musicians of old

Chapter 173 The Boar of Mantra (4K [-]-in-[-])

It's over, maybe something went wrong. Seeing Joan's reaction, both Fanning and Sheeran's initial reactions were tense.

However, under the open terrain and strong light, it seemed that it was difficult to control themselves not to look at something for a moment, so, like Joan, they saw a giant snake made of sunken abstract lines, in a swirling posture , wriggling and devouring its own tail in a trance.

Fanning felt that some protective afterbirth that he once wore had been uncovered, and an indescribable sense of insecurity spread all over his body in an instant—this experience was similar to that of himself who was "fear of ghosts" when he was a child. The feeling of wrapping in the quilt to sleep, but the quilt was pulled away by an unknown force in the middle of the night!
Some kind of "trigger" that exists inside is triggered, and the scene in front of you seems to be split apart layer by layer, first the outer shell of the hall, then the earth and rocks, and finally the shell of the air, clouds and the world, as the surface film After shattering, everyone felt that in the depths of the sky beyond the concept of experience or above the dome, there was an ancient existence like a giant celestial body that felt oppressive and was slowly turning, and casually glanced at their position.

He has no form or emotion at all, or even if there are images and thoughts, they cannot be observed by ordinary people. Any attempt to describe His body, color, sound or smell is just a distorted silhouette of the tip of the iceberg. Fanning's only feeling is that the spirit is wrapped in some kind of aggregate of true knowledge itself. They grow twisted gray and white branches, restrain the swirl-like scene in front of them, and turn into huge geometric patterns to engulf their own knowledge. Knowing repeated grinding and rolling.

But this feeling is only for a short moment.

In less than one breathing cycle, before Fanning breathed out the breath that he inhaled into his lungs before, this transcendent landscape and feeling all collapsed.

Joan pointed the flashlight vertically at the ground, and the pattern on the wall had been plunged into darkness.

In the eerie and empty hall, the faces of the three people stared at each other in amazement under the boundary between light and darkness.

The atmosphere here has become disturbing at some point. The faces on the walls are stacked and nested, as well as the invisible corners in the dark. It seems that there are invisible things that will burst out in the next moment.

"The Lord of Witnesses, "The Beast of the Truth"."

They all knew the name of this ancient and great existence in their hearts, as well as some superficial and subtle hidden knowledge, such as the aspect He held was "Yan", but at this time no one dared to pronounce its name, nor did they dare to elaborate. think.Because of the uneasy dizziness and premonition that people will soon be overwhelmed, everyone can only read the impulse to "run away" in each other's body movements!

This kind of silent terror is more frustrating than the direct threat of death. It forms a delicate and fragile balance with the current silence in the air. Scenes such as "abandoned buildings" - in the dark, as long as one of the people walking calmly starts to run, the scene will become extremely scary, even if it is clear that there is nothing nearby, let alone touch death, but the genes engraved in the bones It will only urge myself to run away quickly.

He didn't know why he remembered this scene inexplicably. Of course, the three people in front of him would not do such a thing. After exchanging eyes with each other, they pretended to be calm and took a step, and exited side by side at a moderate speed.

After returning to the corridor, the first thing the three of them did was to stick their backs firmly to the wall, then slid their whole bodies and squatted down.

Just turned his back to the darkness all the way, the feeling of leaving that weird hall was so terrifying that Fanning dare not close the bronze door leading to the hall now, always feeling that when there is no vision at all, something will rush out in fear , might as well just leave it open.

In contrast, my heart is so at ease now.

"Is there any problem with your current state?" Fan Ning asked aloud after his mood eased a bit.

This experience of being inadvertently glimpsed by the Lord of the Unknown Witness is the second time that Fan Ning has experienced it. Before that, he accidentally observed the hidden knowledge carrier that carried the "watching death" and "heart flow", and felt the same way—mixed Enjoy and crash with greatness and terror.

But this time it was just a witness talisman, and I didn't use it as a base for mysteries, nor did I recite or pray for anything...

The first contact with a new god name hidden knowledge will have some shocks, but it is usually within the tolerance of those who know it. He did not expect such a reaction this time.

"It seems...not...but I can't tell what's weird." The panting of the two girls has not subsided.

"I think so too." Fanning frowned.

The physical and spiritual conditions are a little frightened, and they are returning to normal at the moment, and their thinking and actions are still within the range of self-control, but he always feels that after being glanced at by the "beetle of truth", some abstract level of things has changed , or the interior of itself, or the exterior of the environment, or the exterior of the interior, or the interior contained by the exterior.

Like hitting some kind of "trigger"?
Although he doesn't know what it is, Fanning now chooses to follow the basic law of mysticism: in the same situation, if you don't think about it, the risk is the least.

He began to think about another question: "Xiran, can you roughly judge the period of this underground building?"

Sheeran said: "It's not the new calendar, it should be the late period of the 3rd Turangalian dynasty."

"So sure?...It's strange. Could it be that there is a well built during the third history on the site of the art museum? I don't know if the incident that happened in that hospital is related to this underground thing."

"No, not that well. The masonry material of that well is not very old, at most, it is only about three hundred years old."

"You mean, the deep well and the corridor, as well as the buildings connected to it, are indeed pieced together by the products of two different historical periods..." Fan Ning thought with his chest in his arms, "Well, this is not difficult to understand, the ancients It is entirely possible that this shaft was built next to it in order to search for more ancient ruins... But why is your judgment on this underground building so certain, and it is so accurate to the late stage?"

Xilan slowly explained, "Based on the style of the door on the wall of the well and the architectural style seen along the way... the bronze material favored by the Turangalian Dynasty is not actually a real bronze. It is a mercury-gold with a special proportion and composition. Under bright natural light, it can be seen that their color is slightly golden... As for the layout of the heptagons, it appears in many of their palace architectural relics. It’s what they consider an art of misplacement.”

"Moreover, the later the dynasty, the more often there was an aesthetic tendency to 'anthropomorphize' everyday utensils, that is, in the design of decorative lines, it is always easy to make people associate with the combination of five senses."

"This is an unpopular academic point of view with a small number of samples, because the existing historical materials of the Turangalian Dynasty show a distribution of 'relatively missing at both ends and relatively complete in the middle'... I just saw the style of the door on the wall of the well At the time, I hadn’t realized it yet, but when Joan said that there were human faces on the walls of the hall, I gradually remembered it.”

"You are educated. You are worthy of being deeply involved in history and ancient languages." Fan Ning listened seriously, but after thinking for a while, he raised a little question, "However, according to this point of view...the The candlestick facing it should also be an antiquity from the Turangalia period, but...it grew next to the escalator on the wall of the well.”

"It's because the people who built the candlesticks built an extra one." Joan took over the words, "Although they are two buildings of different historical periods, they are next to each other after all, so those builders just went out to build another one. The entrance is used for lighting..."

"No, the time is wrong." Sheeran realized the problem at this time, "The time of the underground building is before, and this shaft is behind... Just imagine, if we are in the corridor at the moment, we see objects with a younger age, this is normal …But in turn, what if something underground in architectural style grows on that shaft?…”

"...Don't you think, there is a weird sense of dislocation in this?"

……

After listening to Sheeran's analysis, Joan finally came to her senses.

Consider two explanations for this phenomenon:

The underground building of the Turangalian dynasty, with an additional candlestick protruding beyond the discontinuous boundary, and then it was built together by the people who built the deep well?
Or the person who built the deep well originally rebuilt it in the underground building, but just didn't destroy the candlestick, and still let it be embedded in the well wall? ...It's all too far-fetched.

Sheeran was right, it was indeed a weird sense of dislocation... Most likely it was caused by some unknown mystical factors.

Fanning turned on the flashlight again, stood on the edge of the corridor, and shone into the hall.

Joan wondered: "Caroun, what are you doing? Aren't you afraid to see the image of the Lord of Witness again?"

"The wall on our side is a blind spot." Fan Ning said, "I suddenly thought of an explanation for the meaning of these combined geometric figures on the wall of the hall, and I want to confirm it again."

He glanced again, then turned off the flashlight: "Do you think this is like the four elements in the mouth of an alchemist?"

"Alchemist?" Joan asked in surprise, "You mean the School of Harmony?"

"No... earlier, maybe even earlier than the predecessor of the Harmony School, the Continental Alchemist Association." Fan Ning shook his head, "When this profession was just sprouting nearly two thousand years ago, the earliest group of ancient alchemists proposed four Elemental Doctrine."

Sheeran felt that he couldn't keep up with Fanning's thinking for a while: "The theory of the four elements? I've heard of this. It embodies the wisdom of ancient scholars, but today it is far from the achievements of human chemistry, and it is not as good as the mysticism of contemporary wise men." A theory with such a complete system... The main point of view is that the world at the beginning of its formation is composed of four basic elements: fire, water, air, and earth. Well, the world here mainly refers to the appearance of the world...

"However, I remember that the symbols of the four elements in ancient occult theory are tokens, cups, swords and gold coins. Compared with these straight lines on the walls of the hall, it is too far away, right?"

Fan Ning said: "Because I investigated the Reconciliation School before, I learned about the history of the development of alchemists' theories. The symbols you said are correct, but mysticism has developed from ancient times to the present, and alchemists in different periods have also used other methods. Symbols to symbolize the four elements, such as fire, not only tokens, but also scepters... For example, there is a set of plane symbols composed of upper and lower triangles and horizontal lines, and another set of three-dimensional symbols symbolized by regular geometry... "

"There are only five kinds of regular geometry in the world. The first is the symbol of fire. They chose the regular tetrahedron with the sharpest corners; fire drives the gas to rise and sink, so the two sharp corners of gas are facing up and down respectively. The regular octahedron; the soil is the thing that can be piled up and built, so it is the most square hexahedron; the shape of water is impermanent and flowing, so it is the regular icosahedron with the most faces and the most slippery appearance...

"In the end, there is no element corresponding to the dodecahedron. The ancients believed that this is the 'ether' diffused around the stars, minerals and life forms-this is the first layer of 'ether' outside the human skin in modern mystical theory. body' is very close, so the theoretical completeness of this set of three-dimensional symbols is stronger than that of flat symbols, and it is also more extensive in the practice of ancient alchemists..."

"Four, six, eight, twenty..." Sheeran recalled the most basic unit of the complex decoration in the hall just now, "So, do you think that the number of plane sides of these wall patterns corresponds to the number of three-dimensional sides of regular geometry?" In other words, the entire hall is filled with four elements... Then, in some spaces with sparse lines, some image symbols of the Lord of Witness appeared? How do you understand this?..."

Fan Ning slowly analyzed: "The seven phases are refracted from the radiance, dispersed in the will of the world to form a surge, and then drift down to condense into a shell of appearance, which is the residence of ordinary people...Because appearance and will together constitute In the real world, many mysteries handed down from ancient times require the executors to use the symbols of the four elements when building altars, as miniature miniatures of the original world, and then fill in the phases on this basis, using metaphors from the transcendent The mapping of the world to the waking world..."

"...So, these patterns piled up on the walls of the hall should symbolize the initial world, and several witnesses appeared in it, could it be..." Fan Ning analyzed this point by himself, and suddenly remembered what the secret organization "Transcendence Club" claimed The theory of origin classification of the Lord of Witness.

"Does this mean that the unfallen fire, the tower builder, the winter wind, and that existence..." Fan Ning still skipped over the name of the god of "The Boss of Truth" with fear, "...these witnesses Do the Lords have the same personality as the original world? Or in other words, are they ancient beings that were born simultaneously with this world?"

Of course, it is very likely that there are not only the symbols of these four Lords of Witnesses in the hall, because many places have been weathered and eroded, and several people have not found them all.

Fanning's conjecture was confirmed by the other two, but everyone was still puzzled by the significance of the existence of this hall. It had nothing but hanging candlesticks, a few windows, and patterns on the walls. Scholars' mausoleums are not like places where sacrificial activities have been held.

The three returned the same way.

When this corridor came, it was a gentle straight line at first, and then turned into an uphill and arc shape, and now it starts from a downhill and reverse arc when going back.

During the period, Fan Ning asked the opinions of the two girls, and everyone unanimously decided to go out from the corridor and continue exploring down the shaft.

But just ten seconds after this decision was made, Fan Ning, who was walking, suddenly stopped.

"and many more."

"What's wrong with Carlon?" Sheeran turned his head away.

Fanning stared suspiciously at the darkness ahead.

"This road...when you came here...do you think it has such a big bend?"

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