old dream

Chapter 246 Agnosia
The redstone that was ground into powder was smeared on the ground like blood stains.

It is difficult to miniaturize steam equipment, so the scale of the factory building is often much larger than that of the previous life, which is the product of the so-called era of large machines.

But after a few days of arrangement, this place, which was used as a ceremony space, has completely changed its appearance.Abandoned machine tools are covered with a special gray cloth, isolated from the ceremony.The walls and brackets around the factory are covered with tapestries, which are painted with seemingly chaotic abstract patterns, making this place look like the scene of some kind of evil gathering.

They are merely the result of a continual simplification of allegorical portraits.The content of the original painting is the humorous story collection of "Thief God" Tansby.

But that alone is not enough.

The hour and second hands were perpendicular to the ground again, and Ji Lian, who had been staring at the watch, took out the pre-prepared materials again.According to the calculated order and quality, they are placed on each node of the main body of the ceremony one by one.This is already the fourth batch of materials. Among them, Ke Lin only recognized the weeping grass, dragon sandalwood and peduncle.However, the meanings that these rare plants can represent are extremely limited. If we rely entirely on them, we can only describe a thin world composed of a small number of nouns and adjectives.

So they are just used as wedges to fix those obscure semantics in the desired direction.

Starring is always the strong intention of the performer.

At the midpoint of the position is placed the hood that symbolizes the god of thieves, and more importantly, the "Hand of Glory".The latter required drying the left hand of a hanged man to make a candlestick, and the oil from the hand to make a candle.For this reason, Colin specially kept the left hand of an adulterer.Its owner was tragically lynched by the Sincilians, and the rest of the body had been flushed down the sewer.

It is said that the "hand of glory" can make the bearer invisible, or immobilize anyone who sees the candlelight.This is just a foolish legend among thieves, but as the treasure of thieves and robbers, it is enough to be used as a symbol in this large-scale memory-stealing ceremony to symbolize the presence of the "God of Thieves" Tenbys in foreign legends.

In the small universe defined by the closed ceremony space, the one wearing the hood and holding the "Hand of Glory" is Colin, who is also Tenbys.

Ritual backbone is the sledgehammer of brute force.

The highly intricate seal is "the most costly and fine lock that ever lived" in that ridiculous fable.

Memory is worthless wormwood.

Further abstraction on the witty deeds of the God of Thieves, to achieve an effect similar to that of a truth cracking machine.

"Perhaps the closer the fable is to a fairy tale, the more incredible power it will have." Colin recalled those terrible children's works in his previous life, and said to Ji Li'an inadvertently:
"Maybe in some corner of the world, some ignorant people will find the mirror image of 'immortality' or even 'whatever you want'."

After resolving knots, maybe time will come to realize them.And how incredible that would be.

"Ah."

Biting her finger, Ji Lian replied absent-mindedly.Frowning, she was on her third round of inspection and verification.It was at this time that a gust of cold wind blew in front of him.Ji Lian subconsciously raised her hand to block it.

Ke Lin, who was looking at Ji Lian from the side, saw that her eyes and expression seemed to freeze, and she was staring straight behind him.

"—"

Ke Lin turned his head in disbelief, and looked at the two doors of the old factory building that had been opened at some time. There was still no starlight in the dark sky outside.But at the border between scarlet and shadow, there was a figure standing there abruptly.

"Continue to arrange the ceremony." Colin stood up and said calmly at the same time.

But his heart was still in shock.

The cracking ritual was exposed.

This ritual that only three of them knew—

Craigie?No, Colin had already considered this risk.But Craigie only participated in this matter in the early days. At that time, he hadn't even decided on the idea of ​​using the spirit element tide. How could his uncle tell others the time and place of the ceremony?

Ji Lian, on the other hand, never left after confirming the address.

Colin's mind was running fast, and at the same time he limped towards the figure.Think optimistically, maybe it's just a tramp passing by unintentionally.But his hand had secretly pressed the ritual trigger.

At this moment, another clue appeared in his mind like a thunderbolt.

All the materials related to this ceremony, except some basic content came from Goldie, and the rest all came from the newspaper office of the seminary.

Including the ether status records in Stade City, it was also obtained through the secret letter transmitted by the red letter instrument.

But in the last few months, there has been an incident of redstone production technology leaking, which means that there are other eavesdroppers besides himself in the religious order's secret message system.

——Then, is it possible for this mysterious eavesdropper to notice me who is also stealing information from the seminary.And from the information I have browsed, deduced the existence of this ceremony?

No, I can only say that it is not completely impossible, but this is too exaggerated anyway.

It's like I have no way of confirming his identity.Since even the seminary couldn't find him, then he shouldn't be able to either.

unless.

"Unless he knows who I am and the materials I handle every day."

"But I thought I could control him only by coercion."

These two words floated coldly in Colin's heart.He stopped, less than 100 meters away from the comer.But here is enough to see the other party's figure clearly.

It's the wizard next to Luca.

His face was covered by agnosia, making it impossible to see his face clearly.And that inexplicable sense of familiarity did not come from the attack on the night of seeing off Marizio.

Why didn't I think of it?Colin thought.After all, it was because of him that he was able to get in touch with Luka.

What the agnosia technique presents is a face without any features and cannot be recognized.

But Colin looked at that ordinary face and said coldly:

"Heine, I know it's you."

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At the same time, just outside the abandoned factory, Nancy is still leaning on the fence boredly, but it seems that she has merged with the night.She still seemed to be muttering something, but it was hard to make out her voice in the wind, just as it was hard to make out her figure in the dark.

Less than a minute ago, the wizard passed by Nancy, but the two seemed unaware.

"Just let him in?"

A voice sounded out of nowhere, suddenly interjected into Nancy's soliloquies.But she wasn't surprised, she just tilted her head in confusion.

"Aren't you afraid that he will kill Colin?" the voice added, with a certain condescending curiosity in his tone.Just curious, not having to figure it out.

"Maybe you misunderstood something." Nancy shook her head and said:

"I don't really care too much about how it turns out in the house."

If he fails here or dies, maybe I'll have an easier time.

"But you're going to stop me again."

"So you misunderstood, I didn't intend to stop you from doing something." Nancy said in a jerky foreign accent, while letting her back off the fence against which she was leaning:
"It just so happens that you are the target of interception tonight."

"City of Silence, Helvetia."

(End of this chapter)