Chapter 343: Unfinished Project
Crack——
Xia Xiu pried open the old door lock of the door. He pushed the door open with his hand and walked in.
A moist breath filled the air, as if the air itself was carrying a layer of water vapor. The white paint on the wall began to fall off under the erosion of moisture, just like the paint on a gradually fading canvas. It's like the paint started to fade away, leaving irregular traces.
Only frustrated people like Xiao Eli, who fled from the city in embarrassment, would live in such a wretched place. He saw no other tenants along the way, and many people were dissatisfied with this place. Take an avoidant attitude. He estimated that Xiao Eli was tricked into staying here by a rogue agency, and by the time he regretted it, it was already too late.
Xia Xiu's feet stepped on the wooden floor on the ground. The floor was also affected by moisture. There were some small water marks on the slightly uneven wood grain, as if the floor was whispering the secret of indoor humidity
< br>"If there are no problems with this investigation, then the relevant conclusions I submitted before will be strongly proved." Xia Xiu said to [Adam] in his mind. At the same time, he also started to move towards the floor where Xiao Eli once lived. There was no elevator here, so he could only walk and climb the stairs.
[The article "Conjectures about the rituals and body required for Kuperler's recovery" that you wrote after investigating Sea Breeze Village and based on the information compiled by the intelligence officer has been uploaded to [Central Containment Room], the researchers in the containment room generally support many of the views and conjectures you mentioned in the paper -]
"So now this is the last piece of the puzzle, I need to conduct one last event on Xiao Eli Go back and prove your conjecture."
Xia Xiu had already arrived at the ninth floor. This weird self-built building was in decay from the first to the eighth floor. Only the floors above the ninth floor were still intact. It was relatively normal, and the building where Xiao Eli lived was 908. He was standing in front of room 908 at the moment.
Xia Xiu twisted the door handle but did not open it.
So, [Sisyphus] floated out of his body and raised his right fist high.
Bang!
The door opened and he walked in.
908 is a typical cheap urban village single room.
The room is small in size, crowded, and does not have much private space; the internal facilities are very basic, with a bed, a simple table, and a chair; the bathroom and shower are combined, there are only a few steps in the room, and the facilities are rudimentary , and a disgusting yellow dirt and smell.
“A thousand slaves have been sacrificed, and the brands of the stars have been engraved on the Great Mother. Please let me take away His divine body so that He can be in a more suitable depth in the pelvic cavity; He will experience Along with the ups and downs of life, just like the changes of the four seasons of the earth, He will contain infinite hope and power, guarding the germination of new life..."
Xia Xiu recalled the words of the woman in black robe in his mind, At the same time, the shadow of [Vashak] appeared behind him again, and at the same time, he began to review the important information he obtained from two fragment retrievals.
The prayer of the woman in black robe is very important. When he was studying in Deer Garden, he had realized the importance of [Word Spirit] and [Oath] more than once during Alice's performance, especially This is especially true for the gods. Prayers to the gods must be satisfied - what they say must express their meaning, what they say is true, and they refer to their true nature and symbolize their true nature.
In the field of thaumatology, language and rhetoric are as important as symbolism, and their specific applications are prayers and oaths.
Both prayers and oaths require three things: a contract, a Mimu carrier, and a probability field.
During the tracking and retrieval of [Kubler], Xia Xiu observed the details revealed by the woman in black robe from the clues in the scene fragments, and used this as a clue to closely pursue and analyze her. behavioral motivations and subsequent actions.
The first is [Referring to the Original Evidence] and [Symbolic Essence]. This is something that Xia Xiu has always paid attention to. When Frank killed [Human-Faced Rat] and went back for the first time, he paid attention to it. When the other party held the "Big Circle", one of the five essential characteristics of the [Great Mother Goddess], and when he went back to Sea Breeze Village for the second time, he noticed that the appearance of the divine organs in the shrine did indeed belong to the "Big Circle".
This clue is very important, because the essence is the embodiment of the power and personality of the gods. At the same time, it is also the symbolic characteristic of [miracle]. It is the advanced manifestation of [crown element]. When the thaumaturge penetrates After the "Seventh Level of Ether", they will obtain "Intrinsic Weapons (Intrinsic Characteristics)" that represent miracles.
If the [Great Mother Goddess] wants to be resurrected, it must meet its inherent characteristics, and this involves two other points: what she says must be true, and what she says must be true.
Refining the words of the woman in black robe, we can get the following keywords:
"A thousand slaves", "The brand of the stars", "Suitable pelvic cavity", "The ups and downs of life", "Changes of the seasons" ".
It goes without saying that the "brand of the stars" is the price the woman in black robe has to pay for taking out the divine organ.
In addition to this clue, Xia Xiu has integrated the other four clues into one. The third time he is going to trace back the events is to prove his conjecture.
【Vashak】The pair of deep and mysterious purple eyes shone in the room, like two bright stars in the night sky.
"Time sequence control——"
"Time insight·Fragments of events!" 』
——The third event retrospective·beginning——
Puff~
Puff~
The surrounding scene was like a film. The brown picture quality replaced the colorful world. The only ones with color were the blond young man and the Time Demon behind him. They were like bystanders, watching the gaps in time.
Everything starts to rewind.
Soon, the rewinding clips began to freeze at the most important clips, and then began to play frame by frame.
"Damn it! My money was obviously close, why didn't I stop at that time!"
In the brown picture, in the small and dark single room, a middle-aged man The man sat quietly beside the old bed.
The dim light cast a faint halo, outlining his decadent and tired face. His messy hair was messily scattered on his forehead, and a pair of eyes that had lost their luster revealed deep despair.
He held a wine glass in his hand, and the liquid in the glass was swaying. He took a sip, as if trying to anesthetize the pain in his heart. Countless empty wine bottles were scattered in the corners of the room, they were witnesses of his failure. The ground was covered with paper, cigarette butts, and all kinds of meaningless debris, just like the chaos of his life.
The indifference of the city and the cruelty of reality seemed to be pushing him ruthlessly into the abyss.
“House, house, house...”
Xiao Eli, who smelled of alcohol, kept repeating this sentence. For the vast majority of office workers, house It means a sense of security and dependence; no need to rent a house and be forced to live in other people's houses and watch the landlord's face; no need to worry about the house, you can read or rest at home with peace of mind.
Why is it necessary to have a house in life?
He doesn’t know, he doesn’t want to think about issues that are too philosophical and commonplace.
He only knows that the house he bought with a 30-year loan has become a bubble in the eyes of others.
The Great Depression is coming, and there are countless people like him, and some are even worse than him.
What is even more terrifying is the powerlessness of the Phrygian government, the powerlessness of the Central Alliance, and the powerlessness of the Edici government...
During the Great Depression, the construction of countless buildings began to stall due to financial problems, and the projects were interrupted, eventually turning into half-completed or uncompleted architectural ruins.
A large-scale unfinished building project has appeared in Terra.
He has seen people worse off than him, poor people trying to find an explanation.
If you go alone to make trouble, they will find someone who will listen to you with nice words, let you vent, and finally let you go home.
When a group of people go to make trouble, there are various ways to deal with it. Even if you finally meet the person in charge of the Phrygian government, they will give you a good speech and art nonsense, and finally let you go home.
He didn't understand before that if you have built a house with dozens of floors, why don't you continue to renovate it? Only later did I realize that developers could get regulatory payments if the cap was imposed.
He didn’t understand before that if a house is in bad condition, then no one can take care of the developer?
I later discovered that even if you file a lawsuit with the court, the court will usually tell you that the developer cannot be found and enforcement cannot be carried out.
The bank has almost become a joke, and the Phrygian government has directly destroyed the credibility it has built for many years.
The Phrygian region took the land finance and taxes, the real estate developers took the purchase money, and the banks made a lot of money. Then all the systems in the entire real estate chain could default and not bear responsibility. In the end, only the house buyers could not default and pay back. You cannot file for personal bankruptcy.
If he deserves it, then those poor people have been unlucky for eight lifetimes.
During the Great Depression, a speck of dust of the times directly crushed Xiao Eli and others, crushing everything in their past.
"Damn! Damn! Damn! Why are you doing this to me!!!"
Xiao Eli smashed the bottle in his hand forward and roared angrily, tears streaming down his face at this moment. , heartbroken.
And just when Xiao Eli was venting his anger, a slightly sharp laughter came into his ears.
“You look like a dog.”
“Who!?”
Xiao Eli looked around sharply, but found that there was no one there, and there was no one there. He thought it was when he was drunk.
The house comes alive.
Squeak——
The house let out a long, low groan, and his soles and teeth felt the strangeness.
With a sound like a bubble bursting, the wall ate the window; something is eating away at your consciousness, and his feeling becomes more and more blurry. Is that the familiar feeling of hangover? No, that's something even more wonderful.
Uterus?
Looking at the deformed house, Xiao Eli thought of the uterus for no reason. It was very baffling.
He felt that something had emptied his brain, and then he had a hallucination. A charming-looking woman stretched out her index finger to hook his chin. He only felt a heat, and the high bulge in his pants was flat against his legs. on the skin.
"Will you be my dog?"
"I..." Xiao Eli only felt something burning everything about him.
The already desolate heart was ignited by a sudden heat.
His rationality, his common sense, his integrity, his dignity...
"...I do."
"Very good."
Something was close to him.
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Click! ! !
The retrospective picture collapsed again, the surrounding scenes accelerated crazily, and in the blink of an eye, things returned to their colorful glory.
The blond young man stretched out his right hand and rubbed his chin. Through the scene just now and the familiar distortion, he confirmed a certain guess in his heart.
What you say is true, and your words must convey your meaning.
The four clues that Xia Xiu integrated earlier can now be inferred and summarized.
The first is "a thousand slaves".
This is actually a pun. What the woman in black robe calls "a thousand slaves" not only refers to the sacrifices, but also refers to certain attributes of the sacrifices themselves.
In this world, what would be consistent: a suitable pelvic cavity, experiencing the ups and downs of life, the changing seasons of the earth, containing infinite hope and strength, guarding the germination of new life, and at the same time, it What about the owner of the slave?
The answer is naturally: house.
Shaw Eli is a slave of the house. There are many such slaves in Phrygia now!
Now he can determine what the [Great Mother Goddess] believers want to do.
When he was looking back at the ruins of Sea Breeze Village, he had already vaguely sensed the true motive of this [Eunuch].
And now, he is completely convinced of the other party's true purpose.
Resurrecting the [Great Mother Goddess] is just an appearance. What this [Eunuch] really wants is to carve [an oath] on the nature of the gods. She is not resurrecting the gods she serves; Blaspheme Him!
In Alice's interpretation, Xia Xiu once took the [Oath], as he once said to [Hope]: "The Oath occupies a very important weight in the transcendence of the Glory Era. It is the most important thing. The secret part, the sacred oaths made by the extraordinary people in the past, whether they were sworn voluntarily or made by others with magic or oaths, is basically unbreakable. It is also the taboo or fatal weakness of mythical heroes that is usually unknown. "< br>
The pollution of the stars, the sacrifices of desperate people in this world, plus an abandoned building that may be a cult...
Use this terrible pollution to engrave an irresistible oath between yourself and the gods!
This [Eunuch] is completely blasphemous.
"[Adam], where is the biggest unfinished project in Allah City?" Xia Xiu suddenly asked [Adam].
According to the order of prayer, it is not difficult to infer that [the eunuch] has now reached the stage of looking for a "suitable pelvic cavity".
The watch on the left hand of the blond young man began to shine.
[The largest unfinished building in Allah City is the Allah International Financial Center. This high-rise building is planned to be a modern financial center and is located in an emerging commercial area of Allah City.
Its architectural plans include multiple skyscrapers, commercial facilities and public spaces, aiming to become the center of the financial industry in the city of Ankara. However, due to financing problems, poor management, legal disputes and other factors, the project encountered many difficulties during the construction process. After the onset of the Great Recession, the construction plan was completely scrapped——]
[Additional message: The arms trading location of Far East Heavy Industries and Form Hunter is in the Allah International Financial Center, and the area has been closed for many days. ]
“Oh, what a coincidence.”
A sarcastic smile appeared on the face of the blond young man.