musicians of old

Chapter 154 The Gate of the Broken Key (4K [-]-in-[-])

"?? Ah?" As soon as the words came out, Xilan opened her eyes wide and scanned Joan's entire body.

Fanning also looked at Joan in amazement.

"Wait. Wait." He felt that his brain was not enough, "Don't worry about what kind of key you have become. Moving forward, you said that there are many kinds of keys to pass through a certain door. Then let me confirm first: So these two are not the one-to-one relationship I imagined before?"

"No."

"Then, according to what Banshuwa mentioned in "The Great Terror", 'there are various forms of doors, and there are various forms of doors', isn't there only one door in Hui Tower?"

"Well, there are quite a lot of doors in Hui Tower. I'm not sure if the relationship between doors and keys is many-to-many, but at least, it's one-to-many."

"Like, math problems that are extremely difficult but have multiple ways to solve them?" Fan Ning tried to understand in this way.

"No, this description is not accurate enough." Joan shook her head.

"Mathematics is about logic. A certain math problem has many solutions. Although the solution methods are concise and cumbersome, they all point to the correct and objective final answer. The relationship between the door and the key is not the same. Different keys have their own advantages and disadvantages. Not only the death rate of passing through the door is different, but even the result of successful crossing is different-the location of arrival, the color of insight, the change created, and the knowledge obtained will all be different. , and it is difficult to grasp the difference of the law.”

...is this too fucking confusing?Fan Ning shook his head and smiled nervously after learning of these secrets. Even with the protection of the secret ritual, he felt that his cognition of this world was once again impacted.

It was illogical to think that only the various areas in the movement surge, but as we gradually approached the core of the will of the world, this situation may be improved, and those with knowledge may gradually see clearly the things behind the mystery
Unexpectedly, the situation in Hui Tower was also chaotic and unclear.

But Fan Ning felt a restless thirst for knowledge inexplicably in addition to this reaction.

It's easy to arouse people's curiosity.

Chaos is also a kind of beauty, isn't it?In the dream, the will of the world called to me more strongly.

He felt that if he went on like this, he would be able to see the truth.

"Actually, this is really not important." Joan continued to explain, "I did list a lot of different key forms just now, but in fact, because it is extremely difficult to find, those who know often have no other options. Most of the time, the means of the door can only rely on the first form: 'self'."

"Imagine the door in the Hui Tower as a locked door. Those who seek promotion cannot find other ways to pass through, so they let themselves act as keys and open the way by themselves. But the key that can unlock the lock has a specific shape requirement, and each person's Spiritual forms vary from birth to birth, and they must rely on certain means to plan their own spirits into the shape of a key."

"Like... putting a piece of embryonic body into the mold?" Fanning thought.

"This sounds fascinating and terrifying." Sheeran's tone was a little horrified, but also yearning, "Don't talk about the risk of going through the door, just say that this 'embryo body planing' process should be full of extremely high mortality rates For such an exquisite existence as the spirit body, I am afraid that a little bit of accidental injury will end in madness or death, but the wise ones who have successfully traversed, how do they feel?"

Fan Ning frowned and thought, and the scene in the symphony hall on the day of the graduation concert appeared in his mind.

Dean Gould took that strange purple viscous elixir. Although he was promoted to a master of understanding, fine holes began to appear in his body in the next second and gradually disintegrated.

This is obviously an extremely bad key, or in other words, that elixir is a set of extremely bad "embryo body molds".

The old pianist obviously knew this early on, he didn't choose to take that elixir on weekdays... He has been trying to find a more suitable and safer key form that would allow him to be promoted, but unfortunately, there was none.

Fanning asked: "Could it be that you found a suitable mold and successfully transformed your spirit body into a key that fits a certain form?"

Xilan was also very confused: "Yes, Joan, you also got some kind of elixir, right? But, your rank is far from the prerequisite for promotion... You must at least be close to the Hui Tower to pass through the gate, only Only high-ranking and knowledgeable people can roam to the 'basin area' closest to Huita, how can you be sure that you have really become a key?"

"It's not a elixir, it's the effect of the 'cracking field'."

"Shifting Secret Realm, or the named place 'Cracking Field'?" Fan Ning was quite impressed by this term, "It is the extremely dangerous area you arrived at the first time you stumbled and tore apart the edge of the dream star world ?”

"Yes, I was in a lost state there, and was rescued by Purple Bean Cake. Although I almost died, the memory fragments I picked up now told me some interesting things..."

"The 'Cracking Field' of the Shifting Secret Realm evolved from the divinity remnant left by the words of the Lord of Witness 'Mother Pupil'. My spirit underwent some drastic, dangerous and lucky changes in it at that time, and became' The key to the door of the broken key, if I have the opportunity to reach a high rank in the future, I may be able to directly promote the understanding person by finding this door."

Sheeran's eyes lit up when he heard this, but Fanning's face was full of suspicion: "The door of the broken key?... The name of this door sounds extremely questionable, 'the door that makes the key shattered', are you sure that after you pass through , won't you fall apart?"

"..." Joan was stunned as she spoke.

Sheeran said: "I think it depends on whether the process of passing through the door is an act in the actual sense or a symbolic act. We still don't know what kind of existence the door is, but after all, Yi Yong and The waking world is different, maybe not taken literally."

"Maybe...it's fake..." Joan's fingertips circling around her hair also froze, "It's just like the town of Watznai doesn't exist, maybe the cracking field of the named place, the gate of the broken spoon, and the purple bean cake Warning, my spirit body key and these things are also fake..."

Fanning said: "No, Joan, you can doubt and prove some things, but don't fall into absolute nihilism...Is it true that you have been promoted to the knower? Your first light, your understanding of the 'key' phase The research results of hidden knowledge are empirically valid, right?...You suspect that the memory of the purple bean cake is false, but if you look at the actual actions of the Harmony School, do they show signs of plotting against you?"

Fabian had led the investigation into Joan's surprise detention when he was still at the Bologna School.

"Yes..." Joan suddenly realized something, "Could it be that the Harmonization School has been following me for this reason?"

Fan Ning mused to himself thoughtfully: "Well, when I first heard about the Broken Key Gate, I thought it was too outrageous, but thinking about it this way... Your current spiritual state is very likely to be a valid key...Since The form of the key includes 'self', as well as 'other-me', showing that this situation is also valuable to others."

The Harmony School is pursuing the key to the Broken Key Gate, and at the same time creating a "phantom". If this "phantom" is also a key, it is unknown whether it corresponds to the same door or another door.

Fabian is dead, and the experience officer is connected to the Transcendence Club. If Sylvia is indeed an informant of the Special Inspection Office, then the only one who is still related to the Harmony School is...

The perfumer who secretly manipulated the ritual vessel "Pulsating Scoop" at the graduation concert, and then ran away?
"Let's go to the Prudence Auction House." Before the two could respond further, Fanning stood up directly.

He was actually a little annoyed all the time in his heart.

The domineering and extreme way of doing things of the Special Inspection Office is one aspect, and the other is that these secret organizations are really good at hiding.

Since the death of Teacher Anton, there are schools, factories, media companies, and graduation concerts. They are everywhere. And this group of people is still eyeing their companions. Sheeran has been threatened before, and Joan seems to be from many Years have been followed...

He can't afford to provoke the special inspection hall now, so he hides away, but the experience officer and the perfumer, as well as the informant Sylvia, Fanning really wants to shoot their heads off one by one, or burn them Act like a broker.

The identity of the behind-the-scenes controller of the Prudence Auction House is admitted by the perfumer himself, so go to this place to investigate first.

And then there was the principal violinist who jumped up and down right under his nose every now and then.

Fan Ning had wanted to clean her up several times, but felt that the benefits were too small, so he always wanted to try to see if he could bring out something else.

"By the way, Joan, here's something to show you."

On the traveling carriage, Fanning took out a small black wooden box from his briefcase.

Under the spiritual perception, the liquid in the vial showed a dark green heterogeneous light and shadow, and many stripes of different shades bloomed and churned.

"This is?..." The two little girls were a little puzzled.

"The healing elixir prepared by Dean Graham for the two principals of the school."

"That... has something to do with the radioactive source of the labor incident, Imperial Capital Relatim Chemical Trading Company?" Sheeran said.

"Yes, so after I thought about it, I asked Roy for a sample. Joan, can you tell if there is a problem with it?"

After taking it, Joan opened the lid, observed first, and then sniffed lightly: "It's quite a complex composition, among which the addition of light extraordinary substances covers the three phases of 'cocoon', 'chi' and 'yan', and many, many auxiliary materials, From this preliminary observation, I can only confirm that its main function should be related to the healing you mentioned..."

It is equivalent to the asthma medicine powder, even if it is mixed with a small amount of poison, this kind of rough inspection will only consider it to be an asthma medicine powder.

Fan Ning said: "So if you want to troubleshoot its problems, you need to go back and check the properties of each component and the effect after mixing?"

Joan shook her head: "The situation you mentioned is theoretical, but in the practice of spiritual potions, most of the extraordinary components that have been mixed are difficult to separate and distinguish. If we want to identify whether it has fatal hazards, we can only use Doing a specific test with mixed samples is equivalent to a violent enumeration. You can only enumerate suspected harmful directions based on experience, and then check each item... Uh, it’s a bit too awkward to say this, I don’t know if you can understand..."

...School girl, don't underestimate the lab bricklayer.Fan Ning immediately understood: "It is equivalent to checking the toxicity of a drug whose components cannot be identified. We can only use it to verify whether it has liver toxicity, then verify whether it has lung toxicity, and then verify whether it has kidney toxicity...We We can adjust the priority order based on experience to improve the efficiency of screening, but in fact we cannot exhaustively exhaust all the situations, and the test results will always be close to 'no toxicity'..."

"Caroun, it seems that you are talented in the field of elixirs, and I don't think you made it clear." Joan's praise finally recovered a trace of usual cheerful tone, "So, I will try my best when I go back. According to common sense, the two The elixir that the headmaster took himself should be very cautious..."

Today's weather is a bit sweltering, Fan Ning stretched out his hand and opened the latch on the rear curtain of the carriage, allowing the cool breeze to blow in.

A few minutes later, the carriage passed by the alley outside the Turner Art Museum. Sheeran saw that a small part of the building wall had been erected and asked, "Caroun, those paintings of yours?"

"Lu helped me vacate a warehouse belonging to the railway company nearby. Those paintings have been temporarily transported after taking protective measures. Well, I inspected them in my spare time. His site, personnel and security measures are relatively comfortable. Don't worry."

Fan Ning looked down at his hands: "Speaking of which, when the renovation and expansion project is fully rolled out, it will be very chaotic for people to come in and out, and we will have at least ten days to go to the imperial capital next month, so I still want to deal with that door in the meantime. The secret door conducts a tentative investigation."

Just as Qiong was about to second the proposal, Sheeran said, "I'm trying to apply at the school these days to see if there are any suitable ritual vessels for archaeological investigations."

So Joan suspected that she had heard it wrong: "Xiran, you just said that we were crazy, why, you changed your mind after chatting?"

"A short investigation should not be a big problem." Sheeran said, "As I said before, if there is any abnormal situation, I will withdraw in time. I think as long as I can get a small part of historical materials and knowledge, it may be possible to let the present At this stage, many of our doubts have been solved.”

Sheeran finally reached an agreement with us?Fanning's heart skipped a beat.

She raised objections to her and Joan's views before, which actually made sense.Of course, the current positive opinions are still quite reasonable.

Is there something wrong?

When the secret door was discovered, climbing the well ladder was stopped, and then the door was decided to be closed. At that time, everyone's attitude was very clear.But it seems that until now, something has been slowly changing?

Should be thinking more.

Studying all kinds of knowledge and being diligent in investigation and research are the basic qualities of a knowledgeable person. Fan Ning believes that the current discussion is still rational. Everyone is calmly analyzing the pros and cons, and put forward suggestions to avoid risks. It can be regarded as a new achievement. consensus.

He thought for a while and added: "We still adhere to the principle of caution, and we should try our best to understand what happened in that hospital before. This will be a useful reference for us."

The carriage stopped at Prudence's Auction House in Purshore.

As soon as they got out of the car, a few people felt that the atmosphere was not right.

This retro-style auction house is only two stories high, with a vast area. At this moment, the door is closed and sealed. Only the small door on the side is half opened, and there are a few policemen standing beside it.

There is still some burnt smell and smoke floating on the street. Although it is not to the degree of pungent nose, it can be clearly detected by smell.

...what happened to this?
Fanning was planning to go to the side door to ask the police about the situation, but he saw something stuck on the door, so he climbed the steps in this direction first.

From a distance, Fan Ning saw the largest "Wanted Notice" title in the text of the post.

Um?Why is the black and white photo of that man so familiar from a distance?
When Fan Ning approached, his eyeballs almost fell out of shock!
Although the name is unfamiliar, but the iconic broad forehead and stern eyes, as well as the soft felt hat...

This man is Special Patrol Investigator Meyers Benjamin! ?

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