Angel first told the sacrifice that he couldn't understand the most.
“The ‘lamp’ that has witnessed the glory?”
After Xiaolu heard this, he was obviously confused: "Rongguang brand lamps? I don't know much about lamps, and I don't know if there is this brand. However, I remember there is a lamp market in Lux Street. Maybe you can
Go over and ask the merchants over there?"
Angel: "No, they are not Rongguang brand lamps, but lamps that have 'witnessed' Rongguang..."
Seeing Xiao Lu, she still looked confused.
Angel paused and scratched his head: "I don't know how to tell you."
"How about we have an interview?"
Xiao Lu did not hesitate, nodded and said: "Okay, or the Desire Hotel?"
"OK."
After making an appointment, Angel turned off the holographic phantom and walked towards the house tower in the deep black market.
On the other side, Xiao Lu also ended the call and waved to Kalyan, who was dozing on the bed: "You also heard that our distinguished member asked me to go out."
Kallen looked pale and snorted.
After Xiaolu left, Kalyan slowly opened his eyes and murmured in a low voice: "The lamp that has witnessed the glory... is a bit strange. What kind of ceremony would use such a strange sacrifice?"
Kallen was a little confused and decided not to think about it anymore. Anyway, he would find out when Xiao Lu comes back.
Well, keep resting.
Just a few minutes later, Xiaolu and Angel met again in the previous room.
Xiao Lu greeted Angel reservedly and sat down opposite Angel. However, as soon as Xiao Lu sat down, she felt a breeze blowing on her cheeks.
Is it windy? Did you leave the windows open?
Xiao Lu subconsciously raised her head and glanced at the window. The moment she raised her eyes, she vaguely saw a green light, getting closer and closer to her, until... it disappeared between her eyebrows.
There is no doubt that this green light is the nightmare cast by Angel.
However, this nightmare technique does not control Xiao Lu, it simply blocks her memory and reduces her thinking activity.
To put it bluntly, it is to prevent her from over-associating.
Because Angel decided to have a direct showdown with Xiao Lu and tell her the general content of the "ceremony".
Under normal circumstances, if Xiao Lu knew that the ceremony was related to the "Carnival Night Clown", she would inevitably have associations and suspicions. Angel suppressed such unfounded suspicions through nightmares.
Angel: "As for the situation of the ritual sacrifices, I couldn't explain it clearly in the Hermit Ring before, but here we are the only two, so I can speak frankly."
Xiao Lu smiled: "Are you worried that a third party will find out about the call on the Hermit Ring? Mr. Angel is really cautious, but it is also my honor that you can trust me."
"Sir, please tell me. As long as I know, I will tell you everything."
Angel: "This ritual is associated with carnival night clowning."
"Carnival night clown?" Xiao Lu was stunned for a moment. She should have been very surprised at this time, but she was very calm inside. She herself did not feel strange, but objectively commented in an almost calm tone: "He is a very rare one.
It’s a fashionable monster, and it’s also a high-level monster.”
Angel made sure that Xiaolu's mood did not fluctuate and that there was no over-association. Then he felt relieved and continued: "The ceremony I mentioned can be understood as... a worship to the clown on the carnival night."
"Sacrifice to high-end fashion monsters? It sounds a bit like what the Dark Corner God Church does..." Little Green said this and looked at Angel subconsciously.
Angel was stunned: "What is the Dark Corner Cult?"
"A group of lunatics who worship Vignette think that Vignette is the birthplace of everything and our origin." Xiao Lu: "The more unknown and mysterious it is, the more people make people wonder. Vignette is like this, because it is too
It is too mysterious, and under the instigation of interested people, a group of fanatical believers have gathered."
To put it simply, it is a religion that worships everything in dark corners.
Angel could probably understand that it was like some primitive people seeing fire for the first time. Because they didn't understand fire, were afraid of fire, but also longed for the warmth that fire brought, they worshiped this mysterious and unknown existence.
Psychologically, I have a mentality of worshiping fire.
The concept of the Dark Corner Cult is probably the same. Because I didn’t understand it, I found it mysterious, so I started to make up my mind, and then “self-guided”, and finally formed a circle that worships Dark Corner.
Angel: "I am not a believer in the Dark Corner Cult. I don't know them at all."
Xiao Lu glanced at Angel and nodded: "I believe it."
Under the influence of nightmare, Xiaolu no longer thinks blindly and trusts Angel's words more.
"However, it doesn't matter even if it is the Dark Corner Cult. Except for the followers of this sect who are a little crazy about things involving Dark Corner, other things are quite normal..."
Xiao Lu shook his head, his thoughts no longer diverged, but continued to ask: "Let's go back to the sacrifice? Do you mean that this sacrifice is actually used to worship the clown at the carnival night?"
Angel nodded: "You can understand it as a worship ritual."
Xiaolu: "Is blood food involved?"
Angel shook his head.
Xiao Lu shrugged: "As long as it doesn't involve blood food, it doesn't matter... just keep talking."
Angel: "There are three types of sacrifices required for the ceremony, involving 'light', 'sound' and 'food'."
"The sacrifices involving 'light' are the 'lamps' that I just mentioned that have witnessed the glory."
Even though Angel had told the general situation and even pointed out the "carnival night clown", Xiaolu still didn't quite understand what the "light" sacrifice was.
She thought for a while and continued: "What are the sacrifices of sound and food?"
Angel didn't hide anything, and told Xiao Lu about the situation of "sound" and "eating".
However, Angel had just finished saying "sound" and before he could say "food", Xiao Lu showed a look of enlightenment and interrupted: "I understand the meaning of 'light'."
Angel: "???"
"You just mentioned that the sacrifice of 'sound' is the lively atmosphere during the three competitions." Xiao Lu: "Then I can reasonably guess that this ceremony is actually related to the love of the clown himself on the carnival night."
"The clown at carnival night usually has a chance to appear only after clearing the three major competitions. Because it likes the layers of lively atmosphere when the champions of the three major competitions are born, the shouts of the audience, the excitement of the competitors on the stage, everything,
It’s all what it’s chasing…”
"Then the sacrifice of 'Light' is easy to understand. It must be related to the three competitions."
What is glory in the eyes of a carnival night clown?
It must have been before the birth of the champions of the three competitions. Darkness fell, and everyone was waiting for the beam of light to fall and fall on the only champion.
The "lamp" that creates this beam of light is naturally the "lamp" that Angel mentioned, witnessing the birth of glory.
Xiaolu expressed her thoughts. After hearing this, Angel almost didn't need to verify and immediately agreed with her conjecture.
Because this logic is completely self-consistent, and Angel can be convinced.
"Then do you know what is the light fixture that projects the beam on the champion in the three major competitions?" Angel quickly asked.
Xiaolu shook his head: "I don't know, but I can tell you clearly that the 'lights' here are not those in the lighting market. In this kind of competition, and the light is the moment when the champion reaches the top, it must be emitted by the fashion monster.
The light is similar to the light-gathering technique of the light-chasing butterfly, or the flashing light ball of the shining elf..."
Why can the three competitions attract high-level monsters?
Not just the event itself, but also the various details surrounding this competition.
These details are all "fixed", such as the selection of stage materials, the specifications of the stage, and the arrangement of the seats; for example, the light when the champion reaches the top must be the light created by the fashion monster...
These details are immutable and are the secrets of the organizations behind the three competitions. Only they know all the details.
Relying on the stacking of these details, it is like completing a set of formal and complicated huge rituals, which can attract the attention of high-level monsters.
Therefore, it is not just a matter of holding a large-scale competition to attract high-level monsters.
If you don’t have all the matching details, it will be difficult to shape.
It is precisely because of this that Xiao Lu is certain that "lamps" do not refer to physical lamps, but to the light produced by a certain fashionable monster.
But Xiao Lu didn’t know exactly what kind of fashion monster it was.
However, Xiaolu also gave Angel a suggestion: "In the past, each company was very powerful and it was not easy to explore the detailed regulations of the three competitions. But it is different now. Prada Media Company has plummeted. As far as I know,
As you know, they have even begun to sell off some detailed regulations of the three major competitions.”
"If you want to know what kind of fashion monster's light it is, you can go to Prada Media Company and ask them to buy these details."
After going round and round, it fell on Prada Media Company again.
But there is no doubt that Xiaolu should be referring to "Minglu".
Because according to the normal process of the main mission, they should indeed return to Prada Media Company and get some gold coins from them...
Moreover, according to the logic of the "Sacrifice of Light", there is no doubt that the "Sacrifice of Sound" can be obtained from Prada Media Company.
There is a high probability that it is a past video of the Prada beauty pageant as Angel guessed before.
Because the lively sounds at the scene must have been recorded in the video.
Xiao Lu also affirmed this: "If the 'Sound Sacrifice' wants the excitement of the three competitions, then your guess should be right."
"However, it is not necessary to go to Prada Media Company to find the images of the three major competitions. In fact, many organizations have retained them."
"After all, the three competitions can allow companies, consortiums, and some individual studios to learn a lot from all dimensions. It is inevitable to leave video records."
"For example, our Hermit Association actually has video records."
Angel was stunned: "The hermit will have video records?"
Xiaolu nodded: "Yes, we have it. If sir needs it, I can ask Banbu to deliver it to you now."
Angel nodded without hesitation: "Need."
Although Prada Media Company should also be able to obtain relevant event videos, Angel still understands that you cannot put all your eggs in one basket.
Xiaolu asked Angel to wait. She clicked on the hermit ring and quickly said a few words to the person opposite.
Not long after, Angel felt his hermit ring getting faintly hot.
He quickly turned on the projection of the Hermit Ring and saw the logo of Tina Entertainment in the projection, with a red number below the logo: 1.
"The icon of Tina Entertainment represents the image of the 'Modern Fashion Show' in the three competitions. What I asked Bambu to forward to you is the last fashion show."
"However, because forwarding the image consumes a lot of energy, Bambu only sent it once."
In other words, the "1" below the logo means that Angel can play the image once.
"This video is free for you. If you want to play it a few more times, you can spend your membership points to purchase it," Xiao Lu said.
You can buy it once with 10 membership points.
Because he had helped Carlion open the pages of the book before, he generously gave Angel one thousand membership points, so Angel was not stingy at this time. He directly waved his hand and purchased two more plays of the "Modern Fashion Show".
Angel then asked if there were any images of the "Prada Beauty Pageant" and the "Dark Competition", but Xiao Lu shook her head.
Video recording of the Dark Competition was prohibited, and the Prada Beauty Pageant... because the last beauty pageant had declined somewhat and was not very popular, the Hermit Association did not leave any video recordings.
As for the earlier beauty pageants... The Hermits had not yet arrived in the modern city at that time, so there was no way there would be video recordings.
Therefore, there is only the last "Modern Fashion Show".
But this is enough. Anyway, what the clown wants at the carnival night is the atmosphere of the three major competitions. The specific competition should not be too important.
Finally, Angel also talked about the "food sacrifice".
Xiao Lu was quite concerned about the "Food Sacrifice" and listened very carefully, fearing that there might be something like "blood food" missed in it.
After listening to the content of "Food Sacrifice", Xiao Lu also breathed a long sigh of relief.
Top-quality oil paints, colorful fabrics, oil wax in carnival paper lanterns...these are all normal things. Although some of the offerings are a bit expensive, they are not outlandish.
"Does the Hermitage have these things?" Angel: "If so, I can buy them directly from the Hermitage."
Xiao Lu: "The hermit has a lot of oil paints and fabrics, and they are all top-notch. But the oil wax in the carnival paper lanterns is a bit out of season..."
What are carnival paper lanterns?
To put it simply, they are paper lanterns placed at the annual carnival. The shape of this paper lantern is a bit like a "Kongming Lantern". After being lit, the buoyancy of hot air makes the paper lanterns rise into the air.
Carnival paper lanterns are only sold at carnivals, so Little Green said that they were a bit out of season. Would the hermit stock up on such festive items?
"However, if you just want to buy the oil and wax in the carnival paper lanterns, you should be able to buy it." Xiao Lu said: "I remember that every year during the carnival, there are businesses specializing in carnival paper lanterns in the deep black market. I can help Mr.
Go and ask, you should be able to buy it."
Angel: "That would be troublesome."
"No trouble, I just happened to go back to the Hermitage branch to prepare the oil paints and fabrics that Mr. asked for...and I believe that Mr. will not hesitate to run the errands." Xiao Lu blinked.
Of course she knew that by running "free" errands, she would most likely receive some trivial gratitude. However, this was too deliberate. What she expected was that Angel could establish more long-term and continuous connections with the hermit, rather than rely on this kind of
Short-term and fragmentary gratitude to retain people.
Therefore, it is most appropriate to maintain a business-like attitude from the beginning.