Because I don’t know if Maria was outside peeping into Annan’s nightmare.
So even though Annan's mood is very complicated now.
But he didn't say much.
Just walking around the room, looking for parts related to the ritual.
From the very beginning, Annan determined that this scene would become Bella's nightmare. Therefore, he was able to arrange a mechanism that would be triggered "only when Annan enters."
For Annan now, Bella's nightmare is the only one, and he must purify it no matter what to recover the "secrets of the past."
It is precisely because the conditions for entering the "third round" are too harsh.
As a result, even if Annan hired someone to purify this nightmare, he still could not reach the correct ending and could not recover the information he was most concerned about. So Annan had to enter this nightmare himself...
"……I understand."
After looking around at the surrounding arrangements, Annan suddenly realized the key to this ceremony.
Generally speaking, rituals cannot use "people" as ritual components.
That's not because it's too bad... but because a living person has too many concepts.
He may be a good person or an evil person; he may have deceived someone, or he may have just attended a funeral. Generally, when a person fulfills the requirements of a certain ritual, he will definitely fulfill the requirements of other rituals.
If there is no precise guidance and restrictions, it will be easy to lead the ceremony in another direction. And if it is biased in that direction, it may not meet the needs of another ceremony, which will directly lead to the failure of the ceremony.
In other words, "Ritual" is like a search system. But it does not have an intelligent retrieval function. It does not even automatically sort by relevance.
But at the same time, it also supports fuzzy word (referring to upper-level and lower-level alternative materials) searches... This means that as long as it contains keywords, it will be pushed.
Moreover, unless you use advanced search to manually restrict multiple fields, the things that pop up from the ritual may make the ritualist look stunned.
——Not even as good as ○ degree.
The limiting rule in the ritual is this "advanced search". For example, in the nightmare of "Gemini", the purifier itself does not have the characteristics of his own memory, and the "purifier detection device" arranged is based on this idea.
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But Annan has reached the next level.
That is, by "searching for irrelevant things", it will in turn pop up what it originally wanted.
In this room, a circular field is outlined by ropes. This means the concepts of "repetition" and "circulation".
At this time of the season, the sunset light projected from the outside of the house could illuminate half of Annan's face when he turned around, while the other half fell into darkness.
Then this happens to have the concepts of "entering darkness" and "self-division". But at this time, Annan will not complete this ritual, so even if Fufu comes here, he will not be discovered.
But at the moment when Annan died, this moment had the meaning of "saying goodbye to the future".
Just like a prophet who made a prophecy, the moment he made the prophecy will only become sacred after the death of the prophet and the fulfillment of the prophecy.
——This is the mysterious skill of modifying the past in the future.
When Annan returns here in the future, a "closed loop of fate" will be formed. The surrounding ropes are used to strengthen this concept.
And because "destiny is a rut in the sky," Annan was able to send information to his future self.
In this case, it is naturally impossible to have a dialogue.
Annan in the first week judged that there must be "memories of love and fear" in Bella's nightmare, and calculated that Annan would see that memory first before entering this nightmare, and even guessed what Annan would ask.
he.
Because of this, he was able to "have a conversation" with Annan through the air.
Compared with the detection ritual in the "Gemini" nightmare, which is so sophisticated that one can even learn to use it himself, the detection ritual arranged by Annan seems too random and "dangerous".
It's like walking on a tightrope.
There is no doubt that it is a very dangerous pile-up - under multiple man-made "coincidences", the concept he needs happens to be formed. If any of the details are changed, serious misalignment will occur.
But in Annan's extremely accurate prediction, there was not even a slight misalignment.
This is just like many of his fanciful plans. They are full of whimsical and unrealistic risks, but they always succeed.
Soon, Annan realized that there was nothing special in this room that needed to be taken.
In addition to a piece of paper on the table - it records the materials required for the ritual of summoning the rotten husband, the chants and the details that need to be paid attention to in the ritual. And after getting it, you can automatically get the "prompt" even without looking at it.
"device" function.
This is not the verbal mastery that comes with nightmares.
It is a "prompt" based on ritual effects.
After realizing this, Annan completely understood.
...You should have realized this when you saw the Husky using the ritual so smoothly.
Annan smacked his lips.
——This is obviously something specially prepared for Purifiers!
As a ritual master himself, Annan himself might even be the strongest ritualist at that time who could obtain the "Supreme Crown" level. It was impossible for Annan to need such a thing as a teleprompter.
So why would he prepare such a piece of paper here?
This is precisely because Annan understands the mechanics of nightmares very well.
Nightmare will not arrange mechanisms that "the Purifier will never be able to solve".
For example, it is impossible for everyone in the Purifier to master the "ritual of summoning a rotten man". So in order to prevent the plot in the nightmare from happening as usual, under normal circumstances, the nightmare will put the starting time period directly into the "summoning rotten man"
after".
After all, the core plot of this nightmare is the gambling battle between Dmitry and the rotten man.
The previous preparation time is actually meaningless.
But if Annan puts a piece of paper on the table that says "the moment you touch this piece of paper, you will learn the mysterious knowledge of summoning a rotten man"; and if he asks Dmitri to take off his bracelet...
Then time will be pushed forward to the position before "Annan touched this paper" and "Dmitri put on the bracelet".
Annan has already asked Maria.
That bracelet was something Bella gave to Dmitri before.
It is not a cursed object, nor is it made of cursed material. It is just a simple bracelet that can have a somewhat calming effect because it contains spices.
——And after this "betting fight" ended, Dmitri no longer had this bracelet on his hand.
Maybe it was anger, or disappointment, or maybe it was a simple accident... In short, it was during this gambling fight that Dmitri damaged the bracelet.
This is also an Annan-style strategy.
By damaging the bracelet and making it a closed-loop "important clue" for decryption, the nightmare will be pushed forward to the timeline "before the bracelet appeared".
Since it does not have to appear "after summoning the rotten husband", Dmitri has the need to appear in advance. In this case, Annan left the ritual requirement for summoning the rotten man, which will ensure that when Annan enters the nightmare, it happens to be
will be in this room.
Everything is within Annan's calculations.
And after Annan touched this piece of paper.
His main mission also appeared before his eyes.
But after Annan already knew the nature of this nightmare, and then saw this main mission... his mood became complicated:
[Main mission: Never tell the truth]
[Do not let others know the full extent of the plan]