The red moon returns

Chapter 239 Interpretation
The walls of the renovated basement are made of ten-centimetre steel plates, which are stronger than the safe in Lynch's home.

There were strange lines carved on the ground, and green glimmers flashed from time to time.

As soon as he entered the room, Lynch felt as if he had entered a chemistry laboratory. Four test benches were arranged neatly. Several reagent cabinets filled with bottles and jars had strong big locks on the doors. The stove in the center of the room was , beakers and flasks of various sizes are placed on four gas nozzles of different sizes.

Are all pharmacists in this era like this?

He's not wearing a black robe and a wizard's hat, stirring a big pot on the fire, throwing in a few delicious children from time to time, and there is a stupid-looking black cat on the side who steals the potion in the pot. ?

Sorry, I revealed my age in my previous life.

"You are talking about the Fourth Age. Times have changed, Mr. Detective." Miss Valente patted Lynch on the back with her folding fan. "We are in the steam age. It is too efficient to cook children in a big pot." It’s low, now we use steam equipment to squeeze the baby into essential oil and add it to the potion you took before.”

This girl has really strong taste. She deserves to be a doctor and pharmacist. Lynch's mouth twitched and he couldn't laugh anymore: "This joke is a bit too serious."

"Mr. Lynch, I never joke about this kind of thing, and I can't joke about it."

"Hiss...really?"

Shaking his head to put away the distracting thoughts in his mind, Lin Qi selected an empty wall and put the information in his hands one by one with magnets. He said as he posted:
"First of all, this is normal behavior. If doing this could activate the effect of the mysterious file, Rhine and Nolin would have been strewn with corpses. So in theory, this is safe."

Lynch sighed, and the movements of his hands stopped for a while: "They are burdened with tasks assigned by the country and entrusted by the Rose family. I don't know if these two concepts will help to avoid the mysterious documents. Restrictions, according to some stories I have read before, have very special effects in the name of the country or using the national destiny as a medium. Perhaps it was through this that the restrictions were broken and the mysterious document was completed, so the three key masters among them Unexplained madness leads to death.”

"Just like that day at the Archaeological Association, I wanted to record the information about the mirror. But Professor Green also mentioned that day that there are other ways to circumvent the restrictions on creating mysterious documents, but there is no such thing as innocence in the mysterious world. , once the mysterious file is born, the soul of the creator will be drained, and the creator will often fall into never-ending madness until complete death.”

"That's not the case. It means that when the potion fails, the mystery will not cause people outside to commit collective suicide, or after I lose control inside, the twisted body I turn into cannot rush out and kill everyone in the family. So for researchers, A room like this is necessary.”

"They were guided in some way and unconsciously produced mysterious documents according to certain requirements."

“所有死者的共同点就是都死于37年8月15日之后，意味着从8月15日开始，有一些东西就已经诞生了。”

No, are the tastes of you mystics really so unfathomable?

Miss Valente leaned against the wall and did not observe the documents Lynch posted on the wall. She just watched quietly as Lynch concentrated on posting the information. The light in his eyes flickered with the pulsation of the gas light, as focused as Lynch's gaze.

"I think it is, if it is based on the existing documents, it is impossible that there was no abnormality at all before, and it did not start to explode until the 15th."

"This is my studio. It has been specially treated and has high security."

Let’s talk about it later.

"I understand, this is the cause of death of those master craftsmen, they are all crazy."

Lynch no longer dared to challenge the endurance of the medical workers, and hurried into the laboratory, watching Miss Valente carefully close the thick safety door.

I don’t know since when, Miss Valente no longer stared at Lynch’s face, but focused on watching him organize the information, and carefully helped him analyze:

"Not a discovery, but a birth?" asked Miss Valente.

Miss Valente said it calmly, and Lynch actually listened calmly. He suddenly realized that after hearing these words, he had no emotions in his heart. He was even thinking about whether to include Mrs. Maggie's fourth floor. Rent it and renovate it as a laboratory. After all, I will have to come into contact with mysterious knowledge such as various rituals sooner or later, so it is better to prepare early.

"Indeed, such a thick steel plate is enough to keep the enemy out."

"Pfft, of course it's a lie. Who dared you to say that I cook children?" The aristocratic girl stuck out her tongue with a naughty look on her face. As soon as Lin Qi was relieved, she heard the girl add, "Corpse oil can only be used on certain things." You can’t drink the death potion at all, unless you want to turn into a zombie. Well, if you are interested in trying it, I can prepare it for you.”

"It's reasonable, but creating mysterious documents out of thin air, and mysterious documents with such a high degree of harm, is probably very difficult for ordinary people like them to do."

Miss Valente added thoughtfully: "And those people at the back, whether they are workers, students, professors, or engineering directors, they were mysteriously eroded after seeing what was created in the seminar."

"It should be like this, so the first step is to select all the results of the seminar." Lynch pressed the last magnet and took two steps back to admire his results, "This is the result of that seminar, Nolin - Overall plan of the Rhine Railway."

It was actually not a whole drawing, but a plan made of many drawings spliced ​​together. It was indeed sorted onto a piece of paper later, but that copy was not rescued. However, this did not affect Lynch's work. He subconsciously folded the edges of the scattered plans according to the numbers and then overlapped them together to form a map on the wall that included the Best Tunnel through the Carlos Mountains. The complete pattern.

But of course, nothing happened.

"Leave the following matters to me. To be honest, my willpower is very high. With the help of the soul-recovering grass, I can look directly at the true form of some evil gods. Although I am not sure, I should be able to survive the filth of the mysterious document in a short time. Erosion, I am sure of it, so..."

"Okay, then I won't read, don't want, or guess." Miss Valente nodded immediately without any entanglement, "From now on, when you read the documents, I will only look at you and be your security officer. Once you If there’s anything unusual, I’ll wake you up.”

As he spoke, he pulled the bolt of the folding fan.

???

Wait, what are you going to use to wake me up?

Seeing Miss Valente covering her mouth and snickering, but with deep worry in her eyes, Lynch didn't say anything more, just lifted his hat and bowed slightly towards her.

After cracking this mysterious file, we will go back to the apartment to have dinner. The dinner in the apartment is already cooked and waiting for me to go back.

Smiling to himself, Lynch held his pipe in his mouth and turned his attention to the documents on the wall. Miss Valente was indeed as she said, looking intently, her subtle gaze lingering on Lynch's face. .

No, this is wrong. Although folding like this can form a complete figure, it does not match Downey's situation at the time. There are no creases in those photos, and it is impossible for him to make the photos look like this.

So, just arrange them normally, or separate them.

But it's still wrong. The photo is smaller than the ordinary pattern. I took a few steps back to try. The visual effect at this distance is similar, but there is still no response. It should be in the wrong direction.

By the way, after those people were eroded by pollution and died, what they could see must be the complete plan, not separate, but Downey's photos were separate, which shows that this is not the point.

So what's the point? Is there something I didn't see? Invisible ink? probably not.

Although he thought it would not be possible, Lynch still took a basin of water and moved it to the wall. He wanted to take a few pictures and soak them to try, but after hesitating several times, he gave up the risk. After all, there was only one copy of this thing. If it's broken, it's gone.

Lynch sighed, shook his head and took a few steps away, staring blankly at the water in the basin. The flame of the gas lamp danced, reflecting little bits of light in the basin, and the shaking attracted Lynch's attention.

Lin Qi subconsciously stared at the light and shadow on the water for a few times, and also saw the mirror reflection of the documents in the water.

Ok?
It’s interesting. You can’t see it from the front, but from the reflection, some of the maps in these planning drawings look like strange symbols.

It's a bit like the patterns on some totems in archaeology, but more twisted and abstract. It's a bit far-fetched to connect to the past, but once you feel the similarity, the more you look at it, the more it feels like a weird symbol. Could it be that this is... wait, that's not right. .

Lin Qi was just having wild thoughts and random thoughts. He couldn't be sure. He didn't even think about interpreting it, he just had this awareness, and even he didn't react to it.

However, at this moment, there was an unprecedented sharp pain between his eyebrows, like a red-hot steel needle piercing his brain.

Boom, boom, boom, a sound like a beating heart came from my ears, hitting my eardrums one after another, like a beating on my heart.

His eyes were in a trance, and the red mist dispersed for no reason. In an instant, everything around him fell into a blur.

Fear, irritability, dizziness, nausea, all kinds of feelings eroded Lynch's brain.

At this moment, he finally recalled the experience that Mr. Kling once told him before his death.

Deciphering a mysterious document is extremely dangerous, and you don't even need to read it. The moment you realize you've found a way to decipher it, you've actually faced death.

Damn it.

(End of this chapter)