Old-time musicians

"Okay, everyone."

Mr. Wax raised his head, his eyes listless: "Then let's first explain the function of this ritual instrument related to the Yiyuan God's 'Halo'."

Everyone looked sideways at the strange white and turbid scale.

Everyone has noticed before that the burned paper in Mr. Wax's hand records various musical scores.

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There are even a few more knowledgeable people who have identified the composers of many works.

"Every time the melted wax drips, the scale tilts to the left or right. Could it be that the function of this ritual vessel is to invoke the power of the lost witness 'Halo' to obtain two works? Enlightenment from the comparison of high and low attainments?”

"However, 'ge' is the collective subjectivity in the long history. Even if someone is as high as the witness, he can judge part of the secret history, and his individual preferences cannot replace the evaluation of the entire history. The results of this kind of 'consultation' are credible. Degree?"

Some speculations and doubts flashed through everyone's minds.

However, Mr. Wax’s actions and explanation at the next moment made them realize that they seemed to have guessed in the wrong direction:

I saw him lifting the "halo balance" completely, and a raised symbol was exposed on the bottom, which was obviously a new symbol made of wax.

A diagonal line segment.

"This strange thing can be used to designate a certain concept as the basis, and then measure the correlation between the other two concepts and it."

Mr. Wax resteadied the scale and smoothed out its slight vibration.

"After presenting some details and doubts, the most important conclusion at present is——"

"The probability that the remains of the 'old days' are in Fan Ning's hands is about 8%, and if the statement is more precise, the probability that Fan Ning has some kind of 'channel that can stably call upon the power of the old days' is about 5%. "

There were a few short conversations among the crowd, and this conclusion aroused a slight surprise, because these senior executives had already had a foreshadowing in their minds since the last "disaster" divination results came out.

"How did you get the data?" He Meng frowned and asked.

According to the mysterious characteristics of the "halo balance" explained just now, this can only compare the correlation between the two sets of concepts.

"The measurement results of a large number of works are nested in each other, recursively sorted, and corroborated with other secret history research results," Mr. Wax said.

"Using the same 'Old Days' as the base, if you place an ordinary leaf on the left and an ordinary stone on the right, or melt a set of C major scales and arpeggios on the left and right, what will be the result?" He Meng asked again.

"Good question."

Mr. Wax laughed lazily twice at this moment.

"What is weighed by the 'halo balance' is always relative height, not absolute size. If two concepts with extremely low correlation are put on the scale, due to the small perturbation of the secret history entanglement law against the blank background, they will be different from the ' There will still be differences in old correlations, the scales will still tip in one direction, and even multiple measurements may give different results."

"Each weighing consumes a lot of my sanity. I cannot use the exhaustive strategy of 'flat push' to weigh all the combinations that I think are necessary. Therefore, the above characteristics have become the key to deduction work. To maximize interference, I must optimize my strategy as much as possible to reduce my energy consumption in deductions.”

"Back to the issue of the wreckage of the 'old days', at the last Alliance Dream meeting, I was entrusted by the leader to explain to everyone the power and characteristics of the Source God that are currently known, and the two important types of her wreckage. The invisible power is, firstly, related to conductors, and secondly, it can continuously guide composition inspirations with extremely high levels of attainment and extremely rich types. And this time the balance is weighed by correlation, let me talk about some interesting or strange details——"

"Most of Fan Ning's current works in the catalog are 'more relevant to the old days' when compared with the works of those masters. Only when compared with his other works can they be higher or lower."

"An incomprehensible exception is that his two core symphonies, 'Giant' and 'Resurrection', are among the lowest among his works! And when placed among the works of other famous artists, their 'relevance' Still not significant enough.”

"This..." Gang felt a lot of confusion. She thought for a while and asked, "Have you weighed the combination of his "Choral Fantasia" and "Resurrection" Symphony?"

"The former is higher than the latter." Mr. Wax, "I knew that his 'Choral Fantasy' was a precursor to 'Resurrection', so I repeated it three times, but the fact is so counter-intuitive."

"Then, I also weighed Vienne's "Prelude", Scheler's "Winter Journey", "Lückert's Song" and "Poem of Awakening". The 'relevance' of these works Descending from high to low, "Prelude" is even higher than most of Fanning's repertoire. This shows that Vienne was once extremely directly related to the "old days", but after returning to China, the works quickly returned to low levels. Relevant level... There are some ups and downs in each of Scheler's works, which shows that he was also entangled in some way after he set foot in the South. The intensity remains to be seen. This is why I suggest that the leader wait until he completes the entire symphony before making a decision. reason…"

"Generally speaking, Fan Ning is the only one whose works are highly relevant."

"I basically understand the principle and the ins and outs." He Meng spoke in a low voice again, "The conclusion is that the remains of the 'old days' are very likely to be controlled by Fan Ning, and it is an important reason why he can write so many excellent works."

"So, how does this affect our Special Inspection Office's thinking on weighing the issue of 'Fan Ning's value in curbing the spread of abnormal areas'?"

He Meng asked the doubts in the minds of many people present.

"Where does the inspiration come from" and "the level of artistic attainments" are two relatively independent questions.

In other words, using mystical means to obtain inspiration is a common technique used by artists.

Using "Old Days" is just one of the techniques, and it is not fundamentally different from exploring migrations, searching for strange objects, constructing secret rituals, or praying to other witnesses.

For the vast majority of mediocre people, the accumulation of extraordinary resources can at best make them "famous", but it still cannot achieve "greatness".

"So the second question is the pollution characteristics of the 'old days'." Mr. Wax's lazy demeanor became slightly restrained at this time, "Actually, I am still not sure whether this is considered a kind of pollution."

"The abnormal zone erodes the surface of the world, penetrates the texture and penetrates deep into the marrow, just like the cancer cells that grow out of control in the human body. The reason why artists are highly respected is because their 'character' can stabilize the boundaries of out-of-control, even ' Forging a Lion or a higher-level 'Grid' can partially regress the abnormal state to the previous normal state. The two forces of change offset each other, which is reflected in the fact that artists of all levels work together to slow down the spread of the abnormal area..."

"Could it be that an artist polluted by the 'old', such as Fan Ning, would lose his 'character' in containing the spread of abnormal areas?" Hearing this, He Meng speculated with straight eyes.

"That's not true. As long as you have a good 'grid', you can contain the abnormal area." Mr. Wax shook his head.

"If the world's surface is in the 'first state' under normal circumstances and becomes the 'second state' after falling into an abnormal zone, then the normal 'lattice' is for the 'second state' to partially regress back to the 'first state', but The special thing about artists who have been polluted by the 'old days' is——"

"Their 'lattice' will cause the abnormal area to be in another weird state that we currently know very little about, that is, in the 'third state' after a partial regression."

...in the third state? This weird pollution indicator name made all the senior officials of the Special Patrol Office present hold their breath and watch.

Owen, who had been listening silently, asked with his eyes flashing one after another:

"So when the world's skin is in the third state, what is the difference from the first state?"

"There's not much difference." Mr. Wax's words made everyone even more confused.

Then why is it called "a strange state of little understanding"?

"The 'Third State' is not a restricted area for ordinary creatures. In fact, they are basically the same as the natural laws of the healthy world. In some abnormal areas, there are faults in the 'Third State' region that are suspected to be left over from ancient times. Our deductions and experiments believe that there will be no significant abnormalities in the growth and reproduction of organisms there."

"However, the 'Third State' and the 'First State' are incompatible! Once their intersection area is large enough, they will twist together again and turn back into the deformed 'Second State' abnormal area!"

"In other words, although musical works created by ordinary artists and musical works created under the inspiration of the 'old days' can resist the spread of abnormal areas, the latter has some unknown characteristics that we have not been able to figure out. It cannot form a synergy with the former. If the scale is large, internal losses will occur!

! "

Everyone in the Chaotic Heavenly Stage fell into silence for a moment.

"Esta Tone." At this time, Inspector Oka announced a name. "This reminds me of another clue discovered during the recent investigation. The classical guitar master said that in the last few days of his creative career, In 2006, his creative output encountered unprecedented obstacles.”

"Further tracing revealed that the reason was related to his role as harpist in the premiere of Viennese's Prelude."

"This is exactly what Mr. Wax has just weighed, another piece that is strongly related to the 'old days'"

Upon hearing this, Owen uttered a series of sentences coldly: "Now that the characteristics have been clarified, we should now completely block Fan Ning's works and the Turner Art Hall chain of theaters. To contain and transform the spread of abnormal areas, both It is related to the number of artists and artistic works, but also to the quality. If the influence of his works continues to ferment in the minds of the people, even the previous achievements of the abnormal zone confrontation will be eroded and disintegrated. "

"The 'Ning's Teaching Method' and the theater chain are unprecedented. If we don't cross the line, the benefits will outweigh the losses." Pogorelic spoke.

Everyone immediately ended the formal or informal discussion.

Unless there is information that needs to be reminded or supplemented, or someone asks questions and requests for answers, generally speaking, leaders do not have the habit of taking the initiative to explain and demonstrate when drawing conclusions.

These senior leaders, who were regarded as smart people by their leaders, gradually figured out the key points after doing some thinking and reasoning, and Owen also became silent.

In fact, most of Fan Ning's current value to the discussion group is still positive.

If theater chains can really support the music industry from bottom to top, the artistic accomplishment of the people will be improved, the level of human music education will be leapfrogged, and the works of masters and famous people will be given more opportunities to perform and appreciate, and more people will be able to Many future masters and famous figures will derive their achievements from these beneficiary groups, and other higher "qualities" will be enough to offset the exclusionary influence of Fan Ning's own "qualification".

Even if he is still alive and can be promoted to "New Moon" in two years, he will also become an important "pillar".

But the problem is that with the subsequent exposure of "Ning's Teaching Method" and the premiere of "Resurrection", this person's talent in both composing and teaching completely exceeded expectations. If he had cultivated too many talents while developing his artistic career, Those who are too important are influenced by the "old days", or those who naively become "torch bearers" in the future, things will suddenly become counterproductive.

The Harvest Art Festival will be held in two years’ time, which is valuable in emergencies but a hidden danger in the long term;

Being a "Crescent Moon" is a good thing, being a "Torch Bearer" is going to cause trouble;

There is no problem with your own improvement, but there may be problems if you teach others to improve too much;

The business left behind is a huge resource, and if it steps on the red line, it may become a big source of pollution;

If he really died directly, there would be no need to think so much, but the reexamination work in the abnormal area had lost clues, and the "old days" were still in his hands and needed to be collected back;

It is too difficult to grasp the scale.

This problem in Fan Ning can force people to get lost.

They finally understood why the leader, who always made decisive decisions, had to observe and consider for a full year when faced with his subordinates' requests for instructions on Fan Ning-related issues, and then gave a preliminary solution as the investigation information was improved.

The leader still warned that his life should not be harmed during the arrest and search operations, and later also expressed financial support when the "Kapron Art Fund" was established.

Still prefer "control", "investigation" and "drawing lines".

The so-called "not crossing the line" in the leader's mouth mainly depends on whether the operators behind it know the rules of honestly making music for the benefit of the discussion group, rather than infiltrating from the grassroots under certain pretexts and unilaterally forming their own artistic forces.

Owen's eyes narrowed slightly if he found any substantial signs.

The next moment, Pogolelic, who had finished giving instructions on all topics, began to move away from the sky steps.

Time flies to August 28, and the famous singer finals will kick off at nightfall on this day.

It was still afternoon, the sun was strong and the air was hot. The streets of Tiya City were lined with colorful parasols, and the brick flowerbeds outside the shade were rippling and twisting in the sight of the citizens.

A actors' suite at the Eleanor State Opera House.

The decoration here is luxurious, relatively cool, and well ventilated. Thick roller blinds block several windows where the sun shines directly, but strong sunlight still flows in through the fabric, giving the wooden furniture in the entire room a bright and deep color. red.

"Does this look good?"

An's figure suddenly flashed to the door, lifted up the hem of her dark blue skirt and turned it in a circle, then covered her collar and made a salute to the audience.

"Not bad, sister." Luna's voice was a little weak. She covered her pink eyes with her fingers again, and she changed to the other side of the wicker chair and lay on her side with her legs curled up——

"But mainly you should ask the teacher."

"Maybe the color is a little darker?" Fan Ning was sitting on the desk on the other side, holding his forehead, as if thinking about something, and then glanced sideways at the door.

"Oh." Miss Nightingale flashed into the inner room, and two minutes later the tall figure popped out again.

"What about this?" She changed into a goose-yellow dress.

"Is the chest too low?" Luna patted her mouth with her small hands and yawned.

"A little better." Fan Ning looked up casually again.

"Oh." Miss Nightingale flashed in again.

She went through this process several times, from dark blue to light yellow, from light purple to light green, and finally changed to a pure white dress. She also changed the styles of belt, silk scarf, sleeve accessories, headband, shawl and socks. Match several times.

"It seemed like it was better at the beginning." Fan Ning finally said.

"...I can't remember the other positions for the first time." An curled her lips.

The music flowing throughout the room suddenly stopped.

"Miss Nightingale, you want me to remind you at four o'clock to come in and practice "The Beautiful Mill Girl" again." Walter opened the door of another room with a piano.

"Right away." An Huang stepped aside and took a drink of water, then quickly walked into the piano room, deciding to recall it carefully later.