Chapter 142 Copper Pear
"Is this the job you're in charge of, Clowett?"
Watson touched his chin as if thinking, and he pondered: "I guess that should be a very interesting job, but first let's exclude slaughtering, production, picking and other jobs that have already appeared before... Well, Are you responsible for the maintenance of the ceremony?"
"After all, the top of the underground space we are currently in is the hospital, right? The cult is carrying out so many esoteric activities here. Even I can clearly feel the magic contained in the air, the rising heat, the exciting atmosphere, the coldness The aura, the trembling breath, the rising appetite, the buzzing in the head, the slight flaw... This place is filled with all kinds of esoteric influences. If the sect did not set up protective rituals, I am afraid that it would have been a long time ago. The Anti-Suppression Bureau has already discovered it, right?”
"Wrong, wrong, John, you guessed wrong!" Crowett looked at the huge emerald rhizome like a pillar, "The dark flax that keeps the secret is Si Chen, the code of the heart and the moth. I'm not good at driving the moth to look like it. "How can I be responsible for maintaining the concealment ritual?"
After Watson received a negative answer, he pondered for a moment, but finally spread his hands and said, "Then I can't guess. Clovette, you'd better tell me the answer directly."
"Hehe, I knew you wouldn't be able to guess it John!"
Crowett dragged Watson all the way to a spacious circular room quite close to the canteen and public reading room. The emerald roots did not extend here.
The room is not arranged like an underground secret room at all. The top of the head is inlaid with a stone plate that emits a faint silver light like a full moon. There are two strange small trees planted in the room. The small trees are barely as tall as a person. , the leaves are as round as a baby's head and as bright as a maple leaf, and there are pear-like fruits condensed on the branches, but the surface of the fruit shows a thick golden color like brass or ancient gold.
The trunks of the two small trees are straight but the crowns are slightly sparse. On the top branches are suspended exquisite gold wire cages. There is a petite kite in the cage. It seems that it is born with stunted growth, or perhaps It's because he hasn't seen the sun for a long time that his body looks extremely thin.
In the center of the room stood a stone basin with a tiny hole at the bottom.
But in Watson's opinion, the two kites hanging from these two small trees were very similar in size and hair color, as if they were twins... He only felt that the elements of this space seemed too dense and complex.
"Dang Dang Dang!" Crowett was so excited as if she was showing her secret base to a new friend. She opened her arms and cheered: "This is where I work most of the time! We just need to give according to the schedule. Frederick and Milo watered them, then fed Alden and Ramona and played with them!"
Watson knew from Clovette's gestures when she spoke that the 'Frederick and Milo' referred to were these two strange little trees, and 'Alden and Ramona' were Refers to two caged kites. However, he couldn't help but ask:
"Crovitt, actually I had a question to ask you just now, but there were too many people outside just now so I couldn't ask... Actually, does our cult worship the Twins of the Sea or the Honey Tree? Why is this place underground? There are emerald tree roots inside, and there are a pair of twin kites here? "
"Huh? I don't know what you're asking about. Judging from the name of the hospital, we should be the Twins of the Sea of Faith, but Mr. Winfrey said that the Honey Tree and the Twins are both ministers of the Code of Cups, Hearts, and Moths. Chen, we are very close to each other, so let’s worship the honey tree together.”
While Crowett was speaking, she had already arrived at the empty stone basin. She knelt down and clasped her hands together as she chanted a prayer of unknown meaning. The language used in the prayer was neither English nor Latin, and it was definitely not Latin. Like some kind of ancient language that is extremely unknown and remote.
The melody of the girl's singing overlapped, as if two people were singing in a low voice with different tunes.
Watson vaguely saw the vision he had seen in Winfrey's office again... The flawless full moon rose from Clovette's lush hair and rose to the dome of the room. It happens to coincide with the moon-like stone disk at the top,
The sound of waves crashing against the rocks was also stirred in the air. The unique salty smell of sea water penetrated Watson's nose, and his skin seemed to feel the moist sea breeze blowing... His throat felt thirsty in disguise. As if he had just stepped out of the sun-drenched desert, his mouth and tongue were dry at the moment, and he couldn't wait to drink the sweet and refreshing liquid.
And a stream of clear spring suddenly gushes out from the small hole at the bottom of the stone basin. The spring water gradually fills the stone plate, but it shows a blue color like the Mediterranean Sea, with a little pale starlight.
Watson looked at the strangely emerging spring water, but couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva in his throat. He stuck out his tongue and licked his lips, but was shocked to find that his lips were as chapped as the dehydrated dry earth!
Clovette looked at the spring water emerging from the stone basin and swallowed unconsciously, but her sister's warning was ringing crazily in her mind. She could only get up immediately to fetch the water ladle in the room, and put the stone basin into the water. The rare spring water in all poured down under Frederick and Milogan.
When all the water in the basin was poured into the soil, Frederic and Milo began to tremble with excitement, and the branches and leaves trembled. A plump pear fruit made of gold fell on its own. The girl with quick eyes and quick hands immediately rushed forward to grab the fruit. Hold her gently in your arms.
Crovette picked up the strange pear fruit with a smile, and used the remaining spring water in the basin to clean the fruit that was accidentally contaminated. After the pear fruit was rinsed with the spring water in the basin, the skin became smoother and showed a brighter appearance. A more primitive and thick golden color.
Then he took out a sharp wooden knife from the side, cut off the remaining thin branches on the top of the pear fruit, and returned it to the branch where the fruit was separated. The broken branches were immediately reconnected to the branch.
The girl carefully placed the brass pear fruits into a special metal box. There was already a large pile of brass pear fruits in the box, all of which were moon-shaped stone plates with smooth mirror-like surfaces reflecting the dome.
"John, take this box to the mixing room and remember to tell Mr. Lindsay - by the way, you probably haven't met Mr. Lindsay yet. His most obvious feature is his shiny Mediterranean hairstyle."
"John, please remember to remind him to use the bottom few first. The shelf life of those copper pears is less than two months." Crowett put the box in Watson's hand, and then picked up the room. He drank from a pot of water prepared in advance, "By the way, John, you have to be careful not to fall. These copper pears cannot withstand violent collisions and can easily cause extraordinary damage!"
"What kind of fruit is this?"
"Can't you see? This is a copper pear, a brass-colored pear. After being extracted into juice using a special method, it is a good medicine for curing hemophilia. However, the process of extracting the juice is a bit dangerous. "