Paintings of Terror

a long time and finally nodded with difficulties.
“I shouldn’t hide from misfortune, nor can I lose consciousness.
I ought to keep my head, but why not give it a try?”

Mu Yiran didn’t say much, Seeing that Ke Xun was sending in Zhang Hanrui, who was already crying from fright, he asked her if she wanted him to make her lose consciousness.
With a face full of suffering, Zhang Hanrui said, sobbing, “I don’t know…Maybe it’s useless to me…I have a special physique that makes it difficult for me to lose consciousness even after anesthesia injections.
Even last night…I didn’t faint.
I don’t know…Why do I have this physique? I would rather faint and die unconsciously instead of dying from torture…”

The more experienced members tacitly remained silent.
Even if she did lose consciousness, she might still be awakened and then tortured to death.

In the end, Zhang Hanrui finally decided to give it a try, in case she got lucky. 

When Ke Xun was about to leave Laboratory D, Zhang Hanrui couldn’t resist chasing after him and clinging to him.
“Brother Ke…if I die, you…take my mobile phone back to my parents.
I wrote something on it.
Show it to them.
It has my…last words.
The screen password is XXXXXX.
Please.”

“Mmn, rest assured.
I’ll take it to them.” Ke Xun patted her on the shoulder.
He turned and walked out.
When he was out the door, he turned back and told her, “Hanrui, don’t be afraid.”

Zhang Hanrui burst into tears and nodded, choked.

After pinching Qin Ci and Zhang Hanrui unconscious, they placed them in the corner of the laboratory.
Mu Yiran closed the door and entered Laboratory B with Ke Xun. 

Wei Dong and Zhu Haowen didn’t hesitate about being knocked out, so Mu Yiran did the same to them.

Finally, they entered Laboratory A and asked Xu Zhen, Qi Qiang, and Huang Pi if they wanted to try this method.

Huang Pi didn’t say anything; this was a person of very few words.
From the time of entering the painting to now, he had hardly said more than a few words.
Qi Qiang also refused.
Only Xu Zhen hesitated and asked, “Even if I’m unconscious, would I still be awakened by the harsh noise you mentioned previously?”

“To be honest,” Ke Xun said, “I think it’s very possible.
But even if you’re passed out, there won’t be any danger aside from the noise.
At least, nothing had moved us last night.
It was just a noise attack.” 

Xu Zhen thought for a moment.
“In that case, I already prepared some things to plug my ears.
So, let me plug them in first and then you can knock me out.
Please put me in the corner and cover my head with the bedding on the crib.”

Ke Xun looked at her and said, “Are you sure you want to use what’s in the crib?”

“I have already used it.” Xu Zhen said coldly, showing the cotton wool in her hand to Ke Xun.
“These are taken out of the bedding.”

Using some of the sticky rice from the porridge, she kneaded the cotton wool into a ball and stuffed it in her ear.
Outside the cotton balls was a layer of rice paste, and her two ears were tightly covered with a wide strip of cloth folded over several times.
Once she wrapped the little quilt over her head, she made an OK gesture to Mu Yiran. 

Mu Yiran knocked her out and placed her in the corner of the laboratory.
He was about to wrap the bedding on the baby crib over her, but Qi Qiang snatched it over to himself and put it over his own head.

Mu Yiran and Ke Xun didn’t say anything and left Laboratory A.

Even if they had forcibly taken the bedding back from Qi Qiang and put it over Xu Zhen, Qi Qiang would just snatch it back after they left.
Maybe, it might even cause Qi Qiang to hurt the unconscious Xu Zhen in a fit of anger.

Back in Laboratory C, Li Yaqing and Cai Xiaoyan were holding each other, crying and shaking.
Seeing them enter the door, Li Yaqing cried hoarsely and asked Ke Xun, “Brother Ke, what shall we do? I don’t want to die! I don’t want to die! Wooo…” 

Ke Xun used the flashlight to illuminate the ground and saw that Deng Guang and Zhao Youyi’s bodies were still lying in the corner of the room.
They had removed their sweaters this morning and used it to cover the corpses’ faces.
This way, they would only see the stiff and cold bodies and not the face.

Ke Xun asked Li Yaqing, “Last night, after you felt the current pass through the palm of your hands, how long were you able to hold it before letting go?”

Li Yaqing cried bitterly.
“I don’t know…I don’t know…It hurted.
It really hurted.
I felt like I was dying.
I really couldn’t hold on to the wire head…I really tried my best.
I endured it hard…but I couldn’t help it.
I couldn’t hold on and let go…I don’t…I really don’t want Youyi to die…”

“Don’t cry, don’t cry.
I wasn’t blaming you.” Ke Xun quickly tried to calm her down.
“I think the outcome will be the same even if you change with someone else.
The pain caused by the painting isn’t something that can be tolerated under normal circumstances.
This isn’t your fault, this is the malice of the painting.” 

Li Yaqing cried and glanced at the three of them.
Then she choked up and said, “Then what should I do tonight…I’m afraid I;ll hurt you again…and I don’t want to die…”

Ke Xun couldn’t do anything about this.

In the experimental nature of Laboratory C, two people were destined to indirectly kill the other.
The willpower of humanity will be subjected to the cruelest test here.
Even he himself didn’t know whether he would survive this.

After thinking about it, he suddenly smiled and said, “How about we make a desperate move?” 

Seeing three people looking at him, Ke Xun turned on his phone, pulled up the stopwatch function, and placed it in front of them.
“I’ll turn on the phone in constant light mode and place it in front of the machine.
When we’re connected to a current, everyone can stare at the stopwatch together.
Every five seconds, we’ll all let go.
Tell me, what would happen if we do this?”