musicians of old

Chapter 904 Escape!

"run!!"

The filthy scene before him caused Fan Ning's expression to change drastically!
The unusual premonition I had when I first entered Leipzig Cathedral, including the various doubts I had when I talked with Bach, were all due to my subconscious!

There's no such thing as Bach!
Even the "Unfailing Flame" has fallen!
In the depths of this virtual world, there may be all the artists who can still preserve their uniqueness, but Bach is the only one who cannot exist!
Moreover, Fanning then realized that her "Night Travelogue" had silently ended and disappeared for quite some time.

Without time to think further, he could only almost instantly drain more than half of his divinity and pour it into the "Night Watchman's Lamp." At the same time, the "Unending Secret" began to operate wildly!
The "divine theme" flowing throughout the church resonated with the notes of return.

"Om!—"

A resolved cadence burst forth from within the church.

The fifth level of the Sequence, with more than half of its divinity consumed, almost forced the timing of the chord's performance to coincide with the time of the horrific event of "Bach cracking open"!
A "Gateway of Light," composed of countless rotating musical scores, leaping notes, and interwoven rhythmic lines, forcefully tore open the void before Fanning!
But it was still too rushed and too short.

Fanning only "teleported" a short distance, moving from the altar of the church to the middle of the red carpet below.

He stumbled and regained his footing.

The "starlight rain" is no longer happening.

The moment Fanning took her first breath on the red carpet, a cascade of colorful things began to fall from the cracks in the dome above.

I don't know how many wriggling trematodes have fallen into my neck!
These may all be secondary; the key is that fake "Bach." Fanning feels that it has also caught up with the "Gateway of Light" that she tore open, and will appear on the red carpet behind her in the next moment!

run!
We must get out of the virtual world as soon as possible!
Fanning rushed toward the church door without looking back.

The process seemed to go fairly smoothly.

After cutting out from the Leipzig Cathedral, which represents the Baroque era and earlier, it seems as if we have descended to a deeper level and returned to the elegant courtly halls of the "Gap in Time".

But the brightness was alarming, unlike anything before.

Fanning had almost guessed what was happening "outside".

Moreover, along his escape route, he encountered the ghosts of several sculptors chiseling stone statues, Mozart writing his Requiem at a rapid pace, Haydn pacing around the columns with his hands behind his back, and looking up to check the sky.

Before he could even wonder why the "starlight" that had been collected inside the lamp could be seen from the outside, Fanning continued his frantic escape, leaving afterimages in his wake!

In the "Land of Echoes," Schubert's broken band of light still swirls deep within, Tchaikovsky still stands blankly on the ice, and beyond the empty stone doors of the Bayreuth Theatre, Wagner's ghost on stage still commands the void.

strangeness.

But you can only run!
Going out would definitely bring more trouble, but staying in the virtual world and being chased like this would be a certain death!
Fanning abruptly turned and continued to ascend.

"The Sea of ​​Sound and Remains," he stumbled into a colorful, particle-filled fog, Debussy's swamp of impressions.

Continue along the path leading to the waterfall's abyss.

The "saline wasteland" of modernity.
They were almost out. However, the next second, a tremendous sense of absurdity and chill gripped Fanning.

"what happened!?"

As the scenes shift, we return to the elegant hall of "Time Gap".

The "Mozart" who was writing at his desk by the window suddenly looked up and gave himself a sinister smile.

Haydn, who was carefully inspecting the structure around the pillars, suddenly coiled himself around one of them, stretching his body four or five times.

Fan Ning's expression changed drastically as he sensed the thing getting closer and closer behind him, and he fled again!
"The Sea of ​​Sounds and Remains," Wagner's Bayreuth Theatre, where the temple's megaliths are covered with countless snails.
cycle!

The virtual world was distorted into a closed loop!
Fan Ning didn’t even need to look back to realize that “Bach,” hollowed out by the double-disc parasite, had been chasing him for less than a breath’s time difference!
In the end, he "punctured" the biggest source of pollution in the virtual world. Of course, this may also be a good thing that the Divine Descent Society did in advance, or it may be directly related to the external changes. Its absolutely distorted and rigid knowledge spread wildly in all directions like ink dripping into clear water!
We must find an exit to the outside world immediately!

Fanning, refusing to believe it, turned again and charged in another direction. The scenery flashed by: a wasteland of ashes, the fragmented bands of Schumann's fracture, fragments of a storm of memories. Then, he found himself standing once more in the center of Wagner's empty, colossal stone temple theater, where a ghost on stage was clutching a handful of snail corpses and laughing maniacally.
The third and fourth time, the virtual world became a self-referential, infinitely looping labyrinth.

No matter which direction Fanning chooses or how fast he goes, he is just going around in circles at the "spots" where he once collected starlight, and the details inside are becoming more and more filthy and distorted!

The fifth time, the scene returned to "Leipzig Cathedral".

Anxiety, like a poisonous vine, coils around the heart.

Calm down! You must calm down!
On the one hand, Fanning couldn't stop, and on the other hand, he told himself that he had to immediately change this headless, fly-like way of rushing around.

Where is the way out?
The rules of the virtual realm have been eroded and rewritten, and the spatial principles of the upper and lower structures have become invalid.

Common sense fails
A revelation finally popped into my head.
When do sounds and music need to follow the norms of space?

A piece of work, from its first measure to its last, constitutes a linear, irreversible path! It is a road in itself!

Previously, it was an orchestral piece for nightfall, two "Nighttime Ramblings," and an interlude describing ghosts and using readily available materials. Now, what is needed is a breakthrough and a conclusion, a noisy, unrestrained, and savagely destructive fifth movement!

"Thump—thump-thump—thump—thump—thump—!!!!"

The timpani solo suddenly pounded wildly!
Fan Ning activated the "Secret of Endless Struggle," practically tearing the opening section of the final chapter out of thin air!

"Click——"

Several fine black cracks suddenly appeared in the otherwise abnormally bright virtual space.

This is a theme composed of frantic drumming, which maintains an upward momentum in the first 6 bars, gradually building up energy, and then transforms into a winding, descending melodic line of strings, gradually deviating from the main key of the entire symphony in E minor, leading to the true, completely different key of the finale!
The key is C major, with unusually bright and highly saturated colors! It perfectly matches the eerie brightness and distorted, mysterious atmosphere of the current environment!
"Crash!!"

On one of the white walls of Leipzig Cathedral, a gilded relief is broken into pieces.

This is a path that Fanning has carved out entirely with the logic of music.

He dashed inside!