Because the valve means closing, and closing is a kind of silence; the key means opening, and opening is a wound.
Beauty will die in silence, and wounds will destroy the sense of beauty. Therefore, the Hall of Mirrors has no door, only windows - windows are eyes, the medium for observing beauty.
Therefore, every painting on the exterior wall here is a mirror and a window.
Aiwass took Yassen to the painting closest to them.
——It is a religious painting, it is dark red in color and is inlaid on a ruby wall.
Aiwass had actually seen this painting—it was a painting by an acquaintance of his.
It is a painting by the former Vice-Chancellor of the Ziggurat, Adolf von Menzel, who used all his life, soul, and memory to paint "The Pale Painting".
This painting is called "Iron Rolling Factory" and it is an oil painting.
He painted an almost perfect scene of workers in a steel factory working hard in a harsh environment. In the dark red factory, the hot metal is so bright, like the sun. Just looking at it makes you feel hot.
, the smell of vitality mixed with the smell of burnt odor and dust came to my face. The workers' movements were full of power, as if they were moving... There were also tinkling sounds of banging and people's discussions in my ears.
These are not just exaggerated descriptions.
The closer they get to the painting, the more real the painting becomes.
The pungent smell in the factory became stronger and stronger, and the nihilistic heat burned to the point where Yasen felt his cheeks were burning.
And when they get close enough...
Yasen suddenly realized that he was already in the factory without knowing when.
——That painting became a real world!
He no longer looked at the painting, but walked into the painting wearing a worker's clothes!
The sound of clanging and clanging echoed throughout the space along with the creaking of the machines starting up. The sounds of workers discussing, arguing, and cursing were endless, reminding Yassen of the port.
He subconsciously took a half step back, but did not exit the painting again. He just felt that he had lightly hit a wall.
Yasen's heart skipped a beat and he looked back. But he saw nothing.
Behind him is a wall.
A wall with no windows or doors.
At that moment, Yasen broke out in a cold sweat.
"——Follow me."
But Aiwass said it very skillfully.
As if he had been here before, he walked in a certain direction without hesitation.
It should... indeed have been here.
After all, he is the former pope, and he may be familiar with the twin mirrors...
Yassen followed him, thinking to himself.
"Inside the Hall of Mirrors..."
——Is this the world of paintings?
Yasen originally wanted to ask this.
But Aiwass quickly stopped him: "Shh."
Realizing that it was not convenient to talk here, Yassen immediately shut up.
Aiwass walked forward to the end first, and then chose the left side without hesitation among the two stairs going down on the left and right.
At this point, the workers' voices gradually faded away.
But after he followed Aiwass down the stairs, he didn't know when he found himself in front of a sacred pure white church, and there was a blazing heat behind him.
Yassen knew this church, it was called the Chapel of Candlemas.
This is the most famous church on the Ile de la Cité - because the relationship between the Iris people and the Theocracy is not good, there are not many churches in Iris. It can even be called the largest church in the entire Iris.
Compared with the ordinary Church of Nine Pillars, this church is more responsible for worshiping the candle itself... It is run by three pure-blooded elf bishops and one elf archbishop, and the management has nothing to do with the Iris people.
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But also because the Chapel of Candlemas is one of the few "churches with enough people", the Candlemas has become the only faith of many Iris people, especially the people of Ile de la Cité - it is basically impossible for churches in other places to give too many people.
There are many people to treat injuries. However, the population of Ile de la Cité is small, but the quality of the priests is the highest, the medical resources are quite sufficient, and it has never been haunted. Many people call Ile de la Cité the "real capital of fleur-de-lis" for this reason.
And just about twenty years ago, due to lack of inspiration, a painter took "Si Xin Ling" which was said to be able to predict the future and reveal the truth - a magic potion that had been popular in Iris for a period of time.
It is sold as an alchemical mixture, and in fact it does have extraordinary effects...but it is a witch's potion, so it is completely unsafe.
Once this medicine is drunk, there is a 30% chance of hallucinations, a 30% chance of predicting the future, and a 40% chance of falling into coma and having a bizarre dream. However, it is impossible to distinguish between "predicting the future" and "predicting the future".
With the characteristics of "hallucination", the prediction ability it brings becomes extremely dangerous... Some people may identify hallucinations as the future; some people will identify the future as hallucinations.
This is even worse than not predicting!
It gradually brought chaos and was finally stopped by the four Dukes. Before that, many avant-garde artists had tried this medicine.
This painter is one of the representatives.
He painted a painting called "The Destruction of the Candlemas Chapel".
The Candlemas Chapel in the painting was burning in the fire and was torn to pieces. Countless red bats flew away, and the whole sky was reflected red.
Because of the transcendent status of the Candlemas Chapel, whether this painting is an illusion or the future triggered a fierce debate. Then the "bat" became the second focus of people's attention, and people even began to discuss whether the fire was an illusion or something from the future.
It wasn't Moonchild who released it.
For the sake of the content of an illusory painting, taking the blame for an event that didn't happen at all is as ridiculous as a couple quarreling over "what to spend if they win the lottery" until they get divorced.
Of course, it is impossible for the Children of the Moon to accept this situation. They have always been wronged by others. When did they themselves suffer such great injustice?
As a result, the painting was later banned by the Children of the Moon because it "failed the artistic ethics assessment". But in Iris, the more banned something is, the more widely it spreads...
When Yassen saw this church, he immediately realized that he appeared in another painting!
He suddenly understood the mechanism here.
"No wonder this palace is called the Hall of Mirrors..."
"You finally understand."
Aiwass nodded happily.
——Here, any mirror, painting, window, staircase... other than the "door" connecting objects may be a bridge between two paintings. And they can enter through these "bridges" in a painting.
Another painting. This cycle is repeated, and eventually you can reach any location by entering from any painting.
"...Are there only paintings in the world here?" Yasen asked.
"How is it possible? Drama, poetry, sculpture, music... everything is possible. It's just that 'related things' and 'related things' will be closer. For example, these two paintings are both paintings, and both
It's red and black, so they will be closely connected.
"This area is the ultimate core of 'artificial beauty' in the world - as long as the beauty is created with wisdom, it can appear here."
Aiwass said with a smile: "The Twin Mirror, Xitiansi, Getiansi, and their apostles may all play someone in a certain space. Maybe in the steel factory you just passed by,
Some people are hiding among them to watch the fun."
And he himself - of course he is not afraid of these things.
He has run this dungeon so many times that he already knows the grid map of the Hall of Mirrors and the logic of edge finding. It is not difficult even to run to a place that has never appeared before.
The information given by Yassen is very clear. Sherlock is in a brown building similar to a library, and there are two candles, one black and one white, on the table in front of him. This means that the painting should be quiet and bright.
, the overall tone is sepia and not easily accessible from other paintings.
——So, just look for similarities!
As long as the spaces on the road become more and more similar, it means that they are getting closer to Sherlock's possible place!