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"???Ah?" As soon as these words came out, Xilan opened her eyes wide and looked at Qiong's whole body. Google search reading

Fan Ning also looked at Qiong in surprise.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute." He felt that his brain was a bit insufficient. "Don't worry about what key you have become. Going forward, you said that there are many kinds of keys to pass through a certain door. Let me confirm it first: So this The two are not the one-to-one relationship I imagined before?"

"no."

"Then, according to what Banchuva mentioned in "The Great Terror", 'There are various forms of doors, and there are various forms of doors', isn't there only one door in Huita?"

"Well, there are quite a lot of doors in the Huita. I'm not sure if there is a many-to-many relationship between the doors and the keys, but at least, they are one-to-many."

"Like, math problems that are extremely difficult but have multiple ways to solve them?" Fan Ning tried to understand it this way.

"No, this description is not accurate enough." Joan shook her head.

"Mathematics is about logic. There are multiple solutions to a certain math problem. Although the methods of solving the problem may be simple or complicated, they all point to the correct and objective final answer. The relationship between the door and the key is different. The key itself has advantages and disadvantages. Not only the mortality rate of crossing the door is different, but also the results of successfully crossing the door are different - the place you arrive, the color of your insights, the changes you create, and the knowledge you gain will all be different. And it is a difference that is difficult to grasp the rules."

…This is too damn confusing, right? After Fan Ning learned of these hidden knowledge, he shook his head and smiled nervously. Even with the protection of the secret ritual, he felt that his understanding of the world was once again impacted.

It was originally thought that it was illogical to only move the various areas in the surge, but as we gradually approach the core of the world's will, this situation may be improved, and those who know may gradually see clearly the things behind the mystery.

Unexpectedly, the situation in Huita was also chaotic and unclear.

But besides this reaction, Fan Ning also felt that he had some restless thirst for knowledge.

This can easily arouse people's curiosity.

Chaos is also a kind of beauty, isn't it? In the dream, the will of the world calls on him even more strongly.

He felt that if he continued like this, he would be able to gain insight into true knowledge.

"Actually, this is really not important." Joan continued to explain, "I just listed many different key forms, but in fact, because it is extremely difficult to find, knowledgeable people often have no other choice. They travel through Most of the time, the door method can only rely on the first form: 'self'."

"Imagine the door in the Hui Pagoda as a locked door. Those seeking promotion can't find any other way to cross, so they let themselves act as keys and open the way in person. But the key that can open the lock has specific shape requirements, and everyone's soul Their bodies vary from generation to generation, and they must rely on certain means to carve their souls into the shape of a key."

"It's like putting a piece of embryonic body into a mold?" Fan Ning thought.

"This sounds charming and terrifying." Sheeran's tone was a little frightened and a little yearning. "Not to mention the risk of passing through the door, just saying that this process of 'embryo body planing' should be filled with extremely high mortality rates. Such a subtle existence as a spirit body may end up going crazy or dying if accidentally injured, but how do those knowledgeable people who have successfully traveled through time feel?"

Fan Ning frowned and thought, and the scene in the symphony hall on the day of the graduation concert emerged in his mind.

Dean Gould took that strange purple viscous elixir. Although he was promoted to a Seeker, fine holes began to appear in his body the next second and gradually disintegrated.

This is obviously a very bad key, or in other words, the elixir is a very bad "embryo body mold".

The old pianist had obviously known this for a long time. He did not choose to take the elixir on weekdays... He had been trying to find a more suitable and secure key form that would allow him to be promoted, but unfortunately, there was none.

Fan Ning asked: "Could it be that you found a suitable mold and successfully turned your spirit body into a key that fits a specific form?"

Xilan was also confused: "Yes, Qiong, you have also obtained some kind of elixir, right? However, your rank is far from the prerequisite for promotion... You must at least be close to Huita to pass through the door, right? Only high-level knowledgeable people can roam to the 'basin area' closest to Huita. How can you be sure that you have really become a key?"

"It's not an elixir, it's the effect of the 'disintegration field'."

"The Secret Realm of Migration, or the named place 'Cracking Field'?" Fan Ning was quite impressed by this term. "It's the extremely dangerous area you arrived at when you first accidentally tore through the edge of the dream star realm. ?”

"Yes, I was lost there for a while, and was later rescued by Purple Bean Cake. Although I almost died, the memory fragments I picked up now tell me some interesting things..."

"The moving secret realm 'Cracking Field' evolved from the divine remnants left behind by the words of the Lord of Witnesses, 'Tongmu'. My soul underwent some drastic, dangerous and lucky change at that time, and became' The key to the Broken Key Door, if I have the opportunity to reach a high level in the future, I may be able to directly advance to the Knower by looking for this door.”

Xilan's eyes lit up when she heard this, but Fan Ning's face was full of suspicion: "The Door of Broken Keys?...The name of this door sounds extremely problematic, 'The Door that Makes the Keys Broken'. Are you sure you can pass through it?" , won’t you fall apart?”

"..." Qiong was stunned as he spoke.

Sheeran said: "I think it depends on whether the process of crossing the door is an actual act or a symbolic act. We still can't tell what kind of existence the door is, but after all, Yiyong and The waking world is different and may not be taken literally.”

"But... it's false..." Joan's fingertips twirling around her hair froze, "It's just like the town of Watznay doesn't exist. Maybe the named place of cracking field, the door of broken keys, purple bean cake Warning, my spirit body key and these things are also fake..."

Fan Ning said: "No, Joan, you can doubt and verify some things, but don't fall into absolute nihilism... Is the fact that you were promoted to a knowledgeable person true? The light of your first acquaintance, your understanding of the 'key' Is the research result of Hidden Knowledge valid? ...You suspect that Zi Dou Gao’s memory is false, but looking at the actual actions of the Harmony School, do they show any signs of plotting against you?”

When Fabian was still at the Bologna School, he led the surprise detention investigation of Joan.

"Yes..." Qiong suddenly realized something, "Could it be that the Harmony School has been tracking me for this reason?"

Fan Ning muttered to himself thoughtfully: "Well, when I heard about the Broken Key Door for the first time, I thought it was too outrageous, but when I think about it... your current spiritual state is very likely to be a valid key... Since The form of the key includes 'self' and 'other', indicating that this situation is also valuable to others."

The School of Harmony is tracking down the key to the Broken Key Door, and at the same time it is creating a 'phantom man'. If this 'phantom man' is also a key, we don't know whether it corresponds to the same door or another door.

Fabian is dead, and the Experience Officer is associated with the Transcendental Club. If Sylvia is indeed an informant of the Special Patrol Office, then the one who is still related to the Harmony School is...

The perfumer who secretly manipulated the ritual vessel "Pulsating Ladle" at the graduation concert and then escaped?

"Let's go to Prudence Auction House." Fan Ning stood up directly before the two of them responded further.

In fact, he had always been vaguely annoyed.

On the one hand, the Special Inspection Office's domineering and extreme way of doing things, and on the other hand, these secret organizations are really good at hiding.

Since the death of Teacher Anton, schools, factories, media companies, graduation concerts...and these people are still eyeing their companions. Xilan has been threatened before, and Qiong seems to have been targeted for many years. On...

He can't afford to offend the Special Patrol Department now and is hiding away, but the experience officer, the perfumer, and the informant Sylvia, Fan Ning really wants to shoot their heads off one by one, or burn them. Become an agent.

The identity of the person behind Prudence Auction House is admitted by the perfumer himself, so go to this place to investigate carefully.

Furthermore, there was the concertmaster who jumped up and down under his nose from time to time.

Fan Ning has wanted to get rid of her several times, but he felt that the benefits were too small. He always wanted to try to see if he could bring something out.

"By the way, Joan, let me show you something."

On the moving carriage, Fan Ning took out a small black wooden box from his briefcase.

Under the spiritual perception, the liquid in the vial showed a dark green heterogeneous light and shadow, with many stripes of different shades blooming and churning.

"This is?..." The two little girls were a little confused.

"The healing elixir prepared by Dean Graham for the two principals of the school."

"Is that... related to the radioactive source of the labor incident, the Imperial Capital Relatim Chemical Trading Company?" Sheeran said.

"Yes, so after I thought about it, I asked Roy for a sample. Joan, can you tell whether there is a problem with it?"

After taking it, Qiong opened the lid, observed first, then fanned and sniffed: "It's quite complex ingredients. The addition of extraordinary light substances covers the three phases of 'cocoon', 'pool' and 'evolution', and there are also many, many auxiliary materials. From this preliminary observation, I can only confirm that its main function should be related to the healing you mentioned..."

It is equivalent to the fact that even if a trace amount of poison is mixed with a medicinal powder for treating asthma, a cursory inspection will only conclude that it is still an asthma medicinal powder.

Fan Ning said: "So if you want to troubleshoot its problems, you need to go back and verify the properties of each of its ingredients one by one, as well as the effects after mixing?"

Qiong shook his head: "The situation you mentioned is theoretical, but in the practice of elixirs, most of the extraordinary components that have been mixed are difficult to separate and identify. If we want to identify whether it poses a fatal hazard, we can only use Mixing samples for specific tests is equivalent to a violent enumeration. We can only enumerate the suspected hazard directions based on experience, and then investigate them one by one... Well, it's a bit too awkward to say this and I don't know if you can understand it..."

...School girl, don’t underestimate the laboratory bricklayers. Fan Ning understood immediately: "It's equivalent to checking the toxicity of a drug whose components cannot be identified. We can only use a specific method to verify whether it has liver toxicity, then verify whether it has lung toxicity, and then verify kidney toxicity... We We can adjust the priorities based on experience and improve the efficiency of investigation, but in fact we cannot exhaust all situations, and the test results will always be close to 'no toxicity'..."

"Caron, it seems that you are talented in the field of elixir science, but I don't think I have explained it clearly." Joan's praise finally returned to her usual pleasant tone, "So, I will go back and try as much as possible. According to common sense, the two A principal should be very careful about the elixir he takes..."

The weather today was a bit sultry, so Fan Ning reached out and opened the bolt of the rear curtain of the carriage, letting in a little cool breeze.

A few minutes later, the carriage passed by the alley outside the Turner Art Museum. Sheeran saw that a small part of the building wall had been propped up with construction frames, so he asked: "Caron, those paintings of yours"

"Lu helped me vacate a warehouse belonging to the railway company nearby. The paintings were temporarily transported after taking protective measures. Well, I inspected them in my spare time. His location, personnel deployment and security measures were all relatively easy. People can rest assured”

Fan Ning lowered his head and looked at his hands: "Speaking of which, when the renovation and expansion project is fully rolled out, it will be very chaotic with people coming in and out, and we will go to the Imperial Capital for at least ten days next month. I still want to take a look at that fan in the meantime. A tentative investigation through the secret door."

Qiong was just about to second the proposal when Xilan said: "I'm trying to apply at the school these days to see if there are any suitable ritual vessels for archaeological investigation."

So Qiong suspected that she heard wrongly: "Sheeran, you were still saying that we were crazy just now. Why, you changed your mind while we were chatting?"

"A brief investigation shouldn't be a big problem." Sheeran said, "As I said before, exit in time if there is any abnormality. I think as long as we can obtain a small part of historical data and knowledge, we may be able to make things better. At this stage, many of our doubts were easily solved.”

Sheeran finally reached a consensus with us? Fan Ning's heart moved.

She had previously raised objections to her and Joan's views, which actually made sense. Of course, the current positive opinions are still quite reasonable.

Is there something wrong?

After discovering the secret door, climbing the shaft ladder was stopped, and then the decision was made to seal the door. At that time, everyone's attitude was very clear. But it seems that something has been slowly changing until now?

Maybe I think too much.

Studying all kinds of knowledge and being diligent in investigation and research are the basic qualities of a knowledgeable person. Fan Ning believes that the current discussion is still rational. Everyone is calmly analyzing the pros and cons and putting forward suggestions for avoiding risks. This can be regarded as reaching a new goal. consensus.

He thought for a while and then added: "We still adhere to the principle of caution and try to understand what happened in that hospital first. This will be a useful reference for us."

The carriage stopped at the Prudence Auction House in the Pushall district.

As soon as they got off the car, several people felt that something was not right about the atmosphere.

The door of this auction house, which is only two stories high, has a large area and has a retro style, is closed and sealed. Only the small door on the side is half open, and there are several policemen standing next to it.

There was still some burnt smell and smoke floating in the street. Although it was not to the point of choking, it was clearly noticeable by the sense of smell.

…what happened to this?

Fan Ning was originally going to go to the side door to ask the police about the situation, but he saw something that seemed to be attached to the door, so he climbed the steps in this direction first.

From a distance, Fan Ning saw the "Wanted Order" title with the largest text in the text of the poster.

Um? Why does that man's black and white photo look so familiar from a distance?

When Fan Ning came closer, his eyes almost fell out of his head in shock!

Although the name is an unfamiliar pseudonym, the iconic broad forehead, cold eyes, and soft felt hat...

This man is Special Patrol Agent Meyers Benjamin! ?