old dream

Chapter 259 The Battle for the Crown

The basement in the eyes of the devil...

On the train to Danaro, Colin leaned back on the green leather seat.He tried to maintain a surface of calm so that Nancy, who was sitting next to him, would not notice anything.But while Colin looked at the receding distant mountains outside the window, he uncontrollably recalled the reality in Kushiho's eyes.

Of all the objects in that basement, only the large outlines and positions remain similar to the original.

Maybe I should be thankful for this, because at least in terms of space logic, I am close to the natives of this world...

At that time, the spiritual connection lasted only a second before being forcibly interrupted by Colin.But this brief glance still set off a terrible turmoil in his mind.

Colin had a similar experience.

When he walked in the virtual world for the first time a few months ago, he took the risk of stopping imaging in an attempt to look directly at the virtual world.The result was a direct loss of consciousness and a coma until noon the next day.If it wasn't for the protective amnesia, maybe his spirit would have broken down.

But this time, Kushihwa acted as his eyes. Although most of the information was lost, it could at least be recognized and processed by his own consciousness.As a result, his perspective has doubled.

At present, what the physical world will look like also depends on the perspective of the observer.

Colin was not without speculation about this.But when this result was directly in front of his eyes, he still felt a little overwhelmed.

This proves that the “material world” is the same as the spectrum of the imaginary world, and there are multiple realities with different perspectives.

What I see, and what the natives see, may not be the complete truth, but the silhouette of the same fact from different angles.

Yes, long overdue.

As the last link of the "unspeakable beings" who are constantly splitting and deteriorating, it is impossible for the material world to be more unified than the virtual world above it.

So from Kushihiro's perspective, Colin sees another reality of the same basement.

There, "Uncle Craigie" is not an independent entity, but "four".

Four split, unconnected "things".

This is similar to what Hilpert saw when he performed "frequency drift" in Urju Hell, which once again shows that there is a commonality in the division between the material world and the imaginary world.

But apart from these numerical differences, Colin didn't know how else to describe those things.

After all, these scenes have never appeared in the human perspective.

Any language in the previous life has never involved those existences.

When European colonists set foot on the New World, they saw so many things they hadn't named yet, that they could only point their fingers and say "this" and "that".

These people just entered another continent from Europe, and the language is already inconvenient.And where Colin is, it may already be another universe.So he can't describe these scenes to people who haven't crossed.Even if metaphors are used clumsily, much of the information is bound to be lost.

Only now did Colin realize why Craigie could only describe it with seemingly irrelevant words such as "swirl", "like a needle prick", or even "noise with a fishy smell".

This is the first time that Colin has left the usual human perspective on Earth.

Besides Craigie, he may also be the first person in the world to see the dual reality of the material world.

At this moment, Colin suddenly came back to his senses, because he thought of something, and raised his head slightly.

This is an ordinary carriage. Among the passengers are landless peasant women, wealthy businessmen who don't care about their status, and even myself and Nancy, who are wizards.

As the train drove into the urban area of ​​Danaro, the noisy crowd became more and more noisy. Some children were pointing out the windows and yelling at the concrete buildings with more than ten floors.Ke Lin glanced at the passengers of different ages and backgrounds, as well as the waiters pushing the dining car passing by.These people came from completely unrelated places, but walked on the same train for their own reasons.They seem to be the same kind for a while and have a common language, but once the train enters the station, everyone will return to their own lives and have nothing to do with each other ever since.

Because, after all, they belong to completely different lives.

Passengers seem to be able to talk without hindrance, but most of them may just be talking to themselves in different fields of view and imaging results.

So even if they are sitting next to each other, even if they are in the same time and space, the reality they see in their eyes may be completely opposite.

The relationship between passengers and the train is like the relationship between the soul and the material world from different coordinates.

So the splitting of physical reality is an obvious fact.

Even if you don't have spiritual sense nerves, you should be able to easily detect it.

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"What are you thinking?" Nancy asked suddenly beside her.

She was still wearing a men's hunting suit.A peaked cap is worn on the head, and the brim of the hat is lowered to cover the black hair and pupils.

Nancy's attention never left, so she noticed Colin's slightest movement.

"It's nothing, before I wanted to return."

Colin said indifferently, and staggered the topic casually.

"Still can't remember anything?" Nancy asked again.

"Yeah." He said:
"Maybe some more hints are needed."

Colin was still impersonating Boyd Elvis, and he wasn't too worried about being exposed, after all, no one would think that a mortal could survive a confrontation with a god.And Nancy seemed to know very little about him.

Of course, more importantly, the presence of the Pale Goddess was also a fact.

Nancy stood up and motioned him not to chat for too long in a fixed place.Colin also left his seat to follow her, and the two walked towards the junction of the carriages.

"More information may be found in the capital of Danaro, but it may not be valuable." Nancy whispered: "After all, history has long been changed beyond recognition."

Especially this long-dead god.

"I remember you said that the dark river is also providing bodies for other 'hidden gods'?" Colin asked:

"So, has anyone else had the same situation as me?"

Nancy opened the back door of the carriage and walked out.It was a bit windy on the small terrace.She thought for a while and turned around and said:
"Although the methods of descending are not the same, there are indeed several gods who have become like blank paper after their return."

There was respect in her words, but she didn't make herself too humble:
"You will show a distinct personality, perhaps the result of fusing Colin's memory."

This is similar to Colin's feelings.Although the communication with the pale goddess was only a few seconds, he always felt that the other party seemed to be a little... ignorant.

"Maybe it's the problem with this body?" Colin stood from the perspective of Bod Ives and asked tentatively:
"If I discard this male body and replace it with a more suitable one, maybe I can restore some power."

"There is no precedent, so I don't recommend it." Nancy shook her head and said:

"After all, only Colin can sense you from the vast void, which means that he is probably your only anchor. Once you lose him, you may never come back."

"The hosts of the gods are generally called proxies, or 'artifacts', the human vehicles through which you interfere with reality across frequency boundaries. But finding the right proxies has always been difficult, even for some of the most prominent crowns of our time That's the same." Nancy replied in an orderly manner:
"So unless you have to, don't abandon the agent."

"So... I understand." Colin said:

"Then let's maintain the status quo for now."

In fact, this answer reassured him a lot.

Because if Boyd Elvis can't devour his consciousness and can't abandon his body, it means that there is still some kind of common interest between them.At least, the other party will not commit suicide.

Then Colin felt a little terrified again.

Because he found it somewhat difficult to determine whether it was he himself or Boyd Elvis who asked the question "whether it is possible to abandon the body".

The speed of the train is only [-] to [-] kilometers per hour, plus the stops along the way, it will take nearly [-] hours to travel from Stade to Danaro.

Conversations like the one just now have taken place several times during this journey.

Whether it is to get rid of the parasitism of the pagan gods or the control of the dark river, Colin must first spy as much information as possible.

And there are two things worth noting.

Nancy and the "Dark River" organization behind her both refer to Bod Ives as "the hidden crown".

According to Nancy, the "crown" refers to a special kind of deity.In the frequency quadrant of general civilization, there will be gods with more than three digits, but most of them with "crowns" will not exceed ten.

He may not be the king of gods, but it is often the first few silhouettes that can be touched by that civilization circle. Once the image of the crown is successfully drawn, the surrounding virtual world will suddenly become clear, because they govern the world like a watchtower. The entire quadrant, and at the same time the highest point closest to the archetype world.

"So the 'crown' is an entrance to a frequency quadrant."

"But He is also the exit to ascend to the archetypal world at the same time."

"Each crown governs a huge frequency, or angle of view. At the same time, it is also the strongest silhouette of a 'original image'."

"So you only need to integrate the crown under the same consciousness, and you can restore the whole picture of a certain series of 'original image', and this is the way to really enter the prototype world."

It also breaks through the limitation of perspective and opens the second curtain.But in comparison, the scale of the spiritual sense nerve is really too small.

After 400 years of expansion, the Ankh Alliance has conquered seventeen civilization circles on all continents, and taken away their 220 nine crowns, and then restored several "original images".

Anhe guessed that the complete pre-images held by the alliance may be between fifteen and twenty.But no matter how much it is specific, it is an indisputable fact that the alliance has broken through the virtual world.

The "imaginary temple" that was erected in the Prototype World and constantly monitors the mirror image resonance of spells is the most direct evidence.

The train slowly entered the station, and the platform bell rang.Colin and Nancy mingled in the crowd and walked out of the train door.

Some rednecks were fussing over the size of Grand Central, but they seemed especially out of place.Because most of the other pedestrians walked very fast, and lowered their heads, they didn't talk much to each other.

This is Danaro, the city with the heaviest casualties in the 20-year prophecy catastrophe.She was once shrouded in white terror of panic.Even today, undercover agents still populate the streets.

It's the complete opposite of the port city of Stade, where the underworld hardly exists.

In addition to the crown, Nancy also vaguely mentioned another thing on the train, and that was the purpose of their coming to the principality's capital.

The "City of Silence" personally silenced Danalo's hymn, and was the most powerful support for Archduke Edmund.But a few days ago, this big man was killed silently.

Sooner or later the Grand Duke would find out that the Jackdaw Hunting had something to do with it, and they would have to answer whatever the cowardly Holy Province wanted.

The turmoil caused by Nancy on her own seems to be predictable.

(End of this chapter)