Sean was very excited about becoming a Jack-level explorer and receiving his own mask. He knocked on the door of Moonlight's room opposite, and the two ate, drank, and chatted for a long time.
During this period, Moonlight called Winnie for half an hour, and then the two chatted for a long time about the Daedalus Foundation and Angel. It was late at night before Sean went back to his room to sleep.
Sean woke up very early the next morning. The mask awarding ceremony was at ten o'clock in the morning. Sean had made an appointment with Moonlight the night before.
"Catherine has helped me so much. Although the mask awarding ceremony is not a very grand ceremony, I still have to invite her to participate." With this thought in mind, Sean took the elevator directly to the location of Guling Quest Company after breakfast. Floor, just sit in the front hall and wait.
Sean looked at the newspaper and heard the sound of heels hitting the ground like a snare drum, and the familiar, slightly magnetic female voice: "Oh, look who is here, the official explorer - Mr. Sean! "
Putting down the newspaper, Sean stood up with a smile. Today, Catherine was wearing a striped women's shirt and a beige windbreaker. She took off her mask as she walked into the company door.
Sean discovered that the mask in Catherine's hand was no longer the "Pale Aria", but the "Violet Nightingale" - which also represented the function of "actor" and the shape of an opera mask, but the material and workmanship had been upgraded, and the color tone had changed from too much. The simple white color is transformed into a combination of purple and blue feathers, and the teardrop of the mask is a shining sapphire...
"You are already Queen level?!" Sean was a little surprised - it is not that easy to improve the level of explorers, and some people can only be Jack level throughout their lives.
Catherine's face was cold, but Sean knew better than to read her mind from her expression. She said: "The last Central Avenue was actually part of my promotion mission. If you hadn't delayed it, I would have been promoted long ago."
Although her expression and words were cold, she obviously said a few more words - which meant she was in a good mood.
Sean discovered that there was an extra girl next to Catherine. She has short hair and wears a "Faithful Panza" mask - this mask is a bit cute, it is the image of a fat, honest man with a mustache.
This kind of mask usually symbolizes the functions of assistants and followers-yes, whether it is daily life or exploratory work, there are always people who have to play the role of "followers".
The "Faithful Panza" mask is somewhat special. If the explorer does not display a very special function, but gets a high score in the personality reliability test, he can obtain this mask. However, the explorer who wears the "Faithful Pansha" mask can be awarded any high-level mask after blooming his own characteristics.
Faithful Pansha helped Catherine hold her bag, holding a lot of information in his hands, just like Sean holding ten thick books, looking slightly funny. The other party seemed a little shy, and Sean's eyes quickly returned to Catherine's face: "Ten o'clock in the morning is my mask awarding ceremony, and I would like to invite you to participate."
Catherine sneered: "Come on, what's the point of participating?" She walked past Sean with her heels clicking, and Faithful Pansha hurried to follow. Before entering the office, she looked back at Sean: "But I still have to congratulate you - by the way, if the weapon you picked up is not broken yet, just think of it as a gift from me to celebrate your becoming a regular employee. "
Sean smiled bitterly: Catherine is always so duplicitous.
She closed the door. Loyal Pansha put the documents on her desk, turned around and saw Miss Catherine hanging her windbreaker on the coat rack, with a smile on her lips.
Sean returned to the hotel floor and knocked on Moonlight's door. Then the two found Jasmine and accompanied her to the office - she would also receive hypnotherapy today to ensure that the mental shock would not come back.
It was almost the time mentioned in the letter, and Sean and Moonlight took the elevator to the 31st floor of the Explorer Center.
The "New Zealand Explorer Assessment Committee" is not only responsible for awarding masks to newcomers, but explorers who have completed the upgrade assessment also need to go to the committee to exchange for new masks, so there are more people coming and going on this floor.
As soon as Sean stepped out of the elevator, a staff member wearing a black suit and a "Mask Maker" mask with black background and gold rim came to Sean: "Mr. Sean, please come with me." He leaned forward and looked like Very formal - the making and awarding of masks are long-standing traditions of the explorer industry, so every aspect has a sense of ceremony.
When following the mask maker and walking through the crowd, Sean felt a little nervous. Moonlight smiled and said: "Don't worry, you have the merit of deciphering key information in the mission and successfully delayed Egwen. You will definitely get the 'Silence' The Clerk's Mask."
That is the rarest of the masks that suits you best. If acquired, Sean would gain a central role in the mission - one of the keys to controlling his own destiny.
The most important thing is that because the function of this mask requires the support of "mysterious knowledge", the clerk can obtain higher data viewing permissions at the same level.
Sean said as he walked: "However, maybe my performance in deciphering ciphertext is a bit too eye-catching. I might get a mask in this direction, such as 'Apprentice of Tower City' or 'Young Scribe' .”
Moonlight shrugged noncommittally: "That's not bad, at least it highlights your functions."
Sean and Moonlight followed the mask maker forward, passing many doors, and the number of people became smaller and smaller, until they reached the end of the main road, in front of a door with the "Peeping Eye" sign.
Sean saw the words written on the copper nameplate on the side: "Hall of Thousand Faces"
When the mask maker opened the door, Moonlight looked into Sean's eyes and raised her eyebrows. The meaning was obvious: Don't blink!
When I followed the craftsman and walked in, it was still dark in the Thousand Faces Hall.
Following the sound of empty footsteps, the arc lamps on the wall were lit one by one.
This is a circular hall, about 500 square meters in size, with very high arc-shaped walls, and countless masks of all kinds hung neatly on the walls...
Sean was stunned. His eyes blinked slowly and rotated slowly. The masks on the wall were all facing the center of the hall. It felt like thousands of spectators were staring at him.
The mask maker walked behind a healthy old man without a mask. The old man walked up to Sean and shook hands vigorously. After introducing himself, the director of the Explorer Assessment Committee led Sean to the center of the hall, next to a round black marble floor: "You stand here, no matter what Don’t move no matter what – your mask will find you.”
After saying these philosophical words, he led Moonlight and the mask maker out of the hall.
The lights in the hall went out one by one. As darkness fell, Sean, standing in the center of the rotunda, felt as if he was back in an underground maze.
The endless darkness around him made him a little mentally sensitive - the aftereffects of the Levin incident were still echoing in his heart, and he was still a little instinctively nervous about this dark place similar to an underground maze.
After swallowing, Sean comforted himself: "It's just a ceremony to award the mask, don't be nervous..."
While he was still thinking this, he suddenly noticed that the masks on the wall lit up as if they were contaminated by starlight.
Then, all the masks seemed to leave their positions and began to circle around Sean, forming a strange scene in front of Sean - he seemed to be observed and scrutinized by countless faces...
Sean found that the light of some masks dimmed and disappeared in the darkness.
The number of spinning masks is getting smaller and smaller...
