Chapter 112 "Praise the Name of the Heavenly Chariot"
Just by looking at the pages with the texture of stone and jade, Annan confirmed that this should be an original book.
Just looking at its cover, Annan felt a heavy sense of weight in his brain. Like a sore muscle after a workout...
Of course, Annan also felt this feeling.
Some time after he read the original, he would feel a similar feeling.
It's as if after eating, you will even feel a little nauseated when you see the food. This is actually a warning from the brain to the body, indicating that "you can't eat it any more"... Otherwise, you will be killed by food like a goldfish.
This can also be understood as the "cooling time" of the original text.
The previous Frederick should have read the book "The Law of Similarity and Precognition Dreams", and then passed out and entered a nightmare?
Was it his precognition dream?
Annan thought.
At this moment, Annan crossed the new introduction plot in front of his eyes:
[Frederick fell into a nightmare after reading the original "Law of Similarity and Precognition Dreams"]
【——No-man’s Streets and Alleys】
【——Severed friendship】
【——God's conspiracy】
【——The lost lover】
[Is it the past that he foresaw the future? 】
[Or does the future remember the past before dying? 】
[Frederick knows only one thing...]
[According to the development in the "prophecy", Ingrid is about to face misfortune]
[And he will do everything to prevent that unfortunate future from coming]
After watching the introduction in front of the plot, Annan finally unfolded the data flow of the blockbuster:
[Main Quest: Change Destiny]
【Prevent Ingrid from acting alone】
Below a main quest, there is a side quest that plays a prompting role.
Annan finally remembered.
Why did he feel an inexplicable sense of disobedience before...
Not because of the empty streets.
Not because of any foreign objects around.
Or maybe he sensed that he was in a dream...
Just because he has come into contact with the most crucial character "Justus"... But what about his main quest?
Why didn't it come out?
Annan has indeed seen this situation, that is, "Nightmare: Gallery". The external part is just the location of the selection.
Now, maybe it was just Frederick's precognitive dream—probably.
But if it was just his precognition dream, it seems impossible to explain why the prompt when entering has Frederick and Justus at the same time...
"Cough cough."
Just then, Annan heard a light cough.
He noticed that Justus and Ingrid's expressions suddenly became serious and nervous. So if he realized something, he immediately stood up and looked in the direction where the voice came from.
Oncoming, is an old man with light steps.
His long gray messy hair was draped to his shoulders, and he was wearing purple clothes similar to the toga robes of the ancient Romans, and his gray pupils were as calm as water. He was wearing gray cloth shoes, a dark gray lace shawl from the left shoulder to the right waist, a smile on his face, and a faint smell of alcohol on his body.
"--professor."
The three responded in unison.
When the old man saw the three, he couldn't help but smile.
The moment he laughed, Annan smelled an intoxicating taste of alcohol. It wasn't the smell of alcohol, it was clearly pouring out of his mouth, but it was so intoxicating... that just the slightest smell would make Annan's mind a little chaotic and his cheeks a little hot.
"—I just said, how can I feel that the spinning thread was touched. It was a distinguished guest who came..."
Like a drunk old man, he showed a genuine and happy smile to the three of them. Like an exaggerated drama actor, he put the middle and ring fingers of his right hand on his chest and leaned forward slightly.
Seeing this, Justus and Ingrid were a little overwhelmed.
But Annan's heart suddenly tightened.
Because he saw the old man's fingers covered with gold rings.
He realized the true identity of the drunk old man in front of him.
—Professor Gray, Seti.
In this era, it should be the second idol wizard in the world.
He seemed to see the same, Annan's true identity... That's why he called him "VIP" if he meant something, and saluted him funny like a clown.
"So wonderful."
Old Seti circled around them, sniffed the smell on their bodies, and narrowed his eyes happily as if he was tasting delicious food: "It's the fragrance of the worms escaping from the cobwebs.
"Fugitive? Savior? Betrayal? Or a self-paralyzed 'saint'?"
The old man meant something.
Annan narrowed his eyes slightly.
Justus and the others couldn't fully understand it, they could only understand a small part of it.
Ingrid explained in a panic: "Professor! Frederick really entered a nightmare... It's true! It's just that he woke up again-"
When she said this, she gently pulled the little finger of La Annan's right hand, and whispered begging: "You also talk about it..."
"That's right, Professor!"
Justus' voice was so loud that it immediately overshadowed Ingrid.
He yelled, "Frey really fell asleep! It's dangerous!"
Hearing this, Professor Gray just smiled slightly.
He looked at Annan with a smile: "Did you have a dream... or did you wake up from a dream?"
"I had a nightmare first, and then woke up from a nightmare."
Ingrid on the side hurriedly waved her hand to explain.
Annan was only silent for a while.
He asked tentatively, "What do you think?"
"I don't think so, I want you to think."
Professor Gray said slowly.
He stared at Annan's pupils: "You want to block hatred, block misfortune. But that's wrong.
"You think so because you have the heart of a dragon. The heart of a dragon is powerful, stronger than the heart of a jackal, stronger than the heart of a man, stronger than the heart of a lion. But humans don't have such a strong heart... Only hatred can give a man lasting strength.
"We're just mortals, not born dragons."
Annan was silent.
He slowly raised his head and looked at Professor Gray.
He became more and more certain... "Professor Gray"'s gray pupils had passed through Frederick's body and saw his inner essence.
But Justus and the two of them obviously did not understand.
Instead, Justus looked at Professor Gray with shining eyes—the surface of Professor Gray's point of view did sound "cool" to young people. But he obviously didn't understand what Professor Gray was implying.
This is a cross-border dialogue that spans the gap between dream and reality and spans decades.
"What's your opinion?"
After a while of silence, Annan asked.
Due to the restriction that "the person in the dream cannot express that he has discovered that it is a nightmare", Professor Gray cannot speak directly to Annan. The only way to convey an ambiguous will to Annan is to use a circle of "no human words".
In other words, it is up to Annan to realize it himself.
... The last person who saw through himself as a person in a dream seems to be the person in the mirror today.
From this point of view, Professor Gray and Michelangelo do not seem to be too different...
The corners of Professor Gray's mouth rose slightly.
His gray pupils were full of smiles, but not the slightest figure was reflected in them.
Thus he chanted to himself: "Let me step into the grave in safety - all you have to do is pray.
"The unfortunate will devote themselves to the furnace of misfortune. My hands will be burnt, and so will be strong; my feet will be burnt, so that they will become strong. My pupils will be burned like glass, so Watch the sky train."
"...This seems to be a poem from Winter?"
In the silence, Ingrid guessed aloud.
Seti smiled at her.
"And what about the latter? Do you remember, Ingrid?"
"—I stare at the sun, seeking to seal the light in my pupils."
Instead, Annan said coldly: "But when I looked at the sun, all I shed were tears... My confidant and body are just ordinary things.
"In the furnace of the Light Realm, my body was finally burned, my teeth rotted, my flesh melted—
"I cry for it - I am mortal!"
In "Nightmare: The Wolf's Kiss," he heard a fragment of the poem.
Later, with the help of Zhi Ji, he found the full text of the long poem.
It tells the story of a madman who fanatically pursues the "Sky Tram", deliberately tormenting himself with the pain of the mortal world, trying to make himself transcendental, and ascending into the light world with the Sky Tram.
This knowledge has weight. Therefore, many people think that this is a reference to those extraordinary people who have no talent but pursue the path of becoming a god.
——Because of the sublimation ceremony itself, it is usually likened to the "Sky Tram". The process of the ascension of the gods is likened to "being sent into the realm of light by the heavenly carriage".
What Professor Gray recited was the content of the beginning of the poem.
The madman bids farewell to his parents... Confidently ready to embark on a journey in pursuit of pain.
And Annan responded with content close to the two-thirds position. It is about a madman who, after going through many hardships, finds that he is still a mortal who can't ride on the heavenly carriage, so all his thoughts are lost.
This is usually considered by ritualists, and what it implies is the exhortation that even if you have a strong desire, if you do not step into the golden stage, you will still not be able to ascend, but will be self-destructing.
Annan will remember the content of the poem because of its name.
The title of this book is...
- "Praise the Name of the Skycar".
These two chapters are more critical, so I will cautiously slow down the update... I'll make an update today, and adjust my schedule by the way.
Double update tomorrow, ask for tickets~
(End of this chapter)