Chapter 171: Murder Oil Painting
Because the matter was too big, the radio station soon carried out a "refutation of rumors", telling listeners that it was all fiction and was based on a radio drama adapted from science fiction.
As a result, you can imagine what the show will be sprayed like, and the next day almost all the front pages of the newspapers made headlines about it.
"Radio creates war and alarms the whole country!"
"The radio announces that the Martians are attacking Earth!"
"The national panic is like a frenzy!"
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Even Herbert Wells, the author of "Star Wars", wrote a letter to Monet and other American friends after learning about it, and the overall meaning was that he felt ridiculous, shocked, and a little proud......
After returning from Philadelphia, Albert, who had not seen him for a long time, suddenly came to the door and asked Monet with a serious face: "Mr. Monet, do you believe that oil painting kills people?" β
"You're talking about the Crying Boy, right? That's all a coincidence, you really believe it! Monet asked with a smile.
Monet's "Weeping Boy" is not actually a painting, but a group of paintings on this subject, in which there is a little boy with short orange hair and tears hanging on his face like clear spring water.
The reason why this "Crying Boy" is called a murder oil painting is because several people will catch fire in their homes after buying this "Crying Boy" and hanging it at home, but the strange thing is that other things including the house have burned down, but only this "Crying Boy" is intact, so everyone began to rumor that this painting has a strange curse, but Monet does not believe in this kind of thing.
As for the solution, there are generally two kinds of people, one is to treat "Crying Boy" well, and in the end he will bring good luck to the master; The other is to hang a "Crying Girl" next to it to hedge against it......
The fame of this "Crying Boy" is similar to "The Devil's Eye", "Portrait of Bernard Galvis", "Portrait of Madame Delphine Laurey" and "Portrait of a Little Girl at the Deriskill Hotel", etc., anyway, in this era, technology is not developed, information is even less developed, so there is a lot of messy folklore.
Unexpectedly, Albert waved his hand and said: "It's not "Crying Boy", it's a portrait of Satan, and many people have felt headaches and discomfort after seeing this painting, so some people say that if you look at this painting for a long time, you will be cursed to death!" β
"And this kind of thing? Where is this painting now? Can you show me? Monet asked curiously.
Albert spread his hands and said, "I can't see it anymore, because it's burned!" β
Although Monet was a little surprised by this answer, it was right to think about it, since this painting is so dangerous, why keep it?
But then he had another question: "Since it's all burned, why are you telling me about it?" β
"Because something strange happened when it was burned, everyone thought that it would be fine after burning this strange painting, but I didn't expect that when it was burned, the priest in charge of burning it fainted on the spot and is still in a coma in the hospital, so now many people are saying that this painting can't ......be burned."
Before Albert could finish speaking, Monet interjected and asked, "Wait a minute, why are you looking for a priest to burn it?" β
"You think, when such an evil thing burns, don't ask a priest to recite the Bible to purify it!" Albert explained.
Although this reason is absurd, it can be justified from a certain point of view, so Monet no longer dwells on this question and mutters to himself: "In this case, then this painting is really weird, whether it is before or after burning, it can cause harm to people!" β
Albert chimed in, "yes, so we don't know what to do now!" β
"You've been burned to ashes, what else can I do with it?" Monet asked puzzled.
Albert replied with a puzzled face: "Now everyone doesn't know what to do with this pile of ashes, normally it should be poured into the river or buried, but now no one dares to do it rashly, they are afraid to be like a priest again!" β
"So you're going to come to me and give you ideas?" Monet asked tentatively.
"I think Mr. Monet, you must be able to find a way!" Albert touted.
Although Monet didn't have a clue, since Albert had asked for it, and he was really curious about this kind of thing, he nodded and agreed: "Okay, then I'll go with you to see!" β
After a while, the two came to a chapel, a pile of ashes was placed under the cross, and no one dared to approach it, Monet leaned over to look at it, sniffed it again, and wanted to twist it a little and taste it, but after thinking about it, he didn't dare to ......
However, Monet still found some clues, and then asked for a bag to wrap up the ashes, stood up and said to Albert: "Well, I'll find a place to study some of the ingredients of this thing!" β
"Mr. Monet, who are you going to look for?" Albert asked curiously.
"Professor Carothers of DuPont!" Monet replied as he walked without looking back.
"Heβcan he figure it out?" Albert asked.
Monet replied without hesitation: "Surely, his laboratory is the most well-equipped place in chemistry that I know." β
It turned out that Monet's guess was correct, because of the previous cooperation in stockings, so Professor Carothers quickly sent someone to conduct a chemical analysis of the samples brought by Monet, and the results came to almost the same conclusion as Monet's guess.
"The problem with this painting should be in the paint, Albert, you still don't know how to paint, if Michael sees this painting, the first thing he will find is a problem with the paint, because every painter is very sensitive to paint, especially many great painters, their pigments are specially made.
And the paint in this painting, if I'm not mistaken, must contain radioactive substance, something similar to radium, but the radioactive material in it should be more powerful than radium, because Professor Carothers said that this substance has not yet been discovered.
Because the radioactivity is too strong, the people who have been in close contact with the priest and the priest who burned have been violated, as for why Mr. Priest is so serious, one is because Mr. Priest is old and weak, and the other is that the incineration is too volatile! β
PS: Iron is a very good writer in my mind, especially his "Old Book Tycoon" is a rare collection of my complete collection, today I accidentally turned to his "Reversal and Rebirth 1990", the subject matter happens to be what I like and the results are also good, I just wanted to see it, but the beginning was actually a copy of the outstanding, the old writer will not be so degenerate......