Behind the wall where "Moonlight Night on the Dnieper River" was hung, there was cloth wallpaper with blue and black elegant floral patterns. Fan Ning stretched out his hand and gently touched every part.
He suddenly touched an uneven spot.
Put your fingernails into it and shake it several times until a stone brick becomes loose.
With Fan Ning's force, the entire wall tile was pulled out, and he threw it to the ground with a "clang" sound, making the corridor resound with a hollow echo.
He didn't care so much, so he reached in and groped around on every side.
The lower brick of the movable wall brick was hollowed out to form a large groove.
But
Fan Ning felt nothing except the rough feeling from his fingertips.
empty?
Why is it empty?
If my father was indeed using some means to provide clues about the fragments of music and paintings to help him find this place, why was there nothing there?
Fragments of sound series
Fan Ning's mind reappeared in his mind, the yellowed and rough original papyrus that he had seen at the party at Teacher Anton's home.
Their size, and the approximate thickness of eleven stacked sheets
"Could it be that the hidden compartment behind the painting originally contained the fragments of the music series, and then someone took them away?" Fan Ning looked strange.
This is illogical. I can only take down this painting if I get the fragment and deduce the information.
Where is the key in the key cabinet?
No, strictly speaking, I did not pick up this painting based on the information in the fragment.
It's because of that dream
Fan Ning stood at the dark end of the corridor, his mind running rapidly.
"Suppose I didn't get the scraps, or didn't deduce the missing C sharp information."
"With that dream, I would still come to the end of this corridor when I was searching the art gallery."
"Then what will I do?"
"Of course I will take a look at the contents of these paintings. Then, the most special one among them is the one I saw in my previous life. I will still take it off!"
Under this logic, playing the fragments of the sound series in the secret compartment is not the nature of a "key-locked cabinet".
The fragment of the scroll is not the key, the dream given by the subconscious mind is the key. The fragment of the scroll is the item that one hopes to get!
After clarifying this relationship, Fan Ning made a hypothesis:
So, what is placed in the hidden grid is the sound sequence fragment?
It has been taken away? Just by chance, it got into the hands of Teacher Anton, and I still learned the information on it? Although for me standing here now, the result has not changed, but
If someone takes it away, it means that someone or a certain force has noticed you!
Fan Ning's thoughts drifted into the nihilistic darkness of the gallery, drifted down the stairs, drifted to the navigation hall on the first floor, drifted to the door that had been re-locked by himself, drifted to the courtyard, alleys and East Meckln outside.
The bustling streets of the district.
He feels that the situation that was slightly safe has now become dangerous again!
"Let's go to the other side of this floor first, and take a look at the former living area of our home." Fan Ning leaned "Moonlight Night on the Dnieper River" against the wall and picked up the lantern again.
Backtracked from several permanent exhibition halls, headed towards the short side of the "L", and opened the ajar wooden door in front of me. This was my father's former office.
The sound of the door opening was unusually loud in the silent environment.
This is a large room of more than fifty square meters. The floor is paved with Banton fine pottery produced in the south. A wooden storage grid divides the room into two parts. The outside is used as a reception room. There are three long dark-colored
Leather sofas are placed in a U shape, with silk cushions scattered on the floor.
Fan Ning walked to the window and tried to open it to no avail, only getting rusty residue on his hands.
"The anti-theft measures are a bit excessive, but that's right. My father still has a lot of paintings."
He walked straight into the office area in the inner space, and the lantern in his hand slowly swept across the desk.
There are two piles of paper documents scattered on the table. The light shines on them. The top is the "Ufranser Review" issued in early 910. The headline is about the government's legislation to promote the popularization of Horde sterilization in the dairy industry.
Legal reporting.
On the checkered wooden box in the corner of the table, there was a black telephone receiver turned upside down, with a black wire extending downward and broken on the ground.
In addition, there is still a medium-sized glass greenhouse box, which displays something similar to a fern, which is of course in a mutilated and dead shape - this seems to have become popular among the residents of Uvranser in the past ten years.
One of my strange hobbies.
Most of the drawers are empty, and the back of the office chair is also a storage compartment built into the wall, filled with miscellaneous items.
The search was fruitless, and Fan Ning returned to the external reception room.
"There are also paintings on both walls." He took off his shoes, stepped on the old leather sofa, and raised the lantern to look at it carefully.
In terms of content, there are landscapes, figures, and still lifes.
"Still Life with Flowers and Plaster", 70x90 cm, oil on canvas, signed Vincent Van Nin, 1896.
"Twilight on the Mountaintop and the Wall", 70x90 cm, oil on canvas, signed Vincent Van Nin, 1906.
"Laundress Drying Laundry", 70x90 cm, oil on canvas, signed Vincent Van Nin, 900.
"River of Silver Mirrors", 70x90 cm, oil on canvas, signed Vincent Van Nin, 1905.
Fan Ning reviewed its contents one by one, but found nothing special.
"If you don't have any ideas at this end, then think about it from the other end." Fan Ning decided to change his thinking.
If it is true that there is a secret code hidden in the audio fragments, then what form does it take?
"The missing C sharp is a dot-like morphological code that can help me make associations and lock in the relationship between certain special things and C sharp."
"And the other form is"
"The position in the sequence!" Fan Ning's eyes lit up, "Count the number of paintings!"
The total number of one, two and three paintings is twelve!
Within an octave, there are twelve note names!
From left to right on the piano, climbing up semitone by semitone, they are the white key C, the black key C sharp, the white key D, the black key E flat, the white key E, the white key F, the black key G flat, and the white key.
Key G, black key A flat, white key A, black key B flat, white key B, and finally back to white key C.
The position of C sharp on the black key is the second one!
Fan Ning returned to the second painting "Twilight and Wall on the Mountain Top", brought the lantern closer and examined it carefully.
This is a scenery. The ground on the top of the mountain is covered with withered grass. The afterglow of the setting sun hits a section of white wall, creating a strange light effect. In the distance are the more distant blue mountains.
"It's a normal original work, isn't it just another trick with a hidden grid behind the painting?" Fan Ning was a little confused.
He stepped on the back of the sofa, moved "Twilight and Wall on the Mountain Top" down, then stood on tiptoes and reached out to caress it carefully.
There is nothing on the wall covered with gold patterned wallpaper except the snap rails and buckles of the picture frame.
"The content of "Twilight and Wall on the Mountain Top" can be summarized as the sunset scenery."
"Position 2, it's sunset now"
"And the original No. 2 position was C sharp, "Moonlight Sonata", Moonlight?"
Sunset and moonrise?
Fan Ning had an idea and remembered the painting at the end of the corridor, "Moonlight Night on the Dnieper River"!
The dimensions and specifications of both are also the same!
He jumped off the sofa, put on his shoes, took the lantern, and walked quickly to the permanent exhibition hall, completely ignoring the bumps and bumps in the dark twists and turns - if he hadn't been worried that the tallow candle in the lantern would fall over, he might have had to run.
It took a lot of time to move the painting to the office, because I couldn't spare a portable lamp, so I had to move it a little bit for lighting.
Finally, out of breath, he hung "Moonlight on the Dnieper River" in the place where "Twilight on the Mountain Top and the Wall" originally stood.
"How come?" Fan Ning's muttering was not over yet when he was suddenly interrupted by a continuous, dull rumbling sound!