musicians of old

Chapter 14 Symbols in the Copper Box
Under the illumination of the lantern, the brass metal box in Fanning's hand glowed with a simple dark golden light, the surface was flat, and there were no joints or gaps.

Only one side has a circular scale ring with a pointer, an irregular gap in the middle, and a small black button next to it.

Seeing the gap, combined with the key symbol next to the light gold subtitle [135/100] in front of him, Fan Ning naturally took off the art museum key around his neck, inserted it, and was just about to turn it——

The number 135 in the light gold subtitle in front of him flashed brighter.

"What is this?" Fanning stopped moving his hands.

On this side of the box, densely packed small black prompts suddenly appeared!

The typography is a bit confusing:

"Every scale needs to be passed"

"It can be reset after staying on the current scale for one day."

"After confirming, press hard"

"Wrong sequence will destroy itself"

Fanning was a little speechless.

When Carlone Van Ning's father kept things, couldn't he be more forgiving, so confident in his son?
There are also such a lot of messy prompts.

He observed the circular scale circle outside the pointer knob.

"Isn't this just a clock, 12 scales. 12 I have an idea in an instant. It takes much less time than before."

I have already summed up the information forms behind the fragments of the sound sequence before, one is the associative point caused by the absence of "C sharp", and the other is "sequence", the sequence of 12 tones.

The 11 sound series fragments were originally numbered, but the tonality arrangement of the tracks after deciphering is chaotic.

Fanning began to recall:
"The first is Beethoven's Tempest Sonata in D minor; the second is Beethoven's Dawn Sonata in C major; the third is Bach's Goldberg Variations in G major; the fourth is Schuber Special "Piano Sonata No. [-]", in B flat major"

Their order is:

D, C, G, Bb, A, B, Eb, Gb, E, F, Ab
And the normal pitch order goes up, it should be:

C, (no C sharp), D, Eb, E, F, Gb, G, Ab, A, Bb, B
Therefore, if the disordered order of these eleven sound sequence fragments is stacked again according to the actual pitch upward order.
顺序应该是3、（没有2）、1、8、11、10、12、4、7、5、6、9！

Turn the knobs in this order?Then press the confirm button and open the box?

Fanning reads the current position of the knob pointer.

The pointer is already pointing to the direction of 2 o'clock!

"This confirms my guess. The missing sequence 2 is the C sharp. I don't need to worry about this position anymore."

He took a deep breath, stretched out his hand to hold the key, and slowly turned the pointer clockwise one step.

"Ting Ting Ting Ting Ting Ting Ting Ting Ting" the fine and dense crisp sounds continued to come out.

The pointer is moved to the 3 o'clock direction.

Then dial two spaces counterclockwise.

"Tin Tin Tin Tin Tin Tin"

The pointer is moved to the 1 o'clock direction.

Dial seven notches clockwise.

"Tin Tin Tin Tin Tin Tin"

The pointer is moved to the 8 o'clock direction.

11 o'clock, 10 o'clock
Fanning worked carefully, the closer he was to completion, the faster his heart beat, and his palms were wet with cold sweat.

Finally, he put his finger on the button, and his face changed a few times.

press!

His fingers trembled a little, and he didn't press down for a while.

It seems to be a little tight, no wonder the prompt has to be hard.

"Couldn't you give me a few more chances to make mistakes? No one else can open it. Why are you so careful?" Fan Ning suddenly became cowardly again, taking his fingers away and muttering.

"The meaning should be that way, and the order should be in this order."

"But I'm not sure if it meets your old man's 'format requirements'."

"If you destroy the box, wouldn't your treasure be lost???

"Forget it, you are not afraid of me making a mistake, what am I afraid of!!"

After several times of thinking, Fan Ning finally gave up his heart and poked the button vigorously with his fingers!
"Crack!" There was a dry and dull voice.

Fanning noticed that the surface of the brass box suddenly had black lines.

They crawled and spread, gradually occupying the smoothness with roughness and bonyness, and then peeled off in large pieces, and finally collapsed into a rectangular ashes.

"Huh~" Fanning gently blew them away.

What appeared in front of my eyes was a curled papyrus-like thing, dark brown, and some places had turned black, making it look very old.

He brought the lantern closer, stretched out his fingers to push it away and smoothed it, the touch was thick and rough.

There is a simple pattern on it, but because it is drawn in a circle surrounded by arcs of different lengths, Fanning thinks it is a mark, or a symbol.

The symbol is four broken lines in golden yellow.

From a single point of view, the broken line fluctuates from high to low, with chaotic ups and downs and no rules.

But the parallel juxtaposition of four similar and different folding lines creates a wonderful and mysterious sense of unevenness.

"Like, four-part harmony in musical writing?"

Moreover, they are not painted on top of it, but on the contrary, they are sunk below it.

A set of .grooves of what symbols or imprints?

Fanning obviously didn't have any idea of ​​interpretation.

His only feeling now is that he hides too cautiously!

If you want to get it, you need to have the key of the art museum, have a large number of familiar classical music memories on Blue Star, be able to decipher the meaning of the remnants of the sound series, be able to discover the special features of those paintings, be able to get the copper box, and be able to collect it. To the guidance of the mysterious text message, you can use the subtitles with a progress of more than 100/100 to activate the prompt small characters, and open it successfully once.

To be honest, Fan Ning felt that when setting the conditions, as long as one or two were met, it was enough to ensure that he was the one who got the papyrus in the end.

Such a lot of trouble can only show that the person who placed the papyrus would rather delay himself for a longer time. Even if he can't get it for a year or so, he must never let this papyrus fall into the hands of others, even if there is even a trace of it. risk!
Fanning rolled it up, his hands trembling a little at the thought.

Carefully put it in the inner pocket of the windbreaker, and took a few shots.

The light of the lantern was already very faint, and the large tallow candle was almost burnt out.

He took out his pocket watch, and the time pointed to seven forty in the evening.

Unexpectedly, I have been in the art gallery for nearly six hours.

Summarize what I have gained: the interpretation of the dream at the end of the corridor, the deciphering of the fragments of the sound sequence, the father's work file, the "Dream Boy" case file, and the papyrus with symbols. By now, the exploration should have come to an end, and I can almost go.

But the museum key itself...I still haven't figured it out.

Then, Fan Ning frowned as he looked at the open fan-shaped dark grid.

How to restore this thing?
It's not good to leave it like this. I might be targeted even if I come here.

He tried to push and pull at first, but it didn't move.

Then I tried to remove the "Moon Night on the Dnieper River" from the No. [-] seat, but there was no movement, and there was no movement when I hung it back to "Twilight and the Wall on the Top of the Mountain".

Finally, Fanning thought about it and made a decision.

He took out the tallow candle in the lantern, found an empty earthenware floor, and lit the stack of papers.

The dimly lit room was lit up by the flames, and with a slight "sizzling" sound, the shadows of various objects on the walls of the room kept jumping.

There were a lot of documents, and it took a certain amount of time to finish burning them. Fan Ning didn't dare to leave the venue early. If he accidentally ignited other objects, it would be a big mess.

He watched the files and dossiers gradually curl up and turn black under the licking of the flames, completely turning into thin flakes of dust.

When the lantern was reinstalled, the tallow candle was only burning to the last centimeter or so.

Fanning went out and walked down the steps to the first floor step by step.

The faint rancid smell appeared in the air again, and he couldn't help but look a few more times at the dark place in the direction of the mobile exhibition hall.

In front of the copper lock of the door, he was just about to insert the key around his neck into the lock, but suddenly hesitated again.

To be cautious, he went back to the second floor and came down with an oil painting casually.

"Well, I came to the art gallery to look for auction items, so I brought some things out."

When he turned the key in the brass lock, the candle burned out, and the light of the ground lantern disappeared completely.

"crunch."

A heavy and teeth-piercing voice sounded, except for the sporadic lights in the distance outside the gate, the brightness was no different from that inside.

Holding the painting in one hand, he kicked the extinguished lantern in with his foot, locked the gate, and walked out of the courtyard with the painting in his arms.

The lights in the alley flickered, and many people returned home.

It is the time for industrial workers to leave work, and it is more lively when they go than when they come.

Fanning kept his eyes on the front, never looked back, and was deaf to what was on either side until he stepped into the streets of Letge.

However, I don't know whether it originated from the previous rational analysis or my own emotional intuition.

He feels at this moment.
I seem to be being followed!

　Chapter 2 is here, thanks to Big Strawberry, Sanyuanli, and book friends with tail numbers 5100 and 8430 for their rewards.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)