[Exorcism] Parallel Trap

From that day on, Allen devoted himself almost entirely to the great cause of playing the piano and writing scores.The sound of the repeated piano echoed in the cabin from morning to night, and Fu couldn't stand the torment. In the end, whenever Allen started playing, she immediately went outside to "breathe".

My childhood memories are too far away. No matter how deep the impression was at that time, there are still many places that I am not sure about now, so I can only play it over and over again, and recall it over and over again.Fortunately, on the evening of the third day, the score was finally written down completely.

"Let me see..." Someone came over as soon as the work was finished.

In the past few days, Tiqi stayed here almost every day. At first, Allen thought he was annoying, but later he had nothing to do, so he just let it go.

"Hmm...it's really different." Tiqi said, then took out a stack of papers and unfolded them.When Allen saw it, it was actually a set of scores.

"what is this?"

"Don't you just compare the music on the tape with it." Tiqi said to the point.

"You still do this?"

"I don't know, can't Noah find someone who will?" Tiqi raised his eyebrows and said, "Let's compare and see, maybe this is indeed a clue."

"Well." Allen didn't delay, took the score and started to read it. However, after a comparison, there were as many as 87 different places, and the distribution was scattered, and there seemed to be no rules to follow. For a moment , He even felt that there was something wrong with his memory.

"How about picking out these syllables and playing them again?" Tiqi suggested.

"That's the only way to go." Allen sorted out the score, copied all the 87 syllables together, and played them one by one, but he gave up just halfway through, "No, no, this is simply too ugly. Yes, definitely not."

Could it be that I just misremembered, or that the song itself has been changed?

"Speaking of it," Tiqi suddenly said again, "If there are really any secret codes in this tape, will the pile of parts you have on hand also..."

Parts... that's right!

Allen sat up in a jerk, quickly found the glasses case, and poured out the strange-shaped parts inside.This time, he didn't bother to study how to piece together the combination, and directly found the numbers on the parts.

There are a total of 13 numbers, from the smallest 3 to the largest 68, and it does not exceed the range of 87.Now Allen was more convinced of his guess, counted the 87 syllables, and marked the places corresponding to the 13 numbers one by one.Then play those 13 syllables together again, and you will find...

"It's still not right..."

Allen was dumbfounded again at the inexplicable scale, and was thinking hard, but suddenly found that the man beside him was still laughing vigorously.

"What are you laughing at?" He said angrily.

"It's nothing." Tiqi looked at him and moved closer, "A boy who thinks about things seriously is very interesting."

"baffling."

Allen rolled his eyes bluntly, then ignored him, and continued to struggle with this strange scale.Speaking of which, even if there is a code in it, it is difficult to decipher. This melody is not like words that can convey information straightforwardly, just...

Wait, text?

Something flashed through his mind, Allen's heart moved, and he suddenly grasped it - the name of the sound!

The phonetic names themselves are letters one by one. Write down the phonetic names of these syllables and combine them together, maybe it is a suggestive word!

Thinking of this, Allen immediately began to write, and the inexplicable and strong intuition seemed to tell him that this time the answer was not far away, that is——

"cdddaaaeeeeee"

Allen looked at the row of letters on the paper, again at a loss.

"What is this?" Tiqi, who was on the side, gnawed on an apple and came over again.

"Sound name." Arlian tapped on the score with the nib and explained, "Corresponding to the roll names of do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, and si, the note names of the seven basic levels are c , d, e, f, g, a, b. These are the names given to the sounds of fixed height. These are the names of the 7 sounds, but they look like garbled characters..."

"Do you think they can form a word?" Tiqi said and handed the bitten apple to Allen's mouth.

"Yeah." Allen took a bite absent-mindedly, and just realized something was wrong when he came back to his senses.

"It's a bit difficult," Tiqi ignored the boy's stare from the indirect kiss, and said to himself, "There are only 7 letters in total, and the words that can be made up are not very limited."

"It's very limited, but the others are also..." Allen glanced at the score again, and just when he was at a loss, his attention suddenly fell on the repeated mark.

Except for the first "c", the following sounds are repeated three times, and the last "e" appears twice in a row in the bar of three repetitions.

Repetition... superposition... If the repetition of these letters is regarded as an equal sequence superposition, can it represent another letter?

"abcdefg"

"hijklmn"

"opqrstu"

"vwxyz"

Allen quickly wrote down all 26 letters on the paper, and circled the ones that appeared one by one.

If it is repeated three times, it means that it will be postponed to the last three paragraphs...

d corresponds to r.

a corresponds to o.

e appears six times. If it is divided into 2+4 and 3+3, it is l, z and s, s respectively.

Then recombining it becomes... crolz, cross, crozl.

- "cross".

Kuros?

Allen was taken aback when he saw the name.

Could it be that...the key to finding the "heart" lies with the director?Or did he already know it?No, if he knew what he was doing, why did he go to such lengths to search for clues?

But the arrangement and combination of these letters, in fact, is the only one that looks plausible, and the explanations such as "crossing" and "passing through" are a bit unclear... How about asking the director?

Allen was thinking hard, and subconsciously turned the pen in his hand, but it flew out without paying attention. He turned his head to pick it up, and suddenly caught a glimpse of the glasses case beside the table. The silver cross was embedded in the frosted glass case. On the lid, it shines brightly.

Cross - cross!

It's not a name, it's not Kolos, and it's not anything else, the real meaning of this word...

"It's a cross!" Allen immediately shouted out of excitement, "It's cracked, the cross!"

"What cross?" Tiqi finally finished eating the apple, lit a cigarette and asked casually.

"It's just... the code here refers to the cross, which is the clue of the 'heart'."

"and then?"

"Then..." Allen's feverish mind suddenly calmed down when he was asked this question.

Then what?I only know such a "cross", and then how to find out the "heart"?There are so many crosses in the world, it is impossible to find them all.

"You said...could it be related to the sect?" Allen asked the uninvited guest's opinion on a rare occasion.

"Even if it's relevant, do you know how many crosses there are in the whole church?" Tiqi asked back.

"This is really..." Allen's head that had just been raised dropped down again.

"By the way, don't you plan to finish reading that score?" The person beside him suddenly spoke again.

"Huh?" Allen was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that the other party was referring to the version on the tape. After flipping through it carefully, he found that the score was longer than the version he wrote. The difference, I forgot the latter part.

The part after the song was added by Mana later, and I only played it once for him, and the impression is already very vague. I tried to write it when I recalled it before, but I really couldn’t remember it clearly, so I didn’t write it all. The portion seems to be complete.As soon as Alian turned his eyes, he noticed the marked song title.

"The last afterglow"

It seems to be a continuation of other songs, no wonder it feels so strange to play.He still has a little impression of the title of this song. It seems to be translated as "Afterglow of the Doom". It uses the sunset glow as a metaphor for the last hope, so the tone is a bit...

Wait a minute, Wanxia?

With a thought in his mind, Alian grabbed the glasses case just now and looked at it again, and something seemed to start to become clear in his mind.

cross……

sunset...

Last……

And... the church?

"I understand." Allen suddenly said again, "So that's the case. Tiqi, I understand!"

"What?" The person next to him had already finished smoking his second cigarette, and was pulled over by him just as he was about to light the third.

"It's the cross on the roof of the church. The afterglow of the doomsday refers to the last place where the sunset glow can be seen. Although there are many churches in this city, there is only one in the west that can be illuminated by the sunset glow to the end—"

Allen looked at him excitedly, and finally gave the answer.

"It's the headquarters."