The giant cows ate and drank until it was twilight before they dispersed, and the administrator entered the farmhouse to feed the crowd.
"Let's go to the lawn in a while, and we quietly approached the place where we dug the trench yesterday," Mu Yiran said in a low voice to a few people, "The giant cows haven't slept all night, and they will definitely rest in the management room in the morning. Opportunity. We only have one morning to escape, and they will find them when we eat at noon, so we can't stop for a moment, and we can run as far as we can. Now we don't know the situation outside. Don't care about others, save yourself first, find a signature and leave as soon as possible."
Everyone nodded, and Qin Ci said, "Although it sounds ruthless, in this case, protecting ourselves is the most important thing, but we have to help each other as much as we can. I think so, let's agree on one Sign, if you get separated during the escape, if you still have spare energy, you can leave a sign indicating the direction along the way, so that everyone can meet. Maybe whoever finds the signature first, even if you leave the painting first, others can follow the sign Find it."
Seeing that everyone had no objection, Qin Ci drew a few marks on the ground that could point the way and express simple meanings, so that everyone could memorize them in their hearts.
After breakfast, the giant cows let humans go to the lawn to let the wind out as usual, but the plan couldn't keep up with the changes, and the giant cows singled out Mu Yiran and Ke Xun and locked them in a cage.
"Don't worry about us, Dongzi, you are still acting according to the original plan!" Ke Xun shouted at Wei Dong, who had red eyes again, "As far as you can run, you must go out with an autograph!"
Before Wei Dong could say anything, Ju Niu left the farmhouse with the cage.
Ke Xun and Mu Yiran stared at the outside from the cage door, only to feel that they were led away by two cows for a while, and entered a huge room. There was a huge car parked in the room, and the two were taken away. The car was thrown on the back seat. One of the giant cows drove the car and the other took the co-pilot. After a while, the car drove out of the farm.
"Where do you think you will take us," Ke Xun asked Mu Yiran, "a big hotel in the city? Or a vegetable market?"
"Maybe it's an underground casino." Mu Yiran sat down against the cage wall, closing his eyes and resting.
After thinking about it, Ke Xun understood: "You mean that last night, these cows saw our potential and decided to take them to the underground casino to bet on this place, and then rely on us to fight other humans, okay? Make huge sums of money?"
"Eight and nine never leave ten." Mu Yiran closed his eyes.
"Yes, the bad habits that humans have, all the cows here have." Ke Xun walked over and sat next to him, "I feel that we may die here, and we have to find a way to escape. Do you have any ideas for signing?"
"No clue." Mu Yiran opened his eyes, frowned slightly, and was rarely confused.
"Don't worry," Ke Xun raised his hand, trying to flatten his brow, and then pulled it back halfway, "Think slowly, it's hard for you, the answer is probably right in front of you, but it's just a window away. Paper, if you pierce it, you will have it."
Mu Yiran didn't say anything, just stared at a certain void and fell into deep thought.
Ke Xun didn't bother him. He quietly stood up and walked to the cage. He stretched his neck and tried hard to look out. He could barely see the scene outside the car window. Large tracts of trees were passing by in front of him, and occasionally there were sparrows making noise. fly over.
"Hey," Ke Xun turned his head to look at Mu Yiran, "You don't think it's strange, since in this painting the human being has become smaller and the cow has become larger, and the two have interchanged, human beings have become inferior. Animals, cows have become higher animals, so what role do birds play in this world?"
Mu Yiran suddenly raised his eyes and met Ke Xun's gaze.
"I saw a group of sparrows just now, the size is similar to the real world," Ke Xun continued, "but the ratio between humans and cows is a bit strange, even in the real world, the size of domestic cattle and humans is also different It’s not too big, but here, the ratio of cows to us is the same as the ratio of humans to cats and dogs, but the sparrows don’t change, what scale did the artist use to conceive this painting?”
"There is only one possibility," Mu Yiran also stood up, "the name of this painting does not match the painting itself, the painting title "Animal World" is a bit too big, but this painting itself does not a grand worldview.
"The painter wants to cover the surface and only highlight one or two key points to render the world he wants to shape, but unfortunately, he is only a cutting-edge painter after all.
"In the process of painting, he ignored some small details, or he wanted to use these small details to express the key point he wanted to express, but unfortunately the concept was not good, and it did not achieve the desired effect, but it was nondescript. "
Ke Xun made a "so it is" expression: "It seems that we have made a preconceived mistake, thinking that all the paintings we enter are the kind of impeccable famous paintings, so we will not go to the flaws of the paintings at all. I think, all the paintings on display this time are the works of cutting-edge painters. They have just debuted, and they are not necessarily perfect. We only think about the central meaning he wants to express, but ignore the flaws in this painting and even say there are bugs. ."
Mu Yiran nodded slightly: "After thinking about this, we can redefine this painting. Through the various encounters we have experienced in the past few days, and through the imbalance between cattle, people and birds, we can infer that , what the painter actually wants to express is not the whole animal world, but just one or several animals, and the subversive relationship between them and people."
"Obviously this animal is a cow," Ke Xun said. "What he wants to paint is actually a cow and a man."
"But through our experiences in the past few days, the cows he painted are not just cows," Mu Yiran said, "For example, Bi Jing used duck-filling fattening, and it was filled with ducks, so the cows have the shadow of ducks on their bodies. .
"For example, the experience with Dong Dong and you yesterday was like cockfighting or dogfighting, so there are still shadows of chickens and dogs on the cow.
"Plus the way of management and feeding, maybe it's like pigs, sheep or poultry.
"So the painter concentrated and exaggerated some of the phenomena he had seen of human beings treating animals on the body of the cow."
"In this way, I feel... Does the artist have a kind of sympathy for animals?" Ke Xun touched his chin.
"Yes," Mu Yiran nodded, "so Zhu Haowen's statement almost hit the mark. The painter may not be an extreme vegetarian, but he is probably an animal protectionist, but, I doubt, said It is a bit exaggerated that he is an animal protector. His thinking may not have risen to such a height. Judging from his cramped conception, his world view is too narrow, and he does not care about all animals. He may only care about certain Several animals, so it's almost as if he's an animal lover."
Ke Xun raised his eyebrows: "Generally, people who have pets at home can be called animal lovers. Those who keep dogs like dogs, those who keep cats like cats, and those who keep parrots like parrots. All kinds of animals also have a certain kind of good intentions, but they are not enough to call for other kinds of animals, or even pay attention.
"It can be said that," Mu Yiran said, "then since the artist painted this painting from a narrow perspective, it can be inferred that the artist should not be a pure or extreme animal protectionist.
"This is also not a painting that rises to a more macroscopic and deeper humanistic thinking and humanitarian criticism, and his ideology is limited to a small range of phenomena.
"But of course, this does not mean that such a small-scale issue does not have the value of exploring meaning and thinking more deeply, it is just a little more emotional in the way of expression and conception.
"To put it bluntly, this painting is more like a private hand-made painting to vent."
"This kind of emotion is understandable," Ke Xun said. "When I was in school, if I wanted to vent, it would be a record-breaking thing other than masturbating. This can be considered a kind of creation or creation."
Mu Yiran glanced at him coldly: "Since it's a vent, then obviously he has been angry at the relevant event, an animal lover, angry because of animals, and reversed the relationship between humans and animals in the painting status, then the reason for this anger should not be difficult to guess."
Ke Xun's eyes sank, and he spit out two more serious words: "Murder."
"Killing animals is something that every animal lover can't accept or forgive," Mu Yiran's voice was also very deep, "I suspect that the artist himself has raised animals, and this animal has experienced the incident of being tortured and killed by humans. ."
"Cow?" Ke Xun put his hands on his chest, "Usually cows are rarely seen in cities. Did the painter come from the countryside or the mountains?"
"It's not likely to be a cow," Mu Yi shook his head, "a cow is considered a labor force in the countryside, and it's unlikely that it will be brutally killed, unless someone has a festival with the owner of the cow, but it won't make the painted person rise to the entire human race. I am more inclined that the animals kept by the painters are very common, and in the real society, the killing of such animals is very common."
Ke Xun frowned slightly: "Dog, or cat."
"I think it should be a dog." Mu Yiran said, "When I entered the painting, although the time was short, I still saw a part of the pattern in the painting, in addition to the cow, there was also a cat, but the position of the cat was deviated from the main picture. Background section, so cats are just incidental, dogs are more likely.
"I remember we once said when we were looking down at the whole farm from the vent. The shape of the whole farm looked like a crouching dog. I didn't care at the time, but now that I think about it, it's almost like the painter is in the painting. Dark lines and metaphors left behind.
"And there is a stronger proof, which is the artist's pseudonym."
"Lex?" Ke Xun raised his eyebrows.
"Lex is a very common English name, and no one will be suspicious if he sees it." Mu Yi said, "But now that I think about it, it obviously has an extraordinary meaning.
"There's a dog in America that's been awarded a high honor, and it's called Lex.
"During the U.S.-Iraq war, its owner unfortunately died, and Lex himself was seriously injured. There were more than fifty bullets in its body, but even so, Lex kept dragging the owner to the doctor with his mouth. in front of.
"So, the artist took such a pseudonym, which is probably where it came from."