"Your Excellency, I am sorry that my inspiration is a little dull."
Priest Durk struggled to squeeze out one word after another through his teeth.
"In short, if we want to compare the murder of Priest Hester with the various elements in today's scene according to this 'Soul Cauldron Ceremony'"
"Aldan, the organist, who also committed the crime, was the executioner;"
"Hester is a sacrifice that was made into the 'Truth Hypn' witness talisman;"
"And on the glass coffee table in his apartment, the piece of 'Hermiology Notes' that was cut out and taken away by the Special Patrol Office is the final completion of the ceremony, and it is also the same as what we are looking at now in the coffin that has been screened out.
Are the weird substances of the same kind? They were actually people who were possessed by 'worms'?"
"Maybe." For a moment, Fan Ning didn't know what he was expressing just now.
If something looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and tastes like a duck, then maybe it is a duck.
If several things are like this, then maybe they are all ducks.
Otherwise, how to explain the common forms of these types of things?
How to explain that in the Hester incident, only the performer and the victim of the ritual were found, but not the object of the ritual, and the assistant who used to get along day and night has completely disappeared from the world and cannot be found no matter how hard you look for it?
"Ok, I see."
"But coming full circle, what exactly is the 'worm' itself?"
Priest Durk smiled bitterly.
However, Fan Ning felt that the vague transcripts about "worms" collected in the small town of Lebiqi in the early stage were a little easier to understand than before.
""Hermology" does not exist. Studying "helmology" is studying something that should not be studied."
——If we just understand it as "a subject" and "a type of knowledge" according to ordinary people's cognition as in the past, we will indeed come to such a conclusion.
"Something died in the innermost part. After it rotted, something else grew from above. It used to be only in the abnormal area, but later it also appeared in the world."
——This kind of thing comes from the abnormal zone. Now that even people outside have been possessed, it is even more difficult to imagine what the situation is like inside. Therefore, if you go in later, it will definitely be a source of danger.
"You have misunderstood. That thing has no direct connection with our savior. We believers must be careful if we encounter it. It is difficult for people to see worms. People cannot forget that if worms have to be described, they are "snake that is not a snake."
——"Worm" does not represent the Divine Advent Society or the "Mantra Hidden Dragon" itself. In the same way, Mr. Wax has a bottle of "sneaky water" in his hand, which does not mean that the Special Inspectorate is colluding with the Divine Advent Society.
Already.
"Sneaky water", or "helminthology", or "secret history version" radiant spirit liquid, is just a type of substance.
A mysterious substance related to "worms" that has some special functions in the field of secret history or in abnormal areas.
The Divine Advent Society, the Special Patrol Agency, and perhaps other organizations are just trying to study, utilize, or fight against this force that came out of nowhere.
Fan Ning sorted out his thoughts and said:
"If you have a cup for spiritual liquid, please give me one."
The bottle used by Mr. Wax at the beginning should also be made of a normal material for radiant spiritual liquid.
"Yes, I brought a small bottle with me when I came down."
Priest Durques quickly took it out from his body.
There is still one-third of the "candle" spirit liquid in it, about ten milliliters. At the moment, I don't even bother to transfer and store it, I just sprinkle it around me, and it will evaporate into radiant inspiration.
After Fan Ning thanked him, he held the black vial in his hand.
He controlled the thread of inspiration very carefully, reopened the coffin, and collected the "sneaky water" that had spread and soaked into the bottle drop by drop.
Like other phases of radiant spirit liquid, its appearance in the world is unstable. The visual form that goes against cognition will evaporate, distorting the surrounding "pixels", and then spread and become thin, leaving some strange traces.
Quality light and shadow
But as time passed, Fan Ning did not feel that this "sneaky water" had any unique, dangerous or sensitive mysterious properties.
The only difference from other phase spirit liquids is that the inspiration it brings to people when it evaporates is a kind of uncomfortable feeling of mental collapse - Fan Ning feels that it is just uncomfortable, not a strong spiritual threat, as long as
If you don't live under this kind of package all day long, it won't do any harm.
Finally, all the "sneaky water" in the coffin was collected into the bottle.
It's close to what I poured out before, about ten milliliters.
Fan Ning thought for a moment and once again used the "Night Watchman's Lamp" to illuminate the locations of the other two coffins with abnormalities.
After collecting the "sneaky water" among them, the bottle was almost full.
About one-thousandth of the coffins of 3,000 frontline soldiers are suspected to be inhabited by earthly "worms".
It sounds like the ratio is quite low.
But it seems that compared to the description of "rare", it is not particularly consistent, and it seems to be a bit high.
I don’t know if these esoteric cultists did anything extra on the front lines.
Everyone left the morgue and climbed the steps back to the surface again.
Overall, things are going relatively smoothly.
Fan Ning, who had seen "Corpse Ring" and "Sneaky Water" before, did not encounter anything particularly scary that exceeded his expectations.
“Now I am sending you to the House of Correction, to be watchful with the foreign soldiers and false teachers, and to explain in detail the unrighteous deeds that you know, so that you can purify or forgive, atone or atone.
I, the masters of the Diocese of Laubken, shall set it according to the law.”
He not only awakened Lieutenant Andrew again, but also made arrangements for the clergy of the church.
"Follow the bishop's instructions and I will keep you informed of the progress of the trial."
"Thank you, Lord Bishop, for the rescue. Now besides going to the training hall, there is no other place for me to go to this Janus." Andrew stood with his head bowed, his tone was low, but no longer wavering.
Fan Ning nodded in approval.
After the clergymen left and Colonel Alpha took his leave first, he finally found a boulder to sit down in the messy auditorium and flipped through the bound booklet found in the "Soul Crucible Ceremony" altar.
The Divine Advent Society is an extremely mysterious and weird organization, but my knowledge is still very limited.
"The savior of destiny, the guide of heaven. The embodiment of ancient truth, the pioneer of change."
This is the honorable description of the "Truthful Tiger" in their teachings.
"Too little."
"Same as before."
Fan Ning frowned after looking at it for a while.
In the four months before he went to Lebic diocese to conduct "survivor reporting", he had investigated and intercepted some "promotional materials" produced by the Divine Advent Society to attract gatherings of acquaintances.
They are usually small cards, small fold-outs, or eggs or potatoes with words written on them in a black fine-caliber marker, used to "distribute welfare" to acquaintances.
For Fan Ning, the information density of this kind of thing is very low, and there is not much occult content that can be effectively inferred.
He believes this is because the audience level of this type of "promotional materials" is relatively low.
Unexpectedly, the information density of this "doctrine" that was found in the altar and seemed to be compiled relatively systematically was still very low.
When Fan Ning was in the Northern Continent, he read the common teachings of the Harmony School, the Pleasure Listening Club, the Transcendental Club and other secret organizations. When he first came to the South, he also read the teachings of the Fanghui Temple. Later, when he arrived in the Western Continent, he read about it more comprehensively.
Understand the teachings of the Holy Sun Church.
There are both good and evil gods.
The teachings of the evil god organization are also very systematic, otherwise there is no such thing as "brainwashing".
In comparison, the booklet in my hand now is as simple as a joke and has no system at all.
In fact, it doesn't look thin, but the narrative content is missing in the first three pages.
"Happy songs? Happy poems?"
Starting from the fourth page, there is a catalog of poems, and the title of the catalog is "Happy Songs".
“What are these poems that could serve as prayers for the Crucible of Souls ritual?”
"Could it be that the main part of their teachings, starting from the basic content, choose to present metaphors in the form of poetry?"
"But if the writing is obscure and difficult to understand, how can ordinary people with no foundation in mysticism read it?"
Fan Ning flicked the pages of the book with his fingers and jumped directly to the middle section, ready to read an article casually.
"boom!"
The booklet fell directly to the ground and spread out in half.
A thin layer of cold sweat spread all over Fan Ning's back in an instant.
impossible!!!
The content of this poem turns out to be——
"Oh, little red rose!
The world is in great trouble!
People live in great pain!
I would rather choose to live in heaven!
I walk to the broad path,
An angel came and tried to send me back.
No, I don’t want to be sent back to the human world!
I came from the glow, and I will return to the glow,
Dear original light will open a ray of light to me,
Light up my life of eternal happiness!"
This "happy song"
This "joyful song" that has been included in the teachings of the "Truth Mantra" by the Divine Advent Society is actually taken from the folk song collection "The Magic Horn of the Young Man" compiled by the poet Janus Barentello!
It was the poem written by the deceased old lady Hamilton on the title page of her medical work notes!
It is also the text I chose in the fourth movement of "Resurrection" of "Symphony No. 2 in C minor" - "Initial Light"!!!