Soul Painter

20th Century.

Painting Paris.

Gao Fan and Anna were walking on the muddy dirt road after the rain.

A coachman drove past the two of them in a carriage, splashing a lot of mud from the wheels.

Although Gao Fan and Anna stood far away, their pants and shoes also suffered.

So Gao Fan looked down at the black thing on his shoe, very suspicious of what it was.

"Paris already had public toilets in the 20th century, and the sanitary conditions were leading in the world at that time." Anna pointed to a bell-shaped iron object on the side of the street. So it shouldn't be feces, I even saw a toilet in the big detective's house before."

Oh... that's fine. Gao Fan breathed a sigh of relief.

Anna looked around Paris with great interest. The world she created in the painting is full of interest because the world in the painting has begun to automatically generate scenery and characters like the background board, such as the carriage just now. , it was not drawn by the painters.

This proves that the world in the painting has begun to grow by itself.

Maybe one day the Paris city in the painting will become the real Paris city in history. .

But that will have to wait at least until the painting is finished.

Now they pass through the temple of inspiration and stand on the 'edge' of the painted city.

The place where the painting has not yet been painted, that is, behind them at this moment, is a chaotic black mist. The carriage came in a hurry, then left in a hurry, and disappeared in the black mist. Anna thought that it was already in the painting. Parts that are primed but not painted in 'Paris Blue'.

It's amazing.

The two painters walked in this gradually come alive Paris city.

Walked all the way to the door of the big detective on Pipe Street.

After ringing the doorbell.

The familiar landlady came to open the door for them.

A landlady is soulless.

She's just a character attached to Vidok, like an NPC.

The whole city of Paris is like this, it is Victor's kingdom and paradise alone.

The landlady remembered the two painters because Vidock knew them both.

When he came to the second floor, Gao Fan saw the second soul with independent memory, Wu Haoxue.

The old Wu Haoxue was sitting on the sofa drinking tea and chatting with the big detective. The two looked very happy. After seeing Gao Fan and Anna walking in, Wu Haoxue stood up and greeted Gao Fan. Gao Fan Smiled at him, pleased with the scene.

Sure enough, Vidok and Wu Haoxue got acquainted.

Gao Fan tantamount to sending Wu Haoxue into the historical gap between the past, the real and the unreal.

Next, as long as this painting becomes real history, then Wu Haoxue should be a figure that exists in real history.

Although Wu Haoxue cannot live in this world.

But being able to live in history.

Version 1.0 of Wu Haoxue, that is, Feng Yuan, died of looking directly at the mystery of the "great being: the one who returns all things to one".

Version 2.0 of Wu was studious and died of the 'curse of the gods'.

Now in front of Gao Fan is Wu Haoxue in version 3.0. Gao Fan believes that since he can revive Wu Haoxue once, he can resurrect Wu Haoxue a second time, or even infinite times.

So he smiled and looked at Wu Haoxue, as if looking at his own masterpiece.

Wu Haoxue was terrified by Gao Fan, and at the same time he shook his head and sighed secretly, probably wanting to say, teacher, just let me go, can't I just die in peace?

Gao Fan's answer would naturally be, of course not.

"The commission this time is not simple." The detective told Gao Fan and Anna about his experience, including the rat infestation covering the whole of Paris at the moment, and the giant rat man who threatened Wu Haoxue. Hearing all this, Gao Fan was shocked. Fan and Anna looked at each other immediately.

They came here originally to know how Vidok crossed the boundary between painting and reality and arrived in Paris 100 years later, but at this moment, what happened to Vidok is already very clear.

"So you finally took off the clothes full of kerosene, threw them on the mouse demon like a fire bomb, and burned it to death?" Gao Fan repeated the experience told by Vidok, and couldn't help giving a thumbs up , "Awesome~"

As expected of a legendary detective, even if he doesn't have mysterious powers, he can fight back and forth with demonic powers.

"So, Mr. Vidok was able to walk out of this painting because he followed the footprints of those mice..." Gao Fan said.

It is obvious that Vidok is chasing the power of the demon, that is, the rats, who travel through the painting and reality.

"But the devil... how did the Ganga shaman get into our painting?" Gao Fan asked Anna.

The operator had already informed Gao Fan that the 'Ganges Wizard', suspected to be the head of the Plague Legion, had sneaked into the city of Paris. The rat riot was a sign of its pollution, so Gao Fan knew the name of the demon he was about to face .

The question is, why did the wizards of the Ganges have such supernatural powers that they polluted their creation of "Paris"?

Facing this question, Anna had big '? ’ Looking back at Gao Fan.

"Yes, you don't understand." Gao Fan nodded.

"Teacher, what happened? Why was I kidnapped by a mouse? That demon is the 'Wizard of the Ganges'? What happened outside? Has Paris fallen? Have you left the city of Paris?" Wu Haoxue asked in one breath There were so many questions that Gao Fan didn't even want to answer them.

Still, it has to be explained.

At least let Vidok know what happened.

So Gao Fan told the two souls in front of him everything that happened in Paris 100 years later.

Yes, they are all spirits, they don't really exist.

Facing ordinary human souls, knowing that they no longer exist will lead to cognitive disintegration, and even collapse in Gao Fan's paintings, but these two people in front of them will not. Their souls are firmer than ordinary people. Human limit.

"It turned out to be like this... That is to say, with your creation, a demon also entered this painting, and now the devil is chasing and killing me, because I am the core of this painting, and it caught me, so To own this painting, to own the city of Paris in this painting," Poddock said.

"Yes, that's right, that's what it means, the shameless devil wants to take away the great work I have worked so hard to create!" Gao Fan was very angry.

"Your doubt lies in the path through which the devil entered this painting." Podock grabbed the pipe, lit it, took a puff, and then said: "The answer is very simple, it is because of him."

Gao Fan looked at the direction Podock's pipe was pointing at, and it was Wu Haoxue.

I? Wu Haoxue, who has only one soul left, has inexplicably carried such a big blame, and he feels inexplicable and very wronged.

"Oh~" Gao Fan immediately understood after being reminded by Vidok. After all, his 'investigation' skills are not low, even close to full value, "That egg!"

That egg is the remains of Wu Haoxue, and the mice have been with that egg all the time. The devil followed Wu Haoxue's bones, infected Wu Haoxue's soul, and directly polluted the city of Paris where Gao Fan was creating.

That's why the mice kidnapped Wu Haoxue.

"In this case, Mr. Podock, I entrust you with a second entrustment. Can you go to Egypt?" Gao Fan asked.