After watching for a moment, Tom moved. Now that he was fully focused on the painting, he habitually reached into his pocket and finally took out three items.
A pencil for sketching, a pencil knife, and a white eraser.
Next, Tom began to create, using those simple tools to process and modify the paintings while lying on the coffee table.
Tom's actions were undoubtedly seen by Will opposite him. To be honest, Will was supportive of children's different hobbies. Although he did not have children himself and did not even have a girlfriend yet, this did not mean that he would not Understand empathy. It is obvious that as a highly educated master, the man knows how to think or look at problems from the perspective of a child. After all, he is also a child. At the same time, he also knows a lot about the various hobbies of children, and some are obsessed with them. Some are obsessed with video games, some are obsessed with sports, some are obsessed with various snacks, and some are simply obsessed with certain things, etc. They seem to be all kinds of different, but the hobby of the little boy in front of him is actually relatively rare.
Painting is one of the major categories of art. It is also an artistic creation that can only be carried out by calming down. From another perspective, painting is a creative project that requires strong imagination. In Will's personal eyes, whether the paintings are good-looking or not is not the point. The point is that the person who paints must have the ability to imagine wildly. If he has to choose the type of painting that he appreciates most, then the realistic style paintings will be rejected first. The abstract style of painting represented by Picasso has become the most imaginative benchmark. The reason is that abstract paintings often incorporate hidden charms into the paintings to express the author's thoughts and make everyone who views the paintings feel at ease. It is amazing that different understandings emerge in each heart, and this is also the greatest charm of painting. There is no doubt that Tom belongs to the few children who can not only calm down and create with peace of mind, but also have rich imagination.
only……
At this moment, when Zai saw the faceless man in a suit in the painting, for some reason, the inexplicable chill that had appeared in his heart two hours ago suddenly emerged again.
The hairless head, the astonishingly long limbs, and the body structure that was considered weird no matter how you looked at it, made the man feel a little uncomfortable. He felt inexplicable. If he had to force an explanation, he would probably just It can be described as baffling.
Yes, it is inexplicable, difficult to express, without any sign or reason. In other words, this feeling itself belongs to the instinctive fear that arises when human beings encounter the unknown. For example, when a person accidentally discovers something he has never seen before, What are the consequences of passing a deformed creature? The consequences will inevitably be panic and difficulty in self-control. The bold ones will stop cautiously and observe curiously, while the timid ones will just ignore it and scream and run away. Simply speaking, it can be understood that fear comes from sensory reception, and the most effective and direct sensory system in the human body is It is undoubtedly the eyes. As mentioned above, if the perception is limited to the field of vision, then most people will undoubtedly only be afraid of things that look scary. Although the explanation is clear, the blame lies in this point. It's obviously just an ordinary black and white sketch, and the painting is obviously just a person whose appearance is slightly mixed with some abstract styles, but...
But it was this faceless man in a suit made of semi-abstract sketches that made Will feel a real sense of fear!
………
Take out the map to search the west and enter California, and you will find an empty western plain thousands of miles away. It is sparsely populated and has a quiet environment. It is displayed in a way far away from the modern city. Under the sunshine, it fits the bleak beauty and rural atmosphere. Strong, and there is indeed a farm erected below. The farm is slightly dilapidated, with no cattle or sheep in it. There is only a car parked in the farm yard. It is obvious that as the buyer arrives by car, the abandoned farm now has a new owner.
Various pictures indicate that a new life is about to begin, and the endless western plains can indeed provide new owners with a quiet life that is different from the hustle and bustle of the city. The undulating farmland across all directions, the stretches of empty wilderness, etc. all prove the pace of life here. Slowly, the scenery is beautiful and refreshing under the sun. Perhaps the only thing that ruins the beauty is the dense woods at the southern end of the farm.
Why do woods destroy beauty? The reason is not the woods themselves, but that the environment there is too dim. Even though the sun is shining brightly, the woods are still dark and difficult to transmit light. Looking at it, it looks like a big black cloud exists on the side of the farm, which is in sharp contrast with the surrounding bright environment. .
The field of view returns to the farm and continues to extend, past the car again, until entering the interior through the door, and you can see the following scene:
The messy house was restored to splendor after being tidied up, and the living room looked as it did before. There were two people in the middle, a white man and a blond child. The man was sitting on the sofa with a Coke in his hand, staring at the coffee table in front of him, while the child was lying on the coffee table. He lowered his head to paint, and was using simple tools to outline and organize the content in the painting. The content was not complicated. There was only a man in a suit who looked human but not human. The reason why he was described as human-like but not human was because the painting style was strange and the lines were strange. This man was tall, tall, and had thin limbs. The long, hairless head appears blank.
Will saw everything.
However, he did not speak or ask. At present, he was silent and stared at the simple sketch without saying a word, while the boy Tomley was still lying on the coffee table, still using the pencil in his hand to draw the faceless man in the painting. Draw carefully.
The painting continues, the art continues, and then the painting becomes brighter and clearer...
If at first when Will saw the drawing in Tom's hand, the man in the painting could only see the general outline and basic appearance, then after Tom revised and added for a while, the man in the painting gradually became clearer, but strangely yes……
The clearer and more detailed the portrait became, the stronger Will's fear of the faceless man became. He was much taller than a normal person, and his body was long and slender. His bamboo legs were nearly twice as long as his upper body. The left and right arms are twice as slender as normal people, and the white head with no hair, no facial features, just the outline of the skull, and finally paired with a black suit, all kinds of weirdness are combined in Tom's writing, and they are combined together in Together they pieced together a faceless man in a suit who looked human but not human.
For a moment, the man stared intently, fascinated, admiring the boy's paintings.
"Hello, Will?"
"Will? Will?"
"Forehead?"
After an unknown amount of time, a voice emerged and called into his ears. Tom's childish voice brought Will back to reality from his trance. When he heard the other party calling him, the man subconsciously agreed, and at the same time, he took the paper that he was staring at. His eyes instinctively moved up, moving from the coffee table to Tom across from him, but...
When Will broke free from the sluggishness and suddenly came to his senses, it was also the moment when he first set his sights on Tom. He saw something, discovered something, and found that there was an extra scene in the living room that should not have appeared, or in other words, it was right before him. Looking up and staring for a moment, a horrifying scene appeared in the living room and came into view:
Directly in front of the field of view, and one meter behind the boy, there was an extra person at some point, a man, a strange man wearing a black suit with a matching tie around his neck. Yes, the man was very strange, even It can be described as abnormal. Note that abnormal here refers to physical appearance. He has a deformed body and a deformed appearance. The other person has a pure white head, which is empty except for the outline of the human head. In addition, the slender limbs that are too long to be ridiculous and resemble tree branches are also nakedly displayed in front of the eyes. This, this is...
The other party turned out to be the faceless man in a suit in Tom's painting! ! !
At this moment, this thin and tall man stood silently in the living room for such a long time, standing quietly behind Tom in a completely still state. No one knew how long the other person had been there? The only thing that is known is that the faceless man is currently facing Will while freezing the scene!
As he regained consciousness and looked up, the man who had only existed in the picture appeared in reality. Will accidentally discovered it and had a close view of it!
His face instantly turned pale, his eyes suddenly widened, and then...
"ah!!!"
The sudden screams of terror echoed around the living room in an instant. In addition to the screams of panic, the great fear also caused the man's body to lean back suddenly, straight towards the back of the sofa. Immediately, his body shook wildly and his breathing intensified. It was obvious that Will was frightened. She was so frightened on the spot that her hair stood on end. This was not her fault. After all, the scene appeared so suddenly and without any warning. It would be difficult for anyone to stay calm, let alone Will. Being frightened to death is already considered a great thing, but the result can be imagined...
Wow!
Will's sudden scream and his body falling back undoubtedly had a chain reaction. In addition to shaking himself wildly, it also startled Tom! Frightened, the boy hurriedly jumped off the stool with a look of panic. He immediately turned around and scanned the scene. He looked and scanned the scene for a long time. Only when he confirmed that nothing happened at the scene did Tom relax slightly. As he relaxed, his immature face also followed. A strong suspicion emerged, and then he looked at the sofa and called softly in a tentative tone:
"Will? Hey, what's wrong with you, Will?"
After the boy called him many times, Will, who had been curled up on the sofa with his hands on his head, came to his senses and straightened up with a rough heart. At first, he did not dare to open his eyes. After all, he was afraid of seeing the faceless man again. That's what he said. That was true, but after a moment of silence, the man finally mustered up the courage to slowly open his eyes, scanned the opposite side through the gap, and discovered that there was no faceless man in a suit anywhere in his field of vision? There was neither a scary scene nor a sense of danger. Looking around, he and Tom were the only two people in the entire living room.
(Eh? What's going on? What I just saw is...)
"call!"
Putting aside the doubts in his heart, seeing nothing happening in the living room as usual, he raised his head and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. Willy, who had barely calmed down, ignored the boy opposite him, but after taking a deep breath, he reluctantly raised his hand and used his still slightly With trembling hands, he picked up the Coca-Cola from the table and drank it. It was obvious that the man was still scared. He was so scared that he was speechless for a long time. He could only drink cold drinks to stimulate his nerves as much as possible to stay awake, trying to remind himself in this way. Still alive.
As for Tom…
He continued to wait curiously and observed. During the waiting period, he was completely confused. Yes, he was really startled by the man's reaction just now. Although he has basically recovered now, the problem is that he still can't understand why the other person suddenly changed his expression and acted violently. As if he had suddenly seen some extremely terrifying scene, he was at a loss what to do and just panicked. Thinking of the exaggerated reaction of the other party at the beginning, Tom, who was now at the age when he was most curious, immediately asked if he didn't understand. Without thinking much, he immediately Asked: "You, what happened to you just now?"
"Ah, no, it's nothing. I just took a nap and accidentally had a nightmare. I'm sorry, I scared you."
This was Will's instinctive answer without hesitation after recovering. Yes, for some reason, he didn't tell Tom the scene he saw a few seconds ago. Instead, he answered with a casual lie. The reason? The reason is not complicated. In the final analysis, there are only two points.
First, Tom is still just a child. He is worried that if he tells the other party the truth about what he just saw, he will scare the young child. As an adult, Will considers himself obligated to keep it secret, at least not to bring any harm to the child in front of him. Scary shadow.
Of course, the above point is only a secondary reason, and the main reason why he refused to tell the truth actually comes from the second point, which is...
In fact, even he himself didn't know whether the scene he just saw was real!
As mentioned deliberately at the beginning, Will's academic qualifications are not low. He is a highly educated person with a master's degree. This kind of person often believes in science, so described. In fact, he himself is indeed an atheist. , combined with 30 years of accumulated knowledge, even though what he just saw was extremely real, his subjective consciousness still believed that the horrific scenes belonged to his own subconscious self-hysteria. At this point, Will's character has to be mentioned. Due to his high knowledge, A man knows how to self-analyze and reason. Even if he is not a psychiatrist, whenever he encounters some strange problems, he is still accustomed to looking for reasons and answers from his own spiritual level. The logic is easy to understand and the explanations are easy to understand. As the saying goes, the human spiritual level is a It is the most complicated subject. I remember that Will took a psychology class when he was in college, and the psychology professor in charge of the explanation did say something of great reference value to the students in the audience:
Psychological suggestion, thinking creation.
What is psychological suggestion? What is thought creation? The specific meaning is that when a person has a very deep impression on something, no matter whether the impression is good or bad, then the person will undoubtedly care about such things in daily life. However, it is also because he cares too much about it. Concentration, if you pay attention to something for a long time, the brain will often self-conceive and create, and inadvertently rely on the richness of the brain to create things that do not originally exist, and finally display them in reality through the optic nerve connected to the brain .
Ever since, weirdness has arisen. Things that should not exist in reality are derived from the real world under the creation of human brain thinking.
There is no doubt that Will believes in science. As a high-level intellectual, although he believes in God and yearns for heaven like most Europeans and Americans, he is still accustomed to using the most esoteric spirituality to analyze and explain some things that he cannot explain. This is also the biggest difference between men and ordinary people. When encountering strange problems, men know how to think quickly and analytically. He will neither prioritize strange encounters, nor will he constantly criticize those around him like a paranoid. People talk and force others to believe in themselves. He thinks this is very naive and ridiculous. When faced with some incomprehensible and strange encounters, he is often used to dealing with them coldly. To put it bluntly, it can be understood that unless he can find the real answer, otherwise he would rather Store this matter in your heart.
So naturally, at this moment, listening to the boy's curious inquiry, the man directly used the nightmare as an excuse to lie immediately, and the result...
As soon as he said this, the consequences were serious, or in other words, when he learned that the other party just took a nap and had a nightmare, Tom was immediately unhappy!
"What? It's just a dream? It's just a dream? You just scared me, you know? First you screamed suddenly, and then you reacted like a cat whose tail was stepped on. All these reactions are just like my old What Mom looked like when she saw the mouse.”
I have to say that Tom, the little boy, is really interesting. Although he was scared by Will at first, after hearing the other person's explanation, the boy instantly recovered and was not afraid at all. Instead, he shrugged and smiled bitterly while mocking the other person. At the end, he even deliberately took Mom gives an example.
Being ridiculed by a child much younger than himself, Will, as an adult, would not take it seriously. After all, no one would be so bored as to have a verbal argument with a seven or eight-year-old boy. In addition to shrugging his shoulders indifferently, in order to liven up the atmosphere, As soon as the boy finished speaking, Will forced a smile and joked casually: "Oh! Your mother was actually frightened by a mere mouse? I guess the size of the mouse your mother saw at that time must be as big as a shepherd's dog." About the same size, if that’s the case, then your dad should get a donkey-sized cat as soon as possible!”
"Hahahahaha!"
Seeing that the boy had succeeded in making him laugh, and seeing that the atmosphere at the scene had returned to a soothing mood, Will and Qia Feng suitably laughed along with him. It seemed a little abrupt, but in fact, this was American humor, and American humor has always existed in the lives of all Americans. , but then again, even if a small plan was used to restore the atmosphere of the scene, the fact that the sub-scene he just saw still echoed in Will's mind in an extremely clear way, lingering from beginning to end, the reason is that it is true, too Too real, so real that I will never forget it!
As the saying goes, seeing is believing and hearing is false. Although Will used scientific theories to forcefully explain it to himself, every time he recalled the scene at that time, the man was still frightened and still couldn't completely break free from fear. Finally, with a little uneasiness, he waited. After making a joke to Tom, Will, who still couldn't let it go, couldn't help but pick the right opportunity, immediately changed the subject, and asked Tom a key question:
"By the way, Tom, your painting is very interesting, interesting, very interesting."
Look for opportunities and do what you like. What do children of this age like the most? The answer is undoubtedly praise, especially when your work is praised by others, it is hard to refuse.
Sure enough, as soon as Will spoke, Tom, whose hobby was painting, immediately smiled and was extremely happy. He first glanced at the paintings on the coffee table, then turned to the new neighbor and asked curiously: "So what do you think of my paintings? "
“Great! Very Picasso style!”
"Picasso? Who is Picasso?"
"A world-class painting master, and also a master of abstract painting."
"What is abstraction?"
"Well, um, the so-called abstraction refers to the relative concept of concreteness. To put it bluntly, it is an alternative style of portraiture that is different from the realism style. You can understand it as random drawings, but the paintings are often full of the author's thoughts, which is a kind of through An unconventional art genre that uses painting to express certain meanings.”
"Although I don't understand what you are talking about, you seem to be very powerful."
As expected, when he heard that his work could be linked to Naruto, the boy scratched his head and became even more happy. Seeing that the fire was almost done, his mind was spinning. Will also saw the opportunity and continued to speak. Now he was on the right track and hurriedly asked the question. The key issue that has been troubled for a long time:
"So...who is this person in your painting?"
(Tell me, tell me the identity of the man in the painting, tell me what the hell this is!)
Using the flattery technique, Will originally thought that the boy would tell him the identity of the faceless man when the question was raised, but who would have thought...
As the question entered his eardrums, for some reason, the boy did not answer or respond. He just looked down at the painting in silence. After looking at the painting for a long time, Tom broke the silence and instinctively shrugged. He shook his head slightly while shrugging his shoulders, and finally stared with a blank expression. Will replied:
"have no idea."
"What? Don't know? You said you don't know?"
"Yeah, I really don't know."
"Didn't you refer to anything? For example, books, images, movies or videos?"
"No."
His expression was frozen, his expression was astonished, and his whole person was stunned on the spot as if he had been coated with a layer of cement.
Obviously, Tom's answer undoubtedly exceeded Will's expectations. He had considered the other party's answer, and even imagined that there were several answers. He might answer that it was based on his personal imagination, or he might answer "Yes". There were a lot of guesses about something in a book or a movie or TV show, but he only expected that the other party would simply and directly answer that he didn't know?
have no idea? It is neither a personal imagination nor a reference to movies and books. Since it is nothing, how did you draw this thing?
As for Tom…
At this moment, looking at the sofa opposite and the brown-haired man in front of him staring at him with a puzzled expression, he perhaps realized that his answer was indeed a bit strange. The boy suddenly realized that he scratched his head first, and his face showed a strange expression. Recalling his thinking state, it took more than ten seconds for the boy to add to the above answer:
"I mean I don't know who the man in the painting is, but I have seen this man once."
