Soul Painter

What Gao Fan originally wanted to 'acquire' from the citizens of Paris was the 'soul'.

But you can’t say it clearly, otherwise, although the society of the 21st century is sufficiently enlightened and diverse, at this critical moment when demons invade the world, the guillotine may be re-erected by the angry people in the Bastille Square, and beheaded. Goofy's head off.

Therefore, Gao Fan used the excuse of collecting "urban relics" and understanding the spirit and culture of the city of Paris, hoping that Parisians would sell the souls of their loved ones in their hands, but the enthusiastic Parisians obviously misunderstood and regarded Gao Fan as A talented artist who is curious about the history of Paris will sell those 'treasures' passed down in his family to the painter.

However, after 'Emma''s mother sold her ashes and her life to the painter, Gao Fan also received the 'relics' he wanted one after another. After all, France is at war at the moment, and the pain caused by the war One is the death of a large number of young and middle-aged people.

Although the Devil Legion is still a thousand kilometers away from Paris, the country's army has long been on the battlefield, not only in Berlin, but in the earlier Polish campaign, the French Legion began to participate in this battle for the destiny of mankind.

In the war with the devil, how tragic is the battle?

Gao Fan then learned the real scenes of those battles through the mouths of some family members of the dead.

A soldier's wife who died in the Polish battlefield sold the only soldier nameplate in her hand to Gao Fan, and of course there are a lot of relics, including her husband's social account passwords-this is equivalent to a diary in the information age .

Gao Fan took over the soldier's nameplate that had been corroded to the point of being green and mottled. There were still some traces of pollution on the silver nameplate. The name on the nameplate was 'Dominique de Villepain (Dominique de Villepain)'.

In the wife's description, the soldier didn't die directly on the Polish battlefield. If so, she probably wouldn't even be able to get this nameplate back. The demons would corrode everything they touched, including this soldier. their only relics.

This soldier accidentally came into contact with the corpse they called the 'Green Devil' on the battlefield, and was quickly contaminated, just like an innocent person bitten in a zombie movie. Within seventy-two hours, this soldier Pollution turned him into a pile of rotten meat.

Before turning into rotten meat, the soldier saw his wife, the lady in front of Gao Fan at the moment. The terrified soldier described what he saw, and the wife recorded it all:

"...I saw large green dark clouds gathering in the southern sky, and I smelled a disgusting smell like dead rats in my nose. Before encountering the green devil, we will first see a large number of rats, cockroaches and unknown small insects, They rushed into our queue crazily. Běn (another soldier) was bitten by a rat on his foot and developed a high fever. The wound began to rot and pus within a few days. The special medicine provided by the hospital was not effective at all. We 'Investigators' must be counted on to save us..."

Yes, the soldiers knew very well that only the investigators could save them.

Because only investigators can fight pollution.

"...But those 'investigators' are very busy. The commander said that each squadron will have an 'investigator' to cooperate with us in the battle, but our squadron doesn't have one. I only saw the mysterious 'investigator' next to the brigade officer. She's wearing a court lady's dress that my grandma would have loved, with a veil on her face, she must be beautiful, but it's none of our business..."

"...Our firepower is very powerful. We have air superiority, ground superiority, firepower superiority, etc., but when these missiles and artillery blast into the formation of those green devils, the entire land will be polluted. As long as it touches Pollution, we may become demons, Poland is over, we cannot expel the demons, because the demons grow on this land..."

"...after the bombing, soldiers were still needed to reoccupy Poland, and we watched as the soldiers in the front line fell into what appeared to be a small but deep, green-bubbling cloud of pollution. A few minutes later, There are already a few green goblins crawling out, this scene makes people crazy, we scream and shoot at our former comrades in arms..."

"... I was also polluted, the doctor said it was okay, I will not become a demon, I just need amputation, this is good news, isn't it?"

"...the doctor said that the pollution has gone deep into my body, but it has not reached a certain limit of transformation into a demon, so, I will not be fine, and I will not become a demon, what does that mean? The doctor did not answer me, too much Wounded soldiers are waiting for him to rescue, and if they are judged to turn into demons, they will be carried away. We all guess that they were secretly executed, what about us? What will happen to us?"

"It will rot a little bit..."

...

Gao Fan bought the soldier's relic for 5,000 US dollars. .

And other, more soldier relics.

After the painter expressed his interest in the dead, the families of the soldiers came to them one after another. Some of them had to sell everything around them to survive because of the poverty caused by the war. In the case of soaring prices, those pensions Not enough for a family to live in Paris.

Others are because of the painter's fame. They hope that their children, lovers or relatives can get something after death, not necessarily a military medal, as long as the world still remembers his name, and stay in the painter's painting, Undoubtedly the most likely way.

The most numerous of these relics are the nameplates of the soldiers. Few soldiers can leave ashes in the battle among the demons, and most of them have no bones left.

Gao Fan restored part of the scene of the Polish war in one after another, either vaguely or clearly. The members of the Plague Legion are one after another monsters with green slime all over their bodies. Their movement speed and attack power are not strong. , the most frightening thing is that wherever they die, it will become a polluted territory where demons parasitize.

This kind of pollution is difficult to remove. Human beings who come into contact with it lightly will die, and those who are serious will be turned into a plague minion. Therefore, relying on this "territory-occupied" attack method, the Plague Legion swallowed Poland whole. It's just that after swallowing Poland, the Plague Legion also suffered heavy casualties, almost annihilated, and did not appear on the German battlefield at this moment, otherwise, Berlin would be in danger.

...

this afternoon.

Looking at the hundreds of nameplates in front of him.

Gao Fan felt that the material collected this time should be enough.

So Gao Fan said to Anna: "Let's try again~ There are enough experimental items this time."