When Song Qingzhang saw Li Xian on the stairs, he hurriedly shouted, "All the portraits in the exhibition hall have gone berserk!"
Liang Pei spotted the portraits chasing relentlessly after Li Xian and the man at once, and shouted in despair, "Why have you got them over there too?!"
Li Xian said, "Let them out!"
"Huh?" Song Qingzhang exclaimed. Although he had no idea why, he immediately did as he was told.
The moment the door opened, Li Xian and the man reached the other two. A massive horde of half-length portraits poured out of the exhibition hall, merging with those behind Li Xian and chasing relentlessly after all four of them!
"Did you find anything?!"
Li Xian asked Song Qingzhang.
"That room was full of paint and painting supplies. We didn't find anything useful!"
"Did you search everything?"
"There were still two boxes under the bed we hadn't gone through...!"
In the space of those two exchanges, they had already reached the first floor. The swarm of portraits continued pursuing them relentlessly, the sounds of their crawling mingling into a chaotic din. Wherever they passed, the floor trembled as though in an earthquake, sending up a layer of dust.
"You and I will go back to that room and look for something we can use."
After speaking to Song Qingzhang beside him, Li Xian turned his head and shouted:
"Liang Pei! Ji Xie!"
The man behind him froze.
"Lure those portraits away!"
[Ji Xie? Is he talking to that guy?]
[Didn't he say his name was Zhang San? Is the streamer using his real name?]
[When did he tell the streamer his real name?]
[Wait, why does that name sound so familiar...]
[!!!]
[Isn't that the name of the man the streamer met in his first instance?!]
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