Chapter 228: A Sudden Turn of Events
"It wasn't that I saw through you. You brought this on yourself." Xu Huo tossed her a piece of bread. "You're eating vegetarian for the next couple of days."
Ni Tian had no choice but to pick up the bread and swallow it under his cold gaze.
After they finished eating, Xu Huo took off his jacket, lay down, and closed his eyes to rest.
Octopus Card Bear's story had obviously been embellished. It might be true that he hadn't seen what the monster looked like, but there was no telling who the monster had been after. Deng Yu had gone missing, and there was no way to know which of the two had been the first to damage the painting. But whoever it was, damaging a painting—or trying to—would definitely draw the monster's revenge.
That fit the roles the Dungeon had assigned them. They were there to authenticate the collection, and protecting it was a necessary prerequisite.
In other words, they couldn't create a fake by altering a painting.
The Dungeon's introduction had also made it clear: the Curator would close the art museum only after confirming that all the paintings inside were genuine. So when the Dungeon began, there shouldn't have been any fakes in the museum.
That meant there had to be another trigger for the appearance of a fake.
He thought of the painting called Still Time.
When he'd picked it up yesterday, the figure's eyes in the painting had moved. From a certain perspective, a "living" painting could also be considered a fake. And the painting had only come to life after the players entered the art museum.
There was probably more than one living painting. Whether or not the Portrait of an Old Woman had been damaged