Bulwark of Light

Chapter 673 The Truth in the Cellar
The small courtyard in Linz was quiet.

The entrance to the cellar was ajar.

The underground space is more dull and quiet than the ground.The old man was sitting in a wheelchair, silently looking at the huge bookcase that accompanied him throughout his "life", while his disciple Hooper was sorting out those long-standing archives while holding a lamp... the old and the young just stayed there In the dusty basement, as a ray of light fell, in an instant, the blazing fire burst into strands of light, illuminating the basement study.

The appearance of this blazing flame is the signal for Gu Shen to come back!
The old man did not look up.

"Mr. Gu, are you back?!"

Hooper hastily stopped his work, stepped forward to greet him, and cast a veiled concerned look: "How about Rhine?"

"He was saved."

Gu Shen said concisely.

He came to the wheelchair and said softly: "Mr. Ian... Regarding the person who killed 'Mr. Holling', I think you need to give me an explanation."

all the time.

He didn't even know Xiao Xiao's true origin.

This guy has a "blood fire" that is similar to his ability, and can even be said to be a cannibalism!
But this time, Xiao Xiao's life experience gradually surfaced.

He must know the truth of this matter.

Antecedents, consequences, everything!
"statement……"

A hollow voice came from the mental link device.

The old man asked softly: "You want to know its origin."

"Yes." Gu Shen said, "In the Rhine Bay, he told me..."

Speaking of this, he immediately stopped, no longer speaking.

The words Xiao said to himself could not be separated from the suspicion of "spiritual bewitchment".

"What did he say to you?"

The old man raised his hand with difficulty, signaling Hooper to close the entrance to the cellar, then returned to his wheelchair, pushed him to a certain bookcase, and took out some heavy materials.

It's not just ancient drawings here.

"This is?"

Gu Shen frowned, these materials were sent to him.

"This is information that will not be recorded in history. It is an immature experiment before the implementation of the genetic law."

Grand Maester Ian said calmly: "These are the sample data of failed experiments... At the beginning, the laboratory tried to directly cultivate a "chosen person" who could merge with the "fire seed", but after countless experiments After simulation experiments, they all ended in failure.”

Gu Shen flipped the pages of the book, shocked.

He handed the information to Chu Ling.

Even Chu Ling fell silent. These materials are quite long ago. Long before the birth of [Deep Sea], the laboratory began to try to simulate the cultivation of the 'Chosen One', so of course she didn't know about it.

But the experimental data is quite shocking.

"Simulate directly in the 'spiritual sea'? Cultivate a perfect 'spiritual sea'?" Gu Shen murmured, "What kind of lunatic can come up with such an idea?"

"Turing."

Ian slowly spit out these two words, and he murmured, "He is both a lunatic and a genius who is one in a million."

Yes.

This is indeed an extremely crazy and extremely genius idea, because directly cultivating living bodies is a taboo that violates the ethics and morals of all human beings, and cultivating the spiritual sea will not cause such controversy.

"We created a sea of ​​spirits, and simulated different 'ability to adapt to the environment' for him, so that he could adapt to the basic spirit of a transcendent...but that's all."

"The purpose of the experiment is to create the 'chosen one' who is the peak at birth. At the beginning, we thought that in order to integrate with the fire, we must find suitable and powerful abilities... But later we found out that we were wrong."

"No matter how powerful the ability is, it's just a coat."

"Fire is a burning inner core that is extremely hot."

"After countless failures, the 'spiritual sea simulation experiment' was completely aborted."

Ian lowered his face and said in a hoarse voice: "Everyone in the laboratory feels that this is over... But what everyone doesn't know is that the nightmare really started from this moment—"

"The guy who was cultivated by the 'spiritual simulation experiment' should have been killed, but his ideology, after being tortured by too many simulation experiments, became extremely tough... After we turned off the consciousness-carrying device, it It still survived in the 'container' and learned the language, it sent out a mental wave, and begged the people in the laboratory, begging them to spare its life."

This seemingly genius experiment finally ushered in a backlash.

Are "creatures" that only exist as ideologies counted as life?
"Huo Lin is the disciple I admire the most. He has an extraordinary mind and a fraternal heart... This is a good thing, but sometimes, it is not a good thing." Ian lightly tapped the wheelchair and said: "Because the 'container' Huo Lin was moved by the pleading of the guy in ', and he asked me if I must kill such a 'spirit'... and I also fell into hesitation."

"It coincided with Turing going to another continent, and we couldn't get in touch."

"We decided to wait for Turing to come back before making a decision. It was only this time that an accident occurred."

"Little Gu... There are some things, even if you see them with your own eyes, you can't easily believe them, because you don't even know what kind of faces are hidden under their skins."

Ian said meaningfully: "The creature in the container was full of begging, begging for mercy, and thanks. It looked gentle, innocent and harmless... It was because of this illusion that Huo Lin was deceived. lead to tragedy."

"When Huo Lin decided to give it a chance, it had already started planning to 'escape'. In countless simulation experiments, it had already reserved the most suitable ability for it and the easiest way to break free from the 'container' ——Mind control, in a shift change, it directly seized the body of an intern, but it also triggered an alarm. All the superhumans in the entire laboratory were dispatched, and there was no [Deep Sea] at that time, because of years of Watching from the sidelines, it knows the laboratory of the Ancient Literature Society very well, and when the alarm was triggered, it arrived at the storage point of the taboo sealed items, released them all, and a fire swept through the laboratory."

Gu Shen was stunned.

So... the owl he saw was a face that had been destroyed by the fire.

That face appears often.

It's because Xiao Xiao was born in that fire!
He is a faceless man because he doesn't have a face of his own.He has always been just a wisp of consciousness... The so-called true self should be the "innocent intern" he lived in back then!
"In that fire, Gu Wenhui suffered heavy losses. Several young and outstanding transcendental beings were buried in the fire, including Huo Lin's fiancée." Ian said in a soft voice: "After that, he will never marry for life. The College of the Holy Cross followed me to study and dedicated my whole life to research, and ignored other trivial matters."

Gu Shen fell silent for a while.

Is this the truth?

At the Rhine Pier, Caroline, the rose of the wind, told herself that Brother Huo Lin is a "perfect man", which is a very high evaluation. She said that the reason why Brother Huo Lin became so perfect is because he lost something, but No one knows the real past.

Because of his "kindness", he killed his lover invisibly.

I'm afraid Huo Lin has been immersed in guilt and self-blame for a long time, muddled and unable to extricate himself.

……

……

"Two."

"My time... I'm afraid I'm running out..."

Ian coughed and said softly: "Before I die, I hope to pass down my life's 'knowledge of ancient Chinese'."

Hooper scratched his head aside, and retreated silently with self-knowledge.

His talent is really mediocre, and it takes too long for normal people to learn ancient prose... An "antique" like the University of Ian, who forcibly acquired a full body of knowledge through the years, such a miracle, there is no second in the whole five continents.

On the table, there are several piles of ancient prose.

On the bottom of the cellar, there are still traces of seal carvings carved in unknown ancient scripts. This seems to be an ancient script array that has not been in operation?
"Your Excellency, Grand Master."

Gu Shen worried: "Your body..."

The old man smiled softly: "Life is a limited journey, and I have traveled much longer than others. I am content. You don't have to worry about me."

Ancient prose is a spiritual text that can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words.

Due to the savings of Qingzhong Mausoleum, both Gu Shen and Chu Ling can read and study ancient prose quickly in a sense... It's just that there is a big difference in the learning speed of the two.

It is quite difficult to achieve self-enlightenment.

The purpose of looking for members of the Ancient Text Society is to "inherit" part of the ancient text information, to piece together more truths about the [Old World], or to find the whereabouts of lost taboo spells.

Gu Shen looked expectantly at Chu Ling, who was wearing a white cat mask and nodded to him.

This trip to Central Continent, the most important thing, and the most anticipated thing... is to inherit these "spiritual heritage" that the ancient text society will lose!
"bring it on."

The old man was sitting in a wheelchair, looking at the two juniors kindly.

He stretched out his hands, palms facing upwards, waiting for Gu Shen and Chu Ling to touch his palms... He was so old that it was hard for him to leave his body. If he wanted to pass on the knowledge of ancient Chinese, he could only rely on this kind of knowledge. Method.

"Thank you for your hard work."

Gu Shen put his palm on the old man's and spoke sincerely.

"Bah."

Hooper squatted down at this moment, bit his thumb, and slowly wrote along the ancient Chinese seal carving on the ground... This scene caught Chu Ling's attention, and she was slightly surprised.

"The ancient text on the ground is the 'array pattern' that helps me stabilize my spirit."

Ian, who was in the wheelchair, explained with a smile: "Don't worry, when the information of the ancient text is instilled in your mind, you will also be able to realize the magic of this 'ancient text pattern'... It's just different people's The speed of comprehension is also different, for this one-of-a-kind "understander of ancient prose", I am afraid that the time for comprehension will be very short. Mr. [Key], you have to work hard."

Gu Shen smiled helplessly, and said, "I'll work hard."

"Don't worry... I will slow down and wait for you." Chu Ling put his palm on the old man's aging arm and said calmly.

"Are you all ready?"

The old man raised his head slowly.

His kind eyes met Gu Shen and Chu Ling.

next moment.

He closed his eyes, and the three "connected" life forms entered a state of ecstasy and meditation together at this moment. This state of comprehension would last for a very long time, at least several hours.

However, when Gu Shen studied and comprehended ancient prose in Qingzhong, he would spend a whole day with four or five talismans.

……

……

When meditation begins, another big project begins.

Hooper, who was squatting underground to carve the pattern pattern, accelerated the carving of the blood-color pattern pattern, and started to carve the second layer after the first layer was carved. This is what Ian did not tell Gu Shen and Chu Ling—this underground attic Among them, what is arranged is not just an ancient prose pattern.

He kept biting his thumb and smearing the floor with blood.

The pattern bloomed like a lotus flower, blooming, layer upon layer, with the three of them as the center, and soon covered half of the basement area, but Hooper didn't stop, his expression was unprecedentedly focused, and the smile on his face also disappeared.

At this moment, he looks like what Gu Shen saw when he first arrived in Linz.

When pulling the weeds, he was extremely focused...even with the dead breath of Dusk.

It's just that his blood is "vigorous". I don't know how many times his thumb was bitten. After smearing an area, the wound not only didn't rot, but healed slowly. This is really an incredible miracle.It is true that this kind of self-healing ability is not an exaggeration, at least an [undead] like Song Ci Huoyu can also do it, but with the continuous application of the patterns, the entire floor of the entire basement has been covered with blood... He wrote more and more ancient lines, and he needed more and more blood.

He was no longer satisfied with biting his thumb, but cut his arm with a sharp knife, and even tried bleeding from an artery.

Such a scene can no longer be associated with "gentleness" and "kindness".

Under the background of blood all over the room.

The closed cellar looked particularly gloomy, bloody, and damp.

There are a few blueprints in ancient Chinese language that swayed without wind. Before they landed on the ground, they were frozen in the air by invisible spiritual power, thus highlighting the strangeness of the atmosphere at the moment... And after smearing, the process of completing all these Hooper, standing at the outermost edge of the pattern, his expression became a little pale, and he was more satisfied.

Hooper quietly admired this "masterpiece" created by himself.

Then silently wait for the countdown of time.

During the waiting time, he couldn't help thinking about what he had encountered in the past few days... Everything was too sudden. Going back to "Holin" who died on the road in Linz, the goddess of fate really likes to joke with people. This series of incidents broke out in just one or two days, which really caught people off guard.

But for now, his response is perfect.

A lie matched with the truth is the most perfect lie.

The key, and did not notice the slightest difference.

It's just that as soon as I had this idea, an abrupt voice sounded in the center of the pattern.

"Is the painting finished?"

Hooper froze.

Gu Shen, who was standing in the bloody pattern, suddenly spoke.

He opened his eyes, turned around, and asked seriously: "Mr. Hooper, are you done painting?"

(End of this chapter)