musicians of old

Chapter 390 The third movement The animals in the forest told me (3): Puzzle (two in one)

Fan Ning, who had already re-disguised himself as another passer-by, stood at the door of the banquet preparation room for more than 3 minutes, staring at the opened curtain a few meters away.

What I thought at first was that the maid Lilian was also kicked out by "clearing the venue".

However, when he was standing in the crowd just now, he had been pretending to be Lilian. If the church ran into another person who was exactly the same before putting up the seal, it would have caused a big commotion.

Fanning was inclined to think that they hadn't seen anyone here at all!
——With so many knowledgeable people acting together, it is not only difficult to commit the confusion of "witnessing repeated faces and being indifferent", but it is even more difficult to miss the sleeping breath of an ignorant person under searching one by one.

"Could it be that this Lilian not only woke up early during the meal or bath, but also left the villa without saying goodbye, and even returned the messed things to their original places before leaving?"

"It's so far-fetched, but what else would it be?..."

The room was dimly lit by the moonlight. Fan Ning first walked to the window and looked at the crowd who had dispersed on the lake road below, then turned around and looked carefully at the completely upright Seats, and steam cauldron with half uncovered towels.

It's really too strange, it's exactly the same as what I saw when I first sneaked in, as if the previous sight and operation didn't exist.

While he was looking at it, five dark red blood fingerprints gradually formed on the back window.

Fan Ning didn't notice anything unusual, but before he walked out of the room, he used invisible force to close the door of the banquet preparation room.

Then he walked back from the depths of the corridor on the second floor and entered another butler's account room.

In the accounting room, he checked the purchase and sales ledger of daily necessities, and there were some things like invitation letters and receipts.

At least the conclusion that can be drawn is that there are more than one women's private gatherings like today. In the last half month alone, there have been four times here where Renilla is the hostess, and as a guest, she has also been invited to other places. hostess home.

The specific things I do seem to be eating, bathing, nursing, and chatting about boudoir topics.

Although it is a private circle, it can be seen that there is no deliberate concealment of the communication process in it.

If there's anything wrong with it, it's a high appetite, strange essential oils, and then just a violation of the church's new, hard-line prohibition on fasting.

Generally speaking, it seems that the extravagant and pleasure-seeking behavior of the aristocratic female class has inadvertently touched the bad luck of the church.

Fanning left the butler's counting room.

After he stepped down the spiral staircase leading to the first floor, in the banquet preparation room in the dark depths behind him, there was a bloody footprint under the crack of the door.

After more than an hour in the large bath on the first floor, the air is still hot and humid with a delicate fragrance, and the water temperature is still not much lower than the optimum temperature line.

The floating petals and bathing utensils were almost still, but as Fan Ning stepped in, the Extraordinary Strings moved again, and the place also began to stir up heterogeneous ripples of light and shadow again.

Fanning stood on a small horse stool, and the whole person was suspended above the water surface at the target location.

The string hooked by his fingers was like a soft thread hanging down. Under his gentle rotation, a cylindrical purple closed surface was drawn in the water.

For the secret of the "key", sealing and dismantling are one of a set of binary opposite states of things.

The next moment, under the retrograde temperature of the "candle", the water in the closed area began to heat up extremely, and boiling was not enough to bear such a drastic change, and a large amount of water evaporated and disappeared in an instant, while the water outside the purple curved surface did not replenish. Come in.

Soon, Fanning was standing on the completely hollow bathroom tiles.

The purple light of Extraordinary Strings is flickering violently.

He squatted down, sensing something carefully, and in a place he couldn't see at this time, the figure on the large beach oil painting on the T-shaped opening on the second floor began to bleed from all seven orifices.

"It's not very deep, but it's not as thin as a wall. If you use the invisible power of strings to dismantle, it may become a violent dismantling. It can't be done without leaving traces, and if the scope of damage exceeds this A closed circle, pouring water from such a large bath..."

Fanning tried to use the strings to draw two merged semicircle patterns, and sure enough, they couldn't be pushed and pulled apart.

After thinking about it, he decided to use his command power to dismantle brick by brick. Although it was also a "violent dismantling", the scope would be as small as possible.

"Ka Ka Ka... Cha Cha Cha..."

The knuckles of Fan Ning's five fingers were tense. He felt that he could not find a point of strength for such a smooth and inlaid object, and it was more laborious than twisting the steel and iron plates.

"Crack!——" A porcelain plate protruded abruptly with the surrounding cement, and was thrown aside by Fan Ning.

The bath tiles were removed piece by piece, and then pieces of irregular cement were broken off. Beads of sweat began to appear on Fanning's forehead, and finally, he found a dark cavity underneath.

After cleaning it up again, Fan Ning discovered that there was a small "well"-shaped cavity about two meters deep below, and the height itself was about two meters lower.

Leaning inside is a large box more than one meter high.

"A piano case? A cello or a guitar?" After controlling it to rise up, Fanning saw clearly that it was a long wooden case with a dark brown color, a dull texture, and a layer of special oil on the surface.

The light and shadow of different colors are shining through the fine gap.

It's not suitable to stay here for a long time, and Fan Ning didn't think about restoring it to the state where nothing happened. He casually dumped the pulled out bricks and stones into the pit.

Then he grabbed the piano case, stepped on the small stool, and rose into the air.

"Ho Ho... Ho Ho... Ho Ho Ho..."

Just as the pool water filled the cut-off space, a creepy sound suddenly sounded behind him.

It was as if hundreds of people were being forced to pour a large bucket of oily liquid down their throats, and they all made painful swallowing or vomiting sounds.

In the bathtub behind him, something huge and viscous seemed to surge up, and the creeping shadow instantly covered the top of the head, covering the faint starlight in the room!

"What the hell!?" Fanning's scalp tingled, and he couldn't help looking back for some reason.

At this time, the petals floating in front of and below the field of vision began to whirl violently.

The petals of various colors bounced off and separated quickly as if they were being repulsed, except for the purple petals that stayed in place with only a slight drift.

They form several minimal acronyms:
"Don't look back, run straight."

Fanning twisted his neck abruptly, and the flying speed of the stool under his feet accelerated again.

He also gave up on the route that required a slight turn to go to the door curtain without thinking, and the whole person directly slammed into the wooden wall in front of him.

At this speed, he had no time to control the strings passing through the door, so he could only reluctantly use his inspiration to make a preparatory action, but the subsequent dismantling progress was automatically and smoothly connected, and the figure entered the purple water together with the piano case. Ripple

"Goog...goog..." "Ka Ka Ka!!——"

Behind the wall there was the sound of sticks smashing grout, and the sound of sharp fingernails scratching the wall.

Fan Ning did not dare to be negligent, and truly carried out the reminder of "running in a straight line", regardless of the distribution of rooms and roads in the villa, he rushed straight along the original direction.

He had already seen the spawn of the "split chrysalis" before, and it was a dregs that shrank after cutting off the source of nutrition and lost its mysterious activity. A creature of this level, if the image displayed by a malicious or casual attitude is not enough, it will cause a huge trauma to cognition if it is not enough, and it will even make the ignorant go crazy on the spot.

His heart was beating wildly, and the wind and strange noises were whistling in his ears. Fanning went all the way through the pillars, through the wine cabinet, through the corner of the wall, or directly bumped into the low stairwell...

He still felt sharp or awkward resistance when facing obstacles that did not "pass through the plane vertically". Contusions and bruises appeared on his forehead and arms, but he did not dare to stop at all. After walking out of the villa, he still felt It went all the way for 10 minutes.

"boom!"

It wasn't until he was almost approaching his residence that he suddenly braked and dived and landed on a piece of grass.

Fan Ning's brain throbbed, the possible "thing" did not catch up, and the harmonious scene of the sea of ​​flowers swaying slightly in the wind behind him began to make him wonder whether hallucinations began to occur later.

He didn't open the piano case immediately, but pulled it aside, lay on his back, and closed his eyes.

But within a few breaths, Fan Ning suddenly opened his eyes and sat upright with the rustle in his ear.

A row of notches appeared on the small bench that had stood before:
"Don't dream just yet."

Now, Fan Ning is almost certain that these are the words left by Joan, and the disappearing maid, the returning room, and the horrifying unknown things that suddenly appeared behind the bath are probably all actions of "Miss Scarlet" !

"Her essential purpose should not be to kill me, because that would have no direct benefit to her. The biggest attempt is to enter the Church of Enlightenment, get the 'Fountain of Painting' or something else..."

"So I used the maid to infiltrate the investigation, completely with her acquiescence? A person who has long been possessed and controlled his actions?... Then, as the backbone disciple, does Renilla know the situation? I Discovered the thing under the bath and successfully brought it out, was it the 'Miss Scarlet' who made it happen, or was it something extra that made her miscalculate?"

Layers of mist lingered in his heart, and Fan Ning beckoned to dig out a sharp stone from nearby. After holding it in his hand and pondering for a while, he carved on the bench next to Joan's:

"I can't sleep alone?"

Soon, Joan's reply is displayed:
"no."

It's just that I am alone, and I can't do without her soul twin body of "Miss Scarlet"? ...Fanning was more and more perplexed.

According to the previous explanation, "the way back to the dreamland" is an extremely secretive personal behavior. Even if the body of a person with knowledge in the world is controlled by the enemy, he can only be physically destroyed and destroyed. Destroying, preventing him from sleeping and dreaming, it is very difficult to force him to dream according to his own program, or to track his dreams.

Fanning stared at the letter meaning "no" in silence for a moment, and then another row emerged below:
"But the box next to you should be fine."

When he saw it, he immediately reached out and undid the lock and zipper.

The eyes suddenly lit up.

A classical guitar, made of light maple with a soft sheen, with extremely elegant and light contours, inlaid with almond leaves and pomegranates.

What made him hold his breath even more was that there were only five strings, all of which had very light colors. From left to right, from bass to treble, they were: blue, red, (empty), green, gray and white stripes, and blue.

Corresponding to E, A, D, G, B, E of the sound name, the missing string is exactly the purple of the "key" phase!
The extraordinary string that Joan brought out from the "cracking field" a few years ago came from this classical guitar?
After Fanning looked it back and forth several times, he grabbed the neck of the violin and turned it upright to the back. At this time, he saw a small purple chisel pattern in the lower left corner.

Its shape is similar to the soles of human feet, and the lines have a sense of elegance, but the arc in the middle seems to indicate that it is bleeding. Compared with the appearance of the whole guitar, it looks a bit mysterious and terrifying.

"Do you know this symbol?" Fanning asked subconsciously, and then he realized that Joan was not around, and was about to pick up the sharp stone again, when the rustling sound still appeared.

"Emblem of St. Agnes."

"Saint Agnes?..." Fanning frowned and spelled out the word.

This pronunciation let him know that Saint Agnes is a place name of a small city in the Southern Continent, and it is also a violin-making family with a long history. According to Fanning’s knowledge of the world’s famous antique violins, it came from Saint Agnes’s violin making Family, classical guitar, light and airy shape...

This violin is very likely to be the "Illyrian" used by Master Ton during his lifetime, and the art world has offered a reward of 45 pounds for its whereabouts! !

However, "Illyrian" was not in Torn's former residence, but why did he appear in Viern's former residence, and was buried under the tiles of the bath?

It was obviously difficult to figure out the reason for this problem at the moment. Fan Ning touched the stool with his fingers lightly while thinking, and at this moment he suddenly realized that these scratches were completely real, and even his fingers were stained with wood slag. .

He quickly engraved words and asked:
"Why are you suddenly able to directly affect reality?"

It was clearly stated before that she cannot directly act on the waking world without recovering the strength of the orderer. She can only use the medium of dreams to impose some invisible hallucinations, hints or "spiritual events".

A few seconds later, the "wounds" on the stool were all healed, and Joan carved a new line of words:
"I have no idea."

"...Don't know?" Fanning's eyes widened.

While he was puzzled, Joan's handwriting was still appearing:

"You're in a strange state right now."

"Or, the entire Southern Continent where you are located is very strange."

(End of this chapter)