Chapter 124: Sealed in Memory
Chapter 124 Sealed in Memory
Heidi panted and ran to Vanna, and a nearby guard subconsciously tried to step forward to stop her when he saw her approaching, but quickly recognized the wretched and grey-haired young lady as a high-ranking advisor to the city hall and the church, and immediately let her through.
“I can’t believe it’s you personally leading the group,” Heidi looked at the heavily armed Vanna in surprise, followed by a glance at the Church’s elite that the other party was carrying behind her, “And with so many people?”
“A fire in a museum is not a normal situation,” Vanna said briefly, and then looked Heidi up and down several times to make sure that her friend was okay before she breathed a sigh of relief, “It looks like your vacation is over.”
“It’s ‘again’ ruined!” Heidi said with a sad and resigned look on her face, “Why am I always so unlucky …… ah hissing pain ……”
Vanna noticed the large chic bag on Heidi’s head, and stepped forward to casually brush her fingers near the other’s wound, while looking in the direction Heidi had just run from, her brow furrowing slightly, “Did you just escape?”
“I was saved by someone …… phew, much more comfortable ……” Feeling the pain on her forehead gradually subsided, Heidi’s attention gradually focused, then she froze for a moment, as if she had violently recalled something, then took a quick look around, before suddenly moving closer to Vanna, “I need a quiet and blessed environment, preferably in a church.”
Seeing her friend’s suddenly serious expression, Vanna quickly reacted, she didn’t ask anything, but instead turned her head to instruct the clerics she brought with her, “Take over the order of the scene, seal off the museum, and raise the contamination level to Spirit level ……”
Before she finished her sentence, she heard Heidi speak in a low and urgent voice, “Spectral level.”
“Adjust to Profound level, expel all ordinary people in the two hundred meters around the square!” Vanna was shocked and immediately ordered, then immediately turned to the short-bearded area priest, “Take us to the nearest church, need a separate prayer room – have incense #16 on hand.”
The priest, who had just escaped from the fire, immediately bowed his head, “Yes, please come with me, it’s near the square.”
Vanna led Heidi quickly out of the square and shared a ride with the priest who led the way toward the community church near the square, and even before arriving at the church, Vanna noticed that Heidi’s face began to blush abnormally.
“What’s going on?” Vanna touched Heidi’s forehead with a furrowed brow, and the heat at her touch caused her tone to change instantly, “Why is it so hot?!”
“I may have come into contact with something ‘in’ the museum,” Heidi said quickly, “I used self-hypnosis to block out some information in the depths of my memory, and just now the hypnotic effect ended …… I’m gradually recalling it.”
Listening to Heidi’s narration, Vanna’s eyes widened slightly, and her mind quickly made a judgment –
Severe transcendental vision contamination, which could have an effect on the real world based on perception alone.
“Immediately stop remembering and slow down your thinking,” Vanna reached out and squeezed Heidi’s shoulder, “Look into my eyes and turn your attention elsewhere! If you can’t, hypnotize yourself again!”
“I’ll try.” Heidi inhaled gently, she gazed into Vanna’s eyes that were as deep and calm as the ocean, trying to control the memories that were gradually surfacing in her mind, controlling herself not to recall that magnificent and solemn stream of fire, not to recall that sea of fire that gushed and tumbled in the pitch-black and void space, but the memories were still seeping out little by little, as if they were like blood seeping out from a wound, which could not be stopped.
But suddenly, a slight coolness came from her chest, making Heidi, who already felt that she was about to be consumed by the flames, suddenly awake.
She subconsciously looked down, but saw that the glass “crystal pendant”, which could only be used as a gift in the antique stores in the lower city, was slightly glowing on her chest.
That tiny bit of light was almost imperceptible to the naked eye, but it was like an anchor point firmly rooted in the real world, pulling back her spirit that was about to be disoriented.
In the next second, she heard the pastor’s voice from up ahead, “We’re at the church!”
Under the personal escort of Vanna, a powerful saint, Heidi was swiftly escorted into the church, where a prayer room had already been prepared, and incense with a powerful soothing and sheltering effect had been lit, thanks to the priest’s spiritual energy transmission to the church in advance.
In the light smoke emitted by the incense, the icon of the Storm Goddess Gemona quietly looked down on Heidi and Vanna, who had hurriedly stepped into the room. The priest was left outside the prayer room – as he could not necessarily withstand the spiritual contamination that might follow.
And the moment Heidi’s feet stepped into the prayer room, Vanna heard the illusory sound of ocean waves ringing in her ears, a certain feeling of being directly watched by the Supreme Great Being swept over her soul, and immediately afterward, all the lamps and candles in the church began to blaze, blazing flames interspersed with crackling pops!
She looked up at the icon of the Storm Goddess and saw that it suddenly seemed to have become distant and magnificent, and that an atmosphere of uncanny majesty was being released from the icon in all directions and was gradually coming into focus beside Heidi.
“The Lord has watched …… “The vision in the prayer room made Vanna’s heart startled, but followed by a soft sigh of relief, she looked to Heidi and noticed that the blush on the other party’s face was gradually fading, “You are safe now, release your own memories, let’s see what you’ve seen.”
Heidi didn’t say anything, she just nodded gently, and right after that, she casually took off one of her earrings, which had a small morphing mechanism at the end, she snapped that mechanism with her fingernail, and a spike only a few millimeters long popped out of the earring.
Without hesitation, she gripped the earring that had popped out the spike with a firm grip, letting the blood seep out in her hand.
This was the deepest mental hint she had branded for herself at the beginning of her profession as a psychiatrist – when the platinum spike pierced her palm, she could release all the impurities sealed in her memory.
In the next second, the illusory and layered sound of the waves in the prayer room suddenly became extremely obvious, but all the burning candles became obscure and swaying again, and the whole room seemed to be covered with a shifting and blurred veil, the layers of which shifted around the goddess’s icon, in which blurred phantoms were reflected-
It was an image of a scene that had been urgently sealed in her own memory by Heidi.
It was only a momentary truth glimpsed in a glimpse.
Vanna saw in the shifting veil of illusion what Heidi had seen:
A rushing stream of flame erupted from the black void of space, fiercer than any flame on earth, more thrilling than any greatness created by man, it was like a giant wave of flames sweeping across and devouring everything, and even saints such as Vanna suddenly tensed their whole body at the sight of it!
How far did that flame erupt in the darkness? Hundreds of thousands of kilometers? Millions of kilometers? Even farther?
What was it? Is it pure flame? Or was it something more primal than flame, something that could touch the truth of the ages?
Vanna held her breath at some point as she watched the stream of flame rise in the darkness, and then watched it gradually descend, the surging streams of fire resembling a viscous paste, forming magnificent and irregular arcs in the dark nothingness, and she couldn’t react for a long time until the vision faded away, until the sound of the illusory layers of ocean waves around her gradually subsided.
It was an indeterminate amount of time before she suddenly felt as if a sea breeze was moistening her thoughts, the gentle soothing of the storm goddess jolting her awake, and she looked over at Heidi, only to find that Heidi, too, was gazing at her in amazement.
“Is this …… what you saw in the museum?”
“Maybe …… it is ……” Heidi felt her heart thumping, even though it was an image taken from her own memories, due to the effects of self-hypnosis, it was still beyond her imagination, “But this thing …… doesn’t look like a ‘collection’ that could be placed in a museum ……”
“It can’t be a ‘collection’ of anything,” Vanna spluttered, “Even if there’s no way to tell exactly how big it is, I know from intuition alone that it couldn’t possibly be housed in any building …… You couldn’t have seen it in the real world.”
Heidi was stunned, her brow furrowed, and it was a long time before she spoke with less certainty, “I may have seen it in a coma …… and self-hypnotized while in the coma. What I saw may not have been its entity or essence, but rather a ‘projection’ of it on a mental level.”
“Are you sure?” Vanna looked at the other party, “I’m not questioning your ability as a psychiatrist, but …… accomplishing a temporary sheltering seal against mental contamination while in a comatose state isn’t easy.”
“I am confident,” Heidi nodded slowly but firmly, “I have received rigorous training in this area in the Truth Academy, and I can complete the sheltering of dangerous information with only my subconscious mind when my main consciousness is out of control, except that due to the uncontrollable nature of self-hypnosis in this case, it will cause me to forget many key information, so I cannot answer you what the exact situation was when I saw this ‘projection’ scene, nor do I know what the opportunity or medium for seeing it was.”
“…… Well, I trust your professionalism,” Vanna stared at Heidi for a moment before letting out a soft breath, “It looks like …… you’ve really saw something extraordinary.”
(Book push time! This time it’s from Ink Autumn and Winter’s “Senior Brother I’ll Never Take Pills”, a metaphysical cultivation, yet a different kind of cultivation, imagine when you have a heavenly treasure in front of you, but only you can see that it’s essentially a weird parasite ……emmmmm, in short, it’s a hatchling, very young, but the future is promising.)
(End of chapter)