Old-time musicians

"Are you a knower?"

There is no reason for the respondent to think too long about Benjamin's straightforward question. Google search reading

"No." Fanning's answer did not take more than three seconds.

This means that he is not, but he knows that this exists.

Although he answered quickly, his heart was completely hanging.

After all, he lied.

"Then, the second question." Benjamin nodded and took a puff of his pipe, "What is your relationship with the Guidance School?"

It was a close call.

Fanning's heart was hanging fast and fell fast.

After hearing the content of the second question, he confirmed that his answer to the first question was correct.

This lie must be told.

Xilan listened to what he said and called the duty phone of the Woodpecker Affairs Consulting Office, and then there should be some negotiations with the Special Patrol Office.

Although I don't know what the specific content of the negotiation is...

But if I answer "yes", it will definitely contradict what the Guidance School said.

Answering "I don't understand what you are talking about?" is even more problematic. You already know people from the Guidance School, but you don't know what a knower is?

The reason why Fanning handled it so carefully was due to an assumption he made:

As an official institution of the Empire, the Special Patrol Office is the most powerful among the legal Knowers in Theolian, and even serves as a supervisor.

Since he is not clear about the relationship between the Knowers, this assumption may not be correct, but it is definitely the safest one, and it doesn't matter if it is wrong.

In any case, he shot and killed a person, and there is also the unclear relationship with his father, and the theft and circulation of the Sound Series Fragments...

His promotion and ability acquisition also stem from the code pointed to by the Sound Series Fragments...

If he answers the Special Patrol Office's inquiries in a strange way, it is likely to cause big trouble for himself and the Guidance School!

It shouldn't be possible to see directly that the Knowers don't use mysterious powers? At least it can't be seen directly by the same Knowers, right?

Various thoughts flashed through Fanning's mind quickly, and he began to answer the second question:

"I learned about the existence of the Knower and the Guidance School through Sir Viadrin, and the recommender was my late teacher Professor Anton Konar. His original purpose of recommending me was to go there to study piano."

"But my thoughts have changed a little now. You know, I am a senior student at St. Lenya University. My family had some changes before, and my conditions were embarrassing. I was facing a job search. Now the competition pressure to stay in school is very high. After learning about the salary, treatment and work content of the civil servants of the Guidance School, I think this is also a very decent job..."

Benjamin's inspiration thread was invisibly entangled in Fanning's etheric body and emotional body.

When answering, Fanning's body outline, heart, and blood vessels showed a healthy and normal green "cocoon" phase, and transitioned to the dark green and then red "pool" phase, with fewer mixed colors and no signs of conventional distortion.

The red color of the "Pool" is more pink than deep red, and the outer emotional body rarely sways. Unless he is a master of anti-reconnaissance, he should not be lying.

His brain shows a large area of ​​incandescence, and there seems to be some light gold, showing a high-intensity "Candle" phase inspiration, and there are some purple "Key" phase silhouettes, and the transition zone in the middle is dark.

"Light gold?" Benjamin was a little confused, but these are indeed all "Candle" phases.

Maybe because he is a music student and has been composing music recently?

"Are you spying on me? Are you also a knowledgeable person who was promoted with the "Candle" phase?"

Fanning also felt the other party's inspiration. If he rejected it, his observation of his own etheric body would be greatly weakened.

But he didn't do it.

"Okay, I wish you find a sincere and decent job after graduation." Benjamin continued to nod.

"Thank you."

"The third question, please explain the charred pistol grip and the smashed mirror at the scene." Benjamin's eyes narrowed slightly under the silver-gray soft felt hat.

Fanning's heart choked.

Such details...

Or was he suspected?

"I don't quite understand what you mean." Fanning smiled at him blankly.

"I understand." Benjamin took a deep breath of his pipe, put it on the mahogany table, and exhaled a long breath.

Fanning continued to look at him with a blank expression.

"At the critical moment, in the dark, it is really difficult to pay attention to details by instinct. You don't have to explain it yourself, I'll just take a look."

Benjamin said, taking out three candles from the office cabinet next to him, lighting them one by one with matches, pouring wax liquid to fix them, and placing them in a triangle on the table.

"He wants to test me in some way?" Fanning felt a little timid.

I don't know if I will be discovered.

But I don't seem to have any reason to refuse to cooperate.

"Put your left hand in this area." Benjamin said.

Fanning had to do as he was told.

Then, Benjamin threw a snowflake-shaped crystal on the candle flame closest to Fanning, and white mist rose.

"Please close your eyes."

In the darkness, Fanning smelled a cool and cold breath. He felt that his mind became quiet, his personality became silent, and he lost the desire to communicate with others, but his memory of recent past events became unusually clear.

Especially the memories of the past day, they passed by quickly without missing a single detail, not only the pictures, but also the senses, extremely vivid and clear.

Before the funeral began, the complete order of the faces of the people who laid flowers on the teacher's coffin;

When I finished playing and bowed, the distribution of seats and empty seats in the audience;

In the funeral procession, Joan poked her shoulder with her finger at the exact position;

When the three of them were having lunch and chatting at noon, the clothes of the four unfamiliar classmates sitting next to me;

The trajectory of my hand stroking Sheeran's hair on the grass in the courtyard;

The choking smell of dust corners found during the general cleaning;

The way food residues were stacked on the dinner plate;

The feeling of hitting the wrong notes when playing the teacher's piano sonata;

The complete form of the pattern on the collar of Sheeran's nightgown on the sofa...

Stop!

The timeline proceeds to when the two said good night to each other and Fanning went back to his room to sleep...

Fanning suddenly realized that the memories in his mind were being dragged by external forces like a spinning vinyl record in a phonograph, reading the information engraved on it!

It was a pulling feeling mixed with incandescent and dark silver...

The phase of "candle" and "wild"?

Fanning immediately tried to regain the initiative of his own inspiration. He felt that his spirit was a spark of incandescent to light gold, with a small amount of purple silhouette. Although the main body only had about one phase, it was even slightly higher than the two phases dragged by external forces!

He felt that this string of memory shuttles, under his interference, should be fast or slow, can move forward or stop, can be clear or blurred.

He could even try his best to urge a wave and forcibly cut off this "being read" state!

However, he did not adopt this confrontational approach, but instead blurred the following memory information...

The record of memory continued to spin:

I dreamed of Lu and Roy, but only had a illogical conversation;

I woke up suddenly in the middle of the night, searched around and went to Sheeran's room;

I was drowsy on the small chair and was awakened by the knife stabbed by the man;

I threw Sheeran to the ground amid the gunshots, and then grabbed a bench and hit the man's head;

The memory was unclear and the glass was shattered all over the floor;

I grabbed the pistol and shot the man immediately...

Everything went on according to the direction that Fanning had handled until he opened his eyes again.