Deadly Game: Almighty Boss’s Guide to Making Money

Chapter 1254. The Book at Night (42)

With a crisp "ding," a small chip appeared on the blade, but the silk thread remained unharmed, instead wrapping around Qingqing's trouser leg.

"Use color blocks!" Xia Jin suddenly remembered something and quickly handed the orange color block in her palm to Qingqing.

As soon as the color block touched Qingqing, it emitted a warm light, forming a transparent light shield that enveloped Qingqing completely.

The red threads that had been wrapped around the light shield instantly turned into paint upon contact with it, dripping onto the floor and remaining motionless.

"It works!" Quan Quan's eyes lit up.

"Xiaolin, take this opportunity to grab the yellow block, and the vegetables and I will block it for you!"

As he spoke, he picked up the charcoal pencil from the ground and threw it at Sophie's self-portrait.

The charcoal pencil struck the frame, and Sophie's brow furrowed suddenly. She turned the pencil around, seemingly enraged.

Huang Jingjing took the opportunity to reach out and grab the yellow patch on the canvas of "Water Lilies".

The moment her fingertips touched it, she felt a warm sensation spread along her arm, and the yellow patch detached from the canvas, landing steadily in her palm.

At the same time, the red thread binding Huang Jingjing disappeared and turned into red paint.

The rose-red paint in Sophie's self-portrait stopped dripping, and the woman's face darkened, her eyes growing colder.

Huang Jingjing teleported over and handed the yellow block to Xia Jin.

Qingqing returned the orange block to Xia Jin as well.

The orange and yellow blocks are placed together, forming a brighter light.

However, the light shield can only cover two people for the time being.

"Let's protect you and Qingqing first!" Huang Jingjing said. "You two need safety more."

The cold electronic voice sounded again: "Yellow and orange have been collected. Five colors remain: red, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Warning: Sophie's energy has been reduced by 15%. Alternative attack methods will be activated."

"Alternative attack methods?"

As soon as Uncle Zhang finished speaking, he heard a "whoosh" sound from above.

When everyone looked up, the chandelier on the ceiling began to sway, and the tungsten filament in the bulb turned into a fine paintbrush, poking at the people below!

"Lower your head!" Guo Yuelang pressed Xiao Qin down beside him, and the paintbrush brushed across Xiao Qin's hair, leaving a red mark on the wall.

The mark slowly transformed into a gentle profile, exactly like the gentle woman in the oil painting.

The live stream chat was flooded with even more comments, the screen filled with amazement and tension.
Holy crap! Even chandeliers have become weapons?

—This art district is trying to wipe out everything!

—Now we have two color blocks, but we still need to find five more. That's a bit difficult!

—This time, the vegetables didn't make sarcastic remarks.

First Snow reached out and touched the light shield to make sure it was still stable.

“We can’t just passively wait for attacks anymore; we need to actively find the remaining color blocks. Xia Jin, could you check where the next color block is?”

Xia Jin closed her eyes and opened them after a while: "The next one is green, in a watercolor painting... but next to that painting, there are three blank frames, as if they were left there on purpose."

"Keeping them?" Bai frowned. "Could it be that they're being kept to store new 'materials'?"

--I go!
—Xiaobai, can we not say this?
—If I thought of it, of course I should say it!

—Yes, this isn't about jinxing or anything like that; it's about analyzing the situation.

Bai Ye's words made everyone's expressions turn serious.

The woman in Sophie's self-portrait has a slight upturn at the corners of her mouth again.

Her gaze slowly swept over each person, seemingly without a specific target.

“The ‘Wheat Field Map’ is right ahead. If we get the green block, we can definitely increase the size of the light shield!” Ouyang Xichen said, taking the first step and scanning the walls on both sides with his eyes.

Several paintings hang on the right, depicting landscapes in ink wash and flowers and birds in meticulous brushwork.

The painting "Wheat Field" was particularly eye-catching, with dark green wheat stalks outlined in thick ink, and green patches embedded in the light green wheat ears, resembling newly sprouted grass in early spring.

But after taking only a couple of steps, I suddenly felt a sticky sensation under my feet.

Looking down, I saw that the floor beneath the Water Lilies was oozing a pale purple pigment, which was spreading along the wood grain towards the light!
"It's paint! Don't step on it!"

Lin Xi quickly grabbed Huang Jingjing, who was about to take a step.

The paint touched the edge of the light shield and instantly froze into a thin, transparent layer of ice, freezing a small section of the light shield in place.

Fine cracks immediately appeared on the surface of the photomask, like glass cracked by freezing.

"Sophie is freezing the light shield with paint!" A faint light flickered in Xia Jin's palm. "We need to get out of here as soon as possible!"

Everyone quickened their pace.

But just as they passed the third painting, a black ink line suddenly flew out of it!
It was a painting of bamboo and rocks. Suddenly, the branches of the bamboo in ink moved, and a line of ink "whooshed" off the paper and rushed straight towards Qingqing!
"careful!"

The flames in Bai Yueming's palm instantly transformed into a ring of fire, blocking the ink lines.

The ink line shrank slightly when it came into contact with the fire, but it didn't break. Instead, it split into several strands, like thin snakes winding around the fire rings and crawling towards Qingqing.

The cracks in the photomask were still widening, and the ink lines would seep into the cracks as soon as they touched them!

"Try using color blocks!"

Chu Xue suddenly remembered the light shield effect from before.

Xia Jin applied the orange patch to the crack in the light mask.

A burst of warm light instantly sealed the crack, and the seeping ink lines turned into ink droplets, landing on the hem of Qingqing's clothes, whereupon there was no further movement.

However, before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, a layer of white mist suddenly appeared on the "Wheat Field Picture" in front of them, and the wheat stalks outlined in ink began to twist, as if something was trying to crawl out of the painting.

"The green block is in the middle of the wheat stalks, I'll go get it!" Huang Jingjing was about to teleport when Quan Quan grabbed her. "Wait! Sophie must have set a trap in the painting, you take the light shield fragment with you."

He took a small piece of orange-colored debris from Xia Jin's hand and handed it to Huang Jingjing.

"Use this if you encounter danger, and I and the vegetables will help you deflect the ink line!"

Bai Yueming immediately threw a ball of flame at the "Bamboo and Rock Painting". The flames illuminated the painting, the branches of the bamboo shook violently, and several more ink lines flew out.

Quan Quan took the opportunity to pick up the charcoal pencil on the ground and drew a simple human silhouette on the floor, which actually looked a bit like Qing Qing.

—Quan Quan can do this too? That's amazing!

—He's handsome and reliable, just my type.

—Is there anyone who isn't your type?
—They're all handsome.

The ink line was indeed fooled, and it began to wrap around the outline of the charcoal drawing.

Huang Jingjing took the opportunity to teleport to the front of the "Wheat Field Picture" and reached out to touch the green patches among the wheat stalks.

But the moment the fingertip touched the color block, the white mist in the painting suddenly exploded!

Countless tiny ink dots flew out of the painting, raining down on Huang Jingjing.

"Use color blocks quickly!" Xia Jin shouted.

Huang Jingjing quickly stuck the orange shavings to her palm. The warm light formed a small light shield, and the ink dots turned into ink when they touched the light shield, flowing down the frame.

She seized the opportunity to grab the green block and teleported back to the group.

The moment the green block touched the yellow and orange blocks in Xia Jin's hand, it emitted a burst of green light, instantly strengthening the light shield and making all the cracks disappear.