A demon painter who can capture the soul of the person being depicted into the painting.
The rumor arose because of the feeling evoked by some of Mia's most famous paintings.
The scene depicted in the painting is fantastical, like a dream that no one can reach in reality.
The figures depicted seem to exist in reality, as if they have been given a true soul by the creator.
But who would have thought that, on another level, people actually stumbled upon the truth?
This may explain why Mia's art exhibition this time is titled "Dream Art Exhibition".
Whether it's a beautiful dream or a nightmare, Mia is creating dreams for these people.
Just like with Meli and Angel, Gu Xinghe had no way of knowing why Meli first came into contact with Mia.
The world is full of suffering, perhaps because she could no longer bear to watch her daughter suffer from illness year after year.
Or perhaps it was because she saw that although her daughter's health had improved, she had clearly been affected by some kind of strange contamination.
Moreover, judging from Ingres's true feelings when he explained it to him at the time.
That treatment method, which involves blood, rotten flesh, and blades, is clearly wrong.
Perhaps Angell was bewitched by some unknown entity in this town, believing it to be the cure for his daughter.
However, they did not realize that along with this "treatment," Annie's true nature was gradually being swallowed up.
Instead, a monster appeared, disguised as her daughter.
Perhaps it was this realization that led the distressed Mary to take the initiative to approach Mia.
On the other hand, after stealing the painting, Ingres also realized the true location of his wife's soul, which he had been searching for for so long.
And why he initially thought the imposter wasn't Mary.
What is similar to, yet different from, what happened to Angell and Meli is—
Although Mia's body also houses two soul personalities.
However, these two consciousnesses are not separated, but coexist in one body.
This is clearly the truth behind Gu Xinghe's belief in Capgras's paranoia.
The so-called Capgras paranoia is clearly not just a hypothetical mental illness in the current case.
Rather, a genuine change occurred in the person suspected by the "patient"—
The true human soul already lives in the world depicted in the painting.
The false personality that is born later imitates the original's original behavior.
But at this moment, realizing that there might also be a small world behind the painting, Gu Xinghe finally understood—
space.
More accurately, it should be described as a subspace that exists in relation to the real world.
Initially, contact was made with this special space.
It must have been the mirror space that he entered in the Tavern of Misfortune, the mirror space hidden behind the mirror yet truly existing.
Then, he disappeared from everyone's sight on the stairs at Dawn Boarding School, and subsequently fell into the dream space of the centipede spider.
Finally, there is the painting titled "Warm Sunshine" that appears before Gu Xinghe now.
Although in reality it is just a flat, two-dimensional picture.
But for the souls captured in the painting, they should live as if they were in the world depicted in the painting.
Eris treated the Tavern of Doom as his own base of operations.
In fact, those ancient gods who have many followers but have fallen into slumber are also slumbering in their own realms.
To open up or own one's own territory.
Is this an inevitable choice that will appear in the process of "upgrading" or evolving in this strange world?
At that moment, Gu Xinghe looked across the street at Annie behind the window of the house.
Instead of continuing to lie in her bed, she sat at the dining table and ate dinner with her father and brother.
At present, her body appears to be in perfect condition.
When Gu Xinghe saw her lying in bed in the morning, he even wondered if there was a non-human-shaped lower body under the covers.
But now it seems that Anne's figure is much smaller than it appeared when she was curled up in the blankets.
At that time, her body, tightly wrapped in the blanket, appeared noticeably more bloated.
But now, Gu Xinghe looked at her body, so thin and frail that you could almost see the bones beneath her skin.
It was as if all her energy and spirit had been absorbed.
How could such a frail body support her to walk normally?
But just then, as Gu Xinghe looked her over, Annie seemed to sense something and raised her head.
Separated by a considerable street, she should not have been able to notice Gu Xinghe and Mia's gaze.
But Gu Xinghe noticed the way she was looking in his direction—
At this moment, Annie did not show the excited look in her eyes that seemed to have caught her prey.
Instead, after glancing at Gu Xinghe's location for a moment, she lowered her head again, her face expressionless.
It was as if she had just happened to be looking in his direction.
But in that one glance she gave him, the aggressive look in her eyes made it seem as if she had memorized Gu Xinghe's appearance.
But Gu Xinghe didn't feel that he had been provoked.
Rather, he was even more excited about the opportunity to have such clues come to him.
"See, I told you the Angel family was doing well, after all, I'm such a kind-hearted person..."
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