When I pushed open the door of the ward, I could see Gengchen leaning on the pillow, already awake.
His face was pale, with blood spots and burnt marks on his forehead.
These traces did not exist before.
Lawyer An understood his boss's intention and "friendly" woke up the weak Geng Chen in advance.
There is really no need to be polite to him. Put yourself in his shoes. Since he doesn't really treat you as his boss, why should you be so foolish and caring to him
In everything, it is important to put yourself in other people's shoes.
Lawyer An dragged a chair over and Zhou Ze sat down.
Geng Chen looked at Zhou Ze and pursed his lips.
It looks so small and pitiful.
If outsiders knew about this, they would probably spit at Lawyer An and accuse him of child abuse.
But the habits of these ghost officials are really strange. Boss Zhou has also seen some androgynous ones. For example, Feng Si'er has dressed as a woman more than once.
There are even more people pretending to be young.
Little Lolita Lin is not to be mentioned, she has a lady's heart and a Lolita's body;
Geng Chen directly made himself look like a baby.
Even Old Zhang seemed to be affected, and this time he came back to life in the body of a little boy.
However, Zhou Ze noticed that under Geng Chen's pale face, there was a slight gleam in his eyes.
He seemed to be hesitating whether he should tell the truth.
Moreover, he expressed this hesitation clearly and made no attempt to hide it.
Zhou Ze didn't rush to ask questions, he was waiting for Geng Chen to speak.
Geng Chen seemed to be preparing to organize his words for a while, and then he said:
"I've been looking for a more sophisticated way to make puppets..."
Zhou Ze nodded slowly.
This opening is much more comfortable than Lawyer An's, and it gets straight to the point.
When it comes to the level of puppet making, Gengchen really needs to go "collecting folk songs". It's not just artists like writers and painters who need to collect folk songs, but Gengchen as well.
Sometimes, a new idea or a new inspiration can even overturn one’s original understanding of puppets;
Of course, if one could observe the more advanced puppets of previous generations, the value would be even greater.
"In an old book written by a Qing Dynasty person... a diary, I found out that the place in Xuzhou might have what I need.
Because he said in his diary that on that night, he saw a group of people who looked exactly the same talking in the woods. Later, he returned home and fell seriously ill. He thought he was possessed and saw hallucinations.
It took me about a month to look for the place the owner of the diary mentioned. Finally, my hard work paid off and I really found it.
At first, I thought it was an ordinary mechanical engineer's tomb. After digging a hole, I saw a lot of coffins. The material was very special and not the material commonly used by our puppeteers."
"As for the materials, I've looked at them." Zhou Ze nodded.
Geng Chen paused for a moment and continued:
"I opened a coffin and found the body inside was well preserved. It didn't look like a burial pit. Even in ancient times, even the richest and most powerful people would have paid too much to bury the dead in such a coffin.
Moreover, once the body is taken out of the coffin, it will be directly weathered when exposed to the wind."
Boss Zhou felt like he was listening to the story of "Grave Robbers' Chronicles", but he did not interrupt Geng Chen and let him continue.
From the look in Gengchen's eyes when he first saw him come in, Zhou Ze could tell that Gengchen, in the end, had something big to offer.
"The side chambers on both sides were filled with coffins of this type, stacked neatly. But what surprised me was that in the main tomb chamber, there was only a pool and no coffins."
Boss Zhou continued to listen patiently. Geng Chen's current narration was actually similar to Lawyer An's previous narration.
Of course, the biggest focus should be on the pool.
It is very likely that Geng Chen, who came in first, saw something extra than Lawyer An and others who came in later.
"The water in the pool was a bit yellow and dark red, not clear at all, and looked a bit like melted chocolate.
But this pool has a special magic for me.”
Hearing this, Zhou Ze was stunned for a moment.
Are you a zombie too
The little boy was almost possessed by the pond, and was finally awakened by Lin Ke’s “call of love”. What about you
"Because that pool is the true pinnacle of puppeteer level!"
Geng Chen's eyes began to turn slightly red, a kind of fanaticism for his own beliefs.
It can be said that after being expelled from the underworld and becoming almost a commoner like Lawyer An, most of Geng Chen's thoughts and energy were actually focused on studying the art of puppetry.
In addition, Zhou Ze had been in a coma for a year, and the bookstore had been basically quiet during this period, so he let loose and had fun outside!
“Ordinary puppet making is very similar to mechanical manufacturing. First, the parts are made, then assembled, and finally connected with formations.
And this pool is a container that can directly shape the puppet completely!
The puppet is complete from the moment it appears!
This is not just about omitting the assembly process, but it is a new level and a new starting point from the very beginning. Puppets made in this way have a unique advantage in quality. "
Many people have had a similar experience, that is, the friend sitting in front of you keeps talking to you about a topic that he is very interested in, but you don’t understand or have any interest in it at all.
He plays with great interest, and you have to pretend to be polite and listen carefully.
"That's a miracle, it really is a miracle. With it, I can instill formations into the puppets from the very beginning. Oh no, it's no longer formations, but thoughts!"
Zhou Ze took a deep breath.
Lawyer An knocked on the bedside and said:
"Get to the point."
Geng Chen glanced at Lawyer An.
Continued:
“However, the pool has been abandoned for a long time. Only residual solution remains in it, and the solution has already deteriorated.
It was there, the pool was here, but I had no way of restoring it, no way of restarting it, I was like a kindergarten child faced with a difficult conjecture that even mathematicians couldn't solve.
Do you know what kind of despair this is?"
"If you don't get to the point, I'll make you experience despair."
Lawyer An couldn't help it.
Geng Chen looked at Zhou Ze and suddenly smiled, making his originally pale face even paler.
"Boss, if my body didn't allow it right now, I would want to kneel down and hug your legs."
Lawyer An was stunned for a moment.
WTF,
Why did the style of painting suddenly rush towards the shameless direction!
"You know what I saw when I first walked to the edge of the pool?"
Geng Chen stretched out his hand and pointed at Lawyer An.
"Get a pen and paper."
Lawyer An nodded, and without saying a word, he went straight to get a large piece of white paper and a pencil, and even considerately found a piece of wood for Gengchen to use as a cushion.
Gengchen's little hand holds the pen.
Started painting.
Truly excellent puppeteers are actually excellent painters.
This is the same principle that all real game engineers will basically understand.
Zhou Ze and Lawyer An both stood up.
Standing on both sides of Gengchen's bed,
Looking at the white paper.
On white paper,
A pool appeared.
The details of the pool are very detailed, which shows Gengchen's obsession with it.
However, the scene in the middle of the pool,
Always leaving blank space.
He is deliberately keeping us in suspense!
Finally, the rest of the edges and corners were finished, and Gengchen began to paint the middle part of the pool.
Water waves, ripples,
Then,
A person appeared in the pool.
The person seemed to be lying in a pool, floating up and down.
Lawyer An said that when the three of them came down, they saw Geng Chen soaking in the pool, but he never said that they saw anyone else.
Obviously,
This is what Gengchen saw extra.
"There was a person lying in the pool. No, to be exact, there was only half a person."
Geng Chen was explaining seriously while painting.
“Because this person is just a semi-finished product.
I guess this might be a test product, used for testing. Another possibility is that due to lack of time or some other reason, the production of this puppet was forced to stop before it was completed.
That pool was also abandoned.
So, all the other bodies were placed in coffins, except this one, which continued to float in the pool.
I was very curious and moved very close to him, wanting to touch him, but was accidentally splashed with water from the pool.
It was my fault that I was so excited at the time that I didn't notice there was something wrong with the water, so I didn't pay much attention to it. By the time I really noticed it, a lot of the water from the pool had already stained my body.
I found myself getting weaker and weaker, and I found myself losing my strength. Finally, I had no choice but to call Lao An for help with the last bit of consciousness I had left.
"You have to be thankful that the signal is pretty good over there," Lawyer An joked.
"yes."
Geng Chen responded.
Keep painting.
He drew the legs first, then the hands, working from bottom to top, and then continued to add details.
"This puppet only has the front side. The back side is missing, just like a person with half of his forehead cut off."
"It means it's just a penis but no butt."
Lawyer An added vividly.
"Well, yes."
at last,
Gengchen started painting the face.
Fortunately, Gengchen had a good memory, his drawing skills were strong, and the white paper that Lawyer An found was large.
This leaves a lot of room for manipulation of the face.
Gengchen was painting very seriously.
The face of the man in the pool,
It is becoming increasingly clear, increasingly three-dimensional and increasingly realistic.
Zhou Ze slowly stood up straight.
Lawyer An's mouth slowly opened, as if it could swallow three goose eggs.
"Old An, do you remember the night when you and I were being hunted in Yangzhou and you showed me the old photo of the boss?"
"What, no, impossible!"
"I still remember you told me that it was no wonder that the boss had been single in his previous life, but Xu Le could directly become the son-in-law of the Lin family. You even insisted that I see that the boss in the previous life was not as good-looking as Xu Le in this life."
“… …” Lawyer An.
finally,
Gengchen put down his pen.
look up,
Staring at Zhou Ze specifically,
road:
"This is what this unfinished puppet really looked like when I saw it in the pool!"
In the painting,
People floating in the pool,
It's Zhou Ze.
It was Zhou Ze who was a doctor in his previous life!