old dream

Chapter 13 The Lamp Keeper

Factories along the Seber vomited sewage into the river, and the unnamed floats looked like bruises and stinks.

There are always few tourists here, and the view is wide, so it is suitable for short and secret conversations.

Luca took the picture of the woman from Colin and said:

"At first glance, you will indeed recognize another person, but if you stare at it for a while, you will feel that the person in the photo becomes familiar."

That's right... In fact, from just now, Colin has vaguely noticed that there may be nothing wrong with the photo itself.The person in the picture is Julio who was tied to the hotel by him.

"It's our perception that's wrong," Luca said, his voice hollow, like a frog who realizes he's been living in a snake's nest:

"Now I understand that the cognition of ordinary people is vulnerable in front of 'them'."

"……them?"

"I just woke up when I got the news of your attack. Before deciding what to do with the informant, I looked at the photos and then I saw something was wrong."

"I traced that photo again, and there is still a person I don't know on it."

"For a brief moment, I really thought that I had misremembered the appearance of Capello's daughter."

Luka crossed his arms and hugged him, he should not have the habit of doing this.Colin vaguely remembered that this gesture meant subconscious protection.

"But I still felt that something was wrong and I was doing a lot of stupid things in the room by myself."

"I took a picture of that picture with a camera, and then looked at the negative; I looked at it upside down in the mirror; I asked someone to sketch it; I even pretended to be distracted and suddenly turned to look at it..."

"But no matter what method was used, that strong sense of disobedience could not be erased. Then I realized that maybe it was because I couldn't look around 'my own eyes' to see her image."

"So I started trying to describe it only in words."

"I wrote down the appearance of Julio Capello in my memory. Although I only met her once. But I consciously have a solid memory of people. Every person who has spoken to me over the years, I have I can remember his name, likes and dislikes, character..."

"I closed my eyes and wrote down her height from memory, her estimated weight, skin color, eye size, nose to forehead ratio, lips thickness, width..."

"Then I compared these descriptions with the photos, and found that all the details matched, just like I just looked at the photos and wrote these descriptions..."

"At this time, I can confirm that the person in the photo is Julio Capello."

"But I don't recognize her at all from this picture."

……

A familiar but unrecognizable face... Colin thought of something similar.

If you stare at a word for a long time, you will gradually feel that it becomes strange, and you can't help but wonder if the word is written in this way.

Gestalt collapsed, Lenovo blocked.

Maybe someone put some kind of hint in this photo that makes the brain feel tired directly at the face.

Details can be discerned, but not the whole.

But this photo was taken secretly by someone in Luka, so it shouldn't have fallen into the hands of outsiders.

Even if someone has a chance to tamper with it, it is obviously more efficient to directly destroy the photos than the current complicated processing.

So the most plausible reason is that some kind of witchcraft is at work.

Colin was lost in thought.At the same time, another question loomed in his mind.

If someone can succeed so easily, how did Cincily's group gain a foothold in the alliance?
The expanding industry in the homeland required a large amount of labor, which was why the Alliance allowed a large number of Cinthilians to move in.

But the Cynthili people were rebellious, so the Archduke used their traditional governance organization, a group like the Five Hands, as a lever to control the Cynthili community.

This is what Colin understood, the reason why the Principality can tolerate the existence of the Five Hands in Stade, but it is only a mundane level.

If even a person with a position like Luca can't resist some attacks from the spiritual level, then the pattern of the Cynthili community will definitely not be the current situation where the five hands are allowed to be autonomous and dominant.

Because as long as you control a few leaders, you can control all the groups that depend on them to a large extent.

Colin suddenly thought of the person sitting in the back of the car, a distinguished guest from "hometown" as Luka said.

"...Someone put 'Mist' on her."

The blunt and cold Naele language sounded from behind Colin, and Colin's heart trembled slightly.

Luca stared behind Colin without moving, and seemed to be a little wary in his eyes.

Colin moved two steps to the side, and saw someone standing behind him at some point.

There was no beard on his face, which seemed a little gloomy, but in his facial features he had the calmest look that Colin II had ever seen.

Like a lake at night, or a deep sea.

"I forgot to introduce you." Luca said to Colin, "he's the 'lightkeeper' who just came from his hometown."

"I was ordered to follow Don Luca Chestalo," said the man in a tone as inaudible as a soliloquy:
"Watching the lonely light on the coast, the thoughts of the 'Patriarch' belong to you."

"Tell me about that photo and the 'fog'," Luca said.

"The colleagues who followed Don Navio Capello should have gone home." The lampkeeper reached out to the photo and confirmed it a little:
"He turned his back on neutrality."

"The 'Mist' can distort any portrait of her...but whatever the purpose, it's not something the lightkeeper should touch."

Distorting all portraits related to her?

"But, how can this be done..." Colin couldn't imagine the logic behind this.

This is indeed a bit unbelievable, and there are many details that cannot withstand scrutiny.

Like, what if I dropped her portrait on the other side of the universe?Or another world?

To what extent does the image approach her face to be defined as her portrait?
What is a "portrait"?Is it related to the carrier?What about other people's memories of her?

"He focused on the 'graphics' on paper," said the lampkeeper:
"So it doesn't affect other forms of records... As for whether it will cover everything, then I tell you: the mirror image is the most powerful clue and beacon."

"If you're chasing a list, you might accidentally miss someone. But if the mirror plane is manipulated, there's never going to be any slipping through the material plane."

Colin vaguely felt that he had heard these words, but he could not recall it.

That is to say, on a level that transcends geographical space...such as the virtual world, a plane image itself is manipulated.

As a result, some kind of influence can be spread to all "portraits" related to her in the physical world, imposing a hint on all her photos, forming a cognitive fog?

Is this magic and witchcraft?

……

And if all the pictures and portraits of "her" are invalid, then Julio's "face" won't be spread too quickly.

After all, language alone cannot accurately convey a person's face in three dimensions.

But those who know her will still know her, so as not to affect her usual life and not completely tamper with her original identity.

But this can stop those who didn't know her from remembering her true face only through photos and portraits.

And those who would identify people in this way were mostly spies and killers.

Someone is protecting her in this way.

Is that the original lightkeeper of the Capello family?

(End of this chapter)