Chapter 1016 "The Author Is Dead"
Before arriving in the Hall of Mirrors, Aiwass knew that he would definitely encounter a wild phantom.
After all, this covers almost the entire realm of the path to beauty. There is a direct influence of a Pillar God and two Tiansi, and it is also connected to the thoughts and subconsciousness of all art creators in the material world... It is definitely impossible to say that there is no evil thing here.
Those who engage in art are somewhat crazy.
Being too mentally normal and too stable is actually not conducive to continuous creation - the so-called "articles hate life", this is generally the case.
"——But even so, these things are too evil!"
Aiwass blurted out as he walked forward quickly. Yasen nodded repeatedly, thinking it was true.
The first few rooms are all familiar to Aiwass. He is so familiar that he even knows where there are hidden places when running the map. If necessary, Aiwass would still have the confidence to easily get rid of him, even though his movement speed was certainly not as fast as that of Yassen, the monster thief.
But after following the relevant recommendations of "Audiences who are looking at this painting are also looking at it", they ran through four rooms, and finally entered a room that Aiwass had never been to in his previous life. Aiwass's "picture running speed" also It's obviously slower.
Because of the relevance of a painting, one cannot simply look at the picture, but also analyze its inner meaning.
For example, when the Candlemas Chapel is burning, it is definitely not just as simple as "there is a fire here"; and if you see people sitting on a small boat, it may not be a group of people going out for an outing, but just escaping from the sunken ship. .
Seeing two armies fighting, it is possible that the painting is depicting the brutality of the war; but if it can be recognized that the two armies actually belong to the same country, and that this is a misunderstanding or rebellion that should not have occurred, then the painting It is somewhat mixed with satire and criticism.
——It might be a lot better if Isabel was here.
But Aiwass's artistic quality is really not enough.
Although Aiwass was able to speak clearly and logically when he first met the cameraman, that was actually the correct answer given by the future Yanis. Aiwass was actually just copying the answers. He had actually seen very few paintings, let alone analyzed their inner meanings and looked for correlations.
Fortunately, this is not exactly a "painting", but a video or a game - every part of the world in this painting can be explored. Those "NPCs" that come and go and ignore them are also talkable.
In this way, even if you don't know the meaning here, you can roughly understand the meaning and rules here.
Just a little bit...
If you stay in the same space for too long, the "NPCs" inside will turn into monsters.
Because when no one is observing or appreciating a painting, it is just a painting. But if this painting is being viewed, investigated, studied... then it will become a collection of information whose meaning is flowing and being decompressed.
——This is the so-called "author is dead". This also forms the core concept of the Hall of Mirrors.
When a work is fully created, the author loses the right to interpret it. A modern work of art cannot be completely original. It must be based on some or some mature culture and draw nutrients from these cultures.
Just like the "Candle Chapel Destroyed", its meaning requires understanding the Church of the Nine Pillars, understanding the Candlesticks, understanding the relationship between Iris and the Theocracy, understanding the political status of the Great Chapel, and understanding the existence of the Children of the Moon. , Understand the Iris people's view of the relationship between the Theocratic State and the Children of the Moon... Only in this way can we fully understand. And these various "prerequisites" are the cultural foundation from which this painting was born.
In other words, because different interpreters have their own cultural backgrounds, life experiences, races, ages, and positions... their interpretations of the same artwork are naturally and bound to be different. So who is the "absolutely correct interpreter"?
The author is naturally the most qualified to be. But the most unlikely thing is the author - because even the author himself has changed after creating this work of art, and is obviously different from what he was before creation. Just like one cannot step into the same river twice.
Likewise, it cannot belong to anyone. So from another perspective, it can belong to everyone.
Therefore, all art interpreters are actually using their own lives, culture, knowledge, perceptions, emotions, and interests to reconstruct this work, creating a new copy that is independent of the subject.
In this process, the interpreter of beauty is the mirror!
Some mirrors are perfect, and some mirrors are defective; some mirrors are clean, and some mirrors are dirty. Some mirrors are foggy, some are just polished metal, and some are even distorted mirrors. They reflect different pictures of the same real object...just like interpreters give different understandings of the same artwork.
When any "outsider" who does not belong to the painting stays in the space for too long, distortion begins to occur.
But although some "monsters" appear, it is not that these "NPCs" have become phantoms - to be precise, these spaces themselves are a kind of phantoms. And those individuals are only part of this work of art. They are not individuals with independent souls, but the hands and feet, eyes and mouth of the painting.
Now "this painting" has changed its expression to look at you, so a fantasy monster called "Art Spirit" was born.
——The first phantoms that Aiwas and his party encountered were the guests who fought at the palace funeral.
They were originally in a state of disharmony, and after Aiwas and his party stayed for a long time, they finally seemed to be unable to bear it and started fighting——
It seemed that because of Aiwas and Yasen's understanding, these Iris nobles and ministers suddenly started fighting at the funeral. Even directly affected several of them.
But fortunately, the phantoms at this stage were relatively easy to deal with. They were easily killed by Yasen without Aiwas and Venis taking action.
The second wave of phantoms turned into a fairy-tale-style palace. The soldiers in playing card armor began to chase them after they had been investigating for too long. At this stage, Yasen's power was obviously not enough, forcing Aiwas to take action.
In the third wave, they began to appear in a manor house.
The guests here were eating and drinking with their own intentions, while outside there was a storm. As a result, before Aiwas could investigate, they suddenly turned into a group of Moon Children, overturned the table and attacked them - this was undoubtedly the subconscious influence of Venus.
When she thought that things would develop in this way, the situation really turned out like this.
Wish it would come true!
The strength of these Moon Children has been further improved compared to before, and each of them is almost as strong as the first generation of Red Phase - this is naturally impossible. If they were really that strong, then Iris would have fallen long ago. However, the strongest Moon Children in Venus' memory were about this level. When she had doubts, they gained power from the Mirror Hall and manifested.
- From the fourth wave, the situation began to become bizarre.
In addition to the artwork itself, which became a phantom due to this uncontrolled "wish come true", there were even phantoms from the outside world that mixed in out of curiosity.
The candy house that climbed up and turned into a man-eating monster, the ghost that crawled out of the dilapidated castle, the pianist who played a flesh-and-blood piano, the ancient white-clothed flute player with a sword on his waist, the soprano section of a one-man choir with three heads, one man and two women, the skeleton drummer with four arms, the lizard man who focused on playing a guitar that could breathe fire, the fairy singer who was only the size of a butterfly, the perverted painter who used the sword as a pen and the human body as a canvas to create, a headless conductor, and three rock bands that looked ordinary but had a different style from the people around them...
The more people ran, the more people there were.
Aiwass even suspected that most of the phantom demons of the Path of Beauty had gathered here!