Chapter 047 Master of Surrealist Art 1
Friday, April 11th.
Chen She continued carving in the experience store.
In fact, after reaching the second level of energy fluctuation and unlocking the profession of creator, Chen She already possessed far more powerful creativity than before.
Like the previous sculptures, he didn't even need to carve anymore. He only needed to use a little space-time particles to turn a piece of ready-made material into the shape of his imagination, exactly the same.
It's just that this ability is a bit weird and not suitable to be displayed in public.
After all, so far no profession can achieve this kind of effect similar to "humanoid self-propelled 3D printer", and the existence of the profession of creator is still a mystery.
Chen She absolutely did not want this secret to be leaked.
Of course, Zhang Sirui and Zhao Zhen must have guessed something, after all, they knew a little about the ceremony. But these two people would definitely not ask too many questions, nor would they talk nonsense.
This will be the top secret of this resistance army.
Therefore, Chen She would try his best to pretend in front of everyone and would not really reveal his side as a "humanoid self-propelled 3D printer". Instead, he would continue to paint stroke by stroke and carve knife by knife.
What's more, Chen She discovered that carving slowly was more effective in improving himself than creating directly with the creator's abilities.
Currently, the creator's energy fluctuation improvement mainly comes from two ways: one is creation, whether it is carving, painting or making Mewtwo, it can all be counted as this; the other is the improvement of the servants' strength, the more the servants improve, the more the creator improves.
However, if space-time particles are directly consumed for creation, although it is convenient, it will enhance the synaesthesia ability too much, causing Epsilon's power to grow faster.
And slowly carving in this way, with changes in form, is beneficial in suppressing Epsilon's power.
In addition, this kind of carving really helps relieve stress, and it has even become a daily habit for Chen She, so he continues to do it.
After Li Yunhan arrived at Lishan Technology Group, Chen She did not arrange a job for him, but asked him to study first.
What to learn?
Of course, continue to study "The Last Embers".
This Mewtwo will continue to be popular for at least another year or so. Since Li Yunhan likes to use his imagination so much, let him play with it more and use his imagination more .
Anyway, just don't get involved in the new Mewtwo business.
Chen She still has no idea about the new Mewtwo. Moreover, after Li Yunhan came, it became even more difficult to make the new Mewtwo. He was so frustrated that he could only continue carving.
As the physical version of Mewtwo in "Embers of Demise" was quickly released, it was widely distributed in major cities. Of course, the supply in Dawn City was more sufficient, and major experience stores purchased it in large quantities.
In this way, the pressure on the Lishan Technology Experience Store was also shared. The completely crowded scene like before was no longer there, and the flow of people in the experience store decreased, finally returning to normal levels.
However, Wu Yisu often recommended people from the bar to come over and play, and every now and then there would be a large wave of guests coming, which made Chen She feel very annoyed.
The opening of new experience stores must be put on the agenda as soon as possible.
People have been arranged to investigate the site selection in the wild for building the base. I believe there will be results in a while.
Zhang Sirui sat down on the sofa next to Chen She and called up a holographic map of Liming City on his bracelet.
"Mr. Chen, this is the location of the experience store after the inspection."
"Seven of the sites are in the inner city and 12 are similar to where we are now."
"Where do you think we should build experience stores?"
Chen She looked at the holographic map carefully without stopping the carving action with his hands.
There are a total of nineteen sites, which can be said to be scattered all over the map of Liming City. They are obviously the result of screening according to more suitable conditions.
Chen She shook his head: "None. This location selection is obviously wrong."
Zhang Sirui was stunned for a moment: "Wrong? What's wrong?"
Chen She sighed softly. These people wouldn't think of anything if he didn't give them a word of warning.
Being a president is so tiring!
The current location is obviously the most profitable one.
Is that okay? Definitely not.
The purpose of this experience store has never been to make money, but to spend money and survive!
So, what is the best way to achieve this goal? It must be to cluster all the experience stores together, with a certain distance between them, but not too far away, and all equipped with the most advanced security measures.
The surrounding demand is saturated? No problem, the problem is that the store is too busy.
By then, even if the corporate coalition forces attack, several experience stores can cover each other and form a pincer attack, and they can still resist a wave, and Chen She can escape calmly.
If these stores are too scattered or too concentrated, this effect will not be achieved.
Chen She explained: "Have you forgotten why the location of this experience store is so good? It's because if we put some heavy weapons on the roof, we can control the entire street."
"If you spread all the experience stores to various urban areas, so far away, will it still have this effect?"
"Our Mewtwo is so popular that it can make money wherever it is opened. At this time, of course, we need to consider other factors carefully."
“Location is key!”
"In addition, the number of stores is not about quantity, but quality, because all security measures in the store must be in accordance with the standards of the current store."
Zhang Sirui suddenly realized: "So that's how it is, Mr. Chen, why didn't you tell me earlier!"
"I would have chosen it myself if I had known. I'm good at this!"
If the site selection is not based on the standards of an experience store, but on the standards of a stronghold or a watchtower, it would be much simpler and is Zhang Sirui's professional field.
He zoomed in on the holographic map of Dawn City, focused on the small area where the experience store was currently located, and set his sights on the shops for sale in the nearby blocks.
"Here, here, and...here."
"There are five new stores in total, all located around our current store. Once a situation arises, we can respond and support each other quickly."
"Although the scope is not particularly large, it can ensure that we maintain absolute control within the scope of our experience store."
"Even if a few elite teams from the chaebol come over, we still have room to maneuver!"
Zhang Sirui never took these small thugs in the nearby streets seriously. In his eyes, the enemies were generally the corporate armies of major chaebols.
Chen She nodded: "This is a good location, I like it very much. Let's do it according to this."
"By the way, the location of the base in the wilderness should not be too close to Dawn City. It should be as far away as possible."
“Safety comes first.”
The farther the base is from Liming City, the more difficult it will be to supply. Therefore, even if a company builds a base in the wilderness, it will try to build it near the satellite cities and peripheral settlements of Liming City, not too far away.
But Chen She built a base in the wilderness to survive!
If the base is right next to the satellite city, what's the big deal? The corporate army will attack and wipe out the entire base along the way.
Therefore, we still have to go as deep into the wilderness as possible.
Although this would extend the supply lines and make the daily operations of the base a little more difficult, it was the only way to survive.
What's more, Lishan Technology is not short of money at all now, and Chen She is even worried about how to spend the money.
Maintaining a wilderness base far away from Dawn City is not a big problem.
After giving some instructions, Chen She finished the sculpture in his hand. He placed the sculpture aside casually and picked up a new piece of material, thinking about the problem while carving.
Just then, a new customer came to the experience store.
Zhou Lei was always paying attention to the situation outside the store and immediately noticed that there was something strange about the two new customers.
These two people were dressed very fashionably and with a bit of artistic flair. They looked like they were from wealthy families and seemed a bit out of place with the other customers in the experience store.
Due to its location, the experience store often has customers from the inner city, but most of the customers are ordinary people from the neighborhood. Even if some of them come from wealthy families, they are obviously not comparable to these two people.
But the strange thing is, although they came here together, they seem to be incompatible and dislike each other.
Zhou Lei paid special attention to it. After all, as the store manager, he was also responsible for the security of the experience store, so he had to be more careful when encountering suspicious people.
Some of the people from the Space-Time Knights had sneaked in before, and although Zhou Lei was really powerless to do anything about it, he also felt that he had not done his job well enough.
One of these two people is named Ji Yongkang and the other is named Su Zhiyong, but apart from their names, there is no more information.
Generally speaking, these wealthy people pay more attention to the security of their personal information. Although they have to make transactions and pay when they go online at the experience store, they don’t have too much personal information. Some people even use fake names.
Xia Lirong served with a smile and led the two people to two adjacent Super Dream game cabins.
However, the two people did not want to sit next to each other, and deliberately left an empty seat between them.
Xia Lirong was a little surprised, but he didn't say much and continued to do his own thing. The service industry will naturally encounter some customers with strange tempers. There is no need to be weird at this time. Just respect the customer's own wishes.
Since coming to the experience store, Xia Lirong became a store clerk and actively integrated into the company. Now he has fully mastered the work here.
Of course, the work in the experience store itself is not complicated. It is nothing more than receiving customers and understanding how to use some of the equipment in the store. For Xia Lirong, these are not difficult at all.
He finally got the opportunity to do this job, so he naturally cherished it very much.
However, during the course of work, Xia Lirong discovered that everyone in this store, from the store manager to the staff, had a vigorous and efficient attitude, with their eyes and ears open in all directions. This was fundamentally different from the staff in other stores who were yawning all the time and had no energy at all.
Xia Lirong was deeply moved and decided to learn from everyone's spirit and devote himself to work with the best working state!
Although Chen She was busy carving, carving didn't take up much of his brain, just like scribbling on paper. But even so, the things he carved at will were still very beautiful and full of connotation.
In Chen She's opinion, this is the biggest bug of the Creator. Things like manipulating space-time particles and creating servants are not so excessive compared to this.
Chen She planned to keep Xia Lirong in the experience store for a while, and then transfer him to the new factory after the new production line was officially put into operation and the shackle bracelets and the "Uncover the Coffin" game cabin were officially put into production.
Recently, Grantham from the Knights of Time and Space has not come to visit again.
Chen She hoped that he would never come again because it was really dangerous.
If the Knights of Time and Space knew that Epsilon was in Chen She's consciousness, Chen She had no doubt that they would chop Chen She into pieces and try their best to rescue Epsilon.
Chen She sighed softly and increased the speed of carving again.
At this moment, Zhang Sirui, who had been resting with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes and looked in the direction outside the experience store.
Chen She was startled, but after taking a quick look, he did not find the blue light bulb.
He breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he wasn't a member of the Time and Space Knights.
"What's the matter? Is there any situation?" Chen She asked.
Zhang Sirui nodded: "The two young men just now seemed to be followed by a master. I can only have a vague hunch, but I don't know the specific strength and background of the other party."
Chen She continued to carve with his head down: "It's not a big problem. They probably aren't coming for us. But this also shows that the identities of those two young men are special. They don't look like ordinary rich second-generations."
Zhang Sirui nodded. He did not relax his guard, but just looked at the two young men twice more.
…
Before lying down in the Mewtwo game cabin, the two young men, Ji Yongkang and Su Zhiyong, were still bickering across the empty Mewtwo game cabin in the middle.
Su Zhiyong said: "Only the realistic school can create eternal classics. I will prove it to you soon!"
Ji Yongkang was not to be outdone: "Humph, the promotional poster for "Embers Are Going Out" has already proved that the supersensory school is the future direction of art!"
Su Zhiyong said sarcastically: "What kind of supersensory school? It's obviously just a bunch of random drawings, using far-fetched explanations to justify their weak basic skills!"
Ji Yongkang retorted, "Bullshit! The Supersensory School is the application of techniques. You, a stubborn person, will never understand this realm. You should give up painting and learn photography!"
The two refused to give in to each other. After arguing for a few words, they each lay down in the Mewtwo game cabin and began to experience "Embers of Demise".
Su Zhiyong came here this time, holding his breath.
He and Ji Yongkang were both top students at Liming City Higher Academy of Arts.
The Liming City Higher Art College was founded with funding from the Qiyuan Education Group, but several Liming City councilors also contributed money, so it is not only open to the wealthy class, but also selectively recruits some civilians, so it can bear the name of Liming City.
Tuition fees are very expensive, and many people who go to school with loans are still paying off their loans more than ten years after graduation.
But no matter what, this art college is one of the top art colleges in the entire Jiutu, and can also represent the development of the entire Jiutu art school.
There are currently two main art schools in Jiutu, namely the realistic school and the supersensory school, which Ji Yongkang and Su Zhiyong have been arguing about.
The realism school emphasizes the technicality of art and aims to accurately reproduce reality. The more accurate and detailed the work is, the better it will be.
There is even a master of realistic art who once hand-painted a painting that was exactly the same as a real photo. In the eyes of the masters of the realistic school, although they are exactly the same, the hand-painting process is the greatest significance.
The Supersensory School, on the other hand, is completely the opposite. It emphasizes the completely distorted and abstract expression of reality. The things drawn are all foggy and completely incomprehensible, but if you take a closer look, you can get some emotional infection from them.
This method of conveying emotions through abstract art without being bound by form is considered to be the essence of the Supersensory School.
Therefore, the two mainstream art schools in the old land have been in an incompatible state from the very beginning.
In fact, in the old land, long before the distant Silver Star Calendar, there were some other schools. But the problem is that with the frequent space-time activities and the earth-shaking changes in the environment of the old land, only these two schools have been passed down and gradually developed into the mainstream.
There is a reason for this.
With the development of science and technology, the emergence of holographic projection and super dream technology has made it increasingly difficult for people to distinguish between virtual and reality. The realistic school emphasizes the use of art to express reality, so more and more attention is paid to skills and expressions that are completely close to reality.
On the other hand, the birth of the supersensory school is closely related to the emergence of time and space activities and synaesthesia. As more and more people immerse themselves in the spiritual world and attribute many things to mysterious powers, they are increasingly yearning for those existences that transcend reality and illusory forms.
Therefore, there are two different roots behind the realistic school and the supersensory school, and it is natural that the two schools argue endlessly.
This endless dispute exists not only among the top artists, but also among the top students in art schools.
After all, where there are people, there is the world.
Su Zhiyong and Ji Yongkang were the most staunch supporters of the realistic school and the supersensory school respectively among the students. It happened that both of them were argumentative people, so when they had nothing to do, they would debate and compare their works.
Although they were talking at cross purposes and each had their own criteria for judgment, and no one could convince anyone else, they still had a strong fighting spirit.
But this delicate balance was broken in the past two days.
Because of the emergence of "Embers Are Going Out"!
It was a coincidence that Ji Yongkang, who was at a disadvantage in the last debate, was very dissatisfied, and at this time, the Mewtwo game "Embers of Desolation" suddenly became popular at an incredible speed.
Ji Yongkang originally had no great interest in Mewtwo, let alone a Mewtwo that was advertised as being very difficult.
After he saw the analysis of the promotional picture on the Internet, he found the original picture and was immediately shocked.
Look! Isn't this a masterpiece of the Supersensual School?
A gray mist was lingering, and behind it was a faint glow of fire. The various shapes of the mist could make up many details in the mind, giving rise to rich associations.
Isn’t this completely in line with the concept of the supersensory school?
Therefore, Ji Yongkang immediately found a point of counterattack: Look, "Embers of Demise", this epoch-making Mewtwo work, also used the artistic techniques of the supersensory school during its promotion!
Moreover, this Mewtwo is so popular and players love and accept it so much, which is enough to show that the supersensory school is the mainstream and is more in line with the aesthetic demands of ordinary people!
As for the realistic school? Sorry, the technology in this world is so advanced that the pixels of pictures taken by any bracelet are much higher than those of your hand-drawn pictures. You should have been eliminated long ago!
Facing Ji Yongkang's aggressive attack, Su Zhiyong certainly couldn't accept it.
However, Ji Yongkang's combination of punches was indeed very lethal, especially after he threw out the game promotional picture that could 100% be called a representative work of the supersensory genre, he achieved the effect of completely suppressing Su Zhiyong.
