old dream

Chapter 111 Pendant and Training Method

"Whatever the method."

Julio turned his head and said the condition:
"Alessio must leave Stade and never let him return."

"If you can do that, in the end Capello's share can be cut in half."

Why?Colin was slightly taken aback.

"Because I don't want to see him again." Julio hesitated: "And he is in danger now."

What danger is a retired lampkeeper, now that he has the leisure to deal with me.

Colin slandered secretly, but still decided to listen to what Julio had to say first.

Giulio reached into his collar and took out the pendant that Alessio had given her.

That is, the one with the pheromone volatilization device installed, the ignition device that put the monsters who defended her into a state of stress, which made Colin suffer so much, so now the small petri dish has been removed.

But even so, it did not spoil its overall beauty.The part of its metal case is also well decorated, like a small pocket watch, with fine patterns etched on the surface.

"If what you infected is related to this pendant." Julio suddenly revealed something that Colin kept from her:
"So, you haven't got the 'antidote' yet, have you?"

Colin raised his eyebrows:
"You know about Vibrio carinii?"

"So it's bacteria..." Julio pondered:
"I don't know exactly what they are, but I know where Aresio made these pendants."

Now Ke Lin was really stunned. The place where the pendant was made should be the place where Vibrio carinii was cultivated.

The person who knew the key information was actually by his side... I don't know if this is a black light, or if Julio deliberately concealed this matter before he was sure that he had a bargaining chip.

Colin remembered her being interrogated in some shabby hotel.Compared to being dazed then, she is much calmer now.

She stroked the lines on the surface of the pendant with her fingertips:
"Alessio has given me pendants like this since I was nine years old."

"He was like a ghost at the time, like he didn't know how to talk. Or whatever the situation, he didn't have anything to say."

That is the typical appearance of a lamp keeper, as long as there is nothing related to Chaofan, he will keep silent.

I don't know how Arecio became what he is now.

"Every two months, he would take back the pendant he had given me and give me a new one," Julio recalled:
"These pendants were as bright as mirrors at the beginning. When you hold them in your hand, you will think that they still have the aftermath of polishing. But after a few days, they will turn black in the air. Later, I asked others to find out. Know that they are all made of silver."

Julio's expression became a bit lonely:
"From then on, I found that there were always some people who followed me not too far away. Most of them were dull. I thought they were arranged by my father, so I never associated them with the pendant."

"Thinking about it now, there was never a duplicate face among those people."

Julio unconsciously caressed his bare left upper arm with his right hand, looked at Colin and said:
"That is, they're all gone, they're just consumables to Arecio. That's why I guess there's no 'cure' for that infection."

If there is a cure, consumables might be able to be recycled.

"The patterns on each pendant are different, but there will always be a woman with a lamp. Sometimes it makes people feel like they are telling some stories. I can't understand it, but I always hope to see it A picture."

"I thought he hid countless pendants like this somewhere, and he used to secretly follow him with an adventurous mind, like looking for a place where wizards keep their treasures."

"Actually, the motive is not so simple. Apart from playing around like a house, I also want to see the pictures behind."

"Most of the time he was spotted, but at the end it worked out once and I saw where he left with the pendant."

"A big house, empty inside. I saw some tools for making pendants, but there was no imaginary treasure chest, and there were no mountains of silver pendants. Many adults came and went in strange clothes, and Strange bottles and jars filled with disgusting stuff."

"After that, I never dreamed of the patterns on the new pendants because staring at them reminded me of bad things."

"However, I still remember the location of that house."

Julio looked into Colin's eyes and said:

"I think that's the information you need."

That is the key to obtaining inhibitors.

Colin nodded and tentatively agreed to the deal, but he couldn't guarantee the result.

After talking about the business, Giulio returned to her laid-back look. She lay back on the sofa, as if she had already gotten used to the boring life of being under house arrest.

"Could you bring me some cigarettes next time you come over?"

"Let's change it. Have you ever seen other women in the family smoke?"

Women in this kind of gangster family are often more traditional than those in ordinary families.

"No... But among my former friends, there are very few non-smokers." Julio recalled his deviant artist friends:

"Forget it, anyway, I can go out in a few days." She sat up and said:

"It's been two weeks, so it's not too late."

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Before leaving, Colin asked Julio another important detail.

"Why do you think Arecio is in danger right now?"

"Because he told me before." Julio replied:
"If one day I know the meaning of these pendants, and he doesn't come to help me change them for a week overtime."

"Then it means that the situation has reached a critical moment. Let me not go to him no matter what... I think what he means is that at that time his side will be very dangerous."

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For further investigation, Colin eventually took Julio's pendant.As he walked towards his uncle's house, he observed the patterns etched on it.

Indeed, as Julio said, this is an episodic picture.On the size no larger than the thumb, a woman with a lantern is engraved with flat lines, and around her are some cloud-like lines. Colin guesses that it is an exaggerated expression of darkness, because the night fog on the sea is The deepest darkness in the impression of the Sincilians.

At the very edge of the picture, that is, in the corners of the dark clouds and mist, there are some ghosts hiding. They have no regular shape, and their faces are also obscure, and they are depicted in an abominable way.

The content of this picture itself is not puzzling, because the characteristics of the woman are obvious, that is, the virgin "Valeria" holding the lamp.A famous ancestor god.Images of her abound in the hundreds of lighted churches in the Sincili community.

So the plot of this pattern is probably that the lamp girl blocked the darkness, and even Colin has heard the story of callused ears.

The strange part is why Arecio showed such things to young Julio.

The pendant should be used to activate the protection device. When the special differentiated flora detects the transformation and annihilation of the spirit elements, those "dumb people" in Julio's mouth will turn into monsters in an instant, and then clear them within 15 seconds all living things around.

And Arecio needs to replace the pendant every two months, probably to replace the small petri dish inside.

Every action of his should have a meaning, at least explained here, most of the reasons are very clear.

But those pendant casings that always need to be replaced, and those patterns about the lamp girl, seem to be completely redundant.

If the jigsaw puzzle seems to be complete, but there is an extra piece left, it means that something has been spelled wrong before.

In the "Naler House" theater, Arecio said that the pendant was designed to deal with witchcraft, a purely protective device.

But that's not necessarily the truth, at least not the complete truth.

What exactly are these textures?Some kind of talisman?Colin thought.

No, if they are amulets, they will consume psychic essence when they work, thus increasing the risk of the detection device in the pendant being accidentally touched.

And there is no need to keep changing the pattern every two months.

Alessio should have been a typical lampkeeper at that time, so he didn't have any extra warmth, and used comic strips to make the little girl happy.

If we only follow the current train of thought, no explanation will make sense.

Unconsciously, Colin came to the Seber River again.

It was also the approximate location where he threw the red graphite water spray into the river on the carriage after returning from the underground bar.

Looking around, the water surface of this section of the Seber River is wide and calm, but because there has been a lot of rain recently, the flow rate is too fast.

However, the river is still full of garbage and oil, and the densely packed boats in the river are pushing the floating island-like garbage to the sides with their bows, that is, icebreakers are driving on the sea ice.

Three days have passed, and it is very unlikely for anyone to find such a small bottle of red graphite water in this kind of place again.

But Colin was still a little uneasy. After all, his fingerprints were still on the spray.

It should never have been thrown into the river then, Colin thought.

Not to mention smashing and burying it, at least the fingerprints should be cleaned up.

Because the opponent was too confident in his technique, he accidentally made a slight omission. According to common sense, this is an omission that does not need to be taken care of.

But now it seems that anything is possible.Now that Aresio can find such inconspicuous traces of glue on the dead body.Then it might not seem surprising to find such a spray bottle again.

This mistake must never happen a second time.

While thinking silently, Colin took out a cloth bag the size of a fist.

The inside of the cloth bag is full of thin slices of hardwood, each piece is no bigger than a fingernail, and the thickness is close to that of paper. It is cut from the thinnest sandalwood skin available in the market. It was originally used to paste on the surface of inferior wood to counterfeit expensive ones. of wood.

There are probably more than [-] pieces in just this one pocket.

On each hardwood piece, the tracking mark of the object-finding technique was drawn with red graphite water.

Colin originally wanted to use the object-finding technique to track more than [-] targets at the same time, so as to exercise the strength of his intentions and widen the gaps in the shell of the heart.

The fuel, the backbone of the ritual, and the object of the object-finding technique are all located outside one's body, and only one's "intention" participates in the ritual from the beginning to the end, so it will not cause excessive burden to the already overloaded body and ether.

Because the density of these wood chips is close to that of water, they will not sink to the bottom of the river or float on the water surface, but will be carried by the water flow for 24 hours.

This is also equivalent to focusing on the operation of 24 small rituals in [-] hours, tracking [-] targets in the three-dimensional space, which must be quite effective in training the intention.

This is the most suitable practice method that Colin can come up with so far.

In case of any accident, there will be no other consequences forcibly interrupting the object-finding ceremony.

After all, when I was tracking those bootleg boxes, I had tried to interrupt and start intermittently for a few days.

The only problem is that the redstone on the main body of the ceremony will be consumed excessively.

In addition to natural differences, the strength of intention can only be strengthened through practice.But practicing witchcraft often requires the consumption of materials, which are all exchanged for real money.

To a large extent, the study of witchcraft is equivalent to burning money and resources, which is true.

Colin sprinkled handfuls of wood veneers from the cloth bag into the water.Watch them billow in the foam of the tide before they all disappear.

The outer shell of the spray bottle is glass, but there is air in it so it doesn't necessarily sink to the bottom.

Instead of looking for it in this lost mountain of garbage, it is better to use these tracking markers to identify the undercurrent of the river bottom and the place where the floating objects may gather.

Maybe the probability of finding the spray bottle is not high, but anyway, if you want to use the water to exercise yourself, then it is better to choose the place where you put down the tracking marker here.

Colin shook the cloth bag he brought to make sure that there were no thin pieces of wood left in it, and prepared to take it back into his pocket.

But at this moment, a voice came from behind him:
"What are you doing here?"

Unfamiliar yet familiar voice, Colin turned his head slowly, and it was Mr. No. [-] who appeared in front of him.

Now he has completely pretended to be an ordinary Anhe citizen, wearing a plain vest and a peaked cap.

Colin is still not used to Mr. One's disappearance.

The ceremony hadn't started, and the hard wood chips were just wood chips, so he didn't panic at all.

"The snacks in the pocket are spoiled," he said:
"Just passing by here, I threw it down to feed the fish."

(End of this chapter)