After the brother and sister Niu Dali stopped fighting with each other, they started watching the second season of "Lord of the Mysteries", "The Faceless Man", which officially started airing in January 2106.
The protagonist Klein was unfortunately killed at the end of the first season due to the conspiracy of Ince Zangwill. Although he came back from the dead for unknown reasons, he was unable to continue to survive in his hometown.
After all, how do you explain yourself being raised from the dead? Klein himself didn't know how to explain it, so naturally he couldn't convince the church.
Therefore, in order to protect himself, he could only leave his hometown. After bidding farewell to his family and familiar companions, he changed his identity and headed to Backlund, the capital of the Loen Kingdom. The plot of the second season begins here.
Klein disguised himself as a private detective. While Backlund was earning living expenses for himself, he was also investigating various secrets.
The two seasons of anime can be said to have completely different styles. The main line of the first season is the extraordinary team cleaning up the mysterious pollution, while the second one is about the mysterious detective's experience in Backlund.
The first season focuses more on the middle and upper classes, while the second season focuses more on the many faceless people in this era.
Dai Wenquan personally said on the forum, of course copying the original author Squid's statement, that the reason why the second season is named "Faceless Man" actually implies three meanings, and the audience can guess which three meanings it is.
Basically, the first meaning is the easiest to guess, and the audience will soon come back to guess the correct answer. The protagonist will be promoted from the Sequence 8 clown to the Sequence 7 faceless man in this season.
The second meaning is more difficult to guess. As the plot progressed and Klein entered Backlund, the players finally figured out what it meant.
In this season, Klein disguises himself as a stranger and uses a disguised appearance to communicate with others. There is no way to let go of his guard and truly make friends with someone like he did in the past.
Therefore, the second meaning of "faceless man" refers to the living situation of the protagonist Klein in Backlund. He turned himself into a faceless man.
The third meaning was even harder to guess. It wasn't until the season finale that someone finally guessed this meaning through the plot.
At that time, Backlund encountered a mysterious attack, and the entire city was swept by a terrifying fog. People who either knew or did not know them all fell into the fog.
The viewer who was the first to guess the third meaning said at the end of his guess post that the one who really made him understand the meaning of the Faceless Man was the unspectacular supporting character Old Kohler.
Before meeting the protagonist Klein, Old Kohler was an old man in a very miserable situation. His wife also passed away and he was childless, leaving him alone to struggle in the world.
It wasn't until the protagonist Klein hired him to find out information in situations where it was inconvenient for him to appear. Only with this mercenary money did Old Kohler's situation improve.
However, during one of his contacts with the other party, Klein noticed that the commission he provided was hardly used, and even the old Kohler still didn't eat much meat.
Facing Klein's doubts, Old Kohler explained very calmly. He knew and was grateful for the protagonist's kindness, but at the same time he knew that he could not rely on the protagonist to support his entire lower body.
Therefore, he had to save money while he was still employed to ensure that after the relationship ended, Kohler would not be hungry for the rest of his life.
Klein couldn't say anything about this. After all, he didn't know whether he would stay in Backlund for a long time. If he had to give old Kohler a huge sum of money, he would end up harming the old man for carrying the jade.
So in the end, Klein just advised old Kohler to at least buy some wine and meat first. Didn’t old Kohler say before that he hadn’t drank or eaten meat for a long time?
In response, the old Kohler showed a sly smile. He said that he would buy wine and meat to eat and drink, but he would have to wait until the wedding anniversary to take him to his late wife's grave, which would make him look forward to seeing his wife again.
However, even such a humble wish was not realized under the wheel of the great era, because that day happened to be the day when the Backlund Fog broke out.
At that time, neither Klein nor the audience knew the cause of the fog, but later they learned that the fog was created by King Loen himself in his capital.
The purpose of creating a heavy fog is to advance oneself. As for many ordinary people like Lao Kohler, they are just insignificant ant victims in the plan.
At that time, old Kohler was happily preparing to go to the cemetery to meet his wife with the wine and meat he had not eaten in more than ten years. However, he could no longer walk to the cemetery.
I saw a fog appearing in front of me. When I saw people shrouded in fog, they would quickly fall down and die suddenly. Soon, people on the street began to run away in panic.
Although old Kohler was unwilling to go to the cemetery on time, he also knew that saving his life was more important now, so he fled with the crowd.
But he was too old, and he was quickly pushed down and trampled in the chaotic crowd. Before he could get up successfully, fog had already enveloped the area.
When he was dying, the old Kohler finally realized that he was going to die but still couldn't eat meat, so he ignored the agreement with his wife and tried to take one last bite before death.
However, when the raw meat he bought just touched his dry lips, old Kohler could no longer hold on and breathed his last breath, still unable to eat the piece of meat.
Many viewers who saw this scene were speechless for a long time. In the past, no one would care about an ordinary role like Lao Kohler, who was nothing special.
However, seeing the actor die so casually, without being able to eat a bite of meat that they had longed for before they died, their hearts basically felt as if they had been hit by a heavy hammer.
After all, Klein's adventure is indeed interesting, but compared to the protagonist who was born with a mist cheat, more of them are similar to this ordinary and unremarkable old Kohler.
At the forum, the audience member used words full of tragedy to describe the short but impressive performance of the old Kohler, and then gave his own conclusion:
Therefore, the final meaning of "faceless men" refers to many ordinary people like Lao Kohler, who do not have such bizarre and interesting encounters as the protagonist, and are like a group of faceless men coming and going in the fog.
They were a group of people with no history. No one cared what their faces looked like. No one remembered what they looked like. They were simply run over by the wheels of the great era.
As far as Zhong Shanze himself is concerned, although the plot after "Lord of Mysteries" is also very exciting, after all these years, only the first two volumes can be clearly remembered.
The first volume follows the ordinary daily life, and ends with a wonderful and sudden stab, those faceless men who fell in the fog in the second season.
It is not that there are no good plots after that, such as every journey has an end, such as Klein's farewell dance when Ince Zangwill fell, such as the cat-and-mouse game between him and Amon.
But the problem is that without the help of spiritual power, Zhong Shanze can no longer remember which volume these contents are in, but the contents of the first two volumes can be remembered relatively clearly.
