musicians of old

Chapter 13 "Dream Boy" Incident

The continuous rumble seemed to come from the office area inside the room.

Fanning hurried back to his desk.

Where the light shines, I can only see the storage compartment behind the office chair, with one side as the fixed center, and the other side is slowly rotating inward!

In the dim light, Fan Ning couldn't see clearly what kind of mechanism it was even close, let alone how it was arranged.

The roar lasted for about half a minute, until the rotation of the storage compartment swept out a small fan-shaped area.

In the direction of the arc of the fan-shaped area, Fanning found a smaller shelf hidden in the dark.

There are not many grids, about four or five rows, four or five columns, more than twenty grids, most of which are also empty.

But Fanning clearly saw a large folder on a shelf.

And a small brass box found after a little searching.

Fanning carried them to the desk, then looked at the folder first.

The thickness is more than ten centimeters, and it is made of a material similar to black plastic. It feels very close to the folders that were common in previous lives.

Opening it easily, Fanning took out the first stack of papers, which were held together with paper clips.

The paper is old and yellowed, the strange young man in the upper right corner is wearing a bowler hat and tie, smiling, and the rest of the place is filled with text in the form.

file?

The name was an unfamiliar name, but then he saw the line that recorded the year of birth: 864 in the new calendar,
The age is old, the name is wrong, and the appearance is strange, but the year of birth is consistent, and this is my father's office
It's easy to go on and on and assume this is Vincent van Ning.

Father's previous work files?
The bottom half of the paper is a large table with multiple lines of text written in it.

work experience?

"881: ...!!!" Fanning was dumbfounded when he read the first paragraph of work history.

He couldn't believe his eyes and read it again.

October 881: Joined the special incident inspection and investigation office, and was assigned to the imperial capital Santaram Fort, Tulip parish inspection fourth (probationary period).

Special Incident Inspection Office?
Father used to be a member of the Special Patrol Office?
In the memory of the original owner, his father has been a folk artist since he can remember.

Due to the abnormality of the key, Fanning has been speculating whether his father has any other identity today.

But he really missed the answer.

He read on.

April 882: Official member of the Inspection and Investigation Office for Special Events, Fort Santaram, the capital of the empire, and the Fourth Inspection Office of Tulip Parish
June 884: Deputy Director of the Fourth Inspection Office of the Tulip Parish in Fort Santaram, the imperial capital

December 885: Fort Santa Ramos, the capital of the empire, head of the fourth inspectorate of the parish of Tulip
April 889: Deputy Head of Investigation Team of Abnormal Area B-4

The work experience ends here.

"What is the abnormal zone?" Fanning wondered.

He suddenly recalled a little doubt about the situation in the world in the memory of the original owner.

The appearance of the world map is composed of the ocean and the land in the approximate "reverse C shape".

On the top is the Tioleian Empire in the northern continent; on the right are the Holy Kingdom of Janus and the Kingdom of Lydia in the western continent; below is the United Principality of Phaedon in the southern continent.

It's nothing.

But Fan Ning was puzzled at the time. First, the world was a bit small, and the area felt less than one-third of the earth.

Second, shouldn’t the world also be spherical?From my own observations in the past few days, the sun rises and the moon sets, and the four seasons alternate. There is no difference. Why is the general world map not a rectangular or spherical expansion?But surrounded by irregular closed curves?

Looking at it now, it has something to do with this "abnormal zone".

Literally understood, some areas in this world are now in a state of disorder and out of control?These places are off-limits to people, so they don't show up on the world map?

And judging from the numbers, there is more than one abnormal area.

"Father entered a certain abnormal area in 889 of the new calendar to investigate. It sounds mysterious and dangerous, but the result is that he didn't die, and he lived well afterwards, otherwise I wouldn't be there." Fan Ning thought to himself.

I was born in 890 in the new calendar, which happens to be the next year.

Although I don’t have any memories of being too young, I have at least a vague memory after I was three or four years old. My father has always been a folk artist in Uvransel.

"Why is the face in my father's photo so unfamiliar to me..." Fanning looked back at the smiling face of the young man in the file.

"It stands to reason that even if it's a photo of my father's youth, as the person I know the most, I should be able to vaguely recognize some features..."

"Is it because it's too long ago, when camera technology just appeared? Or is it too dark here?"

The easiest reason to explain the discrepancy between name and appearance is...

"After my father came out of the abnormal area, due to some concerns, he changed his appearance and changed his identity to live in the new city? Is it the real face in the photo, or is it the real face when we get along with me on weekdays?..."

Fan Ning felt a deep worry. If this is the case, and the fragments of the sound column were taken away before, it means that the forces behind it have already found out here.

The members of the Special Patrol Agency and the leader of the abnormal area face these things, and the father is probably also a "knowledgeable person".

And now I don't have any ability to protect myself.

He put the file aside and looked at the next information.

"These are some work files dealing with mysterious events." Fanning flipped through them quickly.

"Good guy, it's simply a collection of various urban legends and supernatural events from the previous life, such as haunted hospitals, attacks by evil objects, mysterious disappearances, and sacrifices... It's just a realistic version."

Among these incidents, there was one that left a deeper impression on Fanning:

It has been 887 years since the "Dream Man" incident in the imperial capital Santaram Castle in 25.

One day, a psychiatrist in the Tulip parish of Fort Santa Ramadin received a request for help from a woman.

The woman said that for more than a month, she always dreamed of the expressionless face of a strange man in her dreams.

At first, she was just a little panicked after waking up, which did not affect her normal life, but then the frequency of dreams became more and more frequent.

This face was expressionless at first, and then became emotional, sometimes grinning, sometimes crying, sometimes hysterical.
Even in recent days, not just a face, but a whole person with this face appeared in the dream, accompanied by various horrific plots.

The woman was on the verge of a mental breakdown and had to seek help from a psychiatrist.

The doctor guided her to draw the face in her dream with stick figures.

(Fanning saw the poor-quality print on the dossier: middle-aged, with little hair on the top of the head, thick eyebrows and eye sockets, a flat nose, and a long and upward curve of the lips.)
"It's a bit scary, mainly because of the black and white picture quality and dim light"

Although the doctor also felt a little horrified, he thought it was caused by the excessive pressure in her life, and then he gave her some comfort and relief, and let her go.

This should have come to an end, but then something unexpected happened:
Not long after, more people came to my door for help, and the content of their help was exactly the same!
And under identification, the face of the man in the dream is exactly the same as the one drawn by the first woman!
The psychiatrist panicked, and he immediately called the police. After confirming that it was a mysterious incident, the Police Department immediately reported it to the Special Patrol Office.

What followed was a lengthy investigation, during which more and more groups in the major metropolitan areas received such reports.

Even other cities, such as Uvransel, have received a large number of residents' requests for help when encountering the "Dream Man" incident.

Fan Ning glanced at the details of the list, and found a lot of familiar place names.

In the classification of the Special Inspection Office, this dossier seems to be only moderately severe.

The reason is that although the incident involved a large number of people and spread over a vast area, it did not cause any vicious consequences such as death, distortion, or disappearance of residents, but left many people with varying degrees of mental illness, cognitive confusion, and memory damage.

In other words, there was a lot of trouble but no lives were lost.

Thinking about it, this is really nothing compared to those horrific death cases. If it weren't for the large number of people involved, it might not be ranked among the mysterious incidents at all.

The Special Inspection Office searched for a while, but found nothing practical, because apart from the descriptions of the victims, there were no clues on the other end for investigation, and there were no obvious abnormalities in the previous life trajectories of some victims.

In the end, it was officially classified as "an incident of group memory disorder, and the source may be a hoax."

Many people expressed dissatisfaction with the results, believing that the government had covered up the facts, and asked, "There are still many people who dream of this face. What kind of prank can cause such a terrible impact? Don't you have any other explanation?"

The official said that this is easy to explain. Now this event has objectively formed a collective memory, and dreams are originally some projections of real memories.

The person in charge of the authorities even used himself as an example at the press conference: "I was fine at first, but because I took over this job and looked at the face printed on the materials every day, it made me dream every day. If you pay attention like this, can you be mentally normal?"

This is probably the case for the ins and outs of the entire incident recorded in the dossier.

Fanning's focus is that the elements that constitute this event are a strange dream and an abnormal memory.

It seems to be similar to some elements of my own experience after time travel.

Well, the logic is far-fetched
Fanning shook his head, put all the materials back into the folder, and then looked at another brass metal box.

Is this what I was looking for in this trip?

　Ball collection and follow-up wow T^T
　　
　
(End of this chapter)