"Dear brother..."
Sean was stunned when he saw the first sentence of the letter - this was a letter written directly to him by Aaliyah. She knew she would come to save her, and she knew her brother could see this letter!
Sean continued reading:
"Dear brother: Hello!
I'm sorry that I hid the letter in such a dangerous place - but I had no other choice, I was being watched closely, and I couldn't get the message to you by normal means.
While listening to this record, I stumbled upon the mysterious space located within the record.
I wandered in this mysterious space for a long time, discovered the past of Jason and Julia, and also found a way to leave a message for you..."
After reading this, Sean raised his head with some doubts in his heart: "Judging from the content of the letter, Aaliyah does not seem to know the concept of the spirit world - she does not know much mysterious knowledge.
"However, she seems to be able to wander among dangerous spirits. Aren't evil spirits a threat to her?"
Sean read on with doubt:
“…So I wrote this letter.
You don't need to worry too much about me, I'm in good shape now. Apart from their refusal to let me go, they were very nice to me - my food was better than at home! "
Sean smiled bitterly: Aaliyah wrote like this because she was afraid that she would worry.
"However, there is one more troublesome thing - Elizabeth appears again. Moreover, she seems to be willing to go with them.
When I was awake, I would ask them to let me go. But when Elizabeth woke up, she was very cooperative..."
Sean's fingers clenched the letter involuntarily, and he frowned deeply: "Elizabeth" is an imaginary playmate that Aaliyah imagined when she was a child. During Arya's adolescence, Elizabeth became her alter ego.
During that time, that personality would pop up from time to time.
Completely different from Aaliyah, Elizabeth is a cold-blooded girl.
She doesn't like to talk to people, and will even hide the killed mice in her room...
As a teenager, Sean had an unspeakable fear of Elizabeth.
Later, the priest in the town performed an exorcism on Arya. Since then, Elizabeth has not appeared again, and the whole family thought "she" had disappeared.
Unexpectedly, she came back again.
"Due to Elizabeth's cooperation, I don't know where I am now. I only know that the man who often chats with me calls himself 'Mr. Kennedy'..."
"Mr. Kennedy was very kind to me, but he just refused to let me go. They also refused to tell me why they restricted my freedom.
"Once I saw one of them wearing a badge. However, they quickly discovered the mistake, so the man put the badge away. I didn't see it clearly. The style of the badge was like this..."
Aaliyah drew a pattern in the blank space below. The pattern is a circle as a whole, and there seems to be a person standing in the circle. He has three pairs of wings, and a ring protrudes from the outermost end of the wings...
"What is this? Seraphim?" Sean has not seen similar patterns in occult books. However, this reminded Sean of the archangels described in the "Holy Book" of Salvationism.
"Is it related to the Salvation Cult? Is it the high-level organization of the Holy Court that controls Aaliyah?" Sean blinked, "It doesn't seem like it - the power of the Salvation Cult is much greater than this organization. If it involves the state religion level, , they don’t have to hide like this at all.”
Sean read on: "Other than that, I have no other information. I don't know if this will help you find me.
Finally, Aaliyah wrote: "Brother, although I really hope that you can find me and take me home, on the other hand, I feel that I have fallen into a terrible thing. I am afraid that it will affect you and me." Father, I hope you will leave me alone and live a good life in Leon.
"But……
Sean saw two coin-sized pieces on the letter paper, which were wet and then dried.
"But, I know you will definitely come to me. Even if the Holy Father dissuades you, it will be useless. So, you have to take care of yourself and pay attention to safety. I will eat well and sleep well, waiting for you.
My dearest sister, Aaliyah Dickinson. "
Sean felt a little difficult to breathe, and the hand holding the letter dropped, and he walked to the window.
"Obviously I was the one who was arrested, but you are still worried about my safety... My sister is really a bit stupid..."
After reading the letter, Sean found an envelope, carefully put the letter inside, and put it in his travel bag.
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In order to learn more about the story behind the album "Midnight Elopement", Sean spent time in the library and read old newspapers.
The smell of old newspapers mixed with ink, dust and a little bit of mold penetrated Sean's nose, and it actually gave Sean a sense of peace.
"During the time when Jason and Julia disappeared, the media exposed an open letter they prepared to elope." Sean scanned the text in the newspaper line by line. "That letter stated that they were leaving New Zealand.
"Bishop Howard used the letter to cover up their deaths...
"The strange thing is that the album "Midnight Elopement" was still released. Logically speaking, it is impossible for Bishop Howard to let this album be made public. It seems that there is a hidden reason behind this matter.
"Midnight Elopement sold over 30,000 copies and sold reasonably well. A lot of weird things happened around that record.
"At that time, more than a dozen people committed suicide because of listening to this album, and hundreds of people committed blasphemous acts against the Salvationist faith because of listening to this album. After the Divine Palace discovered it, they declared the album to be contraband and it was widely banned It was recovered. There are no more than a thousand copies circulating in the market now."
Sean felt a chill: "Suicide? An act of blasphemy against the Salvation Church? Could it be that it was caused by that preaching recording?"
He thought of a possibility: "The missionary recording was not a tampering with the song "Midnight Elopement", it was always hidden in this album!
“It’s just that the record I got had some unknown influence that made one track disappear so I could hear the mission recording directly.
"Things are more complicated than I thought. Someone added a Utopia missionary track to Jason and Julia's last album, using a pop album to carry out hypnotic anti-Savior propaganda...
"Did the organization that kidnapped Aaliyah do this? Was it led by 'Kennedy'?
"They forced Arya to listen to this album in order to make her be influenced by the missionary recordings, believe in the Utopia, and hate Salvationism?
"Is this a secret religious war?"
Ta-ta-ta, ta-ta-ta.
Sean's thoughts were interrupted by a crisp, continuous sound.
Sean raised his head and saw a handsome man with a melancholy temperament. He was wearing a white suit and his hair was meticulously slicked back. He was reading a book and tapping his fingers on the table continuously, as if... playing the piano.
Ta da da, da da da...
In the huge library reading room, there were only Sean and this man at the moment.
The sound of him tapping on the table was particularly abrupt in the quiet reading room, and it also made it impossible for Sean to concentrate on reading or thinking.
Sean could only shout in a low voice: "Sir?"
The man seemed too absorbed in reading to hear. His eyes did not leave the book, and his fingers did not stop.
"Sir?" Sean raised his voice slightly.
The man in the white suit raised his head as if he had just woken up from a dream, and his fingers stopped "playing".
He looked into Shawn's eyes questioningly. Sean thought there was something special about his eyes: "Sir, I'm sorry to bother you. But the sound of your fingers tapping on the table made me unable to concentrate."
He showed a very surprised expression and raised both hands: "I'm very sorry! As soon as I put in the work, my hands will knock involuntarily. This is my professional habit...
"I'll restrain myself, I'm so sorry!"
Sean nodded and continued reading the newspaper.
After roughly sorting out what happened to Jason and Julia that year, and temporarily identifying the preaching recording hidden in "Midnight Elopement" as a "secret war between religions", Sean went to the library to "Utopia" This vocabulary was used as an index to search for books and newspapers, but except for a few unrelated philosophy books, Sean could not find any information about this mysterious religion.
"This so-called Utopia must be related to Aaliyah's disappearance." Sean summarized his reasoning, "That Mr. Kennedy should be the backbone of the Utopia. This mysterious religion, due to certain reasons, I don't know. Knowing the reason, Aaliyah was controlled..."
Sean, who was a little tired from constant reading, found that it was getting late and decided to leave the library.
After walking out of the library and reaching the road, Sean didn't expect that the man in a white suit would follow him. He walked up to Sean and said, "Sir, I'm really sorry just now!"
“To express my apology, I would like to invite you to a potluck dinner at my place of work!”
Sean thought about the taxi driver George and wanted to refuse, but the other party continued: "Besides, I want to make a friend with you. I haven't made a friend since I arrived on land!"
