Chapter 514: Drawing fire from the bottom of the cauldron
After opening his eyes, Ren's eyes were still dark.
This seemed to be the inside of some kind of pipe. It was so narrow and narrow that Ren, wearing armor, could only lie prone in it.
After complaining about the unreliable teleportation function, Ren saw a faint light not far ahead and a man's voice at the same time, so he climbed over with difficulty with the help of his arms.
The light came in from a square iron fence. Looking down, we saw a group of strange people, sitting scattered in the room, with a short table in front of each person.
They are strange because none of them have legs and stand on chairs like buckets.
They were discussing a recent incident in the kingdom that had caused quite a stir.
This is also the news that Renn saw before he came. There is a world-famous painting master in this little-known little kingdom. However, a few days after his famous painting was auctioned for a high price of 300 million, this master...
He committed suicide by taking pills in his studio.
"Master Valo's apprentice Balsa is unwilling to disclose the reason why the master committed suicide." A barrel man said.
"Maybe he was the one who poisoned the master to death. This guy has no talent at all. I heard the master reprimanded Balsa in public more than once, saying that he had skills but no heart."
"Poison? You'd better come up with a more interesting story. Master Wallow is a person that even His Majesty the King must treat with courtesy. You still dare to make up such a low-end conspiracy story this time. I pray that you can find a way to end it."
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"Could it be that the old man has run out of inspiration and can't draw anything anymore?"
"He is a master. Even if his inspiration is exhausted, he will draw a circle on the paper and a large number of people will buy it. The last time he painted the painting 'Brightness,' I made up a story for five pieces of paper. Although I couldn't understand it at all.
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"Only five pieces of paper? When you tell me, I remembered that more than thirty years ago, when the master was not famous, I wrote a dozen pieces of paper to praise the "Fields", even though it was a requirement from above."
...
A group of people talked endlessly. Ren was thinking about whether to just go out. The place was too crowded and he felt uncomfortable being treated as a "gentleman." The door of the room was suddenly pushed open, revealing a wooden barrel with a mustache.
A person jumped in, followed by a normal person with legs.
But if you look closely, you can see that this person is nowhere to be found.
The chest was empty, with a piece missing.
As soon as Mustache came into the room, all the barrel people in the room immediately became quiet, turned their backs one by one, and lay on their own little tables, immersed in their work.
"Listen, everyone." Mustache invited the heartless man behind him: "Mr. Balsa has something to say. Please, Mr. Balsa."
The man named Balsa brushed his already neat face and raised his head half-raised: "My teacher, the great Master Vallo, entrusted me before his death to publish his last painting, the "Life" series.
The final chapter, "Fire"."
"ah!?"
"this..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the people in the barrel looked surprised and started whispering to each other.
"But isn't the "Life" series a trilogy? When did "Flame" appear again?"
Some people have raised their own doubts. The "Life" trilogy is three paintings including Varot's famous masterpiece "The Field". They express three emotions of joy, anger and sorrow respectively. They are also recognized as the most unique to Varlot.
Three works of technique….
Some time ago, "Fields" was sold for hundreds of millions, mainly because the buyer had already collected the remaining two paintings.
However, after Vallo finished painting the last portrait of his wife, "Mourning," he made it clear that his temperament was gradually calming down, and he was afraid that it would be difficult to complete another work of the same level.
So the "Flame" that Balsa is talking about now...
Balsa snorted softly: "Trilogy is just a title given by outsiders. The teacher is just being self-effacing when he says he cannot draw paintings of this level. Do you have any doubts about the teacher's level?"
"No!"
"No!"
"Then what emotion does "Flame" represent? Is it passion?" The person who asked the question couldn't imagine it.
, an old guy who is about to commit suicide, where does the enthusiasm come from?
But I heard Balsa say in a cold voice: "It's fear."
Seeing that everyone looked puzzled and still studying why the painting representing "fear" was named "Flame", Balsa was too lazy to explain to these "immovable art" people: "Anyway
, I hope you can announce the teacher’s new paintings for me, so as not to bury the teacher’s hard work.”
"Then can we take a look at the master's paintings?" Someone suggested: "This will make it easier to introduce them."
"No need!" Balsa rejected this request, which seemed very reasonable to everyone: "You just need to tell everyone that this is the fourth painting in the "Life" series and the last painting by the teacher. Painted
Don’t worry about the content. It’s up to you to introduce it. It’s not the first time you’ve made up something like this.”
He turned around and said to Mustache: "I'm leaving first."
After leaving these words, he left directly without any intention of introducing the content of the painting.
The mustache sent the man out the door, then turned around and told the barrel man: "Write well for me!"
Then he chased him out.
When the footsteps of the two people were far away, the people in the room became lively again.
"How can I write this if I can't even see the painting?"
"Could it be fake, like it was painted by Balsa himself?"
"No conspiracy theories, as I said before, no conspiracy theories about Master Wallow. He is the only master in our kingdom, and His Majesty the King will punish him."
"Forget about those messy things, let's just follow the two aspects of 'fear' and 'fire'. I guess it's some evil flame or something."
"Bodie, don't guess. Last time there was a fire in the North District, you just heard the news and wrote that a large area of houses was destroyed, dozens of people were killed or injured, and you didn't go to inquire about it. In the end, a horse was burned down.
shed."
"It sounds like you're going to inquire about it. You have to do this as soon as possible, otherwise no one will read it. Besides, if I don't make it up, others will make it up."
Everyone was discussing enthusiastically, but there was a "clang" sound, and the iron fence above their heads came loose for some reason and fell to the ground.
Before he could react, another "Iron Man" was smashed down.
"Helmet...Armor monster!"
"I just happened to be passing by." The person who fell down was naturally Renn. As he spoke, he reached out and lifted the chin of the barrel man sitting next to him with his mouth wide open but unable to make any sound out of fear:
"So don't be surprised."
After taking a look, he found that the others still had their mouths open, as if the screams were in their throats. He shrugged, turned around and walked out of the room.
The barrel man in the room felt slightly relieved, and was about to release his belated scream and call for help when Ren's figure appeared at the door again.
"Well......"
In the process of holding it back, some strange syllables were born.
Ren's eyes glanced back and forth at the missing leg of the barrel door, then he raised his right leg, swung it in the air, and made a sweeping motion on his thigh with his hand.
Barrel Man:?
Seeing that these people were unmoved, Renn raised his left foot and patted the side of his knee, making a clanging sound.
Bucket Man:??
Still don’t understand?
Renn then gave them a not very superb performance, in fact it should be said that it was a rhythmless tap.