Tan Guanlin was frightened and his face turned livid.

He reflexively tried to push the door, but the door was locked tightly and he couldn't move at all.

"We... are locked here!" Tan Guanlin gritted his teeth and said.

"What's going on? Is there a way out of here?" Others became panicked.

However, Chen Ming, Xia Qingqing, Song Ping, and Shen Jian did not have any special reactions, and seemed to have anticipated everything.

They have a relatively in-depth understanding of the patterns of escape missions and can basically predict what may happen next.

There is no doubt that the basement is the key place for this escape mission.

There are usually a large number of key clues hidden in key places, but they are also accompanied by huge risks.

So far, no escapees have died in the escape mission.

If Chen Ming and others are right, the killing of ghosts will begin in this basement!

Who will be the first victim? The two observers, Chen Ming and Xia Qingqing, or the infected person who has been infected by Claire?

Even if there is no other information, just relying on the order of death, they will make completely opposite judgments.

"Don't panic, let's see what's in the basement first," Chen Ming said.

He held a camera in one hand and a flashlight in the other and began to look around.

The basement is relatively open, almost the same size as the living room upstairs. Eight escapees gathered here without feeling crowded.

At the end of the basement, there is an iron door. The iron door is stained with rust and is obviously old.

"Chen Ming, come here!"

Xia Qingqing discovered something and called Chen Mingdao.

Chen Ming came to Xia Qingqing and saw a painting hanging on the wall.

This painting is incompatible with the surrounding environment. The old house is full of dust, but the painting is brightly colored, as if it had just been hung up.

However, it could not have been just hung, as the frame had long since decayed and become one with the canvas.

The content in the canvas is a study room.

Red curtains, red tables and chairs, red vases, all the important colors in the painting are all red.

In the center of the study, stood a woman, also wearing a bright red skirt, with her back to everyone.

The strange thing is that even though she was standing there with her back to her, everyone felt her eyes touching her!

It was like...under that thick black hair, there was a pair of eyes, watching them!

As soon as she saw this painting, Xia Qingqing felt a chill in her heart, her spine went cold, and all the hairs on her body stood up.

"What's going on with this painting? Why does it feel so weird?" Mao Jingfan took two steps back and said.

Song Ping looked at the painting and said, "Do you want a more scientific explanation?"

"Scientific...explanation?" Mao Jingfan was stunned, not knowing what Song Ping was talking about.

"This woman's body proportions exceed those of a normal person. Coupled with the bright red as the background color, it is easy to form the uncanny valley effect."

Song Ping continued: "Moreover, this painting has multiple layers. We only see the outermost layer, but the brain can feel the deeper layers, but we are not aware of it."

"What is the uncanny valley?" Mao Jingfan asked again.

"As the degree of anthropomorphism of a human-like object increases, humans' favorability towards it also changes." Song Ping explained, "In short, the more human-like it is, the more frightening it will be."

"The woman in the painting looks very human, but her body proportions are off. Our brains will amplify this deviation and make us feel fear," he said.

"Oh, so that's it." Mao Jingfan nodded with sudden realization, "Then why is it called the uncanny valley effect?"

Song Ping shook his head. It seemed that Mao Jingfan didn't understand at all, and his science popularization could only fail.

Apart from this painting, there is nothing else unusual here.

Everyone turned their attention to the iron door at the end of the basement.

If there are no clues here, chances are the clues are hidden there.

"I'll open the door, Qingqing, please come back. If something happens, we can buy time for others," Chen Ming said.

"Okay." Xia Qingqing nodded.

Everyone quickly came to the iron gate. Chen Ming tried to open the door with the master key, but the keyhole was completely rusted and the master key was useless.

So, Chen Ming found a small electric saw in his backpack and wanted to cut the lock tongue from the crack in the door.

Iron doors are very old, and so are the iron locks, which determines that they cannot have high technical content.

In addition, after such a long time, the lock tongue was already extremely fragile, so Chen Ming saw off the lock tongue smoothly.

"Get ready." Chen Ming held the door handle and motioned for everyone to retreat.

"three!"

"two!"

"one!"

He suddenly opened the iron door!

"Ohh Ohh ohh!"

The moment the iron door was opened, a shrill cry suddenly sounded!

At the same time, along with the crying, a strong wind blew from inside the door to outside!

Chen Ming immediately turned sideways and hid behind the door, trying his best to prevent the weird wind from blowing on him.

Unexpectedly, the crying and wind noise did not last long and stopped abruptly after five seconds.

After confirming that the crying and wind had stopped, Chen Ming asked, "How is it? Is everyone okay?"

"It's okay." Song Ping and Shen Jian said.

"It's okay here." Mao Jingfan and Gao Lu said.

"I'm fine too." Xia Qingqing and Yu Xiaoshuang said.

Six beeps saying it was okay did not make everyone relax, but made them immediately nervous!

because……

"Tan Guanlin, are you there?" Song Ping asked immediately.

no respond.

"Tan Guanlin? Where are you?" Others called several times, but there was still no response.

It seemed that Tan Guanlin disappeared suddenly.

"I'm here! Save me! Save me! Don't come over! Don't come over!"

Tan Guanlin's hoarse roar suddenly exploded!

"Where is it?" Everyone immediately followed the direction of the voice and looked for it.

"No? Why is there nothing? Where did the sound come from?" Mao Jingfan was the first to stand where the sound came from, but couldn't see anything.

Chen Ming didn't say anything, he just shined the flashlight on the painting.

Yes, the location where everyone is is right in front of the painting.

And Tan Guanlin's cry for help... came from the painting!

At this moment, Tan Guanlin suddenly appeared in the blood-red painting!

Like a slide show, the content in the painting is slowly changing.

Tan Guanlin shouted desperately, the woman in red was walking backwards towards him!

She soon appeared in front of Tan Guanlin and bit him on the neck. Tan Guanlin's cry for help immediately turned into a dying gasp.

The woman in red gnawed on Tan Guanlin's body, and blood gushed out, perfectly blending into the painting.
Chapter completed!