musicians of old

Chapter 172 The Dark Hall (4K [-]-in-[-])

Hearing Joan's words, Fanning's scalp went numb and the hairs all over his body stood on end.

"...like a door."

Fanning's stiff body softened again.

"Can you stop splitting one sentence into two sentences?" He glared at the girl squatting above him angrily.

"I didn't dismantle it on purpose..." Joan explained softly, "I wanted to remind you immediately... Then, it did take a few seconds to slowly confirm what it is."

Fanning and Sheeran held on to the escalator and turned away.

In the dimness, one can see that the masonry near the opposite side of the escalator is recessed in a transitional way, and then protrudes a circle, forming a ring similar to a threshold, and further inside, there is indeed a double door.

Fan Ning wondered: "Isn't this a door at a glance? Are you sure it will take a few seconds?"

Xilan took the "Vigilance Record" out of his jacket and took a look, and put it back after confirming that there was nothing abnormal: "...Yes, can't you just take a look at an ordinary object and not be able to determine what it is? It's not like asking you to do a harmony problem... Joan, you'll scare him off like this."

"But that's the truth." Joan continued to explain softly, "At the beginning when the fire was lit, I just felt that it was different from the wall of the well before, so I reminded Carlon out of caution... Later, I realized it was a It was a depression, and later it was found to be a hole, and finally it was confirmed to be a door..."

"Maybe the candlelight is too dim?" She finally guessed.

After hearing Joan's detailed description, Fan Ning still felt strange. Even if the candle was dim, the flame would ignite instantaneously. There was no process of changing the visibility. Either it could be recognized or it couldn't be recognized...

unless something else changes...

It is also a possibility that the inspiration of those who know is occasionally too high, just like Fan Ning felt that there were eyes on the railroad tracks in the small town of Gogol that day.

He didn't dare to think about such things. The more he thought about it, the more inspiration he got. He turned on the flashlight. Under the stronger light, the three of them found that the material and style of the door didn't seem to match this deep well.

The bricks and stones of the deep well are simple and tidy, the pieces fit together tightly, and the texture is fine and smooth, while this door has an ancient sense of erosion. It is similar to the texture of bronze. It can be seen that there used to be many delicate reliefs or geometric patterns, but it has long been rusted. I don't know the details, and the door shaft has basically fallen off, exposing a very wide door gap, and the worn-out floor tiles of the archway can be vaguely seen inside.

"Do you think that these two are like... like two completely different things." Sheeran, who was a little higher up, leaned on her body, trying to organize her words.

"Two very different things spliced ​​together?" Fanning continued.

This is indeed the feeling. In terms of the degree of wear and tear of the material, it can be seen that there is at least a time difference of several hundred years, and in terms of style
Fanning glanced again where the tallow candle had been placed.

The complicated style of the embossed pattern on this side door is close to the decoration of the groove of this candlestick.

Especially in the upper middle of the door, a spherical protrusion had to be placed on one side, which made people unable to help thinking that it was a pair of eyes.

"So, Caron, have you reached the end?" Sheeran asked.

Fanning's flashlight shone down, and there was a deep black hole in the middle of the bright white halo.

"No." He asked after turning it off, "Which way?"

Being able to have a flat ground to stand on is naturally better than endless climbing down, and the three of them unanimously chose this door.

Fan Ning slowly pulled out the crowbar from behind, put the metal head with a faint blue halo at the front end into the crack of the door, hooked it, and pulled it hard.

Unexpectedly, its decay was far beyond imagination, and I basically felt no resistance. With this pull, half of the side-by-side door fell off directly, and the whole fell into the darkness below, raising large swathes of dust and rust.

The sound of bumps and bumps along the way echoed on the wall of the well, and the overall volume of the sound became smaller and smaller, but it was superimposed and lingered for a long time, so it was impossible to judge whether there was any sound of hitting the ground in these echoes.

The foothold has been vacated, but the diameter of the well is quite long, and the posture will be a little twisted from one end of the escalator to the opposite. For safety, Fanning tied the rope in a knot on the escalator, and then tied the other end around his waist between.

He lowered his body, stretched his leg against the door, kicked his other leg hard, and threw himself towards the door. During the process, he slipped without any risk, but he managed to stand still.

Fanning untied the rope around his waist and threw it to Joan: "Be careful, I will jump over and grab you."

After the remaining two people jumped over, everyone entered the archway behind the door together.

There's nothing noteworthy here, the gray masonry is loose and creaky when stepped on, but the arched support walls every few meters seem to keep the passage stable.

Meanwhile Fanning glanced back.

"Caron, what are you looking at?" Sheeran asked.

"Direction. I'm looking at the direction." Fan Ning thought in his eyes, "The window of the mobile exhibition hall is on the east side, the secret door is on the south side, the escalator on the well wall is near the secret door, and on the north side, this door is on the escalator Opposite, or south”

"So, we are now more than [-] meters deep in the mountain behind the Turner Art Museum?"

After walking for a while, everyone found that an upward slope gradually appeared under their feet, and an arc appeared at the same time.

"Do you feel that the stench ... seems to have become lighter?" Fan Ning suddenly stopped and sniffed his nose carefully.

"Could it be because the nose is getting used to it?" Joan said.

"It's not like that." Fan Ning shook his head. "We spent so much time going down the shaft, and we didn't realize this trend. How come we suddenly adapt to it now?"

"Could it be that the source of that stench is still further down the deep well?" Sheeran guessed.

The three of them frowned quite tightly. They all instinctively resisted going deep into the unknown darkness below. When they had just climbed all the way to the later stage, everyone was biting the bullet to support them. Fortunately, they suddenly found this door.

Everyone obviously hopes to find some source or secret at the end of this passage, and then return to the ground safely with the harvest.

But at least for now, this channel is basically bare.

After walking for about ten minutes, the three of them saw another door in front of the passage. It was of the same type as the one on the wall of the well, but it was relatively well preserved. Fanning used the surrounding loose wall bricks as gaps to open the door in Joan's door. With help, it took some effort with a crowbar to get it open.

What caught everyone's eyes was an empty and open hall, the boundary was a circular surface with slight discrepancies, and the floor was covered with heptagonal floor tiles of different colors ranging from white-yellow-brown——Six There is a difference between polygon and heptagon, but the perception is very different. When they are spliced ​​on the ground, they will inevitably cause confusion in shape and size. Even in dim light, people will feel a little misplaced and dizzy.

The stench here has faded to the point where it is barely noticeable, but the air is a little stuffy.

The three of them each brought a flashlight, but due to the short duration of use, only Fan Ning turned it on now, and the other two were carrying candles. Fan Ning saw several flashlights hanging from a height of four to five meters where the light shone. Candlesticks, and a few odd and ancient windows here and there.

Glass has been used on them, but the texture is cloudy and yellow, through which you can faintly see the dirt and rocks clinging to the windows.

This can’t help but make people wonder the purpose of building windows. It is said that the function of windows is to broaden the view and reduce the sense of oppression in addition to ventilation and lighting. However, such an underground building naturally has no ventilation and lighting functions. This seems to be more uncomfortable than looking at an impenetrable wall.

The footsteps echoed hollowly. After taking a few steps, everyone realized that the area of ​​this hall is not that big. It is estimated that it is a little smaller than the rehearsal hall of the Conservatory of Music. At first, they thought that its spaciousness was entirely due to the contrast— —been too long in shafts and passages.

But the place is still empty, and there is nothing worthy of attention, not to mention antiquities, not even tatters.

After looking around for half a circle, the three of them finally became interested in some patterns on the walls of the hall.

The material of the wall looks like ceramics and stucco, but the things engraved on it are not murals, but just complicated decorative lines. The reason why the three of them are attracted is because there is no other vision in this place. point.

It should be because the time is too long, these decorative lines have different depths, and even many places have been completely blurred, and they have been weathered together with the wall to the point that they cannot be distinguished from each other. However, after observing, the three still found some special features.

"I think there seems to be some pattern in these patterns..." Fan Ning said thinking.

Joan nodded: "Yes, have you noticed that these dense lines are combined in twos and threes, and it is easy to think of a human face... Just like that, a big face is covered with a small face, the front face is next to the oblique face, and Different faces share a certain facial features...It feels like the whole wall is full of faces..."

Fan Ning's face changed: "I wasn't talking about this, but you said that, I have lost the ability to think normally."

He closed his eyes, and finally allowed the state to flow back after a long time: "I discovered before that they seem to be complicated and stacked, but they are actually composed of several main geometric shapes."

"I'm also thinking in this direction..." Sheeran stood on tiptoe and took a closer look at the candle lantern. "Look, they are all combinations of straight lines, without curves or more complicated units. Regular quadrilateral...regular hexagon...regular octagonal The shape...is just different in size, angle, and position, so an intricate geometric pattern is superimposed, um, there seems to be more edges on the periphery..." She began to count when she said this, "It seems that there are Twenty sides, with a scale of two or three meters high, the people who carved the lines are pretty straight..."

"Quadrangle, hexagon, octagon..." Fanning thought, "is there any special meaning to this?"

"Maybe it's just a special aesthetic of the owner of this underground building." Joan said firmly, "Don't think too much, it's just some patterns, just like the decorations we just saw on the well wall candlesticks and doors. Just like the hollowed-out pattern on the handrail of your doorstep, don’t you think about the information contained in the pattern every time you see it…”

"Caron, there's nothing here, and the smell is gone. Shall we leave here and continue to explore the well? Hey... Xilan, why do you look more and more energetically..."

"Look, there is another symbol mixed in here..." Sheeran suddenly said, "Huh? This is really strange, why is it this symbol...?"

Fan Ning and Joan hurried over, and saw that among the various regular polygonal straight line decorations, there was a relatively sparse "space" with a palm-sized symbol engraved in it.

A sunken circle in the middle, surrounded by flame-like radiation.

The Lord of Witness "The Unfallable Fire"?
"This is indeed strange..." Seeing this symbol, Fan Ning was greatly puzzled.

Maybe there is an ancient church of the Church of the Holy Sun hidden under the secret door of the Turner Art Museum?

...This, it can only be said that there is such a possibility.While Fan Ning was in a daze, Sheeran called him again: "Callon, come and look here... I found a second symbol, and I really don't understand it."

The three of them once again surrounded another "open space" with lines, and the light of the flashlight illuminated a tower-shaped pattern with cracks.

"...The Lord of Witness, 'Tower Builder'?" Fan Ning was really at a loss. "I heard from President Viadrin that the 'Tower Builder' is something that some high-level powerhouses of the Guidance School have studied more deeply. The Lord of Witness... How could his image symbol appear in this strange empty hall at the same time as the 'Unfallible Flame'?"

With some "experience", everyone turned on their flashlights and began to look for spaces with sparse lines on the wall. In fact, most of the places were empty, or because the carvings were severely damaged, it was not sure whether there were symbols. Sexual search has greatly improved the efficiency of mopping up.

A few minutes later, Sheeran found three irregular arcs that were generally smooth but curled at the ends.

"There is also the image symbol of 'Winter Wind', the Lord of Witness." She didn't stop walking, her eyes continued to search.

Standing beside Xilan, Fan Ning, who was looking in the other direction, nodded in understanding when he heard it, but after half a minute, he suddenly felt that there seemed to be something wrong with this.

What was the original purpose of the three of them?

What happened just now. How come everyone started to find the symbol of the Lord of Witness?

This sudden sense of alertness made Fan Ning quickly remind the two girls: "Stop, don't look for it."

The three sets of designators found so far are all known to everyone, and in the past practice of mysticism, no Lord of Witness with excessively dangerous characteristics has been found, but from a human perspective, the gentle Lord of Witness is only a minority , who knows what strange things you will see if you keep searching like this?

As soon as Sheeran heard Fanning's words, she quickly turned off the flashlight she was holding.

But at the same moment when Fan Ning spoke, Joan, who had never gained anything, seemed to have finally discovered something. She said in a dazed and surprised voice, "Look at what this is?"

Then the sound stopped abruptly.

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