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The thin man's parents were not at home, so it was much easier for the two of us to talk.

I directly unfolded Ye Zhengyi's paintings and told the story of Ye Zhengyi to the thin man.

The key point here is, of course, the captivating beauty of the original painting.

There was something wrong with the thin man's expression. He stared at the woman on the screen for a long time without making a sound. He looked like he was listening to my story seriously, but I could feel that he was absent-minded.

"This painting was later changed." I could only "spoiler" the story in advance and tell Shouzi about this key turning point.

The thin man was not surprised after hearing this, "Changed?"

"Yeah. Do you remember Liu Che?" I asked.

The thin man looked at me doubtfully.

"He is the one who raises ghosts, the first person to raise ghosts, Mo Wen's master, and the ancestor of Master Xuan Qing." I added.

The thin man suddenly realized.

"It was his reincarnation that did it. He killed Ye Zhengyi and forced Ye Zhengyi's ghost to change the painting. Today's beauty pictures no longer have the same effect as before."

"Where are the other paintings?" The thin man raised the painting.

"There is only this one, and it is also the most important painting." I considered it, and did not talk about the magic spirit, but prepared to guide the thin man and let him imagine the power of this painting.

"Everything else was burned? You seem to have mentioned...people from Qingye found out about this person, and there are still paintings left...is it the water park, right? There is a picture of a river..." The thin man thought while thinking said.

I was surprised for a while, but the memory was immediately brought back by the thin man's words.

Aoba's files are kept at home and cannot be accessed on the road, but Shouzi's memory is correct. Ye Zhengyi's paintings are not just pictures of beauties that have magical power. Among the commissions Qingye handled, one was triggered by Ye Zhengyi's painting. That painting was not a picture of a beauty, but a picture of a river.

I'm a little annoyed.

After meeting Xu Tiancheng, Yao Nie and Ye Zhengyi, and listening to Ye Zhengyi talk about what was there and what was not, I had forgotten this detail.

Ye Zhengyi didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, but he told me that he could only draw pictures of beauties.

I frowned and became suspicious of Ye Zhengyi. I didn't fully trust him to begin with, I'm just more wary now.

"There are only pictures of beauties. He only told me about pictures of beauties. He didn't mention the other paintings. Those who lost their power should also be pictures of beauties." I said to the thin man, "These paintings could have come true, but now they can't. After modification, it’s not as amazing as before.”

The thin man nodded, "Well, Brother Qi, what do you mean..."

"Let this painting be restored. I will ask Ye Zhengyi to paint another work later. This is the foundation. This foundation must be in our hands." I said solemnly.

"How to do this?" The thin man scratched his head, "I can understand if you ask me to admit that this painting has become real. But when it comes to mastering..."

"There should be quite a lot of ghost stories like this, right?"

"There are quite a lot of ghost stories about the people in the paintings." The thin man thought for a while, "But you said you have mastery... this..."

He looked at the painting in his hand.

The woman in the painting is indeed very charming, and she already has a feeling that is ready to come out. But that's just a feeling. It's not easy for her to really come out. It would probably be even harder for her to control Ye Zhengyi's ability.

"Hmm. You just said that Ye Zhengyi modified this painting. And Liu Che forced...Liu Che is that very powerful person..." The thin man seemed to suddenly have inspiration, "This kind of ability is found in many ghost stories. Yes. The painter controls the scenery in the painting, but there are also backlash stories..."

I heard the thin man talking to himself, and an idea came to my mind.

All the information I know was told to me by Ye Zhengyi. A famous painter in history, a famous painter in the supernatural circle, a person with abilities whose mind was filled with thoughts of landscapes and beauties, suddenly started studying history, uncovered Liu Che's background, and had a deep understanding of the so-called taboos.

The more I think about it, the less I can control my imagination.

This imagination may not be correct, but it is undoubtedly what we need now.

I thought about it again and again and said to the thin man: "Is it possible that Ye Zhengyi is no longer the same Ye Zhengyi?"

As soon as I spoke, the thin man was stunned.

"Ye Zhengyi, you should be able to find information online." I took out my phone.

Fortunately, the communication has been restored, Mingxit is gone, and the ghost kings don't seem to be prepared to use this method to kill people.

I searched the Internet without any scruples, and Ye Zhengyi's information was revealed in front of the two of us.

The first thing that caught my eye was Ye Zhengyi's painting, but it was not a painting of a beautiful woman, but a painting of landscapes.

The painting titled "Peach Blossom River" cannot be seen clearly in the picture. According to the description of the picture, it was a photo taken by a tourist. The original paintings and reproductions, as well as the stored data, were all lost. This is a lost painting from the Minqing Museum. Just last month, when the museum building was renovated and the collection was being organized, it was discovered that a painting was missing and the records could not be found. It was because the museum staff had some memories of this that they worked hard to determine the name of the lost painting and solicit relevant records from the public, but the recovered information was very limited.

That painting felt strangely familiar to me.

Looking at that painting, my memory gradually emerged.

It was this painting that Ye Qing and the others were investigating. At that time, this painting still had supernatural phenomena. You could see corpses floating in the river, and the blood looked like peach blossom petals and reflections of peach blossoms.

The painting was burned by Aoba.

Ye Zhengyi's paintings should have all been burned.

Ye Zhengyi turned into a ghost and investigated Liu Che's affairs, but didn't care about his works during his lifetime?

The story that was originally just imaginary to facilitate the thin man to use his abilities now seems to have touched some truth.

I looked at that picture of a beautiful woman again, and my mind started to have random thoughts.

"Isn't his ability a bit like that cartoonist Bai An?" said the thin man.

"It should be different." I searched for information about Taohua River again, and the relevant content I found was also related to the museum news just now.

The museum did not collect much information about Ye Zhengyi and his paintings, but the historical materials about Taohua River were dug out by reporters. These things can be found in the museum’s collection of documents. I don’t know if it was really dug out by reporters, or if the museum specifically searched for this basic information in order to find information about the paintings.

The original site of Taohua River is in Minqing City. There was a tragic war in history, and corpses were everywhere. The boat carrying the corpse was set alight directly on the Peach Blossom River and burned to the ground. The river was later filled in and disappeared from the map. But before disappearing, there were many local water ghost legends. Ancient literati also recorded several related stories, which have been passed down. But the content is similar to ordinary water ghost stories and has no distinctive features.

"Could it be that it was transformed by a water ghost?" The thin man immediately started his rich imagination.

I didn't agree.

I feel that my previous imagination was really just imagination. Ye Zhengyi concealed his situation, but many things he said should be true. What he conceals is the content of his abilities.

It’s not about painting beautiful women, it’s not about painting imaginary characters.

His paintings should be able to restore the supernatural events that happened in history.

"Peach Blossom River" is such a work.

It may not be to restore history, but to preserve the supernatural events that happened in reality.

I'm a little unsure.

My intuition tells me that no matter what kind of ability he has, one of his paintings must have recorded the truth about taboos and Liu Che.