Chapter 195: Basic Introduction to Art
Chapter 195: Basic Introduction to "Art" (2000 words more!)
Mao Feiyang stepped on the moist soil covered with dead leaves, his feet slipped, and he lost his balance and rolled down the hillside.
Fortunately, the slope was not very steep, and there were many camphor trees growing there. Mao Feiyang rolled a few times and then hit a tree trunk, causing his old waist to go numb in pain.
"Ouch, my back..."
He opened his eyes covered in dust and suddenly found a human-shaped sculpture bending slightly and looking down at him.
“?!!” Mao Feiyang’s pupils instantly dilated, his face turned pale, and beads of sweat oozed from his forehead, as if he had been struck by thunder, “Sculpture, sculpture!”
Mao Feiyang used his hands and feet, rubbing his butt against the ground in the dead leaves, and stumbled backwards, but he had only moved a few steps before he bumped into a cold stone.
When he turned around, he saw another pure white human-shaped sculpture.
The human-shaped sculptures were motionless, but Mao Feiyang felt uncomfortable all over, as if he was being stared at.
When he turned around, he found that the human-shaped sculpture had come behind him and was reaching out to him, with the expression on his face frozen in greed and madness.
Mu Daxian jumped down from the small slope, holding a paintbrush and directly painted the eyes of the sculptures.
Those static human-shaped sculptures suddenly moved their hands to their heads slowly with extremely stiff body movements, and then slowly covered their eyes.
They seemed to be extremely restricted when doing these movements, as if they were twisting their petrified bodies with force, so that some joints were cracked due to the forced stretching. What's worse, the arms were broken at the elbows due to the strong twisting, fell to the ground, and rolled down the hillside.
At the same time, their faces were distorted and their mouths opened and closed, showing a wailing that looked like extreme pain, but no sound came out.
「Ah——Ah!!」
「Ah——Ah……」
This kind of sound cannot be captured by the ears, it is more like it is transmitted to the spirit and was captured by Lin Yi.
They still squirmed and slowly retreated, like a group of beasts being driven away by jungle explorers holding torches.
Mu Daxian reached out and pulled Mao Feiyang up from the ground: "It's my fault...Are you okay?"
"No, it's okay." Mao Feiyang looked around fearfully. At this moment, he accidentally rolled to the edge of the green forest belt. It was dusk, and the light and shadows were dancing here. Some human-shaped sculptures came here following the smell.
"You are deeply 'polluted', so it's no wonder that they targeted you." Mu Daxian took a look at the sky, then at the green forest belt shrouded in mist, and decided to take Mao Feiyang along the cobblestone road first.
"They are the human-shaped sculptures mentioned in the rules, right?" Mao Feiyang said in shock.
Mu Daxian nodded: "Yes, a low-level pseudo-human stuck at the boundary of the layer, unable to enter the campus, and unable to reach the art building, wandering in the darkness like a lonely ghost."
"They feed on pollution and are attracted to it. They fear the light, yet... they yearn for it."
"Poor, but not worthy of pity."
Mao Feiyang pursed his lips and asked, "Can you kill them?"
Mu Daxian said: "It's too easy, but there are so many of them that it's not worth wasting energy to deal with them."
He paused, then added: "They are no longer useful. What we really need to pay attention to are some newly formed sculptures. If we encounter newly transformed humanoid sculptures, we need to destroy them immediately... Do you still have your student commemorative coins?"
Mao Feiyang was stunned for a moment, then reached out and touched his pocket: "It's still there."
"It's fine as long as they're still there. Let's go." Mu Daxian nodded and reminded, "Always keep an eye on your student commemorative coins. If you lose any, we'll go to the canteen to replenish them."
"Uh, okay." Mao Feiyang hurried to follow.
On the way ahead, Mu Daxian did not add numbers to the street lights, but just took Mao Feiyang along the cobblestone road towards the cafeteria.
As we got closer to the cafeteria, more and more students appeared on the road.
Mao Feiyang looked at these people curiously. Most of them were interns wearing their respective clothes, and a few were athletes wearing blue and white sportswear.
Soon Mu Daxian brought him to the cafeteria area. Mao Feiyang saw the sign in front of the cafeteria and was about to go over, but was stopped by Mu Daxian.
"No need to go there."
Mao Feiyang was stunned for a moment, pointed at the notice board, and said, "There is a notice board over there, and it seems there are also canteen rules..."
Mu Daxian shook his head and said, "That's just for the experience students. Art students don't need to abide by anything beyond the rules of the art department."
Mao Feiyang curled his lips, thinking that the art student code requires that you go to the cafeteria to eat once every 24 hours, and it seems that you don't follow it...
"But... the rules seem to say that you can choose to abide by them." Mao Feiyang couldn't help but say.
Mu Daxian said: "You can follow them, but it is not necessary. Theoretically, you can know all the rules on campus, but the problem is, if you really encounter an emergency, and you choose a method that does not belong to you because you know too much, it will be fatal."
"But if you only know your way around it, you can't do anything wrong, okay?"
Mao Feiyang pursed his lips and said, "That's right... Wait, aren't you going to take the student passage?"
"We are art students, let's go through other passages." Mu Daxian called out from the front, "Let's go, go back after dinner, and try not to leave the art classroom except for eating during this time."
There is actually not much difference between the other passages and the student passages. It is just a flight of stairs going up. If you must say, Lin Yi saw some doors in the other passages, but Mao Feiyang didn't ask, so he had no way to get more information.
As he walked, he saw several athletes taking off their jackets while walking, and then putting them on inside out, making them look no different from ordinary jackets.
"Hey, Daxian? It's a rare occasion that you come to eat." A sports student saw Mu Daxian and greeted him. His tone sounded very familiar.
Lin Yi took a look and thought, wow, it’s such a small world, isn’t that Lao Du who was having a barbecue with Tian Bufan?
"Sanshi, you are still alive." Mu Daxian joked without any hesitation.
"Fuck, all these unlucky words!" Lao Du pouted, "If anyone is going to die, you should die first. Why, bring your little brother to eat with you?"
Old Du glanced at Mao Feiyang.
"Let's do it, together?" Mu Daxian said.
"Get lost, you want to take advantage of me again?" Lao Du shook his hands and quickened his pace up the stairs. "Let's go, great immortal. Come to the gym when you have time! I'll treat you to a swim!"
"You're looking for a fight, huh?" Mu Daxian said unhappily when he heard the word "gymnasium".
It was not until Lao Du walked away that Mao Feiyang stroked his arm and asked, "Was that a sports student?"
For some reason, when Lao Du looked at him, he had a feeling as if he was facing a ferocious beast, as if he would be knocked down by Lao Du in the next moment.
"Du Lei, people who are familiar with him call him Lao Du or Sanshi, he is my old comrade-in-arms." Mu Daxian introduced, "In a battle like this where you can die at any time, it's rare to have a friend you can talk to."
"Is that so..." Mao Feiyang opened his mouth, "I see there are quite a lot of people in the classroom..."
"There are many people, but only a few can survive." Mu Daxian said, "Sanshi has survived five battles... For many people, three battles is already the limit."
"Battle? What is that?" Mao Feiyang couldn't help but ask.
Mu Daxian said: "Every once in a while, some dirty things will crawl out of the sea and try to occupy the art building and the campus... The night watchmen will observe the fluctuations of the sea and ring the bell of Doomsday in advance to issue an early warning."
"Starting from the day the bell rings, the shortest three days and the longest seven days are called 'Doomsday'. During this period, it is assumed that the battle has begun and the whole school is on alert. That's why I made an exception and brought you to the campus."
"Ah?" Mao Feiyang was still confused about the battle, and he was even more confused after hearing this. "The battle has already started, and you're still coming to eat?"
"We only come to eat after the battle has started." Mu Daxian said, "It's just the beginning now, you still have a chance to have a good meal. Once the battle starts, it will not be so easy to go back and forth smoothly."
"Oh..." Mao Feiyang nodded, not quite understanding.
Lin Yi got anxious when he heard this. "Brother, you've already started hell mode, and you're still saying oh shit. Hurry up and ask what this battle is about. Give us more information. Stop shouting oh oh, oh oh all the time here!"
Mao Feiyang followed Mu Daxian for a few steps, then said belatedly, "Um... can you tell me more about the battle?"
Mu Daxian glanced at him and said, "Knowledge is a curse. The more you know, the more you can't help yourself. If I tell you that once you know more, you must stay in the Art Building and join me in the battle, are you sure you want to know?"
"Uh... forget it." Mao Feiyang shook his head repeatedly. He didn't want to be involved in any battle.
The environment at the art building was already outrageous. Even the virtual images were very misleading. Now there was another battle story. The more he listened, the more wrong it seemed. He thought it was better to just forget it.
"Can you... talk about something a little more superficial?" But he was a little itchy and wanted to know, like a scumbag who couldn't get in.
How could Mu Daxian not know what Mao Feiyang was thinking? Originally, he was too lazy to care about Mao Feiyang, but he couldn't resist the white powder particles that Mao Feiyang could absorb as much as five people's.
Don't underestimate him because he looks like a skinny little black monkey. With a little training, he will become a powerful general under the Art Department in time. If he can survive a few battles, he will basically be able to stand on his own like him.
At this time, Mu Daxian had already walked out of other passages and came to the entrance of the student cafeteria. He lifted the plastic curtain and motioned Mao Feiyang to go in first: "Talk while eating." After Mao Feiyang went in, Mu Daxian walked in.
Entering the student cafeteria from other passages gave a different feeling. From Lin Yi's perspective, the entire student cafeteria seemed to have become much grayer. Although the incandescent lights were on, the light was somewhat cold and there was no warmth at all.
People come and go in the student cafeteria, but from a gray perspective, there is always a sense of being thrown into an old TV.
There are only two colors that seem to be particularly bright here - blue and green.
The blue of the blue bib chef is so bright here that it is terribly bright, even to the point of blinding the eyes.
Mao Feiyang couldn't help but squint his eyes, as if the blue bib was more intimidating to him.
Lin Yi suddenly understood why the gym students put their clothes on backwards in front of the cafeteria, because they didn't want to attract attention here.
Mu Daxian's body was shrouded in a dark green color that was so deep that it was almost black, while Mao Feiyang's body was emitting a light green gas that was uncontrollably like smoke.
In addition, there were some people who also emitted a faint green mist from their bodies.
"I... why am I smoking?" Mao Feiyang was frightened by himself and looked at himself in panic. He looked at Mu Daxian again and was even more frightened. "Damn, you are smoking too. No, you look like you are surrounded by green flames!"
"Don't make a fuss." Mu Daxian waved his hand. "These things already exist, but entering through here gives you an extra filter, which strengthens some of your "perception", so you can see it more clearly."
Mu Daxian said as he led Mao Feiyang to the food window: "Everything on campus is contaminated. The only difference is the amount of contamination."
“For us, ‘artistic cells’ is not an adjective, but a quantitative word. As art students, we can strengthen our senses of the outside world through a meditation-like method, so as to ‘feel’ the ‘contamination’ of things.”
"This thing is very mysterious. Different explorers around the world have given it different names throughout history..."
"In ancient China, it was called 'Qi', in ancient India it was called 'Chakra', in Europe it was called 'magic'... People in different places called it differently, but now we all call it 'supernatural power' - a power that 'goes beyond the control of mortals', a power that carries 'supernatural characteristics'."
"Qi?" Mao Feiyang's mouth twitched fiercely, "It shouldn't be like this for no reason, why did it suddenly become so mysterious?"
Mu Daxian took a look and said, "Fantasy? That's just a 'definition' that the ancients came up with for a power they didn't understand, just like..."
"You haven't encountered that kind of thing yet. When you do, you can draw an analogy." He paused, "It's like if you told the ancients that thousands of years later people would be able to ride on giant steel birds to fly in the sky, traveling to the North Sea in the morning and Cangwu in the evening... the ancients would also find it very fantastic."
“No matter what era people are in, they are used to using an understandable statement to summarize something that cannot be explained with existing knowledge, so the original ‘nomenclature’ came into being.”
"In short, whether it's 'chi' or 'chakra', it's just a 'definition', and now, we define it as 'supernatural power'."
"Isn't it easy to understand now?"
Mao Feiyang opened his mouth and nodded reluctantly: "I can understand it a little bit..."
Lin Yi narrowed his eyes. When he heard Mu Daxian say "just like", his first reaction was "just like a conceptual sculpture". He couldn't understand it, but his brain gave a definition in order to force himself to understand it.
A conceptual sculpture is a quantum object that contains extraordinary properties.
Mu Daxian nodded: "It's good that you can understand it a little bit."
"In every age, there are people who have tried to master this power, but no one has ever been able to fully succeed."
"Some people, by chance, achieve unity with supernatural powers and acquire supernatural characteristics, which allows them to further depict shapes and gradually become the leaders of a tribe, or tribal priests, wizards, and the like..."
"But those who play with fire will be burned by fire, those who see into the abyss will be swallowed by it, those who walk through the fog and chase the light will eventually become illusions... Trying to master power that does not belong to humans will only result in being assimilated by the power in the end..."
“We art students…are actually the ones who have embarked on this road of no return.”
After coming around, Mu Daxian got back to the point, which made Mao Feiyang's heart skip a beat and Lin Yi's eyes light up, and he quickly pricked up his ears.
"This road... has many stages, and each stage has a signpost. Once you pass a signpost, it's very difficult to go back a distance."
"You are now one of those people who have passed the entrance and are heading to the next sign. The Art Student Guidelines is something that will help you back out of this road."
"Back, back out?" Mao Feiyang was shocked.
Lin Yi was also surprised. He didn't expect that Mu Daxian, a man whose motive was to guide Mao Feiyang onto the path of an art student, would actually take the initiative to talk about this matter.
Could it be that Mu Daxian is so noble, and I am judging him by my own standards? Lin Yi was also a little confused.
Mu Daxian glanced at Mao Feiyang and said earnestly: "What I am telling you now is like the cover and back of a book. Once you want to unpack and open the book to read the contents, you have to pay."
"Before you pay, you can read it however you want. As long as you put it back on the shelf, no one will force you to pay."
"Can you understand what I mean?"
Mao Feiyang narrowed his eyes, thinking: "So... can I understand that what you said is an attempt to sell this book to me and let me buy it on my own initiative?"
Mu Daxian smiled and said, "I just try my best to show you those things that can be shown. It's up to you whether you buy it or not."
“But if you want to buy but don’t want to pay, you’ll become a fake art student.”
“And if you are not eligible to buy but force yourself to buy…the human sculptures you see are role models.”
"So... making a choice is a very important thing. Once you have chosen something, don't bother with other fancy ideas. There is no such thing as having the best of both worlds. You can only gain something if you give up something."
Mao Feiyang wanted to say something, but Mu Daxian patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's our turn now. You order first. Art students have nothing to be shy about. You can eat whatever you want, but it's best not to eat food that contains tomatoes."
Mu Daxian then ordered a large meat dish, a small meat dish, a vegetable dish and a soup, then left with his plate, skipping the card payment process.
Mao Feiyang's mind was completely on what Mu Daxian said, so he simply said to the cafeteria auntie, "Same as him", then picked up his plate and left.
After randomly finding an empty seat and sitting down, Mao Feiyang ate while looking at the classmates in the cafeteria, looking at this and that, his attention always moving on the colored mist, as if he was very interested in it.
"The shades of these colors are different. Is it because of the different levels of pollution?" Mao Feiyang asked.
Mu Daxian ate his rice in big mouthfuls and said, "It's almost the same idea, but it's not distinguished in this way."
"Is there any knowledge here?" Mao Feiyang asked curiously.
Mu Daxian smiled and said, "There are many places to learn!"
Mao Feiyang hesitated for a moment: "Then... is this the knowledge on the cover of the book?"
Mu Daxian was stunned for a moment, then sneered and said, "You have such little thoughts now, how did you get contaminated when you entered the school?"
Mao Feiyang shook his head: "I don't know...so how to divide it specifically?"
"If you want to know how to tell the difference, you must first understand what 'pollution' is."
"What do you mean?" Mao Feiyang's eyes lit up.
Mu Daxian said as he ate, "First of all, don't assume that 'supernatural power' is a good thing just because it has the word 'supernatural' in it. Let's put it this way... to put it nicely, it's 'supernatural power', but to put it bluntly, it can be considered a kind of 'nuclear radiation'."
"It's called 'pollution' because it has no good effect."
Mao Feiyang thought for a moment, "So you're saying that the so-called 'pollution' actually refers to 'pollution from supernatural powers'?"
"That's right." Mu Daxian nodded, "The only difference is that pollution varies from person to person. If you can withstand the pollution and keep it within a certain range, you can have some 'supernatural characteristics'."
"I just said that since ancient times, people have tried to master extraordinary powers. Although throughout history, there has never been a single person who can completely master extraordinary powers, there are many people who have mastered the tip of the iceberg of extraordinary powers."
"Are they the tribal leaders, priests and so on?" Mao Feiyang said.
"That's just part of it." Mu Daxian took a bite of rice and pointed at the table. "Don't just listen, pick up some food! What can't we say later?"
Mao Feiyang quickly buried his head in his food.
Mu Daxian finished most of his meal in no time, and then continued, "Based on the differences in inspiration and talent of each person, the direction of talent displayed after obtaining extraordinary power will also be different..."
"If you have a good brain, you can go the 'art department' route."
"Van Gogh was a natural born art student. His paintings showed his strong and keen perception of colors. He was one of the most outstanding students in the history of the school."
"And Leonardo da Vinci. Apart from his painting skills, his understanding of architecture and sculpture was several versions ahead of his time. He was also one of the most outstanding students in the history of the school."
Mao Feiyang looked at Mu Daxian's serious expression and quickly interrupted the spellcasting, "Wait a minute... Are the Van Gogh and Da Vinci you mentioned the two people I know?"
Added 2000 words for the leader "琳skylark", still owes 800 words!!
I will pay off my debt tomorrow, hahahaha~~~
Thanks to the book friend "Jiangpan Who is smoking" for the reward! !
PS: I almost forgot, today is the last day of the double monthly ticket in May, please give me some monthly tickets~~~
(End of this chapter)