Banner of the Evil God

Bei Feng's children's painting class ran smoothly.

She is really good at painting. Even if she is not an artist, she is at least an excellent painter. More importantly, she has absolutely no intention of being perfunctory about teaching children to draw. Instead, she is extremely serious and meticulous in doing it.

She is not like those scammers who tinker with so-called "children's paintings" on earth, making some simple graphics for children to copy. Instead, she really starts from the basic skills of painting-structure, lines, colors, layout...etc. .

The first lesson she taught was "Sketching Squares".

The so-called sketch refers to using pure black to draw things. A powerful painter, such as Sui Xiong, only needs a pencil to draw paintings that make readers clearly feel power, speed, temperature and even emotion, while ordinary enthusiasts can at least draw some paintings that are not too complicated. The things are drawn in such a way that people will know "Ah, so this is it" at a glance.

What Bei Feng is talking about is the simplest sketch, which is to draw a square.

She put a square piece of wood on the plate and taught the children how to draw the square to look like it.

This is easier said than done. Bei Feng taught them one by one almost step by step. After teaching for almost a week, only four or five children could draw squares with a slight look, so that people would not think of them as something else.

These children are either relatively talented or have a certain foundation. Overall, it's a great achievement.

As for other children, it's far behind. Some of the worst drawings have even the basic framework distorted and messy, making it impossible to tell what they are.

If it were another irritable teacher, he would probably be able to kick them out. But Bei Feng didn't do that. She showed patience that amazed Wood, dividing the children into three parts according to their progress and providing them with targeted education.

Needless to say, those children who made fast progress were no problem, and those who made medium progress were no problem. Only the slow progress cost her a staggering amount of time and energy.

In Bei Feng's painting classroom, there are not those lazy people on earth who "eat all day long and have nothing to do", and there are no naughty children who not only don't work hard, but also make trouble for others. Every child who comes to learn painting is very serious and attentive, and they practice hard after returning home - this can be seen from those children who make rapid progress.

As for those children who progress slowly, they have neither foundation nor talent. The reason why their drawings are not in shape is because they have difficulty constructing "shapes" in their minds, so their writing is so messy.

The basic skills of horizontal lines, vertical lines and arcs can be mastered through hard practice, but how to construct them in your mind is definitely not something that can be explained clearly in one sentence.

When Bei Feng was studying painting, the teacher never told her how to teach others to master this ability - people without this talent are not suitable to be painters at all and will be eliminated directly.

But she didn't want to. She hoped that she could do things beautifully and establish her status in Huishi City.

The social status of an ordinary teacher and a respectable good teacher are completely different!

For a spy, if you can become a respectable teacher, that is almost the best disguise.

Of course, if you can become a high-level person in a certain country, this disguise will definitely be better. But this kind of thing is something that comes only by chance, and Beifeng doesn't think he can do something that even Wood can't do.

However, becoming a respectable teacher means paying more than being an ordinary teacher.

More time, more energy, more effort.

Seeing that she was working so hard, Wood advised her not to be too stubborn. After all, the teacher's identity was just a disguise. If this identity was too good, she might get into unexpected trouble.

"Look at me, I originally planned to be a carpenter, but then Felix saw my wood carvings, and I became a wood carver. Then I became an artist, and now I am a great artist..." Wood sighed with a wry smile, "Do you think I can still be a good spy in my current situation?"

Bei Feng looked at him calmly and shook his head.

"Yeah, no more." Wood sighed. "The best cover for a spy is not an outstanding identity, but the feeling of obscurity. If I were just a carpenter who didn't excel, I might be better at espionage work. outstanding."

Bei Feng frowned slightly. She knew that what Wood said made sense, even though it was different from what was taught in the spy training class.

"When we received the training, the instructor said, 'A good identity is the best cover.' There is certainly nothing wrong with this statement, but while a good identity plays a protective role, it also requires more time and energy to operate. At the same time, It will shoulder greater social responsibilities," Wood said. "Our intelligence station is not the type with sufficient manpower. How much can we do with just the two of us?"

Bei Feng thought for a while and nodded.

"You are right, you have already been occupied with too much time from wood carving work. If I also spend too much time on painting education, the intelligence collection work will indeed be greatly affected."

Then she became ill, very ill. According to the doctor, it was caused by overwork.

"You have been working too hard recently. You need to rest for a few days." The doctor, who graduated from the medical department of New Oriental Comprehensive Technical School, diagnosed Beifeng's condition after a brief diagnosis. "It is not difficult to recover from this disease, but remember not to work too hard in the future. In your case, if it recurs repeatedly, it is easy to accumulate into a serious disease. At that time... it will be really troublesome!"

After the news spread, the parents of the children with slower progress came to the door one after another, saying that they wanted their children to drop out of school and stop learning to paint. Even many parents of children with normal progress came to talk about this.

"Why?" Beifeng asked in surprise, "Although they are progressing slowly, they study very hard!"

But she was just making a gesture. She used confidential drugs to make herself "collapse due to overwork" just for this!

A few days later, Beifeng recovered from her illness, and only about half of the students in her painting classroom were left.

(This is enough.)

Looking at the more than 20 children, Beifeng sighed, but smiled secretly in her heart.

Without the burden of those untalented children, Bei Feng found it much easier to teach. In just two or three months, the children who made faster progress had almost completed the "Simple Still Life" course, and it was time to take them outdoors to learn colors and drawing.

This is also the most fundamental reason why she set up this painting classroom - with these children as a cover, she would not be suspected when she peeked into certain places and drew some pictures.

Anyone who saw a person sitting there drawing would be suspicious. But when a painting teacher was drawing with a group of children, even the most vigilant people would not suspect anything.

A few days later, she tried to act once. This time she went to the South Gate of Pyroxene City, and of course she was drawing the South Gate.

The walls and gates of Pyroxene City were designed by Sui Xiong. He adopted the ancient Chinese architectural style. The walls and gates were extremely thick. With the existence of the city wall, the structure was not complicated, but it had a sense of security that was convincing enough.

A group of children who had just learned to paint for a few months could not draw the gates very similarly, so Bei Feng drew a demonstration picture for them.

This demonstration picture uses the sketching technique. Because the light and shadow are relatively omitted, there are still some shortcomings when you look closely, but for children, it is already an excellent example.

Hidden in the air, Sui Xiong looked at the painting and shook his head, saying "This level is not good enough".

With his ability, there are probably not many painters in the world who are qualified to make him nod and say "This painting level is good". Most of them are concentrated in the kingdom of the God of Literature and Art...

In fact, Sui Xiong and the God of Literature and Art often exchange painting techniques, and both have gained a lot. The God of Literature and Art even directly said "Your understanding and attainments in the art of painting are fully qualified for this priesthood."

Sui Xiong has no objection to becoming the "God of Painting". On the contrary, he feels very honored - for a person who loves painting, being able to become the God of Painting is of course a very honorable thing.

But he is no longer a simple painter. Now he is the leader of a big force, shouldering the rise and fall of a church and a country. His core ideal is no longer the same as before he traveled through time, when he just wanted to be a good painter, make some money, and live a stable life. He now wants to lead those who believe in him and admire him to move forward together and build their homes better; he also wants to promote social progress, change those unreasonable and unfair phenomena, make this society more vibrant, and allow the vast majority of people to live and work in peace and contentment and pursue their own ideals.

This is a lofty goal, and for this, it takes countless time and energy, and he needs to pay a lot. So although he was once tempted, he eventually rejected the proposal of the God of Literature and Art and did not choose to become the God of Painting.

"I want to be the god of development and progress," he said. "Painting is my hobby, and promoting the development and progress of this world is my ideal!"

"What's wrong with turning hobbies into priesthood?" asked the God of Literature and Art. "Most gods are like this."

"Maybe, but compared with ideals, hobbies are not that important." Sui Xiong said with a smile, "This is the relationship between the main goal and the secondary goal. I can't confuse the primary and the secondary."

The God of Literature and Art was silent for a while and asked, "Have you ever thought about how much resistance you would encounter if you really wanted to promote the development and progress of the entire world - or at least the entire main plane?"

"I have thought about it." Sui Xiong said with a smile, "Progress is not something that can be said with your mouth, but something that must be done with your hands. In this process, there will inevitably be blood and fire, and there will inevitably be swords and shadows... I have been mentally prepared for these."

"Even if the whole world is enemies?"

"It won't get to that point."

However, not long after that conversation, the evil gods broke out and besieged the "sanctuary" of the Kingdom of the Void Mask.

Sui Xiong didn't think it was bad at the time, because it was never a bad thing to eliminate evil. But this time, he felt a little uncomfortable when many kind gods appeared among his enemies.

"Maybe... I should have chosen to become the God of Painting..." Thinking of the discussion at the beginning, he couldn't help but talk to himself.

In fact, he was just talking.

If you want to become the God of Painting, you can do it at any time, even now.

But his ideal is not here, so he will not make this choice.

Just like Beifeng, she can be a real pure painting teacher and a respectable figure, but she wants to be a spy.

Just like Wood, he is already a respectable great artist. As long as he has a reason, the Northwest Republic will give him strong protection, and no one can use his past spy career to attack him.

But he still insists on his identity as a spy and his loyalty to the Secret Tower Federation.

Even if this will hurt the people who have cared for him and taken care of him over the years, he will not hesitate!

Beifeng's painting classroom is progressing smoothly. After more than half a year, the people in Pyroxene City have completely adapted to her existence and are used to her appearing and disappearing with a group of children from time to time, collecting wind and sketching everywhere.

Not only that, she often posts everyone's paintings outside the painting classroom for people to visit.

From those works, you can clearly see the progress of the children. Their painting methods are still immature, but they are gradually becoming more and more like them. Even people who don't understand art can feel that they are indeed getting better and better.

This gave Bei Feng more support, and even her request to paint "Miners off work" was approved by Mr. Rif Kawart.

Of course, Rif couldn't let her take the children to the underground mine to paint, that was too dangerous. He just agreed on a time and asked Bei Feng to bring the children to observe the miners off work.

However, this was already a great improvement.

Before this, no spy could sneak into the vicinity of the negative energy crystal mine, let alone come to the mine and observe the miners off work at close range.

When Bei Feng sent this information back, she was praised by the Secret Tower Federal Intelligence Agency.

"Finally, there is another decent intelligence!" The intelligence chief looked at the document with both pictures and texts and said with a smile, "Sending someone to take over the work of No. 97 is indeed a good idea!"

"That's true, but I still suggest that the matter of removing Wood...should we delay it a little longer?" His deputy advised, "At least until now, Wood has not caused any hindrance to Beifeng's work, on the contrary, he has helped a lot."

The intelligence chief thought for a while and nodded.

"You have a point. Regardless of whether he has betrayed or not, being able to send this information back shows that he has not completely gone to the opposite side of us. There is really no need to rush to remove him now."

After they discussed, they decided to let the intelligence personnel send an order to postpone the action of removing Wood.

As for the channel for delivering the order, of course it would not be as exaggerated as using the teleportation array directly.

Anyway, Beifeng and Wood have been getting along well during this period, so there is no need to worry too much.

However, even if they themselves did not expect that Beifeng would take action while the order was still on the way...