Old-time musicians

Late at night on the street, a stretched box car painted with gorgeous red paint spewed heat and sped along.

——This was Lu's way of sending the three of them home, so the private carriage could only return empty.

Things progressed happily and smoothly. Fan Ning, who was sitting in the passenger seat, began to close his eyes and think about the second question.

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This question is a bit confusing.

First of all, does the father know about the existence of the secret door?

We can only assume that he knows, or even assume that he sealed the mezzanine. Otherwise, there will be no way to think about it later.

Fan Ning opened his palm and marked three points on it with his other hand.

There are three places where secrets are hidden in the Turner Art Museum: the audio fragment at the end of the corridor on the second floor, the secret mechanism on the wall behind my father's desk, and the secret door on the mezzanine of the wall of the installation art exhibition hall on the first floor.

The protection level of the audio fragments is the lowest. This may be because as the starting password, it takes care of Fan Ning's ability, but also because of this, it has already been seized by the Special Patrol Office. It was just a coincidence that after passing Teacher Anton, after going around and around on his own, he still got the above information.

That information pointed to a hidden space on the wall behind his father's desk, where the "Endless Fugue" moving signpost was stored. This was definitely a secret that could not be leaked.

As for its level of protection? The small black box with the knob at the end should not be opened in the Special Patrol Hall, but just from the perspective of "the hidden compartment is discovered", it is not safe compared to the secret door with double protection of the secret interlayer.

After Fan Ning sorted through this, he had some strange speculations about the motives of the clutter that was inexplicably piled up in the corridor:

The first stage is a period when the Special Inspection Department frequently searches the art museum. If they search for audio fragments, they will naturally be highly suspicious that the art museum contains other secrets, near overly eye-catching debris piles or in key investigation areas. , but at this time, the secret door was protected by the secret ritual and the double layer of the mezzanine. The Special Patrol Office wasted a lot of energy but found nothing. Instead, it diverted attention from the father's office.

In the second phase, the Special Inspection Office basically confirmed that there were no other abnormalities in the museum. The effectiveness of the secret ritual will eventually disappear, and the peculiar smell will gradually come out. The risk is very high at this time. If they come back, the pile of debris areas that have been checked many times may become a useless and troublesome obstacle for them. Objects have a certain delay or warning effect on themselves - after having some ability to proactively respond, the Special Patrol Office shuttles them, and it is difficult to avoid making any movement under their noses.

Risk reduction measures in the realm of psychological warfare?

The person who arranged all this naturally cannot accurately predict each time point, nor does he know how far the Special Inspection Office will take things. In the worst case scenario, the secret door will eventually be exposed. Fortunately, after the effectiveness of the secret ritual disappears, , Fan Ning's actions rushed ahead.

"How to investigate what's behind the secret door without entering it?"

Why does this question feel so contradictory?

The cool breeze outside the car window made Fan Ning squint his eyes.

"Caron, where are you going today?" Sheeran asked from the back seat.

Fan Ning came to his senses and said: "I will take you back to Nelenia District from my apartment in East Mecklen District first, and take a detour to get some fresh air."

"All right."

"Professor Fan Ning, I didn't expect that the final result would be all in. I feel that your previous choices were in vain." Qiong leaned her whole body weight on Xilan, stretched and yawned.

Fan Ning said with a smile: "I didn't expect that Lu would be able to come up with an investment budget of 20,000 pounds in one go after graduation."

In this way, in addition to making the building bigger, I can also purchase top-quality large-scale musical instruments, and even build a matching small symphony hall.

Of course, most of the investment will be used for hardware construction. If you want to afford more attractive personnel salary standards and cooperate with more well-known soloists, you still need to test your cash flow and operating capabilities.

"Why do I feel that I had expected it?" Sheeran said at this time. "When you were not famous, he spent 1,800 pounds on the string quartet manuscript. If I remember correctly, you said that the entire Turner Museum of Art was The cost is only 2,000 pounds, right?”

"It's 2,200 pounds. Of course, that's the price nearly 20 years ago." Fanning said.

Wait, 20 years ago?

My casual answer to Xilan's words seemed to open up some ideas for me!

A question worth thinking about: Who appeared first and who came later, between the things under the secret door and the Turner Museum itself?

Under the deep well behind the secret door passage, there seems to be a huge unknown space, as well as some fascinating and indescribable existence.

Instead of thinking that my father came to live in Uvranser at will, after the Turner Museum was built, he hid all official institutions and organized people to go to great lengths to dig out secret spaces and hide these things under the premise of good confidentiality management. thing--

Fanning is more inclined to believe that these things have existed for a long time, and his father deliberately chose this city and this address, bought it and built the Turner Art Museum to cover it up!

address!

After thinking about this, Fan Ning suddenly realized that he had found a suitable angle for investigation!

What was the predecessor of the Turner Museum of Art nearly 20 years ago or even more? Or what was the condition of this land before?

Fan Ning was only two or three years old at that time, so it was obviously impossible to search by memory.

After saying goodbye to the two girls, he first searched around his apartment, trying to find some valuable documents for archiving, but he didn't know whether it was because it was too long or because the apartment was previously used as a dormitory for the museum staff and he had only lived there for the past three years, so he found nothing.

Later, while supervising the cleaning work of the museum, Fanning searched several offices in the living area on the second floor again. This time, he found some old documents such as floor plans, design drawings or property certificates, but they were neither the first version many years ago nor reflected what he wanted.

In desperation, Fanning went to some local government departments in the East Mecklenburg district for help on weekdays after the weekend, such as the departments in charge of cultural media, land resources or urban construction.

But he soon discovered a problem. Due to the rapid industrialization of Uflancel in the past three decades, the city expansion, land transfer and engineering construction were almost in a state of wild growth. Take the prosperous areas in the East Mecklenburg district as an example. Several large factories were just put into operation 10 or 20 years ago, and the surrounding areas were all villages, towns or small cities.

The direct impact of this blind development is that a large number of transportation facilities or construction projects are lacking in planning. The administrative team of the authorities has not been able to keep up with the speed of urban expansion. The approval and file management are extremely irregular. It has only begun to get on the right track in recent years.

The archival materials that Fanning consulted from the relevant departments show that the Turner Art Museum has had nearly ten major and minor repairs or reconstruction records in the past 20 years, and only 6 of them have complete records in the past 10 years.

This means that Fanning has not found even the early reconstruction archives of the museum itself, let alone 20 years ago.

This matter is really beyond the reach of even those who know.

However, the turning point came a week later, in a way that Fanning had never thought of before-

When he and Lu were further discussing the details of the investment, he chatted about this issue. Lu tried to arrange his men to search for the previous urban construction archives in the nearby railway company building. As a result, Lu really found a valuable clue.

"At least forty years ago, the approximate location of the Turner Art Museum was a private residence. The owner of the house was named Weien, and his occupation listed in the information was: organist of the Sunnyside Church in the town of Mecklen."