It's over, something may have gone wrong. Seeing Qiong's reaction, both Fanning and Sheeran's initial reactions were tense.
But in the open terrain and strong light, it seemed difficult to control themselves from looking at something for a moment. So, like Qiong, they saw a giant snake composed of concave abstract lines, coiled in a swirling posture.
, squirming and swallowing his own tail in a daze.
Fan Ning felt that some of the protective afterbirth clothes he once wore had been lifted off, and an indescribable insecurity spread all over his body in an instant - this experience was similar to that of himself who was "afraid of ghosts" when he was a child.
The wrapping feeling of sleeping under the quilt, but the quilt was pulled away by an unknown force in the middle of the night!
Some kind of "trigger" that exists within was triggered, and the scene in front of me seemed to be split apart layer by layer, first the shell of the hall, then the earth and rocks, and finally the air, clouds and the shell of the world, the thin film of appearance.
After it shattered, everyone felt that deep in the sky or on the dome beyond the concept of experience, there was an ancient existence that felt as oppressive as a giant celestial body that was slowly rotating, and they casually glanced at their location.
He has no body or emotions at all. In other words, even if there are images and thoughts, they cannot be observed by ordinary people. Any attempt to describe His body, color, voice or smell is just a distorted silhouette of the tip of the iceberg.
Fan Ning's only feeling was that his soul was enveloped by some kind of collection of true knowledge itself. They grew into coiled gray branches, strangling the whirlpool-like scene in front of him, and transformed into huge geometric patterns to express his knowledge.
Repeated grinding and rolling.
But this feeling only lasts a moment.
In less than one breathing cycle, before the breath that Fan Ning had inhaled into his lungs was exhaled, this transcendental landscape and feeling completely collapsed.
Qiong pointed the flashlight vertically at the ground, and the patterns on the wall had fallen into darkness.
In the strange and empty hall, the three people looked at each other in shock with their faces in the intersection of light and dark.
The atmosphere here became unsettling at some point. The human faces nested in the lines on the walls, as well as the invisible corners in the dark, seemed to have invisible things coming out at the next moment.
"The Lord of Witnesses, "The Serpent of Truth."
They all knew the name of this ancient and great being, as well as some simple and subtle hidden knowledge, such as the phase he controlled was "Yan", but at this time no one dared to pronounce his name, nor did they dare to detail it.
I think. Because of the uneasy dizziness and premonition that people are about to be overwhelmed, everyone can only read a hint of "running away" impulse in each other's body movements!
This kind of silent terror is more devastating than the direct threat of death. It forms a delicate and fragile balance with the silence in the air. Fan Ning suddenly recalls what "community" he explored with several friends when he was young.
Scenes like "Abandoned Building" - in the dark, as long as one person among the people walking calmly starts to run, the scene will become extremely terrifying. Even if it is clear that there is nothing nearby, let alone death, the genes engraved in the bones
It only motivates myself to run away quickly.
He didn't know why he remembered this scene inexplicably. Of course, the three people in front of him would not do such a thing. After exchanging glances with each other, they pretended to be calm and stepped forward, exiting side by side at a moderate speed.
After returning to the corridor, the first thing the three of them did was to press their backs firmly against the wall, and then slid down and squatted down.
The feeling of facing the darkness all the way and leaving that weird hall was so terrifying that Fan Ning now dared not close the bronze door leading to the hall. He always felt that with no vision at all, he would always be worried about something coming out.
, might as well just leave it open like this.
In comparison, I feel so at ease now.
"Is there any problem with your current situation?" Fan Ning asked after the mood calmed down a little.
This experience of being inadvertently glimpsed by the unknown witness was Fan Ning's second experience. Previously, he accidentally observed the hidden knowledge carrier that carried "watching death" and "flow", and he felt the same way - mixed
With greatness and terror, enjoyment and collapse.
But this time it was just a witness talisman. I did not use it as the basis for the secret ceremony, nor did I recite or pray for anything...
There will be some shock when you first come into contact with a new god named Yin Zhi, but it is usually within the tolerance of a knowledgeable person. He did not expect such a reaction this time.
"It seems...no...but I can't tell what's weird." The gasps of the two girls had not subsided.
"I think so too." Fan Ning frowned.
His physical and spiritual conditions were slightly frightened, and he was returning to normal at the moment, and his thoughts and actions were still under self-control. However, he always felt that after being accidentally glanced at by the "Truth Mantra", the state of things at an abstract level had changed.
, or inside oneself, or outside the environment, or the outside involved by the inside, or the inside contained by the outside.
Is it like triggering some kind of "trigger"?
Although he doesn't know what it is specifically, Fan Ning now chooses to follow the basic laws of occultism: in the same situation, if you don't think about it, the risk is minimal.
He began to think about another question: "Sheeran, can you roughly judge the period of this underground building?"
Sheeran said: "It's not the New Calendar, it should be the late 3rd Sturungarian Dynasty."
"So sure?... It's strange. Could it be that there is a well built in the third historical period on the site of the art museum? I don't know if the incident that happened in the hospital is related to the things underground."
"No, it's not that well. The masonry of that well is not that old, only about three hundred years at best."
"What you mean is that the deep well and corridor, as well as the buildings connected to them, are indeed pieced together by the products of two different historical periods..." Fan Ning crossed his arms and thought, "Well, this is not difficult to understand. Ancient people
It is entirely possible that this shaft was built next to it in order to explore more ancient ruins...but why are you so sure about this underground structure, and why is it so accurate to the late period?"
Xilan slowly explained, "Judging from the style of the door on the well wall and the architectural style seen along the way...the bronze material favored by the Tulungalia dynasty is not actually a real bronze.
It is a kind of mercury gold with special proportions and composition. If you look at it under bright natural light, you can see that their color is slightly golden... As for the heptagonal layout, it appears in many of their palace architectural remains.
It can be regarded as a kind of dislocation art in their opinion.”
"And the later this dynasty went, the more often there was an aesthetic tendency to 'anthropomorphize' everyday utensils. That is, the design of decorative patterns is always easy to associate with the combination of facial features."
"This is an unpopular academic point of view with few samples, because the existing historical materials of the Tulungalia Dynasty show a distribution of 'relatively missing at both ends and relatively complete in the middle'... I just saw the style of the door on the wall of the well.
At that time, I didn’t realize it, but as soon as Qiong said that the walls of the hall also looked like human faces, I gradually recalled this.”
"You have learned a lesson. You are indeed very knowledgeable about history and ancient languages." Fan Ning listened carefully, but after thinking for a while, he raised some questions, "However, from this point of view...then outside the door
The candlestick opposite should also be an antiquity from the Tulungarian period, but...it grows next to the escalator on the well wall."
"It's just that the people who built the candlestick built an extra candlestick outside." Qiong took over the words, "Although they are two buildings from different historical periods, they are next to each other after all, so the builders just built another one outside.
The entrance is used for lighting..."
"No, the time is wrong." Sheeran realized the problem at this time, "The underground construction time is in the front, and this shaft is in the back... Just imagine, if we are in the corridor now and see objects from a more recent age, this is normal.
…But on the other hand, what if something with an underground architectural style grows on that shaft?…”
"...Don't you think there's a weird sense of dislocation here?"
…
After listening to Sheeran's analysis, Joan finally came to her senses.
Consider two explanations for this phenomenon:
The underground structure of the Tulungarian dynasty had an extra candlestick extending out of the discontinuous boundary, and was then built together by the people who built the deep well?
Or maybe the person who built the deep well originally renovated it in an underground building, but happened to not destroy the candlestick and still left it embedded in the well wall?... This is too far-fetched.
Sheeran is right, it is indeed a weird feeling of dislocation...most likely caused by some unknown occult factors.
Fan Ning turned on the flashlight again, stood on the edge of the corridor, and shined into the hall.
Joan asked doubtfully: "Caron, what are you doing? Aren't you afraid of seeing the image symbol of the Lord of Witness again?"
"The wall on our side is a blind spot." Fan Ning said, "I suddenly thought of an explanation for the meaning of these geometric combinations on the wall of the hall, and wanted to confirm it again."
He looked at it a few more times, then turned off the flashlight: "Do you think this looks like the four elements the alchemist said?"
"Alchemist?" Qiong said in surprise: "You mean, the Harmony School?"
"No...earlier, maybe even earlier than the Continental Alchemist Association, the predecessor of the Harmony School." Fan Ning shook his head, "When this profession was just emerging nearly two thousand years ago, the earliest group of ancient alchemists had already proposed the four
The doctrine of the elements.”
Sheeran felt that she couldn't keep up with Fan Ning's thinking: "The theory of four elements? I have heard of this. It embodies the wisdom of ancient scholars, but today it is far from the achievements of human chemistry, and it is not as good as the mysticism of contemporary knowledgeable people.
A theory with such a complete system... The main point is that the world at the beginning of its formation was composed of the four basic elements of fire, water, air, and earth. Well, the world here mainly refers to the appearance of the world...
"However, I remember that the symbols of the four elements in ancient mystical theory are tokens, cups, swords and gold coins. Compared with these straight lines on the walls of the hall, are they too far behind?"
Fan Ning said: "Because of my previous investigation of the Harmony School, I learned about the theoretical development history of alchemists. The symbols you mentioned are correct, but mysticism has developed from ancient times to the present, and alchemists in different periods have also used other symbols.
Symbols represent the four elements, such as fire. There are not only tokens, but also scepters... For example, there is a set of flat symbols that are arranged and combined with upper and lower triangles and horizontal lines. Another example is that there is another set of three-dimensional symbols that are symbolized by regular geometry...
"
"There are only five kinds of regular geometry in the world. The first is the symbol of fire. They chose the regular tetrahedron with the sharpest corners. Fire drives the gas up and down, so the gas has two sharp corners pointing upward and downward.
The regular octahedron; soil is something that can be stacked and built, so it is the most square hexahedron; water has an irregular and flowing shape, so it is the icosahedron with the most faces and the slipperiest appearance...
"In the end, the dodecahedron is left without corresponding elements. The ancients believed that this was the 'ether' dispersed around stars, minerals and living things - this is the same as the first layer of 'ether' outside human skin in modern mystical theory.
The body' is very close, so the theoretical completeness of this set of three-dimensional symbols is stronger than that of the flat symbols, and it is also more widely used in the practice of ancient alchemists..."
"Four, six, eight, twenty..." Sheeran recalled the most basic units of the complex patterns in the hall that he had just seen, "So, you think that the number of plane sides of these wall patterns corresponds to the number of three-dimensional faces of regular geometry.
?In other words, the entire hall is filled with the four elements...and then, in some spaces with sparse lines, some image symbols of the Lord of Witness appear? How to understand this?..."
Fan Ning slowly analyzed: "The seven phases are refracted from the radiance, dispersed in the world's will to form a surge, and then drift downwards to condense into the shell of representation, which is the residence of ordinary people... because representation and will jointly constitute
In the real world, many mysteries passed down from ancient times will require the executor to use symbols of the four elements when building an altar, as a miniature of the initial world, and then fill in the phases on this basis to metaphorically transform from transcendence
The mapping of the world to the waking world…”
"...So, these patterns piled on the walls of the hall should symbolize the initial world, and several Lords of Witnesses appeared in it. Could it be..." Fan Ning analyzed this by himself, and suddenly remembered what the secret organization "Transcendental Club" claimed
The origin classification theory of the Lord of Witness.
"Could this mean the unfallen fire, the Tower Builder, the winter wind, and that existence..." Fan Ning still jumped over the name of the "Truth Serpent" with fear, "... among these witnesses
Do the Lords have the same personality as the original world? Or in other words, are they ancient beings who were born at the same time as this world?"
Of course, it is very likely that the hall does not only have the symbols of these four Lords of Witness, because many places have been weathered and eroded, and a few people have not found all of them.
Fan Ning's guess was recognized by the other two people, but everyone was still confused about the significance of the existence of this hall. It had nothing but hanging candlesticks, a few windows, and patterns on the walls. It was not like ancient times.
A scholar's mausoleum does not look like a place where sacrificial activities were held.
The three of them returned the same way.
This corridor started out as a gentle straight line, then turned uphill and curved. Now going back, it starts with a downhill curve and a reverse curve.
During this period, Fan Ning asked the two girls for their opinions, and they all decided to continue exploring down the shaft after leaving the corridor.
But not even ten seconds after this decision was made, Fan Ning suddenly stopped while walking.
"etc."
"What's wrong, Carol?" Sheeran turned his head.
Fan Ning stared at the darkness ahead with suspicion.
"This road...when you came here...did you think it had such a big bend?"