Angel did see oil paintings in the prison ladder in the nightmare world. But these oil paintings were all gathered on the top floor, which is the residence of the warden.
The warden of the prison ladder seems to be a person who loves oil painting very much. Every corridor where he lives has a large number of paintings. All of these paintings are masterpieces by famous artists.
When Angel left the prison ladder, he even picked two paintings from the warden's gallery and brought them back to reality.
To this day, those two paintings still lie in Ingres's bracelet.
The oil painting on the wall of the ruins was naturally not one of the two that Angel brought out, but he had seen similar paintings in the warden's gallery.
In other words, this painting is most likely from the warden's gallery at the top of the prison ladder.
But how did it get here from the warden's gallery? Did it happen to fall here because of the void storm that caused the oil paintings inside to scatter? Or is it that the entire wall here actually belonged to the warden?
Part of the gallery?
Angel thought for a while and approached the location of the painting.
Before he even walked to the painting, Angel was sure that the wall was not from the warden's gallery, but the wall that originally belonged to the cell on the second floor. Because of the warden's gallery, the wall material and the picture frame material
They are the same kind, both are made of precious lacquered wood. The only difference is that the walls are covered with dark purple matte paper.
But the walls on this ruin are made of a mixture of stone and wood, which is a relatively cheap material, even cheaper than the previous deep sea wood. The only advantage is that it has strong energy conductivity and can carry the energy channel of the magic energy array.
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Although the walls are not the top gallery walls, the paintings do belong to the warden's collection.
This is a pastoral and leisurely oil painting. In the distance is a golden harvest of wheat, and a large number of peasant women are working hard. There is also a peasant woman nearby, but she is not working, but is resting against a tree.
From the sweat on her temples and the farm gloves placed aside, it can be seen that she is probably in the middle of working or taking a leisurely moment after working. Her golden curly hair falls from one side of the headscarf, and she has a young and energetic beautiful profile, beautiful green color
Her eyes were looking at the distant mountains, with traces of tenderness in her eyes, as if there was her beloved lover in the distant mountains.
The background is the warm tones of the early autumn harvest, and the aperture is hazy in the afternoon. The whole picture does not use too many colors, but it shows a rich sense of layering.
Angel was impressed by this oil painting because it was a rare leisure painting in the warden's collection.
Other paintings are either profound, abstract, realistic, or portraits.
There are very few leisurely paintings.
Precisely because there were few leisurely paintings, Angel also chose one of the two oil paintings that he brought out - "Herdsman Milking the Cow".
This painting "Pastoral Afternoon" was also among Ingres's selections at that time, so I remember it very deeply.
"Is there something wrong with this painting?" At this time, Earl Black also flew over.
The Black Earl's voice was filled with obvious doubts, because Angel should have heard his previous conversation with the Wise Lord. The Wise Lord made it clear that the wood spirit was not here, so why would Angel linger in front of this painting?
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Others also looked at Angel curiously. Angel rarely did anything unnecessary. He stayed in front of this painting. Did he discover something else?
Angel: "I'm just curious, why is this painting hanging here?"
Although Angel was answering the Black Earl, his eyes were looking at the wise master.
The wise ruler raised his eyebrows: "Why can't it hang here?"
Angel: "I think this kind of art should be hung in a beautiful gallery, not in ruins like this. Someone must have hung it here, right?"
The wise man laughs but does not answer.
He thought Angel had really discovered something, but it turned out that he was just curious about the painting appearing here.
It makes sense to think about it. How could a younger generation recognize an unknown painting from thousands of years ago?
Angel turned his head and looked at the Wise Lord: "Did the Wise Lord hang this painting here?"
The wise master shook his head: "No."
After a pause, the wise master continued: "If you want to know more detailed answers, you may wish to exchange answers with me."
At this time, the wise master took the initiative to exchange answers, which surprised the Black Earl. Because this meant that the wise master felt that this question was worthy of exchange with Angel.
In other words, the identity of the person who hung this painting should not be simple.
Angel also heard the implication of the wisdom master, but Angel shook his head: "Forget it, I'm here to find the wood spirit this time, let's put other things aside for now."
The wise master didn't care about Angel's choice, so he smiled and stepped aside.
But just when the wise master was about to return to the road to the void, he suddenly saw Vai, who was facing him, his eyes widening suddenly, and he looked behind him with a look of astonishment.
At the same time, Doakes also exclaimed: "What is this, a wood spirit?"
When the wise master heard these words, he paused and immediately turned his head to look.
But at some point, Angel's hand reached into the painting. From the painting, he slowly pulled out a dark brown log.
The log was pulled out bit by bit by Angel, and the painting seemed to turn into a lake with sparkling ripples.
Everyone stared at Angel's actions in stunned silence, even the wise master showed surprise.
How... did he know?
Under the gaze of everyone, Angel pulled the dark brown log, about two meters long and ten centimeters thick, out of the painting.
As the log completely left the oil painting, the tree against which the peasant woman leaned against appeared to be dead, with all the leaves fading away and only the withered trunk remaining.
Such changes are already amazing, but the changes are not over yet.
The peasant woman in the painting originally showed her side face, looking lovingly at the distant mountains, but at this time, the peasant woman turned her head and revealed her front face. The other side of her face was a dark void, and the peasant woman's eyes were full of darkness.
The lingering look turned into resentment at this time.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The peasant woman glared at Angel fiercely, then turned into a thin layer of black smoke and disappeared.
At this time, the image of the oil painting changed again.
The withered trees grew leaves again, and the disappeared peasant woman also reappeared, but at this time, the peasant woman was no longer a young and beautiful blond woman, but a brown-haired girl with ponytails and freckles.
This picture appeared for a moment, and then, the picture began to change again.
The picture becomes old at a speed that is visible to the naked eye.
It started out as smooth and clean as new, then slowly turned to yellowish and mottled, the painting paper began to crack and turn into fine dust, and finally, the painting completely disappeared, leaving only an empty frame.
"What is going on? Why did the painting change? The woman with a black hole on half of her face turned into a girl with freckles? What is this piece of wood? Why did the painting turn into ashes in the end?"
Doakes' questions popped up one after another.
Normally, Doakes's series of questions would definitely elicit a cold snort from the Black Earl. But this time, the Black Earl did not stop Doakes, because these questions were also what he wanted to know.
Angel ignored Doakes, but carefully looked at the heavy log in his hand.
After receiving no response for a long time, the Black Earl couldn't help but ask: "Is this the wood spirit?"
With such a hidden wood, everyone's first thought was of the wood spirit. However, the Black Earl was a little confused. If this was the wood spirit, why did the wise master lie to him before, saying that there was a trap here? The wood spirit must have
Not here?
Since the wise master asked them to search for the wood spirit, there was no need to deliberately lie to him.
Moreover, the Black Earl had also inspected this painting before and found no abnormalities at all. How did Angel discover it?
Angel: "It's not a wood spirit, but it should have something to do with it."
When Angel said this, he looked at the wise master.
This time, the wise master did not remain silent, but whispered: "This is the first time I saw the wood spirit here. In order to avoid me, it acted out a shelling scene. It should have been created by it.
Or a derivative of its original form."
After the wise master finished speaking, he asked directly: "How did you discover it?"
"Are we exchanging answers now?" Angel replied smoothly.
The wise man did not make a sound, but stared at Angel quietly with three eyes, as if he wanted to see through him. However, this was just an illusion, and the wise man's direct gaze was only shown by Angel's illusion, without any trace of it.
of deterrence.
However, Angel did not try to provoke the wise man at this time, and avoided his gaze, and then said calmly: "I happened to have seen this painting."
"Have you seen this painting?" The wise man wondered: "Impossible, how could you have seen it?"
Angel: "Scarobe."
The wise ruler wondered: "He is..."
Angel: "Don't you know, Master Wise, that Scarab Wright is the author of this painting?"
The wise man really doesn't know who the author of this painting is. Although as an alchemist, he has a certain understanding of aesthetics, after all, he majored in pharmacy, and the one who needs painting and aesthetics is partial to epigraphy.
Moreover, although this painting is very good, it is just a painting by ordinary people after all. Mounted in a frame made of extraordinary materials, even a wise person feels it is a waste, let alone appreciating and studying it.
The person who is really interested in the painting is Franklin, the warden of this prison ladder and one of the core masters of Naraku City.
Now that I heard Angel mention the name of a painter, the wise master really couldn't tell whether what he said was true or false.
"Although I have not seen the original paintings, I have been fortunate enough to see some collections of this artist's works. Well... they were collected by an alchemist who loves paintings. There are imitations of this artist's paintings in the collection, which seem to have been compiled by later generations.
"." After Angel determined that the wise man did not know the painter's name, he began to make it up.
"In addition to this "Afternoon Pastoral Picture", there are also some other paintings, such as "Shepherd Milking Cows", "Fishermen Returning at Night", "Toward the Sunset"..."
As Angel spoke, he used illusion magic to simulate oil paintings one after another.
In the eyes of others, in terms of style, it is indeed very similar to the previous painting.
But in the opinion of the wise master, he had an impression of several of the pictures, and it seemed that Franklin had collected their original works.
Could it be that what he said was true and that he really knew what the original painting looked like?
The wise man did not believe that Angel had ever seen this oil painting before, because it was the work of a mortal painter, and this mortal painter had been around for thousands of years.
Even if the other person was a very famous painter at the time, ten thousand years would be enough for everyone to forget about him.
But now someone actually claims to have seen the other party's paintings, which is hard for a wise man to believe.
But the example that Angel gave was really impressive to the wise man, so he couldn't find anything to say to refute it.
Moreover, if a wise man thinks about it carefully, it seems that it is indeed possible.
Mortals can't let a painter's works be passed down for thousands of years, but wizards can. If Franklin likes this painter's works, shouldn't other wizards be allowed to like this painter's works?
Angel also mentioned a key point. The ‘Alchemist’ collected the other party’s collection of works.
Most alchemists, because they have to create drawings, prefer art that can cultivate aesthetics. Therefore, there are not a few alchemists who collect paintings of mortals.
Once a wizard's collection is well maintained, it is not a problem to preserve it for thousands of years. Moreover, many wizard organizations and wizard families will re-make copies of some ancient books from time to time to avoid the problem of single copies being lost.
If Angel really saw a collection of painter's works collected by a certain alchemist, it seems that it is not impossible.
However, the wise master still felt that it was strange. Is it really such a coincidence that Angel had just seen this author's painting album and he happened to be here?
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! If this is the first coincidence, a wise man can accept it. But Angel is always shrouded in a fog.
This makes the wise man have to doubt that Angel is prepared. Or is he actually a descendant of a wizard related to Naraku City?
What this refers to is related to not only the wizards who are friendly with Naraku City, but also the wizards who are hostile to Naraku City.
Therefore, the wise men are now becoming more and more curious about Angel's identity.
When the wise man observed Angel, Angel continued: "By the way, the original picture of "Afternoon Pastoral Picture" is like this."
Angel waved again, and an illusion appeared in front of everyone.
The original picture of the so-called "Afternoon Pastoral Picture" is exactly the last scene that appeared before. The peasant woman in the picture is not a blond woman, but a freckled girl with a ponytail.
"It was precisely because the original picture was different from this one that I noticed something was wrong, so I tried to solve the puzzle in the painting."
"The final result is what you see."
"What keeps the painting timeless is the life energy in this piece of wood, and this piece of wood is hidden in the space in the painting... To be precise, it is not in the painting, but in a reflective film on the surface of the painting."
When Angel said this, he said pointedly: "This film is a bit like a mirror."
Mirror?
Everyone frowned when they heard this word, because they thought of a demon that seemed to not exist: the Demon God of Mirrors.
They later also found a mark that was suspected to be the "Mirror Demon God". Half of the mark was the profile of a long-haired woman, and the other half was the profile of a man wearing a hat.
The profile of the "peasant woman" in the painting they saw before seemed vaguely similar to the long-haired woman in the imprint.
Could it be that this painting is also related to the Demon God of Mirrors?
Thinking of this, the Black Earl glanced at the Wise Lord out of the corner of his eye. The Wise Lord had previously hinted that the person hanging this painting here was worthy of Angel's exchange of questions.
So, is there still a connection between the Mirror Demon God and the Wise Lord?