Atlas of Heaven and Man.

Chapter 221 Secret Ceremony
Director Lei walked to the table, picked up the chess-piece-shaped model ornaments on it, and then arranged them in order to form an outward-expanding shape.

He turned around and explained to Chen Chuan: "Look, if these chess pieces represent rituals from the old times, then..."

He took out a pen and drew a few lines in it, but it was not a simple connection. Instead, there were different lines connecting the distances and the distances, and each one was different.

Chen Chuan looked at the various chess pieces and the lines drawn on each piece, seeming to be lost in thought.

"Do you understand?"

Director Lei pointed at the lines with his hand. "Since his ritual was not originally a whole, it is very difficult to connect them together. I guess he spent a lot of time on connecting and making up for it. However, such a ritual is destined to not be able to respond as a whole, but needs to be promoted one part at a time.

When this is launched, it also gives us enough time to react. We can target them one by one. The more destruction they cause, the less successful the ritual will be.

But this takes time, and he will definitely use a core that will play a key role. We need to find it. Before we find it, there is no guarantee that we can destroy the entire ceremony. During this period of time, you will need to take the lead.

And because he was the first to take action, we can only follow behind. We are not sure how many rituals of the old times were used, so it is difficult to define the specific time. "

Chen Chuan nodded. That is to say, before the esoteric ritual was completely destroyed, or before the outcome was decided, he would undoubtedly have to bear the targeting of the ritual himself.

He didn't feel much of a burden about this. After all, he had a second self, and it was just a matter of consumption.

He now has eighteen hours of overlap time. Although this time will be reduced if he encounters excessive damage, he will not stand there and do nothing. Besides, he is not fighting alone this time.

Director Lei said solemnly: "We will not let you face these things unprepared, so I will try my best to prepare various rituals for you to resist the invasion in the next few days, but this is not enough. At the critical moment, you still need to find ways to resist or destroy the rituals yourself.

In fact, if necessary, we will carve Tantric rituals on the surface of human skin, but Tantric rituals are very spiritually polluting. This practice has a huge impact on people and may make it difficult for them to maintain their sanity.

If you are just a simple esoteric ritualist, we can have someone inject the drug nearby, or let someone else take over if we see that the situation is not right. But considering that you are still a fighter and need to keep a clear mind and sufficient physical strength, I don't think this is suitable.

Then the only way is to set Bumiyi patterns on the clothes and other items you wear, and you can prepare several sets to achieve the purpose of confrontation. "

Chen Chuan nodded. This consideration was correct. Although I could divert the damage in the second place, I could use other means instead. So of course I would use other means first.

No matter how long the second me overlaps, as long as we enter the battle, every minute and every second must be used carefully, after all, it is a matter of life and death.

Director Lei continued, "Secret instruments all need to be prepared in advance, and a lot of time and materials are used to pry the abnormal substances, so everything is prepared in advance, even if you use it temporarily.

This is like the cards in your hand. When you enter the game, all the cards you can play are in your hand. It depends on how you play and how to play the role of each card.

But you are a fighter, not a pure esoteric expert, so these are all just auxiliary, allowing you to play to your strengths without interference.

In the next two days, I will teach you how to quickly identify the type of esoteric rituals, as well as simple countermeasures. These are enough. I have asked the people below to start preparing. Teaching based on real objects will make a deeper impression. Now you take some time to arrange your affairs, and we will start later. "

Chen Chuan said hello, and after he finished talking with Director Lei, he called the original team members and told them that there was a commission to wipe out an armed gang in the near future, and asked if they had time.

Not surprisingly, after hearing his invitation, everyone readily agreed.

Even without talking about our friendship, the commissions brought by Chen Chuan are always of extremely high quality and extremely rewarding. Ordinary commissions cannot compare to them and cannot be missed.

However, due to the high confidentiality level of this commission, it cannot be done through the company. He also does not want to trouble Director Lei here, so he calls Gao Ming to handle the matter.

Gao Ming is now famous in the legal profession after he successfully escaped from the trial court. Although Chen Chuan's escape seemed to be due to the problem that Molan Company itself was targeted, he may have used information, judged the situation, and successfully achieved his own goals, which is rare.

At one time, many law firms came to poach him, and some upper-class people sent him invitation letters, wanting to hire him to join their own legal team.

But Gao Ming rejected them all. However, he did not get involved in any big cases because of his rising fame. Instead, he took over a few small cases in a low-key manner and tried to stay out of other people's sight as much as possible.

According to him, when Chen Chuan successfully enters the central city, that will be when his value will truly increase, and there is no need for him to stand out too early now.

The current hibernation is for greater gains in the future.

When he received Chen Chuan's call, he gladly agreed. Chen Chuan was not only his cousin, but also his first client. Of course, he had to give priority to the requirements of the first client, and everything else was secondary.

After the call, in the afternoon, Director Lei took him to the training hall, which was already filled with various esoteric patterns. Director Lei walked in the middle of a esoteric ritual pattern and said solemnly: "There are many types of esoteric rituals. How to deal with them requires long-term training and repeated confrontation training. Not to mention the investment itself, it is also a huge destruction to people's spirit. We don't have time and don't want to do it.

Therefore, we have prepared confrontation rituals for you in advance. You just need to be able to distinguish which ritual you need to use to deal with it when the time comes.

Judgment is crucial here, and there is little time for people to react. Although most secret rituals can be cracked after they are launched, once some secret rituals are launched, you will no longer have the opportunity to fight back, so try to take action before that. This depends on a person's observation and sharpness. "

Having said that, he handed him a dozen exquisite cards with various secret ceremonial patterns.

"These are the secret ritual patterns drawn on your clothes in advance. I will trigger the secret ritual here later. What you need to do is to identify and find the correct corresponding cards in the shortest time possible to offset the effect of the secret ritual."

Chen Chuan took a look at the cards in his hand. These cards were complex and gorgeous. At first glance, they all seemed similar. It was really not easy to remember and distinguish the similarities and differences between them.

But fortunately, he had read the information carefully before, and his observation skills were also good, so he was able to figure it out after a while.

Director Lei said: "If you are ready, let's start."

Chen Chuan nodded and said, "Director Lei, I'm ready."

Just as he said this, Director Lei clapped his hands. At the same time, he suddenly saw a sign of virtuality appearing on the second me, which meant that the ritual had been activated silently.

He thought about it and decided to face the effect of the ritual directly, so he didn't let the second me resist.

And at the moment he made the decision and took action, he suddenly felt that Director Lei's applause seemed to come from a distant place.

The light around me seemed to dim at this moment, and I felt like I was in a deep, empty cave, surrounded by loneliness and anxiety. Even my own limbs seemed to be slowly moving away from me, and seemed willing to sink into it.

He immediately recalled the information he had read before. According to the description therein, when esoteric rituals did not utilize ghost stories, most of them were actually mental invasions. There were also material damages, but they were relatively not that strong.

Although it is possible to resist under normal circumstances, considering that this is only a test, the real effect should be stronger than this, so it will be difficult to deal with. If there is an enemy nearby at this time, it will be very dangerous.

He remained calm and looked at the cards in his hand, but found it difficult to recognize the pattern at this time. Relying on his previous memory, he quickly selected one of them. As soon as he did this, the feeling quickly subsided, and everything around him soon returned to normal.

Director Lei looked at him and said, "Very good, you read the information carefully." He paused, "Then let's continue."

In the following time, with the cooperation of Director Lei, Chen Chuan repeatedly familiarized himself with the use of this inherent ritual. Since the parts that needed to be mastered were not complicated, he mastered it in just one afternoon.

At the end, he asked Director Lei a question.

"Director Lei, I want to ask you a question. The previous life secret cult can transfer people's vitality. If we have more manpower and financial resources, can we use this to achieve the effect of longevity?"

Director Lei said slowly: "This is a very dangerous topic. The purpose of esoteric rituals is to pursue various visions that cannot be accomplished by humans themselves. They just need to be completed through established rules and channels. What can be done is only what the rules themselves allow. Fortunately, so far, no such situation has occurred."

Chen Chuanshuo said: "Just because we haven't discovered it doesn't mean there's no possibility, right?"

Director Lei said: "That's right. Since the old times, people have been working towards this goal. Although no one has achieved it, people have not completely given up and are still looking for this possibility.

The so-called transfer of vitality by the Life Sect is actually not sustainable for a long time. The person who is transferred may feel energetic at first, but it will return to the original state in a short time, and it seems that nothing has changed. "

Chen Chuan thought for a moment and said, "So, it's like taking an energy-boosting drug?"

Director Lei nodded and said, "Your example is very vivid. In fact, the real effect is weaker than simply taking medicine, and it may also bring various side effects.

Then you may ask, why are there still people spending a lot of financial and human resources to try it when the effect is so weak?
That’s because compared to the material supplements brought by the ritual, the spiritual pleasure and satisfaction brought by the ritual are unforgettable. Especially the feeling of vitality entering the body, as if reborn, makes many people unable to stop, and even become addicted to it. ”

At this point, he spoke in a heavy voice, "All kinds of rituals will bring spiritual stimulation after use. Many staff members of the Esoteric Department are now injecting drugs to alleviate the side effects of frequent use of rituals. But if you want to truly fight these, you can only have self-restraint and a firm will."

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(End of this chapter)