musicians of old

Chapter 153 Maps, Forms (4K [-]-in-[-])

"There is no such place!?"

Fan Ning showed a very strange look: "When was the last time you went back to the ancestral manor in the small town of Watznai?"

"Every summer vacation, I go back with my parents for vacation." Joan recalled a little, "From childhood to growing up, including the years of junior grammar school, um, and also the summer after being admitted to Saint Lenia University, It's been a year now"

"Didn't you find a few more people to confirm?"

"My parents said I was joking, and the housekeeper and the coachman also said no. I called a few relatives, and they all said that this place name had never existed before. I also asked a neighbor in the surrounding area. Although they did not deliberately remember it over the years Details, but said that at least last summer our family did not go on vacation."

"Then...have you brought anything from here before, or brought back from there?" Fanning tried to ask.

"The living facilities and surrounding materials in the manor are complete, and the whole family will only bring banknotes, clothes and a few carriages back and forth every time."

"Then...why did you suddenly talk about the town of Watznai with Lord Nessimi yesterday?" Fan Ning continued to ask, "Is it because you learned something after you recovered your memory? Or did you mention it before? This topic was often discussed, but since yesterday they suddenly said that there is no such place?"

"I got some information, but it has nothing to do with this. This is purely accidental, or maybe it's summer vacation again." Joan's face was still pale, ". I usually don't ask abruptly and a default family member knows place, so I can’t remember the last time I talked about this kind of topic, but at least last summer before and after our vacation, we all agreed that the town of Watznai existed in our communication. But if my memory is true If everything is wrong, it doesn't make sense!"

"Caroun, I feel like I'm about to fall into complete nihilism." The girl's usually lively and cheerful face is now full of confusion, "I think everyone's character, talent, emotion, and views on everything are all It is based on past experiences, and past experiences cannot be reflected intuitively. Even if there are individual external objects to support them, they are still scattered. Only memory can prove their complete existence. If my own memories are all false, wouldn’t it be that I am This 'personality' is also fake?"

"You provided me with so much elixir, I found some valuable memory fragments, and I was going to share them with you, but now I think they may also be fake, and the response from 'Purple Bean Cake' to me is also fake , that was originally a dream, maybe you were right that night, my memory is just polluted by hidden knowledge, on the surface it looks like I am using a secret method to wake up the memory, but in fact I just use a pinch of pollutants with another pinch of pollutants Instead, yes?"

Fan Ning substituted Joan's experience in this matter, and also felt a chill all over.

Imagine a former residence that I went back to every year during the holidays when I was a student. Every memory there has almost run through the entire life journey. Then one day I suddenly found that people around me said that I was joking, and there is no such place.
Fanning's eyes flickered for a long time: "Which direction did you say it was in?"

"Southwest, a small town in the southwestern outskirts of Uvransel."

Without waiting for Fanning to respond further, Joan took out a stack of crumpled maps from her pocket, and it was obvious that she had turned them back and forth countless times last night.

Fan Ning got up and sat next to the girl. After she spread it on her lap, the two of them focused their eyes on the lower left corner.

"There is no such place name." The girl's fingers slid across this direction, and her tone was very confused, "Caroun, you said that if I had noticed that this name was not on the map before chatting with Dad yesterday, then I would be What reaction? If I noticed it earlier, earlier than when I went on vacation in my memory last summer, how would things develop? Will my cognition be more or less clearer than it is now?"

"Maybe, but who would hold a map and look at it?" Fan Ning also felt incomprehensible to this kind of question, "Why don't you try to recall the memory? Although normal people don't deliberately look at it all day long. , but stretch the timeline forward, do you have any memories of looking at the map?"

The girl murmured: "I used to go to every corner of the city to search for ancient books, only the city map I read more, this kind of large-scale map... maybe there is, maybe there is no, maybe I didn't pay attention, maybe I saw it a long time ago, Then it just disappeared off the map...it could all be, I can't remember, I'm really not sure..."

She shrank back a little helplessly.

Fan Ning looked down again, and then asked: "Then do you know the way?"

"Know the way?" Joan tilted her head at him in doubt.

"That is to say, regardless of the map, if you start from here now and rely on your eyes to find the way, do you know how to get there?"

"It's too far away." The girl curled her lips again, "Caron, I think I should be more familiar with the streets of Uvransel than you are. Sometimes I can move away from the map, but I don't know when I go out of the city. In my memory, when I went on vacation in the past, Mr. Coachman drove the road with a map, and I slept in the carriage. We set off early in the morning and always arrived close to the early morning.”

Fanning was taken aback for a moment, he felt that what Joan said made sense.

Even if I traveled a long distance by car in my previous life, I would not deliberately remember the road with my eyes, and the main reason is that I can't remember it.
There is no electronic map in this world, and there will be no marks such as favorites in the distant places. Besides, the city of Uvransel alone is already very complicated, those streets that are not frequented, abandoned areas or wilderness Ling, he is not as familiar as Joan.

"Then can you roughly confirm where the 'Watznai Town' in your memory is located on the map? It's just that the range in the southeast direction is too wide."

The last time I went to create in the Mertraun area of ​​Eagles in March, although Fan Ning also relied on coachmen for the journey, he could at least draw a smaller circle on the map for his own location.

"Let's think about it...it's very far away. Although it still belongs to the county administration of Uvransel, the actual space distance is closer to the imperial capital Santaram Castle..."

As Joan recalled, she outlined a smaller area with her fingers: "There is a river in the town, well, this one is not recognizable, there are too many rivers on the map... Also, there are quite a lot of mountains in that area, and the terrain is relatively flat The middle area should be ruled out..."

This is a map of the entire county of Uvransel. The situation in the urban area is relatively detailed, while the place names in other places are sparse. It is only marked to the level of the small town. St. The boundary between Tallarn Castle and Eagles.

The two didn't even find a small town with a similar pronunciation to "Watsnai". In the end, they only identified a few possible areas, but the range is still very large. The combined length and width can be converted into at least 30 kilometers. More than 1000 square kilometers.

Half an hour later, the three met in the small room of the Woodpecker Consulting Office. After Joan told Xilan about her sudden confusion, there was a brief silence in the air. The three of them looked at each other and I looked at you.

"Would you like to take a look?" Fan Ning was the first to break the silence, but his tone obviously carried a hint of absurdity.

"What... can we see?" Joan was still at a loss.

Fan Ning said: "It sounds incomprehensible, but there are two situations, either your memory has a problem, or the memory of the people around you has a problem, it's just a minority versus the majority, and now it's more likely to be the former. Sex... If after our field investigation, we can conclude that this town does not exist, at least you don't have to think about it on such a large scale..."

"But what if this town really exists?" Joan asked again.

"Uh..." Fan Ning was dumbfounded by this question, "Then go in and have a look around, and find out if there is your ancestral manor?"

The two little girls looked at each other again, and both found that the absurdity in each other's eyes became stronger.

Joan thought for a while and said: "...The main reason is that the scope is too large, aimless search will consume a lot of time, so vast mountains, plains, lakes, I even suspect that we will not be able to draw a conclusion if we find the beginning of the school... Caroun, Now the rehearsal task of the orchestra is very tense, and the secret door investigation of the Turner Art Museum is also more important, so don't study this question that has no practical significance..."

"I think it has practical significance... For example, the two sides may be connected." Fan Ning tried to jokingly liven up the atmosphere, "If it's not good enough, we will choose a conservative strategy and sell this manor that was picked up for nothing, so that you will lose money. Made a fortune."

Sheeran was amused by Fanning: "Actually, if you go looking for it, it doesn't have to be completely aimless, and the time-consuming may not be so exaggerated. We can adapt to the situation as we go, such as asking locals everywhere, especially the old people. This place name already exists, but it is smaller and more biased. It is missing on the map, or it has undergone some evolutionary changes. Once you inquire about it, you will have a clue... Well, but recently, I have really run out of resources, and I don’t have consecutive days to travel far. , and the traces of the original site of the Turner Art Museum still need to be traced..."

Joan took over the conversation at this time: "Caroun, let's not talk about this, actually... I think we can go down behind that secret door to have a look first."

"You have the same idea?" Fan Ning glanced at her. "Actually, I've been thinking the same way recently. After all, it's the art museum left by my father, so I shouldn't encounter anything outrageous."

Qiong nodded again and again. When it came to this matter, her previous confusion seemed to divert her attention: "We can prepare equipment, and even use the channels of schools to find a few ritual objects that are conducive to archaeological exploration..."

Fan Ning took the calendar on the desk and flipped it twice, thinking flashed in his eyes: "If it takes another week to wait for the renovation project to be fully rolled out, there will be too many people, it will not be so convenient... It is true that these few days Let your plasterers break down the walls..."

Joan said: "You can call them for help at any time...don't go too deep for the first time, if there is something wrong or uncomfortable, we will back out in time..."

"Are you two going crazy!?"

The more Xilan listened, the more he felt that something was wrong, and finally couldn't help but interrupt the conversation between the two.

The little girl was very puzzled and said: "Didn't I say before that we should act cautiously? Carlon, don't listen to Joan, her reckless style of acting is not acceptable, let's do a good job of understanding before exploring." .”

Fan Ning explained: "Mainly, I am also worried. I don't know if the guys in the Special Inspection Office will suddenly have a convulsion and increase their attention to this place again... and everyone has always expressed their curiosity about what is under the secret door. The artistic experience of the old organist in Viern also makes me fall into memories from time to time, we may find rich gifts, precious historical materials or hidden knowledge there..."

Sheeran frowned and persuaded: "At least wait until we first investigate the name of the workhouse and understand the reason why the hospital where Ms. Hamilton worked has closed down in a hurry? Otherwise, what is the difference between entering the door now and going in directly the other day? Among you Didn't the twenty-odd days of investigation basically have no effect?"

"Well, what you said makes sense." Fanning took a deep breath, "Let me first share some progress of the previous investigation. I was in a hurry yesterday and only gave you a rough idea. Joan hasn't heard of it yet."

He got up, took out the candlestick, the secret atmosphere and the coarse salt mineral mixture, and arranged a secret ritual in the room that could stabilize the mind.

In the sound of Tarakani's "Requiem in A Minor" on the gramophone, Fanning re-explained the identity of the opera singer Benchois in the "Phantom Man" esoteric literature, and then explained his origin from the miracle drama "The Great Horror". Some clues deduced from it.

Sheeran listened with gusto. As a history buff, she was surprised that the opera singer Benchois was the famous bishop Lenia, and Fanning's conjecture about the "door" and "key" also fascinated her.

"Caroun, what a coincidence, it turns out that you also obtained some hidden knowledge about the door." Joan said after listening.

"Could it be that the memory fragments you picked up are also related to this?" Fanning noticed her statement, "... To be honest, I told you so much, I don't understand what the key is, okay? In fact, I don't know what the door is exactly. In the libretto of "The Great Terror", Bansuva only repeatedly and vaguely hinted that the key is the key to pass through the door, but I think the form and concept of the key are elusive, and it is not It doesn't look like a key in the concrete sense... It seems that you have come into contact with a deeper hidden knowledge?"

"The memory fragments I got are only a little deeper than yours," Joan said.

"The key used to pass through a certain door theoretically exists in many forms, such as self, other, secret ritual, ritual vessel, secret transmission, or a certain feat, a certain moment, a certain experience, a certain Emotions. There are many, many forms that we cannot understand, which may become the key, but in fact, it is difficult to find just one. The key system mastered by the major organizations of the knowledgeable is their core level. confidential."

Fan Ning pondered: "So, after recovering some memory fragments, you have mastered a key?"

Joan nodded and shook her head again, organized her words, and then said:
"No, I became a key."

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