Returning from the abyss

Chapter 766 The Mystery of the Painting
Lu Ning explained to Tang Ling why she came here and what she was looking for, and then Tang Ling probably told Lu Ning the clues that led her here.

The targets of both of them are undoubtedly the distortion point. The task given to them by this distribution center is left in the subconscious mind. Once it appears, it will attract their attention and start to track it down.Even if the two don't meet in this place, it will be a matter of time before they meet somewhere else.

Tang Ling learned from another cult figure derived from the distortion point that one of their accomplices had sent an important "holy artifact" here, but he didn't know what it looked like.And what she found after tracing along the way was only fragmentary information on distortion points. Those believers were all extended subordinates, who didn't know much about the core information, and they just spread like a virus.

"Wouldn't that boy hear you saying this?" Lu Ning suddenly remembered that there was another person in the next room.

"The people who follow me can only hear what they should hear and see what they should see." Tang Ling folded his arms and said, "Even if he follows me, it doesn't mean that I trust him. If you are not strong, you can also be with him way to deal with it.”

Lu Ning was already mentally prepared for the fact that Tang Ling was not a good person. She still remembered the situation when her memory woke up last time, which meant that everyone on the first floor of the "Distortion Point" game company was under the hands of Tang Lingxia.She didn't make it clear, but I'm afraid there will be bloody debts along the way.

There is nothing to say about killing the believer Lu Ning, but Tang Ling probably hurt a lot of innocent people in that incident alone.

"What? Are you uncomfortable?" Tang Ling saw Lu Ning hesitate for a moment.

"It doesn't match my style of action."

"Then you don't need to worry about it. In short, we are only temporarily cooperating to overcome the difficulties of this scene, and then we will talk about each other's dislikes. Now, since the two of us have found the house, let's search carefully and find everything we can find. come out."

"Alright, let's do it."

Tang Ling called Tong Yang out of the room, and the three of them began to carefully search for the remaining things in the room. The first thing they wanted to search was of course the painting that Lu Ning was looking for, and the speed of the three of them was much faster. And Tang Ling didn't care about destroying the painting at all, he grabbed all the words in the box and threw them aside to see if there was a signature.

"...It turned out to be the treasure at the bottom of the box?"

At the bottom of the box, Lu Ning finally found the painting.Before she unfolded the scroll, both of them saw the problem with the painting at the same time.

"Hmph... It's such weird things that make people more and more annoying." Tang Ling gently raised his hand, "Distortion... its essence is probably like this."

"A real 'landscape' painting." Lu Ning slowly unfolded the scroll, and at the same time began to increase the pressure on her hands. The breathtaking magic power on this painting was suppressed within a certain range, but the landscape on it People are still lifelike.

"Dimensional projection?" Tang Ling looked at the painting intently. She naturally has a way to be immune to this kind of mental hindrance, but she is not so sure about the authenticity of the painting.

"I can't fully confirm it, but it should be something similar. The problem with the painting itself is not that big, but adding the words below... I'm afraid it's hard to say."

"The following words?"

"It's not a human text. This text should come from the distortion point itself. I have seen it several times. Those people are imitating the text from the distortion point... No, can it be said to be text? This is a taboo secret in itself. surgery."

"So we're going to destroy the painting?"

"Of course it must be destroyed. It can only cause harm if left in the human world. But this is probably not our task. I don't think it's that simple."

"The ones that are distorted...huh." Tang Ling crossed his arms, "The leader of the believers is still a little bit real. Although this thing is evil, it can be seen that it is a man-made object. This is the finished product they successfully made... "

"So, those who started to leak the phenomenon of distortion point and cause all kinds of harm are all waste products?" Lu Ning didn't see any sense of distortion from this painting, at most it was the magic power of the scroll itself, which is why It means that the things Lu Ning encountered before are completely different from this one.

"It's likely to be like this. I made a bunch of duplicate junk and threw it out as a medium to develop believers. Guys with brain problems like to do this." Tang Ling snorted.

"If we're going to get the job done, we have to figure out what counts as a solution. The job only asks for one incident to be resolved, which means we don't have to deal with everything."

"Yeah, the problem is, at present, any of them can be regarded as an incident, but none of them may really be an incident. Isn't it unclear how small the distribution center is?" Tang Ling said.

Of course, Lu Ning knew that killing the monsters coming out of the distortion point, disposing of the artifacts attached to the distortion point, and even killing a main person who caused the distortion point failed to complete the task.Even if the painting in my hand is destroyed, the result may not be very good, and after all the attempts have failed, there are actually very few possible answers.

"We probably need to completely thwart one of their plans."

"You don't need to say that."

While the electric sparks were flickering, the scroll was ignited, and the paintings on it even began to slowly float up and flip in the air. However, without any support, it was just a phantom in the air. As the scroll slowly turned into ashes, those paintings finally disappeared. gone.

Tang Ling suddenly said: "Let me ask a question, do you have any idea about advancing to the next stage?"

Lu Ning shook her head, she could think of other tasks at least, but this task really made people unclear what it was.

"Well, let's do a task first. Frustrating the plan? The number and number of their believers don't know how many, what should we choose to do?"

"If you don't have a goal, I can provide you with one." Lu Ning replied.

Compared with aimlessly expanding the scale, what I encountered at Lu Ning University was more purposeful.The most obvious of these is the incident with the street parade.Those people must have been instructed by someone to carry out that parade, but they didn't know anything about the fact that dead people would happen during the parade.Relatively speaking, the messenger behind the scenes must have known that there would be such an incident.

As long as a person is deliberately let to die on the street, then there must be his special needs in it.Lu Ning didn't know what it was, but it was definitely a plan.

What's more, if the distribution center doesn't arrange tasks in places that are easy to obtain, is it possible that she will spend half a year investigating and searching for them?What if she never remembered?

"Your university?"

"In short, I encountered some incidents. In fact, you should have them too. But judging from what you said before, you have traveled to several places during this period, right? Probably because the stay was too short, so I missed it."

"Stop talking nonsense, which province and city is your university in? I will conduct an investigation after I go there, and the guy who is not particularly difficult to deal with will kill the matter directly. No matter what the plan is, as long as no one executes it, it will naturally fail."

"You're quite confident... don't make any trouble." Lu Ning gave the address, "You should know that this is a fourth-order scene, and given us such a strong strength, this scene itself must not be simple, be careful Where is a mechanical descendant?"

"It's not like I haven't played the Mechanic Fallen before." Tang Ling sneered, "It seems that you have only been in the fourth level for a short time. If you gain more experience, you don't need to be timid even here."

Breaking up unhappy can completely describe the state of the two of them leaving the house in the end.Lu Ning and Tang Ling are totally incompatible. Even if they join forces, they can only share news, and it is impossible to act together.

After searching the house thoroughly, there were no other special items.Tang Ling took Tong Yang and left Zhiyu Town directly, but Lu Ning stayed.

She still wants to investigate.

Leaving aside whether the old man holding the painting is a believer or not, the origin of the painting needs to be carefully investigated.According to Tang Ling, the picture scroll was deposited here by a believer of Distortion Point, but the believer she killed knew little about the details, which means that it was actually deposited by someone else.Cui Fu was able to view this painting about a year ago, so it was at least a year ago that this painting was deposited here.

A year... At that time?
Lu Ning began to visit the town.She just inquired around, people in the town just said a lot about the old man.People seem to be very happy to spread this kind of gossip. Both adults and children know a lot of stories about the elderly.

The old man has a good reputation in the local area. He lives alone and hires a local nanny.He often painted outside, and even climbed mountains with painting tools on his back when he was old. Many people were a little surprised by his sudden death.

In fact, many townspeople were presented with paintings by the old man, and they had mounted them by themselves. Lu Ning had the opportunity to see a few of them, all of which were drawn by the old man himself, similar to the ones she had seen in the pile of paintings.When she asked if the old man had done anything special in recent years, she got a bunch of messy information.

For the people in the mountain village, many of them can be regarded as special actions.After patiently listening to a lot of nonsense, Lu Ning finally found a piece of useful news.

Also more than a year ago, someone came to visit the old man and lived in his home for nearly a week.It is described as a tall, thin man in his 40s.People in the town knew the old man's children, so they knew it was not. After the tall and thin man lived in, except for running around the town every morning for morning exercises, the rest of the time was in the house, and he didn't go out for sightseeing or go out. Communicating with the townspeople is actually quite strange.The few people who talked to the man were early risers in the town.

The overall impression is that this person is relatively taciturn, but there is no obstacle to communication. From the way he talks, he can feel that he has received a good education, and his manners also have the feeling of family etiquette, but other than that, he will try his best to He ended the chat, as if he didn't want to have more communication with people.

Some people also asked the old man after the man left. The old man said that he was a collector like him. He had some collections of calligraphy and paintings. For a long time, the two had exchanged letters or emails. Now they invite each other to come when they have time. A guest at home.Of course he's a little out of character, but he's not a bad guy, so don't worry.

……no need to worry?
Lu Ning smiled. That person was probably a believer who gave the painting to the old man, and even the old man's sudden death was probably related to this. Is this someone who doesn't need to worry?

Of course, the clues stop here. Since the person behaved like this, he was actually trying to avoid being remembered and asked about his history.Even if she could find out the contact information at the old man's home, it would probably be useless. Since she did so, all the contacts from the old man's line would probably have follow-up processing, and Lu Ning was not going to waste any more time.

She found a local B&B to live in, and was going to check it out tomorrow. If it didn't work, she would try the clue of the painter. Mao Yizheng lived in a province further south, and she didn't have to do it in front of her roommates this time. It looks like I'm not going to take a car anymore.

All lightning in "Judgment Day" can be displaced, and the speed is fast or slow.But the overall speed running in a straight line is already faster than the train, and it saves waiting time for the train.After coming to this "reality" for such a long time, Lu Ning really hasn't tried how strong the extreme running ability of Judgment Day is.

But when she was leaving the next day, a young man whom Lu Ning had gotten to know yesterday hurried over to show her something.

"Sister! Grandpa and I went up the mountain together before, this is a gift from him to thank me for going up the mountain with him!"

Gift?

Lu Ning looked at it, it was a paperweight with cold tentacles, and words were engraved on it.But in her impression, the old man didn't have any carving skills.

"That's your name written on it?"

"Well! Grandpa said it was specially prepared for me! Sister, didn't you ask what grandpa gave? He gave others calligraphy and paintings, and only I am this stone, isn't it special?" the boy said proudly.

"It's very special. By the way, when did grandpa give it to you? Was there anyone in his family at that time?"

"A few months ago, I forgot. But grandpa passed away shortly after that, and his family... oh, I remember that the nanny sister also left during that time."

nanny?

"Has he been using the same nanny?"

"I will change it every once in a while, and it seems that I don't want to stay here often."

"Then when you got this... stone, was the nanny there?" Lu Ning asked.

"Well... yes! That elder sister is beautiful and gentle, and she goes out to buy groceries every day. I hope she can stay longer!" the boy said with some disappointment.

"Thank you, this is a precious thing, keep it well." Lu Ning returned the paperweight to the boy and gave him some money, and the boy ran away happily.Lu Ning immediately turned back and entered the house where the old man lived again.

The record of hiring a nanny was not taken away at all, but according to the habit of old collectors, these things were all put together in a cabinet. She still had an impression and put them together with many contract documents.

Soon, Lu Ning found the documents. The nannies were all hired from a company and they were arranged in chronological order. Lu Ning quickly found the nanny the boy mentioned.

Tian Qiuxian should be 24 years old this year, but only simple personal information is attached to the contract, without detailed files.

(End of this chapter)