white night syndrome

Chapter 172 140. Start Painting
"By the way... ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

Then the old man began to roll his eyes, as if he was in a state of confusion, and laughed wildly.

The Shadow of Innsmouth...

"In the story, the fish-faced residents appear with the blood of monsters from the sea mixed in."

Li Ming took a few steps back, wanting to hide somewhere, but felt that there was nowhere to escape, and at this moment, Sato who was beside him touched his shoulder with his elbow.

Not far away, there are two men wearing trench coats, staring at this place from the shadows. Both of them are very large, because the hats are pressed down very low, and their faces cannot be seen clearly.

Li Ming was a little slow, and then he saw what they took out from his arms, it was a pistol, and he further peeked at their appearance hidden under the hat——

It was a face with muscles covered with scales, eyes and mouth wide open like a fish in a pond.

"What the hell is this?!" Li Ming screamed in disgust, and then he was pulled away by Sato beside him.

"We are now in the light and they are in the dark. If they want to attack us, we will not be able to hide, so let's get out of the scene now. We have proved that this first incident is related to those myths. , so in order to ensure our safety, we should leave as soon as possible.”

"You are right, it is indeed the case, so where is our next goal going? Is it going to the place where the second incident happened?" Li Ming narrowed his eyes, a little dazed, "I remember that if we go to If you investigate the case, you will be arrested by the police... This is the instinctive memory given to me in my brain."

"No, as long as we seize the opportunity and leave the scene quickly while they start investigating, and generally speaking, there is only one policeman in an area, even if we are caught, we will be interrogated by that young policeman , he should understand what we are doing."

"It's true to say so, but you seem to trust that policeman more and more? I have some doubts about his motives." Li Ming hesitated to speak.

"It's useless to doubt his motives. We can only keep ourselves safe now, and then consider other things."

Sato stretched out his right hand and patted the shoulder of the young man beside him, and finally raised his head to look into the distance, and in front of him was near the scene of the second incident.

When the two inquired about the death of a nearby college student, they found a three-storey rental apartment surrounded by police yellow seals, and then they could see a male with a clean face coming out of the apartment.

"Hey, have you heard of an incident that happened here?" Sato said without much politeness.

But the young man in front of him didn't seem to notice his politeness, maybe because the incident happened here was too big a blow for him, he replied like a walking dead.

"The police again? Or are you private investigators entrusted by someone to investigate?" The young man's eyes wandered, "Forget it, these are not very important, let me introduce myself first, I am a friend of the deceased, my last name is It's Kurosawa."

Kurosawa?

Why is this surname so familiar?

Why can't he always remember...

Li Ming frowned, the sudden surge of memories suddenly impacted his brain, instilled like a tide, and finally washed the rocks in his mind.

"The guy has been talking about weird dreams for weeks, like he's meeting old women with nasty rats, and as you can see, that's how he ended up."

"Can you believe it? There are footprints in that guy's room! Yes, those footprints are from mice, definitely from mice."

"Although our apartment is not very active in cleaning, it is still very clean. There is no possibility of rat nests and the like. How is he..."

The young man shook his head vigorously, trying to put the nightmare memories behind him.

"Forget it, these are not very important, you can continue to investigate, or you can choose to leave... I just want to see him one last time..."

Rats in the room.

"Dreams in the Witch House"

"Students were corrupted by dreams about a witch who drives a mouse with a human face, and ended up losing their lives."

This incident also corresponds to the third incident...

Li Ming and Sato looked at each other, and quickly understood their mutual thoughts, and they came to the place where the third incident happened together.

This is a somewhat abandoned river beach. At a corner of the river beach covered by grass, there is a hillock full of mud. The diameter of the hill is ten meters, and the height is 50 centimeters. It is surrounded by yellow police seals.

The hill is actually not a circle, but a star shape, and there are traces of being excavated in the center of the car.

"Mountains of Madness"

"The race that has been dormant in the Antarctic since ancient times buried its fellows in star-shaped tombs."

While the two were looking at each other, Li Ming received a message from a stranger on his mobile phone. He opened the message and found that there were two picture attachments in the content. It was a picture of a nearby map and a certain mansion. In addition, there is a short line of words, marking an ancient western-style mansion near here on the map.

"Are we going?"

Sato only asked tentatively. At this moment, his position has changed from active to passive. Isn't this a great progress for the two to temporarily form a combination?

"Of course, I always feel that this mansion has a great connection with the incident we are investigating now, and I have a strong hunch that as long as we go to the mansion to investigate the truth, we will definitely be able to get key clues .”

"You have the final say." Sato smiled and nodded.

When they decided to go, the two arrived at the place where the map mark was located, and found that there was an old western-style building there, and there was no nameplate at the entrance.

"So it's here... I thought it was some corner." Sato immediately smiled when he saw the young man beside him cast his gaze here, "That's right, I also know something about the history of this mansion. "

"Almost a year ago, an artist moved here. He usually stays behind closed doors. He is famous in the vicinity as a strange and incomprehensible weirdo. There are reporters who come to interview him, but he is never seen. I asked the neighbors nearby, and no one had a direct conversation with him, other than these, I don’t know too much.”

How to be an artist again...

Li Ming sighed impatiently. After walking to the mansion in front of him, he found that the entrance was not locked. Although there was a doorbell, no matter how hard he pressed it, there was no response.

As the bell rang, Li Ming found that he had received a new email in his mobile phone, and the content of the email was only a few words——

"Go in and find the studio."

The two looked at each other and entered the mansion together. The first floor has a living room, dining room, kitchen and steps leading to the second floor, while the second floor has a bedroom and a large studio.

The restaurant, living room and bedroom are decorated with all kinds of curious paintings, and there is a nameplate with the name of the painting under the frame of each painting.

""Attend class""

"In the cemetery of the church there are some biped walking monsters with faces like dogs, sitting in a circle around a child teaching him to devour corpses, painting such a picture, witnessing such blasphemous paintings, always giving It's a strange feeling."

"The Eating Ghoul"

"A scene depicting a monster with a dog-like face devouring humans."

""Subway Accident""

"A large group of monsters with dog-like faces crawling out of the platform cracks in the subway station to attack the crowd paints such a picture."

"Are these things ghouls? I remember seeing similar descriptions in books on the bookshelf before. As a monster that eats human corpses, why do they appear in these paintings?" Sato narrowed his eyes. squint.

"Who is the owner of this mansion..." Li Ming also made such an expression, he has been thinking about it, but he still can't get the correct answer.

"But it's funny to say, as long as it is related to artists, it will basically be related to these blasphemous monsters. This is a common problem among artists all over the world."

"It's true to say that, but let's think about it first, what kind of scene will the studio encounter when we go to the mansion later, after all, in such an environment, if we don't encounter anything, it may not meet the current situation. gone."

"Then don't expect us to have an accident." Sato complained.

The two looked at each other and smiled, and went to the second floor of the mansion.

Upon entering the studio, the first thing that catches the eye is a man sitting on a chair with the back of the chair facing the door. In front of him is a huge painting depicting a campus somewhere. A book is hanging by the man’s feet. Notebook, when the two of them entered the room, if the man didn't react and looked closely, it can be noticed that he is in an abnormal state at this time.

A small knife was stuck in the man's chest, and a large amount of blood seeped out from the wound. The man held a paintbrush in his hand, and the tip of the pen was stained red by the man's own blood.

It seems that until the moment when the man died completely, he has been using his own blood to describe the campus scene in front of him.

Human death is depicted in this painting of a blood-stained campus.A large number of corpses were piled up on the ground, and six human beings were placed on six round pedestals surrounded by work.

In front of the rays of light emitted from the ground, dizzy clouds surged, and between the gaps appeared a spherical assembly of surging foam.

The diary of the man is recorded in the notebook.

"I had a strange dream, who is that person? Although I can't remember the face, but the beauty makes people instinctively terrified. The person said that I need six thrones, and I have to paint for it. "

"The six thrones are the gates to the new world. In order to open them, I have to paint. According to that person, I will be the fifth one. It's scary. Don't look at me with those eyes."

"I started painting, but I haven't made any progress. I have a picture in my mind, but no matter what color I use, I can't match the painting."

"I haven't slept for three days and three nights. I feel an uncontrollable fear of meeting that person, but this is a crouching chaos crawling out from the bottom of the cosmic abyss where the hostages cannot reach. Please wait a little longer, I The painting must be completed as quickly as possible, and for this I need endless paint.”

"I finally found that color. He has been here from the beginning, so that existence can accept it, right?"

The diary ended here, and the last page was stained red with blood.

The answer is obvious. These bloods are the pigments that those people asked for. What kind of new world would allow them to use blood as pigments and human beings as sacrifices to open the door to the world.

Welcome to the new world.

This phrase, which was meant to be a warm welcome, now looks extraordinarily creepy.

After discovering the body, they looked at the mobile phone. The two realized that there was no signal at this moment. Although the landline in the room was connected to the phone line, there was no way to contact the police. They wondered if there was a problem with the phone line.

When he walked outside helplessly, the ground suddenly began to shake violently. This shaking lasted for several minutes before finally stopping, and the sound of the siren came to his ears.

"Just now, a strong earthquake occurred throughout the city. Some buildings collapsed on the streets of the city and a fire broke out. Citizens are requested to evacuate to a safe place."

Affected by the earthquake, buildings everywhere have collapsed, and there are many cracks on the road. Black cumulonimbus clouds are rolling above. There are only six circles and their centers. Among the clouds are A gap from which the sky can be glimpsed.

The opening of each cloud layer is directly facing the place where this series of events took place, and there is a certain park some distance from here, and in the center is a low hill with a radio tower.

This scene...

It is almost exactly the same as the painting seen in the mansion.

Neither of them spoke, and they went to the park together. Due to the impact of the earthquake, there was no one around. When they started exploring the park, they both heard a buzzing sound similar to insects flapping their wings.

A strange creature flew over like this, Sato quickly grasped it tightly in his hands, and finally pinched it fiercely, just like ice cubes turning into water, the corpse quickly melted and disappeared.

And at a certain place, a certain person walked over while applauding: "You really deserve to be Li Ming."

Turning his head, the policeman he met in the incident of Professor Shirai was standing there, dragging the corpse in his hands, the corpse was corroded by acid-like things everywhere, and the face seemed to see something horrible The same thing, maintaining an expression of extreme fear.

"What's going on here? Why do these events have a great relationship with reality? Do you know something?" Li Ming glared at the police in front of him and asked loudly.

(End of this chapter)