Trembling At A High Altitude

"Senior! This isn't a newspaper! It's a painting! All these words that look like they were printed are actually meticulously painted with a brush! Someone actually painted a newspaper! And they painted it so realistically!" After her assessment, Liu Shina exclaimed excitedly.

Upon hearing Liu Shina's words, the others couldn't help but gather around and look at the 'newspaper' in Shina's hands.

This is clearly a newspaper! Why say it is painted?

Who would be so bored as to paint a newspaper?

One must be incredibly obsessive to do such a thing!

Meanwhile, Li Teng was closely examining a 'photo' of a female model turned Fierce Ghost.

To make the photo look more like those published in newspapers, the painter had even intentionally added many black dots resembling print ink into the image.

When these black points were magnified, they became some sort of black spots.

Li Teng then recalled the scene from last night when the female model Fierce Ghost had her hands against the glass wall.

He had been very close at the time, observing the face and hands of the female model Fierce Ghost.

She didn't really have a face; her entire face resembled a mass of gray mist, with chaotic black dots swirling within, inducing an inexplicable sense of deep-seated fear when one looked closely.

Her hands were gray-white, similarly dotted with many eerie black spots.

At that moment, Li Teng had already associated it with the 'newspaper' photos, those ink-like black dots.

But he wasn't certain.

Now he was sure that those black dots were created by the painter to mimic the style of photos on newspapers.

"Yang Yiju, I want to ask you a few things, don't worry, no one is suspecting you now, and what I'm going to ask has nothing to do with you, just answer me honestly," Li Teng called Yang Yiju over.

Yang Yiju nodded. When others had ostracized her earlier, Li Teng had come over to comfort her, which won her trust in him.

"Back in the woods, were you the first to discover her?" Li Teng pointed to the photo of the female model Fierce Ghost.

Yang Yiju nodded again.

"When we were in the glass-house lobby, were you the first to spot her standing outside the glass wall?" Li Teng asked another question.

Yang Yiju nodded again.

"On the yacht, when we found those so-called newspaper photos, and I showed them to you all, was your impression of her standing behind the crowd particularly strong?" Li Teng asked yet another question.

"At the time, I was both scared and curious about her in the photos, I stared at her for a long while, and I stared at each photo that included her," Yang Yiju recalled and then answered Li Teng.

"That's right," Li Teng was nearly certain of his conclusion now.

The painter had painted these 'newspapers' and 'photos'.

The other wronged souls, upon seeing these 'newspapers' and 'photos,' materialized the contents of these 'photos.' The longer they observed, the higher the probability of them bringing it to reality.

This was why Yang Yiju always discovered the female model Fierce Ghost.

Next, it was the painter's turn to put an end to all this.

No one could see the female actors; Li Teng sent them out for a loop and had them bring back some paper and a pen for him.

He planned to draw a knife for the female actors to observe and then materialize it.

Then experiment on Chen Ziwen, who was on the ground with a gag in his mouth, to see if his speculation was correct.

Li Teng quickly drew a kitchen knife, then called everyone to come and look closely at it.

Why draw a kitchen knife… A kitchen knife is easy to draw, just a rectangle with a handle.

Li Teng excitedly awaited the outcome...

The result...

Nothing appeared.

Li Teng broke out in a cold sweat.

Could it be that all his previous conjectures were wrong?

That can't be possible! Everything that painter painted could be materialized!

However, Li Teng felt the most likely reason was that his paintings were not accurate.

"Senior, a kitchen knife is drawn like this," Liu Shina explained as she drew a kitchen knife on the paper in front of Li Teng.

In just a short time, a vivid kitchen knife appeared on the paper before Li Teng.

Li Teng had the others look at the kitchen knife Liu Shina had drawn.

Still no use, it seemed he had to paint it himself.

The problem was, even as Liu Shina taught Li Teng stroke by stroke, he still couldn't produce it right, his depictions fell short of her vivid realism.

Remember, she had been painting for over a decade!

Now, Li Teng was at a loss as to where exactly the problem lay.

Was it his deductions that were faulty, or was it because his paintings were not accurate?

Of course, he believed the likelihood that his paintings were not accurate was over ninety percent.

The issue was, how could he improve his painting skills in the shortest time possible?

Crucially, it seemed he might need to include Director Hu in his painting if he wanted to eliminate him.

Painting a portrait seemed to be the most difficult part in art, right?

He couldn't even paint a kitchen knife properly now.

"Is there any shortcut to learning how to paint?" Li Teng asked Liu Shina.

"No, just observe more, paint more…" Liu Shina gave him a disheartening answer.

"Crap!" Li Teng slapped his forehead hard.

He had cleverly found a solution to the problem, but lacked the ability to implement it.

Was he doomed to watch helplessly and lose this plot?

Besides this method, was there any other way to defeat Director Hu?

Li Teng felt there was absolutely no other possibility.

Except for the paintbrush in his hand.

At this point, diligently practicing his painting skills seemed to be his only and best option.

The actresses all found it strange; Senior Actor Li, who had always been relentlessly questioning others, using even threatening queries, and busy collecting clues, suddenly stopped everything and started drawing!

And he seemed increasingly frustrated as he drew.

"Is there really no quick way to do this?" Li Teng, looking at his increasingly inaccurate kitchen knife, began to doubt his life choices.

"Really… there isn't," Liu Shina, acting as a temporary teacher, was at a loss too.

"How about you hold my hand while I draw?" Li Teng suggested another method.

"Why do you have to paint, senior?" Liu Shina couldn't help but ask Li Teng.

"You draw while holding my hand, and I will explain to you guys at the same time," Li Teng urged Liu Shina.

Liu Shina had no choice but to come over and grab Li Teng's hand, trying to draw on the paper.

She had never done this before, and her movements were somewhat clumsy.

Yet even so, the kitchen knife she drew while holding Li Teng's hand was much better than what Li Teng produced.

Li Teng took this opportunity to explain to everyone why he needed to learn to paint.