Soul Painter

From the second week of the Gaofan exhibition.

In the place where the last "Mask" group painting "Redemption" was located, there was an additional Jewish girl wearing glasses. She supported a drawing board and began to copy this "Redemption", trying to find the true meaning in it.

It can be said that Anna came at the right time. She arrived the day before the weekend, which made her not miss the feat of being called "Bostno500 Warriors" bravely entering the "Mask" exhibition.

The second weekend of the art fair.

Although it is the weekend.

But Gao Fan felt that there were too many audiences.

Due to the limited space in the exhibition hall, and in order to protect everyone's privacy - mainly not to be seen by others when crying, but also for everyone's safety, after all, the number of "lifeguards" who provide assistance in the exhibition hall is limited, so at most one time The number of visitors shall not exceed 20 people.

This led to a long queue outside the museum, and most of the queues were men. Generally speaking, non-professionals, without the company of a female companion, few men would have the leisure and ambition to visit the art exhibition, so... this What game are you playing? Gao Fan thought with great interest. Little did he know that his guess was the correct answer.

The first batch of 20 people entered the exhibition at about 9:40 in the morning, and then left one after another around 10:10. Half of them were crying like children, and the other half insisted that they did not crying, but the red nose betrayed them.

According to later memories, 15 of these 20 people only saw the fourth mask painting "Furious Rage", and only one person was able to persist until "Arrogance", and this one was also in front of "Blindness" Total 'sacrifice'.

This seemed to be an omen. Except for some of the remaining hundreds of people who got impatient and left directly, giving up the challenge qualification, the remaining two or three hundred people could not pass these three checkpoints.

Of course, there are also a few cheating viewers who got used to these frightening theme paintings of "Mask" by repeatedly entering the art exhibition.

But after all, every painting has the shocking effect of crushing the human mind, and art critics even need a week to alleviate the aftermath of art bombs that hit people's hearts one after another. A warrior who is known as not afraid of death can brush his painting exhibition twice or even three times in a short period of time, but he can only last until the third brush at most, and then he walks out of the painting exhibition with a blank expression, as if his soul has soared.

Although the sixteenth painting has the magical effect of rebuilding human reason; although the first fifteen paintings, in theory, each one can only defeat the audience's reason once.

But fifteen themes and fifteen extremely negative human emotions are enough to make the audience collapse several times, and the speed of rational reconstruction cannot keep up with the speed of collapse.

The follow-up pavilion had to blacklist these human warriors to protect their lives.

By the afternoon, Gao Fan's accumulated SAN value had reached 800 points, which was already higher than the total income of the previous week, showing how desperate the warriors were.

Since the SAN value cannot be accumulated, it is a pity that Gao Fan put all these SAN values ​​into the three major items of the painter, so that the color increased by 4 points, the line increased by 3 points, and the structure increased by 5 points. Now the three major items The basic value is neatly 86, 86 and 86 again.

The Gospel of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

But investing such a huge SAN value did not even increase the skill of 'Distortion' by 1 point, because the total value of the three major items of improvement was less than 30 points of skill.

What a waste.

What a pity.

In the afternoon, Gao Fan was lying on the railing outside the art gallery, watching the citizens of Bostno coming in and out of the art exhibition, seeing their naive and optimistic expressions despite repeated blows, and felt a heavy pink bubble , falling from the setting sun, and connecting everyone's expressions, constitute another 'face' related to the temperament of this city.

This is the theme painting that Gao Fan will create next.

"Bostno people".

What he has to do now is to observe. He wants to firmly remember this whole city and all Bostno people, and imprint a clear imprint on his hall of inspiration and his 'world' skills, and then Then draw it out.

When Gao Fan used 'distortion' and 'world' to observe the city at the same time, the whole city was in his field of vision, showing a pink fairytale shape, and there seemed to be a pink bubble on top of everyone's head Bubble, that's very interesting, but soon a black bubble passed before Gao Fan's eyes.

Um?

Gao Fan wakes up from his artistic fantasies.

He saw a suspicious person wearing a baseball cap hanging around outside the museum. Although he had made some disguises, at this moment Gao Fan had already reached the upper limit of 60 points in his 'investigation' skills, from his uncovered jaw line, lips and The shape of the nose has already been seen, this one is...Charles Forsberg.

Speaking of this name, Gao Fan himself is a bit unfamiliar, but when it comes to ASX and the first slanderous manuscript that triggered comments from art critics, it is very familiar. A press release inviting the chief artist to visit the exhibition was published on the "Bostno Pioneer" the next day.

But Charles replied in his social account, "I have already read it, there is nothing to see, and my article has expressed my point of view."

However, a reporter from the "Pioneer" pointed out that there is no visit record of Charles, the chief writer of the ASX website, in the "Mask" art exhibition. Although the art exhibition is free, it is necessary to register the name of the visitor.

It took a while for Charles to reply: "My colleague went to see it for me. He has enough art appreciation."

The Herald reporter asked Charles to release the names of his colleagues.

Charles defended: "That's his personal privacy!"

The reporter of the Herald said: "The position of the chief writer of ASX seems to be a curse, and everyone will suffer from mental illness. The last Mr. Saar had a mental breakdown due to exhaustion or doing too many bad things. Mr. Charles seems to be suffering from mental illness as well. Schizophrenic, he fantasizes about a colleague who doesn't exist."

The debate between the reporter and Charles also became a regional hotspot in the Bostno area on social media.

Below the "Recruitment of Five Hundred Warriors" is "When will Mr. Charles and his schizophrenic personality visit the art exhibition together?" Gao Fan usually finds it very funny when he flips through these news.

At this moment, I saw Charles came to the art exhibition in disguise, sneaking, hesitating, wanting to enter but not daring to enter.

Gao Fan immediately pointed at him and shouted: "Charles from ASX is here, let him go in first!"

Um?

The last dozen or so warriors who were still queuing were bored and checked the news on their mobile phones. As soon as they heard Gao Fan’s call, they found the sneaky Charles. Many people didn’t know who Charles was, but once they said It was 'the art critic with a schizophrenic colleague', they immediately surrounded Charles, pushed the chief writer of ASX into the exhibition hall, and said in their mouths: "You come first, you come first, we can wait."

...

Charles, the second chief writer of ASX, after visiting the "Mask" exhibition, was photographed by many Bostno citizens with his expression of despair and horror, and posted it on Facebook, which caused a lot of ridicule.

As for whether Mr. Charles will become the second ASX editor-in-chief to resign due to mental illness after Mr. Saar, it is no longer within the scope of public concern.

The third update~ When I save enough ten chapters to cover the number of days for business trips at the end of the month, I can update more~ It’s gone today, please ask for a monthly ticket.