Soul Painter

Ding dong.

The doorbell for 23 PIPE (pipe) street was rang.

The date was May 12, 1915.

A Midsummer Night in Paris.

The landlady opened the door and saw two oriental men standing under the street lamp.

They were two young men, a man and a woman, with jet-black hair and brown eyes, revealing an exotic temperament.

"We're here to ask Detective Victor's help."

"He's on the second floor, please tell him, stop yelling there, and I hope you pay him enough to pay the rent he owes."

The landlady seemed a bit long-winded, but she was also very enthusiastic. When Gao Fan and Anna entered the detective's residence on the second floor and took their seats, she also brought two cups of tea, and felt that she was sitting on the side and playing a sweater. She is a character in the movie "Sherlock Holmes", an old woman who is a bit broken-mouthed and has a boring life, but she is very involved in various cases.

The big detective in front of Gaofan and Anna, with a curvy beard that was carefully groomed, dressed in a decent suit, sat on a comfortable armchair, and played with a sharp paper cutter in his hand. The name of the person, and after the two answered truthfully, the detective fell into a long silence.

After a while, the detective said, "Am I dead?"

Although the two painters went deep into the hall of inspiration at this moment and entered the paintings they were creating, in order to tell the characters in the paintings the fact that 'you are dead', the two painters were really surprised when they were told by the great detective.

"Mr. Vidoc, how did you discover this?" Gao Fan asked in surprise.

Anna acts as his translator.

Gao Fan's question was equivalent to answering the big detective's question, so the big detective showed a naughty smile.

"First of all, the two of you are obviously not from this country, including your dress, pronunciation, and tea-drinking habits, and secondly, you two are not like people of my era.

In my time, those respectable ladies, they were not allowed to wear trousers, and they were not allowed to speak in a formal conversation. Are the two of them oriental? As far as I can remember, in the countries of the East, in order to restrict the movement of the ladies, they will even be disabled, so you can't come from the East..."

After the detective finished talking quickly, he seemed impatient with his overly verbose expression, and the final inference made him a little anxious.

"Besides, my paper cutter is too new. In the whole room, only my hat and my pipe make me feel very familiar, and the others are very unfamiliar.

Including the landlady, she is obviously too silent and kind tonight, so it is not that you have reached my era, but that I am in yours. If you deduce like this, you can supplement other obvious clues such as the location of stars and so on. , the result is only one, that is, I am dead. "

"Dear sir and madam, are you demons? Is my soul already yours?" the big detective asked.

"We are painters from 100 years later." Gao Fan said, "We intend to create a painting of the city of Paris in your era, but in this painting, there needs to be a soul as a guide and a coordinate, so we chose You, a legendary detective."

"Oh?" The detective lit a pipe for himself, and he began to puff, "How can I help you?"

"First of all, I need you to help me find someone." Gao Fan took out a photo, the photo is of an aging old man, "His name is Wu Haoxue, he is my apprentice, his soul is lost in this city ."

Before Anna translated this sentence, she took a serious look at Gao Fan, who nodded to her.

"Very well, this is a job I can accept." The big detective took the photo.

…

in the painter's studio.

"Gao, I don't understand." Anna looked at the unfinished 1.2-meter by 1.8-meter huge painting of Paris, and then looked at Gaofan, "What exactly are we painting?"

Now, in the completed part of the painting, four or five streets are drawn with the Rue PIPE as the center, but it is already about one-eighth the size of the city of Paris in the 20th century.

The scale of Paris 100 years ago was much smaller than 100 years later, so the workload of painting the whole city will be much less. This is not the point. The point is that Anna is full of doubts. Go to Wu Haoxue' such words.

"AA, do you know what we're painting?" Gao Fan asked in a low voice.

"We are painting a city that is alive in history," Anna said.

By now, she has figured out that when the two painters with the highest skill of the Devil School used the magical 'Sakura White' and 'Paris Blue' colors to paint cities with historical figures as an index, they were born in What they describe is a 'living' city.

Or rather, they drew a living city in a two-dimensional world.

"But I don't just want it to exist in the painting, I want it to be connected to the real history!" Gao Fan's eyes lit up. At this moment, Gao Fan, like a fanatical scientist, is conducting an ethical violation. experiment of.

In his eyes, the butterfly was flying gracefully.

"But... aren't we drawing the pillars?" Anna wondered.

The secret of the pillar was told to Anna by Gao Fan to the painting of the Pillar of the East. Hopefully, as long as the painting exists, the spirit of resisting the devil will never be cut off.

"Drawing a pillar is useless!" Gao Fan shook his head, his voice was a little irritable and mocking, "Humanity is not lost in spirit, but in strength, if you want a picture of a pillar, you can win, it's simply It's a delusion, unless there are a hundred Minase Yangmeng, with the power of a hundred old days, to order all the demons to die!"

"So... Gao, what are you going to do?" Anna asked with a frown.

"I don't know." Gao Fan shook his head, "Han Meimei said that I will end this war, but I don't know what I should do at all. If according to my thoughts, what I want to do most now, It is to send Wu's studious soul to 1920, where he may be rescued. At the same time, the historical city of Paris can also accommodate the souls of all Parisians and become a pillar to make them stronger. "

"So you asked Mr. Detective to find Wu Haoxue's soul...?" Anna frowned, "But in the creation of the first 'Castle of Racine', you can already directly describe Wu Haoxue's soul and let him and the painting The protagonists are in the same room."

"This is the wonderful thing I designed~" Gao Fan pointed to a white soul in the painting and said, "After the previous creation, I found a problem, even if I painted Wu's eager soul into the painting , he wouldn't really exist in that history either.

I think Wu Haoxue should be integrated into the history and be discovered by the characters in the painting, so that he can really enter that history, so now I design it as Wu Haoxue is a missing old man, and then send the task of finding him to the protagonist in the painting... "

…

100 years ago.

Paris in painting.

in an apartment.

Wu, who was tied to a chair, was eager to learn.

I felt like I was going to pee again.

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