After making an agreement with Joseph, Catherine and Wren wandered around the art gallery.
"Are you sure your feeling is right? There is something wrong with that painting? I just promised you that if you screw up, I will beat you up. My sister's mission success rate is 95%!" Catherine's sexy pink lips slightly Qi asked.
"Trust me, a man's intuition!" Ren said seriously.
Generally speaking, items entrusted by resentful spirits have obvious psychic reactions. In fact, the sky-blue Demon Hunting Ring is not only a token of the demon hunter. It is made of the "Heart of the Ocean" and also has the ability to detect psychic reactions. role.
Whenever a second psychic being other than the wearer is nearby, the pattern on the ring will darken.
But this time the situation in the portrait gallery was very strange. It seemed that there was nothing wrong with every painting. Even the priest of the church couldn't sense it!
The church divides supernatural power into two sides, holy power and evil energy. People in the church use holy power and are very sensitive to evil energy. According to the church, evil energy is in the bodies of resentful spirits, but Father Jimini has checked every picture. Painting, still nothing.
"Da, da, da da..."
The sound of their footsteps echoed in the empty art gallery. They walked along the classical and exquisite corridor and gradually reached the corner of the painting wall.
The paintings here are all the works of some poor artists who have been recently collected or funded by Joseph. To be honest, they all have their own characteristics. After the painter dies, in a few decades, they may be treasures!
"The paintings here are the most suspicious?" Ren said.
"Nonsense, doesn't sister know? The priest also knows, but he still hasn't found anything!" Catherine put her hands on her waist and sounded impatient.
Ren shrugged and pointed to a self-portrait, which showed a young man with a handsome face, blond curly hair, and blue eyes, about thirty years old.
This is a bust. He is wearing a small blue suit, no tie, and a white shirt underneath.
With his melancholy eyes, slightly decadent expression, and free and unrestrained dress, the image of a talented but rather downtrodden young man emerges vividly on the page.
"Hey, this handsome guy must be very popular with those ladies who look dignified and elegant on the surface, but are actually slutty and despicable.
Unfortunately it's not to my taste. Is there something wrong with this painting? "Catherine yawned and said casually.
"Yes, this is the painting where the resentful spirit resides." Ren looked at the painting carefully. When he passed by here before to meet Joseph, he felt something was wrong, and the "Qi of the Stars" in his body fluctuated faintly.
Catherine frowned, let out a sigh, and reached out to touch the portrait: "It's normal. It feels like an ordinary self-portrait."
Her fair and jade-like palms glowed with crimson light, and spiritual energy like red silk threads slowly flowed into the portrait.
The vision in the half-closed portrait gallery was dim at the moment, and her smooth face was like a drunken blush in the brilliance of psychic energy, looking very charming and charming.
For a long time, no special reaction occurred. The motionless portrait seemed to be mocking the two of them.
Catherine was a little embarrassed and annoyed: "What are you looking at?! You want to sleep with me? It's too late! My sister doesn't eat grass from the nest.
Kid, are you awake? There is nothing wrong with this painting, right? My spiritual energy has the attributes of burning and radiance. If there is really a wraith in it, even if it is an evil spirit (second level), it will not be completely unresponsive! "
"A female hooligan with long hair, short knowledge, big breasts and no brains! Get out of the way and let me do it!"
With a disdainful snort, Ren unceremoniously reached out and pulled Catherine's golden hair, slowly pulling her back from the portrait. He took two steps forward, and his fighting spirit flowed to his right palm.
Catherine was about to complain, but she saw that the light around Ren's body dimmed slightly, as if it were covered by night. Then, tiny fluorescent lights as small as dust appeared one by one, surrounding him like a galaxy.
This scene is like the stars shining in the deep night sky, and a faint light emerges in the cold and dead darkness, symbolizing the ray of life in the desert.
This is the energy of the stars, the mysterious power of the sublimated energy of life. Its appearance can only be seen clearly in a dim environment.
A glint flashed in Catherine's beautiful eyes. The psychic powers in some people may be very similar, but none of them are exactly the same. She was very sure that this was definitely not a simple "psionic power"!
Although it doesn't look very strong now, it's hard to say in the future. At this moment, she feels this "spiritual energy" up close and is shocked by the vast mystery in it.
Renn injected the fighting spirit with both psychic characteristics and very different into the portrait. At first, nothing unusual happened, but Renn could feel that a small part of the fighting spirit was swallowed up, and more of it was eaten away. Free in the painting.
After a while, many black geometric figures appeared in the frame of the portrait, and dark red runes were densely covered in the background of the figure. Moreover, a vague and terrifying black figure faintly appeared behind the man in the painting.
A cold atmosphere echoed in the corridor, a cold breeze blew in from the half-closed skylight, and some strange sounds began to appear, neither crying nor laughing, not like human voices.
"Hee Ka... Le, &#￥%々&"
The indistinct voice was intermittent, as if coming from the darkest corner of the human heart. The entire portrait gallery seemed very eerie in this hoarse whisper.
Catherine's expression changed, and she pulled out the Demon Hunting Type 5 long sword (Tachi style). The blade glowed with red light, and her expression became serious: "Ren, stop first."
After hearing this, Ren withdrew his fighting spirit, and the dark red runes in the background of the portrait and the black stripes on the border quickly disappeared. After a while, all the strange phenomena disappeared, as if what just happened was an illusion.
"What's going on?" Ren was very calm and not afraid at all.
Catherine put the demon-hunting knife back into its sheath and put it into the holster on her black leather pants: "This evil spirit itself is nothing. It has not yet advanced to an evil spirit, so it is not something to be afraid of, but..."
With an uncertain expression, Catherine slowly said: "I'm afraid this was deliberately designed by someone. The man is raising spirits. There are two spells or witchcraft formations in the portrait. The one on the frame is a spirit-sealing formation, which can conceal psychic powers. Fluctuation, on the drawing is a small spirit-devouring array, which can swallow and store some spiritual energy.
The key is that the design is very sophisticated, and different spells or witch formations can easily interfere with each other, but this painting does not, so the mastermind behind the scenes is very clever..."
After her explanation, Ren understood that the water was very deep, and a resentful spirit was nothing. Even evil spirits might not be able to do anything to him and Catherine. Only evil spirits (third level) could threaten them.
However, it would be different if someone controlled all this. The mastermind behind the scenes was very cunning. Two witch formations were superimposed, one concealed the fluctuations of spiritual energy, and the other swallowed a small amount of spiritual energy, perfectly suppressing or covering up the resentful spirit in the portrait.
If the inspector does not want to damage the artwork, he will inevitably inject a small amount of psychic energy for inspection. These people, such as Father Jimini and Catherine just now, have their psychic energy collected by the small spirit-devouring array and will not stimulate the portrait. Therefore, all the resentful spirits were concealed.
If it weren't for the energy of the stars, which has both spiritual properties and a fundamentally different power that is difficult to be absorbed by the witch formation, and alerted the resentful spirits in the portrait, this matter could still have been hidden!
"It's very impressive, and he has a deep understanding of people's hearts. The location is also well chosen. The portrait gallery is full of valuable paintings. If the entrustment cannot be determined, it is impossible to burn them all." Ren said coldly.
"There is a high probability that they are people from the dark camp. Our enemies are not only demons (descendants of demons), but also many extraordinary people who have gone astray or fallen. Typical representatives are wizards (usually male) and witches. And... "Catherine looked a little ugly, this matter is very difficult.
If the other party can arrange two different witchcraft formations in one painting without causing interference and rejection, this method is at least expert level (third level). The spells and witchcraft formations are similar things. Lao Goat is a warlock profession. Currently at the peak of the third level, I can’t say that I can achieve this 100%.
The key is that there is too little information. Ren and Catherine asked about the origin of the painting, and Joseph told him that his subordinates bought it from a woman wearing a black veil.
The two looked at each other and decided to immediately go find the acquirer named John Harkes, who worked at the Murcott Chamber of Commerce founded by Joseph. He was recently on sick leave and lived in Room 6C, Building B, Billy Street, east of the city.
The other party is very suspicious and has been taking sick leave recently. Although he is most likely just being taken advantage of, he may know something.
"Wait a minute, since there is something wrong with that painting, why not just destroy it?" Joseph hurriedly called to the two of them, with a puzzled expression.
Catherine sneered: "You have been taken advantage of by others. Wraiths are just small fishes. This matter can no longer be solved by destroying a painting."
"Leave it to us, Mr. Joseph, this matter is more complicated than you think. If you don't want to die, don't come here recently." Ren said lightly.
Joseph's face turned pale and his body trembled. With his vicious eyes, he could see that Ren and Catherine were not joking with him.
Wisely, he did not inquire further. He quickly packed up his things and left the portrait gallery in a hurry, and gave the key to the portrait gallery to Catherine.
As people grow older, the businessman's keen sense of smell made him realize that something serious was going on.
