In this old castle at night, in this ancient study room full of antiquated atmosphere, Du Wei just stood under the candlelight around him, quietly raising his head and looking up at the oil painting on the wall. One person.
After Yi Hua fell into a brief silence, Du Wei received no response from the other party.
He seemed to frown: "Refuse to answer?"
The human face in the oil painting is still looking into Du Wei's eyes.
Du Wei smiled, but his smile was a little malicious. He walked slowly, then pushed up a high staircase, climbed up the stairs to the bookshelf, and then stretched out his hands to try to take down the oil painting.
.
The man in the oil painting now showed a hint of panic on his face. In the painting, the eyes were looking at Du Wei's face with panic in his eyes.
"Huh!" Du Wei took the oil painting off the wall with force. Obviously, such a heavy thing was difficult for a frail teenager like Du Wei to lift. Du Wei felt that his arms were sore.
. But what surprised him was that there was nothing behind the oil painting!
It’s not an agency! It’s not someone hiding behind the oil painting to look at themselves! It’s the oil painting itself!
Du Wei became a little more serious now and carefully held the oil painting down the stairs.
The faces in the oil paintings are all bitter, and their eyes are even more uneasy.
"Who are you?" Du Wei said solemnly: "A character in a painting that has come to life?"
The eyes in the oil painting are somewhat evasive.
"Well, this painting is a portrait of the ancestor of the Luo Lin family who was the marshal of the empire... Are you that ancestor who came back to life again?" Du Wei smiled, then shook his head and said, "That's right.
It doesn’t make sense. Because that ancestor has a history of more than two hundred years ago. And this painting was obviously painted by later generations to commemorate the ancestor. I still have the same question...who are you?"
After asking for a while, there was no answer. Du Wei's face darkened: "Oh, you don't want to say it? Then don't regret it."
He pointed to the candlesticks around him: "You see, there are a lot of candles here. If you don't speak, I will burn you. Do you think I dare?"
After saying that, he turned around, took a lit candle, and slowly approached the oil painting.
The faces of the people in the oil painting suddenly changed, with no concealed fear, and their eyes were full of anxiety and begging for mercy. They looked at the candles and flames in Du Wei's hands getting closer and closer. The people in the oil painting could only look at them in pleading.
Looking at Du Wei, his face was full of anxiety.
Just when the flame was about to touch the canvas, Du Wei moved the candle away and nodded: "Well, it seems you really can't speak? Can you speak?"
The people in the oil painting shook their heads quickly.
"So, what are you?" Du Wei's eyes were shining! A living oil painting! Is it something made by some kind of magic?
The oil painting was unable to answer Du Wei's question. After being out of danger of being burned, the person in the oil painting seemed to let out a sigh of relief, and then looked at Du Wei with interest.
Du Wei tried to ask Oil Painting a few more questions, but it was difficult to communicate because the other party could not speak. Oil Painting could only barely nod and shake his head at most. After trying this kind of communication for a while, no questions came out.
What's coming?
Each person draws a picture, just staring at each other.
At this moment, a big clock on the wall of the study slowly rang! It was already midnight!
Du Wei suddenly seemed to see a ray of light slowly emanating from the eyes of the characters in the oil painting! Then he seemed to hear a gentle sigh in his ears!
Although the sound was a bit erratic, Du Wei heard it clearly. It was clearly the sound of people sighing!
"Listen up! Because I am under a kind of magic, I can speak briefly when midnight strikes. When the bell ends, I can no longer make a sound! Now I will only speak once! In
There is a hidden secret room in this study! There are some treasures in the secret room! I can guide you to get those treasures, and then, I need your help. One of the treasures can remove the magic from me."
Du Wei opened his eyes wide and looked at the oil painting: "Are you talking?"
"Yes! There is no time to explain." The voice of the oil painting said quickly: "Now you start checking from the third oil painting on the wall. There are instructions on it. You follow the instructions. If you are not a fool, you should be able to find it...
"
Boom~!
It was past midnight, and as the last bell ended, the light in the eyes of the characters in the oil painting gradually disappeared. Then the voices stopped.
Du Wei looked at the oil painting up and down, and the people inside were also looking at him, with a pleading expression on their faces.
"Oh, you said you were under a kind of magic, right?" Du Wei said with a smile: "You said there is a secret room in the study, and there is a treasure hidden in the secret room that can help you remove the magic. Yes.
What?"
Every time he asked a question, the oil painting character nodded his head with a longing expression on his face.
"Okay, then, what's the benefit of this to me?" Du Wei smiled and said, "Why should I help you?"
The face of the character in the painting changed, and then the pleading in his eyes became more intense, as if he was desperately trying to say something, but unfortunately he couldn't say a word.
"Forget it, I think it's weird anyway, just think of it as satisfying my curiosity." Du Wei raised his hand, then climbed up the ladder to the bookshelf, and followed the instructions of the characters in the painting when the bell rang.
, carefully observed the third oil painting on the wall.
The third oil painting is also a portrait of an ancestor of the Luo Lin family. This ancestor was wearing the uniform of a naval admiral, with a serious face... his eyes were level, as if looking into the distance.
Du Wei examined it carefully for a while, but could not see any traces on the oil painting. He even tried to move the oil painting away and checked the back, but found nothing.
Du Wei stood on the stairs and thought carefully for a while. He was not anxious, but patiently, re-checking each detail. After checking three times with no results, Du Wei suddenly felt something in his heart and carefully watched the scene.
The characters in the oil painting come...
Well, the eyes of the character in the painting...are looking straight ahead.
Du Wei's heart was moved! He immediately searched in the direction where the eyes of the characters in the painting were looking!
This is on the opposite wall! The characters in the painting seem to be looking at a knight's sword hanging on the opposite wall!
Du Wei immediately struggled to push the stairs to the opposite side of the room. Such back and forth was too much for a thirteen-year-old boy. But he was driven by the strong curiosity in his heart.
After checking the knight's sword on the wall, Du Wei discovered that the blade of the sword was pointing at the bookshelf next to it!
He groped along the direction and reached the bookshelf.
Finally, finally, he found it!
On the beam of the bookshelf, Du Wei touched a line of uneven marks. He calmed down a little and felt it, and finally realized that it was actually a line of text!
It's just that these words were written backwards! Therefore, if someone accidentally touches this place, if they don't observe the flowers carefully, they will probably just think it is an ordinary pattern.
Du Wei read a line of text written completely in the opposite direction carefully.
"The answer lies in the night sky, and the giant spoon holds the key to the way forward."
Du Wei couldn't help but smile bitterly.
What is this? A riddle?
He sighed, slid down the stairs, and simply sat cross-legged on the ground, holding his head and thinking hard about the riddle.
"The night sky...the giant spoon..."
Finally, Du Wei suddenly stood up, his face showing hope again.
What are there in the night sky...stars!
What about the huge spoon? No need to ask, it must be the Big Dipper! Doesn’t the shape of the Big Dipper in the sky just look like a huge spoon?
Du Wei figured this out and immediately started searching on the bookshelves in the study room!
Stars... stars...
The thing in the study that has something to do with the stars... well, it must be the bookshelf with books on astrology!
Soon, through the index catalog, Du Wei found the bookshelf specifically for astrology books. He climbed up with great effort and searched for it. Then, following the instructions of the "spoon", he carefully groped in the seventh row of the bookshelf.
stand up.
He read almost every book one by one, and finally...
When he twitched a book, he clearly felt that the book was extremely heavy! It was actually a metal book! Moreover, after twitching, there was a dull rotation of wheels in the wall.
The clicking sound...
Finally, with a crash, the entire bookshelf slowly rotated on its own, and a dark entrance was revealed on the wall behind the bookshelf...
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