musicians of old

Chapter 420 The Fifth Movement The Angel Tells Me (11): Nine Gardens (Two in One)

"The Feast Beast, was it activated directly?"

"It's that simple?"

The priests touched the golden-red base of this giant musical instrument, their faces full of disbelief.

There were even a few people who imitated Fan Ning's movements and waved their hands in the air.

Only Miss Nightingale's expression was normal.

Of course my teacher is amazing, if you "flower touch people" can't do it, it doesn't mean my teacher can't do it.

"Mr. Scheler, you... have achieved 'unrestricted entry and exit', right?" Archbishop Fields' tone was filled with an inexplicable sense of relief, he took a deep breath and exhaled it long, muttering to himself, " It’s no wonder Lord ‘Ji’ wants to talk with him, the revelations in the southern kingdom have become more and more unknown in recent years, maybe he can really keep us from completely losing hope.”

"No access?" Fanning turned his head.

He really felt something in his heart just now, and he had the strange confidence of "being able to play the feasting beast", so he waved his hand to mobilize his spirituality to try, but he didn't understand the meaning of this phrase in the archbishop's mouth.

"Midsummer is a season of illusions." Fields is still staring up at his head in a daze. "In the southern country, there are some places, corners, and even objects. Their external details and textures are all real. If you release it, you will be inexplicably troubled.”

"Such places are called 'places of confusion'. Some of them can use cumbersome rituals to open the way, while others have no obvious effect."

"Well, it's not limited to midsummer, but after midsummer has arrived, there will be more 'lands of confusion' in the Tia city-state area, and the usual teachings believe that only when the understanding of 'love is a question' reaches an extremely high level Only a great philosopher can realize the state of 'unlimited entry and exit'."

"Including 'lost' during the journey, but also 'revelry beast'?" Fanning asked.

"Yes, the latter is less typical, but we think the essence is the same."

"Is there any history of 'Feast Beast'?"

"It is rumored to be the last work left by an ancient violin-making family before it disappeared." Fields smiled helplessly, "My knowledge is limited to this level. After Mr. Scheler has seen the venue, he must be able to Lord Saint knows more."

So Fan Ning withdrew his gaze from the "Feasting Beast" above, and turned around to look at the huge circular space.

The farthest boundary of the field of vision is the hand-plastered wall intertwined with white and pink, sandy beach and flower oil paintings are interspersed in the vaults and colonnades of the main building, together with the interaction with mirrors, chandeliers and golden bas-reliefs, forming a A pleasant, soft, and fantastical visual form.

Fields introduced from the side:
"The entire ground of the Red Church can accommodate more than 6000 people for worship activities without being crowded. When the "Flower Festival" is held, the three-story circular "Flower Platform" outside will also be fully loaded, and the total capacity can reach more than [-]."

"Part of this is royal family members from various city-states and archipelagos and important guests invited to attend, and more opportunities to watch ceremonies and banquets are reserved for the people of the southern kingdom."

"Why 'Leave it to the law'?" Fan Ning asked, "The opportunity for thousands of people to watch the ceremony is also limited."

"Church branches from all over the world will send out a large number of invitations to observe the ceremony, and you can enter the venue with the invitation with your own name on it, but the premise is that the invitation in your hand has not withered until the day of 'Auspicious Time'."

Fan Ning nodded slightly and walked down the stage, followed by everyone.

From the center to the periphery, the terrain is slowly lowering. The walkways and steps subtly divide the space into pieces. The candles on the porch are in the shape of flowers, the benches and tabletops have light curves, and the translucent interior seems to be filled with colorful flowers. marbles.

Under this kind of heterogeneous decoration, Fanning also saw that the ground was covered with black wiring harnesses, which connected the sound pickup structures at various positions, and finally gathered a group of huge mechanical devices under the stage.

Seeing Fan Ning looking at them, Fields smiled: "In order to keep the preparation process from being in a hurry, the recording equipment for the ceremony music has been installed and adjusted in advance, and they are all high-end equipment imported from the Tiolian Empire. goods, transoceanic special lines, complete installation, and even equipment maintenance and commissioning teams are hired with a lot of money.”

What a familiar model... Fanning secretly sighed in his heart at first, but after glancing at a characteristic object, his pupils shrank imperceptibly.

In more than one place, he found traces resembling a knife on the gray-black fuselage of several pickup boxes and the main console.

It was exactly the same as the one I saw on the wooden table in the tavern in the small town of St. Agnes.

This record-recording device actually bears the imprint of Poglerich's divinity?
The Special Inspection Office also noticed this year's "Flower Ritual Festival", which Fan Ning had expected, but he still paid more attention to finding traces on this unknown function.

The tour of the venue will also end soon.

The clergy guided Fan Ning and his party out from the spiral staircase on the side, and continued to walk uphill along the sea of ​​flowers, until they arrived at the "garden" behind the building complex of Fanghui Temple.

This building near the top of the ascent is very eye-catching.

Its floor area is not as large as that of the Scarlet Church, but it is built extremely high, and its appearance is a strange multi-layered hollow structure. It is not simply superimposed in the "thousand-layer cake" style from the top to the present, but presents intricate spatial inclusion relationships. Every space There are a large number of exotic flowers and plants and flowing rockery, under the scorching sun, rainbows intertwine and flowers and butterflies dance.

"Mr. Scheler, the entrance is over there." Seeing that Fan Ning seemed a little dazzled, a clergyman hurriedly took a few steps to lead the way.

"I know, I want to go around and take a look at the back first." Fan Ning didn't stop, "To be honest, I've always been a little curious, the main hall of the church is already deep in the fox lily field, so what is going on all the way in? "

"There are quite a few foreigners who ask this question." Fields smiled understandingly and made a "please" gesture, "However, the scope of the Fox Lily Field may be much larger than you imagined."

After 10 minutes, Fan Ning walked around the "garden" and stood at the end of the building complex, which is the top of the hill.

"Strange terrain, there is nothing unreasonable, but I have never seen it before." He looked at the scene in front of him and fell into thought.

There is no longer a normal way out ahead, but calling it a "cliff" might be an exaggeration.

To be precise, this is just a "grass wall" with endless stretches at both ends.

The height difference of seven or eight meters is not high or low. It may be unrealistic for ordinary people to jump down, but they can easily lower themselves with the help of some simple tools.

And below... is still the sea of ​​flowers in the Fox Lily Field.

Its terrain is flat and well-proportioned, without human habitation, and there are no more hills and rivers. There are a little undulating slopes in the farther places, but there is no barrier to the view, and this continues until the end of the horizon disappears.

The sea of ​​burning flowers swayed in the breeze, and the fiery wind brought a strong aroma to the face.

"The only thing I'm glad is that they haven't disappeared." Fields looked into the distance and said, "The fox lily and the never-withered nectar, one is relatively common and the other is more mysterious, but both are representative of the divine power of the 'flower poet' Symbols, except for turning back towards the city-state of Tia, this side can never find their end, so maybe it can be regarded as a 'place of confusion'."

What if it is a person who is "in and out"?

Fanning didn't stay in front of the cliff for a long time, he turned around thoughtfully, and went back to the entrance of the strange garden.

"The archbishop mentioned in the opera hall yesterday morning that the garden's never-withering nectar has been 'stopped', so, is he referring to the garden in front of him?" he asked.

"It's a general term. In fact, there are nine gardens." Fields nodded, "They are all located in this building, but they occupy different relatively independent spaces, and each has a different 'honey-producing channel'. , our "Flower Toucher" takes the existing nectar of never-withered flowers as a primer, enters the passage to complete a specific tribute link, and can realize their multiplication and picking"

"The 'honey-producing channels' of the nine gardens responded differently to the growth, and the garden in the core area accounted for 70% of the production, but it was the first to stop production due to unknown reasons more than 30 years ago. , two more stopped production more than 20 years ago, and three more stopped production more than ten years ago.”

"So in this century, there are only the last three outer gardens that are still in operation. Since the production of never-withered nectar is related to the abundance of products in the southern country, this directly leads to the deteriorating prosperity of natural gifts. The church has no choice but to A 'no-catch and no-eating order' was promulgated."

When Fields said this, his face became serious:

"The next thing is what you know. On the eve, the last three gardens also lost their honey-producing response. Our sage-sama '伈佊' is waiting in the garden. Not far from here, you We should be able to meet him."

After pondering for a moment, Fan Ning asked, "As your church's core Extraordinary resource production area, the nine gardens should be closed to outsiders on weekdays, right?"

"Compared to public areas such as the Scarlet Church, there are naturally restrictive management regulations." Fields reached out and moved out of thin air in front of the white marble arch, causing a blood-red crack to appear in the middle of the invisible barrier, "But those who apply for a visit every year There are not a few distinguished guests, such as the new poet laureates and famous singers over the years, more than half of them expressed interest in viewing the wonders inside the garden."

The archbishop finally sighed; "The church has always been kind to their application for tours, hoping that these artists who have received the attention of the 'Fanghui poets' can bring some good changes to it, but in fact, they The area that can be visited is getting smaller every year, and as the mystical properties of the accreting nectar die down, these defunct gardens gradually become 'lands of confusion', and the ritual of opening the way gradually becomes unresponsive."

He led a group of priests to bow slightly, and made a "please" gesture to the arch:

"Mr. Scheler, I wish your meeting with the Lord Saint will go smoothly. In addition, the two little girls have a good tour."

"Thank you." Miss Nightingale happily replied, but Luna's voice was so low that no one could hear her clearly.

Fanning stepped into the garden through the blood-red gap in the plane.

The touch of the skin to the air became moist, and the pleasant sound of gurgling water rang in the ears.

In front of you is a vine hall full of red, green and purple grapes. Through the height of the wooden frame, you can see the flowers of magnolia, bauhinia, jacaranda and pomegranate trees blooming under the scorching sun. It should be on the upper floor of the garden. At another height, the path to it has not been found yet.

The three of them walked along the small gravel road with a slope in the middle. The aisle was lined with pots of well-trimmed blueberries, cherries, and small mango plants. A strange fruit that has been there and cannot be named.

Fountains or artificial pools show different heights in the field of vision. Those hanging on the wooden poles above the arches, the paper pendants similar to lucky charms sway in the wind, and the colorful parrots and wooden pigeons standing aside Staring at the crowd, the two little girls blinked at each other with great interest.

Very hallucinatory scenery.

"Meet you again, Mr. Scheler."

Walking to an open halfway up the mountain, Fanning heard a familiar voice.

Behind it is the water vapor and rainbow splashed by the waterfall, and exotic flowers and plants are blooming everywhere. In front of a wicker chair at the hottest spot, an old man with light blond hair and firm and majestic brows is holding a burning sword. Cigar stood up slowly.

"Hello, master." Fanning greeted.

"Master Luckert, are you also meeting with Lord Saint today?" Miss Nightingale asked curiously.

The other party smiled when he heard the words, and his figure quickly faded under the scorching sun, replaced by different lines and light and shadows.

Fanning looked slightly moved.

It was a fox lily floating in the sky in the rainbow, a head taller than a normal adult, and more than two meters. Its curled petals were covered with golden-red lines, and the outer edge was filled with burning thin flames.

Those flames seem to be able to burn a person's spirituality and passion into specimens like dried flowers as long as they are a little stronger.

"I am 'Ji Yi'."

The voice has changed, and the humming sound echoes in the ear canal, but the original shape can still be discerned.

"Master Saint?"

The minds of the two little girls went blank for a while. Facing the most revered semi-mythical figure in the Fanghui Temple, they had only seen his name in the teachings, and for a moment they forgot that they should pay homage with half-kneeling etiquette.

Fanning was a little surprised at the moment.

He always thought that Master Luckert was just a crescent poet in the southern country who maintained a good relationship with the church, a master of understanding who had climbed to the triple door, but he did not expect that he was one of the leaders behind the three Orthodox churches, Is it an existence with a complete executor personality?

"It turns out that Master Luckert is the saint 'Ji Yi'. From this point of view, the previous respect has been a bit weak, please forgive me."

Recalling Lückert's deeds, recalling the experience of dealing with the previous few times, Fan Ning couldn't help thinking about the meaning behind it.

"It's not very accurate." The evaluation of '伈佊' came from the petals and flames.

Not very accurate? . Fanning was puzzled.

Are these really two different characters?
However, before showing this divine image, the person who greeted him before was indeed Master Luckert?

"Then what is the relationship between His Excellency the Holy One and Master Luckert?" Fan Ning asked after some consideration.

The shadow of the fox lily fades further until it becomes transparent.

Only a half-smoked cigar was still placed on the edge of the wicker chair.

"To be precise, Luckert is my apostle."

　Although this chapter is a transitional plot, the information density is relatively high, and it involves the connection and progression of five or six key foreshadowings, so it took a long time to finish writing
　　
　
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