old dream

Chapter 41 The Long Preparation

What is the equivalent of two thousand pounds of redstone?Maybe an entire medium fleet, attrition in one campaign?
As for 80 Ori, based on a daily income of 40 Ori, it would take an ordinary citizen to work for 1000 days without eating or drinking, and to persist in saving for [-] years.

This is a huge number that is beyond the reach of ordinary people.

The alliance's technology and business have been highly prosperous, similar to the level after World War I on Earth. Colin has no special professional knowledge, and it is difficult to find any way to get rich overnight.

Therefore, the promulgation of the Prohibition Law is an opportunity that cannot be missed.

But the [-] bottles of anisette in Colin's hands, even if they were sold at a high price of [-] ori a bottle, would only be [-] ori in the end, and there was still a long way to go before the final goal.

So these [-] bottles of wine are just the beginning.

The reason why he has to be active in the underground world in the past two years is not only to obtain start-up funds, but more importantly, to connect with Luca and Marizio and others to make arrangements for the start of the prohibition.

"When did you start to determine that the prohibition order will really be issued?" Ji Li'an asked puzzled. After all, the news about the decree only started to leak at the beginning of this year.

And because the seats in the parliament that belong to various forces are changing, even one month before the prohibition of alcohol, no one can say for sure that it will not be stillborn.

"I was never sure that it would be promulgated. As for the opportunity, it started from hearing about some discussions in the academic community."

The intelligence came from the wiretapping of the seminary. Three years ago, there was a discussion in the Ankh academic circle that lasted for half a year:

Discussion on the relationship between drunkenness and large-scale parasitic spirit infection.

Colin still does not know what event caused the research and discussion, but the final conclusion of allied scholars is:
The unnatural absence state caused by severe drunkenness will dramatically increase the probability of parasitic spirits invading.

Originally, ancient humans would use alcohol, special incense, or some hallucinogens to achieve a state of absence.This is one of the aids in the old days to open the shell of the heart.

At the same time, there are no people in any era who live a hopeless life of working more than ten hours a day like today.

Their only hope in life is to drink cup after cup in a tavern with their excited or silent co-workers, so that they can briefly escape from their troubled lives for a few hours.

These people's minds are fragile, and they enter a state of unconsciousness unnaturally and unprepared when drunk, which provides an excellent opportunity for the intrusion of parasitic spirits.

And the ether of the human body itself is one of the channels through which deep forces flow into reality, especially if it is in a densely populated city.

The prevalence of alcoholism has brought numerous parasitic spirit infections; the parasitic spirit infection will in turn lead to the degeneration of the ether on a large scale.All evil consequences will eventually be fed back to this land.

That is the further deepening of pollution and disorder.

Colin always felt that, compared with the Women's Alliance's anti-domestic violence campaign that the Alliance claimed on the surface, or the counterattack against the depraved lifestyles introduced by foreign immigrants, the problem of parasitic spirit infection was the real reason for the prohibition of alcohol.

Therefore, the promulgation of the Prohibition Law has never been a matter of wrangling among the puppet parties, but a major issue at the extraordinary level.

So he started calm preparations two years ago, established contacts with overseas wine merchants early, and stocked up on bootleg wine.

But the biggest gain came from an accident two weeks ago.

It was a closed small winery in the outer suburbs. When the auction by the authorities almost passed, Colin borrowed a temporary fake identity and won it for less than [-] oli.

In the winery, which is more like a family workshop, there is still a complete set of distillation equipment.What's even more wonderful is that there are still [-] cases of whisky with seals in the warehouse locked by the authorities.

So far, all the preparations are in place, and he only needs to wait for the results of the patriarchal meeting two days later, allowing Marizio, Luca and others to establish a stable underground bootlegging market for him.

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Colin hesitated for a while last night, whether to pass on the knowledge he obtained from Mr. No. [-] to Ji Li'an, but after thinking about it, he gave up.

Only in the field of ritual studies, Ji Lian already has a systematic cognition.Telling her to step into the transcendent specific path will not be of much help to the ritual design.

And knowing one more option is not necessarily a good thing.

Having told her the method, there is no guarantee that she will fall into despair one day, and will therefore pin her hopes on the transcendent.

After all, transcendence means infinite possibilities, so that people who can't see the way out, give birth to false expectations in vain.

But it will always be a mirror, like a sweet but insatiable fake fruit, which induces the birth of countless tragedies.

Because transcendence is never a gift.If you just want to seek what you don't deserve, you will definitely pay the corresponding price in the end.

Not to mention whether there is a possibility of cure, her body is too weak now, and rashly opening the shell of her heart is no different from suicide.

And with that hasty and broken state of mind, even if she successfully embarks on the road of ascension, it will definitely attract countless parasitic spirits to invade and devour her.

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After several years of improvements, Ji Lian has reduced the amount of redstone used in the ceremony to around 1500 pounds.

But later, they realized that throwing a huge amount of redstone into the ritual at one time would cause another problem.

Because redstone itself is not fuel, it is just a channel to some etheric layers.

So if the land itself does not have enough spiritual essence, no matter how much redstone is put in, the amount of fuel will not continue to increase.

Or at least, the flow rate of the spirit element will slow down.In the end, enough fuel could not be channeled from the etheric layer within the limited time of the ritual.

From the letters of the seminary over the years, Colin gradually mastered some numerical information on the land of Stade.

In recent years, in a small area in the urban area of ​​Stade, the width of the channel where the flow rate of the spiritual element began to decay, if converted into the equivalent of redstone, it is about 400 pounds.

And if the channel width is equal to 800 pounds of redstone, the total flow will not change.

That is, if you throw in more than 400 pounds of redstone at a time, the fuel effect will start to diminish.

As for the part over 800 lbs, that will no longer come into play.

So under normal circumstances, a ritual requires 1500 pounds of redstone.

It is a failure that cannot be established at all.

(End of this chapter)