The interrogation process was actually not troublesome. They seemed to be afraid of Tan Ya. These people knew almost everything about the questions Lu Ning wanted to ask. Perhaps it was because Lu Ning did not ask about their core secrets.
This was an attack led by the believers of the "Eclipse" mantra and gathered several small believer organizations. The reason was simply that a prophet under the "Eclipse" mantra predicted that a mantra would soon awaken in Area 25 and Choose your own followers. For any awakened mantra, the addition of new enemies is a trouble, so their followers must also help their masters eradicate possible harm.
It's just that the strength of these mantra believers is worrying. According to the confessions of three people, there are only seven people who have reached the level of reality twisters among the ten mantra believers. Lu Ning also took the opportunity to understand the mantra believers' views on their own level. distinguish.
The level of these three people is just "step-up people", just higher than the entry-level "disciples". Those who are above level uppers need to go through "feathering" to become a "reality twister". The level pickers can only serve as auxiliary workers in such operations. Each of them has a little bit of their own mission, but they have no idea why they do it.
"Carry out shooting, keep the ground somewhere nearby moist, and smoke." Lu Ning thought about the tasks of the three people. This was very similar to some strange requirements for rituals she obtained from the mantra, but only from these few hours It is impossible to deduce the full picture of the entire ceremony based on the behavior.
Moreover, the person who was suspected to be a reality twister was killed by Qin Ya...
Lu Ning thought about it for a moment, then walked out and planned to look at where the three people were before to see if there were any more clues about the ritual. But when she turned around, she saw that the three of them had fallen to the ground, bleeding from their orifices, while Qin Ya stood beside them and carefully put the fake nails back on.
"you……"
"Oh, the sins of these three people are not serious enough and they will not die..." Qin Ya said with a slight regret.
Lu Ning ran over in two or two steps. Even though Qin Ya had just said that, she walked to the three people and checked them. They were all dead.
"Tin Ya, you..."
"Ah, don't worry, the evidence of the believers on them will be put in the open. It won't be the police. There will definitely be more professional people to handle it. This base will definitely not be hindered by dead people." Tan Ya smiled. explain.
"That's not the problem, right? We were the ones who took the people away. If they are traced, they will probably be found on us!"
"If they leave alive, then a group of villains will track us down. For me, it's better to let more official people find out. If you are so scared, you can blame it on me."
"It's not that I'm afraid." Lu Ning stared at Qin Ya, "You did it on purpose, right?"
"Oh, am I so obvious?" Qin Ya licked her nails, "To be honest, I do feel a little bored. Donald really likes to pursue stability. The result of stability is to advance the clues bit by bit. I couldn’t find much usefulness.”
"So... you are the one who has the mantra? And the fact that you killed that man so easily just now means that you got it as soon as you came up..."
"No." Qin Ya interrupted Lu Ning's words, "Like these others, I am just a level-shifter. It is far from enough for the mantra to be directly presented in reality. To be able to do this One step is just because of some special characteristics. And Lu Ning, if I read it correctly, you already know the information about the mantra, right? We are actually the same, aren't we? Our assigned identities are inherently easier Favored by inspiration.”
"Is this the case for everyone in the cast?" Lu Ning asked again.
"How can I know this? If I ask you, have all the people in your photography team been blessed by the mantra? Can you answer me?" Qin Ya immediately threw the question back.
Obviously, Lu Ning didn't know how many of his companions had opportunities like him.
"I see."
"Anyway, if you have any trouble, just bring it to me. I like it very much." Tan Ya patted Lu Ning's shoulder carelessly, "What did you find? Tell me about it?"
"There is no particularly in-depth harvest. At most, I know that some mantra believers gathered together to try to kill a newly awakened mantra, but it seems to have failed now. The scene has been blocked, internal and external information cannot be exchanged, and the ceremony only detonated There are just a few buildings, they are just messing up the situation."
"It's impossible, right? If it were these little minions, they might be messing around like headless chickens, but there must be a reality bender leading this group of people, right? Those guys must know what the true purpose of the ritual is?"
"What was the first man you killed?"
"They are just feathered. Different from the reality distorters, they must use the secret realm to launch attacks on specific targets. Once they are killed in the secret realm, their own demise will not be known to the outside world." Tan Ya They dug out their belongings from the three corpses on the ground and placed them next to the corpses.
Knowing this, Lu Ning suspected that this was not the first time she had killed someone in this scene.
"I still have some things I want to investigate, so I'll leave first."
"See you later"
Lu Ning left this dangerous woman and returned to the outskirts of Area 25. At this moment, the crowd had dispersed a bit, because the fire had been suppressed, and there seemed to be no excitement inside. However, the area around the area is still closed. The security force in the film and television base is very strong, and no one is allowed to enter or exit.
The sky has turned dark, and the surrounding lights have also brightened, but they are sparse but not bright. After all, Area 25 is not an officially open area, so there will be fewer people willing to stay around to watch the excitement, and it will also make it easier for Lu Ning to investigate again.
The behavior of the two people who maintained humidity and smoked cigarettes actually clearly hinted at the relationship between water and fire, and in the ritual, the basic elements are actually indispensable. It's just that these two behaviors are difficult to detect. One only needs to secretly pour water on the ground with a drink bottle, and the other only needs to smoke. Lu Ning guessed that there were more minions like this performing similar tasks outside and acting as part of the ritual. Since it was already time for people to disperse, perhaps the ritual had been completed.
It is difficult to judge the specific function of a ritual that has not yet started, because Lu Ning cannot even tell whether the preparations for the ritual have been completed. But if it is a completed ritual, with so many people, it is inevitable that clues will be left behind.
"A lot of cigarette butts." Lu Ning found the first position. It seemed that someone would soon take over the position after the smoking one among the two brothers was gone.
Ordinary cheap cigarettes don't have much reference value. If you are a professional, you can find people through saliva on cigarette butts and the like, but Lu Ning doesn't have that function. In addition, there were about twenty or more cigarette butts on the ground. Lu Ning estimated how long it would take for him to leave. It was impossible for one person to smoke so many.
The second place is watered soil.
It's hard to tell here. After all, he hasn't been away for a long time. The place he chose is the soil of the trees on the roadside, which has better moisture retention than the stone road. It's hard to see if anyone will pour water here later.
But some extended traces can already be seen in these two places. Just as Lu Ning thought, this ceremony has actually been successfully completed, or at least it has been completed as a few reality twisters intended. She continued to follow the traces and soon found the third clue location.
Several trees had a few scratches near their roots with a knife. If you didn't look at them together, you wouldn't be able to tell the meaning. The calibration of the three positions has allowed Lu Ning to see some of the trajectories. There are indeed traces of multiple mantras behind them.
She reached out and touched the knife in her arms, then sent a message to Ke Daolin, Qu Yi and Guo Xiao, telling them that she was going to check out the situation in Area 25, and then explained her findings before setting off.
Although the overall effect of the ceremony is not yet clear, Lu Ning already knows what the opened channel is. The Reality Twister's plot is not just to let a mantra continue to sleep. They are pursuing more, and the "bridge" she saw before is actually among this group of people.
The "bridge" that connects, communicates and circulates, with the cooperation of the ceremony, has formed a passage between the mantra and reality. No wonder those found on the outside are all minions, and those who are really doing things have probably already entered On the other side of the bridge. But this time Lu Ning didn't dare to cross the bridge directly. Last time it was a personal vendetta. There was only one person guarding the other side of the bridge, and this time it would definitely not be guarded by such a weak person.
She felt like she had passed through a dizzying wall, and she didn't even know when. All the blockade personnel outside District 25 disappeared, leaving only a quiet night with lights shining on the road without stars or moon.
"My head... hurts." Lu Ning couldn't help but press her temples. The side effects of using mantra knowledge began to appear, but now it was no longer a matter of dependence. As the number of uses increased, it became increasingly difficult for her to distinguish which ones were What things I originally understood were brought to me by the mantra.
A black-gray stone bridge is dozens of meters away, with one end of the bridge resting on the ground and the other end extending toward the sky. In the sky without stars and moon, many tentacles as thick as fingers hang down, and their distribution seems to be irregular.
What if there was originally a human under the tentacles?
Lu Ning walked into Area 25. There was not just one bridge like that. Several similar bridges were erected around Area 25, but they did not intersect in the air. Lu Ning walked up to one of the tentacles and took a look at the position of the end of the tentacle. It was indeed the same height as the head of an upright human about 1.7 meters tall. The other tentacles were also at similar heights.
Of course, there are no people in this world. These tentacles are probably just... some representation of real people.
At this time, Lu Ning heard a slightly harsh sound. It was like the sound of metal scraping against the floor, or more specifically, the sound of dragging a heavy weapon down the street.
Lu Ning was wary and immediately hid behind a house. She did not poke her head out curiously, but just judged the opponent's moving speed based on the loudness of the sound.
There are no footsteps. In theory, if there is a physical entity holding the weapon by dragging it, it must bear part of the weight, so there will definitely be footsteps. Lu Ning even put her ears to the ground, but she still could only hear the dragging sound. So...could it be a floating thing?
She couldn't be sure and didn't want to risk seeing with her eyes. It wasn't until the dragging sound faded away that Lu Ning came out from behind the house.
She shouldn't stay too long if such a thing existed. After Lu Ning thought for a while, she tried to reach out and touch one of the tentacles.
The moment his fingers and tentacles touched, Lu Ning suddenly felt the shadow of a flying bird passing before his eyes, and there was some faint odor coming from his nose, which seemed to be the smell of wild beasts in the forest. After the flying bird passed by, she suddenly found herself standing next to a blue ocean. Five dim suns hung in the sky, one of which had sunk halfway. The clouds in the sky were radiating from a distance with the five suns as the center. The radiation spread out. Behind her is a forest that has regrown in the ruined city, and the birds have fallen into that dense forest.
Lu Ning was a little surprised for a moment, but her hand had already grasped the handle of the knife in her arms. She exhaled slightly, and a cloud of white mist appeared in the air.
This is a place where the mantra can be applied directly.
Did he really come to the world of mantra? No, it could also be the junction of the harbor and the sea. There would be nothing wrong if this is really the sea.
But no one.
Lu Ning lowered her head. The ground beneath her feet was fine black sand. There were many tiny shiny things in the sand, as bright as diamonds. Some large black rocks are being beaten by the waves. Every time they are beaten, some sand will obviously fall on them, but these gaps are growing again, as if the rocks are some kind of living creature.
She felt a little nauseous, and now she didn't want to think about what the black sand she was stepping on was.
At this moment, the three mantras on his body had no reaction at all, so he pretended to be dead.
Lu Ning walked forward towards the ocean.
The blue water is cold, but not so cold that you can't walk on it. The five suns did not emit much warmth. They were not even white, but gray or green. Even if you looked directly at them, you would not feel dazzling. Lu Ning bent down and picked up a handful of sea water, looking into it.
Yes, the entities of the five suns are reflected in the water. Those "images" that mantras present in human eyes are indescribable in words.
It was not until this moment that an even colder mist rose over her body.
"Eclipse", "Nuo", "Dance", "Carve", "Xi".
