musicians of old

Chapter 311 On Promotion to Lord of Witness (4K [-]-in-[-])

"boom!"

Fanning pretended to be calm and put the notebook back on the table, and the hard spine of the book made a dry sound on the slate.

Because he was leaning over the table to read, seeing the word "above" immediately made him feel that something was lying on the back of his neck.

All of a sudden, the hairs stood on end.

Is there something parasitic on the "spring in the painting"?
Most of the "nutrition" of the human transmutation tissue transported by the cochlea-shaped pipeline was robbed by that thing?Could it be that the wall bricks cracked and the mucus leaked out when I went down the secret door just now?
What kind of thing can parasitize the "fountain in the painting"?
"Turnback channel."

Fanning hastened to cut off these unfavorable associations of sanity.

After re-stating his purpose in his heart, he began to rummage around the neighborhood.

Fortunately, the search area at this height was far less than that on the first floor. It didn't take long for him to find what he wanted to know.

In front of him is a roll of human skin drawings spread out, probably because the skinning technique is too simple and rough, the embossed light and dark traces of the ribs are still clearly visible.

There are many mysterious graphics and text annotations on it, as well as several illustrations of human anatomy, mainly partial close-ups of the skull, and a small area of ​​the eye and skull are marked in different colors.

This record is a secret ritual called "Path Reappearance Method". Fan Ning didn't have the energy to explain the construction method of the secret ritual in detail, but after a quick reading, he quickly confirmed that the Harmony School used this secret ritual to fold Return to the waking world.

According to them, there is indeed a reentry passage in this site that was first built in the third history period, but its direction to the waking world is already very vague, and the end of entering directly is to get lost in the layers of shifting folds.

And the "Path Reappearance Method" is a secret ritual used to re-stabilize the pointing relationship between the "Turnback Passage" and the "Wake-up World".

The general principle is to find a "person for marking", let him hold a certain extraordinary substance that meets the requirements of mysticism as a "primer", stand at a specific place in the waking world to "mark the path", and then His eyeballs and skull underwent a certain modification to complete the closed loop, so that later people could enter the third history reentry channel with the same "primer" and be able to return to the path marked at that time.

It is unrealistic for Fan Ning to construct this secret ritual now, but the Harmony School has already "marked" it, and the "primer" they chose is also very simple: a transmutation pigment mainly composed of the extraordinary ingredients of the "cocoon" phase , which are everywhere.

Through a simple method, Fan Ning judged that this "path recurrence method" is real, and there is a high probability that it is still in effect today.

Because, the waking world reentry point they described, Fanning compared it...

It is the back mountain of Turner Art Hall!
Last year, although I didn't know why my party escaped into the return passage inexplicably, but when I woke up, I found that I was in the back mountain of the Turner Museum of Art!
The smooth harvest put Fan Ning in a good mood. He invoked his spiritual sense to look around, then quickly grabbed a green paint packaged in a tin tube and stuffed it into his pocket.

There's only one last step left to escape: enter the switchback tunnel!

"Aisle, next is the location of the aisle..." Fan Ning suddenly frowned.

The information has been deduced all the way, and the first sentence in the discussion record book has not yet been verified to be what it is.

What is "the trend of the reentry channel is getting higher and higher, and every time is a test of life and death"?
Fanning began to re-read the other footnotes that he hadn't had time to look at just now to save trouble.

Looking at it, he suddenly felt a little bad.

According to records, the return passage looks like a "well" suspended in the air.

Its position is not fixed, it will change every few days, and it moves up and down randomly outside the vertical wall on the other side of the ⊿-shaped giant building.

And according to the people of the Harmony School, from the statistical frequency point of view, it "more and more likes" to stay in a relatively high place.

"A relatively high place? How high?"

Fan Ning suddenly took a step, and leaped lightly to the edge of the opposite floor.

There was a patter of paint rain in the green night sky outside, and the smell of festering pus was lingering. Holding the stone pillar with both hands, he carefully probed down and looked down. The straight building walls and the endless abyss were densely packed with the building. cochlear duct.

He had a fluke mentality, to see if he could hit some rare good luck, but in reality, he didn't see any "well" hanging in the air below.

And above...

Fan Ning looked at the night sky above. The green water vapor was low and viscous, with extremely low visibility, and the spiritual sense could not penetrate it well.

His face was a little ugly.

So the reentry passage, without accident today, is on the upper layer marked with red ink?
Maybe last year's luck was good by mistake, but it is impossible to have good luck all the time.

It was another discomfort caused by a sharp and dense sound. From the closed-eye passage, this feeling should have emerged more than ten times.

The leather shoes took a step, and Fanning walked around to the narrow stone staircase leading to the upper floor.

He raised his head and looked up in some doubts.

In the distance, a few pitifully thin firewood doors and rotten screens blocked the opening.

This protective measure is not as good as the livestock pen of the farmer's house.

Fan Ning speculated about the situation at that time. It seems that after suddenly finding something parasitic on the tube, those people did not intend to really block it, but grabbed something with a sense of venting panic. , and piled up on top.

It's similar to when ordinary people sleep in the middle of the night, they suddenly feel as if something has rushed in from outside the door, and they may subconsciously throw the pillow over.

I just don't know if the people from the Harmony School left suddenly or not.

I don't know if they have come to the upper layer to investigate for the purpose of "getting close to the holy spring" when they didn't find the problem.

"What should I do? If the reentry passage is above..."

After thinking about it for a while, Fan Ning decided to go up and take a closer look to see what was going on around him.

The only escape opportunity is on the top, and after analysis, he thinks that since there is no movement between Chai Fei and the rotten screen, it means that "that thing" may be at a higher place, and the small triangular space above is still divided into several layers. .

This is a very realistic logic of weighing pros and cons: if it is said that the stone steps are sealed by something solid or even a secret ritual, then Fanning dare not make the decision so easily to open it.

He now prayed that the "well" of the return passage was at the upper level.

Don't get any higher.

Thinking and deciding to do this, Fanning gritted his teeth and walked up the stone steps.

The stone steps with a vertical height of six to seven meters are walked slowly and cautiously.

Originally, he wanted to use invisible force to remove the rotten screen and firewood, but he was afraid that the active inspiration would disturb something, so he chose to push them away with his hands.

Fanning's head trembled out from the hole in the ground, and his heart was in his throat.

Flat ground covered with a layer of brown hairs.

carpet.

He looked around 360 degrees with a pair of eyes, and then found that he really did not expect this to be in front of him.

Originally, he expected a lot of horrifying or nauseating scenes, even worse than what he just saw along the way.

But in fact, this place seems to be... an elegant and spacious large noble library?
The carpet is laid in one piece, the roof is inlaid with cypress wood with petal patterns, the tall bookcases on the far wall are decorated with gold cloth, silver satin or gilded reliefs, and in the middle are one after another Long reading table made of mahogany.

After Fanning stepped on the wide arched corridor of the library on this floor, he saw many other rare and beautiful objects along the way, such as the head of a stag in the center of the fireplace hood, many unnamed white marble busts, A large chest containing a complete set of armor, a sideboard with "Nileru Style" written on it, a table with complicated regional and family coats of arms, feather clothing in the style of the aboriginals of the Southland, and several crystal objects.

It's like visiting a royal palace.

The only two things that are out of place, one is that the smell is not right as always, and then there are basically no books that should be in the library—books.

It is "basic", not "none at all". Most of the bookcases are empty, but in some places there are one or two books leaning against or lying down alone, and piles of seriously damaged books that are abandoned like shabby clothes can be seen in several corners , There are still a lot of scattered papers scattered on the wooden floor, or torn pages of books.

A few minutes later, Fan Ning opened the window on the vertical side of the building, and the green water vapor that was so thick that it couldn't be melted instantly formed a fine drop of water on his face.

"Damn it, I still don't see any 'well', is it in a higher place?"

He tried his best to look up and down and let his spiritual sense pry, but he still couldn't see very far. After retracting his head, he wiped his face with his sleeve, which was stained with a large amount of green unknown mucus.

Then a wood-panelled plaque nearby caught his attention.

"The Alchemist Code of Ethics and Conduct"

The ancient Hoffman title above, combined with a series of clues in the previous underground building, gave him a vague guess as to the identity of the owner of this library.

At least this can well explain why there are only a few scattered books in the huge library, as well as scraps of paper all over the place.

The Alchemist Association-Esoteric Cult of Longevity-Harmonization School—Obviously, before they realized that there was "that thing", the Harmonization School ransacked the collection of books here, and all the hidden books that could find the reference value of the same source were removed.

As for why the looting targets are only books, but not other valuable items, it may be that the pursuit of the characteristics of the Harmony School is completely different from ordinary people. Sexual courtesy, this is not sure.

Amidst the whimpering green wind monsters, the papers and scattered pages on the ground ran around the room like living creatures.

Just as Fan Ning was thinking about whether to check the library on this floor in detail to ensure that the information obtained is sufficient and comprehensive, or to save time as much as possible and directly try to find the return passage on the upper floor—

His eyes inadvertently caught a piece of torn white paper floating by his feet, and his keen spiritual sense allowed him to capture the content of the writing on it very clearly.

A familiar name jumped into view.

The paper had already slipped a few meters away, Fan Ning stepped forward quickly, leaned over and grabbed it back.

Noa, an older and more obscure source language than Turangalian.

Because the white paper had been torn, the content was incomplete, and the ink on the handwriting showed a very profound colorful flash, which always made Fanning's mind flash through the five paintings of Vincent.

Moreover, there are many interruptions in the middle of its strokes, which makes Fanning suspect that it was originally colorful, and it is only because of his sublimation practice that he can see five-sevenths of it.

"... Ha! I really admire the group of people who participated in the seminar today, especially that guy McAdam, who always has a cautious and conservative expression of constipation... Do you need to cover up? Do you need to pretend Are you restrained and reserved? Why don’t you say those words frankly? Let’s put it on the table and discuss it in depth!!!”

"What kind of adult topic seminar is this..." The wording and tone of the diarist made Fanning look weird, but he confirmed that his eyes were correct just now.

That familiar name was really McAdam.

Seeing this name, Fanning's first reaction was Miss Roy's father, but then he realized it was not.

If your judgment is correct, the owner and diary writer of this library is none other than Okgang, the last president of the Alchemist Association!

And the McAdam he mentioned should be one of Roy's ancestors.

Only Okgang, who had the identity before going mad, is qualified to call another core family head of the Bologna School in such a casual and equal tone.

This seems to be Okgang's private emotional diary after a high-level seminar of the school.

Fanning wondered what the hell they were discussing.

His reading speed is not fast, the difficult Noah language, and the other two-sevenths of the strokes are broken, these are all hindering factors, but when he saw a keyword in the next line, he was so surprised that even his pupils froze for a moment. zoomed in.

This word may not be directly related to the current situation, but anyone with knowledge will react weirdly when they see it, and it will not be less weird than Fan Ning's!
"...what about "whether it is possible to gain a thorough insight into a kind of true knowledge", what "about the fourth type of origin form", what "about the theoretical feasibility of mortal creatures passing through the gate of the vault", what "about the number of seats and noble deeds "...The speakers on the left are also interesting. They are obviously just three-layered, but they are more interested in the topic than anyone else. Well, I also admit that although this topic sounds more ridiculous than how to popularize the steam engine It’s a lot of talk, but it’s really enjoyable to talk about…”

"...The next seminar I will give it a simple and rude name, so that you can be satisfied at once-"On the promotion of the Lord of Witness", isn't this the end?"

(End of this chapter)