musicians of old

Chapter 746 "Ownerless Hammer" (Part )

Another world!?!?

Fanning's heart was about to beat wildly, but was stopped abruptly by his spiritual inner control.

"Reply, answer. Yes or no" Guido da Lezzo's vocal cords twitched.

Logically speaking, in any situation, the response to this question should be "I don't know what you're talking about", but Fanning actually hesitated at this moment.

One of the reasons is about the "mystery of the time travel" itself. Secondly, the "reassurance" given by the other party about reaching the summit was obviously an insincere and almost clumsy "promise", but it made Fanning feel very strange and wanted to know the truth.

"Are you talking about how I felt after coming back from the Abnormal Zone?" Fan Ning thought of a safe way to test the situation.

He responded ambiguously, with a tone that deliberately hinted at a joking smile in his heart.

This is a very reasonable and very defensive context.

“Answer yes or no.”

Guido da Lezzo continued to repeat and emphasize his answer.

Perhaps the "abnormal zone" served as a defensive explanation, perhaps the question of "reaching the summit" was related to his urgent desire to control the external situation, or perhaps a series of terms such as "disenchantment ritual", "ownerless hammer", "key holder" and so on had a mysterious influence. In the end, Fanning nodded in his heart:

"Yes."

Since the answer was "yes", without waiting for the other party to respond, Fanning had already asked a series of counter-questions and follow-up questions, wanting to speak from the bottom of his heart and get to the bottom of it.

For example, there are two approaches to so-called "interlopers," the shell species, or the key holder.

But Poglelich ended his silence at this very moment.

"So, is he one of the choices suitable to handle the 'Masterless Hammer'?" he asked.

"Of course. Even 'most'."

Guido da Lezzo actually answered like this.

I don’t know if this was really the fulfillment of his promise to Fanning “after satisfying his curiosity” or if he would have answered like that anyway.

"Reasons?" Poglieri asked.

"It's all in the end. Director, your reasons are clear. You can't help but believe it."

"When countless branching plans and choices are being implemented and are close to conclusion, if you, your authorities, have not yet grasped the axis or the biggest intersection among the many, many debris or keys, then you will fail."

Less than half an hour had passed since this inefficient, endless, metaphorical exchange began, and the charred remains of the human figure began to shrink and weather.

Wisps of fine coal ash collapsed along with a wriggling tone of pain.

"To be honest, the law of secret history entanglement is usually not as rampant as the conspirators think. But, but, but this time, the ebb and flow cycle of the abnormal zone will definitely be the most rampant one."

The syllables of the last paragraph were uttered one by one in the spasm, and the entire remains of Guido da Lezzo had completely disintegrated and peeled off, and the gray and black particles were blown away by the inexplicable cold wind!

"Do you want to execute another infected person?" Mr. Wax pointed in the direction of the cage.

This sentence, combined with previous conjectures, made Fanning come to a strange conclusion afterward:

Could it be that after these "worm-infected" masters of the school who were above the level of Adepts, "executed" or "burned" each of them in a specific and thorough way, they would "temporarily" leave behind a molten remains of Guido da Lezzo?

Why!? What secrets did this ancient scholar Guido Darezzo have in his past? What kind of state is he in now? - A state similar to "cursed"?

Is there any special symbolic meaning in the process of incinerating and destroying a "worm"?

This absurd and illogical connection made Fanning feel his mental state again, and the essence of the height of this mysterious world was distorted.

"Not for now."

Poglieri rejected Mr. Wax's proposal and then glanced at Fanning, who was sitting at the end of the conference table.

"Master Fanning, there is still nothing written on your paper. Is this your statement?"

"I told you, if you want to read something, just ask first." Fanning smiled as before, "I'm busy with the rehearsal, and besides, I'm having a hard time with your series of incomprehensible conversations."

"The organization won't give a person unlimited opportunities. If you don't take the initiative to write now, you will have to write in a few days." Poglelich said calmly, "For example, the matter of Turner Art Cinema. Also, you were listening to the discussion with Guido Darezzo. Don't you have anything you want to say?"

The Guidance School was liquidated, and asked me what the Turner Cinemas said? What did it say?

And what Guido da Lezzo said

Damn it.

Fanning roughly guessed some of the possible follow-up events in the outside world, but after staring for a few seconds, he just smiled and shook his head again:

"Nothing much to say for now." "Did you remember everything we said on the way here?"

"I'll try my best?"

"Okay." Poglelich nodded.

Without any hesitation, he raised his hand and slashed in the air.

The "blade" light hanging in another part of the wreckage space passed through everything without any detour, and directly drew a circle of empty section next to Fanning's seat.

The whole person fell out directly!

Looking at the bottomless gap that was slowly healing, Poglelich's eyes finally showed a thoughtful look.

"A suitable operator of the 'Masterless Hammer'. The most suitable one!? How credible would it be?" Mr. La stared at the direction of the crematorium. Smoke was still drifting from the door.

"What do you think?" Poglieri asked.

"I'm afraid that every word that old fellow Guido da Lezzo says has ulterior motives, so we have to weigh them carefully." Mr. Wax slowed down his tone.

"I have always felt that there is nothing special about the Guidance School, but if I have to draw a conclusion, I can only say that it is 'ordinary' and 'normal'. In the official organization, it is too ordinary and too normal. Its strength is not weak, but not strong either. Its scope of study is wide, but not extreme, nor profound. Although it has some clear concepts or main lines, such as advocating natural science, uniting the middle class, and safeguarding the rights of workers, it is indeed doing so from top to bottom, but it is done tepidly. There are many small achievements, but very limited big ones. Of course, in the final analysis, it is still because of its weak strength and the limited status of its class foundation in the empire."

“But this time, it was a really unexpected discovery.”

"If we hadn't found the secret execution files of the Guidance School, we wouldn't have known that Guido Darezzo seemed to have known for a long time that the 'God's Advent Society' and the 'Dangerous Person' would appear in the world!?"

"Of course, from this perspective, Guido Darezzo also seems to be afraid of the God's Advent Society, which seems to prove that we have a common basis for cooperation. But many times, the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. Secret organizations are sometimes just competing with each other for "great achievements" - after this incident, the fear I have always had about him has become even stronger!"

"This old guy, this guy who has been cursed by some weird curse, always gives people a feeling of having experienced all kinds of unknown and ancient things. Especially the incomprehensible substances, theories and rituals he mentioned. I feel that he and the 'Snake' are just two different heretics!!."

"Thinking back to when our department first noticed the 'worm' and the few times we communicated with it, what else did he suggest? -"

"Invisible power made public? Art development liberalized? I remember Guido Darezzo expressed this idea many times between the lines. Obviously! For some unknown purpose, he does not want Huita's path to rise to the top to be gradually controlled, nor does he want the discussion group to gradually establish its authority in art evaluation. But how can I be led astray by his words?"

This person is hiding too many things and has too many unknown purposes.

I'm afraid the more we "recommend" Fanning to climb to the top and control the "Ownerless Hammer", the more problems there will be!

Whether to adopt his opinion seems to be an obvious "no".

It is just like the advocacy of "publicizing invisible forces" and "liberalizing artistic development".

Mr. La let out a long breath, as if he wanted to get rid of the rotten smell of some secret history that he had been contaminated with.

"Disenchantment ritual. Ha." Poglieri laughed mockingly, which was rare for him. "Guido da Lezzo shared the construction method in a very persuasive way, and even went so far as to reveal the existence of the 'Masterless Hammer'. He must be very much hoping that our department can successfully carry it out in the coming years."

Mr. Wax nodded. "Perhaps what Guido da Lezzo said was true. For him, the purpose of the 'disenchantment ritual' was the so-called 'confirmation of the truth after execution', or the perfection of his work 'Debate and Obscurity'. But this old guy has such high hopes for us, whether there is any other purpose, we don't know."

A lingering man who was cursed from an unknown height, a former "key-bearing intruder", perhaps he does know many secrets.

But now all he can do is talk and induce.

All actual choices are entirely in the hands of the Special Patrol Office!

"Anyway..." The secret historian picked up another stack of files on the table and leaned back in his wheelchair. "The transformation research is coming to an end. What we will eventually execute will only be its reversed form."

"Resistance Ritual."

"Have you ever considered that in the end you are the one closest to the real name of the dangerous person?" asked Poglelich.

Mr. Wax nodded and shook his head: "To be honest, this question is no longer the most important to me now. The shell species will not disappear, but only exist 'inside'. After the festival of the Guidance School comes to an end, if I want to talk about further thoughts, I just want to find out what 'noon' really means."

"Time is running out. Call another emergency meeting." Poglelich remained silent for a moment and then gave the order.

"Four topics: guiding the qualitative analysis of issues related to the change of the school, the asset disposal plan for Turner Cinemas, and the list of awards for the closing of the Harvest Art Festival"

"And... the 22nd round of review of the investigation plan for the abnormal zone 'Coordinate X'."

Since the beginning of autumn, the temperature has been getting cooler day by day.

In a blink of an eye, it is the last day of the "Seven-Day Celebration" of the 40th Harvest Art Festival.