Soul Painter

Gao Fan and Anna painted Ali as the "spirit behind the scenes".

Still an Ali in his prime.

Although this Ali has little impact on reality, when he punches, the force of a thousand catties can only blow up a breeze in the world.

But it's a gust of wind, that's also mysteriously interfering with reality.

Walking on the streets of Phoenix City, looking at the shadow of the boxing champion behind her, Anna could only sigh "amazing".

"What's interesting is that Tyson didn't show up." Gao Fan discussed with Anna, "We can still only see him in the inspiration world, only the old boxing champion broke through... well, broke through The Fourth wall."

Fourth wall, the fourth wall, generally refers to the stage play. There are only three walls in the realistic scene. Although the wall along the proscenium is invisible, it is considered to exist.

Breaking through the fourth wall refers to the extension from stage art to reality. This is a one-way wall. It exists and is real for the stage actors, and it is illusory and solid for the audience.

Ali has truly broken through the fourth wall at this moment and appeared in reality. In this case, either the skills of the two painters are so exquisite that they are in the realm of ghosts and gods, or the two of them are crazy together. Both possibilities are different. Not small.

"It should be that Ali is at the end of his life, and Tyson still has a longer life." Anna said, "Gao, are you a devil? Am I a devil? Only devils can use a paintbrush to confine human souls. "

"It doesn't matter if it's a devil or a god. If you think 'confine' is not good, or we should say that the soul of this boxing champion has 'believed' in us." After Gao Fan finished speaking, he asked Ali behind them, "You What do you think?"

"It can make me stand up again, have youth, have strength, and return to the most prosperous moment of my life. I am willing to use my soul to believe in you." Ali stretched out his hand in boxing gloves, and Gao Fan stretched out his fist to touch him. for a moment.

Agreement reached.

At this time, Gao Fan's cell phone rang suddenly, and when he answered the phone, Ali's shadow disappeared without a sound. After saying a few words, Gao Fan's face became serious.

After a while, Gao Fan put down the phone and said to Anna: "Lawrence is calling. Ali is leaving. He wants to see us before he dies."

...

In a hospital in Phoenix.

Ali is already in a dying state.

It was still because of the long-term Parkinson's disease that caused his body muscles to lose control, and he could not even breathe on his own. He still died of respiratory failure.

When Gao Fan and Anna arrived, the dying Ali woke up suddenly, his body could not move, but his eyes looked at Gao Fan and Anna anxiously, as if he was longing for something.

"He seemed to be asking for something from you?" Ali's family said.

So Gao Fan took out $100 from his pocket and put it in Ali's finger that had not been able to move for many years.

At this moment, Ali miraculously clenched his fist and held the 100 dollars tightly in his palm. At this moment, there was a sense of relief and relief in his expression. Immediately afterwards, the instrument that monitored his heart rate drew an unspeakable line. Then the undulating green line.

The legendary old boxing champion left the world that brought him honor, but also brought him pain and suffering.

"What does that mean?" Tyson, who also came to bid farewell to Ali, saw the expression on Ali's face when he took the $100. He couldn't help asking Gao Fan in a low voice curiously. What about baptism and prayer-like release?

"Model fees." Gao Fan said, "I will give my models 100 dollars, which is the fee for depicting them, and of course, the price for buying their beliefs and souls."

"So Ali's soul belongs to you now?" Tyson showed an angry expression. He looked as if he wanted to punch Gao Fan. Tyson believed in religion, and in the teaching, the human soul belongs to the Lord, not to a painter , which seemed to him an insult to the dead.

"Just kidding~" Gao Fan looked at Tyson's clenched fist, and quickly surrendered. He didn't want to be fisted by a boxing champion, even a retired boxing champion.

But Gao Fan still owed: "But wait until one day you are also suffering from illness, and when you want to regain the glory of the past, remember to ask me to get your 100 dollars, just kidding~don't care."

Tyson glared at Gao Fan. If it wasn't for the years of self-cultivation after he was released from prison, if it wasn't for Gao Fan's superb painting skills that brought comfort to the old boxing champion, and if Gao Fan didn't immediately say that he was joking, Tyson really wanted to beat him up.

...

"He will beat you." Ali's soul said behind Gao Fan's back.

"Wait for another twenty years, wait for him to lie in bed with piss dripping in his adult diapers, struggling to remember the glory days of his past, then he'll be reminded of this Although this day is late, it will come sooner or later, because human beings are destined to be unable to resist the ravages of time."

Gao Fan said with half sigh and half with emotion: "In this way, the mystery I wasted on him is not a waste, but an investment~"

Tyson watched Gao Fan admit defeat, but there was a devilish smile on the corner of his mouth. For some reason, there was a gloomy chill behind his back.

...

"Ring Arena" was placed in the exhibition area of ​​the Demon School paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Under Lawrence's hard-working publicity, Gao Fan's oil painting of the time-and-space confrontation for the two boxing champions attracted public interest. Critics were busy analyzing and interpreting Gao Fan's technical bias and direction, while the public was Only shocked by Gao Fan's exquisite painting skills.

From the perspective of ordinary viewers, Gao Fan's paintings are very "down-to-earth". Of course, sometimes the "down-to-earth" is too thorough, and it may be connected to the "underworld", such as those pictures of "Mask" that test the human mind .

This time, the Demon Painting School's "Strongest on Earth" exhibition led by Gao Fan and participated by Anna is much more "friendly". Understand, and have room for imagination, even ordinary people who do not know how to paint, can also read from the painting that the artist wants to express the spirit and see the picture that the artist wants to express.

This picture, transcending time and space, is vivid.

This is the art of painting that can bring shock without interpretation.

The 'Strongest on Earth' art exhibition is gradually attracting attention.

It brought a wave of SAN value bonuses to Gaofan.

The upper limit of the SAN value he harvested every day was rising, from less than 100 points per day to about 200 points per day, which allowed Gao Fan to push his various skills to the upper limit again in about a week.

40 points in mysticism, the latest 5-point increase comes from close contact with the "great existence: Rubik's Cube". Although the Rubik's Cube has been expelled from the human world, the mysterious knowledge it represents still exists.

An old man, for the first time contact, can get 5 points of mysticism, which is very impressive.

Distortion reached the upper limit of 30, and the world also reached the upper limit of 35. After Gao Fan took away Ali's soul with a brush, he deeply realized that the ultimate state reached by these two second-stage painting skills, coupled with occultism, should be His brush can interfere with reality.

This is his mystery.

Chapter 3~