Old-time musicians

Chapter 627 “Price”

"Master Fan Ning, the working style of our office is a concentrated expression of the leader's will and principles. It is absolutely consistent and has never changed. What may change is the perception of the outside world. Of course, that is uncontrollable and unimportant."

"As for the surprise and confusion you just expressed about our 'consultation proposal'. In fact, the opinions and feelings of the vast majority of people in the world are trivial and insignificant. The responsibility of the Special Patrol Office is to steer the mysterious side of the world. The direction of the process is not a psychological consultation or humanistic care institution. It has no obligation to have one-to-one communication with many ordinary individuals-including you in the past-but the current Master Fan Ning is definitely not among them. We should have a good chat. Chat, the first real communication, you can try to explore more topics.”

Regarding Fan Ning's attitude when he first came up and the retelling of the "early morning interview" three years ago, Lasus had no emotional fluctuations.

After he explained slowly, he motioned to Salman to take back the investigation report:

"What about, say, Vincent Van Nin?"

When Fan Ning heard this, the sharpness in his eyes flashed away. He didn't hide any expression, so the other party could easily catch it.

"I know what you want to ask." Lasus smiled.

"Um?"

"Vincent's disappearance is either a complete death or a difficult situation. If it is the latter, he must have fallen into an incomprehensible depth in the abnormal zone. In fact, you should have already experienced the above joints. It’s pretty much inferred.”

"In fact, Master Fan Ning should have been a high-level disciple of the Special Inspection Office since he was a child, and an outstanding investigator in the future. But now, looking back many years later, the process of things has already deviated from the original direction, and the relationship between them has become It's so subtle, I'm afraid that even our previous generation has never thought of it." Lasus' inexplicable smile formed a contrast with the sinister expression of Owen next to him.

He took out a thick investigation file from the drawer and opened it: "Vincent Van Ning, once in the Special Patrol Office, his code name was 'Fractalist', and his pseudonym was 'Leon Leila', 890 After surviving the aberration zone and returning in 2000, we lost contact with the organization. It was not until around 912 that we gradually determined that a folk artist named Vincent in Ufranser might be the 'fractal master', and it was not until this time that he It’s been 3 years since I disappeared.”

"Judging from the later traces of his whereabouts, Vincent, who escaped from the Abnormal Zone, opened a Turner Art Museum and began to have a strong interest in the seven-year Harvest Art Festival."

"He relentlessly used the cyclical fluctuations in the abnormal zone to collect some abnormal pigments from the damaged skin of the world to create his mystical paintings. However, his progress did not meet expectations, and this kind of person who often swims on the edge of the abyss The behavior of walking and pursuing dangerous knowledge also caused him to encounter an accident sooner or later during the 39th Harvest Art Festival in 1909."

"It's similar to the situation of He Meng and Gang."

Lassus said this and quickly closed the file.

"!!"

The inadvertent turn of the narrative content made Fan Ning narrow his eyes slightly, facing his meaningful expression.

Inside, huge waves surged.

Is the father's situation similar to that of He Meng and Gang? So where is the "trap"? Isn't it already dead?

Moreover, they found out that he directly or indirectly killed two Insighters in the "Disintegration Field"? No, the "similar situation" mentioned by this person may refer to the similar situation of "the incomprehensible state after death".

He recalled the box set of silent dramas "Silence!" that he and Sheeran watched. 》 situation.

"Fan Ning, you're not going to keep pretending." Owen, who had been silent until now, finally snorted, "When we met in the concert hall last night, you were saying hello to He Meng and Gang. Your The acting is a bit too poor.”

"Owen, you're not going to continue to surprise people from time to time, are you?" Fan Ning picked up the water glass on the table and took a sip, then shook his head with a smile, "I personally don't care about the cumbersome etiquette, but your addressing habits, you It is best to behave with dignity when outside. I would like to remind you that if a chief inspector of the Special Inspection Department is drowned in saliva, it is not a decent way to die. "

"you--"

After hearing Fan Ning's unhurried, sarcastic and inexplicably threatening words, Irving wanted to shoot the case and draw the gun.

"Okay, okay."

Lassius stopped very quickly, and even this time directly used his higher spiritual influence to prevent Owen from making any further inappropriate behavior.

"Our colleague who is studying 'Jhin' can sometimes lose control of his emotions. But Master Fan Ning, you did already know about the deaths of He Meng and Gang, right?"

This old fox. Fan Ning thought to himself.

"I saw "Silence!" from the Guidance School a few days ago." He leaned back in his seat with a smile, "You know, the news about He Meng and Gang is one of my concerns. Frankly speaking from personal perspective From a different perspective, I’m very concerned about whether they are dead or not.”

"Our office is still investigating the causes and consequences of the original mission." Lasus looked at Fan Ning with a meaningful look, "Of course, the reason for mentioning this topic just now is that Vincent may have encountered someone who For similar incidents, we should have more clues than you, and our investigation methods should be stronger than yours. If you are concerned about his whereabouts or life and death, you can come with us after the Harvest Art Festival."

"Again, in the form of an 'official document'?"

Fan Ning seemed to be smiling but not smiling.

"What a pity. Judging from my previous experience with you, every time it was bad, but you refused to accept rejection and insisted on dragging people into the water. Graduation concert incident, Vasius incident, Santa Ramburg subway incident , The resurrection premiere day incident does not bring any sense of expectation, so we should not make any announcements in advance and let’s talk about it.”

Lassus was not worried and changed the topic again, took out another slightly thinner document and raised it towards Fan Ning:

"Soliciting opinions on the "Congress Reform Bill", conditional consent, No. 02086, is this your authorization?"

"Reform bill? I haven't handled it." Fan Ning glanced at the document, "Oh, this is Miss Roy's handwriting."

"Expand the proportion of public school enrollment quotas for the middle class and the common people. Admit people to study for degrees at city colleges and Turner Academy of the Arts in various counties. We agree to reduce the annual financial budget of public schools and replace it with an increase in the cultural industry tax rate." Lasus read the solicitation. The main words in the opinion are, "Oh, you don't know them yet. At first, I thought they seemed to be biased toward the common people and the middle class. I thought it was you or the guidance school's instruction. Judging from the official forces behind Turner Art Hall, I did a elimination method. That seems to be the meaning of the Bologna School itself.”

"I am not an official knowledgeable person now." Fan Ning said lightly, "Turner Art Hall is not an administrative department of the government. Mr. Lasus, I must emphasize this point. The participation of extraordinary forces in it is loose and only in Maintain cooperation on ‘Art for Public Welfare’.”

The other party obviously used the topic of the reform bill to dig a hole in the discourse. He was not stupid enough to jump directly into it and admit the "political" or "organized" nature of Turner Art Hall in disguise.

“The official power behind Turner Hall”?

This sentence is actually very sensitive when combined with the current business situation of Turner Art Hall!

What do you, a chain of theaters, want to do by bringing together the Guidance School, the Bologna School, the remnants of the Fanghui Temple in the Southern Continent, and the Holy Sun Church?

With this kind of branching structure corresponding to multi-level grassroots administrative units, any authority will be wary of its purity!

During the years of exile in the Southern and Western Continents, Fan Ning seriously reminded Roy many times that there were some red lines that he must not step on! Art for public welfare must be art for public welfare! At least, before its development process has undergone fundamental changes, our own hearts must be clear and transparent!

"These suggestions are all good." There was no subtext on Lasus' withered face, and the topic of the reform bill did not change.

Even Fan Ning couldn't guess for a while whether there was any other extended meaning in what he just said.

"Master Fan Ning, you can still continue to make suggestions for modifying the terms of the clause, or discuss many details of later implementation. The introduction of a congressional bill will also affect the subsequent revision of local regulations."

"So, what's the price?" Fan Ning suddenly asked.

"price?"

"Yes, price."

"Master Fan Ning, I don't quite understand what you mean."

"We have been talking for almost 20 minutes." Fan Ning adjusted to a more comfortable position on the sofa, "To sum up, the qualitative report on the events on the premiere day, the positive attitude of the chat, Vincent's topic, the congressional reform plan You displayed a lot of products during the consultation, and I tried out some of the interesting products.”

"So what's next? What's their price?"