Chapter 45: Breaking Ground 02┃ Back to 1997.

The Rhinoceros Art Museum, as a famous private art museum, is located in the center of City B.
More famous than the Rhinoceros Art Museum is the underground restaurant of the Art Museum. This restaurant is a famous Internet celebrity restaurant in City B. Because of its artistic decoration, fashionistas often come here to eat and take photos.
"Before you die, you should have a hilarious meal at the famous Rhino Elephant Art Restaurant, by the way, let's explode a photo." After Wei Dong finished his grumble, he was attracted by the three long-legged girls.
The two of them were walking on the steps leading to the Elephant Gallery. The three long-legged girls walking on the top of the steps even more swayed.
"You haven't eaten enough yet?" Ke Xun stroked his full belly, "I still don't understand how the three fried dough sticks, two sugar cakes, four tea eggs, and three bowls of tofu brain stuffed in."
"My grandma said, you have to eat before you go on the road," Wei Dong whistled a whistle that only he could hear, followed behind the three long-legged girls, turned his head and shouted at his iron man: "Hurry up. I’m a tea-and-egg yolk!"
Ke Xun followed lazily. Today's breakfast was indeed eaten a lot, because I really couldn't tell what the next painting was waiting for him, maybe there was no food to eat, and maybe the food provided was not human food.
Weidong hiccuped, with a rare excitement: "Look at those three girls, either from the dance academy or as a model. They really deserve to be in the B city. The beauty of the girls has also risen."
Ke Xun said blankly, "Are you a rhythm to death?"
Wei Dong deliberately made a very wretched smile, but in the depths of that smile, there is infinite sadness hidden.
Time flies so fast, we are about to enter the third painting.
The two entered the hall with the tickets in their hands. Wei Dong had already seen the fifth exhibition hall upstairs from the lobby on the first floor. The steps under his feet hesitated even more, and Ke Xun beside him didn't seem to move much.
"Are you going to meet the rhythm of the boss..." Before Weidong finished speaking, he saw Ke Xun's eyes seem a little cold.
Wei Dong looked in that direction: "Isn't that Sha Liu? Who are the two short girls next to her?"
Sha Liu quickly spotted the two, a trace of complexity flashed in his eyes, and then smiled and said hello: "Are you here?"
Ke Xun's face was very ugly: "Are you bringing an acquaintance here?"
Sha Liu hesitated for a moment, and then quickly shook his head: "I just ran into it by accident, it's fate!"
The two short girls smiled and said to Sha Liu: "Thank you for your introduction, then shall we go up first?"
Sha Liu nodded and said goodbye to the two girls.
Even Weidong understood a little bit, and said that this woman had a lot of thoughts, so he began to look for a partner for the painting.
"Aren't the two girls together?" Ke Xun asked suddenly.
Sha Liu was stunned when he heard the words, and immediately raised his glasses without changing his face: "How do I know that people came to ask me for directions, saying that they were specifically looking at the exhibition of the painter Luo Bin's work," he said to the two of them. Showing the gallery brochure in his hand,
Today Lopin’s works occupy two exhibition halls on the second floor.

"In other words, there will be a lot of people in the fifth exhibition hall today?" Wei Dong looked up at the crowds pouring into the fifth exhibition hall, "I have a headache for the people behind the scenes in charge of painting, how can so many people be screened."
"Gold out in the sand." Ke Xun squatted down and tied the laces of his running shoes. Although he knew that he would be forced to change his outfit after entering the painting, he had to tighten the laces before preparing to act. It has been a habit for many years.
Sha Liu felt that the blatant discussion behind the painting incident in this place meant a bit of "great disrespect", so he did not participate in the conversation anymore, but turned and walked towards the escalator: "Let's go."
Ke Xun and Wei Dong waited for them to go up for a while before they stepped on the escalator. Wei Dong couldn't help asking, "Coer, how did you know that the two girls were not together?"
"What the is Cole?"
"Short for Conan Doyle, Cole, you will be Cole from now on."
Ke Xun, transformed into Cole, explained his analysis to Weidong:
The two girls chosen by Sha Liu are thin and short. It seems that they have insufficient social experience. Compared with Sha Liu, they are obviously at a disadvantage. It seems that Sha Liu’s purpose is not to choose a capable person as a partner, but to deliberately choose the weak."
"Why did you choose to be weak?" Wei Dong seemed to understand this sentence after asking, "She wants to find a dead ghost for herself, right?"
"It's almost what it means, but it's better to be a lone person for the dead ghost, otherwise the two will form a group and be easily eaten by it."
"Oh~" Wei Dong understood instantly, "Smart women are indeed a bit scary."
But Ke Xun's gaze turned to the big backpack Wei Dong was carrying: "I forgot to ask when I got on the train, what do you put in this big bag?"
"What I have loaded this time is all natural fruits, and there are some bread biscuits and the like. Even if the darkened painting is pushed back to its original state, it shouldn't affect the food," Wei Dong directly went behind the scenes. Hei Shou is simply referred to as "painting", "the rest is all toilet paper."
With regard to toilet paper, Ke Xun deeply understands that he also installed three large rolls of toilet paper. The painting last time was too miserable. Everyone used grass leaves and soil to solve the problem. The chrysanthemums were rubbed into peony flowers. ...
The two went up to the second floor, and saw the door of the fifth exhibition hall opened. A group of students who were talking and laughing came out of the exhibition. The two of them were stunned and looked at each other: What is it? Is the curse of black heart painting finally over?
The two walked to the tall log door of the fifth exhibition hall and looked around. At this time, no one wanted to enter this exhibition hall.
He gritted his teeth and pushed the door open again. The light in the door just disappeared, and the familiar darkness greeted the two.
The door behind me closed automatically, and I couldn't open it even if I wanted to push it.
After all, he couldn't escape the entanglement of fate, Huatui was just waiting for the right number of people.
Ke Xun wanted to see the paintings on the wall clearly in the dark, but was suddenly blinded by a strong light. He had to concentrate his eyesight, staring unblinkingly at the vortex flow before him. The ones that arrive are all vague normal life, with old wooden windows, old-fashioned electric fans, and children with bright smiles playing with rubber bands...
When your feet are on the ground, the world in front of you is a lively street scene, old-fashioned rough asphalt roads, square and square old-style cars, street vendors, and there seems to be a primary school just off the road. School, a group of red scarves are shopping around the street stalls to buy snacks and toys they are interested in...
"This... did we go in or did we not go in?" Wei Dong looked around, and felt that the style of this painting was completely different from the previous two. "Are you sure this is not one of the old towns in City B?" street?"
Ke Xun observed carefully for a while: "Are you sure that elementary school is over now, and you can rest assured that the lower grades will go home by themselves?"
Weidong looked at the raised eyebrows of the two fashionable girls walking by the street, and the platform shoes on their feet. He also felt that the age of this street was a bit wrong.
Ke Xun noticed something seemed to be stuffed in the pocket of his sweatpants. He took it out and looked at it. It was a piece of advertising paper. The paper was also very old. It was printed with the advertisement of "Chunsun Apartment Low-Price Rental House".
Weidong found the same advertisement in his denim jacket pocket. It seems that his destination is Chunsun Apartment.
"Hey, flowers of the motherland, do you know where the Chunsun Apartment is?" Weidong smiled and asked the two pupils next to him who had just bought a painting of Saint Seiya.
The pupil replied very politely: "Just turn a corner in front, spring on the street."
Another elementary school student added: "The Chunsun apartment has been demolished, and my dad said that a big art gallery will be built there!"
Ke Xun looked at the date of the signature of the advertisement in his hand, and then asked: "Uncle wants to test your memory, who can tell the exact date today?"
The elementary school students of that era were not as guarded as the children of today. In order to prove their good memory, one of the students quickly replied loudly: "Today is June 12!"
Another student added: "Today is June 12, 1997!"
"Thank you!" Wei Dong actually took out two large bubble gums from his pocket, "This is a reward!"
The two children said very politely: "Thank you, uncle, our teacher won't let anyone else's things casually! Goodbye uncle!"
The two children left together.
Ke Xun shook the advertising paper in his hand. The signature on it was printed with a big date: June 12, 1996.
"When did you keep the big bubble gum privately?"
"Those things I brought have all turned into 80's delicacies. I also have popping candy and sour plum powder in my bag. Where are you from?"
"..."
Gradually it was dusk, and the two turned a bend from the front according to what the elementary school students said, and they reached Chunsun Street. The street was very narrow and the shops on both sides of the street were very old, but they did not see any signs of demolition.
Weidong also wondered: "This place is a bit like a mountain city, and the streets have many slopes."
However, Ke Xun looked at the shops gradually turning on on both sides of the street with some caution, and whispered: "It's not that there are many slopes, but it's always going downhill."
Before Weidong came back, he already saw a strangely shaped building in front-a cylindrical building. Perhaps due to the influence of the building capacity at that time, it was not built high, only about six or seven stories. Look like.
Because dusk had arrived, the two of them couldn't really see it, but they always felt that the circular building was strange.
A striking sign-Chunsun Apartment is hung on the gate of the cylindrical building.
Neither of them meant to go in, but stood in front of the apartment and waited for someone.
It is impossible for other people to go in first, and must wait for 13 people to enter the apartment.
Ke Xun never understood why the two of them didn't appear directly in front of the apartment, but found them from other streets. Could it be that the painting has a large area?
"It stands to reason that we should show up directly in front of Chunsun's apartment." Wei Dong also thought of this question.
"Probably because we arrived early." Ke Xun looked at the deserted street. Although the shop was brightly lit, the street was sparsely populated.
"That Shaliu really has many eyes. I thought she advanced to the fifth exhibition hall. I didn't expect to secretly wait and see outside." Wei Dong said.
The wind was a little bit cold, and Ke Xun put his hand in his pocket: "I just think it’s weird. We arrived early. We can wait at the door of the apartment. Why should we take us to another street? And the time on the leaflet is also It's not the right way, it's an old advertisement from a year ago."
A familiar tall figure walked up under the unidentified street lamp in the distance, Ke Xun curled his mouth, revealing an unconscious smile.