She looked at herself in the portrait and was slightly lost in thought for a while.
Under the thick black eyelashes, her eyes always flashed with a soft and hopeful smile; she spent a lot of effort in the apocalyptic world to keep her white and neat teeth, which made her smile.
She is especially amiable when she is young. The oil paintings are not only realistic, but also capture her "spirit" very well.
When her eyes lingered on the slender and smooth neck of the portrait, Scott's voice sounded again from the other end of the cave, calling: "Pan Cui? Pan Cui, are you listening to me?"
Pan Cui turned around and hurried a few steps towards Scott's portrait. She covered her neck with one hand to avoid disturbing the wound. She responded in a mute voice to the oil painting hanging on the mountain wall: "I'm listening...
…I have a cold and it’s hard to speak out. You speak and I listen.”
Based on Scott and the reactions of several other portraits she occasionally heard, Pan Cui believed that the time when this "game" really started should be when Peter tapped the wine glass and asked the newcomers to introduce themselves——
Before that, it seemed that the words of the several evolvers were not heard by the oil paintings, and they did not react in any way.
If you guessed correctly, it should be after the newcomers introduced themselves that every word spoken by the evolvers began to be heard by the oil portraits... Pan Cui thought of this, turned the page back in the book, and said in "Speculation"
"Under the title, write down your thoughts.
Fortunately, they can still communicate with pen and paper, otherwise they would be in trouble.
Not far from Scott, Lin Sanjiu, who was chatting with Kate, suddenly turned his head and gestured to Pan Cui, as if asking for a notebook - it was just such a simple action, but Lin Sanjiu
When making wine, it seems particularly neat and smooth.
When she lowered her head to write, Pan Cui couldn't help but glance at her several times.
Kate's voice continued to flow out from the portrait, but the content did not have much gold content, it was just gossip; while Lin Sanjiu was writing, he hummed a few times to deal with her - she stood tall in the cave on the mountainside.
, with light on its shoulders and shadows under its feet, it seems to be a strange painting in itself.
When the notebook was handed over again, Pan Cui found that she had written down two new clues: first, Kate said that she was spilled wine by a servant, and stains appeared in her portrait; second, she didn't know it was a monologue.
Still during the conversation, Lei Wen raised a question: "Why are there no anti-monitoring measures in place?"
Wait, that is to say, do anti-monitoring measures usually be used at gatherings...
Pan Cui did not forget to smile at Lin Sanjiu first, expressing her gratitude silently, and then lowered her head to think about the new clues for a while.
Unfortunately, there are still too few clues, one in the east and one in the west. It is still difficult for her to connect a logical line between the clues.
It's not enough for her to collect clues on her own. Lin Sanjiu has good judgment and is very cooperative. With her here, we should be able to leave here together, right? Pina is also reliable. As for Jiajiatian...
At this time, the portrait of Scott paused, and from the background sound, it seemed that he was thirsty and took a sip of the drink.
"Scott," Pan Cui seized the opportunity, pressed the wound on his neck, and interjected as smoothly as possible: "You are well-informed and experienced. Can you tell me, when Peter mentioned the latest theory before,
He said something about something that happened before... I’m new here and I don’t know the situation. Can I ask what happened before?”
She didn't dare ask what the "latest theory" was because she was afraid it was something newcomers should already know.
Although she didn't understand why, this gathering of six people seemed to want to recruit new people and was wary of them. In this situation that was no longer easy to grasp, Pan Cui did not forget that Peter seemed to have another plan. It can give Scott certain abilities.
"Although Peter doesn't like to mention it, I don't think there is anything to avoid about those things. After all, we have to ensure that the same thing will not happen again in the future, so everyone has to know about it and learn from it." Scott didn't have any regrets at all. He meant to hide it, but his attitude was so frank that Pan Cui was surprised. "To be honest, you are not the first batch of newcomers to be recruited. At the beginning, only Peter and Mingna realized the truth. We all I gradually joined in later.”
Pan Cui quickly said "hmm" and motioned for him to continue.
"Before you, about half a year ago, we tried to recruit new people several times... but it's strange that they came to the party and listened to us explain the situation, but they never came again."
At this moment, Pina seemed to have gotten a new clue from Nika. She ran over in a small step, asked Pan Cui for paper and pen, and hurriedly lowered her head and started writing.
"Why?" Pan Cui asked towards the portrait.
The man's long and thin face in the portrait has been staring straight ahead, without even changing the position of a stroke of paint. But when Pan Cui stood beside the portrait and asked questions, she always felt that Scott's eyes in the portrait seemed to have turned. As if on her side.
"At first we were afraid that the news would be leaked, so after we couldn't contact the new people, we started looking for them in person. You may not know it, but everyone who can be brought to the mountaintop mansion to attend the party is introduced by the introducer I have carefully checked the background and confirmed that there are no problems..."
"Hey, so I've also been censored?" Pan Cui carefully took a risk and asked.
"Yes, of course I won't tell you during the background check. If you want to introduce new people to join the club in the future, you must also perform this duty...I digressed. In short, when we went to find people, we found that before Those new people who came to the party never existed."
Pan Cui quickly repeated this passage in her mind to remember it better. "Didn't exist? What do you mean?"
"Those new people were obviously people we had known or heard of before. They all had parents, families, and jobs. But when we found that we couldn't contact them, we realized, No one in the world except us remembers who they are. There is no trace of their existence in the world."
Pan Cui didn't know how to digest the news for a moment. She paused and then asked: "So, is Peter so careful this time...?"
"Yes, Peter thinks that those new people are probably 'characters' created to get close to us... In this way, 'they' can keep track of our situation at any time."
Could it be that the previous "newcomers" were also evolvers? After completing the plot, they disappeared from the plot world, which seems natural.
However, even though she knew that the Evolvers would participate in the party as "newcomers", Pan Cui still didn't know what goals they should achieve in order to successfully complete this path - the current plot is really confusing.
"This is not going to be easy," Pan Cui smiled as calmly as possible, accidentally shaking the wound and feeling the blood soaking into the bandage slightly. "Other than letting time prove that I am a real person... I don't know what else to do.
What other way is there?"
Scott also laughed, as if there was something only he knew, but he didn't intend to tell Pan Cui.
Seeing that the conversation with him had almost come to an end, Pan Cui said a few words and walked towards Pina.
Unexpectedly, Pina actually got a lot of valuable information from Nika's mouth, and there was a large paragraph of writing in the notebook - "Judging from the style of conversation, Nika seems to be a little ambiguous with 'me', right."
I'm also very familiar with it, so Nika told me a lot. He said that the reason why tonight's party is so special is because all the newcomers who joined and disappeared before were taken away by 'them', and Peter planned to use it today.
Use some special means to protect us newcomers from being captured."
Captured? Pan Cui frowned.
Scott clearly told her that Peter believed that the newcomers who suddenly disappeared in the past were "characters" that were created; but Nika said that the newcomers were "captured"... It was Peter who told the two different versions.
, or is anyone lying?
"When I asked him what the special method was, Nika didn't go into details. He just told me to try to relax and be myself. I wouldn't be hurt because Peter had secretly arranged everything."
When Pan Cui finished reading, Jia Jiatian happened to come over.
The two people's eyes met, and Pan Cui smiled at him and handed him the notebook. She didn't know how good her acting skills were, but she hoped that what appeared on her face was what she showed naturally when she faced Lin Sanjiu just now.
look.
When Jiajiada lowered his head to read the clues, Pan Cui could feel the smile on his face quickly cool down.
Jiajia Tian did help her a favor, but she didn't remember asking him for help.
No, that's not "helping."
That was a hint, a show of authority... However, Pan Cui now had to look very grateful. After Jiajiatian returned the book, she found another page and wrote: "You will help again."
Me once?”
Jiajiada shrugged his shoulders, not even intending to reach out and take the pen and paper.
Pan Cui didn't really expect him to help, and sneered in her heart. Just when she was about to tear off the paper quietly, she heard Lin Sanjiu take a deep breath from the cave not far behind her.
The sharp sound of air conditioning.
Pan Cui felt anxious and turned around quickly - Lin Sanjiu was still standing in front of Kate's oil painting, leaving only her back.
In the oil painting, Kate, whose face was motionless, was laughing loudly: "Oh, I'm so sorry, I just shook my hand and spilled water on you! I was spilled by wine, and you were spilled by water. We are really troubled sisters.
Difficult sister..."
Was she sprinkled with water?
Pan Cui remembered the clues Lin Sanjiu had just written down, and immediately glanced at the painting in the distance - sure enough, one of Lin Sanjiu's arms in the oil painting was wet, and there was a deep water stain on his vest.
.
However, it was not until Lin Sanjiu turned towards the others that Pan Cui finally understood why she gasped.
