Chapter 171 Human Skin Drum
As energetic mystics of the heart, sleep is not a daily necessity for the four mystics of the Order of the Cross.
After Watson finished his dinner, he was already lying on the bed in the hotel room. After a short rest, he was already full of energy.
When he woke up, the sky had been completely captured by the night. When he opened the curtains, he could see the huge full moon slowly rising from the sea in the distance. The moonlight reflected on the seemingly still sea, rendering the boundless sea as if A piece of silver armor embedded on the planet's surface.
He was still lying on the bed, filtering what he had seen and heard tonight in his mind.
"According to Winfreth's instructions conveyed by Nello, there is a pure white library hidden in this Cowell Hotel, which contains secret documents containing the secret of the moth and the cup."
"But he did not explain the source of the intelligence... Perhaps even Nello did not know how Winfres learned that there would be treasure hidden in the hotel in this remote coastal town."
"It was so strange when Nello and I went to the Strand Street warehouse to rob the Malruvim dolls before. Those goods were obviously stolen goods that had just been transported. Perhaps the gang members had just stolen them from the house of a wealthy businessman or noble. Yes - but why was Winfres able to learn such hidden information - after all, even the gang members responsible for guarding the warehouse may not know the status of the stolen goods. "
Watson first ruled out the possibility that Winfress had already established an extremely powerful intelligence team. The Psychic Cultists were better at healing and exercise, rather than concealment and theft - although some people in the cult were also good at moth training. Appearances and revelations, but in fact the mind is the orthodoxy of the Crossroads Order.
"Does Winfreth still possess the secret knowledge of lamps? Can he obtain unknown information with the help of lamps' enlightenment and knowledge seeking?"
"No!" He suddenly had a flash of inspiration, "Winfres should have learned this hidden information through the secret history!"
"Just like I was able to learn the clues about Glover and Sons before, although the actual results are slightly different from the information recorded in the secret history, it can be seen that the secret history can indeed provide a general direction for the secretaries - although the information is not complete. It is accurate, and it will be somewhat different from reality, and it may even be a prediction of the future, or should I say it is another possibility of the future - information from a parallel world? "
"After all, judging from the Secret History of the Four Signs that I originally learned, it is absolutely impossible for Mary, the moth dancer who belongs to the Shedding Club, to take the initiative to go to 211B Baker Street to seek help from Holmes... and the Holmes here is also a female detective."
"Then the secret history is most likely information from other parallel worlds. The secrets of the four signatures I learned came from another timeline that faithfully followed the original development!"
"So Winfres must have learned from the secret history that in another timeline, other characters had stolen the secret document of The Moth and the Cup from the Gowell Hotel, so he ordered us to come here and snatch it in advance. these documents.”
"But where is this secret room hidden? I was the first person to leave the dinner party tonight. When I returned to my room, I had quietly opened the rooms on other floors. The first floor of the hotel is the public area and kitchen, and the second floor is all They were ordinary guest rooms, and even most of the rooms on the third floor were ordinary guest rooms. Only the three rooms belonging to the hotel owner Michaelis, the housekeeper Faris and the young man Sebastian had their doors locked. "
"Is the pure white library hidden in the room of the three of them? According to common sense, it is most likely to be hidden in the hotel owner's room——"
Watson recalled the hotel owner who showed a strange and deformed form in the moth's vision. His understanding of various types of esoteric cultists was increasing day by day, and he could naturally tell at a glance that the other party should be a esoteric cultist who practiced the principles of lamp, heart and cup. .
"But the lamp is merciless and rational, and the moth is chaos and passion. How can such contradictory and conflicting esoteric forces exist in a person's body at the same time? Wouldn't he be mentally disturbed by the different heterogeneous desires induced by the lamp phase and the moth phase? Split?"
"Is it possible that... this hotel owner is also suffering from the moth in his skull like me, so he seeks to suppress the wildness of the moth with the ruthlessness of the lamp?"
"Perhaps I can also get from him how to use the light phase to suppress the moth in the skull - but my soul body has no space to accommodate the fourth secret phase - maybe wait for this undercover operation After this is over, I should go back and ask for help from the owner of the Shedding Club to find other secret methods for turning around."
However, although Watson is so eager to get rid of the influence of the moth in his skull, he wants to break away from the wild and chaotic heterogeneous desire.
But at this moment, he didn't realize that he was still engaging in meaningless thoughts. This may be his self-nature, or maybe the moth's code has been deeply rooted in his consciousness, subtly affecting his thinking. .
The clock struck twice in the middle of the night, and the heavy sound from the ancient wooden clock on the first floor of the hotel reached Watson's ears. He wanted to prevent the four of them from going out together to make too loud a sound, which might wake up the hotel. The staff...but presumably the hotel owner and housekeeper would also be aware of their actions.
So he quietly left the hotel and came to a shadowed corner at the back of the hotel where the moonlight could not shine. His whole body was completely hidden under the protection of darkness. At the same time, he paid attention to unfolding the perception of his heart and paying attention to the three-dimensional dark map. Looking at the two hotel staff, they not only looked old, but also seemed to have weak hearts.
Waiting until nearly three o'clock, the four members of the Crossroads finally gathered together.
Melanie didn't even need to tap her toes, she just gave a wink, and the other three people already knew what she meant. They followed the steps of the nominal leader of this operation and walked down the cliff to the coast full of rugged rocks. .
The four of them found a beach with a slightly flatter terrain and silently stood apart in four directions. Melanie, the leader, took out a small leather drum that was only slightly larger than an adult's hand from her arms.
On the way to the small town of Ilkesmouth, Watson had heard Melanie introduce the efficacy and history of this product.
It is said that this is a powerful magic weapon originating from the Western soil of the ancient Eastern country. The drum surface material is made from pure and flawless young girls who have never been contaminated by the slightest turbidity of the world - the devotees have not learned to walk and speak since childhood. They have to endure the punishment of pricking their ears and cutting off their tongues, which is meant to cut off their connection with this filthy world so that the sacrificial instruments will never be contaminated at all.
These devotees need to apply special potions on their backs since childhood to make their skin smooth and tough, and to make the drum surface more elastic, making the drum sound more ethereal and more pleasing to the gods in heaven.
When these pure raw materials are mature, the priests who make them will first ask them to pose in a devout prayer posture, and then they will knock a small hole on the top of the raw materials and pour in irritating mercury. When the raw materials are the freshest, After peeling off the drum material... it took sixteen years to create the most holy and flawless musical instrument, the leather drum!