After making an agreement with the museum's owner, Joseph Murcott, Catherine and Lane wandered around the gallery, looking for any anomalies.
"Ren, are you sure your feeling is correct? There is something wrong with that painting? I just promised you, if you mess up, I will beat you up. My sister's mission success rate is 95%!"
Catherine's sexy pink thin lips parted slightly and asked.
Renn said seriously: "Trust me, a man's intuition!"
Generally speaking, items entrusted by resentful spirits will have obvious psychic reactions.
In fact, the sky blue demon hunting ring in his hand is not only a token of the demon hunter, but also has the function of detecting psychic reactions.
The Demon Hunting Ring is made of "ocean stone". Whenever there is a second psychic energy besides the wearer nearby, the pattern on the ring will become darker.
But this time the situation in the portrait gallery was very strange.
It seems that there is nothing wrong with every painting, even the priests of the Church of Light can’t detect it!
The church divides supernatural power into two aspects: holy power and evil energy. According to the church, evil energy is what exists in the body of a resentful spirit.
Father Jiminy in the Deep City of Cobu checked every painting, but still found nothing.
"Da, da, da da..."
The sound of Lane and Catherine's footsteps echoed in the empty art gallery.
The two of them walked along the classical and beautiful corridor and gradually reached the corner of the painting wall.
The paintings here are all recently collected or are the works of some down-and-out artists sponsored by Joseph.
Frankly speaking, these new paintings all have their own characteristics. Once the painter dies, and a few decades later, after some bragging and marketing, they may become treasures!
"The paintings here are the most suspicious." Ren said softly.
Catherine put her hands on her waist and said in a very impatient tone: "Nonsense, doesn't sister know? The priest also knows, but he still hasn't found anything!"
Wren shrugged and pointed to a self-portrait on the wall.
The portrait shows a young man with a handsome face, blond curly hair, and blue eyes, about thirty years old.
This is a bust. He is wearing a small blue suit, no tie, and a white shirt underneath.
With his melancholy eyes, slightly decadent expression, and free and unrestrained dress, the image of a talented but rather downtrodden young man emerges vividly on the page.
"Hey, this handsome guy must be very popular with those ladies who look dignified and elegant on the surface, but are actually slutty and despicable.
It's a pity that it's not to my taste. There's something wrong with this painting?" Catherine yawned and said casually.
"Yes, this is the painting where the resentful spirit lives."
Ren looked at this painting carefully. When he passed by here before to meet Joseph, he felt something was wrong.
The "Qi of the Stars" in the body fluctuated faintly.
Catherine frowned, let out a sigh, and reached out to touch the portrait:
"It's very normal. It feels like an ordinary self-portrait."
Her fair and jade-like palms lit up with crimson light, and wisps of silk-like light slowly poured into the portrait.
The vision in the half-closed portrait gallery was dim at the moment, and Catherine's snow-white cheeks appeared flushed like a drunken one in the brilliance of psychic energy, making her look very charming.
For a long time, no special reaction occurred. The motionless self-portrait seemed to be mocking the two of them.
Catherine was finally a little embarrassed and annoyed, and stared at Ren:
"What are you looking at?! You want to sleep with me? It's too late! My sister doesn't eat grass from the nest.
Kid, are you awake? There is nothing wrong with this painting! My spiritual energy has the properties of burning and radiance. If there is a wraith in it, even if it is an evil spirit (second level), it will not be completely unresponsive!
"
Ren snorted disdainfully and stretched out his hand to pull Catherine's golden hair unceremoniously.
He slowly pulled her back from the portrait: "You big-breasted and brainless woman! Get out of the way and let me come!"
He took two steps forward, and the fighting energy flowed to his right palm.
Catherine was about to complain, but she saw that the light around Ren's body dimmed slightly, as if it was covered by night.
Immediately afterwards, fluorescent lights as tiny as dust appeared one by one, surrounding Renn like a faint galaxy of light.
This scene is like the stars shining in the deep night sky, and a faint light emerges in the cold and dead darkness, symbolizing the ray of life in the desert.
This is the energy of the stars, the mysterious power of the sublimated energy of life.
Its appearance can only be seen clearly in a dimly lit environment.
There was a glint in Catherine's beautiful eyes. The psychic powers in some people may be very similar, but none are exactly the same.
She was very sure that this was not a simple "psionic power"!
Although it doesn't look very strong now, it's hard to say in the future.
At this moment, she felt the power of this "spiritual energy" up close and was shocked by the vast mystery of the energy of the stars.
Renn injected both psychic properties and a very different fighting spirit into the portrait. At the beginning, nothing unusual appeared.
But Ren could feel that a small part of the fighting spirit had been swallowed up, while more was floating in the painting.
after awhile.
Many black geometric figures appear in the frame of the portrait, and dark red runes are densely covered in the background of the characters.
Moreover, a vague and terrifying black figure faintly appeared behind the man in the painting.
A cold atmosphere echoed in the corridor, a cold breeze blew in from the half-closed skylight, and some strange sounds began to appear, neither crying nor laughing, not like human voices.
"Hee Ka... Le,&#￥%々&"
The indistinct sounds were intermittent, as if they were coming from the darkest corners of people's hearts.
The entire portrait gallery looked very eerie in this hoarse whisper.
Catherine's expression changed, and she pulled out the Demon Hunting Type 5 long sword (Tachi style). The sharp blade glowed with red light, and her expression became serious:
"Ren, stop first."
After hearing this, Renn immediately withdrew his fighting spirit.
The dark red runes in the background of the portrait and the black stripes on the border quickly disappeared. After a while, all the strange phenomena disappeared, as if what just happened was an illusion.
"What's going on?" Ren was very calm and not afraid at all.
Catherine put the demon-hunting knife back into its sheath and put it into the holster on her black leather pants:
"The resentful spirit in the portrait is nothing. It has not yet advanced into an evil spirit, so it is nothing to be afraid of, but..."
With an uncertain expression, Catherine slowly spoke:
"I'm afraid this was deliberately designed by someone who was raising spirits. There are two spells or two witch formations in the portrait.
On the border is a spirit-sealing array, which can conceal the fluctuations of spiritual energy. On the portrait drawing is a small spirit-eating array, which can swallow and store some spiritual energy.
The key is to design it very delicately.
It is easy for different spells or witch formations to interfere with each other, but this portrait does not, so it can be seen that the mastermind behind the scenes is also very clever..."
After her explanation, Ren finally understood that the water inside was very deep.
Some people are deliberately cultivating resentful spirits.
A low-level evil spirit is nothing in itself, and even "evil spirits" may not be able to do anything to him and Catherine. Only evil spirits (third level) can threaten them.
However, it would be different if someone controlled everything.
The mastermind behind the scenes is very cunning. The two witch formations on the portrait are superimposed. One hides psychic energy fluctuations, and the other swallows a small amount of psychic energy.
The two witch formations perfectly suppressed or covered up the wraith in the portrait.
If the inspector does not want to damage the artwork in the portrait gallery, he will inevitably inject a small amount of psychic inspection carefully.
As for these people, such as Father Jimini and Catherine just now, their spiritual energy has been collected by the small spirit-eating array, so they will not stimulate the resentful spirits in the portrait.
So they were all kept in the dark.
It's just that Ren's star energy also has psychic properties, and there are some essential differences.
The energy of the stars cannot be completely absorbed by the witch formation arranged by the mastermind behind the scenes, so the resentful spirits in the portrait are alarmed, otherwise they would probably get nothing this time!
"It's very impressive, and he has a deep understanding of people's hearts. The location is also well chosen. The Dell Portrait Gallery contains valuable paintings. If the entrustment cannot be determined, it is impossible to burn them all." Ren said coldly.
Catherine's face looked a little ugly, this matter is very difficult:
"There is a high probability that they are people from the dark camp. Our enemies are not only the descendants of demons, but also many extraordinary beings who have gone astray or fallen.
Typical representatives are wizards (usually men) and witches. And..."
If the opponent can arrange two different witch formations in one painting without causing interference and rejection, this method is at least expert level (third level).
Spells and witch formations are similar things. Lao Goat is a warlock and is currently a peak level three [Spirit Gathering Warlock]. He doesn't dare to say that he can do this 100% of the time.
The key is that there is too little information.
Wren and Catherine then asked the museum owner Joseph about the origin of the self-portrait that contained the ghost.
As a result, Joseph told him that his men had bought it from a woman wearing a black veil.
The two looked at each other and decided to immediately go find the acquirer named John Harkes.
John worked for the Murcott Chamber of Commerce, founded by the portrait gallery's owner, Joseph Murcott.
Recently he was on sick leave and lived in Room 6C, Building B, Billy Street, east of the city.
There is no doubt that John who acquired the portrait is suspicious.
He has been taking sick leave recently. Although Catherine speculates that John is most likely just being taken advantage of, he himself may know some key information.
Joseph hurriedly called to Ren and Catherine, very puzzled:
"Wait a minute, since you know there's something wrong with that self-portrait, why don't you just destroy it?"
Catherine sneered:
"Mr. Joseph, I'm sorry to tell you that you have been taken advantage of by others, and that resentful spirit is just a small fish.
This matter can no longer be solved by destroying a painting!"
"Leave it to us, Mr. Joseph, this matter is more complicated than you think. If you don't want to die, don't come here recently." Ren said lightly.
Joseph's face turned pale and his body trembled.
As a businessman with a vicious eye, he had already noticed that Ren and Catherine were not joking with him.
Wisely, he did not inquire further. Joseph quickly packed up his things and left the portrait gallery in a hurry.
Before leaving, he gave Catherine the key to Dell's Portrait Gallery.
As people grow older, the businessman's keen sense of smell made him realize that something big had happened.
Lane and Catherine headed towards Billy Street in the east part of the city, preparing to look for Mr. John who bought the portrait.