The dripping of blood, the change of taste, the excitement of appetite, the pleasure of touch. The clear liquid dyed with red ink fills the checkered floor tiles of churches and corridors, like pouring deep water into a swimming pool, like pouring clear water into a dry well,
For example, the fertility rate in less than pleasant areas of the city could increase.
The above haunted hallucination, which could not be defined by sight or smell, made Fan Ning move his feet reflexively and immediately changed from one compartment to another.
"Miss Crimson" is still hanging on the stone wall in front of me.
The scene was repeated several times while the soles of his feet were tossing and turning, and Fan Ning realized that this was an infection mainly at the intellectual level.
The danger of hidden knowledge has instantaneous impact and continuous subsequent pollution.
Talking about the former alone, when certain dangerous hidden knowledge is accepted, people's cognition is like being dropped "from high to low". This is why those positions are too high or completely subvert the existing cognition.
The reason why unknown knowledge can instantly shatter a person's mind into pieces.
One of the most effective ways to avoid injury is to find a piece of high ground where you already have some understanding, so that the "height difference" or "impact" of falling to the ground is not that strong.
Fan Ning finally found it. This was not the first time. He had seen the female portrait in this painting before, in a dream that he had partially forgotten.
Transcendental revelation from the "Incinerator"!
That night in the "Spark Field" of the Guidance School, I saw scenes of revelation related to the God of Origin.
First there was the revelation of the "black and white poster" related to the "disaster", then immediately there was the portrait of a woman in front of the red church arcade. Finally, there was Qiming Church, which I frequented the most.
Is the painting "Miss Scarlet" related to the Lord of Witness "Red Pond" and the Pleasure Listening Session?
Perhaps it was the resistance effect of the "gel fetal membrane", or perhaps it found a cognitive buffer. When the uncertainty that was once covered by the dark curtain disappeared, and the intruding unknown image could be initially understood, the painting also disappeared, at least
Disappeared temporarily.
So according to the basic principles of the mysterious field, don't ask too much and think too much for the time being. If a weird thing leaves and you still worry about why it left, then there is a high probability that you want it to come back to you.
So Fan Ning saw that what was originally hanging on the wall was an extremely complex drawing. After a few seconds, when his attention was completely withdrawn from the horror, he discovered that these compartments were also filled with various animal and plant specimens.
, instruments and machinery, bottles, cans and books and paper.
"The secret research place of the Harmony School?"
The situation seemed to be similar to that in the circular building before, but as Fan Ning got closer and looked around, he found that the two were completely different——
The objects in the circular building are old and badly weathered, without any substantial material residue or legible text carriers, but here it is just the opposite: there are too many books and papers, too many weird storage materials, and too much information.
It’s huge and the content is so complicated that I don’t even know where to start reading!
This is not a bad thing, because what Fan Ning wants to know most urgently at the moment is where the return path reserved by these esoteric cultists is.
This information is public in nature, so it is definitely not a core secret. At best, it is mixed in these complicated things. It may take some time for unfamiliar people to find it, but it is better than being completely deserted and relying on guesswork for everything.
and running around.
"Records of incoming and outgoing supplies?"
Fan Ning picked up four or five notebooks in succession. The paper had no obvious traces of time. The writing was in ancient Hoffmann and Turangalian. The numbers on it seemed to maintain the "esoteric religion".
He even saw the unit symbols of "pounds", "shillings" and even "pences" one after another in the marginal work ledger of "daily operations".
Obviously, whether it is an official organization or an esoteric group, its development and operation cannot be decoupled from the real society. However, this misplaced sense of reality still gave him the illusion of looking at the company's financial statements.
"Why is it still in units of 'people'?" Fan Ning flipped through a few more pages of this so-called consumable record book.
After pondering for a moment, he put it down.
You need to find some key information in an outline.
After gathering his thoughts for a moment, Fan Ning took a few steps forward and cast his eyes on the huge and complex drawing on the wall.
Remove the dense surrounding text and symbols in your mind, and the remaining main frame is a right-angled triangle ⊿.
"Map?" His eyes lit up at first, and then showed a look of thought.
It is undoubtedly a schematic diagram of the cross-sectional layout of the current place, but only the right-angled trapezoid in the lower half of ⊿ is marked with detailed functional areas.
The smaller triangle in the upper half is circled with warning red ink, and there is nothing marked on the drawing.
Since Fan Ning knew in advance that there were traces of activity here in the Third History and the Immortality Esoteric Sect period, this undoubtedly makes people think that the Harmony School just built a lower and wider floor under the earlier and smaller ⊿-shaped building above.
In order to facilitate research, they seemed to be afraid of going up to the original narrow space at the top.
Fan Ning recalled the overall view of the building he saw when he first entered the platform. The upper narrow floor corresponding to the position of the red ink in the picture was too high and had been immersed in the green haze in the night sky.
"Is there anything that the Harmony School dares not touch?"
Not necessarily. The red ink circle does not necessarily represent an "unknown forbidden area" that is completely inaccessible. It may also just indicate the space above. Ordinary esoteric believers are not qualified to understand and enter. For example, there are some "unknown forbidden areas" there.
The remains of the "Fountain in the Painting" are more closely related.
Time was tight. After doing some rough analysis, memorizing a few "up and down stairs" locations, and paying attention to several "key area" icons that might have ways to turn back, Fan Ning further accelerated the progress of his investigation.
As more and more compartments passed by on this floor, he discovered that although the building stones and design styles were weird and ancient, the specific items displayed inside were not too old.
Since the way to enter this secret realm is not the conventional "dream", but a gradual transition from the real passage, there are many daily items displayed inside, the style of which dates from the second half of the last century.
There were many compartments, and he saw that many of the workbench displays were in a "temporary absence" state. There were also documents and books that were poured into the stove in baskets, but most of them were intact, and only a few of them were
It was ignited and was not completely burned.
It's like these people evacuated in a hurry from a certain moment?
Fan Ning climbed up to the second floor from a long, narrow and steep black-green stone staircase. It was nearly 20 meters above the ground of the platform. The honeycomb-shaped building was hollowed out and there was no concept of windows. There was a green mist belt in the sky outside.
The unclean breath was poured into it, creating a disturbing whimpering sound.
There is a canvas spread out on the long stone table in front of you. At first glance, it looks like there is an adult-sized creature lying flat on it. In fact, it is only half as thick. The wild lines and colors on the painting have been glued to his body.
The higher parts that are separated from the canvas are actually various colors of paint that have dried.
In another long sink space similar to a public pen sink, a small wooden chair is placed against the wall. A humanoid creature wearing gray linen pants is sitting upright on it, starting from the crotch upwards, his body is surprisingly stretched
, blossomed into a large tree with a height and width of more than five meters on the stone wall behind it.
His brain is painted in a wrinkled gray-white tone at the top of the trunk, the lungs in the middle are thickly coated with ultramarine blue and indigo, the red stripes of his ribs extend out of the wall, and two arms-like
The thick branches were painted with fluorescent light colors that looked like fungus spores, and a child-like figure was sitting on it, looking at himself.
As Fan Ning walked higher and higher in the ⊿-shaped building, his figure was changing, the night sky outside was getting higher, the green water vapor was getting heavier, and the area of each floor was getting smaller.
Looking around, there are countless such paintings.
They vary in form, content, and size. The largest work occupies an entire stone wall about ten meters long and three meters high. There are nearly a hundred complex relationships between characters, large and small, reflected on it.
The colors and compositions are extremely bold, the brushstrokes are extremely thick, and the displacement and reorganization of organs are extremely imaginative...
It's like a large-scale "art workshop".
Each layer of paint used for painting has a number of fixed "sampling points". Fan Ning went to several places to observe, and it was exactly those cochlear-shaped ducts that can be seen from the appearance of the building. They are densely growing on them.
The "outlet" here still maintains its bright color and texture.
Fanning couldn't help but think of the pipes of the "Langefni" workhouse paint factory.
As well as the unknown black holes that absorbed human tissue seen at the site of the Santa Ramburg subway accident in the imperial capital.
He followed the instructions on the drawing and went all the way up, gradually approaching the top of the marked area, and further up was the red warning area.
Finally, he frowned and picked up the record book in the stone cabinet in front of him.
“How do you give people the feeling of ‘meeting minutes’ or ‘discussion minutes’?”
These records are divided into paragraphs, written in a sloppy and colloquial manner, and each paragraph is preceded by a "name + colon" format.
Moreover, it seems to be a protracted debate.
"Ziwa Yawei: A useless elixir test. The "Gate of Seven Lights" is just an understanding angle. In the final analysis, it is an insufficient understanding of the image of the holy spring and an incomplete conception. No matter how many enthusiastic acquaintances there are, they still don't touch it.
No real connection with Him.”
"Tra Yeshiyavi: The tendency of retracing the passage is getting higher and higher. Every time it is a test of life and death. You will stay here until the year 900 of the New Era at most. If you still make no progress, you will have to find another way to see the holy spring."
"Sahayawi: Today's efficiency is abnormal, extremely low and abnormal efficiency..."
"Sahayawi: The actual abundance of transmutation and transformation is less than 20% of the theoretical consumables. If you don't find out where the other 80% went, then even contacting you with five times the number of acquaintances in the workhouse will not be enough.
The great achievement of the Holy Spring."
"The trend of reentry channel activities is getting higher and higher? New Year 900?" Fan Ning frowned and looked at the writing on it.
This time is already his own time.
Moreover, it is actually not right. The Turner Art Museum had been established for ten years by then, and Vincent had sealed the entrance for ten years. It is very likely that these people of the Harmonization School did not stay until 900.
Going back further, the time when Vienne's private residence was temporarily transformed into a workhouse hospital, and then moved quickly and farcically?
Various clues can be matched.
As for these specific discussions on Tantric rituals, Fan Ning was confused at first, but after looking for some supporting materials and reading them quickly, he roughly inferred what these people were talking about.
The occult topics that the Harmony School studies on a day-to-day basis should be divided into two categories: what is the true image of the "Fountain in the Painting"; how to depict, approach, restore or even become its true image.
So in practice, a series of divisions of labor have emerged. Apart from the details, the core categories are as follows: those responsible for "theoretical research" and putting forward various ideas for the image of the holy spring; those responsible for "calling acquaintances", that is, going to the workhouse
Those who preach doctrines or other places in the city; those who are responsible for the "elixir test" and turn these found consumables into transmuted pigments; those who are responsible for practical operations, mainly through painting, trying to have a mystical connection with the "fountain in the painting"
.
Since the progress of their great achievements was not satisfactory, those responsible for different sectors often pointed out their respective problems and expressed dissatisfaction during seminars.
The record of the meeting was finished, and Fan Ning had no time to help clean it up. He threw it directly on the ground behind him, and then took out the second and third books from the stone cabinet that was taller than himself...
First there is the row that is at the same height as my chest, then the upper row that needs to be reached on tiptoes, and the rows below that need to be squatted and groped...
These people seemed to have extremely high energy. They were discussing the secrets of the holy spring all the time, and the discussion process was filled with books after books.
No need to sleep, eat, or relax in any other way.
According to Fan Ning's rough statistics, they have put forward at least 200 ideas about the image of the holy spring, among which the most widely recognized ones include "remove all human eyeballs and dump them at the mouth of the river, and the collective image you see is
"They are holy springs", "All the transmutation guide tubes, from the imperial capital to here, and all over the city's territory, are themselves huge holy springs", etc.
In addition, they have also compiled more than 400,000 words of "lecture notes", "tantras" or "records of experiences", left more than 2,000 elixir formulas to "return the human body to reality", and conducted more than 10,000 "depictions"
,approximate,reduction” process.
Judging from the notes, some people were discussing and experimenting on themselves when they got interested. After that, they never saw this name spoken again.
"Bang." "Crash..." "Crack."
The notebooks were gradually thrown everywhere on the floor by Fan Ning.
After sweeping the stone wall and then the table, he reached out and twisted the wires wrapped around the rows of brackets, and picked up more books one after another.
All kinds of weird knowledge bombarded his mind in turn, which meant that only a knowledgeable person with a high level could read it. He endured the discomfort and quickly skimmed.
The "return passage" was not found, but Fan Ning discovered that as the protracted discussion continued, everyone's disputes or doubts gradually focused on one thing or link:
They found that the reality of "transmutation conversion abundance" was too far from the theory.
Or in other words, after they finally put a batch of "acquaintance consumables" they gathered into the pipeline, they originally expected to get 100 units of transmutation pigment, but in fact they only got 20.
I don’t know where the other 80 went, and I can’t find the reason why.
Link after link, this naturally seriously slowed down the progress of their great achievements.
Of course, such a profound evil god topic has nothing to do with Fan Ning. He is just more concerned about the information about the "return passage", especially what these people mean by "the tendency of reentry passage activities is getting higher and higher".
Due to the ⊿-shaped cross-sectional structure of the building, the floor area at this height is already very small.
"The last record."
The progress was unclear. Fan Ning shook his head, took a deep breath and opened the book. The discussion was still full of passion. After a few pages of records, it came to an abrupt end.
Blank page…blank page…blank page…
It seemed that he had reached the latest record. Fan Ning continued to move the paper back with some reluctance. Finally, he saw a small cluster of messy words at the end of the page.
"Sahayawi:
The other 80% was eaten...by something...the one above...