Old-time musicians

"Carlon, I can probably understand the beginning." Joan hooked her hair with her fingers, thinking, "It means that people live in the world, and after experiencing all kinds of things, they will eventually die, right? But what does the rest mean?"

"You can understand it in conjunction with the index title." Fanning tapped his fingers on the table, "This passage may emphasize the death view of certain groups: physical death is only the first beginning, and after a person dies, others will gradually witness and accept the fact of their death. This is the second death, huh?..." Fanning paused, thinking deeply while speaking.

Joan wondered, "When a person dies, he is dead, and it may not be necessary for others to confirm it. Is this also another meaning? I feel that it is no different from the former."

"I thought about it, maybe there is a difference." Fanning gave his explanation.

"Imagine a scene like this: a person is lying in a hospital ward on his deathbed. He is about to die. There may be five minutes, ten minutes, or half an hour left. Anyway, it is a matter of time... Relatives and friends come to visit him. Some come from far away, and some take time out of their busy schedules. They enter the ward one by one..."

"You are one of them. You sit by his bed, hold his hand, look at his face, say your last goodbye to him, and then walk out the door with grief, regret, or a complicated mood. When you turn your head, he is actually dead in your heart... Although he may still be lingering and has ten minutes to live, it has no meaning to you, right?"

Sheeran agreed: "It seems that there is indeed a subtle There is a slight difference. "

Fanning said: "So the second level should refer to death in the minds of others, or decoupling in a social sense. My understanding of the last paragraph is that when a person dies, there are always people who remember him, such as the narrator, his relatives, friends and lovers. When the last person in the world who remembers the deceased dies, it is the third level. "

Shilan was stunned beside him: "So this is the process that everyone will go through? It sounds a bit sad and desperate, and there is some nihilistic fear of death. "

"No, if it is defined in this way, I don't think it is necessarily the case. "Fanning shook his head, "For example, do you think Master Gilles will experience the third level of death? "

The two girls were stunned.

Yes, just like Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Brahms and other masters on Fanning's previous life on the blue planet...

Even myself, who inexplicably traveled to another world, will miss them for the rest of my life.

"This kind of writing logic is often progressive, and the focus is on the latter part, so I think its central idea is to emphasize the importance of being 'remembered'."

After Fanning said this, he suddenly realized something, and then his eyes met with Joan's, and he found that the expression of the little girl opposite him was exactly the same as his.

The two people's eyes became brighter and brighter, and they said in unison: "Transplanting creatures!"

After the incident of Professor Lorraine, Joan told herself that the transplanting creatures seemed to be unable to distinguish the concepts of "alive" and "dead", or that their states could not be distinguished by these two terms at all. In their world, there is only "remembering" or "forgotten".

Fanning made a bold guess: "So, you say, the 'phantom' created by the opera artist Benchoire mentioned in this document, will it be essentially a kind of transplanting creature that relies on his thoughts or memories?"

Shiran suddenly exclaimed and covered his open mouth.

"What's going on?" Fanning said in surprise.

"Carlon, I suddenly thought of that incident! The 'Dream Man' incident that confused all of us!"

"'Dream Man' incident, you mean, memory!?" Fanning suddenly woke up from a dream.

"Let me sort it out. We really don't know the source or purpose of this incident, but we have speculated on its possible implementation principle before - that is, first fabricate a non-existent character image, give psychological hints to the first few people, let them dream about it, they can easily share their experiences spontaneously, which leads to psychological hints to more people, more people dream about it, and after a certain scale, the media will come to 'explore' in order to attract attention, and further be widely known and spread by people with excessive curiosity. Finally, the originally fictional imaginary things really become objective memories!"

"From this perspective, it is exactly the same as the formation process of 'phantoms'!"

Shiran said: "There is still a difference. The 'phantoms' created by Banshuwa in the literature are almost materialized, with completely independent autonomous consciousness, and can affect the material world, while the 'Dream Man' is just an illusory thing in a dream from beginning to end, and the impact it has on people is only on the spiritual level. "

"Is it possible that it is because of inspiration?" Fanning speculated, "The opera artist Benchois was a knowledgeable person in ancient times, and it is even very likely that he was a 'proficient one', and now most of the people affected by the 'Dream Man' incident are ordinary people, so the intensity of inspiration on both sides is naturally very different."

Joan suddenly reminded: "Carolen, Shiran, have you found a more important difference?"

"What else?"

She said to the two people who looked at her: "There is one point that has been reflected in your words, but you may have overlooked it: the 'illusion man' is just Benchois's personal memory, while the 'Dream Man' is a collective memory!"

"The inspiration of the ancient wise man Ban Shuwa must be extremely powerful, and his physical strength may even be very powerful. This is naturally not comparable to the instigator behind it today, otherwise he would not have to be so sneaky."

"If the purpose of the instigator is to create a migratory creature of the level of 'phantom man', he will definitely -"

"Try optimization methods?" Fan Ning took over the question, "Or in other words, use some compensatory means to close the gap with Ban Shuwa? Including the physical gap, but also the spiritual gap?"

Fan Ning suddenly remembered another "Original Secret" mentioned in the ancient Chaniz language that the Bologna School had been looking for.

The "Secret Spiritual Instrument" recorded above that killed Teacher Anton was evaluated as an optimization idea for improving the quality of sensory fuel.

Optimize ideas!

"This is one of them." Qiong said, "He may also hope that he can avoid Banchuva's failure and control this 'phantom man' to achieve some purpose. Otherwise, in addition to creating a trap for himself, it will also What’s the point?”

Fan Ning thought over and over again and looked at the notebook open in front of him.

There are all the incidents listed before that are still doubtful.

"The experience officer of the Transcendental Club entrusted "Grey Eagle" to take away Sheeran for the first time. The latter was killed by himself after being promoted to a knowledgeable person. The second time he tried to do it himself."

"The experience officer of the Transcendental Club is suspected of collecting the life force of workers by taking advantage of the opportunity when workers are injured by radioactive substances and their lives pass abnormally."

"The agent of the Pleasure Listening Club uses the secret device of capturing souls to steal the light of first acquaintance from innocent people and refine the essence of radiance with extremely high purity of inspiration."

The following one was just written:

"Unknown people concocted the "Dream Boy Incident" and fabricated large-scale collective memories that did not originally exist."

Next to it lay another page recording fragments of musical inspiration. On it was written the inspiration he had received from Teacher Anton:

"Music playing or a ritual."

It was this revelation that allowed me to cope with the mandatory arrangements of the Special Patrol Office, and later led all the staff to formulate a plan that was completely different from the previous one.

His eyes flickered for a long time, and finally he took a deep breath:

"No matter what, let's go ahead as scheduled tomorrow and follow our plan."