The puppet master...makes corpses into puppets. Do these puppets have their own consciousness?
Daisy quickly gave the answer to this question: "Some do, some don't, but none of them have a complete soul..."
While she was talking, she sat down where William had slept. The tall pumpkin head put down what he was holding and brought her coffee.
"I can connect the remaining consciousness in the structured world to the puppet I made."
Victor ignored the closed room and returned to his previous position, sitting in front of the girl Daisy.
"Remaining consciousness?"
"Yes... you can understand that after the seer passes through the structured world, the astral body will leave some traces. Those residues may be the consciousness of the seer himself, or it may be just a recorded image, which exists in no space.
At the structural level with the concept of time, there is no way to define exactly what they are.”
"Then what do they have to do with me?"
"Consciousness is the continuation of death..." Daisy picked up the coffee cup without looking at Victor.
Although this little girl looks young, her tone of voice is not what a child of this age should have.
Victor didn't understand. He wanted the other party to answer more questions: "Can the residue left behind in the structural world be understood as my backup?"
"Backup? Interesting explanation, but not entirely..." Daisy looked at Victor again, "When I am still alive, the remnants in the structural world keep pace with me. Once I die, these remnants will still exist.
in infinite structural layers.”
It was so profound that Victor felt his head was a little big.
As if to facilitate understanding, Daisy also used a camera as an analogy: "Human beings use the technology of light and shadow to retain images on this small piece of paper. This is 'passing' through the structural world. You can imagine it as a side
The mirror not only reflects your entire life, but also retains all the images. Even if you die, the images will still exist."
After speaking, Daisy tilted her neck and looked at the pumpkin-headed shadow standing next to her: "I can take this kind of thing out of the structural layer and put it into my own demon doll. They will move like humans, but
Not fully human."
Think of them as toys? Victor chuckled.
Daisy looked back at him again: "Can't a lonely little girl like me make a few servants for myself?"
"Although I still don't understand, what does this have to do with William's matter?" Victor talked about the closed room again.
Daisy put down the coffee cup and replied: "The secret magic crystal golem was specially made for him by me. It can connect William's own image in the structural world."
"Then what?"
"Imagine that you can control two bodies at the same time. One is your own material body, and the other is the puppet I made for you."
This explanation finally made Victor understand a little bit, but no matter how many functions the thing had, it was just a fun "toy" for William, and Victor still didn't understand what he was doing sneakily hiding in it.
"Can't you just say it clearly?"
"What do you mean?"
"What does William Marshall want from you?"
"Perform the Rite of Enlightenment."
I was kept in the dark along the way, and I have been talking about it for a long time, and now I can give the answer to the question.
While Victor was speechless, he was also extremely shocked by the answer.
"Understand...understand the ritual?"
He suddenly stood up and couldn't calm down in his heart, because this was the first time he had come into contact with real knowledge. According to what Adolf had boasted, the knower could almost be said to be a life form on the same level as the seers and mortals.
.
And William Marshall would actually drag Victor along and secretly come here to perform the enlightenment ceremony?!
So, he is about to become a knower?!
"Wait a minute, why did you treat me like a Riddler at first, and now you tell me the truth so easily? Are you afraid that I will ruin William's good deeds?"
Victor's question aroused confusion in Daisy. She looked at him in confusion with her dark-rimmed eyes: "Because you only asked me this question now."
Victor was stunned. Thinking about it carefully, it seemed like...
"Okay..." He scratched his head and sat down again.
"I don't think it's a good thing to have a ritual of enlightenment," Daisy said again.
Victor was stunned: "Is there any problem?"
"That would be very dangerous..."
"What is the purpose of the Ceremony of Understanding?" Victor thought of the evil things that Sullivan had done in the Berkeley family, and couldn't help but become curious.
However, Daisy's answer was: I don't know.
According to her, the ritual of understanding is related to sex, and each sex is different. William Marshall knows exactly what needs to be done.
"Now that he has come to my house, it proves that he is ready, but I do know one thing, that is, all the enlightenment rituals are to find the 'door' in the thick fog of the secret hotel...
…”
Door?
Victor was silent for a moment, and then his mind was connected to the wanted poster for Sullivan.
The wanted notice kept by the Anti-Suppression Department said - according to the judgment of the executioners of the church, this person will completely digest the secret information obtained from murdering his colleagues, and then conduct an enlightenment ceremony in order to reach the Peacock Gate!
A Peacock Gate is also mentioned here. Could it be the "door" that the seers wanted to find when they entered the thick fog?
"Is it called...Peacock Gate?" Victor stared at the puppet master.
Daisy shook her head: "The names of the doors are just like the different enlightenment rituals. They are all different. As a 'tower', only William knows what door he needs to find."
Victor understood a little bit, maybe knowing the ritual corresponds to the door, and also corresponds to the sex phase.
Sullivan is a traitor to the Temple, and the Temple is a believer in Stone Nature, so the Stone Nature phase is the "Peacock Gate".
"The Knower is the Secret Transmitter Four. So William has obtained the Secret Transmitter Four of the Tower Nature?"
"As it should be..."
After receiving the answer, Victor worked out a set of steps in his mind to become a knower.
The Enlightenment is not simply promoted from the third-level secret transmission seer. On the basis of studying the fourth level of secret transmission, one also needs to find the door in the dense fog of the secret place. The enlightenment ritual is equivalent to a guide that can
He leads to the location of the door, and once he enters it, he will become a true knower...
This guess needed to be verified. Victor couldn't wait to continue communicating with Daisy, but when he just opened his mouth, he suddenly smelled a strong smell of blood.
The sense of crisis he had cultivated over a long period of time made him instantly on guard. He prepared his gun and spells, and even applied two blood spells to himself.
Daisy's nose was not as sensitive as Victor's, so she looked at him curiously, but was warned by Victor to keep her voice down.
"Stay here..."
He reminded Daisy, then raised his gun to look for the direction from which the smell of blood came, only to find that the smell came from the room that William had locked.
He walked over cautiously, stepped on something under his feet, and when he lowered his head, he saw that it was a pool of blood soaked from inside the door!
"Damn it!"
William locked the inside too. Without thinking much, he shot the door lock open and immediately pushed the door open and entered.
What came into his eyes next was shocking enough!
The man sitting in the center of the room is William Marshall.
But he is motionless now, as if there is only a shriveled skin left, and his body is covered with blood. A large hole has been opened in his chest, and his ribs are separated to both sides like scarlet butterfly wings, and the internal organs, including the heart and lungs, are inside.