The third movement: Forest animals tell me (8): Apostle (2-in-1)
The moon in the night sky in the rainforest emits a white mist, and the scars on the tree trunks and branches are marked with gradient layers of thick black or silver gray, and then gradually ripple into layers of mottled light and shadow. Learn
The chirping of birds was still lingering high above the head, and Fan Ning walked a little faster again.
The reason why he had this inspiration just now was because he suddenly realized that the principle of retrospecting the mystical ritual seemed to have something in common with "purifying the required sound from the sounds of millions of birds."
As early as in the concert hall of the University of San Lenia, Fanning witnessed Joan performing such secret rituals.
First of all, tracing back and gaining insight into the lost and silent things of the past must be dominated by "barrenness". However, when looking back at what happened in a specific place, the revelation must be that countless groups of people have come and gone in the long history, flowers and flowers have come and gone. The pictures of flowers and flowers are mixed together, just like the chaotic sounds of birdsong
At this time, you need a "key" to provide the power of dismantling and selectively peel out the target things you want to see. You also need some fuel for inspiration and some support for adapting to things in a chaotic state.
Therefore, when building an altar and filling in phases for this type of retroactive ritual, it often requires a strong "Desolation" first, and then a certain "Key" and a small amount of "Candle" or "Yan".
——This is exactly the field that Qiong is good at. She is currently the knower of the "key", while the "Miss Purple Bean Cake" before the transfer was half the orderer of the "wild". This can also be explained. Why did she have the talent to study and execute the secret ritual of the Lord of Witness "Winter Wind" before she regained her memory? Study
Fan Ning felt that many things that confused him were about to be revealed.
The group of people walked in the Ortos rainforest for another half hour. The branches of oak trees and shrubs were obviously lower and sparse, and at this time Fan Ning saw some traces of man-made constructions.
For example, there are cement or stone roads lying in the soil, fruit shells and fallen leaves, and there are also some collapsed roof beams, skewed roof ridges, small houses similar to convenience stores or inns, or abandoned steel frames leaning over. , and gas light poles covered with moss and cobwebs.
The "erosion" or "reduction" ability of natural things is undoubtedly powerful.
No matter how thorough the previous industrial transformation here was, as soon as the human habitation dispersed for a few years to decades, they would begin to grow among the reinforced concrete, and if time went on a little longer, they would return to their original appearance. It can only be proved from the details that someone has been active.
"Um, Mr. Musician..." the hunter leader finally hesitated to speak. The two guys with their hands cut off had walked all the way in silence and dripping blood. "If we walk straight in this direction for at least 10 minutes, we should be able to do it." I saw the ruined building of St. Arternes Hospital from a distance, would you like to take a look at it...will you help us stop the bleeding first?"
He smiled coquettishly and raised his palms covered with bright red bandages.
"Okay." Fan Ning did not deliberately embarrass these people.
After another seven or eight minutes of silence, the rain forest became relatively sparse again, but the sound of birds became more dense.
Fan Ning could already see an old three-row building in the distance, probably about four stories high, far less tall than those too old towering trees. Its blue-purple outline was vaguely painted in the faint night air.
"Ding, ding, dong~~"
Without saying anything more, he placed his fingers on the guitar fretboard and clicked the strings, playing several ethereal overtones on the G string. The ripples of the "cocoon" peeled off the last trace of purple-red attached to the wounds on the palms of the two people in front.
As long as you find the hospital, it will be a bit intrusive if these people follow you inside.
The three figures passed by the hunters and continued to move forward. Learn
Logically speaking, the two leaders were granted amnesty, but this time they did not immediately signal everyone to evacuate, or even thanked them profusely, and just stayed where they were.
There were even quite a few people looking at the building at the end of their field of vision, as if they were thinking about something in their eyes.
Of course, Fan Ning had no interest in them. He and his two students fell behind the hunters in an instant.
"Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp..." "Chirp, chirp, chirp..." Thousands of birdsong are still circling high in the sky.
As you get closer, you will see a broken road that should have been straight and wide, but is now overgrown with bushes.
Going further, you can see that there are demarcation facilities like courtyards or metal fences around the hospital, but now they are so rotten that there is no complete area. At first glance, they look like vine walls floating in the air.
The integrity of the building is better than imagined. At least there is no collapse of the main structure. The glass of the windows has been completely shattered, leaving rectangular black holes. There are some damages to the walls, corners and ceilings. The bruised trees stubbornly escape from these. Peek out from the gap. Learn
These unlucky seeds survived strong, but they lived weak, deformed and dying.
"Are you a little scared?" Fan Ning walked towards the overgrown steps of the main entrance.
Luna held Ann's arm, but quickly shook her head.
"I didn't expect the place to collect winds to be so desolate and scary, but I still want to travel with you if I have the chance. It's much more dangerous here than Tia, but it's definitely safe to stay with the teacher." Miss Nightingale stayed close to her, but answered truthfully. .
"That's half right. In fact, it might be more dangerous for you to stay in Tiya, so I asked you to follow me." Fan Ning, who was holding the guitar, smiled and stepped across the decayed and mushroom-covered threshold.
In fact, there should have been a double hospital door here, but it has rotted into a meaningless background, including the vaguely identifiable seal-like things on the edge.
"If your heart beats too fast, you can try standing a little in front of me to clear the way. In fact, the subconscious insecurity mostly comes from behind." Xue Xue.
Although the two girls had only a partial understanding of the teacher's previous words, they did feel a great sense of security after following the subsequent suggestions.
The lingering sound of footsteps lingered in the hospital hall. The walls were all painted a rich blue-purple. There were no signs on the doors. The windows outside the room were all broken, and the windows in the corridor inside were wrapped with muddy yellow tape.
Fan Ning felt that his inspiration was getting higher, slight gaps began to appear in his thinking, the uneasiness in the air still refused to leave, and the sad cry when the light was extinguished for the last time still rippled in the darkness.
A few people often see manhole covers on the ground. Although they are not dense, they have seen several of them along the way. There seems to be extremely low crying sounds under the gaps, but after careful identification, they are just pouring from the rain forest into the broken window. wind of.
The three of them went directly to the top floor from the corner stairs, intending to investigate from top to bottom. Fan Ning's investigation was meticulous and did not miss any room or corner.
There are far more archives and facilities here than Fan Ning imagined.
The hospital may have been hastily sealed after an investigation. It did not go through an "evacuation" process, nor was it deliberately burned down like the former residence of Vienne. The degree of damage to its objects was only due to the natural environment for more than 30 years. Erosion level.
After comparing the dates of a large amount of data in nearly thirty rooms, Fan Ning found that the "cut off" point of the date line was approximately between October and December of 875 - a date that has been narrowed down a lot. estimate.
In other words, the time when the door was sealed by the church was probably after Vienne realized the "Awakening Chant" that year, and then 2 to 4 months later. Of course, Vienne's actual The discharge time should be a little earlier than "Awakening Song", and the time when Master Tone made the decision to move back to his former residence was earlier.
Fan Ning thought and searched in this way until he came to a wider two-door room at the end of the corridor.
Something strange appeared in the collar with the sleeves turned up again, and Qiong finally had another reminder.
He didn't stop and was just about to raise his arm to take a look——
"boom!!!!!"
A hammer-like pain hit the brain, followed by a disturbing whisper in the ear, and waves of vomiting surged up from Fan Ning's stomach! Learn
In a daze, I only had time to carry the guitar behind me.
"Carron!" "Mr. Fanning?"
He seemed to hear two familiar shouts. Someone on both sides in front of him turned around and stretched out his arms towards him.
"Thump, thump, thump!!!"
His heart was beating violently, and he instinctively closed his eyes in discomfort. He stumbled forward a few times, supported the shoulders of the taller man, and waited for tens of seconds before trying to open them again.
It was Luna and Ann who supported themselves.
"Teacher!?"
"Teacher, are you okay?"
Fan Ning pursed her lips and shook her head slightly.
He raised his hand and barely glanced at the words that Joan had left on his sleeve when he just entered:
"You can try to set up a retrospective secret ritual here."
After reading this time, he smoothed it out quickly and replaced it with other words:
"Maybe it doesn't have to be so troublesome?"
"You feel it first."
"strangeness."
In just a few seconds, Fan Ning's discomfort began to overwhelm him again. He could only close his eyes again, and most of his weight was on the two students.
"Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp..." "Cuckoo, cuckoo..." The whole world is still full of birdsong.
But with her eyes closed, Fan Ning mentally "saw" that the four walls began to move slightly.
Things such as the moonlight on a clear night and the tree trunks in the rain forest outside the window suddenly became dim and thin.
There are things on the walls, there are things outside the windows, and there seems to be some "holographic" scene around me.
Fan Ning couldn't figure out why he had auditory hallucinations of Sheeran and Roy's voices just now, but he knew that the most important thing now was to understand the revelation. Unfortunately, these things could not be seen clearly. The shape of the picture was unstable, the colors were distorted, and the layers were mixed. I can't tell the difference even though I try my best to learn.
"Wow--"
It seemed that a bunch of Joan's spiritual tentacles had pierced the surface of the world, pushing something in and smashing it into pieces.
A large cloud of cool mist exploded, revealing the pure white essence of "Desolate" Xiangyao.
Then came the deep purple esoteric runes, which were quickly outlined at his feet.
Finally, Fan Ning roughly "saw" something clearly from the slightly stable colors and shapes——
With black masts and pale gold sails, the silhouette of a steamy ship sails on the ocean...
The behemoth was moored at the port. A middle-aged priest wearing dark sunglasses and a calm and resolute face lit the boarding bridge with his cane. Behind him were several people carrying briefcases or suitcases... Learn
The priest sat on a stone bench in front of a blue-purple building and smoked again...
"Is this...Vien?"
These sudden revelations allowed Fan Ning to learn that after crossing the ocean, the old organist landed in a port city north of the Paradogos Islands, took his family and assistants all the way south, and arrived at Vasius's parents. The address he told him was St. Aciones Hospital on the border with Tia's jurisdiction. Then he showed his token to identify himself, and he stayed there ever since.
As Fan Ning's mind turned around, the broken and upside-down pictures came into his mind along with some sentences. It was difficult to tell whether he had read the handwriting on the paper, heard some narration, or an inner monologue——
"It's this dream again."
In the picture, a teenage boy opens his eyes from a warm home, but his eyes are pale and turbid: "I can't distinguish anything in the dream, because I can't see the form of everything in the world when I'm awake. Projection and contrast? But I remember the sounds, textures, emotions and light and shadow there. It was clean, quiet and solemn, and it had the same pale golden light and shadow as the sun..."
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"It's this dream again..."
In the picture, a young gentleman in his twenties opened his eyes from a nap in front of the church workbench: "I can see a lot more clearly. The cataract surgery recommended by Master Tarakani not only allowed me to see things when I was awake, but also allowed me to I know this dream, and I know a very small part of it - a church, an empty auditorium, the vast distance and high sky, the pale golden mist..."
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"It's this dream again, maybe."
In the picture, a middle-aged priest sat up from the bed on a bumpy ship: "I can't understand why glaucoma immediately made my dreams become turbid when it deprived me of my vision again. I really can't understand, press Normally speaking, as long as I have a visual memory of the world, I will never be blind in my dreams again. But the treatment is about to be implemented, and the trouble will be solved in my lifetime, for sure."
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The scene gradually becomes thinner, and the middle-aged priest sits up in the moonlight in front of the window of the hospital sanatorium, with several bandages on his head.
"It's this dream again! Things are finally becoming clearer. This is my mission and instructions for those who come after me. If I can understand the "D minor theme"...it will lead me to the tower, no matter what It will tell me what to do, whether in life or in death... Immediately, I will know more about the glow, which is a precursor to me reaching the real key..."
"Inspiration increased greatly, the light of first acquaintance illuminated me, and the glory of the "unfallen fire" illuminated me."
"In two years, my inspiration has reached a new level. I have successfully brought out a strange object in my dream. I am not sure of its use yet. It is just handy, but it is enough. Its most important meaning is to prove it to myself. Everything is true."
"Weien has been dreaming about the Enlightenment Church since he was a child?"
"Why? Why can he enter the Qiming Church before he is promoted to a knowledgeable person, without even needing a road sign?"
"Is this what he was sent to do? Is it an instruction for those who come after him?"
"Is Vaien also an apostle? Which organization is he and the apostle of which Lord of Witnesses?"
Confusing thoughts emerged in Fan Ning's mind.
At this moment, he "heard" or "saw" a familiar name:
""Endless Fugue", which Lord of Witness is this? All I know is that He must have a certain fate with our Holy Sun Church. I can't see clearly the details of the Witness Talisman. It may take some time. Mental recovery..."