old dream

Chapter 31 Communication Ceremony

Colin rummaged through the old papers to find past records, repeatedly confirming the two communication rituals.

Rituals under any system can be deconstructed into three units: intention, space, and fuel. There is no specific order between the units, and they can be arranged randomly.

Therefore, the temporary lack of any one unit can be used as a "trigger" to control the timing of the ceremony.

The first thing to do is to delineate the "ritual space".Let the abstract and concise meaning of the symbol stand out from the muddy reality.

Colin put the papers and inkpots away from the table, wiped it clean and sprinkled it with salt, put out the dirty kerosene lamps, and placed five more candles around and in the middle of the table.

Use the scissors just found downstairs as the sword of the wind, the coin as the disk of earth, the pen as the stick of fire, and a teacup symbolizing water.A tiny universe was built on the temporary altar with the four elephant spirit elements.

Putting the four in a specific position is to express the beginning of Vientiane, everything returns to zero, and the noise of the ceremony cancels out.

Then the fuel was inserted, and ten grams of ground redstone was sprinkled in the salt circle, and Colin felt a little heartbroken.Using redstone here is not the best choice, and the efficiency is worrying, but he can't provide other fuels.

The dust of redstone connects to the virtual world, providing a vent for the spiritual elements lacking in the ritual to the material world, and they will flow to the lower level autonomously.

Finally, there is the expression of intent.

Contrary to the general impression, exaggerated congratulations or performances should not be used in this step, because that would confuse the elves or obscure the meaning of the mirror image.

What Colin had to do was very simple. He placed his hand beside the central candle to symbolize his presence.

Light the four candles around, and then turn off the three candles located in the west, north, and south in turn, which expresses the opening of a specific direction.

The palm of the hand is standing on the side, which means that your spirit desires to be illuminated.

The central candle is lit and power from the depths of the world begins to operate.

This will also be like a signpost, pointing out the direction for the elves in the distance.

Inside the salt circle, the symbolic "Kolin" in the ceremony was looking forward to the "candlelight" in the east, and received a response from the "candlelight".

The mirror event within this small universe, with the fuel inserted from the depths, will definitely be resonated with Colin himself.

He longs for candlelight and will be answered.

A ceremony that was reluctant in every respect was completed.

……

After 5 minutes, nothing happened.

But that's just the appearance.Closing his eyes, Colin could easily "see" a flame forming in front of his eyes, like a controlled lucid dream.

And this imagination is not easily dispersed, like a fire really ignited in consciousness.

It was the ritual that brought Colin's consciousness to a specific frequency and multiplied his intentions.

Colin waited patiently, quietly in his mind, staring at the dark end of the flame on the other side.

The ignition of the flame expresses a division between the inner and outer boundaries.

This side of the flame still belongs to Colin's inner world, while the other side is already the distant outside world.

Suddenly, a trickle of sand, gravel and dust fell, and a few fresh green shoots appeared at the feet, and the echo of the water tank came from a distance.

But all these are just the manifestation of the distracting thoughts in Colin's mind.

He coughed lightly, and those phantoms were like paint scattered into the water, fading away.

The room was so silent for a while, you could almost hear the clockwork vibrating in the watch.

A few minutes later, without warning, the redstone powder on the table made a "呲呲" sound.

Their evaporation suddenly intensified, meaning that spiritual essence was flowing through them.

It proves that somewhere very far away, something is staring here.

Colin looked at the other side of the fire, but still saw nothing but silent darkness.

Colin tried his best to capture a certain profound and elusive touch in the flash of inspiration, and at the same time loosened the shackles on the imagination, allowing them to outline the image of each other instinctively.

The flames thus became wafting.The illusion in his heart that had subsided before rose again, and the thick moss had crawled to Colin's jaw in just a few seconds.

But in the end, Colin could no longer perceive the spirit body that responded to him just now, and he failed.

The failure of this attempt was somewhat expected.After all this is only the first direction that opens randomly: East.If you can succeed in one fell swoop, you are lucky. Even if you fail, there are still three other directions left.

Through such self-comfort, Colin adjusted his mood.

Colin lit four more candles, this time to the south.Half an hour later, there was almost no reaction from the redstone dust.

The third time, West, the end result is similar to the first East, with all the redstone evaporated to a gypsum-like white powder.

Something responded, but Colin couldn't picture it in his mind.

If you can't draw an image for the other party that the human mind can understand, you can't communicate with it.

Mr. One said that his perception was slow and he could not communicate with those ethereal elves.Probably not a misjudgment. What he could do 15 years ago does not mean he can do it now.

Maybe it has something to do with the seal that destroyed his own memory?Colin thought.

Ke Lin replaced the redstone dust, feeling a little heartbroken.After all, ten grams of red stone is equivalent to the income of seven working days of reporting a house.

It was obviously the most inconspicuous ceremony, but the two small attempts tonight burned more than half a month's salary.

Finally, he was ready to open the North.

After repeating all the steps, the central candle was lit, however, just as Colin flicked the flame on the fire stick.

He found himself in the water.

Or the air suddenly becomes sticky, giving people the illusion of walking in a body of water.

Because of the momentary association with water, the floor in the room became wet unknowingly.When Colin realized this, the back of his shoe was already in the water.

The flames burned quietly on the water, and looked like they were about to sink into it.The water was calm, like a mirror reflecting fire.Colin glanced at the redstone dust in the table, but there was no movement.He thought it was his hallucination again, so he coughed lightly, but found that he couldn't brush it away.

The physical body cannot perceive those inner and deep things.But if you only use your inner "eyes" to see things, you will never be able to distinguish what is just your fantasy and what is happening.

This point will intensify as the walker gradually advances on the path of ascension.

Colin stood up, and the water was below his elbow by this time, but Colin was not too alarmed.After all, the inner shell has not been opened, so as long as the redstone on the table has not evaporated, it proves that his spirit is not connected to the outside world.

He felt it quietly for a while. Although the water surface was still slowly rising, it didn't make him feel disordered.Even vaguely feel that this should be the case.

Compared with the picture of only the flames recorded in the ceremony, the scene in front of me is obviously more balanced and more peaceful.

Maybe something is helping me.

Standing in front of the flames, the water flowing over him, revived and cooled imaginations spread across Colin's consciousness at the same time.

He waited for the moment, and then silently took a step, one step into nothingness.

Some kind of sense was opened again, and he saw the shell of his heart again in ten years, it was solid and solid, intact.Like a curtain covering everything that is not accepted.

And there are clearly traces of repairs on it.

The "shell" and "traces" seen at this time are all imaged by some kind of inner metaphor.But this was also the first time that Colin did not rely on intuition, but intuitively saw the traces left by the person who had modified his memory with his inner eyes.

All these years of hard work are ultimately aimed at uncovering it.Although he has been moving forward, he always feels that he is fighting against something invisible, which gives him excess pressure.

Until now, being able to actually see the object to be overcome, although this has not brought any substantial progress for the time being, can make people feel that the goal no longer seems so elusive and elusive.

Then, he suddenly noticed something, turned around suddenly, and saw the shadow.

"It" wrapped its arms around its knees, and was sitting silently outside the head of the bed, as if it had been waiting there.

Colin glanced at the redstone powder on the table, they were as bright red as ever.

The ceremony was not connected to the outside world, but a spirit body responded to itself.

(End of this chapter)