musicians of old

Chapter 48 Reappearance: Crossing the Scene

"What? What mystery?"

In the quiet small chamber music hall, Sheeran's doubtful voice echoed.

"No problem, Carlone." Joan agreed gently and cheerfully, "We still have to go to the cleaning tool storage room first, and clean up here."

As Joan set up the altar, Fanning briefly explained to Sheeran:
"This is the place where I saw Teacher Anton for the last time. Joan has a ceremony, which may help us see some scenes from the past."

"It's also the scene where I traveled through." He added in his mind.

Sheeran asked Fanning in a low voice, "Does this have something to do with the knowledge you have become?"

Fan Ning nodded: "Yes, they are all researched by mystics."

"Don't forget you promised to have a serious talk with me."

"I remember."

The altar was quickly set up, and Joan recited the prayer written in Turangalian that Hiran taught her, and prayed to the Lord of Witness, "Winter Wind".

Finally, the triangle surrounded by coarse salt was wiped off by Joan's finger, aiming at the mirror submerged in water.

"I still can't see clearly." Joan squatted beside her, her small face full of doubts.

"Why didn't it work these two times?"

Fan Ning walked over: "Let me try."

He stimulated his inspiration, imagining that the ball of spiritual body converging from his chest slowly expanded, covering the water in the basin.

Under the sparkling waves, some disturbing colors and patterns are "peeled off".

Scattered, partial, leaping revelations appear on mirrored surfaces in the water.

He saw the students in the auditorium, sitting sparsely, no more than thirty.

The camera cuts, and I am sitting in front of the piano in a black dress. Behind me is a female student in a white skirt playing the violin. Mr. An Dong is wearing an old-fashioned formal suit, and the position of the belt buckle is a bit out of order. He stands aside and keeps explaining.

"Teacher Anton" Fan Ning saw the teacher's voice and smile "again" for the first time after time travel.

His mood fluctuates slightly, but he still controls the "observation" of his inspiration.

The camera cut, the get out of class was over, the students got up from their seats in twos and threes, and Mr. An Dong left in a hurry with his briefcase.Sitting in front of the piano, I waved goodbye to the teacher.

The camera cuts, a man and a woman in high-necked black dresses step onto the stage to communicate with themselves.

The camera cuts, and I am sitting in the front row of the auditorium, listening to the girl playing the piano, closing my eyes, and nodding to the beat with my head.The boy stood with his hands behind his back on the side of the stage. During this period, the two had some eye contact. Fan Ning also noticed that the boy's hand was behind his back. There were tapes wrapped around his fingers, and what seemed to be a small red drinking cup.

The camera switches, and the scene light turns black in a very short time, it seems that the lights of the concert hall have gone out.

blacken?

The effect of the secret ritual is gone now.?Fanning's heart beat faster, and his brows furrowed.

When the retrospective ceremony was performed for the other two deceased in Hall 4, it also ended after the scene turned black. In the end, I was startled by the reflection of my own face.

However, the current scene happens to be close to the moment when I travel through.
Fanning was a little reconciled, and he was still staring at the ripples on the water.

However, this time seems to be a little different.

"Why is the surface of the water and the mirror always dark?"

"Nature is not a reflection of the normal things around now, the mystery is not over yet?"

"I awoke from darkness"

Fanning's inspiration continued to burn, staring intently at the mirror under the water's surface.

"I don't know how long I can hold on to this kind of full force."

Fanning gradually began to feel a little dizzy. During this period, Joan seemed to want to make a sound, but he raised his hand to stop him.

Nearly a minute passed——

Suddenly there was a faint light flashing in the darkness, and then two groups of more incandescent light flashed in a very short time!
The darkness continued, and a few seconds later, the reflection of his own face appeared in the mirror.

An inexplicable cold wind blew out the candles on the altar.

"ended."

Fanning took a deep breath and stood up unsteadily: "Thank you, Joan."

After cleaning the altar, Joan walked up to Fanning and looked up at him with her clean face.

"You're welcome, Caron~ It's strange, why is it you who can see the scene every time? What did you see this time?"

After thinking for a while, Fan Ning said, "There is a problem with the two people who came to communicate with each other."

"What do you mean?"

Fanning said: "Do you remember that when we went back to hall 4 yesterday, there were four or five people who came to the stage after the show to communicate with the deceased. Since their clothes were relatively homogeneous, I couldn't see anything special about them. "

He paced back and forth on the stage: "But after comparing each other twice, I found that a man and a woman who communicated with me on Friday night were also in that group the day before!"

Joan's eyes widened: "You mean, two of the same people went to Hall 4, which we rehearsed on Thursday, and Hall 1, which you experienced on Friday?"

"Yes, they wore suits with higher collars."

"They may be the instigators?" Joan asked, "Callon, should we follow this feature and investigate the classmates who have been there before? Maybe we can provide the police with more valuable clues and find them out Woolen cloth!"

Fan Ning thought about it for a while.

He decided that from now on, he would give Joan complete trust in this incident, the same as Sheeran.

So he described the whole process of the scene he just saw, and recounted the outline of the human figure he actually saw that night, excluding the matter of crossing.

While listening to Fanning's narration, Joan circled her hair with her fingers.

"So, these two people didn't escape, but died directly at the scene? And you suspect that it is related to you?"

"Yes." Fanning nodded.

At first he was a little depressed, because it was pitch black, and he still couldn't see what happened before and after the time travel.
But then saw the white light in the dark, and when the flash
He suddenly realized that the silhouettes of people on the stage were not necessarily his classmates.

So the motivation of these two people on stage is not necessarily to exchange music.

So the two are not necessarily "victims".

I also suddenly understood why in the rumors in the school, everyone only heard that two classmates died-because the two disappeared in the world, neither happened around the classmates, nor was it the kind of horrific suicide. It's easy to control messages.

The two first used some means to the two classmates, which caused them to go crazy and commit suicide the next day.

And on the second day when he repeated his old tricks.
The white light flashed in the dark and he woke up intact. Two human silhouettes appeared on the stage
There are indications that the two did not achieve their goals.

As for Mr. Anton's suicide after he left the field, it had nothing to do with these two people, at least not directly related to that night - judging from the teacher's diary, his mental state had been out of order for a long time.

"I don't know why, the two scenes were in darkness at the end, it seems that the lights were turned off, but the above conjecture is the most likely possibility."

Fanning finished the analysis to Sheeran and Joan.

But he was thinking in his heart that these two people were "killed" by him unintentionally?Because of time travel?Or because of the museum key?or both?
Joan's pretty face was a little tired, and she patted her small mouth: "So our investigation has taken a step forward, and it has become more clear."

"That's right." Fan Ning nodded slightly, "There are only two questions for the next step, who are these two people, and what is their original purpose."

Joan yawned and said, "From my experience, often as long as one of these problems can be clarified, the other will be easily brought out."

"Joan, thank you for your great help. It's very late today, and you can hardly keep your eyes open. Go home first."

"You're welcome, Caron, I've eaten too much of your pastries and I'm sleepy."

Joan stretched out her hands, propping up the corners of her eyes cutely.

Sheeran finally said: "Joan, for the auction tomorrow night, I will meet you at the school gate after class in the afternoon."

A row of faint gas lamps was lit downstairs of the Conservatory of Music, and Joan's family's private carriage had been waiting for a long time.

Fan Ning lifted the curtain, gently wrapped around Qiong Bai's slender arms symbolically, and helped her into the carriage.

He watched the carriage go away with a cane, watched Sheeran and Joan wave goodbye to each other, and wondered if today's clues might be related to Sheeran's attack that night.

The two were walking on the campus at night, some distracting thoughts from the rehearsal flashed through their minds, and Fan Ning sighed slightly.

If I don't find a little bit of connection with my previous life, maybe one day, I can accept everything in this world with peace of mind, and forget about the time-traveling event as a completely unknowable event.

But I discovered the remnants of the music series and the paintings in the art gallery... Those inexplicable connections with the previous life made me feel like a restless passer-by, not knowing what will happen tomorrow, and where the ending will go.

I hope that the risk around Xilan will be eliminated as soon as possible. It is not good for me to live in the little girl's house all day like this.

The direction of the next investigation, if you choose to be more radical, you may be able to get some information by attending the "Sylvia" party that the gray-clothed population calls;

Let's see the situation again
"Caroline, are you in a bad mood?"

"No, I'm a little sleepy too."

The two went home, and after washing up, Fanning continued to give Sheeran instructions as he did the previous few times before saying good night to each other.

Exploration of the shifting surge should resume today.

He was going to study the key of the art museum, and the church pointed to by the "Endless Fugue" road sign of the Lord of Witness.

　Thanks to yctlr for the monthly ticket~Thanks to the book friend tail number 1763 and Xuanyuan for the reward~

　　
　
(End of this chapter)