cheng Ying opened her mouth to explain again, for some reason, the girl's expression changed and became serious. Then she continued with a frown: "Everyone knows that the opposite of light is darkness.
In fact, magic also has both positive and negative sides. If conventional magic can be collectively called light magic, then the opposite must be dark magic, which is the black magic that often appears in many fantasy movies."
Black magic?
Hearing this, it was as if his nerves were stimulated by an unknown piece of ice. When Cheng Ying talked about "black magic", which is a purely fictitious word in reality, He Fei's heart skipped a beat, and He Fei, who was also beside him,
The other executors who were listening had a vague premonition, which was specific and clear. However, the inexplicable foreboding feeling really made people panic. They maintained the ups and downs and panic. Everyone continued to listen and listened to Cheng Ying's continued explanation:
"Unlike conventional magic that relies on elements to control its performance, black magic also bears the title of magic, but in fact black magic does not rely on elements, or even involves the elemental level at all. In other words, black magic and conventional magic are not the same type.
, but two very different magic methods. The biggest difference is that black magic involves the soul level."
"The so-called black magic is said to be a strange magic method that can contact the undead. Making contact means that it can be researched, and research is equivalent to opening a door to the restricted area. Through research, some black magicians can do this
Communicate with the undead, the more powerful ones can control the undead, and the more powerful ones can even summon the undead by chanting incantations, and summon some undead that are still wandering in the world to their side, but..."
"If we talk about the ultimate form of dark magic, it is said that it can directly summon the souls of the dead who have long since sunk into hell!"
"According to Christian legends, all the undead souls who sink into hell have committed serious sins or made big mistakes during their lifetime. Once in hell, the undead souls will be imprisoned forever and cannot come out. At the same time, they will be tortured by endless fire. However, the peak black magic has miraculous effects.
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Breaking this confinement rule, the undead trapped in hell can be summoned to the world. As for the summoning method, unlike summoning ordinary undead, which only relies on spells, summoning the undead from hell requires not only spells, but also magic circles and stars drawn with blood.
Mang magic circle!"
The above is Cheng Ying's personal understanding of the Starlight Array, and it is also part of her understanding of dark magic. Although what she said is all based on the legendary materials she reviewed and collected at that time, it is undeniable that through this narration, the girl
But it also succeeded in scaring everyone present, including He Fei, half to death!
The reason is very simple, because right in front of you is a star array drawn with blood!
At this moment, after listening to Cheng Ying's explanation, He Fei's expression changed, his face turned pale, and the corners of his mouth twitched. In this way, the initial frustration and nervousness evolved into fear. He Fei's reaction was similar to that of others.
Even Zhao Ping, who had always been calm, listened to Cheng Ying’s last words.
His face looked horrified, and his slightly narrowed eyes suddenly opened wide. It can be imagined that even He Fei and Zhao Ping were panicked for a moment, let alone the others. Chen Shuihong was even more frightened, his fat body trembled, and he murmured to himself:
"The earth, hell, brings the undead souls from hell who cannot come out to the human world through the magic circle..."
Of course, Chen Shuihong's fear is not the point. What is important is that through Cheng Ying's discussion, everyone understood and discovered something, and they collectively believed that what Cheng Ying said was true. The truth is not complicated, that is, even if
What Cheng Ying said are all rumors, and they are all things that cannot exist in reality. But the question is, is this reality? Is it a scientific real world?
So, when I thought of this and saw that the drawing was indeed blood red, the crowd became frightened and trembled, and then...
As if he thought of a more difficult problem again, as soon as he learned the explanation of the magic circle, He Fei remained silent and looked forward. He and everyone with similar thoughts shifted their gazes, and invariably locked on something, locking on the hanging magic circle.
Colorful oil painting in the middle of the array!
The overall oil painting is very ordinary, or in other words, everyone has already taken a rough look at the content of the painting when they entered the room. The content is relatively simple, and it is a common portrait. However, it is not a single portrait, but a double portrait. If you look closely, you will see that it is a portrait of two people.
There are two people in the oil painting at the same time, a man and a woman. Both are young. The man has brown hair and is handsome. He is wearing a suit.
The dress of a century-old aristocrat, with a sword hanging from his waist, is quite majestic overall. The woman has pure red hair and a beautiful appearance. A luxurious long skirt sets off her slender figure. The man is on the left side of the oil painting, and the woman is on the right side of the oil painting.
They lowered their heads and closed their eyes while facing each other, and everyone clasped their hands in front of their chests, maintaining a unified prayer movement.
Seeing this, anyone with a discerning eye can easily guess the relationship between the man and woman in the painting. The answer is probably that they are a couple, but the actions of both parties are weird. But then again, as a museum staff, Ao Fei has undoubtedly seen the world.
Yes, if she recalled carefully, she could still search through her mind for many oil paintings she had seen in the past, and there were also many figures in the paintings doing praying movements. However, she had never seen these two people praying in exactly the same movements, and they were face to face.
The movements are consistent and uniform, and in addition...
If the praying movements of the men and women in the painting can be considered weird, then the background of the painting is completely incomprehensible. The background on the left side of the man is a sunny blue sky, and the background on the right side of the woman is the opposite starry sky!
As a result, a painting was abruptly divided into black and white, which felt extremely abrupt and unbelievable.
That's right. Although the executioner first focused on the wall drawing when entering the room, how could the oil painting that was also close at hand be ignored by everyone? As the mystery of the drawing was solved, as expected, everyone began to observe the oil painting with extreme detail.
He looked at the content of the painting intently, and the content was indeed fully visible to the executors who were watching. Similarly, it was precisely because the observation was too careful that before He Fei started to analyze, a reminder came from the crowd:
"Eh? Look, everyone, there are words next to it!"
While most people were staring at, observing and comprehending the oil painting, Kong Ling, who had been silent all this time, discovered something first, and found two lines of small text in the corner of the frame near the edge of the oil painting.
Huh?
Sure enough, under the prompts of the ethereal fingers, everyone soon discovered the marginal text, but...
They couldn't understand. No matter it was Kong Ling who discovered it first or everyone else around them, no one could understand the text after looking at it for a long time. Even He Fei and Zhao Ping, who was proficient in English, couldn't understand it. The reason didn't even need to be explained.
After all, everyone knows that the mission area this time is France. Since it is France, then the words written on it are 100% in French. Unlike English, an international language, French is relatively rare and is a regional language. Since it is a regional language
, it’s strange that all the executors from the East can understand it.
"Cheng Ying, do you know French? I remember that you seem to be proficient in four languages, right?" As the saying goes, there is no end to the road, but after looking at it for a long time, He Fei didn't understand it at all. He Fei was straightforward and quickly turned to ask Cheng Ying. As a result,
There are good and bad.
"Although I am proficient in four languages, French is not included among them. However, I happened to be learning French just before entering the cursed space. The learning time was not long, so I can only barely understand it."
Just as Cheng Ying said just now, He Fei's inquiry was both good and bad. Cheng Ying indeed only understood the general outline. As for the specific content...
At this moment, looking at the text on the margin and keeping her brows furrowed, Cheng Ying said in an uncertain tone: "I really can't understand the last paragraph. As for the first half, uh, it seems, it talks about the tempering of the underworld and the return of tempering.
There’s a release or something.”
(Could it be a spell?)
As worthy of being recognized as the strongest wise man in the team, after Cheng Ying finished explaining the meaning of the words, He Fei came up with his own guess. He guessed that the words were most likely a spell to summon the undead. Combined with the young man and woman in the painting...
(Is it possible...)
It is said that the level of understanding often depends on the brain's IQ, but sometimes it also depends on personal understanding, that is, whether one can comprehend the secrets from the observation of something. Obviously, He Fei happens to have this kind of extremely high understanding.
He is also a person who is good at reasoning. As soon as Cheng Ying finished speaking, in addition to making some guesses, he also drew further clues from his guesses, a valuable clue that could not be explained clearly due to lack of evidence.
Motivated by his personality, He Fei did not say anything casually, but continued to observe while the iron was hot, trying to see something from the already weird oil painting. Of course, as the saying goes, there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people, which means that everyone looks at the problem.
There are always differences in methods. If He Fei is currently focusing on the content of oil paintings, then Zhao Ping has chosen another direction of solving puzzles with similar ideas but different techniques.
While He Fei turned his attention to the oil painting, Zhao Ping also stretched out his palm to touch the oil painting, trying to inspect the entire oil painting.
It's a pity...
He Fei failed, and Zhao Ping also failed. The reason why they both failed was not that the observation was fruitless, let alone the inspection, but that they were interrupted and were momentarily disturbed by a rough and nervous shout:
"Quick! Come out, something happened downstairs!"
Yes, just when He Fei and the two were planning to study the oil painting to look for clues, Peng Hu, who was originally guarding the door, suddenly issued a reminder, reminding everyone to come out quickly. The result was positive. As soon as Peng Hu finished speaking, no matter who was present
Who is it? Everyone turned around without saying a word
They evacuated and ran out of the room as fast as possible. As soon as they arrived in front of the door, they saw General Jiang Dafeng's face full of shock and panic. Peng Hu immediately said without any nonsense: "Just now, I heard a scream coming from downstairs.
, as for what exactly happened, I don’t know!”
Ding!
In front of the door, I saw Peng Hu looking nervous and speaking earnestly. Without even asking, everyone had already guessed the answer. What was the answer? The answer must be 螞蝞, and nine times out of ten it was 螞蝞!
Since it is speculated that the locust has appeared, unless you survive enough, the space on the third floor is limited and you must not stay any longer!
"Everyone, follow me!"
Da da da.
The thoughts were like this, and the reality was even more like this. As soon as Peng Hu finished speaking, He Fei made a decisive decision and ran away after saying hello. He led everyone to evacuate quickly and rushed collectively to the corner of the stairs that was the only way to the lower floor.
In order to stay alive, the executioner was extremely fast. In just ten seconds, everyone had reached the second floor through the stairs. Likewise, the scream just now was so loud that even the executioner on the third floor heard it.
, then needless to say, Robert and William, who were patrolling on the second floor, not only heard the screams nearby, but also confirmed the direction of the screams. The sound came from the north area of the second floor, which was George and Daniel's.
Patrol area!
Because Captain Richard had made a patrol plan early and divided the patrol areas, even though they were reluctant to do so, the security guards followed the order and formed a team to patrol. According to the assignment, Robert and William were responsible for the east and west areas, and George and Daniel were responsible for the north and south sides.
, First of all, it is certain that, just like George and George who went straight to rest when they arrived at the north area on the 2nd floor because they really didn’t want to waste their energy and wander around in boredom, Robert and Robert were also waiting there.
After arriving in the East District, we chatted and spanked without incident. However, who would have thought that only about ten minutes later, screams came from the North District! What happened? Could someone have been attacked? Who was the attacker? Wait.
, No, even if an outsider sneaks into the castle and attacks the security guards, attacking George and Daniel, are the anti-riot batons hanging on their waists and the walkie-talkies in their pockets just decorations? They don’t know how to fight back or call when they are in danger.
Is it supported?
This was the first doubtful thought that came to Robert and his wife when they heard the screams, but for now, these are not important. What is important is that they must go and provide support.
Da da da da da.
"Hurry, William, listen to the sound and it's in front!" During the run, Robert urged repeatedly, urging the fat man William who was lagging behind due to his fat body. For a while, the two of them rushed to the scene as fast as possible, but...
Different from the two security guards who were currently in a hurry, although the executor was also running downstairs, he chose to hide the moment he arrived on the second floor. Under the command of He Fei, they hid behind the columns scattered in the hall. There was no doubt that
, because the situation was not clear and he was afraid of hitting a tiger on the way, He Fei did not dare to act rashly or escape directly.
Go to the first floor, but take advantage of the wide space and complex environment on the second floor to avoid first. The purpose is undoubtedly to observe the situation and wait for opportunities. This is what He Fei commanded, and everyone did so. For example, at this moment, in this column
In the lined square area, the executioners hid behind the columns in groups of two.