Chapter 870 Starting with a Notebook
When Qian Chen raised his head, he saw a mirror on which an infinity symbol representing infinity and a Möbius strip - ∞ - was drawn in blood.
Looking at the notebook at hand, Qian Chen flipped through two pages and confirmed: "It seems that he died because he rashly performed the ritual of walking in the spiritual world..."
"Walking in the spiritual world, I created this world with mirrors, so the mirror is the door, opening the way to the spiritual world and the real world!"
"Lamp? It should represent me, the Dao Chen Bead, the master of spirituality... guides the way for the spirit to return! And the lamp can dispel evil so that they cannot follow the path into this body."
"What's the last one? The cup?"
"Need an instrument, the Holy Grail?"
Qian Chen looked around but couldn't find the vessel, the cup representing the tripod of creation.
Until he raised his head and saw himself in the mirror, with black hair and brown eyes, a handsome and fair face, a typical southern face in the Eastern Continent, which was somewhat similar to his original body, Lear.
Nodding slightly, he secretly said that the physical body arranged for him by the Fortune Cauldron was not bad, and then he suddenly realized: "All living bodies, the existence itself, are created by the Fortune Cauldron. So the flesh body is a cup, holding blood!"
He counted the mirrors, closed his notes, and dimmed the wall lamp above his head.
The whole person was sitting on a high-backed chair, facing the mirror.
"Mirrors, beads (lamps), tripods (cups), the trinity are the extraordinary foundation of this world, because this is how we created the world."
"Light the candle, wipe the mirror, fill the cup with blood..."
Qian Chen recited the second main task, and was a little confused. These three can be said to be the three gods of their creation, or the three major sources of this world. This is even true for everyone. The trinity of mirror, bead and tripod is this.
The extraordinary foundation of the world.
So this hint is too vague, but judging from the descriptions of Deng Zhu and Cup, the second main plot should take place in the Western Continent...
After all, the 'lamp' is just one aspect of the essence of the bead, and the 'cup' is the subordinate part of the tripod.
Looking at the well-preserved ceremony site, Qian Chen wondered whether he should repeat the ceremony and look for clues to the death of the original owner.
But soon he threw away the notebook and closed the mirror.
"You're crazy! I don't need any golden fingers. How did the original owner die and what does it have to do with me? Go to sleep! I probably have to go to school tomorrow!"
Qian Chen checked on the calendar. Tomorrow is Wednesday, and there is a circle drawn on it that says - day of joining the company!
The next day, when the sun shined through the low eastern window and hit Qian Chen's eyelashes, a shout came from downstairs: "Marvin!"
Qian Chen turned over and put on his school uniform in a daze. It had to be said that this body had slender limbs and he should be older than when he was reborn as Lear. He was probably 22 or 23 years old.
Now I happen to be a sophomore student in the history department at Miscato University.
The uniforms of the University of Michigan are quite slim-fitting, and they look very elegant when worn on him...
After putting on his tie, Qian Chen casually stepped onto the shoulder bag beside the bed. After a moment's hesitation, he stuffed the blood-stained notebook into the bag.
Walking down the attic stairs, the creaking sound alerted a fat white lady in the kitchen, about forty or fifty years old, with red hair. She stuck her head out and complained: "Marvin! You were upstairs yesterday.
What did you do? I heard a 'bang'..."
"Good morning, Mrs. Deborah!" Qian Chen greeted. This is a homestay arranged by the school to allow students to better adapt to the local environment.
They are all middle-class families with good reputations.
They are also willing to accept boarding students from the well-known University of Michigan, not to mention that the University of Michigan will provide them with room and board expenses.
Qian Chen's body is also called Lear, and Marvin is his Camelot name.
The family he stayed in had five members. It was a typical middle-class family in the Kingdom of Camelot. Their five-year-old daughter greeted Qian Chen in a friendly manner, while the eldest daughter, who was in middle school, looked at her a little.
curious.
Finally, there was the eldest son who was similar in age to Qian Chen. He reached out and gave Qian Chen a high five and said with a smile: "Actually, you don't have to come back so early every day... I hope I won't hear you go upstairs next weekend.
sound."
Mr. Humphrey, the head of the family, was reading the newspaper and said: "The security situation in Carfas is getting worse and worse! A tourist actually disappeared because she was wearing 'very revealing' clothes. Father Lantern! These incompetent vigilantes
People, don’t stay out for too long. It’s best to go home before nine o’clock and don’t go to a place with lights out..."
"There is also the outer city, where there is not even the church of the lamp father!"
Mrs. Deborah put the bacon and fried eggs on the dining table in front of Qian Chen. When she heard the news, she tapped her forehead with two fingers of her right hand: "Father of lamps! Without your lamp, we would be
How to survive the darkness!"
Qian Chen's expression was helpless. How does it feel to see others praying to him in person?
Qian Chen said that ‘Father Deng’ didn’t want to worry about it so much, and ‘Father Deng’ himself was also afraid of the dark.
We took the tram to Miscato University. This university is very old, with castle-like classical buildings everywhere. The divisions of each college are also different from modern universities.
The History College that Qian Chen went to is in the northeast corner. It is a square castle surrounded by a large number of towering spiers and tapered arches. The inner hall, library, classrooms and student dormitories are all in a separate college. It can be said that
In a semi-independent area on campus.
"Hey, Marvin!"
Someone caught up with him from behind on the right side. Qian Chen turned his head slightly and saw an energetic young man with an excited face and a somewhat pale and thin face.
He looked around, then whispered into Qian Chen's ear: "Have you tried the ritual I taught you yesterday?"
Look...the culprit is here!
Qian Chen looked at him calmly, but saw the spirited guy excitedly saying: "That's really cool! Walking in the spirit world, you can't even imagine how I entered the spirit world. At that time, I drank Mandu in front of the mirror
Luo Jiu, I felt like I was flying into the sky. I thought I was high! Until I saw black mist rising around me, the color gradually drained away from me, and then..."
"Then I saw a damn evil spirit!"
"It looked at me with its dead gray eyes, and I was almost scared to death! But I still raised my middle finger to it, and then I rolled around without looking back.
I ran away. I turned back and followed the light, and I ran into that light without looking back..."
"That's not an evil spirit!" Qian Chen said calmly: "Also, don't take psychedelic drugs before performing this ritual, otherwise if you think it is an evil spirit, it may actually turn into an evil spirit!"
The spirit boy's eyes widened: "Hey! Brother, I am the one walking in the spirit world. I raise my middle finger to the evil spirits. I provoke them..."
"I also performed that ritual." Qian Chen recalled briefly and determined that this was his best friend in the college, Quinn, an international student from the New World who was extremely enthusiastic about mysticism. He said that he came to the University of Michigan just to learn from the oldest university.
Among them, learn orthodox mysticism!
But in the end, he failed to get into the seminary, so he had to choose history, which was slightly related to occultism.
It was also he who dragged the original owner to participate in the spiritual retreat at the University of Michigan.
Quinn looked at Qian Chen and spread his hands: "What next?"
Qian Chen briefly recalled the ghostly appearance when he got up yesterday, nodded and said: "Then I died!"
After hearing this, Quinn said excitedly: "Cool!"
"It is indeed like death when your spirit leaves the body, but by following the light of the lamp father, we can return to our own body. The lamp I found for you is very useful! It was not easy for me to get it.
The lamp is the wall lamp in the church. I heard people say that the most taboo thing about walking in the spirit world is that the lamp suddenly goes out. That thing burns whale oil and will almost never go out."
"After class is the day for us to join the club. I've been waiting for this day for so long!"
"I have tried too many rituals! Transshipment, curses, summoning spirits...but yesterday was really the greatest adventure that I am so sure of."
"It's worth noting that I spent twenty pounds and Gable from the spiritual retreat to buy this ceremony... It is said that that is our initiation ceremony."
"Wait!" Qian Chen interrupted him: "You spent twenty pounds, your one week's living expenses, to buy the ceremony that is going to be performed today?"
Quinn whispered nervously: "It's not a loss. If we can't successfully carry out the initiation ceremony today and walk in the spirit world, we will never have the chance to enter that world!"
"To make sure nothing goes wrong..."
Quinn suddenly remembered something. With trembling hands, he took out a small silver bottle from his arms and handed it to Qian Chen: "Dandora wine! It is something that gypsy witches use to enter the spiritual world. Legend has it that it can
Let people touch the spiritual world!”
Qian Chen declined politely: "Thank you, no need..."
So no matter how excited you are, you don't give it a try and just use strong medicine.
It was Marvin who died instead of you. It’s really the father of the lamp who has no eyesight...
"Are you sure you have entered the spirit world? I bought this with a lot of money from a gypsy. The witch said that entering the spirit world after taking it is as easy as hitting the hole in one shot if you do enough foreplay...
"
"It's not easy to hit the hole in one!" Qian Chen asked back.
Quinn was slightly stunned, revealing the reality that he failed to hit the hole in one for the first time.
After class, a junior came to Quinn and Qian Chen, looked down at them, and said coldly: "Marvin, Quinn? Come with me..."
Kun En excitedly pulled Qian Chen's sleeve, and the two followed the senior student to the spiritual retreat.
It was a single-family Gothic building, and it looked like a church on the outside, but the door was not the lantern father's symbol - a simple drawing of a horse lantern.
But an eye, inside an equilateral triangle!
"The Omniscient Eye of the Trinity!"
The senior introduced to them: "The symbol of the UM Spiritual Religion Association, the triangle represents the trinity of the lamp father, the mirror master, and the cup mother. And the eye represents the spirituality of the self..."
Pushing open the door, there is a hall, where there are already more than a dozen members of the spiritual retreat.
They were wearing black hoods and holding a silver lamp in their hands. A tall young man with a hood that exposed his legs and white socks grabbed Quinn.
He lowered his voice and said, "You must have tried it all in advance!"
"Also, remember the two taboos of the ceremony: you must not shout the name of the Lord, and you must not look directly at the Lord!"
"What?"
Quinn turned around stupidly, but the young man had already let go of his hand and stepped back.
Qian Chen quickly pulled Quinn back and asked, "Is that Gable?"
Quinn nodded.
Qian Chen took a deep look at Gable. Quinn was stupid and looked like a good material for committing suicide. He was the kind of person who wanted to summon the evil god without taking the blame. He taught Quinn the ritual and he
I can do it for you!
This person taught Quinn the real occult rituals. Is he a well-intentioned senior in the club who leaked test questions for a fee, or is he someone with ulterior motives?
The sudden death of the original body should logically be the destiny of the Fortune Cauldron, but the mysterious second main mission had to make Qian Chen wary of the possibility of the Creation Cauldron causing trouble.
At this time, seven or eight monks wearing hoods and lowered their heads, holding silver lamps, walked from both sides to the high corridor on the second floor.
The leader lifted his hood, revealing blond hair and deep facial features.
He put down the silver lamp on the railing at hand, raised his hands, and made a sixty-degree angle between his thumb and the other four fingers, forming a triangle on his chest.
Then he raised the triangle and placed it in front of his right eye...
Chapter completed!