Old-time musicians

After making the necessary preparations, Fanning stood up and pushed the door.

He came to an open office next door and knocked on the door twice.

The two policemen working inside looked at him and stood up immediately.

"Coffee, a little over half." Fanning uttered a few words.

"Wait a moment, sir." A man stood up and walked over quickly, taking the large glass bottle from his hand.

Sir, this cup is a bit big, I drink more than I do, and it is a retro wide-mouthed cork model. He glanced at the bottle, then walked to the hand-grinded coffee machine and began to prepare it according to Vassius' taste.

"Thank you." A minute later, Fanning took it, turned around, and saw two policemen standing at the door holding a large stack of documents, smiling at him respectfully.

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“Let’s sign together next time.”

“Boss, the longest one has been on hold for eight days.”

“You can also find an opportunity to let Aletov sign on your behalf.” Fanning passed by them expressionlessly.

Amid a series of “OK, OK” responses from behind him, he blew on his coffee, took a sip, and walked straight to the end on the left.

There were three steam elevators there, enter the middle one, and press -2 floor.

A high-pitched and sharp jet sound sounded, and the elevator stopped steadily on the -2 floor. This was still a normal office area. A cleaner who passed by dragging a black garbage bag turned his head and looked at him.

Fanning continued to press the -2 mark for a long time, so he continued to sink to the floor that was not displayed.

The door opened, and the narrow steel underground passage was filled with dazzling white light. After two turns, he came to a cast iron explosion-proof door.

There are similar leisure facilities here as in the headquarters building last time, and there are also people on duty playing cards, but the location is in front of the door instead of behind the door.

"Sir, do you need to enter the sealing room now?" asked the gentleman with a cigarette in his hand.

Fanning said "um" indifferently.

"Your reason needs to be registered, sir."

The gentleman held the cigarette in his mouth, arranged the ledger and paper, and looked ready to record carefully.

"I need to confirm whether the haunted umbrella is still alive." Fanning chose a mysterious incident that Vassius handled in June as an excuse.

The staff on duty quickly recorded with his pen. After closing the ledger, he walked to the mechanical safe on the side of the wall and leaned over to take out a flat black wooden box.

There were more than a dozen small cylindrical objects wrapped in brown rubber inside. Judging from the position of the grooves arranged horizontally and vertically, this seemed to be a consumable material, and only half of the remaining pieces were left.

The gentleman with a cigarette in his mouth took out one of them, holding a pair of tweezers in each hand, and carefully cooperated to tear the brown rubber covering the outside.

Inside was a glass vessel shaped like an hourglass, with relatively separated containers at both ends, and a narrow connection port in the middle that seemed to be disconnected. The whole device was clamped by a small, complex, and strange dark hollow bracket on the outside.

Fanning stretched out his arm calmly and rolled up his sleeves.

When this strange vessel was clamped by tweezers and one end was close to Fanning's skin, the complex hollow brackets began to wriggle like tentacles, and a suction cup-like thing was directly attached to Fanning's arm.

This is an extraordinary item made by the Special Patrol Office using special migration substances and trace spirits. According to the information Fanning learned about the management system of the sealing room, their internal name can be literally translated as "two friends".

By comparing the blood samples of the subjects before and after entering and leaving the sealing room, it can be used to detect the changes in the contamination within a certain time range.

The suction cup was squirming, and a slight stinging sensation came. One end of the glass "funnel" was gradually filled with Fanning's blood.

After temporarily storing the "two friends" aside, the duty officer said: "Sir, according to the management method set by Mr. Salman and you, we also need to check your personal belongings when you enter or leave. If you need to temporarily bring in or take out items for work, please tell me and I will register them for you."

"No." Fanning took two sips of coffee and stretched out his arms to signal him to check.

The duty officer showed his dedication to his duties in front of his superiors. Then he opened the swing cast iron explosion-proof door, made a gesture of invitation, and reminded him friendly: "Sir, the time is 2:20 pm now."

Fanning responded indifferently and stepped in.

"Ang——" "Clang."

The high-pitched and sharp steam sound dragged for a long time, accompanied by the sound of the heavy cast iron door closing.

"As expected of you, the commander, you have the leisure to drink coffee after a trip to the sealing room." The duty officer sighed.

"To be honest, every time there is a mission that requires entering the sealing room, I can't sleep since the night before." Another investigator who just sat back at the card table shrugged.

The sealing rooms of the county branches contain all kinds of strange objects produced by such a large city in the mysterious events over the years, which is a huge number when accumulated.

As for the sealing room of the headquarters, it is just that the objects contained are of higher status and more dangerous, and the number is not as large as that of the branches.

Extraordinary items with clear characteristics, suspicious but temporarily incomprehensible objects, tissue or organ samples of deformed bodies, books with taboo contents, and ritual objects used internally. The branch space is very tight. The Special Patrol Office will evaluate a batch of strange objects that are simply dangerous but have no use value every year. They will be destroyed as much as possible, otherwise the space will be full.

According to the principle of the Secret History Entanglement Law, if different extraordinary items are more dispersed, the probability of unexpected and complex events will be smaller, but the authorities do not have the hardware and manpower to build sealing rooms everywhere, and it is already very difficult for various official organizations to separate by county.

The unified management of the sealing room is still far better than letting them spread completely and uncontrollably among the people.

Fanning felt that the temperature in the sealing room was a bit cold, and the vision was narrow and long. All he could see were monotonous whitewashed walls and the abrupt and dazzling white light of the carbonized lamp.

"Hiss——" "Gululu——"

On the ceiling above his head, dense metal pipes and electric control hubs were exposed, and the background noise of liquid flow or current noise came from time to time, which was very obvious in the overly quiet environment.

The voltage also seemed a bit unstable, and the carbonized lamp would flicker gently every few seconds.

Fanning's spiritual perception found that there was an extremely subtle and extremely complex phase disturbance in this area.

Although he has been promoted to a high level, the psychological suggestion of "danger, be careful, and hurry up" continues to surge from the depths of his spirituality.

He even felt a vague and ubiquitous "sense of oppression" or "shaking" in the air, as if something would suddenly rush out from the corner of his vision at the next moment.

Fanning now has twenty minutes.

Or he had better solve the problem within twenty minutes.

Because the extraordinary factors in the sealed room are too dense and complex, it is difficult to guarantee that the knowledgeable will not be affected if they stay in it for too long. If it is direct physical or spiritual damage, it can be dealt with in the first time, but the pollution of the hidden knowledge is subtle. Everyone who comes here hopes to complete the task and retreat quickly.

In order to objectively evaluate the risk of investigators being exposed to pollution, the Special Patrol Department has divided a set of risk duration levels for detention:

Exposure within twenty minutes is a general pollution risk;

Exposure beyond twenty minutes but within one hour is a greater pollution risk;

Exposure beyond one hour is a major pollution risk.

Regardless of whether the length of stay is within the expected time or exceeds the expected time, it is uniformly determined according to the actual entry and exit time.

This setting is not long, because the main function of the sealing room is to store or retrieve things. If it exceeds 20 minutes, it is either to retrieve more dangerous items or to have some minor accidents, and if it exceeds an hour, it must be a big trouble. This is the experience summarized from a large number of samples of lost or distorted accidents.

Therefore, the entry and exit records of general pollution risks only need to be registered internally, which accounts for 90%. The superiors will only conduct random checks from time to time, and the records of larger or major pollution risks must be reported to the headquarters for notification.

Although the latter is still within the scope of normal work, if possible, Fanning does not want Vassius to add an entry and exit record to the headquarters out of thin air.

On the wall to his left is an enlarged version of the floor plan, and under his feet is a staircase that continues to extend downward. At a glance, you can see several warning line signs on the steps.

On the right hand side, there is a passage every other height. The deeper the passage is, the more dangerous the objects contained in it are.

The source of Fanning's sense of danger also mainly came from the direction deep in the stairs.

Fortunately, Fanning did not need to go deeper, because his mobile phone was a "suspicious but no extraordinary properties were found" strange object, and the place where it was stored was at the shallowest level, so there was no question of containment.

After walking down a few steps and turning right to the first passage, the corridor inside looked a bit like the layout of a school piano room, with a group of rooms facing each other every few meters on both sides.

Fanning strode directly in and pushed open an unnumbered horizontal sliding door between No. 9 and No. 10.

This is a lounge and buffer room, equipped with each floor passage. It can not only be locked and unlocked from the outside like other doors, but also locked from the inside.

The room is equipped with facilities such as a telephone, a folding bed, a washbasin, a flush toilet and a food storage cabinet. If you encounter sudden danger, you can escape here to call for help to gain a glimmer of hope.

Fanning opened the toilet lid, poured out the coffee in the drift bottle, rinsed it with water, and then he gestured with the bottle body and the toilet hole.

"Sure enough, this bottle can't be put into the toilet and sucked away." Fan Ning then walked out of the buffer room.

Even if it was forced in, it would probably be crushed.

However, he didn't need to dismantle the toilet because there was a destruction room in the inner part of the corridor on each floor.

This side was only used to collect domestic sewage, and there was a sewage collection pool in the destruction room specifically for dumping extraordinary item residues, ashes or biological tissue fluid.

Fan Ning then came to Room 15.

The storage method of objects on this floor was relatively simple and homogeneous. There were more than a dozen items in one room. Fan Ning quickly found the target locker with his name and a brief description of the incident on the label.

The key of each locker was inserted into the lock, which was equivalent to a handle. He held it and twisted it, and then pulled the locker open.

"Empty?" Fan Ning's eyes widened.

That's right? According to the information he had obtained in Vasius's office before, the suspicious items seized by the Special Patrol Office in a series of mysterious incidents at Saint Lania University were all placed in this room.

My name was written in black and white on the label.

Fanning then found the locker with the label of Anton Conner next to it, and found the basic mystical document of metaphorical dream control method "Sound Flow, Fabric and Dream".

He didn't plan to take other things away, and it would cause trouble if there was no clear need, but he could confirm that it was here.

There was another label of Anton Conner next to it, and the name was crossed out and another strange name was written. Fanning opened it and saw a gorgeous butterfly in amber.

Logically speaking, this should have been the original fragment of the sound series, but due to a series of deaths later, its control level was raised and it was transferred to a deeper level below, so another strange object replaced it.

"Transfer, transfer control level" Fanning pondered for a few seconds.

Could it be that his mobile phone was also transferred away?

It is indeed possible, because the paper materials he saw in Vasius's office were counted as of June 30. In this era, there was no electronic carrier, and the Special Patrol Office could not update in real time.

"By the way, take a look at the management ledger." Fanning's eyes lit up.

Time was running out, so he began to search through boxes and cabinets around him, and then found a notebook and a pen in an unlabeled storage compartment in the corner.

Fanning quickly flipped through it.

There were indeed many records of the transfer of containment objects, some of which were lowered in control level, and some were raised. The reasons recorded were different: such as the occurrence of new related malicious incidents, such as the mysterious characteristics were unsuccessful, and such as the relevant records were verified in mysterious documents.

Soon, Fanning found his own ledger.

This item was directly called "flashlight" by the Special Patrol Office, and described as a personal search item of Carloen Fanning, a survivor of the mysterious incident at St. Lania University. The nature of the transfer was transfer out, and the destination was Room 12 of the B-level sealing room.

The time was 7:53 am on August 17, but the reason was not described in detail, but simply and crudely written as Rudolf Hemon's request!

Just transferred away a few days ago? Fanning couldn't help but frown.

On August 16, I attended the Special Patrol Office's Lianmeng Meeting. At the meeting, He Meng gave a high evaluation of his potential for upgrading to a higher level in front of Boglieri. Then in the afternoon, I performed the "Goldberg Variations". Could it be because of these reasons?

If you want to develop an artistic career in this world and get on the right track, you will definitely enter the discussion group's field of vision. If you want to gain more say in front of the Special Patrol Office, it is a more realistic way to have a higher level of "level". An extremely conceited leader like Boglieri does not look down on the mysterious side of other people.

However, the B-level sealing room is already the highest level of control of the containment in the branch. The original location here is not even D-level.

About ten minutes have passed.

Fanning did not stop. After calming down a little, he returned the messy objects to their original positions, then went out and turned around.

It was just a small accident. Even if this mobile phone was placed in the corridor where the A-level sealing room is located, it was only because the Special Patrol Office's attention was raised to the expectation of "maybe a big problem", and for those who know it, its essential attributes have not changed.

Isn't it just a matter of going through another corridor?

It's not a big deal, just hurry up.