Chapter 142 The Art of Painting
After finishing the carving last night, he was exhausted both physically and mentally, so he fell straight to sleep.
After Coco's small carving is completed, the treehouse decoration level has been improved to 96.4, almost reaching the 100 mark.
Although I don’t know if the decoration level of 100 will work, the decoration level of 96.4 is really uncomfortable, so I’d better go back and improve the decoration level.
Within a few minutes, Xu Xin was back under the tree house.
Under his tree house, there is a piece of blue-level fertile soil without any plants, which is the soil where the apple trees were planted before.
A blue-level poplar tree grew out of this soil after the heavy rain season, and he cut it down in the morning.
Xu Xin tried planting redwood seeds in this blue-level soil, but it had no effect. It seems that if you want to plant redwood, you need more special conditions.
They brought this soil to a planter on the fourth floor of the tree house. Only relatively low plants can be planted in the plantation, and tall trees still need to be planted under the tree house.
After thinking about it, Xu Xin planted a pine tree seed in the soil.
His kitchen and bathroom utensils need to be made with logs. Blue-level logs can upgrade these utensils, which may have unexpected effects.
Although there are no wild animals now, Xu Xin still built a fence around the soil for protection.
Back in the tree house, it was already after noon, and Silver King and Mimi were lying lazily in the living room.
"Do you still want to eat?" Xu Xin asked Yin Wang and Mimi. These two guys are probably going to be upgraded to intermediate mutant beasts, so it’s better to eat more.
However, the two beasts shook their heads. It seems that the big meal they had in the morning has temporarily satisfied their needs.
Xu Xin took Keke to the cold storage and got some pieces of mutated animal meat, half of which were stir-fried and half of which were barbecued.
During the meal, a slight warmth flowed through Xu Xin's body, which made him start to think about how strong he was now. When he was moving boulders in the morning, he easily lifted a stone that was about the same size as himself.
Of course, the scale armor on his body and the humanoid statue in the tree house are all attributable to it.
It felt like he wouldn't have much of a problem going head-to-head with a black bear now, even without a weapon.
After dinner, Coco went to the sofa to take a nap. Xu Xin sat on the sofa to rest and think about what to do in the afternoon.
This time, he wasn't going to sculpt, but paint.
His [Artist] contract not only gave him sculpting skills, it also gave him superb painting skills.
But before that, he needed to make the painting tools.
[Brush (green): Dip in water to draw the desired ink painting, and can draw green-level paintings. Requires wood (green)*1 and animal hair (green)]
The paintbrush requires wood and animal hair. He has plenty of blue-level wood, but Xu Xin has never obtained this animal hair.
Could it be that this kind of resource cannot be decomposed with a boning knife?
Xu Xin looked at Silver King who was dozing in the corner.
Isn't it just a ready-made wolf hair? It's still the wolf hair of the mutant wolf king!
With a smile on her face, Xu Xin walked up to the Silver King and stared at its silver and red tail.
Wolf hair is not actually wolf tail hair, but the hair on the weasel's tail. However, it should not be a big problem to use Silver King's tail hair.
Silver King had already opened his eyes when Xu Xin came over. Looking at his smiling face, he always felt that something bad was going to happen.
"Ouch——"
The bat hanging upside down under the tree house was frightened by the howl of the Silver King and fell down. It flapped its wings a few times and flew to the window to look inside the house.
Xu Xin was seen holding a handful of silver and red hair in his hand, while the Silver King looked at Xu Xin with his tail between his legs and a look of resentment. If you look closely, you can see that there is a small piece of baldness on its tail.
[Mutant Wolf King’s tail hair (blue): The hair on the tail tip of the Mutated Wolf King can be used to make a paintbrush. 】
Good guy, it’s still a blue-level resource!
Xu Xin looked directly at Yin Wang's hair with gleaming eyes, which made Yin Wang run to Mimi in two steps in fright.
In the end, Xu Xin plucked a few more hairs from its body. After all, this guy sheds a lot of hair. It was easy to pluck the hair from his body, and nothing could be seen.
But what disappoints Xu Xin is that only the hair on the tip of the tail is blue-level hair, and the few tufts of hair taken off from the body are not even resources, not even white-level hair.
Well, maybe only the hair on the tip of the tail can be used to make a paintbrush.
If you still want it next time, you can only wait until the hair on the tip of Silver King's tail grows out.
Xu Xin immediately used this bunch of blue-level animal hair to make a paintbrush. Because it was the hair of the Silver King, the hair of the paintbrush showed silver and red colors.
[Langhao Brush (Blue): Dip in water to draw the desired ink painting, and can draw blue-level paintings. 】
Beautiful, you can directly draw blue-level paintings!
The pen is ready, next comes the paper.
Xu Xin looked through the production list and found that there were two types of paper.
One is paper made of reeds, and the other is paper made of mahogany.
Xu Xin focused on the paper made of mahogany.
[Mahogany paper (green): Paper made from the essence of mahogany. It can be used as drawing paper. It requires mahogany*1]
Paper that can be used as drawing paper.
But...
A piece of paper actually requires a whole redwood!
Each tree only produces two redwoods, and one piece of paper uses one. In other words, one tree can only make two pieces of paper!
This mahogany paper is too expensive...
Xu Xin was originally thinking about consuming a piece of blue-level mahogany wood to make a stack of blue-level paper as a spare. But now he saw that there was only one piece of paper in the stack!
But forget it, let’s practice with green grade paper first.
Xu Xin immediately made a piece of mahogany paper (green).
The paper is very large, only a small circle smaller than the engraving and painting workbench, and can be placed completely on the workbench.
The brush only needs to be dipped in water to paint. Xu Xin prepared a small dish of water and picked up the brush.
The moment he lifted the brush, he felt the same immersive feeling he had when he lifted the carving knife before.
Dip the pen tip lightly in water.
The hair on the pen tip was originally silver and red, but after being dipped in water, it turned black, as if dipped in ink.
Xu Xin picked up her pen and pondered, what should she draw...
Well, let's just draw a Silver King. After all, it has made a lot of sacrifices for Xu Xin's painting career, and the tip of its tail is bald.
Ink paintings are not as detailed as sculptures, so there is no need for King Yin to serve as a model. Xu Xin waved the brush and began to open and close the mahogany paper.
Just a pen dipped in water, in Xu Xin's hand, could draw different shades of gray and black, and draw wild lines on the mahogany paper.
Xu Xin has been completely immersed in painting.
He didn't know how long it had passed. The Silver King on the mahogany paper and the jungle behind it had become more and more complete. They were almost complete, but his spirit couldn't hold on any longer.
Like a student sleeping in class, his head dropped and almost hit the table.
...The mental energy consumption is too huge, even greater than that of carving.
Because she wanted to compare the consumption of mental energy between painting and sculpture, Xu Xin did not eat oranges (blue) that can maintain energy before painting. She did not expect that the consumption of painting would be so great.
Holding himself back from falling asleep on the table, he quickly took out an orange and ate it.
After eating the orange, Xu Xin's energy instantly became energized. The difference between the first and last was like an injection of adrenaline.
Really good! The combination of artist talent and orange is perfect!
I glanced at my watch and saw that nearly two hours had passed since I started painting.
Time flies so fast? !
He waved the brush wide and wide, feeling that he was painting very fast, but he didn't expect that so long had passed.
Taking advantage of the duration of the orange's effect, Xu Xin continued painting.
The painting was over quickly. When the last stroke was finished, Xu Xin breathed a long sigh of relief.
On the drawing paper, a wolf was running towards him. Although it is an ink painting, it is not too realistic, so it is difficult to see the appearance of the Silver King, but it is full of tension, as if the wolf is about to jump out of the paper.
The effect is not triggered. Xu Xin thought for a while, made a picture frame out of wood, put this ink and wash Silver King inside, and framed it on the wall of the bedroom.
[The framed picture of the Wolf King (green) in the treehouse is detected, the treehouse decoration degree is +10, the current treehouse decoration degree: 106.4]
This time the prompt to increase the decoration appears.
This is a green-level painting with its own name. As for why it is green level instead of blue level, it should be because of the drawing paper. The drawing paper is green level, so no matter how good the painting is, it can only play the role of green level.
However, even a green-level painting has a ten-point decoration bonus, making the tree house's decoration level exceed one hundred.
But it seems that nothing special happened.
Xu Xin checked the content in the [Decoration Degree] option again, but there was no change.
Isn't the decoration enough, or is there any effect that you need to discover by yourself?
Maybe it's because the second phase hasn't started yet, so the decoration level doesn't have any effect yet.
Since there is nothing to do now, let's continue.
Xu Xin took out a red crystal, which was one of the blue-level crystals he got from the wooden box in the whirlpool.
He wanted to try carving blue-level crystals. After all, his carving knife was blue-level and could carve blue-level crystals.
As soon as the crystal was fixed on the table, Xu Xin's treehouse watch started to vibrate.
It was Li Wenxi who called him.
After the call was connected, he saw Li Wenxi sitting on the back of the cow.
The little beauty was very leisurely at the moment, even learning how to herd the cow baby, holding a piece of dogtail grass in her mouth.
"You just finished digging?"
"Yes, we are walking back. Aniu helped me carry a lot of things. This time he carried me many times before." As he said this, Li Wenxi spit out the grass in his mouth, stuck out his tongue, and frowned. "This grass is so astringent..."
"Did you come to chat with me out of boredom on the road?" Xu Xin put down the carving knife and said with a smile.
"Oops, what happened to chatting for a while?" Li Wenxi lay on the back of the cow, the camera pointed at her face, and her voice became much lazier, "It's not just a chat, I'm in the mine. Something strange was found inside.”
Strange things in the mines?
Xu Xin became interested instantly.
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