musicians of old

Chapter 855 The Third Hammer Strike!
"Crack!!"

The hammer fell to the ground and turned into a cloud of dust.

Leridge continued to stare coldly at Fanning, while some of the guards beside him kept slashing at the shield, while others crouched down, glaring menacingly.

Clearly, if the cover is breached further, or if the people on the ground floor resolve the issue of the main control valve, the crowd will swarm in and take care of this madman.

With a frown, Fanning then tossed away the broken grip.

That's right, very reasonable.

The auction hammer wasn't originally used like that.

With that kind of strength and sustained recoil, it should have been smashed long ago.

Fanning continued walking forward, her hands empty.

“The number of hammer blows you designed in the score, although slightly different in different time dimensions, has all been used up.” The chief appraiser, Nikolayevich, smiled again and said, “I also agree with Curator Lerich, that’s about enough, keep one piece.”

"You need to leave behind evidence for tonight's revelations and the sacrifice of your companions. As for me, well... I also have some connection with this collection. The 'return' of a portion of the 'Apocalypse Secret Realm' score is also due to the fact that this collection doesn't collapse too quickly."

"Calm down, calm your nerves, and look at the stars." Nikolayevich pointed to the top of the rotten, perforated ceiling of the auction hall.

But Fanning and Ruoyi had already withdrawn their gazes from the void of deep space.

“Hey, I see some pink beams of light over there.” Ruoyi suddenly pointed to a section of the glacier crevasse and said casually, “Could it be the ‘sanctuary’ that Joan’s family has been talking about? Maybe I should just jump from here.”

“I didn’t see it.” Fan Ning glanced at the abyss below the crack.

She must be hallucinating, or maybe she's experiencing oxygen deprivation or something.

If it has to be this way, what would be the difference between those sections?

“Maybe we should wait a bit longer. I bet the ‘Sol Ruby’ is a fake.” After a few seconds, Fanning said casually.

"The risk is too high, I'm not going to wait." Ruoyi put down her backpack. "The nerve agent will probably look bad after it takes effect, I won't let you see me make a fool of myself."

“Then you jump and I’ll jump.” Fan Ning remained silent for an even longer time.

"What are you doing? There's still some food left, and you're in good shape. Keep going down to the fork between 'L' and 'R' peaks, and the chances of meeting other climbers will increase as you go down."

"Go ahead and jump."

"what?"

"And then I."

“Hey, Fan Ning.” Ruoyi suddenly smiled. “I knew you would be like this, but isn’t a small chance of survival enough? So, the last thing I want to say to you is to give you an irresistible reason to obediently try to walk down the mountain on your own.”

"I do not believe."

"I set up a timed long comment on Instagram, and you should have received it by now. Well, it's nothing much, just some travel recommendations, but I've hidden some little clues and Easter eggs in each place! Why are you looking at me like that? I contacted someone to do it while I was on a plane, on the high-speed train, or staying up all night in the hotel! This way, we can continue traveling together. If you don't want it to 'end so quickly,' we can go to one place a year at a time, and it's no problem to go for twenty years or so."

“You bastard!!” Fan Ning suddenly burst out laughing, tears welling up uncontrollably. “If you climb the hill on a beautiful summer evening, remember me, remember how I often climb up from the valley; look over there at my grave in the churchyard, and see the long, wild grass swaying in the wind in the afterglow of the setting sun.”

Ruoyi smiled and waved goodbye to him.

"Thank you, Fan Ning. When you get to the next place, we'll see the most beautiful starry sky together again."

The girl's figure plunged into the abyss of the glacial crevasse in the next instant!
"thump--"

Miss McAdam in the collection restoration room died of poisoning, her body tumbling helplessly to the side from the main valve control platform.

The gear lever that had been pressed down finally began to spring back inch by inch.

"Ha, ha ha ha, ha ha ha ha."

Fanning smiled as she slowly walked onto the auction stage.

He smiled through his tears.

In the finale, the "utopian" melody falls into its final, dying state, with the intervals lengthened, the intensity weakened, and it ultimately returns to the third interval motif of the opening "Dark March".

The third interval is repeated slowly.

"Haha. That's right, cough cough cough. The hammering designed on the score has all ended." Fan Ning's heart ached as if it were being cut by a knife, and he could no longer breathe, as if he were standing on a tower without any air. "But cough cough cough. I insist on implementing it again. Completely deleting it from the score. This performance will never happen again in future generations. What is the price for this secret history?"

This world is utterly corrupted: the corpses of the "gathering point," the "worms" of the mortal world, the moon rising at noon. And even greater evils lie to come.

Only evil can end evil!
"What!?" the chief appraiser exclaimed.

"No! Stop him!!" Lerich was shocked to see the protective barrier finally descend and the last artifact in imminent danger.
Fanning, however, had already walked up to the Egyptian cat goddess statue and imagined himself lifting a giant wooden hammer that did not exist and had no owner!
He strained to look up at the sky until the vast emptiness above his head came into view!
"I chased after the stars, and the stars abandoned me."

The image of the girl disappearing into the abyss of the glacier flashed through my mind.

"I adhere to morality, and morality devours me."

The angle of his head tilting back was so great, the tearing motion so painful, that the icy waters of the monastery's underground river poured into his mouth and nose, sealing off his last breath.

"I protect suffering, and suffering mocks me."

The countless tears of time and space directly pierced through this withered history. The moment the wooden hammer touched the artifact and caused it to deform, the entire Van der Schaaf Collection, along with its guests, was pulverized into nothingness!
"Keng!!!"

The tower has been restored!

The band, which had been completely silent, suddenly burst into a thunderous A minor chord!
The "Unclaimed Hammer" fell for the third time, causing a rupture never before seen by anyone in their lifetime. It was also the deepest crack, the most mysterious shattering, and the most inexplicable extinction of the "Gate of the Moon" in the long history! Not only did it completely shatter the "Gate of the Moon," but even the "Gate of Midnight" and the "Gate of Dawn" at higher altitudes began to be covered with cracks!
The remnant of the Source God, "The Old Days," is shattered!

"You! You all!" Koseli stared in horror at the pile of batons broken like bullets in the center of the six-pointed star!

Fanning, the instigator, and Mr. F, who was surprised on the other end, were thrown far away from the tower as if they were subjected to the reaction force of some giant object.

"puff--"

Both of them vomited blood in almost the same jet-like motion, leaving streaks of bright red blood in the sky!
The "formalistic" shell constructed in the final chapter received a completely negative and disastrous solution, or rather, after a grand development and exploration, it completely fell into an inescapable fate!