Hearing Fan Ning's words, Vasius and others gathered around the window.
Sure enough, the houses and lights on the ground, as well as the fences and vegetation outside the city, were obviously farther and higher from everyone's gaze.
Could it be that this is an elevator? Fan Ning wondered. From this point of view, the entire floor has indeed "risen".
"Miss Sheeran, you have deduced the secret, haven't you?" Vasius suddenly appeared behind her quietly.
"Don't move." The baton in Fan Ning's hand immediately touched the spiritual connection he had established with several people on his side.
Just like at the end of the graduation concert, he summoned Joan's light of first acquaintance to separate the branches and leaves from the light curtain. At this moment, Roy's light of first acquaintance was also invoked by himself. He stretched out his hand, and the space folded and shrank, a few meters away.
Xilan immediately pulled him to his side.
Using the mystery of the "key" related to command, and under the influence of the mysterious medium of "the old days", he can almost completely restore the effect of the light of first acquaintance that is lower than his own, but he only needs others to actively establish contact and consumes his own inspiration.
double.
A "Guide to the Fierce Sun" slipped into Fan Ning's palm, and Qiong and Roy's bodies suddenly tensed up.
The atmosphere suddenly became tense.
"Why are you so nervous? It's as if I'm going to do something to you or prevent you from leaving this place." Wasius' laughter suddenly sounded behind Fan Ning's ears.
Vasius, who was in the previous position, separated his entire figure into several black and white threads visible to the naked eye, and floated back to the position next to Fan Ning.
Seeing him standing beside her calmly again, Fan Ning was secretly shocked.
...Concrete inspiration? A high-ranking knowledgeable person? The estimate of the sixth level of intelligence is too conservative. It can't be teleportation, and it doesn't look like a substitute. It seems that his own flow speed suddenly increased for a few seconds. The light of first acquaintance?
Or is it the resonance of spirituality and a certain ritual vessel?
The true situation of the invisible power of strangers and knowledgeable people is too difficult to analyze, and what you see is always the appearance.
Vasius twirled his pocket watch with his fingers, "Miss Roy, right? Say hello to President McAdam for me..."
"Since you know me, it's best for us to maintain a friendly cooperative relationship." Roy's voice was polite and cold.
"Who doesn't know his beloved daughter, who is famous for having the most bizarre methods of dealing with enemies in the Tioline Empire?" Vasius adjusted his top hat, "Don't worry, Uvranse like me
Your little guy doesn't dare to do anything to Miss Roy. Even if he misfolds time and space here, I'm worried that McAdam will figure out what he did to you... Of course, your current meager invisible power doesn't matter.
You're wasting your efforts on me. Before taking action, you'd better think about what this means for your identity..."
He paced back and forth a few steps under Roy's cold eyes: "Interesting combination, two members of the Bologna School, two members of the Guidance School, and this inexplicable violator... But relax, infer that the secret is something
A good thing, isn't it? After all, I'm here to do things, not to die."
...to do something? It seems that this investigator has other purposes than his own request for relief?
"If you want to lead the team yourself, then do it yourself." Fan Ning released his hold on Xilan's hand and patted her wrinkled clothes, "Your Special Patrol Office is going to lead the investigation, and no one will stop you from taking the lead.
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"Utilizing the wisdom of everyone is leadership." Vasius didn't care about what Fan Ning said, "You go on, let me see the research results of your phonetic fragments."
Fragments of the music series? Fan Ning was at a loss. When he read the information obtained from the black market, he had noticed that the investigator "has a public identity as an art critic, has a profound appreciation of music, and is very knowledgeable about unpopular composers."
The work is also very familiar."
Among its own series of secrets, starting from the Turner Museum of Art, including the identity of the father, the key to the museum, the mysterious Qiming Church of Migration, and the "old days" baton, the sound series fragments are at the hub of information. After learning about this strange town
When Zhong Qiong's memory location was also an art museum, he had vaguely guessed whether it might be related to the sound series fragments.
"Contemplation of Death" and "Flow"? Twin Relationship?
"Desolation" and "Cocoon"? "Hidden Lamp" and "Fountain in Painting"?
If what Vasius suspected was the fragment of the sound series, and his motive today was to find out if he could figure out the code contained in it, out of necessity.
That's not a question of whether he lets his side leave, but conversely, Fan Ning can't let him return to the Special Patrol Office with this information!
"I think you were too surprised." After all these thoughts flashed through, Fan Ning shrugged and said nonchalantly, "It's just a coincidence, isn't it obvious? First, Miss Nehemiah pulled the yellow light ring.
Then I randomly tried a round of purple pull tabs, and after the trial, they were all adjusted back to normal. Then Miss Sheeran wanted to see what would happen if the light bulb flashed brightly and darkly. Who knew something would happen? Tell me this.
What the hell kind of password is this?”
"I listened to your radio station, and it was indeed good." Vasius seemed to change the topic, "I'm curious whether you only filled in the beginning, or whether you filled it in from beginning to end."
In the dark corridor, Fan Ning stared at him for a few seconds, and then chuckled: "There are ready-made wonderful harmony materials, why not try to quote them from beginning to end?"
He finally knew what Vasius meant when he said inexplicably "You borrowed No. 9".
The ninth piece of the tone sequence fragment, the skeleton of the four-part harmony, hints that it is Mendelssohn's "Violin Concerto in E minor"!
Unexpectedly, this investigator was so familiar with the chords of the 11 note series fragments that after hearing the beginning of just one piece of music on the radio, he could immediately identify that it was the same as the previous chord trend of one of the pieces.
Consistent.
The Special Inspection Office was far more "interested" in him than he had expected. However, this was harmless. "I and Professor Anton had spent sleep and food studying the fragments of the phonetic series." They knew this fact very well and took advantage of it.
It is a reasonable attempt to compose music using the chord arrangement.
But this was not a good sign. Fan Ning's desire to keep Vasius here forever became stronger and stronger.
He issued exhibition number plate No. 2 to Vasius based on a certain conjecture and pretended to issue it casually.
But there are many things that he hasn't fully figured out yet.
“It’s not easy to quote the entirety of No. 9.” Vasius praised, “Although it is a ready-made harmonious trend, it means a very low degree of freedom, and it is completely dancing with heavy shackles. From your amazing words at the beginning
Judging from the experience, this is simply a feat.”
The atmosphere was tense just now, but in the blink of an eye this person was talking to me about music again?
Fan Ning responded calmly: "It may not be a feat, but to be honest, my teacher and I have been studying the fragments of the phonetic series for almost a year, and we have always come up with some academic results or decent works of art. This is more reliable than the so-called cipher, you say.
Right?" There was a hint of teasing in his tone when he said this, "Pragmatism is always more valuable than conspiracy theories."
"Sometimes, the purpose of conspiracy theories is pragmatism." Vasius' face twitched again, "... Speaking of which, the 'discussion group' is currently preparing the 913 'Boethius Artist' nomination list, special tour
What I want to do is to consider using the music fragments as test questions. After arriving in the imperial capital, how about I recommend you to continue to develop your talents?"
... Discussion group? Fan Ning heard another word that he didn't understand clearly.
"I'll tell you when I get out." The girl's soft words and faint fragrance came from behind him, and Roy unknowingly changed his title to Fan Ning.
Fan Ning was just about to continue a friendly exchange with Vasius when suddenly, the light came on.
Bright red and green lights lit up in various areas, making everyone's eyes dizzy again after finally calming down.
The arrangement of each corridor is different from before. Although the colors are still the same, the designated areas are also different.
There was no time to think about the meaning of Vasius's next words. Fan Ning closed his eyes and shook his head in discomfort. When he opened them again, he showed a thoughtful expression.
"It seems that it is not rising, but that everyone was simply and rudely taken to the third floor?" Roy said.
"According to the previous sign, it should be 2F." Fan Ning said.
At present, it is easy to see that whether you can go upstairs is related to the light status of seven colors.
"Is this the order?" Qiong followed the previous steps and walked towards the yellow light area in the distance. First, she pulled the ring three times, then pressed the original medium-intensity light to strong, weak, and medium again in turn, and then found the purple one again.
The "key" phase area, and then darken the "derivative" phase area.
After waiting quietly for more than ten seconds, nothing happened. Fan Ning shook his head and said: "No, I don't think it is such a so-called 'operation' sequence, because it is too disordered. Why do the yellow and purple light intensity cycle through each other?"
, and then the light and dark flash lights were adjusted to weak? We did it completely randomly."
"If we tried dozens or hundreds of methods and finally guessed the order of operations correctly, I think it was a small probability event, but we were able to get it right in one go? Maybe we are so lucky? From a probability perspective
, I would rather believe that its mechanism is not that complicated at all - it has nothing to do with the order of operations, only the final state!"
"The final state?" Xilan tried to understand: "It means that as long as the six lights remain as normal and the 'Evolution' phase lights are dimmed, you can go up from F1 to the F2 floor?"
"That's what it means." Fan Ning nodded, "This is a more concise form."
Why is this? In his mind, he is also trying to grasp the connection between Mr. F’s weird regulations about the art museum and various clues.
You must come out before dawn. This may be related to the bad luck of new entrants who contract hidden diseases after dawn in the town and find it difficult to leave.
It is forbidden to jump off the building. Perhaps it is to prevent the audience from trying to find a way out when there is "no way out".
It is prohibited to carry lights. Perhaps this is because climbing between floors relies on lights to prevent interference.
The above three points are easy to understand now, but the ban on bringing animals is a bit confusing to Fan Ning.
Also, the number of visitors to the exhibition must be 12 each time, and tickets numbered 1-12 will be issued, and one person will disappear as a "ticket"?
There were originally 12 people, but after they disappeared, there were 11 people. This was an important reason why Fan Ning had previously thought of the fragments of the sound series.
Could it be that the reason why we were able to come up from 1F just now is because the state of "the six lights are as usual, and the phase lights are dimmed" meets certain requirements of Sound Series Fragment No. 1?
"A very credible hypothesis." Vasius, who heard the previous conversation between the two, gave a thumbs up, as if he had seen through Fan Ning's mind, "Then think about it carefully, what is the password for the second volume of the Yin series?
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Fan Ning raised his head from his contemplation and looked at Vasius.
He knew very clearly what Vasius had in mind.
It was impossible for me to be wary of trying to crack the code just because he was looking around - this guy didn't seem to be in a hurry, and he could walk alone through the wilderness without evaporating. He must have some kind of confidence, and maybe it was him.
The pocket watch that I often play with in my hand.
Dilly-dallying will do Fanning no good.
Not only was he surrounded by his companions, but there were about 80 other group members on the train who were waiting anxiously.
The Special Investigation Department investigator was sure of this, so he waited for Fan Ning to continue to show the secrets he knew for confirmation.
Fan Ning began to pace on the F2 floor and think.
The anxiety in his heart is also growing, mainly because there is not much time left for himself.
The correspondence between the time here and the outside world is confusing, wrong or disproportionate, but if the internal relative elapsed speed is similar, according to the feeling, it is probably already past four in the morning. According to the estimation of dawn at six o'clock, it is only more than an hour.
"Xilan, go ahead and turn the 'Evolution' lightbulb back to medium intensity. Recover first and then think again."
"Okay." Sheeran responded and walked towards the back.
Fan Ning looked out the window at the dark night and became lost in thought.
Previously, I was able to decipher the code behind the audio fragments at the Turner Museum of Art, and I did so through tonality.
The 11 tone sequence fragments are reminders of the harmonic skeleton of eleven musical works in the past. These eleven works have different tones, but all of them are in the initial key of C major/a with no sharpening or flattening.
recorded in a minor key, thus erasing their differences.
If it's tonal...
The 1F floor just now corresponds to the first fragment, Beethoven's "Tempest Sonata" in D minor.
So why is it the state of "the six lights are as usual, and the phase lights are dimmed"?
Tonality and Phase?…What does it have to do with anything?…
In just a few seconds, a large amount of information flowed in Fan Ning's mind. At this moment, there was a "bang", all the lights went out again, and the whole high-rise building shook violently again.
Although it was already the second time, the sudden change still caused everyone to fall and roll on the ground.
"Sheeran, what did you just do?" Joan's voice came from the darkness.
"I...Caron asked me to restore the 'Evolution' photo bulb?...I just did it." The little girl was a little confused.
Everyone groped around in the dark for a while, and once again came to a window with a faint light.
Sure enough, the field of view became a little higher. After a while, the seven-color dazzling lights came on as usual, and the layout and direction of the corridor changed again.
Although it seemed that they had gone up to the 3F smoothly, Qiong sighed: "Now I have done nothing but gone up to the first floor. Damn it. I guess we thought too much before and didn't find the right direction. This damn place is completely messed up."
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Fan Ning slowly shook his head. After standing there for a minute, his eyes gradually focused.
"I seem to understand..."
He quickly walked through the various corridors on the 3F floor, and finally came to the silver-white lighting area that symbolized the "barren" phase.
Reach out and hold the pull ring and gently pull it down.
Just for a moment, the corridor first lit up like mercury flowing, then the lights went out and the building swayed.
After a few breaths, everyone arrived at the 4F floor!