Chapter 457 The Blessed One (?)
Chapter 457: The Blessed One (?)
Noticing the seriousness in Duncan’s words, many associations and speculations subconsciously arose in Vanna’s mind – but in the next second, she hardened her control over her thoughts and nodded solemnly along with Maurice.
Controlling one’s curiosity was the basic code for surviving in this world.
Confirming that Maurice and Vanna had realized the seriousness of the matter, Duncan exhaled, and then nodded to Alice on the side: “Clean up this pile on the table – don’t dump it into the sea, just burn it.”
“Good!”
Watching Alice clean up the mess on the table neatly, Duncan sat back in his chair, but in his mind, he still recalled the scenes he saw in that strange dark space, and thought about the information revealed in those “conversations”.
At the same time, he was also thinking about how to establish contact with the dark space again.
The handwritten copy can’t carry the impact of the “truth.”…… Then where is the original of the “Book of Blasphemy”? If we get the original, will we be able to establish a stable connection with that strange dark space? Or …… are there other extraordinary items that can achieve similar effects?
Duncan recalled his previous experience of dreaming on the Lost Country, and then mistakenly entering another Lost Country in subspace – behind the door of the captain’s cabin of the other Lost Country, there was that weird dark space.
So he boldly guessed that “dark space” itself should be a “place” that actually existed in subspace, and establishing a connection with it required a certain medium and technique, and the “codex” that Maurice brought with him helped him to establish a connection with it. Morris brought the “handbook” to help him establish such a connection, but …… it is not necessarily the only available “medium”, if you can find a way to go to the “another lost country ship If you can find a way to get to the “other Lost Country” again, it might be possible.
A way to …… subspace?
Duncan frowned, and immediately collected his thoughts in that direction.
Because it is not certain whether this thought is his own, or subspace to him “release”.
But one thing was clear.
He needed more “samples” – no matter whether it was the golden mask of the solarists, or the blasphemous transcripts of the annihilationists, or whatever was in the hands of the preacher of the end of the world, all of these would help him to understand the truth of this world.
Thinking of this, Duncan immediately looked up at Maurice and Vanna across the table, “Do you know where I can get more items like this? I mean items like this ‘Book of Blasphemy’ that cultists use for major rituals and evangelism.”
“You want more?” Maurice was taken aback, then thought carefully and shook his head, “I’m afraid this …… is difficult. Although the Orthodox God Church and city-state authorities seize some cult items from time to time, usually these things are destroyed after the necessary identification and research, no matter how special they are and how valuable the items are.”
Duncan raised an eyebrow, “Straight up destroyed? Without leaving samples?”
“No samples, only information,” it was Vanna who answered him, the Inquisitor lady was clearly more specialized than Maurice in the relevant field, “There are some extraordinarily dangerous things that will not even have information left behind, only something that has been ‘translated ‘ and ‘security-trimmed’ descriptive texts, to be kept in special archives, or even just in the memories of certain ‘secret-keepers’.”
At this point she paused and explained further, “Because truly powerful cult objects basically possess the same level of danger and contamination, plus the fact that they point directly at heretical deities, this danger and contamination will gradually increase over time, and we are often unable to predict just how much harm they can cause, so the safest way is to leave no samples. And ……”
“And the heart is unpredictable, not to mention the fact that even the strongest guardsmen have times when they reveal their weaknesses,” Morris took the initiative to take over when he saw some hesitation on Vanna’s part, “The guards who guard the profane items can be compelled to change subconsciously, and there are times when they don’t even know they have fallen – in 1666, a saint in the city-state of Moco talked to a forbidden book he was guarding in a hallucination, causing the book to activate and eventually causing a tragic accident in which dozens of people died, and since then, city-states have stopped keeping samples of collected heretical items.”
Vanna sighed, “In some senses, heretical items are even more dangerous than ‘anomalies’-because no matter how highly ranked anomalies are, as long as they have mastered the laws of sealing, they are the ones that can be controlled or even utilized, whereas heretical things …… sometimes even they don’t know what’s going to pop up in there.”
“Well,” Duncan rubbed his forehead, “it looks like we can’t count on getting samples from the city-states …… or we’ll have to find wild cultists to kill now and then.”
Listening to the captain’s words, Vanna subconsciously quivered at the corners of her mouth, then hesitated for a moment, “If …… you’re really interested, I can think of a way to borrow some information from the cathedral, although the corresponding items have been destroyed, but the safe research materials are still there. ”
“…… If you can, find some information for me.” Duncan said with a nod.
He didn’t think the information should help him much, though – because it wasn’t the information he was looking for, he was looking for the right ‘medium’ from those heretical items.
The Book of Blasphemy just now had already proved one thing: the same transcendent object might appear differently in his eyes than in the eyes of an ordinary person, and the knowledge recorded by the scholars of the Church of the Righteous God would most likely not be of much use to him.
But no matter what, there was no harm in increasing his knowledge in the transcendent realm.
Just then, a loud noise from outside the captain’s cabin suddenly interrupted the exchange between Duncan and Vanna. It sounded like the movement of Sherry raving with Dog all the way out.
Duncan frowned, “Open the door.”
Alice immediately ran over and opened the door to the captain’s cabin, followed by Sherry and Dog who happened to be running to the door, “Hey you guys don’t want to make a lot of noise on the ship ……”
“Hey I know I know, but it’s important!” Shirley yelled from the doorway, her petite body squeezing right in next to Alice, “Captain, Captain! Dog has been possessed! He says he saw something so evil!”
“Dog …… got hit by evil?” Duncan’s face twitched in confusion as he looked at the Phantom Hound that was being dragged in by Sherry, “It’s a Phantom Demon, and it can be possessed of evil?”
Next to Maurice and Vanna, they also had a look of “what kind of evil can you get from an evil thing”, but it was Dog who was dragged in who climbed up, looking really nervous and scared: “Really, I saw that thing twice in a row! When I was reading a book, it suddenly came out of my head and directly stared at me on a conscious level ……”
“While reading a book?” Duncan frowned at the sound of it, “What’s the big deal, doesn’t it happen all the time on the ship, Nina reddens several a day when she’s catching up on her homework ……”
“Not my old folks!” Dog immediately shook its large dog head, look a little anxious, “Not the spiritual world of shadows or other evil spirits, but a thing I have never seen – that thing appeared directly in my ‘consciousness’, like a bunch of weird-looking things Inside, like a bunch of strange lights, there is a big one in the center, glowing red, surrounded by a small one, just like the ‘starry sky’ between the spirit world and the profound, starry light around the center of the red light source …… “
Dog’s side was just halfway through his rambling, when next to him, Morris suddenly took two steps forward, “What did you say? What did you see?!”
A dog is still the first time to see this elegant and calm old scholar have this reaction, was immediately startled, subconsciously shrinking his neck: “Er …… a large red luminous body, surrounded by a bunch of flickering points of light …… “
Morris listened dumbfounded, and repeatedly confirmed the details with Dog several times, which finally raised his head.
The old scholar s face was full of dismay and confusion, as if the worldview built up over half a lifetime had suddenly been hammered into a hole, and he could not speak for a long time.
Vanna on the side, on the other hand, had already reacted, the muscles on her face twitched twice, and she hesitantly turned to Morris: “Then how does that sound …… a bit like ……”
“The gaze of Rahm, the God of Wisdom …… ” Morris muttered, and looked down at Dog again, his gaze as if he was looking at a rare antique that had just been unearthed from the ground, “You’ve been watched by the God of Wisdom? ”
Silence fell in the captain’s cabin.
After an unknown amount of time, Dog raised his head in bewilderment, “…… What did you say?”
Duncan, on the other hand, didn’t care about Dog’s reaction, but frowned at Maurice, “Are you sure?”
“There is no other explanation unless Dog is lying,” Maurice spoke up immediately, “It describes the very image that forms in the minds of the ‘blessed’ when the God of Wisdom descends to watch, and I have seen it before –which is not unfamiliar to every believer who follows Rahm.”
Duncan fell silent.
After a long moment, he looked over at the spectral demon that was sprawled out on the floor in a blindfold.
“What were you doing when you saw that scene?”
“Brushing up,” Dog said honestly, “once on geometry and once on algebra.”
Duncan: “……”
He said nothing, just continued to look at Dog in silence, at the other man’s ugly and large …… dog head.
(End of chapter)