old dream

Chapter 257 The Blind Painter

Thinking and reasoning should be a happy thing.

If you are only curious about why the apple fell to the ground and why the sky is blue like a child, then even if you don't get the answer in the end, he will probably reap some simple and natural happiness.

However, if the object of thinking becomes more abstract, the conclusions become more and more counterintuitive, or even the tools of thinking become more trivial and complex...then the pain and distortion caused by thinking will increase accordingly.

Craigie Dallozzo is an expert on the life sciences of ethereal worlds.

But in his life, he had never seen any imaginary creatures with his own eyes.

……

Colin read the essays and materials he left page by page, many of which were written more than ten years ago. The pages of manuscript paper have turned yellow and brittle, and most of them were damaged by his uncle himself.

All of Craigie's past research has come to a standstill since suffering from an eye disease and being trapped in the dark.It was a matter of course, and without the support of One Seminary, there was nothing Craigie could do.

After all, he is not a wizard, just an ordinary person.

Except for the wizard's inner eye, which is the "imaging" technique based on telepathy, there is still no instrument in the world that can directly observe creatures in the imaginary world.

Those spirit bodies are indeed extremely powerful, but they must rely on the intention of a wizard or someone to affect the world.Without personal help, they become some thin shadows, as if they can't even move a grain of sand, so they can't be measured.

From this point of view, scholars cannot even prove that the spirits are real.Because under the same evidence, they may also be just hallucinations in the wizard's mind, a misunderstanding of his own abilities.

As an ordinary person, Craigie could only detour, use second-hand materials provided by wizards to reason, or use more complex mathematical methods to find clues of imaginary creatures in the numerical fluctuations of dozens of spiritual element measuring devices.But he will never see the objects he has spent his whole life describing, and even though he gets along day and night in the laboratory, they are still very strange.

So Craigie D’Allozzo is like a blind painter, a deaf musician, and a cook who can never taste.Even if he spends tens of hundreds of times of effort to obtain superb skills, he is destined to live in deep fear for a long time.Because Craigie can never grasp the facts through intuition, he can't be sure whether he is right or wrong from the beginning.

It is like a cook who has lost his sense of taste and begins to measure the composition of food with instruments to study whether it meets people's taste.This detour seems to be thorough, but there are hidden dangers everywhere.Maybe the edifice I built has gone astray on its more basic premises.For some wizards, this premise may be "common sense" that is as important as air and does not need to be mentioned.

So Craigie started craving.

After all, how much he wanted to see those invisible partners with his own eyes.

In order to do this, he had to lift the first veil, to break through the limitations of man's physical senses.

But neither "imaging" nor "road of lights" met his needs. Craigie had to create a third road, and that was the most beautiful and cruel crystallization of his imaginary life science achievements, spiritual nerves.

Colin turned his head to look at his uncle's hanging corpse, and he began to use imaging on Craigie for the first time.

A faintly bright line connected to the dead man's eyes, and the other end led to somewhere in the void.

This is the source of his eye disease.

Putting down the material in his hand, Colin walked to Craigie's side, raising the frequency of his consciousness to determine the overall picture of the spiritual sense nerve under different frequencies.

Then, through the intermediary of the oath of the fire and the sanctuary, he summoned a little devil named Yuetian.

This devil looks like only half of its body, and it is called a lemur in "The Demon Hierarchy". It has no power, but it has a pair of dexterous hands.

It tried to resist beyond its limits, and as a result, a green flame of pain ignited on its body.Twice later, it resignedly accepted reality.

Colin controlled it and stretched out his hands, approaching the spiritual nerve.

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At first, Craigie devoted himself to the study of the imaginary world in order to avoid communication with his family.

But in his last masterpiece, the composition technique of spiritual nerves, part of the basis comes from Dallozzo's accumulated soul theory for generations.

While Lenz carried on the family mission, Craigie couldn't accept the sordid experiments on the bodies and reproductive processes of his loved ones, or the silly conspiracy theories that claimed the origins of modern occultism among the Nightmen.So in such a family that is wholeheartedly eager to introduce the blood of the night people, Craigie is an absolute outlier.

Even though the number of Dallozzo's population has been decreasing, the internal emphasis is still on respect and inferiority.Only Lenz stood under the light all the time, and Craigie could only hide in the shadows, or be alone in the college's laboratory, accompanied by the dim redstone halo in the ceremony.

No matter what achievements he has achieved outside, it is not worth mentioning to those crazy elders.

Further using Comb Fire as a relay, Colin precisely controlled the frequency range of the lemur, making the intersection with the material world disappear.

The lemure's hands penetrated the uncle's body without hindrance, but did not cause any damage to the body.

According to the three or two sentences written in the gaps in the research records, it is not difficult to infer the change of Craigie's mentality.

When Craigie met Colin, he was determined to end the family curse in this generation.

But it didn't take long for Craigie to realize that the flower of sin that Dallozzo had cultivated for hundreds of years had borne fruit and stood alive before his eyes.

Through the test of witchcraft talent, Craigie determined that his nephew was a mixed race of Nightmen and Sincilians.At the same time, it has the essence of the night people and the appearance of the Sindirians.

It may not sound like much, but since there is the first, there will naturally be the second...and until countless.

Counting from the time of Colin's birth, 22 years have passed, which is enough time for Underworld to cultivate countless mixed-race children and transport them to the territory of the alliance.

These mixed-race children no longer have faces that can be easily distinguished like their ancestors, so the biggest weakness of the Underworld Organization has also been overcome.

Just as he deliberately wants to be the opposite of his family, Craigie hates the night people very much, and even believes that they are still plotting in the dark, vowing to destroy the Ankh Alliance and the modern civilization it symbolizes, and to wash away the great war 700 years ago. Eliminate old hatred.

But even so, Craigie still had a glimmer of hope for Colin.

After all, Colin was just a child when he was adopted.

Until he realizes that Colin is almost another Lenz.

In November 631, Craigie, who felt powerless, asked Archduke Edmund for help, trying to use his power to get rid of his nephew.

But after Colin struck a deal with the Archduke, Craigie fell into despair.

Because of Lenz's experiments, he was terrified of light.

And Colin obtained bloody wealth through bootlegging, and used the money to fill the ancestral house with redstone lamps, so after that, Craigie also began to feel disgusted and even afraid of the radiance of redstone evaporation.

He lost his final shelter and had no choice but to commit suicide.

The lemur finally removed the spiritual sense nerve, because of the isolation between the frequency boundaries, this removal is more precise than any surgery, just like taking away something that was originally irrelevant.

Looking at the inconspicuous man-made tissue in the hands of the evil, Ke Lin was stunned for a while.

Craigie thought he had failed, but he may have succeeded.

Uncle probably didn't tell anyone about the existence of spiritual sense nerves, and he might have revealed the direction to anyone, but he didn't say that he had made a finished product. After all, he couldn't explain that part of the technology came from his evil family.

Just because he couldn't accept his origin, no wizard had the opportunity to tell Craigie that when he connected the nerves of the spirit body on his body, there were some small errors, forming some end-to-end loops.

The nerves of these spirit bodies did not lead to the outside world, but were inserted into his own consciousness.And as time goes by, little by little creates confusion.

But this seemingly ridiculous mistake is an inevitability.After all, he is just a blind painter.

Craigie was [-]mm short of everything he was obsessed with.

(End of this chapter)