Soul Painter

Wu Haoxue stayed at Lu Guoying's place like this, and became Lu Guoying's disciple, receiving the guidance of the master together with Cheng Jingtao.

As for whether to study Chinese painting or oil painting, Wu Haoxue has not yet decided. He feels very friendly to the ink and wash of Chinese painting, but he also has a certain yearning for the color of oil painting. Maybe the future development direction will be a combination of Chinese and Western. After all, he is only fifteen years old. Lots of time to choose from.

Lu Zhi suggested that Wu Haoxue be trained by STK. STK has several "training grounds" distributed in the Pacific Ocean, the Sahara Desert, and some small countries in Central Asia, which provide various knowledge and skill training for humans who want to become investigators. , including but not limited to fighting, blasting, assassination, driving and language, etc.

"The 'shell' on his body is wasted if it is not used properly," Lu Zhi said.

Um. Gao Fan agreed, Wu Haoxue is destined to be not an ordinary person, in this case, it is better to let him get used to mystery earlier.

After seeking Wu Haoxue’s consent, Gao Fan enrolled him in a summer school for two months, with a tuition fee of 6 million US dollars, an average of 100,000 US dollars per day. It can be said to be the most expensive holiday cram school in the world, right?

After settling down Wu Haoxue.

Gao Fan began to plan his own affairs.

Lawrence is asking about Gao Fan's new creative plan.

Because the desire and pursuit of Gao Fan in the market has become irresistible.

After Christie's "Four Cities Linkage" auction of the century, the market's pursuit of Gao Fan's works has reached a new height.

Especially after "Salvation", the last painting of the mask series, sold for a sky-high price of 430 million US dollars, PACE took the opportunity to sell Gao Fan's "Maggots Swarming". The market was excited for a while, and the purchase price of 36 million US dollars was purchased by an American collector, which once again proved Gao Fan's worth that can be called crazy.

After all, when this work was acquired, it was only $30,000, with a profit rate of 1,200 times. In this world, only art transactions and wars can bring it.

The remaining six "Mask" paintings in Lawrence's hands were enthusiastically pursued by the market, but the quotation was not satisfactory, with the highest price being only 83 million US dollars. Lawrence hoped that one painting would have a small target of one dollar.

The price of 100 million U.S. dollars, for those world-class rich people, is considered a nerve-wracking one. Buyers in the art market all think that Gao Fan's current value is extremely irrational, and hope to drop it a little bit, but they are not willing to let go. So we are in the see-saw style of repeated negotiations.

At this point, Gao Fan really has no concept of money. Christie’s spring auction brought him more than 700 million US dollars in income, and the remaining six mask paintings may make this figure exceed 1 billion US dollars. Fan immediately climbed to the top of the Forbes list of domestic artists, and the top ten in the world, to Gao Fan, there is no other meaning.

If you have more money, you have to spend it.

Gao Fan thought about coming and going, and suddenly had an idea.

Or rather, have a dream.

"I have a dream, although it is immature, but it may require a lot of money." Gao Fan said to Lawrence.

"Money may be the easiest thing to get for you now." Lawrence said to Gao Fan, and the words now Lawrence said were just describing the facts, "As long as you continue to create, you will soon Become the richest person in the world. In this world dominated by capital, you will have whatever you want, and you are... the king of the world!"

"That would be great~" Gao Fan said, "Then help me make a plan and see which country can buy it."

"You can buy whatever you want..." Lawrence continued to brag, and suddenly realized what Gao Fan was talking about. He was surprised, "What do you want to buy?"

"A country, a piece of land, and many, many people." Gao Fan stood up, opened his hands and drew a circle, "Everything is mine~"

"You want to buy...the country?" Lawrence couldn't help being shocked by Gao Fan's mentally ill thinking.

"Yes." Gao Fan pulled a world map and asked Lawrence, "I don't want to buy a big country like Britain, France and Spain, but a small country like Nepal is also fine, so help me research and see which one I can buy. "

Seeing Gao Fan start to study on the world map with great interest, Lawrence felt that he might have been dazzled by the auction results of Christie's, how could he make a promise like 'You are the king of the world' to Gao Fan? , but Gao Fan should also be a little bit rational to understand that in this world, money is not really omnipotent.

"Money can't buy a country, let alone Britain and France, even Nepal." Lawrence explained to Gao Fan, and then felt ridiculous. Gao Fan should understand this truth, right?

To a certain extent, money is omnipotent and can buy everything that human beings can enjoy, but if it involves the essence of money, including political power, government, force, people, etc., the omnipotence of money will be lost in an instant, because It's the things that give meaning and value to money, and it's impossible for money to buy them back.

"A small country is fine, tens of square kilometers. I remember that there used to be a Principality of the Netherlands with a similar name. The population is only a few thousand, so it seems to be affordable," Gao Fan said.

"Then you might as well buy a small island in the Pacific Ocean or the Caribbean Sea. Some countries in the Middle East will sell their islands. However, that is only a temporary lease, not real ownership." Lawrence said, "You can't be on that To build a country, to own a people."

"That won't work. I want a country with people, even if there are few people, just a few thousand." Gao Fan said.

"That's impossible." Lawrence didn't understand Gao Fan's thinking. Was the artist's thinking beyond the ordinary? "This is a political issue. A country needs to be recognized by other countries to be a real country."

"Hmm..." Gao Fan spread out the huge world map he specially bought on the floor, and then sat cross-legged on the floor and thought hard. Judging by his expression, he seemed to have taken this matter seriously.

It was only at this moment that Lawrence felt that Gao Fan's mind was really 'watted'?

"Let's talk about your next creative theme." Lawrence said, "If you want to buy a country, one billion is not enough, maybe hundreds of billions of dollars. In this case, why don't you draw more paintings?"

Even if Gao Fan is really crazy, Lawrence will respect Gao Fan as an emperor.

"I want to buy a country just to continue creating..." Gao Fan muttered, and finally he also understood that at the current stage, with his wealth and influence, it is still impossible to buy a country, so he sighed , "So let's go to Bostno first."

He looked at Lawrence and repeated himself: "I will finish a few works in Bostno next."

"Why go to Bostno?" Lawrence was surprised.

"Because it's safer." Gao Fan said the answer that made Lawrence baffled. "That's my city. If possible, I will bring you with me. There, I will declare war on the demons!"

I'll take you to a mental hospital before going to Bostno... Lawrence thought.

Chapter Two~