Infinite Secret House 17 The Puppet's Gift
The little painter was crazy and perverted. Seeing that he couldn't escape Lyle's hostility for a while, Xie Yunsui decided to fight with him for a while.
"Leave this to me, you go and look for clues with them."
Lan Xi did not hesitate. He knew Xie Yunsui's abilities and thought it should be no problem for him to sneak away a little puppet.
"Be careful."
As soon as Lan Xi returned to the stage, Cen Yuanjie came up to her and whispered, "Are you okay? Oh, I was so scared. Why didn't you call me?"
Lan Xi said, "I called out, but you didn't seem to hear me."
Cen Yuanjie paused and scratched his head. "Really? Maybe you were too focused on your painting and didn't hear me. Oh, if I had known, I wouldn't have come here. I would have just been here to help you."
Maybe it was because he talked too much. Lan Xi didn't think there was anything wrong at first, but now she felt like he was trying to cover up something and making it worse.
While speaking, he kept looking at Lan Xi's expression.
Lan Xi looked at him steadily. Cen Yuanjie's eyes dodged for a moment, but he quickly pretended nothing happened, turned around, picked up the painting and continued looking for clues.
Lan Xi smiled and walked to Gu Che nonchalantly.
"Haven't found it yet?"
Gu Che: "I have several options. Do these two look like this painter's puppet?"
Gu Miaoyang handed over another painting: "This one looks very similar to the princess puppet in Hall 9. Take it first."
Qi Shiqiu and Ji Xiaomei also left a few paintings, which looked like the structure of a large theater, but there was no obvious sign. Anyway, they were all selected first.
The man with glasses and the fat man seemed to have the same idea, but without any help, they had only screened out about two paintings so far, which they held tightly in their hands.
Lan Xi frowned. According to this line of thought, even if they could identify one percent of the paintings, how could they tell the correct one?
What if there is more than one?
"The clues for the puppets in Rooms 1 and 9 aren't that complicated." Lan Xi suddenly asked, "Could it be that we're on the wrong track?"
Gu Miaoyang looked numbly at the increasingly frantic little painter in the theater: "Ask it for clues? It's like this now, does it still remember the clues?"
Ji Xiaomei was eager to make a move: "Do we have to defeat it to get the clue?"
Qi Shiqiu: "As for us, we won't be able to defeat them even if we use up all the tools we have."
Even the owner of the secret house took a long time to beat.
Not to mention anything else, the puppet's limbs can be reconnected and can be put back together even if they are broken into pieces. How can it be considered defeated?
Several people sighed heavily.
Forget it, I'd better try to list all the examples. Fortunately, there is still plenty of time.
Lan Xi couldn't think of a better solution for the time being, so he had to squat down and check the waste manuscripts on the ground.
Some of these crumpled paintings were discarded halfway through, while others were smeared out with only one or two strokes.
Even to an outsider like Lan Xi, these paintings were poorly done and could not compare with the paintings on display on the wall.
and--
Lan Xi flattened the scrap manuscript and looked at the color on it. It was a dark blue, like the dark blue sky.
This is a color that does not appear in any of the paintings on the display walls.
Compared to those bright blocks of color, this color is too dark and deep.
The painting style suddenly became dark and gloomy.
Lan Xi suddenly remembered the puppet's comment on Lyle's paintings, "dirty paintings". In the eyes of the puppet princess, dirty means dark colors, right?
Could it be that these dark paintings are Lyle’s authentic works?
He told Gu Che and others about his discovery. Before they could react, Qi Shiqiu took the waste manuscripts and looked at them first.
After a while, she said blankly, "Actually, I've always had a hunch that the images of the three celebrity puppets are probably contrasting."
"I didn't go to Hall 9. I thought the Puppet Princess was a gentle and quiet little princess. Magician Magik said the same thing, but from Lan Xi's description, the Puppet Princess is more like a tsundere and a bit narcissistic."
"The puppets in Hall 1, the ones I've come into contact with, are different from the words the clown puppets praised. Their enthusiasm is conditional. When Xiaomei and I delayed buying props, they got a little impatient."
Having said that, Qi Shiqiu glanced at the man with glasses and the fat man over there inexplicably.
"Also, I think that even though Schiff said that players can buy items at the cost of their lives or exchange them for items, it seems that it prefers players to exchange items with it. When Xiaomei said that players can buy items at the cost of their lives, it was obviously not that happy."
"I suspect it can tamper with the player's props. Maybe the puppet was responsible for the disappearance of the glasses man's props."
After all, this is just speculation, without any evidence, so Qi Shiqiu's statement is not very confident.
Lan Xi pondered for a moment and asked, "What do you think is the contrast between the painter and the puppet?"
Qi Shiqiu said, "Look, the ones on display are all childlike, bright and cute, but many of the half-finished ones abandoned on the ground are dark and gloomy. I feel like he actually likes them deep down..."
There was a "ripping" sound, and Qi Shiqiu's words were interrupted. He turned his head to look at the source of the sound.
Gu Miaoyang dismantled the frame of the display painting and divided the painting inside into two parts, dividing it by thickness.
The bright fairy-tale-like surface was torn off, revealing a dark abstract painting underneath: thorns, flames, dead trees... It made people frown subconsciously at the first sight.
"Sure enough!" Gu Miaoyang said: "I heard what you said, and thought of taking it apart to take a look. I found that the thickness of the painting was abnormal. I didn't expect that there was another painting under the original painting."
Gu Che tutted his words, "Why bother with all this? Why not just exhibit both?"
Lan Xi smiled and said, "Maybe it's the theater's request. They're afraid it's too dark and will scare away players, like Xia Shi... Where is Xia Shi?"
Lan Xi looked around and asked, "Didn't Xia Shi come with you?"
Gu Miaoyang was also stunned: "Isn't he following us?"
Gu Che: "...This guy has such a low presence. I don't know when he disappeared. He must be in another theater."
For theater-style performances, we recommend an empty theater. Except for Hall 6, there is no one there now.
Could it be that Xia Shi is so unlucky that he never gets to play number 6?
"It's okay. He didn't come, which means he didn't encounter the puppet. At least there is no life-and-death crisis." Lan Xi said.
Gu Miaoyang dismantled the paintings one by one: "He's lucky, we did all the work, let's just consider it as compensation. We'll soon dismantle all the paintings, the method to pass must be in here."
Their group chat had a range, and Cen Yuanjie and the others couldn't hear it, but they could see the movements of their hands.
Seeing that they were all taking down the paintings, he immediately reacted and started taking down the paintings as well.
New paintings were revealed one after another, and various ghostly characters and gloomy scenes appeared in the players' field of vision one after another.
"Ahhhhhh." The shrill scream came from far away and got closer.
The players immediately took a defensive stance, watching the little wooden puppet scream and fly towards them from the audience. Before it could touch the stage, it was stopped by Xie Yunsui, who stepped on its back and made it unable to move.
"You! You tore down my painting!"
Lyle looked up, gasping for breath, and stared at the mess in disbelief.
Lan Xifuzhixinxin: "I prefer this style of painting, so I want to hang this painting on the wall to enjoy it. Is that okay?"
Lyle's irritable expression suddenly went blank. After a few seconds, he suddenly became a little shy: "Really? You... really like this kind of painting?"
There's hope!
The girls all held up the dark painting in their hands and praised it one after another: "This Hongyue is so imaginative!"
"The black castle silhouette against the night sky, what a touching painting!"
"This ghost picture really touched my heart!"
…
In fact, the painting is quite abstract, but it does not prevent players from blowing it with their eyes closed.
The puppet immediately changed from a fighting stance to a graceful one. It covered its red face and said, "So you all like this."
Seeing this, Xie Yunsui loosened his feet, and the little wooden puppet immediately got up and walked awkwardly to its exclusive painting area.
"Actually, this is the style I'm best at, but the theater insists they can't go for a horror atmosphere and forbids me to draw. When I don't have inspiration, I can't draw anything else, and then I become very irritable..."
The little wooden puppet expressed his feelings, dipped the brush into the paint bucket, and quickly painted a piece of white paper black.
Several figures were vaguely visible in the black background. There was a dim light in front of the figures, illuminating the back of a small puppet next to them, as they walked towards a door together.
It painted very quickly, finishing the painting in less than two minutes, and took another half minute to frame it. Then it turned around and gave the painting to Lan Xi.
"Thank you for your encouragement. This painting represents my feelings. I'll give it to you."
Then he looked at the three girls praising it and said with some embarrassment: "Each puppet can only give one gift. Go find another puppet."
When it was drawing, the players all gathered around. Hearing this, the man with glasses was the first to cast a hostile look at Lan Xi.
Lan Xi moved to stand next to Xie Yunsui and asked fearlessly, "What's the use of this gift? Will it become a prop?"
The puppet was surprised and said, "Don't you want to leave the theater?"
The players were startled, and Cen Yuanjie was the first to shout, "Can we leave the theater if we have a gift?"
Lyle's mouth straightened. "The puppets can't leave the theater, but the puppets' gifts can. You can follow the gifts to find the door to leave the theater."
So that's how it is. Hall 0 is hidden in the darkness and can only be reached with the guidance of the puppet, but the puppet cannot leave the theater, so the puppet's special gift is used instead.
When the Puppet Princess said to watch the show, she meant that players should try to watch the puppet's show to the end to increase the probability of receiving gifts.
But the key point is that there are only 6 theater puppets in total.
Isn't it true that only six players can leave the theater?!
And! Now it's the even-numbered room that's rotating! There's only one puppet in the even-numbered room!
Lan Xi suddenly felt several fiery gazes falling on him, or to be more precise, on the painting in his hand.
This is a dungeon game, and everyone is fighting for the chance to survive, not just playing house.
Before there is a clear way to leave, partners can still cooperate in a friendly manner. However, once they realize that there are only so many opportunities, partners can instantly become rivals.
Lan Xi couldn't help swallowing and almost stuck to Xie Yunsui.
It turns out that the test of this copy has just begun.
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The author has something to say: There was a treasure in front who guessed correctly, and the gift given by the puppet is very useful!
The first half is about piecing together clues, the second half is a big fight, a puppet theater, and the elimination rate is guaranteed to be at least 40%.
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