Chapter 807 - Unfinished Ice Sculpture (1/2)

Chapter 807: Unfinished Ice Sculpture

Seeing Yuan Zhou start working, the onlookers in the street immediately fell silent. After all, they all looked forward to witnessing how Yuan Zhou sculpt such a big ice block with the kitchen knife.

Some of them even turned on the camera to film a video. After all, seldom could they see anybody sculpt such a big ice block. After all, this wasn’t the City of Ice, Harbin.

Ice sculptures could hardly be seen in Chengdu, where the weather was hot all year round.

For an instant, there was only the sound of the kitchen knife touching the ice surface. The ice scraps danced in the air and fell on the ground, piling up a layer in a little while.

Yuan Zhou controlled his strength precisely. The biggest difficulties of sculpting the ice dragon lay in the dragon scales and dragon’s whiskers. Sculpting these two places on the ice was like firing a cannon at a mosquito. Even if he had inexhaustible force, he couldn’t use it.

Therefore, many dragon-shaped ice sculptures had very thick dragon’s whiskers, if observed carefully. And the dragon scales were also arranged roughly, which had no sense of movement at all.

If the dragon whiskers were too thick, they weren’t perfectly proportionate to the head of the dragon. And the sense of movement of the dragon scales could be illustrated by the example of snakes. The directions of the scales were different when snakes made different movements. They weren’t actually arranged stiffly. That had very high requirements on eyesight and speed.

To put it bluntly, the dragon scales sculpted by the machines in factories were much better than those sculpted by most of the sculptors. But on the aspect of subtlety, machines could never outclass work done by hands.

The machines had no temperature.

If the dragon’s whiskers were too thin, they would break very easily in the process of sculpting. So the thick whiskers were no more than a helpless choice. However, Yuan Zhou didn’t intend to compromise to the helpless choice today.

Yuan Zhou raised the kitchen knife in his hand at a certain angle to make the knifepoint sharp. He held his breath and waved the knife very quickly. Due to the speed, the knifepoint gave out a cold light in the air. The knife was waved in the shape of the ethereal dragon’s whiskers.

With his eyes blazing like torches, Yuan Zhou maintained the form all along. He didn’t allow any deviation on the specific locations of the ice sculpture.

In a very short time, Yuan Zhou waved the knife again. The sparkling cold light was like a butterfly flying through the bushes. The locations it flashed across were quite ingenious, looking like the great dipper, landing firmly on where they were supposed to be. Anyway, in the eyes of the onlookers, they could hardly believe the angle in which Yuan Zhou waved his knife.

It was his good command of strength that contributed to the dragon’s whiskers with two waves of the knife.

After the ethereal dragon’s whiskers were finished, Yuan Zhou let out a sigh of relief, but immediately he sat on the edge of his seat, again. He still needed to sculpt the dragon scales, which required the most time and vigor. Of course, even if the dragon scales hadn’t been finished yet, the ice sculpture had also taken shape. Two dragons were chasing after a pearl in reverse directions.

“Wu Wu Wu Wu”

The kitchen knife hadn’t fallen on the ice block when the phone in his pocket rang. Yuan Zhou always turned on the vibration mode of his phone while he was sculpting. The main point was that no one called him much anyway.

The first call at the very beginning was directly ignored. After a few seconds, however, more phone calls arrived continuously. Yuan Zhou looked at the dragon sculpture to be finished and the kitchen knife in his hand and then let out a sigh.

As to the sculpting of the dragon scales, Yuan Zhou didn’t dare to say he would 100% succeed. Therefore, it came to an end for now. He put away the kitchen knife and answered the phone.

This action greatly disappointed the onlookers who had been watching the scene of bustle at the side. The ice sculpture wasn’t finished.

“Though there aren’t any dragon scales, the head of the dragon looks so lifelike and mighty.”

“Boss Yuan’s knife skills have always been quite awesome.”

“Even if God gave me another two hands, I still won’t be able to do it as well as him,”

“What a pity! I think it would be a work of art after it’s finished. Is Boss Yuan willing to sell his ice sculpture?”