Chapter 311 On the Promotion to the Lord of Witness (4K 2-in-1)
"Bang!"
Fan Ning pretended to calmly put the record book back on the table, and the hard spine of the book made a dry sound on the stone slab.
Since he was leaning over the table to read, when he saw the word "above", he felt like something was lying on the back of his neck.
For a moment, all the hairs on my hair stood on end.
Is there something parasitic on the "Fountain in the Painting"?
Most of the "nutrition" of the human body's transmutation tissues transported by those cochlear-shaped tubes has been robbed by that thing? Could it be that the changes in the cracked wall bricks and mucus seepage when we just entered the well through the secret door were related to this?
What kind of thing can parasitize the "Fountain in the Painting"?
"Return passage."
Fan Ning quickly cut off these associations that were not conducive to stabilizing his mind.
After re-declaring his purpose in his heart, he began to rummage through boxes and cabinets nearby.
Fortunately, the search area at this level was not as large as it was on the first level. It didn't take him too long to find what he wanted to know.
In front of me is a roll of drawings of human skin spread out. Perhaps because the peeling method is too simple and rough, the light and dark marks of the ribs are still clearly visible.
There are many mysterious graphics and text annotations on it, as well as several human anatomy illustrations, mainly partial close-ups of the skull, with the eyes and a small area of the skull marked in different colors.
This record is about a secret ritual called the "Path Reappearance Method". Fan Ning did not have the energy to explain the construction method of the secret ritual in detail, but after a quick reading, he quickly confirmed that the Harmony School uses this secret ritual to fold...
Return to the waking world.
According to them, this site, which was first built in the third historical period, does have a turnaround passage, but its direction to the waking world is already very vague. The result of entering directly is to get lost in the shifting folds.
The "Path Reappearance Method" is a secret ritual used to re-stabilize the directional relationship between the "return passage" and the "waking world".
The general principle is to find a "marker", have him hold some extraordinary substance that meets the requirements of mysticism as a "primer", stand at a specific place in the waking world to "mark the path", and then mark the path.
His eyeballs and skull undergo some kind of modification to complete the closed loop, so that later people who enter the third history reentry channel with "primers" of the same nature can return to the path marked at that time.
It is unrealistic for Fan Ning to construct this secret ritual now, but the Harmony School has naturally already "marked" it, and the "primer" they chose is also very simple: a transmutation pigment mainly composed of "cocoon" phase extraordinary ingredients
, found everywhere here.
Through a simple method, Fan Ning judged that this "path reproduction method" was real, and there is a high probability that it is still in effect today.
Because Fan Ning compared the turning point in the waking world they described...
It’s the back of Turner Hall of Art!
Last year, I didn’t know how my group escaped into the turnaround passage, but when I woke up, I found that I was in the back of the Turner Art Museum!
The smooth harvest put Fan Ning in a good mood. He called up his spiritual sense and looked around, then quickly grabbed a green pigment packed in a tin tube and stuffed it into his pocket.
There is only one last step left to escape: enter the turnaround passage!
"Passage, next is the location of the passage..." Fan Ning suddenly frowned.
The information has been deduced all the way, and the first sentence in the discussion record has not yet been verified as to what it is.
What does "the reentry channel trend is getting higher and higher, and every time it is a test of life and death"?
Fan Ning re-read the other notes that he had not had time to read carefully just to save trouble.
As he watched, he suddenly felt something was wrong.
According to records, the switchback passage looks like a "well" suspended in the air.
Its position is not fixed and changes every few days, moving up and down randomly outside the vertical wall on the other side of the ⊿-shaped giant building.
And according to the people from the Harmony School, judging from statistical frequency, it "increasingly likes" to stay in relatively high places.
"A relatively high place? How high?"
Fan Ning suddenly took steps forward and jumped lightly to the edge on the opposite side of this floor.
In the green night sky outside, there was a pattering of paint rain, and the smell of festering pus lingered. He held the stone pillars with both hands and carefully looked down. The straight building walls and the endless abyss were densely packed and symbiotic with the buildings.
of the cochlear duct.
He had a sense of luck and wanted to see if he could encounter some rare good luck. However, the reality was that he did not see any "well" hanging in the air below.
And above…
Fan Ning looked at the night sky above. The green water vapor was low and thick, with extremely low visibility, and his spiritual sense could not penetrate it well.
His face looked a little ugly.
So the switchback channel, without any accident today, is on the upper level marked with red ink?
Maybe last year's luck was good by accident, but it's impossible to have good luck all the time.
There was another discomfort caused by a sharp and dense sound. This feeling should have appeared more than ten times since that moment when I closed my eyes.
Taking steps forward in his leather shoes, Fan Ning walked around to the narrow stone staircase leading to the upper floor.
He raised his head and looked up with some uncertainty.
In the distance, there were a few pitifully thin pieces of firewood and rotten screens blocking the opening.
This protective measure is not as good as the livestock pens of farmers.
Fan Ning put himself in his shoes and speculated on the situation at that time. It seems that after suddenly discovering something parasitic on the tube body, those people did not intend to actually block it, but grabbed something with a hint of venting panic.
, and piled them upward.
Just like when ordinary people are sleeping in the middle of the night, they suddenly feel like something is coming from outside the door, and they may subconsciously throw the pillow over.
I just don’t know if the people from the Harmony School suddenly evacuated, whether they left or not.
I don’t know if they ever came to the upper level to investigate for the purpose of “getting closer to the holy spring” when no problem was discovered.
"What should I do? If the return passage is above..."
After thinking for a while, Fan Ning decided to go up and take a closer look to see what was going on around him.
The only chance to escape is above, and after analysis, he believes that since there is no movement when the firewood door and rotten screen are blocked, it means that "that thing" may be in a higher place, and the small triangular space above is also divided into several layers.
.
This is a very realistic logic of weighing the pros and cons: if the stone steps were sealed by something solid or even a secret ritual, then Fan Ning would not dare to make the decision to open it so easily.
He now prays that the "well" that turns back the passage is at the upper level.
Stop getting high.
After planning and deciding to do this, Fan Ning gritted his teeth and took steps towards the stone steps.
The stone steps with a vertical height of six to seven meters should be walked slowly and cautiously.
Originally, he wanted to use invisible force to remove the rotten screen and wood door, but he was afraid that the active inspiration would disturb something, so he chose to push them away with his hands.
Fan Ning's head tremblingly poked out from the hole in the ground, and his heart was in his throat.
The flat surface has a layer of brown hair on it.
carpet.
He looked around 360 degrees with his eyes, and then realized that he had never expected what he saw before him.
Originally, he had expected a lot of scary or vomiting scenes, even worse than what he just saw along the way.
But in fact, this seems to be an...elegant and spacious large noble library?
Carpets are laid all over the place, the roof is inlaid with cypress wood with petal patterns, the tall bookcase on the far wall is decorated with gold cloth, silver satin or gilded relief, and in the middle is a bookcase after another.
Long reading table made of mahogany.
After Fan Ning stepped onto the wide arched corridor of the library on this floor, he saw many other rare and beautiful objects along the way, including the stag head in the center of the fireplace hood, and many unnamed white marble busts.
There is a large cabinet containing a complete set of armor, a sideboard with "Nileru style" written on it, a table with complicated regional and family crests, feather clothing in the southern indigenous style and several crystal objects.
It's like visiting a tourist palace.
The only two things that are out of place are that the smell is just as wrong as ever, and the most important thing in a library - books, is basically not available here.
It's "basic", not "none". Most of the bookcases are empty, but in some places there are one or two books leaning against or lying alone. In a few corners, you can also see piles of badly damaged books that have been abandoned like tumbleweeds.
, there are many scattered papers or torn pages of books scattered on the wooden floor.
A few minutes later, Fan Ning opened the window on the vertical side of the building, and the green water vapor that was so rich that it could not be melted instantly formed a thin layer of water droplets on his face.
"What the hell, I still don't see any 'well'. Is it somewhere higher?"
He tried his best to look up and down and let his spiritual sense probe, but he still couldn't see very far. After retracting his head, he wiped his face with his sleeve, which was stained by a large area of unknown green mucus.
Then a square plaque with inlaid woodwork next to it caught his attention.
"Alchemist Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct"
The ancient Hoffmann title above, combined with a series of clues in the previous underground building, gave him a vague guess about the identity of the owner of this library.
At least this can well explain why the huge library only has a few books and scraps of paper lying around.
Alchemist Association - Immortality Secret Cult - Harmony School - Obviously, before they were aware of "that thing", the Harmony School ransacked the collection of books here, and all the hidden books of reference value that could be found from the same source were moved away.
As for why the search objects are only books and not other valuable items, maybe it is because the pursuit of characteristics of the Harmony School is completely different from ordinary people. Maybe it is because as knowledgeable people from the same family, they have a little symbolism for the identity of the owner of the library.
Sexual courtesy, that's hard to say.
Amidst the whining green wind, the papers and scattered pages on the ground were scurrying around the room like living creatures.
Just as Fan Ning was thinking about whether to check the library on this floor in detail to ensure that the information was obtained sufficiently and comprehensively, or to save time as much as possible and directly try to go to the upper floor to find the return passage——
His eyes inadvertently glanced at a piece of white paper floating by his feet, and his keen sense allowed him to capture the writing on it very clearly.
A familiar name jumped into my sight.
The paper had slipped several meters away. Fan Ning quickly took a few steps forward, leaned over and grabbed it back.
Noaic, an obscure source language older than Tulungarian.
Because the white paper had been torn, the content was incomplete, and the ink on the writing showed a very profound and colorful flash, which always reminded Fan Ning of five paintings by Vincent.
Moreover, there are many discontinuities in the middle of the strokes, which makes Fan Ning suspect that it was originally seven-color, and it was only because of his own sublimation practice that five-sevenths of it became visible.
"...Ha! I am really impressed by the people who participated in the seminar today, especially that guy McAdam. Every time he has a cautious and conservative expression of constipation... Do you need to be secretive? Do you need to pretend?
Are you being restrained and reserved? Why don’t you say those words frankly? Let’s put it on the table and discuss it in depth!!!”
"What kind of adult topic seminar is this..." The wording and tone of the diarist made Fan Ning look strange, but he confirmed that his eyes were not wrong just now.
That familiar name is really McAdam.
When Fan Ning saw this name, his first thought was that he was Miss Roy's father, but then he realized that was not the case.
If your judgment is correct, the owner of this library and the diary writer is none other than Okegan, the last president of the Alchemist Association!
The McAdam he mentioned should be a certain generation of Roy's ancestors.
Only Ockgun's identity before he went mad could qualify him to address another core family leader of the Bologna School in such a casual and equal tone.
This seems to be Okgang's private emotional diary after a high-level seminar of the school.
Fan Ning was curious about what topic they were discussing.
His reading speed was not fast, and the difficult Noahic language and two-sevenths of the strokes were broken, which were all obstacles. But when he saw a certain keyword in the next line, he was so shocked that his pupils suddenly froze.
The space was enlarged.
This word may not be directly related to the current situation, but any knowledgeable person who sees it will have a weird reaction no less than Fan Ning's!
"...What "Whether a true knowledge can be thoroughly penetrated", what "On the fourth type of origin form", what "On the theoretical feasibility of ordinary creatures passing through the door of the dome", what "on the number of seats and noble actions"
"...The speakers on the left are also interesting. They are obviously just a scholar, but they are more interested in the topic than anyone else. Okay, I admit it, although this topic sounds more ridiculous than how to popularize steam engines.
It’s a little talk, but it’s really enjoyable to talk about…”
"...I will definitely give it a simple and crude name for the next seminar, so that you can be satisfied at once - "On the Master of Promotion Witnesses", isn't that the end of it?"