Part 2 The Faceless Man Chapter 174 The Specialness of the Spirit World
With Klein’s explanation and relief, Allen was quite relieved and prepared to observe for a few more days to see if he would have similar nightmares again.
After sending the renowned surgeon out the door with a smile, Klein’s expression suddenly became pensive, as if he was thinking about something.
There was no problem with his interpretation of the dream just now, the pitch-black tower, the heavily obstructing walls and gates, and the giant silver-white serpent did symbolize Will Onsettin’s situation of being threatened by something, and symbolized the mindset of this child who was scared and helpless, trying to hide behind layers of protection.
But the crux of the matter was that the odds were that this was not a revelation that Dr. Allen’s spirituality had obtained on its own, otherwise he could not have waited until last night, until he turned over the thousand paper cranes, to have such a dream, and there should have been a similar development long before Will Onsettin had been discharged from the hospital, and long before his spirituality unconsciously perceived something strange.
Therefore, Klein suspected that the dream was instilled in Dr. Allen by someone else, and the medium was the crane!
Klein had scrutinized the artifact with his “psychic vision”, but did not find any spiritual luster in it, but his inspiration, his intuition, told him that there was something wonderful about the crane, perhaps involving the most unreal, the most ungraspable, the most revered destiny.
That child called Will Onsettin is not simple ah …… It seems likely that the magic is not the deck of tarot cards, but the man himself …… The giant silver-white serpent is a symbol of danger, and this matter is related to bad luck, luck, and other factors, does it represent the “Mercury Serpent”, sequence 1 of the “Monster” pathway, “Mercury Serpent”? Klein’s mind wandered, but he couldn’t be sure of anything.
He turned to analyzing the question of how the dream was instilled.
With Klein’s current occult attainments, it wasn’t anything too complicated or difficult to comprehend, and he quickly came up with an idea:
”First of all, we can rule out the influence of the Grieving Spirit Ghost, that would have tinted the color of Dr. Allen’s aura with either a light or dark black and green, and I didn’t find any signs of that just now.
”There are roughly two ways of indoctrination that can keep the dream owner from experiencing anomalies; one is an extraordinary ability similar to ‘nightmares’, which, like the Captain’s, relies on guidance to accomplish its purpose and can’t be involved too deeply itself or it will likewise leave a mark, and the second is much more subtle and higher-end.
”The principle of dreaming is that the astral spirit body travels in the spiritual world, so that certain details which it usually notices unconsciously are transformed into revelations possessing symbolic significance by external stimuli, or, alternatively, it obtains some revelations relating to itself directly from the outside, and then tells them to the mental body, and to its own spirit body, and as the owner is in a state of sleep this takes the form of a dream.
”So the second way is to imbibe through the spirit world!
”First, by some magical means, one creates the revelation that one needs, then naturally the target’s astral-spiritual body gets it while traveling through the spirit world, feeds it back, and in that way the target is able to dream the scene that someone else would like him to dream, without the slightest trace of it being visible on the outside.
”That’s something I can’t do at the moment, not even in a spirit body state that can slightly pry some power above the gray mist.”
Klein paused for a moment, adding on another likely guess:
Dr. Allen was being hinted at through a thousand paper cranes, and once he turned it over, he would dream accordingly.
This is good to confirm, as long as I use “psychic magic” on Dr. Allen, I should be able to find the corresponding traces …… However, would it not be too friendly to use “psychic magic” on him? Or borrowing the Nightmare Candle from Father Utravski? No, it’s the vampire and avid doll enthusiast Emlyn White who recognized me, not the muscular, giant-like Father Utrafsky……. Klein withdrew his thoughts and considered what to do next.
He decided to wait to go to the gray fog above the divination level of danger, if it is acceptable, then infiltrate Dr. Allen’s house tonight, using “dream charm” and other means of covert observation, to see if the source of the dream is a direct guide, or an indirect forgery.
However, with Klein’s strength and level, it is quite difficult to find traces of the latter, and he himself does not have much confidence.
It wasn’t as if, by sitting next to Dr. Allen and meditating, the astral spirit body would be able to travel the same spiritual realm as he did; it would have to be sufficiently located to do so.
According to the description of the Book of Secrets, the existence of the spirit world is quite marvelous, it overlaps with the real world completely, all overlap, so everyone can get revelation from the spirit world at any time, but the spirit world has no up and down, left and right, the past, the future, and the present may all intersect here, it is just like countless knowledge, countless information, countless illusory spirits gathered and compressed into the strange ocean, and the normal concept of normal logic of the “world” is very different. “It is like a strange ocean of countless knowledge, countless information, and countless illusory spirits.
Because of this, the revelations obtained from the spirit world can only be various symbols rather than direct answers. Because of this, which part of the spirit world each person’s astral spirit body will travel to is not only related to its own location and time, but also closely related to the current state of the body and spirit. The other side.
Because of this, the astral body traveling in the spiritual world also has limitations, and does not dare to go too deep, once it is lost, and can not return to the body, the owner will become a demented person, or in more serious cases, will become a vegetable.
And want the body to also enter the spirit world, as a springboard to complete the teleportation, it is even more difficult, a little inattention will be lost, and never return to the real world, until it rots and dies.
Hoo…… Klein exhaled and put the problem behind him for the time being.
He pulled out his pocket watch and checked the time, realizing that he had been thinking about it for so long that his breakfast was getting cold, and the fact that Reporter Mike hadn’t arrived by now meant that the commission would most likely be delayed by a day.
In the spirit of not wasting anything, Klein ate the rest of that food, and then went above the gray mist to do a divination, and was surprised to get the revelation that there was no danger at all in the matter.
After all this, the appointed time had passed, and, without further hesitation, he changed into his heavy jacket, put on his ducktail hat, took his word-book, and left 15 Minsk Street.
His original plan had been to accompany Mike Joseph to the East End for an interview, and to find an opportunity to give old Kohler some hint that he should not mention the fact that he had promised to help Liv find her daughter.
As for Liv’s family, it was up to Kohler Sr. to remind them.
And now that Mike had postponed things for a day, Klein was more at ease and no longer worried about mistakes and accidents.
……
Combining the address that Old Kohler had mentioned, Klein entered the depths of the Eastern District based on the revelation he had obtained from divination, and under the gaze of a gaze that was either wary or guarded, numb or greedy, he found the room that was located on the third floor.
There were two high and low beds set up here, with some tattered mattresses on the floor, and every spare space was piled with clutter.
Klein looked directly at the bottom bunk of the innermost high-low bed and called out:
”Old Kohler.”
With a brush, Old Kohler rolled over and sat up, leaning toward the door in surprise:
”You did come, after I sent you that letter yesterday, I guessed you would come to me today, so I didn’t go to the dock and waited at home.”
Well, there is no need for me to think about how to make up a lie to explain that I came straight here to see you …… Klein looked round and turned:
”Old Kohler, with your current income, you could have rented a better room for a better place, why did you just switch from a floor bed to a high and low bed?”
”Most of that money is to help you gather information.” Old Kohler smiled, “And I’m not getting any younger, I’ve got to save up some money for when my health completely fails me.”
Klein said after two seconds of silence:
”You might want to think about getting some insurance, like that ‘Widows and Orphans Relief Insurance’, which will allow you to receive a weekly payment that will at least fill your stomach and allow you to sleep in your room when you’re really old.”
The insurance industry in this world had sprouted in the Fourth Age and was now more mature after the impetus of Emperor Rosel, mainly in the form of various insurances related to the maritime trade, fire insurance, injury insurance, old age insurance in different guises, etc., with an overall greater concentration on the wealthy and middle class.
”That I know, when I was a laborer I used to pay 3 pence a week for insurance, but then I ran out of income ……” lamented the old Kohler.
His biggest problem now was the instability of his income, and he wondered at what point the informer’s fee from Mr. Detective would be interrupted.
Klein couldn’t promise anything and pointed outside:
”Let’s go to Liv’s house and return the word book to the girl.”
Exiting the room, Klein made a seemingly casual mention:
”What a joke, I just said I’d do a volunteer job the day before yesterday to help find Daisy, but she ended up being sent back by the police yesterday, so don’t mention this in the future, I don’t want to be laughed at.”
”Okay.” Old Kohler promised first, then said, “No one will laugh at your kindness and goodness.”
Crossing a dirty street, the two of them arrived at Liv’s house, and when Klein saw that the young girl who had just been rescued was back to the ironing of her clothes that could burn her at any moment, and saw that the clothes hanging here to dry were draped one by one and dripping with water, not much different from what they had been before, he was at a loss for a moment as to what to say.
”Daisy.” It was a while before he spoke up and called out, “Your word book.”
Daisy’s eyes lit up, but she couldn’t leave, and she was busy for a while before she stopped working and came to the door, saying “Thank you” over and over again.
When Liv and Freya also put down the work at hand and came over to express their gratitude, Klein repeated the words he had just said to the old Kohler.
After receiving an affirmative answer, he took out the two pounds of change he had prepared long ago and handed it to Liv:
”There will be a reporter coming to interview Daisy tomorrow, and this is his payment in advance, but don’t mention it to his face or you won’t be able to handle a lot of things well, heh, he might give some more tomorrow, but not this much.”
”Here, no, I’ll expose the villain’s misdeeds for no money!” Daisy shook her head violently.
Klein gave a laugh:
”That’s the rule, you can’t break the rules, understand?”
He turned to Liv and said:
”Take it.
”You’ve got the right idea, only if Daisy and Freya know more words and learn more things will you get out of the situation you’re in.”
He had been prepared to say a lot of things, to suggest that Liv’s family move to the edge of the East End, where customers who could afford someone to do their laundry wouldn’t live anyway, but in the end he hadn’t mentioned anything.
He had intended to give the other family more help, but restrained himself.
People similar to Liv’s family were more than a few thousand in the Eastern District, there were tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions, and a mere individual trying to help them, even if they were a big banker, wouldn’t be able to stir up much of a splash, and this was just the Eastern District, with the whole of Berkland above it and the Kingdom of Ruen.
”…… Thank you, thank that Mr. Reporter for me.” Liv was silent for a while and accepted the money.
Krynn didn’t linger long and hurried away, as if the place harbored a poltergeist that would devour his mind.
After walking outside with the old Kohler, he looked back and suddenly exhaled and whispered:
”There was never any savior …….”