Chapter 109:

When Bryan finally opened his eyes, he first realized that it was not the dizziness in his head, but the pulling pain from his arms. The strength of the pull comes from his own weight, because at this moment he is suspended around the ground with his arms as the axis and his feet off the ground.
Illuminated by the dim light in the basement, Brian's eyes are presented in a magnificently decorated medieval Rococo style parlour with his arms tied to the top of a chain and fixed to the ceiling.
"It's really time for you to wake up, I have just prepared the painting tools." Sophia's voice came from a light and shadow in front of Brian, because she was standing in the backlight, so Brian couldn't see the room on the screen side at all. . "Since time is still enough for Abid to come back, let's finish the final painting directly."
Sophia's voice sounded extraordinarily calm at this time, but for Brian, who had not yet had a medicinal effect, it was as ethereal and distanced as from the sky. Obviously he was hung in a very uncomfortable position. The pain in his arm and the dizziness in his head were not even more comfortable, but he felt very relaxed because of the drug.
Bryan's more than ten years of living in a mental health home in Miami has given him enough knowledge of the effects of various tranquilizers. However, he has always been aware of current affairs, but he has never really tried to be injected with a dose, and there is no resistance. Therefore, at this time, he can only desperately organize the thoughts in his brain, and wants to restore the usual logical thinking.
At the other end of the room in front of him, Sophia set up a projection lamp, the light directly facing Brian's face made him paler and more delicate. The light and shadow reflected on the wall on the other side of the room. On the picture interlaced with Brian's body, there were six pairs of phantom wings.
Brian, whose arms were hung in the air by a chain, were matched with wings projected on the wall, and looked like an angel with wings. If Abide was here, he would be able to recognize the wings projected on the wall, which are tattoos tattooed by Adam Sugman.
"Sofia?! ..." Brian concentrated his mind and logically sorted out what he wanted to say. He tried to keep his eyes wide open to look at the dazzling light and shadow. "Where is this? ... What are you doing to me?"
"Rest assured, my Anil." Sophia said unansweredly, as if she had determined that the person who had Chinese medicine woke up, she was completely incapable of thinking, as if it was high medicine. "I will present you perfectly in my paintings, and then re-sacrifice a life ... eventually you can be resurrected in my paintings ..."
Brian listened to Sophia's answer and knew that she could not get a response from her, and there was a clear brush sound in her ear, and she was finishing the final part of the painting. Intuition tells Brian that if he waits for Sophia to finish painting, he is probably really dangerous.
Because of this intuition, even though Brian still feels the logic of thinking is chaotic, he still strives to figure out his situation. He looked up at the surrounding walls and the low ceiling. He saw no windows and the room was extremely quiet. Except for himself and Sofia, there was no sound of wind and noise.
Then he lowered his head to look at his condition, not knowing when the clothes were taken off again, neatly stacked on the sofa beside him. The phone was originally muted but not turned off, and the battery has been removed. He looked at the long red hair hanging on his shoulders, and it seemed that Sophia didn't find the mystery under his hair.
According to the words Sophia said when he just woke up, Abid hasn't returned yet so she still has time to finish the painting, which means that he hasn't lost consciousness for a long time. If it wasn't dark, she would turn on the light, which confirmed the speculation that there were no windows here, so she couldn't get natural light. Either in the warehouse or underground.
If the surrounding area is extremely quiet and there is no sound of wind, should it be underground? Brian thought. The information that could have been filtered from the mind in more than ten seconds, he spent a few minutes reasoning under the action of drugs. Then he decided to ask Sofia.
Now that Sophia has determined that he has completely lost his ability to think under the influence of drugs, he uses this to trick the other party into the clues and testimonies he wants. Otherwise, wouldn't he just drank the glass of red wine that had been taken for nothing? To know that if you want to fool an antisocial personality who is particularly keen on similar intuitions, Brian must fool himself before he can make a perfect performance.
In a conversation with Sophia, Brian is like an experiential actor in Hollywood, imagining herself as a model who really doesn't know her true face, not the simplest acting school. He persuaded himself to become another young man who was unsuspecting to others, and now he continues to perform as a sedative in a mental hospital.
"Are you going to kill me? ..." Brian spoke again, this time he spoke very slowly, as if still in a state of medicinal control. He made it look like someone with a confused mind in his head, saying something he didn't even know what it meant.
Sofia surely laughed awryly, "Don't use such rude words, this is a sacrifice ceremony. Your sacrifice will be worth it, Brian. Just like my other six angels . "
"Six?" Thanks to the residual drug effect, this quantifier was processed a second later in Brian's mind, otherwise he would have been exposed to shock by shocks, causing the other party to doubt.
"Why are there six?" Brian kept his slow and bewildered tone. "I thought I was your model before me. Only the model named Adam ... Adam Sugerman ..."
Sophia couldn't help laughing with contempt when she heard the name Brian mentioned. "Oh, Adam is just a failure. How can it be compared to my first six perfect offerings? And he has taken your place for nothing. After I finish this last painting, I have to put it first. He dealt with it. "
"Treat? ..." Brian repeated Sophia's words like a repeater, thinking in his mind that the criminal suspect, who had thought to have just started quitting killing, suddenly became an experienced veteran, and the victim had reached seven. As many as possible. A female serial killer is as rare as a rare animal.
"Why are you dealing with him?" Brian continued to look ignorant. "Is he here? ... I don't need his place ... I'm going back ..."
"Of course he is here, and my six fallen angels are well kept here." Sophia's mood seemed very good, while waving the brush carefully depicting the light and shadow and angles on Brian's face at this time, Laughing and coping with Brian who seemed vague in her eyes.
"And you can return to your place immediately, rest assured, I have figured out how to deal with him." Although she was talking, her movements were not slow, as in the art world today A well-known artist, Sofia is naturally not only known for her paranoia about perfection.
The original semi-finished oil painting, with Brian as the model, lies on the side of the wine and fruit plate. At this time, six pairs of fallen angels have been added under Sophia's hands, which are very fitting with the projection on the wall and the scene at this time. wing. Compared to the real and imaginary match between Brian himself and the projected picture in a real scene, the wings in the picture extend from behind, as if they had grown there.
The characters in the painting that Brian saw before are still obscure. Although he is depicted as a model, he still does not feel as if he is printing a real person into the painting. At this time, the faces and expressions of the characters in the painting were refined, the facial features and the light and shadow on the faces were displayed in the air, the expression blended with pain and relaxation, and it was more like a blank and innocent Brian.
As Sophia said, sacrificing the model after the painting is completed, the soul of the model will be attached to the characters in the painting. At that time, the characters in the painting will live in her eyes and live in her paintings. As you pass by these seven themed but related sets, the eyes of fallen angels will look back at you when you look at them.
Bryan took a deep breath. He knew it was time. By the time Dillon, who had been monitoring him, found him, Sophia would have been stolen in their hands.
"What position? Aren't we in your home? ..." Brian tried to use a way of speaking that didn't attract Sophia's attention, and revealed what he wanted to convey through the monitor. "Did you lock me in your basement, thinking that no one would find us if you hid it ..."
But he was still too anxious. As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of Sofia's action stopped abruptly. Maybe it was Brian who didn't know that his speculation was in the heart, only to immediately arouse the woman's vigilance. Maybe it was too many questions in his words, which were too obvious because of anxiety.
"You talk too much." Sophia's original relaxed tone changed, becoming alert and indifferent. She stepped out from behind the light of the projector and walked a few steps to Brian who was hung in the air.
After getting closer, Brian finally saw what Sophia looked like at this time. Unlike an artist who only created a home in a home dress before, Sophia didn't know when to change her clothes and dress up as if she could immediately attend the party.
The solemn dress is obviously related to the sacrifice ritual that she has always said. She was apparently going to perform her killing rituals shortly after her paintings were completed. Brian's heartbeat began to accelerate because she felt the threat. She raised her hand to hold Brian's jaw, and brought Brian, who was shaking in mid-air due to inertia, to her.
"Maybe you need another shot before I finish the painting." She pinched Brian's chin, looked around Brian's facial expression, and then moved closer to the pupil of Brian's eyes. Look away. "The medicine you drink is just inefficient, and it's going to recover so soon."
What she didn't know, however, was that Brian's thinking ability had been fully restored at this time. Of course, even if the ability to think is restored, it just makes Brian feel more helpless. His hands were tied to the top of his head, and his body was hung in mid-air.
Brian watched Sophia in the corner of this small room decorated as a living room, opened a drawer in a cupboard, and took out a needle. Then he calmly took a certain amount from a transparent potion water and walked back to him.
Since I can't resist now, I can only give Dillon more information before losing consciousness. Brian thought helplessly, and continued to break the jar and said, "What did you take from that little drawer? Don't take that syringe in front of me, I don't ... uh ..."
Sophia completely ignored his words, and as soon as he walked in front of him, stabbed the needle into the skin of Brian's thigh. With a slender needle tube and Sophia's quick push without regard to the other's ability to bear, Brian couldn't help humming. Then it didn't take long for his ghost to appear again before his eyes, and then his vision became dark and he lost consciousness. 2k novel reading network