Soul Painter

the next day.

Lawrence has a fever.

He had fallen in the kitchen when he was found.

Gao Fan and Anna called an ambulance and took him to the hospital.

I saw many patients in the hospital who were in a similar condition to Lawrence.

They were all Parisians bitten by rats.

The specific symptoms are fever, pneumonia, and coughing up blood.

Doctors believe that this symptom is a typical "plague", that is, the Black Death.

In the 1440s and 1450s, the Black Death swept across Europe and killed 25 million Europeans, equivalent to 1/3 of the total population of Europe.

General research believes that under modern sanitary conditions, it is impossible for the plague to break out on a large scale, but the current situation in Paris seems to be slapping researchers in the face.

But after all, modern medicine is prosperous enough, and all kinds of antibiotics are enough to beat the once deadly germs on the ground. Fortunately, the pollution did not invade Paris on a large scale. Like the soldiers on the battlefield, they are in the process of becoming a pool of rotten meat.

Looking at Lawrence, who had been treated in a private ward and his fever had begun to subside, both Gao Fan and Anna breathed a sigh of relief. The doctor believed that he could be discharged from the hospital after only about a week of treatment, although the Black Death still caused 10% of deaths in modern times. rate, but in Paris, as long as timely treatment is received, this 10% will not happen.

"The strange thing is, how did this kind of mouse with the black death bacteria appear in Paris?" The doctor's question was also everyone's question. .

A germ naturally has a source.

So this source...?

Gao Fan and Anna looked at each other, their expressions suddenly changed.

...

Painting Paris.

Dead bodies litter the streets.

In a blink of an eye, the city has become a 'dead city'.

Rats openly devour human corpses in the streets.

Pedestrians covered their mouths and noses and walked quickly on the street for fear of being infected with deadly germs.

And a beggar on the street who was begging was stretching out his withered hand, trying to grab the trousers of a passer-by, but after the passerby broke free, the beggar fell down like a felled dead tree, coughing One side spurted a big mouthful of blood.

In the 14th century, Paris was lucky enough to save itself from the Black Death. In the 20th century, the Black Death invaded again. This time, under the control of the devil, the whole city was screaming for death.

Gao Fan and Anna walked on the streets of Paris like this.

I just feel shocked.

They can no longer tell whether this is the world in the painting or the real city of Paris in the 20th century.

If the devil wiped out the city in history, will Paris be affected 100 years later?

Probably not.

The painting is not yet finished.

The world in the painting should not affect the reality... should it...?

They walked to Pipe Street and knocked on the door of the detective's apartment.

After the landlady opened the door, she said that Detective Victor had left Paris and hadn't returned yet.

It seems that the protagonist of the world in the painting has left the confines of Paris.

But the plague began to ravage the city.

Maybe the devil couldn't catch up with Vidok and began to wreak havoc on the city of Paris to vent his anger.

"How long has Mr. Detective been away? How long has the plague been around?"

Faced with Gao Fan's question, the landlady was confused. Her memory seemed to be a little fuzzy, so that she couldn't tell the exact time, but this made Gao Fan heave a sigh of relief, because it meant that the landlady was not a real person. Painting does not connect to the real 20th century.

"After all, the painting is not yet finished." Gao Fan said.

"Then do you want to continue painting?" Anna asked.

"Well..." Gao Fan scratched his head.

Obviously, the higher the completion of this true "Soul of Paris" painting, the stronger the demon's influence on the historical Paris city will be, and at the same time, it will indirectly pollute the real Paris, so Gao Fan and Anna, are they not You are painting history, but you are painting pollution.

Gao Fan originally wanted to paint a painting to fill the souls of all Parisian citizens, and save Wu Haoxue by the way, but the devil preempted the world in this painting... very despicable.

creak creak...

under the streetlight.

The scream of the mouse came to the ears of the two.

Surprised, they turned their heads and saw a large group of rats gathered under the street lamp.

These mice are all big, black, fat, and strong, and they all look like kitten cubs. When they are piled up and piled up one after another, their scarlet eyes are staring at each other. Looking at Gao Fan and Anna, he finally looked like a humanoid monster with eyes all over his body.

Anna suppressed the fear in her heart, but slowly hid behind Gao Fan.

This is scary.

Gao Fan felt the same way.

He watched the watery mice crawling around on the monster in front of him, and felt that the hairs all over his body were screaming, and his rationality was being challenged. Fortunately, this discomfort only existed physically. Learn skills, and when facing such demon servants, you will no longer lose your sanity.

But it's disgusting.

"Hey hey hey~" The monster made of rats let out a shrill laugh, "Mr. Painter, the city-state in the painting you worked so hard to build is now my city~"

"Who are you?" Gao Fan frowned and protected Anna behind him.

"I am Lord of the Ganges! Conqueror of Paris! Lord of the world destined to be great!" roared the monster.

"Ganges is a shit-eating wizard, right?" Gao Fan sneered, "Does your master know that you are bragging like this outside?"

"This city is mine! I will achieve greatness here!" the giant rat monster roared.

Gao Fan's insult had already made this two-meter-tall giant rat monster angry. It jumped forward violently, turning into a rainstorm of mice rushing from the sky, with countless pairs of blood-red eyes and screaming mouths. , falling down to Gao Fan together.

ah! Ana screamed.

...

"It's okay, it's okay." Gao Fan comforted Anna.

Anna let go of her hand and looked around, and found that she was alone in the studio. The scary mouse monster just now had disappeared without a trace.

That's right, as long as they get out of the hall of inspiration, what can monsters do to them?

As for the devil who is suspected to be the wizard of the Ganges, he is entrenched in Paris in the painting.

This is not the first time this has happened.

In Gao Fan's current inspiration hall, each "scene" has its owner, including Bengka Village polluted by green beast-shaped demons, Weiyang Palace occupied by Chinese dragon-shaped demons, and Boston lurked by unknown dirty demons. They are all During the time of the gods' contamination, those who were 'invited' to enter the Hall of Inspiration and lingered.

Compared with these truly great beings, the Ganges wizard is a bastard?

The so-called "occupation" of a painting means owning the city-state that the painter worked so hard to build, which is even more nonsense.

Couldn't Gao Fan and Anna be redrawn?

After Gao Fan appeased Anna, he took this large painting with an area of ​​1.8 meters by 1.2 meters and prepared to stuff it into the fireplace. I don't want this painting anymore! I'm going to kill you, you fucking devil too!

"Wait!" Seeing this, Anna hurriedly stopped Gao Fan, "Mr. Detective and Wu Haoxue are still there!"

That's right... Gao Fan calmed down.

Fight a monster, about 10 chapters, and the painting will be officially completed after fighting the monster.