musicians of old

Chapter 299 At noon, the sun sets and the moon rises (4K [-]-in-[-])

"Vincent knows these languages?"

Norma Gun thought about these scattered and vague memories of He Meng: "It depends on how to define 'knowledge', as you said before, with the deepening of the exploration of the abnormal area, any language and thinking held by the explorer will gradually change. Translated into the ancient Chaniz language, they will inexplicably understand the semantics of a very small number of "basic blocks", but they are scattered, confusing, and unsystematic, and the "basic blocks" with fewer strokes need to form complex "composite blocks" , "blocks and blocks" need to be combined in twos and threes to form words and sentences."

This does not include that it will continue to distort itself, such as stroke proliferation and deformation, and the order is partially reversed.
He Meng nodded slightly, and after thinking for a while, he held up the silver cane that could still be visualized in the sky steps.

"I currently have very little memory of the abnormal area and the ancient Chaniz language. I only have some vague feelings. I still clearly remember the simple meaning of 'squares'. Let me think about it. I'm afraid I can count them with one hand. "

Saying that, a mirror in mid-air was cut into a square gap by his cane.

"The meaning of this square can refer to our mouth."

"Visual and simple." Gang commented.

He Meng drew a short line in the middle of the square again: "What do you think this is?"

"A horizontal line in the mouth? Could it be a tongue? Teeth?"

"No, one of its semantics is 'sun', and there are several other semantics, I can't remember, but they all seem to have nothing to do with 'mouth'"

"I really didn't find any pattern." Gang looked at the characters "口" and "日" drawn in the sky.

He Meng drew another word for "door": "It means 'gate', a door in reality or a door in Hui Tower. Then, nothing, I only remember these three 'basic blocks'."

"It's also very vivid."

Then He Meng wrote the word "日" into the middle of the "door".

"Then, as soon as you start combining changes into 'composite blocks,' I'm completely overwhelmed."

"The sun in the door?" Gang stared at the word "between", "It's a bit mystical."

He Meng shook his head: "I have forgotten all its meanings, I only vaguely remember that it is very abstract, and it seems to have nothing to do with the 'sun in the door', and this is just a very simple 'composite block'."

As he spoke, he added a few more strokes on it, turning it into a crooked "Jane".

"For example, as I remember, it seems that it can continue to be combined to become this 'composite block', and the meaning has changed completely irregularly"

"Even if the meaning of these 'composite blocks' is exhausted, it is an impossible thing to do, and this has not yet begun the arrangement of 'blocks and blocks'! As far as this step is concerned, even the 'words' in our language 'It's not comparable. Most of our words can only be reflected by arranging two 'blocks', let alone a sentence that carries complex information."

"It's really confusing." Norma Gunn stared at the characters on the steps. "It's confusing in terms of structure. Our human language is obviously composed of letters and words. So, even if Vincent The semantics of a small amount of 'basic blocks' can be understood in the abnormal area, but it is far from the level of 'effective reading'."

Let’s assume that the abnormal area is a channel for “learning” the semantics of Guchaniz language.
Even the only original channel, the earliest sporadic studies and text transcriptions of this language among ancient scholars, was brought out from the abnormal area.

But it is obvious that the efficiency of "learning" is completely out of proportion to the degree of danger.

Not to mention anything else, it is extremely rational to learn ancient languages ​​for those with knowledge, but after entering this kind of place, the whole person's mind and cognition are in a trance, and there are very few meaningful enlightenments that can be obtained .

"This is an exaggerated description." He Meng said, "We have no reason to think that anyone can fully understand Guchaniz, but there is no other explanation for Vincent's subsequent strange behavior."

"for example?"

"You know the principle of recruiting team members when we set up the abnormal area investigation team."

"The offenders are mainly imprisoned for life or about to be shot." Gang nodded.

Retreating before the limit of sleepiness comes, the probability of returning whole body is higher, which is true, but what can you do with only a few dozen hours of rudimentary experience?
In He Meng's memory, the outermost periphery of the abnormal area actually looks not much different from the normal area, only the deeper it goes, the more beautiful and terrifying it becomes.

The anomalous area has spread for at least thousands of years, and many ancient relics are dormant in the depths. If you want to bring out dusty secret histories, ritual vessels, extraordinary materials or other mystical documents, or even learn the secrets of higher personalities, you need at least After exploring in it for more than a month, sleep is inevitable, and the Special Patrol Office has also explored some auxiliary methods to preserve the will to fight and reduce cognitive damage.

But in any case, this kind of high-intensity in-depth exploration has a very high probability of being kept inside forever.

The spiritual willpower of the ignorant is almost completely sent to death. Even for the knowledgeable, in the statistics of the discussion group, the survival rate from low to high ranks is only 3-15%.

Only those who understand are qualified to say that they can "barely save their lives". In fact, there are also a lot of understanders who have been left inside for the past hundred years.

The Special Patrol Agency will not take the initiative to send well-trained investigators to die. Even if they are voluntary, they must be approved. Some people will apply with the mentality of "seeking knowledge before they are destined to die" in their twilight years.

So besides that, most of the team members are offenders who are imprisoned for life or about to be shot.

"A near-death thing." Gang commented.

"That's it, how many people want to go but have no way out." He Meng smiled darkly.

If you don't go, you will be useless. If you go, if you do meritorious service, you will have a chance to live under the sun again.

However, the Special Patrol Office will not ask for any banned persons. Generally speaking, they are at least high-ranking, or have other special abilities, and those who are deemed suitable after evaluation. stability factor.

There will not be too many banned persons who meet such conditions. Of course, the number of investigations is also very small.

"At that time, we had three comprehensionists leading the team, but how many members were there? Are they all banned? Or are there a few of our fellow investigators? I can't remember. The file in the headquarters records that 3+12 people, but”

"I have lived for nearly 100 years, and the Special Inspection Office is everything to me. I can vividly remember all the past here, but the operation more than 20 years ago, I always feel that the number of files is not right, not only The names and faces of the team members do not match, even the ratio of men to women, and the number of heads, I think most of them do not match."

He Meng spoke slowly while thinking, but his words were always full of adverbs expressing uncertainty:

"At that time, our personnel should have been downsizing. In the depths of the area where there seems to be a lighthouse-like thing, we collected data and samples while analyzing the information at hand, and carefully made an exploration plan. Due to the unknown Dangerous, according to our usual strategy, we order the forbidden to try to find the way, this is the awareness they should have."

"At this moment, Vincent, who had just read the surrounding text carrier not long ago, raised a fierce objection. He disagreed with a female forbidden person selected by the captain for this round of selection to take risks, and Protect her resolutely."

"The deputy captain has a certain right to speak. The captain was very surprised, but he still asked him to give a reason. Vincent explained several times. I don't remember what he said at the beginning, but he didn't seem to be able to convince the captain. It didn’t convince me either, we all felt he was making it up.”

"The main reason is that the female offender was completely unknown to him. This was known to everyone including him before departure. The area where she was detained and the imperial capital where Vincent worked were completely different. If it wasn't for this Xing happened to be assigned to a group, and there would be no intersection between the two parties at all. Such a pre-condition made it impossible for him to make up excuses, even if the woman took the opportunity to cooperate deliberately to avoid danger. In the end, Vincent simply said that he fell in love with her suddenly, although this is very outrageous, but it is better than those previous explanations that are completely irrelevant, of course, the final result is still a quarrel."

"Pollution in the form of 'increased eros', for example, I've seen even projected onto non-kind, not to mention unknown effects from the mysterious ancient Chaniz language." Norma Gunn Hearing this, he calmly expressed his views.

Obviously, she felt that if it was just like this, it would not be surprising.

"From my personal point of view, although Vincent's behavior is weird, but in such an extremely special and extremely dangerous abnormal zone operation, for the sake of the overall situation and the preservation of strength, it is possible to temporarily compromise. Colleague If there is any problem between them, it will be settled after the fall, and if there is any pollution, try to help solve it."

"You're right." He Meng nodded, "Although in such an environment, several of us were dizzy, anxious and irritable, but we still tried our best to endure it. The captain temporarily replaced the pathfinder. It didn't escalate the quarrel, it just got more tense and there was some suspicion about him."

"But in the next day or two of operations, Vincent not only took good care of her all the way, but also showed more and more strange behaviors. He became very self-righteous, always deviated from the deployment of operations, chose to explore by himself, and acted. Make some seemingly serious and inexplicable little moves.”

"Imagine a scene like this: you are exploring in an unknown relic that has been dusty for thousands of years, everyone is carefully interpreting those incomprehensible words and symbols, and walking on thin ice, but one team member, since seeing After writing some words, I will stand in a specific position and chatter, and then I will turn something like a mechanism up and down three times and five times, and then I will walk away for several 10 minutes to several hours before returning to the team. The performance is like coming to the back garden or club you are familiar with, how will you interpret it?"

"Suffering a rare form of pollution, or a 'martyr' with heterogeneous pursuits." Gang tried to list the possibilities, "but this change is too sudden, and his behavior doesn't look like he's completely crazy, I think I really can't help but think that he really suddenly understood some secret, and it is a secret with a stake in it."

"So you know why I said, it's like he 'knows those words'." He Meng said.

It is true that pollution is full of strange things, but if it is strange to a certain extent, understanding it in this way can make your own logic accept it.

"There were bigger accusations and quarrels, and this time we did it."

"In the climbing path of the 'cocoon' phase at that time, the position of the 'Gate of Seven Lights' that I passed through had not shifted, and before the action, I passed through the 'Gate of Peeling' that was higher above it , promoted to the second level of understanding. The captain at that time was Colin Davis, a strong man who was loyal to the leader and had been in the third level of understanding for many years. He was also the father of the current inspector general Owen Davis. We always thought that Vincent was at the first level of comprehension, but then you also know, unexpectedly he hides his strength, he is also at the third level of comprehension! Moreover, the method of the "fractal master" is very difficult, the two of us teamed up and still I was suppressed by him!!"

"In everyone's already restless and trance-like spiritual state, this time the two sides attacked to a considerable extent. Not to mention that they were attacking to kill each other, but they also used secret techniques to spell out substantial damage to each other. , Captain Colin was seriously injured."

"Fortunately, Vincent's essential motive is not life-and-death hatred. He finally stopped fighting at the end, but the final outcome is self-evident—"

"The investigation team was disbanded, and everyone separated in the lighthouse area."

"We encountered a series of strange things during the retreat. All the other team members died. Captain Ke Lin and I escaped, but it may be because the captain left a pollution hazard after being seriously injured and could not resist. Gnostic infestation of the will, unfortunately 'lost' after three years."

"From then on it was assumed that I was the only survivor."

"The leader was very sad when he heard the news. The two chief inspectors, Colin was originally a genius who was very promising to be promoted to the 'Order', and Vincent was originally a 'surprise joy' who understood the triple level, but both of them ended up like this. accident."

"In the 20 years since then, I have never seen Vincent and the woman again, and it was obvious that he was not in a normal mental state at the time. We once thought that after they separated at that time, they should not have died in the end. Can come out of B-105 insanity."

"But now we know with hindsight that he actually came out and married that woman and had a child right away. It's just that that woman, like Captain Ke Lin, may also be due to the pollution of the abnormal area. He died of illness a few years later."

"This is the result that was gradually deduced during the investigation until four or five years ago. Unexpectedly, when the identity of the last batch of suspicious objects was locked, Vincent really disappeared again. So, what happened to him that year?" What, did he lose his mind due to pollution, or did he really learn the Guchaniz language and know some secrets, what did he do in the lighthouse area when he left the team? All kinds of mysteries are still a mystery. It's an unsolved case, and we can only hope that it can be solved from Carolne Van Ning in the future."

Norma Gang thought about it while listening, and asked aloud at this time: "So, what was the original purpose of your investigation into the B-105 abnormal area?"

"That prophecy." He Meng said, "At first, because the leader instructed that there might be an important prophecy in this area, let us search for the revelation."

"At noon, the sun sets and the moon rises?" Gang confirmed.

"Yes, this is exactly the precious achievement we brought back that year, but the way of interpretation has been limited so far, and we also suspected that if Vincent knew more, he might make relevant hints to Calone in the Turner Art Museum. "

"In this way, if you try to explore the detailed interpretation of the prophecy, I am afraid that you will really re-explore the abnormal area of ​​​​B-105."

"Not only that." He Meng shook his head, "I'm afraid there are far more secrets in this place than we thought. The leader reported it based on our memories, and based on the messy items and materials we brought out, combined with his latest information in recent years. After researching the situation, he also thought that there might still be a key buried in this place. He even deduced that if Vincent had learned any secrets, it would either be the interpretation of the prophecy, or the key, or both. have."

"The key?" Gang was a little puzzled, "If it is normal, it can be regarded as one of the high-level Extraordinary resources, but for the leader who has passed through the sixth level of 'Jin', the 'Gate of Annihilation', it will still Is there any other key to the ascent path of interest?"

"If it's an ordinary key, how could Mr. Poglerich care so much?"

He Meng smiled lightly upon hearing this.

"The leader believes that this may be a key to the 'Dome of the Vault'."

(End of this chapter)