Old-time musicians

The sun was strong and the heat was scorching. The clouds seemed to be melted. The pure white silk in the blue sky was knotted, pulled and deformed.

In the fox lily field that burned like a flame, a carriage was speeding on the brick road soaked with asphalt and lead.

The road coverage rate in the suburbs of Tia was not high. Most of them were fields, hills or lakeside trails. The only road that was getting wider and wider was the main road leading to the main hall of the church.

In the sparsely populated suburban villages, only along this main road could you see some believers walking to the temple.

It was ten o'clock in the morning. Before the three of them set off, many visitors came to the villa.

They were mainly some musicians, music critics, media reporters and noble patrons who had worked with or made friends with Walter.

Even if a well-known conductor was not good at dancing with long sleeves, he would have more or less some upper-class social circles.

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According to his teacher Scheller, this student has "graduated" and many famous bands in the North and West have offered him olive branches. As for the specific choice, he will not give advice to the "graduates", but will encourage the study, performance or attempt of different artistic styles.

It seems, maybe, he should go to the North Continent.

Hearing this, combined with Walter's previous ambitions, many people have guessed it in their hearts.

Well, this conductor sought another job after winning the crown, which is an expected trend in the southern music industry, but this time he did move a little low-key and a little faster.

In short, Fanning's handling wasted some time.

Compared with Scheller's usual style, he talked a little more with the visitor this time, because he wanted to ask around if there was anything unusual around him.

These well-informed people expressed their concerns about "the disappearance of the everlasting nectar, and the products of the southern country may be exhausted", but they did not mention the problem of "not being able to go abroad" - every day, tens of millions of passengers set sail on the oceans of various continents, some of whom leave their hometowns, and some of whom are wanderers returning to their homeland. Since they said that this is not the case, it must not be the case, otherwise it would have been a mess.

"Teacher, the saint invited you to meet, will he not include us?"

"It definitely does not include me. The prayers of the 'helpless blood' are considered to be unanswerable. Although they no longer drive people like us away, it is so embarrassing every time I go to church."

In the seats in the carriage, Luna and An leaned against each other.

"It doesn't matter who he wants to meet, you just follow me during this period."

Fanning, who was sitting opposite with his eyes closed, responded.

First, he was shocked to meet the two students in the morning, and then he asked the visitors who heard the news in a roundabout way. After gradually calming down, Fan Ning realized that the manifestation of the problem was definitely not the simple and crude "I can't leave the South Continent", and the second hypothesis was the most likely.

—— His spiritual subconscious was correcting his decision.

Fan Ning even guessed that if he still wanted to send the two girls away, he only needed to repeat the travel arrangements.

The subconscious is not the opposite of the self.

If he clearly realized the difference between the two options of sending them away/not sending them away, and still strengthened his confirmation of "sending them away", the subconscious would think "maybe this is right", and thus stop the warning or correction function.

After sorting it out, Fan Ning felt that the above guess should be closer to the facts.

But there are also two subdivided questions.

"First, the source problem. Where does this early warning ability or danger revelation come from in my spirituality?"

Thinking of this, Fan Ning couldn't help but make a small gesture of holding his left arm with his right hand.

Under the sleeve here is the skin where the fox lily emblem is located.

What abilities does it bring?

Is there a possibility of "malicious revision"?

After thinking about it, Fanning thought it was unlikely. First of all, the creation of the emblem was related to his own work. Secondly and more importantly, it couldn't do it - the subconscious mind couldn't "stop" itself from making decisions many times. The dominant behavior of people is always the conscious mind. If he was determined to send them away, he could repeat it, ask someone to do it, or even spend money to buy a ship.

He was more inclined to think that this was a "reminder".

"Second, the object problem. Why did I let Walter go instead of just leaving all three students?"

This may indicate that in the potential crisis factors of the southern continent, the individual differences between "southerners" and "foreigners" still exist.

It's okay for Walter to leave, and it's not very useful to stay here. It's more beneficial than harmful to report to the old symphony orchestra early.

But Luna and An are in danger. Staying by their side and actively coping together may have a glimmer of hope. If they leave directly, will they lose hope completely?

At present, Fanning feels that he can only interpret it here.

Let's go to the church to learn more and see what the saint "伈佊" will tell us.

The carriage is still galloping, and the fragrant summer breeze seems to carry something sweet, wonderful, and hard to tell whether it is sacred or restless.

The altitude distribution of the Fox Lily Field is low in the southeast and high in the northwest. The carriage is going higher and higher. When the vision moves to a certain place between the hills on both sides, the buildings with soft curves bloom like a colorful kaleidoscope.

"Here it is." Fanning signaled the carriage to stop.

Compared to the rich and strong primary colors and dark tones of the Holy Sun Church, the Fragrant Temple prefers light and soft light colors or pink. The terrain of the fox lily sea here is a single and neat uphill slope. At the end of the field of vision, only the road, the sky and the temple buildings can be seen. All the warm and pleasant fragrant scenes are pouring down from the opposite side of the slope.

The invitation in Fanning's hand has begun to burn.

A small bright red stone inlaid in the signature was swallowed by the flames and evaporated instantly.

Soon, Archbishop Fields and Bishop Calestini appeared, and together with several clergymen, they welcomed Fanning and the other two in. The front hall of the steps turned directly to the back, and there was an elegant and slender semi-open square courtyard. The ground was paved with the same colored tiles as the walls, and there were delicate and small colored glaze animal reliefs.

All three of them came to the church headquarters for the first time. Fanning felt that he was not visiting a church but a manor.

"Mr. Scheller, you only took one day to think about it. I guess you will make the decision we hope for." Fields had a smile on his face, but he seemed a little tired.

"Which orchestra will perform?" Fanning asked directly.

"Of course it is the United Principality Festival Orchestra. Most of the musicians are waiting here. It seems that your symphony has been completed... We just hope to let them meet with the conductor first, start the rehearsal task a few days earlier, and strive to practice as soon as possible to the point where they can "cooperate happily." "

This top orchestra ranked first in the southern continent and seventh in the world is nominally the resident orchestra of the Festival Concert Hall, but in fact, its source is under the leadership of the Fanghui Temple.

The music director Senesino is more like a "professional manager" hired by the church in the art business. Walter is currently working at the Old Symphony Orchestra, which is similar to this nature.

"Most of them?" Fanning repeated the question in response to one of the adverbs.

"More than 80% of the musicians." Fields immediately explained the reason Fanning wanted to know. "For some unavoidable reasons that you have guessed, we have raised the review threshold for participating in the "Flower Ceremony" ceremony performance very high this time, so some musicians were rejected. It's just temporary... By the way, Mr. Scheele, how should we record the symphony you composed this time?"

"Is it a number, or a general title like "Awakening Poem", or both?"

"Summer Noon Dream." Fanning said.

He also wanted to use the actual "third" number now, but that might scare the Special Patrol Office.

"Pure southern style naming." The clergy around him commented one after another.

"How many movements did you write for it?" Fields said again.

"Five." Fanning motioned Luna to take out the manuscript from her bag, "You may need to copy it yourself and divide it into parts."

The archbishop immediately said no problem.

This number of movements was obviously completed in everyone's opinion, and it was one of the "few but reasonable" configurations in the current period. Fanning's previous "Resurrection Symphony" had five movements, and in his previous life, Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony" and Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique" were also like this.

But Fanning sighed in his heart, not knowing where to start with the sixth movement and whether it would be too late in the next few days.

Under the arrangement of the church, Fanning's meeting with the band members was completed efficiently.

"Hehe... Now it is said that Fanning from the North Continent challenged choral writing in the "second" is unprecedented, and Mr. Scheller joined the chorus in the "first". I think the South Continent is ahead in this regard..." The assistant conductor who praised before leaving was obviously a staunch admirer of Scheller.

Fanning proposed the requirement to configure a female choir and a children's choir at the celebration, and said that the famous singer Miss Nightingale would be the lead singer of the former.

This arrangement was naturally expected by everyone, but when he then said that Luna would be the lead singer of the latter, it was a bit surprising.

Everyone couldn't help but look at the white-haired little girl next to him.

Of course, no one would oppose Scheller's decision, but after leaving the rehearsal room, Calestini immediately said:

"Mr. Scheller, it seems that you have also seen some strange things about the "Sevenfold Blessings Interception Case", right?"

"Helpless blood?"

"To be precise, it's "Pleasant blood."

Hearing this, Fanning couldn't help but turn his head and look at this church leader who had a little conflict with him because of the previous investigation of the "Sevenfold Blessing".

"In recent months, the church has rescued many people while investigating the activities of secret organizations. Among them, the proportion of 'discolored people' is unusually high, which has attracted our attention, because frankly speaking, this group has been ignored by the church in the past."

"After investigation, the secret believers of the Joyful Listening Society are interested in the 'discolored people' because they believe that this is a group of people with the highest spirituality in the southern continent, and they can play a role in certain sacrificial rituals that ordinary people or even knowledgeable people cannot replace."

"The highest spirituality" Even Luna herself couldn't help repeating this outrageous conclusion, her voice was smaller than a mosquito.

Fanning nodded slowly, motioning for Calestini to continue.

"Although the esoteric believers have erratic motives for their actions, because they worship the Lord of Heretical Witnesses, their analysis of certain occult phenomena may often have a unique perspective. After further investigation and torture, we found that the so-called 'highest spirituality' they believe is actually He put forward a conjecture about the origin of the 'lost man' -"

"Because this group is more sensitive to the damage to the skin between the world's appearance and will, they instinctively passivate their blood into 'helpless blood' to avoid being exposed to the more stimulating and intense light from behind."

“Or in other words, the group of ‘discolored people’ is formed due to the self-conscious protection mechanism.”

“And if a method of ‘activation’ or ‘restoration’ is found, the ‘discolored ones’ will become the best medium to communicate with their ‘secret and true mother’.”

"Is this how 'helpless blood' becomes 'pleasant blood'?" Fan Ning asked with a frown.

He recalled Luna's feedback after he used his "Fountain of Painting" ability that day and took her out to observe the things around her.

Could it be that the incomplete ability at that time caused the blood in Luna's body to temporarily turn into "pleasant blood", so she had a color return to her appearance and could see something similar to 'epidermal damage' A slightly unusual scene?

"That's right." Fields nodded beside him, "But these esoteric cultists have not found an effective method of transformation, or in other words, their current methods are too low-level and crude to achieve the optimal 'communication' effect."

"What kind of low-grade and rough method?"

"It can't be done by a living person, unless the person is killed or half dead."

"Only separated 'helpless blood' can transform?" Fan Ning asked.

"That's almost the meaning." Fields said, "And a large amount of 'helpless blood' can only get a small amount of 'pleasant blood'. They use this activated blood and a series of combinations such as 'Seven Blessings' Divided and refined into unknown sacrificial supplies, they can be used as inferior substitutes for the 'lost ones' to directly communicate with the 'red pool'..."

While Fan Ning was deep in thought, the church group first showed him the venue.

The 'Flower Festival' celebration in a few days will be held in the 'Red Church'. It has the same vaults and corridors as the Sun Church, but the internal layout and decoration style are completely different.

In the cylindrical church layout, the height of the dome is a little lower, but the ground area is several times larger. There is a height difference of about three or four meters between the highest middle podium area and the outermost ring area, but they are spread out so widely in the circular venue. In this case, the visual difference extending outward layer by layer is not obvious.

There are many eye-catching elements here, but the attention of the three people who broke in first was attracted by a huge thing hanging above the ceremonial stage.

The overall outline looks like a guitar, more than five meters long, three meters wide and more than 20 meters high, coexisting directly with the dome.

It would be nice to call it a "giant guitar," but the hollow arch structure and the nearly fifty strings make it look like a harp upon closer inspection.

Its material looks like wood but not wood, and looks like jade but not jade. It is golden and red in the sunlight. The body of the piano is irregularly distributed with abstract flowers and leaves, shell-shaped patterns, asymmetrical lace or winding curved carvings, showing a certain A messy, vivid and magical sense of withering.

"This is our world-famous 'Feasting Beast'." Fields and Fanning looked up side by side. "To a certain extent, it will be more unique and unique than those pipe organs of the Holy Sun Church, and it can definitely be called It is a miracle in the world of art, musical instruments or architecture.”

"I always thought it would be an ordinary guitar. After all, it seems to be classified into this category among the 'Famous Guins'." Miss Nightingale clicked her tongue in exclaim.

"So, how does it play?" Fan Ning asked with his hands behind his back.

"It can be played directly, or it can be used indirectly to harmonize and resonate with other music." Castini pointed to the direction of the hypotenuse, "In the case of the former, there is a keyboard platform that can be climbed up, and then Or, after an outstanding performer, singer or conductor reaches a high enough level of spirituality, they will feel its "chariot"-like "sense of control", thereby mobilizing unique polish and resonance energy for the music they perform. ”

At this time, Fields next to him smiled and added: "But no matter what, before playing it, we need to perform a series of complicated and holy tribute ceremonies. There will be some in the first few programs of the 'Flower Ceremony' Such a link is because its huge spirituality requires a slow start process, just like when a steam train is stationary, we need-"

The Archbishop's explanation came to an abrupt end, and all the clergymen's eyes widened.

Fan Ning's right hand was gently raised and opened, and he made a strumming movement with his fingers in the air.

"Ding ding dong dong ding ding dong dong!..."

A string of sound that broke through the air, like gold hitting stone, resounded throughout the vast red church!