1894 Cage City
The gray mist accumulated in the defensive circle in a strange way, and the gray mist that had already faintly emerged in the place where Father Sissen and the construction machine were located had already been blown to the defensive circle by the strong wind brought by the magic pattern superpower, but the gray mist that was drawn away did not follow the concentration diffusion rules to disperse outward, but instead formed a clean area centered on Father Sissen's foothold. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 Fr. Info Sissen confirmed that his critical weapon had ceased to function, however, the accumulation of gray fog showed that there was a continuous force acting within the defensive circle, and from his vantage point, he could not see the natives who had withdrawn earlier, nor the mysterious experts and elemental beings who had penetrated deeper into the defensive circle.
He couldn't hear a sound, he couldn't see any movement, except for himself and the construction machine he was working on, there was no trace of any movement in a large area, as if he was the only one left in the visible range. There is a certain nervous aura in the air, and it is precisely because there is no warning that it makes people feel like a boulder has been pressed in the bottom of their hearts. Everything around him was very abnormal, and these unusual places were not presented in a superficial way, but they were so deeply imprinted on Father Sissen's feelings that he could not think that he had tried.
Even if he killed many Doomsday Shinrikyo wizards in the previous battle and forced back five primal lifeforms, it couldn't relax his nerves in the slightest. Father Sissen was unable to observe the enemy, and after the critical weapon was forcibly stopped, the "wind" of the Demonic Pattern Super still circulated in the defensive circle, but it did not give him the same clear impression and feeling as before. Father Sissen felt as if he had suddenly gone blind.
It is impossible to be sure that the doomsday Shinrikyo wizards who have invaded this area have been extinct, nor can they be sure that the physical life has retreated, let alone know the whereabouts of their ten mysterious experts, and there is no response from those natives who retreated in advance, as if they disappeared in the middle of the retreat. However, it is not entirely true to say that there is no information at all, and when Father Sissen insists on exploring the details presented in the defense circle, it is not difficult to detect many subtle traces in the details, these traces are fed back into the mind through the stitching of the brain and hardware, through the processing of experience and the perceptual intuition peculiar to the occult expert, and what is fed back into the mind is a kind of vague turmoil - although it cannot constitute a concrete image, it can detect vague changes that are faintly visible.
In the silence of the gray mist, the thicker the place, the more he could realize that something was happening, that it was fighting, that it was death, that it was fear, that it was an indescribable interaction, that the mystical experts were going through some strange situation, and that it was also the beginning of a rivalry between them. The enemy is there, and their own people are also there, and the two sides are lurking, assaulting, defending, fighting, and carefully and inevitably falling into the trap, and at the same time bringing damage to the enemy.
It is already possible to imagine the battle that cannot be reached by the eye, and Father Sissen imagined that, with the perceptual intuition unique to the occult expert, he continued to urge the "wind" formed by the magic pattern superpower. These winds took away the bodies of the aborigines as originally planned, leaving marks on the lifeless corpses, the distance between the corpses, the posture of the corpses, and even some of the details of the corpses themselves, all of which became an integral part of the sacrificial ritual.
The corpses looked more and more strange in the thick gray mist, but they were not as strange as they were coming back to life, but more like they were releasing something, making a kind of sound unique to the dead, which could not be heard with the ears, but only came from the bottom of the heart. They are like puppets that have been moved, and they sing together in unison under the urging of mysterious forces, and the voice is low and hoarse, and only the heart will notice this voice.
With each corpse as the endpoint, invisible veins form between the corpses, penetrating the structural substance, penetrating the form of the building, spreading in an indescribable way where the gray fog has accumulated. In Father Sissen's mind, these veins became clearer and clearer, like thick branches growing new shoots, and then the new shoots became dense branches and leaves, and many forms like some kind of symbol, pattern or number were born from the gray mist, attached to these branches and leaves, so that this invisible vein looked like a tree in the association. The tree is so large that it does not appear on the surface, but connects the material and immaterial worlds in a three-dimensional, even more sophisticated way.
All these changes cannot be directly seen with the naked eye, but at this point, even a mysterious expert can feel it, and the same form that only exists in the imagination will be produced. At least, that's what Father Sissen thinks.
The ongoing sacrificial ritual is a variant of a certain sacrificial ritual of the Doomsday Shinrikyo Cult, which is designed to provide support to those who are fighting without the use of critical weapons. This kind of support can manifest itself in a very sophisticated way, whether it is to pull the combatant to avoid a fatal killing situation at a critical moment, or to temporarily strengthen the quality of the combatant, or even to make the combatant more intuitively sensitive, so that they subconsciously understand what they need to do if they want to defeat their opponent or survive.
At the same time, in Father Sissen's estimation, this sacrificial ritual is enough to have some kind of negative effect on physical life, and it is difficult for them to avoid this effect as long as the physical life cannot destroy the sacrificial ritual. However, Fr. Sissen is not sure what kind of negative impact it will have, and at what time and in what way it will manifest itself. The effects of the sacrificial rites are obscure, slow, and inescapable, which is the trick that Shinrikyo is good at, and when people see more obvious and more acute mysteries, they can't help but focus on these clearly visible changes, and ignore those that are also happening, but they are not alarmed.
Physical beings are also disturbed by this sacrificial ritual, which is what the Doomsday Shinrikyo has proved with its own practice when it explores the ruling bureau - regardless of what their physical form of life is, or what kind of logic they think about, it seems that the power generated by this sacrificial ritual can interfere with living beings from many aspects of the process of life activities as long as the premise of "life activity" is satisfied.
It seems to be better understood from the level of consciousness, because consciousness takes the initiative and interferes with action, and when consciousness changes, the action will change, resulting in all kinds of unfavorable coincidences. However, Fr. Sissen is very sure that this sacrificial ritual is definitely not just a conscious interference with the recipient.
The existence of corpses on the battlefield is a very natural thing, almost no one will deliberately pursue the corpses, even if they occasionally see them, they will not care about the location and posture of these corpses, even if they notice the abnormality of the corpses, it is difficult to detect the connection between each corpse from a general perspective, when people are not aware of these things from the beginning, then, when the obscure mysterious power begins to work, people are like being in chronic psychedelics without knowing it. The fluctuating emotions, the uncertain hallucinations, like the thoughts that emerge from the bottom of my heart, are like a flash of inspiration, but this flash of inspiration is just a trap that makes people unable to see the facts. Even the peace of mind will be disturbed by the mysterious power of the sacrificial ritual, and it will become a dead and silent heart lake when you don't know it. What's more, who can clearly distinguish that the consciousness they feel, the willpower they have, and their calm state of mind are not a kind of stubbornness against mistakes, not a kind of spiritual paranoia, not a kind of indifference to mistakes?
A little miss, mistake and confusion accumulate inadvertently, and eventually turn into a torrent that bursts the embankment and swallows people up.
The sacrificial rites of Doomsday Shinrikyo are so terrible that Father Sissen, in his own way, in different means, shows this horror to the enemy, but the essence of its function remains the same - it has few shortcomings except that it does not work quickly, cannot resist absolute power, and cannot act on the mystery of absolute disparity.
The sacrificial ritual had already begun, and the hidden power, even Father Sissen himself, could only start from his own identity as the executor of the ritual to believe that there was really such a mystery, which was transmitted in the defensive circle and acted on the enemy at every moment. This is a situation where it is difficult to find any evidence of "what is happening" until the results are available.
Father Siessen did not immediately go to the Circle of Grey Mist, he was already the last line of defense, and he believed that with the help of the sacrificial rites, the occult experts could do better—rather, he had to believe that if an enemy appeared before him with great fanfare, he was left with the option of fighting his back.
Ten mysterious experts were scattered in the gray fog, and in an environment where they could not see ten meters away when they opened their eyes, it gradually became felt that any movement was no longer "the sound of their companions". Mystical experts have too much experience resisting these anomalies.
The way of disguising strangeness as companions mostly starts from the subjective concept of the occult expert himself, and these weirdness seems to be able to see through people's hearts one by one, and can hand out sharp claws from "unexpected places of the parties". If all those unbelievable things are like a reckless man rushing forward, then the number of people who die in mysterious events will probably be reduced by two-thirds - even if it is a force beyond common sense, there is something imaginable, if not a force that is higher in the absolute sense, there is always a way to resist, starting from the basis of the world's six billion people, there are definitely many people who can calmly deal with complex and strange situations, however, the number of people who can survive mysterious events is indeed so small, which is enough to prove many problems.
Some people are directly killed by absolute force when they resist head-on, but many more people are killed by a less absolute force in a way that is close to a conspiracy in a situation that is forced or voluntarily to give up frontal resistance - not that mysterious events are always full of conspiracy, always full of distortions of human nature, a situation that is different from human common sense, but is still limited by human imagination. However, most of the mystical events, in their degree of mystery, are not thoroughly, from every trace, beyond human imagination.
Occultists can claim that as long as these mysterious phenomena that are beyond common sense and cannot be logically understood are still within the scope of their imagination, then they are not unsolvable, but only require a little more luck, imagination and execution skills. But even so, luck itself is an indescribable, almost impossible factor to capture.
The occultist can be sure that in today's foggy environment, anything that he feels when he is alone is definitely not his own - however, this firm thought will certainly change with some changes in circumstances, and the occultist himself is well aware of this change in his own heart.
Any subjective judgment is not fixed, occult experts are faced with choices at any time, there are so many factors in the outside world that it is impossible to distinguish which are harmless illusions and which are deadly poisons, and must choose to believe that it is an illusion or poison, and when they make such a choice, their own behavior will also change, which will lead to their own breakthrough or deep crisis.
In this process, it is simply impossible to find clues and evidence that can completely determine "how you should choose" in a thoughtful and meticulous way.
Mystery experts are always faced with vague clues, broken fragments, and can only use their own imagination and logic to stitch them together, and they are not sure whether the final spelled out answer will allow them to survive. All the correctness can only be proved by the indisputable fact of "whether I am alive after the incident", but even if I survive, when I reflect on the original situation, I still cannot see the whole picture of the matter.
In the gray fog, it is such a foggy, terrible, cruel danger that must be made.
The Grey Mist Demon didn't show up - surprising, but not impossible.
The inability to find physical life is surprising, but not impossible.
There seemed to be a cry for help from his companion - startling, but not impossible.
So, where is the right path? When is the end? Where do you go when you can't see the way clearly, you can't figure out the situation, and you can't get instructions?
The occultist, as ever, in this kind of questioning, is unswerving, or rather, can only steadfastly, move forward in a certain direction with fear.