Old-time musicians

"Tick tock—tick tock—"

The time once again came to 59 minutes and 59 seconds of the last hour of the day.

The gears emit a meaningful laugh, the concept overflows the boundary, and the vector relationship of the hour hand melts into a pile of mixture that transcends the plane.

Sure enough, the course of the world has once again reached the lost 25th hour!

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The singing of "White Mass" rang out from the outside.

Joan stared at the dial on Fanning's wrist.

The other six team members also gathered around. They were as surprised and suspicious as before, discussing countermeasures.

"Lavoisier, what now?"

"Stay on duty, or go out?"

Fan Ning glanced towards the entrance of the cave. The "twin" candles previously placed there were still burning, and the light spots expanded and connected one by one, swaying outside the black curtain.

"Get out, but wait."

In this chaotic and disorderly waking world, there are many things that he still doesn't understand, but after waking up again and again and mastering more information, he has at least touched on some preliminary superficial laws:

Area B-105 can only be entered when the world is in the "Lost Hour".

The Lost Hour lasts from hour 25 to hour 35, a total of 11 hours. There are 11 fragments of the sound series in total.

Beethoven's tombstone is buried in the village at the first hour, and the symbol that opens the "Lighthouse" road is "Tempest Sonata" in D minor. The first harmonic skeleton of the tone sequence is the "Tempest Sonata".

Is it very possible that the distribution at hours 26-35 will be similar?

"Instead of saying that the situation in the B-105 area corresponds exactly to the sound sequence fragment, it is better to say the other way around."

Fan Ning watched the chaotic hands move up and down the dial.

"Did the person who made the audio fragments deliberately 'arrange' suitable tracks and build a path to the 'Lighthouse' with reference to the loss of B-105?"

Some things are deduced directly, and it feels like a coincidence that is too small in probability, but it is reasonable to extrapolate the other way around.

So the question now is, which hour should I choose to go out next?

Continue at hour 25?

This path has already been "stepped" with Mr. F, and it is very likely that he will make the same mistake again.

Although Vincent left behind, under a certain protection mechanism, the theme of God revealed by Mr. Consumed.

Now that I have one or two chances left, I am afraid it is because the creation process of "Fourth Symphony" has stabilized my sanity, and my eyeballs are full of colors, but I can still maintain self-awareness for the time being.

"Do you still need to wait?" Qiong asked.

"Let's wait another two hours and try." Fan Ning said.

"What happens in two hours?"

"Come to hour 27."

A ridiculous and reasonable answer.

When the third section was missing, Fanning speculated that it should correspond to the third piece in the fragment, Bach's "Gothenburg Variations", the piece that made him famous in a public performance at the Church of St. James the Sun.

G major, the same as the "Fourth Symphony" that I am currently composing.

Could it be that my previous choice of the key of G major was subconsciously influenced by Bach?

It's a very far-fetched connection. Let's wait until this time to take a look. Fan Ning doesn't have any better ideas.

"Are they going to follow?" Qiong cast her gaze to a place farther away in the cave and asked in a low voice.

"That time on the 25th, they all acted together." Fan Ning's memory was a little stagnant. "Then, they all rang the snow bells and said Mr. F's voice. They should all die in the end. or crazy."

"Am I in there?"

"No, probably not."

"Anyway, you think it's best if they don't follow."

"Um."

The two fell into a long silence amidst the ethereal joyous singing outside.

The twin candles behind the curtain of the cave opening were extinguished one by one, and the skeletons of Jacob and Priest Durk protruded one by one, turning into a texture like mineral coal crystals, gradually embedded into the lines of the pitted rock wall behind them; Colonel Alpha The whites of Qiong's eyes gradually turned yellow, new coverings of skin grew along its limbs, and rough salt blocks precipitated from the joints like foam; before Fan Ning observed Qiong's puddle surface, the water-green figure was no longer replaced by a streak of water. The reflection of Ivan the cook; the Bishop of Tucville drifted into the sky along the gap in the curtain, and he circled all night long.

The two were silent until the hand clock read 26 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds.

"Go and have a look." Fan Ning jumped down the steps in the cave step by step, and jumped deep into the curtain at the opening.

Joan followed him.

At 27 o'clock, the village was similar to the one before, with the lights of cabins twinkling like beans and the roads criss-crossing the streets.

"Is the place different from before?" Qiong looked around.

"This is entering B-105, looking for the tombstone." Fan Ning didn't waste a moment, took her arm and started running.

Along the way, he saw scattered "villagers" who wanted to talk to him, but he pushed them away with invisible force from a distance, without giving them any chance to get closer to him.

Based on the previous experience, if the situation here is similar, if you go faster, you might be able to reach the lighthouse before Mr. F.

"Go and run on the roof. I want to see if there are any low-lying areas soaked in water."

After running through several turns, Fan Ning felt that the efficiency was too low, and was ready to pull Qiong along to a place with a higher view.

At this time, the phone sounded the signal prompt again.

Because Fan Ning was well prepared to receive an "unknown call" this time, apart from being a little nervous, he didn't have much of a sense of horror and dislocation. However, when he picked up the phone, he found that the first call was not an "unknown call."

Or Vincent's "work memo".

Not only was the last content at 25 o'clock re-read, but new information continued to be loaded, but the time node and sequence were still unclear.

"Things went well, the dangerous elements lost track of me.

But there is a more important question that I still haven’t come to a definite conclusion about.

That is, what is the attitude of the Lords of Witness towards the proliferation of abnormal areas? "

This question was indeed very critical, and it was also secretive enough to be different from most of the journals. Fan Ning read it carefully word for word.

"We can't fully understand how these high-altitude beings operate, and it's difficult to get the answer directly. But I think the spread of abnormal areas is a sure sign of their dominance in maintaining high places in homes. There is a threat!”

"It's only a part of the waking world that is broken. It's true that they don't care about the sediment and sludge at the bottom, but the "worms" are more dazzling in dreams. If they spread uncontrollably, sooner or later, the entire world will be destroyed. There will be big problems in the migration, the entire Hui Tower, the entire climbing path and even the place above the dome door!

Judging from the reactions of some of the witness lords in the two "worm wars", this can also be supported - even if the witness lords are not personal existences, from the perspective of "the incarnation of the laws of nature", they should also Will fight against this chaotic existence that destroys order. "

"Then here's the problem, the current proportion of "workload" is simply not enough!

The abnormal areas have been spreading for tens of thousands of years, but the coverage length of the two "worm wars" was only a few decades in total?

Moreover, this is an emergency measure of holding a knife to the throat, and there are not many witnesses who have contributed to this. Moreover, it is not a permanent solution at all. The current set of "pupil mother" + "disintegration" The "field" occult system is simply full of loopholes, crumbling, and will come to an end sooner or later!

What do they usually do?

Also, in the past five hundred years or so, the situation has obviously gotten worse. Why is there no response at all? "

"Based on the simplest logic, if a person is indifferent to something and it doesn't make sense from the perspective of interests, then the only way to make a guess is based on the issue of ability -

Are all these witnesses masters dying? "