musicians of old

Chapter 309 "Miss Scarlet" (4K [-]-in-[-])

"Fake!?" The three surviving investigators were taken aback.

"Sir, why don't we arrange a secret ritual to check, so that the result may be more accurate?" Salman asked tentatively.

"It's just a waste of time." He Meng stepped on the painting casually with the soles of his shoes, "If we talk about the areas that are close to shifting, and they can't be sublimated by spiritual observation, it can only mean that we started from the foundation before, and have a good understanding of this thing The understanding is wrong."

"A total of fourteen pictures, none of which meet the requirements?" Behind them, Norma Gunn with a hoarse and weak voice floated over like a ghost, especially the color of the lines on the torso was almost transparent.

"It's not easy to find works that meet the mystical conditions of 'Gate of Seven Lights' or 'Fountain in Painting'. With Vincent's artistic attainments, he has only completed five creations in more than 20 years." He Meng shook his head.

"In contrast, our empire-wide search took only half a year, and the five paintings were in a hurry. The five paintings were just luck, and now they are all wiped out, which is also within my expectation... As for the Turner Museum of Art. A batch, it is very likely that it is a fake or something that diverts attention, but, what did he do just now?..."

The brows on his stiff face were deeply tightened, recalling the method of mobilization, spiritual fluctuations and phase nature of Fanning's surprise attack just now.

The "candle" that burns through everyone's body, the "huang" that resists Oka's full blow, the "yan" who seriously injures Oka, the "key" that releases his restraints, and the "Jin" who escapes quickly...

Gang seems to have grasped the connection: "What has been sublimated is the "Green Night" in the burning painting incident, and the "Room of Pain" he stole, 'cocoon' and 'pool', and the five methods just now Just another unoccupied place…”

"Vincent seems to have used some kind of special spell trigger method to fuse the invisible power left by his collection with the sublimation power of the mysterious painting." He Meng speculated.

"He is indeed holding the idea of ​​'the fountain in the painting'. For more than 20 years, there are five paintings. This must be in line with the spirituality of the master of sublimation... just don't know how he made the secret of this trigger For Fan Ning, who was later promoted to a wise man? I didn’t have time to identify the language family of such a prayer with special and unclear syllables, and there may be other auxiliary sublimation methods. This information needs at least a certain amount of space to carry it , we have searched for so long but still haven't found it, why did Fan Ning know about it?..."

"What kind of hints Vincent used is not the point." Gang analyzed the current situation, "The point is that Fanning has most likely already got the opening conditions for the 'Gate of Seven Lights', and its colors are five-sevenths It has a closer connection with Fanning's spirituality, which is more beneficial for us to contain the 'fountain in the painting', but..."

She glanced at the disgusting dizzy patterns on the wall of the passage ahead, and then quickly looked away: "But he just ran forward?"

"If he goes crazy first, it won't do us any good... The containment method provided by the leader comes from the source god 'Qingkoushu', which needs to drag the activated 'Fountain of Painting' into a dormant state first , if he didn't use the spiritual connection of the mysterious painting to disperse and suppress it first, we're afraid it would be very difficult for us to use it..."

"Don't worry, Fan Ning is definitely not a fool." He Meng said, "This person is even more shrewd than I expected. He used all his trump cards just now to get rid of our coercion temporarily. There is more than one way to travel the road, and perhaps he has mastered another that is unknown to us."

"Fortunately, the secret realm of the 'Great Court School' ruins was built in the cracks of this special structure that is a gate to each other. I passed through the 'Gate of Seven Lights' more than 50 years ago, which allowed me to sense Some vague revelations, even if we enter from different ports, we may still meet together in the end... Is your state still sustainable?"

"Even if [-]% of the inspiration and strength are left, it is enough to deal with this conductor who has used up all his cards." Gang Ping calmly waved his hand, "...But I admit that I really underestimated the enemy just now, even if his strength is not worth mentioning, The methods of people like Vincent should not be underestimated."

Few people would be willing to take such a thing seriously by an Assassin-like Assassin, but it was clear that Fan Ning was taken seriously this time.

He Meng pondered for a while, and then reminded his colleague who was less than half his age:

"Fan Ning's existence is only an insignificant part, and the various unknown risks in the ruins are the huge threat. To be on the safe side, as long as we confirm that the return mechanism of the secret realm ahead is the "path recurrence" routine of the third history, find the exit Then you turn back first, go out and confirm the specific location of the landing point, let the inspector Mr. Davis lead a team to guard with you, to prevent Fanning from running away first if he finds an opportunity. The plan to revisit the abnormal area has entered the preparation stage Just take it with you when you go out."

"You have more experience than me." Gang accepted the suggestion of the veteran of the Special Patrol Agency.

"Hurry up and keep dealing with the pollution."

Under He Meng's manipulation, the floor tiles of the passage melted and collapsed again, and the bodies of the four investigators fell into it. After a few breaths, everything returned to normal.

……

"Why seven and not five?"

Further ahead of the passage, Fan Ning had finished training his chariot, and was walking quickly in the dark.

In order to distract his attention from a series of creepy things around him, he recalled Vincent's reminder again, and then some doubtful points that he hadn't noticed were dug out.

"Reciting specific prayers sublimates seven mystical paintings in a controlled manner"

At that time, on the prompt illuminated by the flashlight, it was written that there were no doubts about seven.

Fanning naturally knew Vincent's works catalog very well, and he could clearly recall the content and details of each painting. He confirmed that there were only five paintings with the mysterious characteristics of sublimation.

List of works
There must be something missing, right?

The directory, the most important thing is the name of the work + time.

"Twilight and Wall on the Top of the Mountain" and "The Perspective of Snake and Scorpion" were written at the end of 895 in the new calendar.

"The Abyss Seen Under a Certain Emotion", "The River of Silver Mirror" and "Creative Sketches About Extremely Asymmetric Vessels" were written at the end of 902 in the new calendar.

The distribution is very uneven, too scattered and too concentrated, this is Fanning's first feeling.

Moreover, these two years? …

Years of the 37th and 38th Harvest Art Festival?
Vincent lost contact during the 909th session in 39 in the new calendar. Roy’s investigation revealed that he was not a staff member or an invited guest. This conclusion is very reasonable and credible when you look at it now—a profound Xiao Sanzhong's inspector general, a high-level person who once held an important position in the investigation team of the abnormal area, if he raised his social status so high and stood under the spotlight of "guests" majestically, his former identity would be easily discovered.

In contrast, a "director of the Turner Art Museum" is just one of thousands of inconspicuous "artists" in a high-level international cultural event such as the Harvest Art Festival. If Vincent is active in San Porto City for some other purpose, such an identity is undoubtedly extremely suitable.

So recalling the year when the five mysterious paintings were created, one can't help but imagine...

Did Vincent actually go to the Harvest Art Festival three times in a row, and one of the purposes was related to "creating a specific mystic painting"?
This is possible. In Fan Ning's memory of this world, Vincent travels far more frequently than Fan Chenxun in his previous life.

Could it be that his original creation plan was seven, so in the earliest "Twilight and Wall on the Top of the Mountain", the hints left are also seven?

It's just that he accidentally lost contact for the third time, so the creation plan has not been completed, and there are actually only five works at present?
Fanning's thoughts inadvertently moved forward by a small inch.

Then he found himself seeing some strange lights.

This isn't necessarily the end of the Vision Sealing Elixir.

But according to previous experience, I have already gone through this passage, and came to a complete transition layer, and there is no longer a perception method of "seeing things visually".

He continued to walk forward, the light became more and more wall, and the lines and color blocks became more and more distinct.

As if breaking into an invisible curtain, the next moment I was already on a huge platform.

He looked up at the sky inexplicably, and then looked around.

"After sublimating five more paintings, this place is completely different from last time..."

The abyss at the back is no longer black. Ultramarine storms, sharp blades, and bullets are whistling and undulating below. The platform as a whole is still as black as ink, but some white lines of opposite colors flow chaotically, giving people a feeling of extreme dizziness. .

The low night sky is filled with dense water vapor, and the green light soaks through the granulated fog. Occasionally, there is a sense of crystal clear contradiction in the dark and dirty. The light of several huge unknown stars is scattered and pale. It turned into several lavender doors that opened up the sky.

This completely illogical and organized color splicing once made Fanning feel that his thinking became chaotic, and when he saw the huge monster occupying the main body of vision in the distance, the weird and weird impact made him feel breathless.

It should be regarded as a building. Its brown-black shell already has a lot of ulcers or faults, but it can be seen that the overall shape is like a huge right triangle ⊿, with the short side lying on the ground and the hypotenuse facing upwards. The area of ​​each floor is Decreasingly, the uppermost floors, as well as the vertical high wall on the other side at the far end, are all immersed in the night sky or the green fog of the background.

Looking at this huge multi-storey building with a completely abnormal structure and completely contrary to the known human aesthetics, Fan Ning once remembered his experience of having a high fever several times when he was young: when he was lying in bed in a daze, he kept looking at it repeatedly in his dreams. Seeing some weird and huge geometric bodies or geometric patterns, their astronomical hugeness, the perspective relationship that is completely beyond the scope of understanding, the feeling of crushing and suffocation, made me panic for a long time after waking up. Trembling all over.

There is no other choice here, and the threat from the rear will catch up at some point. After the discomfort eased a little, Fan Ning did not dare to delay any longer, and prepared to head towards this fully opened secret realm ruins.

His main purpose is naturally to find an exit.

Whether it is history or the present, and whether it is an evil god organization or an official organization, any force with knowledge has the need to explore the secret place of shifting and build a place for secret ritual activities in it, because these places are governed by the divinity of the Lord of Witness. Evolved from the residue of activities, it naturally has many mystical functions that are difficult to achieve in other places.

If the Harmonization School or the Esoteric Buddhism of Longevity have explored here, and even used it as a relatively fixed "study place" or "legal place" for a certain period of time...

A very real problem, then, is that these people need to commute frequently to and from the waking world.

Whether relying on the model of the third historical relic or having a new reentry path, there must be a relatively stable method.

Thinking about it in his heart, Fan Ning suddenly felt that his wrists and neck were slightly cool.

rain?still? …

Fanning raised his arm, as if the scene from yesterday had recurred, and he saw several needle-sized paint stains on his skin.

When he thought of the scene where his side was wrapped and dissolved in the too realistic dream, the discomfort and anxiety in his heart became a little stronger.

He didn't know how he got out in the end, did he wake up after a nightmare?Or, because of the "old days"?

I vaguely remember that the witness talisman I saw last flashed for a moment, but this time, the "Old Day" was not on me. In order to prevent pollution, and also to deal with the sudden search and attack of the Special Inspection Office one day, the "Old Day" had already It has been sealed in Qiming Church for a long time.

Fanning picked up the pace a little as much as he could, but wondered if that had practical significance in the dream.

The huge multi-storey building in front of me seemed to be within reach, but it felt like two or three hours later, the distance seemed to be halfway, and I was still running on the huge black and white distorted platform.

Fortunately, the paint rain didn't seem to be that big, and the walking in the dream didn't feel exhausting. It seemed that after six or seven hours, Fanning finally came to the start of the hypotenuse of the giant right-angled triangle.

As far as the eye can see, there are honeycomb-shaped cavities in some lower floors, which may be rooms, but there are dense cochlear-shaped tubes growing and interspersed, which makes people feel that it is not a building, but a living thing.

The environment exudes an unclean atmosphere like festering thick water. After Fan Ning raised his foot and stepped over the threshold, the scene seemed to jump like a dream. He stood in a part of the building and was divided into countless The flat layer of the honeycomb compartment.

The tall and smooth stone supports a floor height of at least 20 meters, which is not like the material that can be found in this world. Various reliefs, plates and stone statues imply the structure of human facial features, and they fall down and lie horizontally against the relationship of gravity. It is placed and floating, but it still has some warm-toned twilight. After staring for a long time, I hear a hollow continuous sound like wind and whispers.

A strong sense of disgust and dizziness hit Fanning, and he leaned over to gasp with difficulty.

Then, on the forearm and inside the cuff, a sudden tightness made him stand upright again alertly.

The ritual vessel "gel membrane" that resists "pool" phase pollution?
Fanning thought of "Room of Pain" almost reflexively, because this was not an accidental encounter at all. In fact, considering that if he entered the secret door again, he would definitely encounter "Room of Pain", he had always prepared for it. "Gel membrane".

Not only did this sacrificial vessel successfully resist the slippery and corrosive feeling it brought on the tip of the tongue when it was in the sealing room, it was also sent to the Guidance School to verify the authenticity of its effectiveness.

Only, this time upright...

Fanning finally saw in a daze, the first floor of the huge building, one of the honeycomb compartments where he was, the painting hanging on the stone wall directly in front of him.

It is not the so-called indoor sketching of the delivery room and delivery bed.

A portrait of a woman standing in front of the red-red church arcade background, with pale complexion, earrings and short dark red hair, but her features and emotions are elusive, and her age cannot be identified, her facial features and facial lines are in recognition It is difficult to splice them together, just like dumping the contents of the storage bag on the table.

The title of the painting is not "Room of Pain".

The new name, like other irresistible revelations of knowledge in the dream, was directly implanted in his mind:

"Miss Scarlet".

(End of this chapter)