The Modern Age of the Mysterious

"Dear brother..."

Seeing the first sentence of the letter, Sean was stunned - this was a letter written directly by Aaliyah to him. She knew that she would come to save her, and she knew that her brother could read this letter!

Sean continued to read:

"Dear brother: see you letter!

I'm sorry that I hid the letter in such a dangerous place - but I have no other way, they look at me very closely, and I can't pass the information to you by conventional means.

When I was listening to this record, I stumbled upon the mysterious space in the record.

I wandered in this mysterious space for a long time, discovered the past of Jason and Julia, and 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 doesn't seem to know the concept of the spiritual world - she doesn't know much about the mystery.

"However, she seems to be able to wander among the dangerous spirits. Are the evil spirits no threat to her?"

Sean read on with doubts:

"...So I wrote this letter.

You don't need to worry too much about me, I'm in good shape now. Other than refusing to let me go, they've been nice to me - I eat better than at home! "

Sean smiled bitterly: Aaliyah wrote this because she was afraid of worrying about herself.

"However, there is one more troublesome thing - Elizabeth has appeared again. Besides, she seems to be willing to go with them.

When I'm awake, I'll ask them to let me go. But when Elizabeth woke up, she was very cooperative..."

Sean's fingers clenched the letter paper involuntarily, frowning deeply: "Elizabeth" is a fictional playmate that Arya imagined when she was a child. During Arya's puberty, Elizabeth became her alter ego.

During that time, that personality would appear from time to time.

Completely different from Arya, Elizabeth is a cold-blooded girl.

She doesn't like to talk to people, and even hides the killed mice in the room...

When he was young, Sean had an indescribable fear of Elizabeth.

Later, the priest in the town gave Arya an exorcism. Since then, Elizabeth has never appeared again, and the whole family thought "she" had disappeared.

Unexpectedly, she came back.

"Because of Elizabeth's cooperation, I don't know where I am now. All I know is that the man who often chats with me calls himself 'Mr. Kennedy'...

"Mr. Kennedy was very nice to me, but he just didn't want to let me go. They didn't want 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 person put away the badge. I didn't see it very clearly. The badge looks like this..."

Aaliyah drew a pattern in the blank space below. The whole pattern is a circle, and there seems to be a person standing in the circle. He has three pairs of wings, and a ring sticks out from the outermost end of the wings...

"What is this? Seraphim?" Sean had never seen a similar pattern in mysticism books. However, this reminded Sean of the archangel described in the "Holy Book" of the Salvation Church.

"Is it related to the Salvation Religion? Could it be that the high-level institution of the Holy Court controlled Aaliyah?" Sean blinked, "It's not quite like the Salvation Cult's energy is much larger than this organization, if it involves the state religion level. , they don't have to hide like that at all."

Sean continued reading: "Besides that, I have no other information. I don't know if this will help you find me.

In the end, Aaliyah wrote: "Brother, although I really hope you can find me and take me home, on the other hand, I feel that I have fallen into a very terrible thing, and I am afraid that it will affect you and me. Father, I hope you 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 air-dried.

"However, I know you will definitely come to me, even if the Holy Father discourages you, it is useless. So, you have to take care of yourself and pay attention to safety. I will eat and sleep well, waiting for you.

Love your sister the most, Alia Dickinson. "

Sean felt it was a little difficult to breathe, so he lowered his hand holding the letter and walked to the window.

"You are the one who was caught, but you are still worried about my safety... My little sister is really stupid..."

After reading the letter, Sean found an envelope, put the letterhead in it carefully, 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 again soaked in the library and flipped through old newspapers.

The smell of old newspapers mixed with ink, dust and a little musty smell penetrated into Sean's nose, which made Sean feel a little peaceful.

"When Jason and Julia disappeared, the media revealed an open letter they prepared for their elopement," Sean scanned the newspaper line by line, "The letter stated that they were leaving New Zealand.

"So Bishop Howard used this letter to cover up their deaths...

"The strange thing is that the album "Midnight Elopement" was released. It stands to reason that it is impossible for Bishop Howard to let this album be made public. It seems that there is a secret behind this incident.

"'Midnight Elopement' was released with more than 30,000 copies, and the sales were decent. After that, a lot of weird things happened around this record.

"At that time, more than a dozen people committed suicide because of listening to this album, and hundreds of people committed acts of blasphemy against the faith of the Salvationists because of listening to this album. After the Holy Court found out, it declared this album to be a contraband, and was widely used It was recovered. Now there are no more than 1,000 copies in the market."

Sean felt a chill: "Suicide? Blasphemy against the Salvation Church? Could it be that it was caused by that missionary recording?"

He thought of a possibility: "The mission recording did not tamper with the song "Midnight Elopement", it was always hidden in this album!

"It's just that this record I got was affected by some unknown influence, and one of the tracks disappeared, so I could hear the mission recording directly.

"Things are more complicated than I imagined. Someone added a missionary soundtrack of the Republic to the last album of Jason and Julia, and used a pop album to do hypnotic propaganda against Salvation...

"Did the organization that kidnapped Aaliyah do this? Was it led by the 'JFK'?

"They forced Aaliyah to listen to this album so that she would be influenced by missionary recordings, believed in an ideal country, and hated Salvationism?

"Does this involve a secret war of religions?"

Da-da-da, da-da-da.

Sean's thoughts were interrupted by a crisp, continuous voice.

Sean raised his head and saw a handsome man with a melancholy temperament. He was wearing a white suit and his hair was meticulously combed back. While reading a book, he tapped the table with his fingers continuously, as if he were playing the piano.

da da da da da da...

In the huge library reading room, there are only Sean and this man at the moment.

The sound of his tapping on the table was particularly abrupt in the quiet reading room, making it impossible for Sean to concentrate on reading or thinking.

Sean had to whisper, "Sir?"

The man seemed to read too deeply to hear it. His eyes didn't leave the book, and his fingers didn't stop.

"Sir?" Sean raised his voice slightly.

The man in the white suit raised his head like waking up from a dream~www.NovelMTL.com~ and his fingers also stopped "playing".

He looked into Sean's eyes inquiringly. Sean felt that his eyes were a bit special: "Sir, I'm sorry to disturb you. But the sound of your finger tapping on the table made me unable to concentrate."

He showed a very surprised expression and raised his two hands: "I'm very sorry! As soon as I put in, these hands will tap involuntarily. This is my professional habit...

"I'll restrain myself, I'm very sorry!"

Sean nodded and continued to read the newspaper.

After roughly sorting out what happened to Jason and Julia in the year, after temporarily identifying the mission recording hidden in "Midnight Elopement" as a "hidden war between religions", Sean was in the library with "Utopia". This term was used as an index, searched for collections of books and newspapers, and apart from a few unrelated philosophical books, Sean was unable to find information on this mysterious religion.

"This so-called Utopia must have something to do with Aaliyah's disappearance." Sean summed up his reasoning, "Mr. Kennedy should be the backbone of the Utopia. This mysterious religion, because of some I don't know about it for the time being. The reason I know, controlled Aaliyah..."

Sean, who was already a little tired from constant reading, found that it was getting late and decided to leave the library.

Walking out of the library and reaching the side of the road, Sean did not expect that the man in a white suit would follow him. He walked up to Sean: "Sir, I'm so sorry just now!"

"In order to express my apologies, I would like to invite you to a potluck where I work!"

Sean remembered about the taxi driver George, he wanted to refuse, but the other person continued: "Besides, I want to make a friend with you. I haven't made a friend since I arrived on land!"