"Yes, I saw it." Xiao Tan nodded and asked, "What does it mean?"
"I don't know," Xiao Ling replied immediately.
"Er … Okay …" Xiao Tan replied, "I thought you had solved the puzzle already."
"If I had solved it, I wouldn't have said 'come and take a look'." Xiao Ling narrowed her eyes and looked at Xiao Tan beside her. "I would have revealed the answer to the clue directly and then told you how I solved it in front of your shocked eyes. I would have been so proud of myself."
"Hey, hey … That sounds like you're talking about me …" Feng Bujue naturally heard the sarcasm in her words, so he added.
"Ah … Teacher Jue, you do know your place." Xiao Ling glanced at Brother Jue from the corner of her eyes.
Her accusation was no doubt a rebuttal to Buu and Uub's earlier comments about her.
"Alright … The whole world knows he's a narcissist, so there's nothing to complain about." Ruo Yu added, "Let's focus on solving the puzzle."
"Tsk —" Xiao Ling stuck her tongue out at Ruo Yu and made a face. "Cousin, you're siding with an outsider."
"How can you tell that she is siding with an outsider?" Feng Bujue's lips twitched. "She merely followed your lead and used an even more blatant method to mock me, and she ended the topic like it was the final nail in the coffin …"
"Oh! I get it! " Just as they were chatting, Buu, who had been studying the wall, seemed to have noticed something. He said loudly, "This is a constellation map, right?" From his tone, it sounded like he was not completely sure, so he added, "Look closely … The size of these spots are different. Some are the size of sesame seeds, some are the size of mung beans, and some are so small that you can barely see them with your naked eye … Perhaps, if you look at a group of spots of the same size separately, you can see something like a constellation map …"
"No …" Feng Bujue interrupted with a serious face. "Even though my knowledge of astronomy is average, when it comes to constellations … I'm quite familiar with them …"
"Because you chased after Saint Seiya for a while when you were young," Xiao Tan added.
"Stop wasting time! No one will think you're mute if you don't speak! " Brother Jue wanted to show off his knowledge and act cool, but he was instantly exposed by Xiao Tan, so he could only yell at him to ease the awkwardness.
"Sigh …" After Xiao Tan heard that, he shrugged and made a noncommittal expression. Xiao Ling, she patted him on his shoulder, her eyes seemed to say, "Well done."
"Uh-huh!" Brother Jue cleared his throat. "Anyway, according to my observation, even if these spots are divided into multiple groups and observed separately, they can't correspond to a constellation."
"Wait a minute." At this time, Ruo Yu took a step forward and stared at the wall thoughtfully. "I think … I've seen this composition somewhere before …" As she spoke, she took two steps back. "Move aside, let me see the whole thing from a distance …"
Everyone didn't say much and immediately did as she said.
Then, Ruo Yu stood about three meters away from the wall, frowning as she pondered …
After a full three minutes, something suddenly flashed in her eyes, and her expression suddenly relaxed. "I understand!"
"Damn … Are you serious?" Hearing Ruo Yu's words, Feng Bujue was stunned. He could not help but think, "I used my superhuman brain speed to analyze the spots, and even took into account the bitmap, geometric coordinates, and other factors at the data level … but I still have no clue. You just stood there and looked at it for three minutes, and you said you 'understood'? "
"Xiao Ling, give me a few bullets filled with gunpowder," Ruo Yu said and immediately began to act.
She took the bullets from Xiao Ling and walked to the wall.
A few light sounds were heard. This was the sound of Ruo Yu's fingers prying open the bullets …
Then, she dipped her right middle finger and ring finger in some gunpowder and smeared it on the wall.
"These spots of different sizes do have different functions." Ruo Yu explained as she smeared the gunpowder. "For example, this one marks the frame lines around a larger pattern; this one indicates color filling; and this one … indicates a single line segment."
As she explained, the pattern on the wall became richer and clearer. Not long after, all the spots were covered by black gunpowder, and a complete "painting" appeared on the wall.
However … the other five people still did not understand what it was.
"Is this … some kind of puzzle?" Looking at the six black, strangely shaped pictures on the wall (Two of them looked like geometric shapes, and the other four looked like the silhouettes of something, but the shape was irregular), Brother Jue asked probingly.
"Can't you tell?" Ruo Yu said, "This is' Bottle, Glass, and Violin '."
"Huh?" Her teammates reacted in unison.
"Sigh …" Ruo Yu sighed deeply and explained, "'Bottle, Glass, and Violin' is a charcoal pastel painting painted by Picasso in 1912." She pointed at the wall and said, "If I copied it myself, I wouldn't be able to achieve such a high degree of accuracy. However, with the help of these spots, I created the painting in front of us …"
"Don't worry, I'm guessing that you're the only one in this room who has seen the original work. Even if there are big differences, we won't be able to tell," Feng Bujue said.
"So … the clues we have now are … 'bottle', 'glass', and 'violin'?" Xiao Ling said.
"Hmm … there should be 'Picasso' and '1912'?" Buu added.
"Let's expand our thinking. We can also derive this clue into 'wine' and 'music' …" Feng Bujue rubbed his chin and pondered.
"This is too simple …" Ruo Yu had already come to Feng Bujue's side. She grabbed the latter's lapel and began to wipe her hands … While wiping, she said, "From the perspective of 'comprehensive cubism', this painting does not use the real object as a starting point and decomposes the object into its basic elements. Instead, it uses the basic elements as a starting point and transforms the basic shape and surface into an objective image. By abandoning the painting and brushstrokes, this pattern obtains a more objective reality. These surfaces … on the one hand, show the world outside the painting. On the other hand, they show the unity and independence of the painting's own world through their organic combination. "
"Do you dare to say something that we can understand?" Of the five listeners, only Brother Jue dared to say something like that after hearing that.
"Okay ~" Ruo Yu looked at Brother Jue with a look of disgust. She raised her arm and pointed at the wall. "Now, pick up your catapult and see if you can 'suck' the pattern on the wall."
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