Paintings of Terror

The giant cows ate and drank until the twilight of the sky, and the caretaker went into the farmhouse to feed everyone.

"Going to the lawn in a while, we quietly approached the place where we dug the trench yesterday," Mu Yiran said in a low voice, "The giant cows haven't slept all night, and they will definitely rest in the management room in the morning. This is great for us. Opportunity. We only have one morning to escape, and they will find it when we eat at noon, so we can’t stop for a moment, how far we can run. Now we don’t know the situation outside, if we run away halfway, Don't worry 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, keeping ourselves is indeed the most important thing, but we should also help each other as much as we can. I think so, let's make an appointment. If you get separated during the escape process, if you have enough energy, you can leave a sign indicating the direction along the way to facilitate everyone to 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 objections, Qin Ci drew a few signs on the ground that could point the way and express simple meaning, so that everyone would remember.

After breakfast, the giant cows let the humans go to the lawn as usual, but the plan couldn't keep up with the change. The giant cow singled out Mu Yiran and Ke Xun and put them in a cage.

"Leave us alone, Dongzi, you are still acting as planned!" Ke Xun shouted at Wei Dong who was red-eyed again, "As far as I can go, I must find an autograph!"

Before Wei Dong could say anything, the giant cow had already 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 taken away by two cows for a while, into a huge room, in the room was parked a huge car, two people were taken in. The car was thrown on the back seat. One of the giant cows drove and the other took the co-driver. After a while, the car drove out of the farm.

"Where do you think you will take us," Ke Xun asked Mu Yiran, "the big hotel in the city? Or the vegetable market?"

"Maybe it's an underground casino." Mu Yiran leaned on the cage wall and sat down, closing his eyes and resting.

After thinking about it, Ke Xun understood: "You mean that through last night, these cows saw the potential of the two of us and decided to take it to the underground casino to bet on this place, and then rely on us to fight other humans. Make huge gambling money?"

"Eight or nine do not 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 are likely to die or not, we have to find a way to escape. For. 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, halfway up and then retracted, "think slowly, I can't help you, it is likely that the answer is right in front of you, but there is a window Paper, it’s there if you pierce it."

Mu Yiran didn't say anything, but fixedly looked at a certain void, and fell into deep thought.

Ke Xun didn't bother him, quietly stood up and walked to the cage. He stretched his neck and looked out, barely able to see the scene out of the car window. Large swaths of trees were passing by, and occasionally sparrows were making noise. Flying over.

"Huh," Ke Xun turned his head to look at Xiang Mu Yiran, "You are not surprised, since in this painting the human beings have become smaller and the cattle have become bigger, and the status of the two has changed, and humans have become inferior. Animals, cows have become higher animals, then what role do birds play in this world?"

Mu Yiran raised his eyes quickly when he heard the words, and met Ke Xun's gaze.

"I just saw a group of sparrows, about the size of 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 cows and humans are different. It's not too big, but here, the ratio of the cow to us is like the ratio of humans to cats and dogs. On the contrary, there is no change in sparrows. What scale did the artist conceive of this painting?"

"There is only one possibility," Mu Yiran stood up, "The name of this painting does not match the painting itself. The name of the painting "Animal World" is a bit too big, but the painting itself is not painted. Create a grand world view.

"The painter wants to cover the surface with a few points, only highlighting one or two key points to render the world he wants to shape, but unfortunately, after all, he is only a cutting-edge painter who is more than young and mature, and lacks maturity.

"In the process of painting, he neglected some small details, or he wanted to use these small details to highlight the key points he wanted to express. Unfortunately, the conception was not correct and the desired effect was not achieved, which is rather nondescript. "

Ke Xun made a "so" expression: "It seems that we have made a preconceived mistake, thinking that all the paintings we enter are impeccable famous paintings, so we will not go to the flaws of the paintings. I think, as a result, the paintings exhibited this time are all the works of new and cutting-edge painters. Just after debut, they may not be perfect. We only think about the central meaning he wants to express. Instead, we ignore the flaws in this painting and even say that it has bugs. ."

Mu Yiran nodded slightly: "After understanding this, we can redefine this painting. Through the various experiences we have experienced in the past few days, and through the imbalance between the cattle, people, and birds, we can infer The artist’s actual focus is not on the entire animal world, but only one or several of the animals, and the subversive relationship with people."

"Obviously this kind of animal is a cow," Ke Xun said. "What he wants to paint is actually a cow and a person."

"But through our experience in the past few days, the cows he painted are not just cows," Mu Yiran said, "For example, Bi Jing, filling ducks for fattening, filled with ducks, so there are ducks on the cows. .

"For another example, the experience of you and Dong Dong yesterday was like cockfighting or dogfighting, so there are still chickens and dogs on the cow.

"In addition to the management and feeding methods, it may be like pigs, sheep or poultry.

"So this painter has concentrated and exaggerated some of the phenomena he has seen in the treatment of animals by humans and embodied them on the cow."

"In this way, I feel... Does this painter have a sympathy for animals?" Ke Xun touched his chin.

"Yes," Mu Yiran nodded, "So Zhu Haowen's statement almost hit the title. The artist may not be an extreme vegetarian, but he is probably an animal protectionist. However, I doubt that. He is an animal protector and it is a bit exaggerated. His thoughts may not have risen to such a height. Judging from his constrained conception, his worldview is too narrow. He does not care about all animals. He may only care about certain animals. Several kinds of animals, so it’s almost the same as saying that he is an animal lover."

Ke Xun raised his eyebrows: "Generally, people who have pets at home can be regarded as animal lovers. Dog owners love dogs, cat owners love cats, and parrot owners love parrots. This kind of person All kinds of animals also have a certain kind of kind thoughts, but they are not enough to appeal to other kinds of animals, and even pay attention to them all the time. It can only be said that they love houses and crows, and others."

"It can be said," Mu Yiran said, "Then since the artist's starting point for painting this painting is narrow, it can be inferred that the artist should not be a pure or extreme animal protectionist.

"This is not a painting that rises to a more macroscopic and in-depth humanistic thinking and humanitarian criticism. His ideological nature is limited to a small-scale phenomenon.

"But of course, this does not mean that this kind of small-scale problem does not have the value of exploring meaning and deeper thinking. 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 to vent through the painting."

"This kind of sentiment is understandable," Ke Xun said. "When I was in school, what I wanted to vent was record-breaking. This is also a kind of creation or creation."

Mu Yiran glanced at him coldly: "Since it is venting, then obviously he has had anger in related incidents. An animal lover has angered because of animals and reversed the relationship between people and animals in the painting. It’s not difficult to guess the cause of this anger."

Ke Xun's eyes sank, and he spit out two darker words: "To kill."

"The cruelty and killing of animals is something that every animal lover cannot accept and forgive," Mu Yiran's voice is also deep, "I suspect that the artist himself has raised animals, and this animal has experienced the incident of being tortured and killed. ."

"Cow?" Ke Xun put his hands on his chest, "In general, cows are rare in cities. Did the painters come from the countryside or in the mountains?"

"It is unlikely that it is a cow," Mu Yiran shook his head. "The cow is considered a labor force in the countryside, and it is unlikely that it will be tortured and killed unless someone has a feast with the owner of the cow, but it will not rise to the entire human race. I am more inclined that the animals raised 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 was in the painting, although the time was short, I still saw some of the patterns in the painting. In addition to the cow, there were also cats, but the position of the cat deviated from the main picture. The background part, so cats just incidentally, dogs are more likely.

"Remember that we once said when we looked down on the entire farm from the vent. The shape of the entire farm looked like a crouching big dog. I didn’t care about it at the time, but now that I think about it, it’s almost equivalent to the artist’s painting. The hidden lines and metaphors left behind.

"And there is a more powerful proof, which is the pen name of the artist."

"Lex?" Ke Xun raised an eyebrow.

"Lex is a very common English name, no one will be suspicious of anyone who reads it." Mu said suddenly, "but now that I think about it, it's obviously meaningless.

"There is a dog in the United States who has been awarded a high honor award, named Lex.

"During the U.S.-Iraq War, its owner died unfortunately, and Lex himself was seriously injured. There were more than fifty bullets in its body, but just like that, Lex just kept dragging the owner to the doctor with his mouth. In front of.

"Therefore, the artist gave such a pen name, it is very likely that it came from this."