Part 2 The Faceless Man Chapter 248 – Kindly Enthusiastic “Inverted Man”
Compared with the past, “Sun” Derek was significantly smarter, and did not clumsily rely only on words to describe.
With the consent of Mr. Fool, he conjured up such images as he could recall, and presented the course of his quest and what he considered to be the main points of it in an intermittent manner to the “Hanged Man”, “Justice”, “Magician”, and the “Fool”, and the “Fool”. “Justice, the Magician, and the World”, and then supplemented it with some explanations.
Walls collapsing in the darkness, streets passing between destroyed buildings, dusty whites and blues illuminated by the light of animal-skin lanterns, ancient temples supported by stone pillars, statues of gods hanging upside down from dark crosses, a series of frescoes depicting the “fallen Creator” bearing the blame for mankind’s sins in his place, and an extraordinary and tantalizing beauty! “Mushrooms”, the altar with the statue’s eyes strangely open, and the yellow-haired boy Jack hiding in the back all took shape one by one, and were reflected into the eyes of the members of the Tarot Club in the most direct and most realistic way.
The eerie and dark style, the step-by-step crisis atmosphere, and the bizarre development, made “Justice” Audrey look quite excited, and generated unusually strong interest.
This is the situation around Silver City …… more fascinating than all the novels I’ve read …… This is the charm of the combination of mystery, unknown and horror …… Of course, for the humans living there, it’s not good. For the humans who live there, it’s not pretty …… Audrey’s thoughts wandered and she couldn’t wait to become a demi-god and half-human level powerhouse and venture out into that territory ruled by darkness and storms.
”Fool” Klein, on the other hand, watched with some sighs and emotions.
What he was sighing was that it was not easy for Silver City to survive under such circumstances, and what he was lamenting was that the little “sun” was still not sharp enough, and did not have much insight, or else he could have presented what he experienced in the form of a documentary or movie, which would have been absolutely thrilling and fascinating!
However, this will make the narration time will become longer, my spirituality can not support everyone here to watch a movie, and, the longer stay above the gray fog, the higher the possibility of bad changes in the outside world …… Klein suddenly a little happy.
”Inverted man” Alger quietly watched the end of the movie, and after a heartfelt reminiscence, let the “sun” will he pick out a few key points again on the top of the bronze table, including the “fallen Creator Among them was the mural of the “Fallen Creator” against the six “Evil Gods”.
”Which evil gods are these?” Alger looked at the octopus-headed monster with a body wrapped in lightning, feet stepping on black waves, back clad in a bird-feathered cloak, and holding a three-pronged halberd, and had some inexplicable associations in his heart.
”Sun,” Derek shook his head honestly:
”I don’t know, I thought you guys would recognize it.”
Audrey “Justice” and Voorhees “Magician” cast their eyes over it at the same time, and after a few careful observations, they still had no guesses.
They originally thought that this is the silver city myths and legends of the eight ancient gods of the six, but can not find enough to correspond, after all, there are dragons, there are elves, there are giants, there are undead birds, there are destructive magic wolves, and the mural on top of the existence of only a giant.
This …… “fool” seriously look, pupils almost contracted.
He just took into account the posture, the first time did not see this mural very clearly, and now finally realized that something is not right.
This is very close to the statue of the six gods that I saw in the underground ruins of the Tudor family, except that one is the normal version, and the other is the blackened and corrupted version……. It is really a little bit too much for people to look at, especially the Mother Goddess of the Earth, the Lord of Storms, and the Eternal Sun, which have not only been blackened into evil gods, but are closer to ugly monsters… …Klein didn’t have a sense of realization that he had found the truth, the “Real Creator’s” side denigrated the six gods and distorted their image, which was something he had expected.
However, we can not completely ignore the possibility that this mural shows, just as I have always believed that the gods do not have a human image, only symbols, the results of the Tudor family’s underground ruins of the statues make me no longer so sure …… It seems that the establishment of the image of the gods has a long evolution, which hides a lot of secrets! …… Klein saw that Miss Justice was concentrating on the frescoes and did not pay any attention to Mr. Fool’s attitude, so he was relieved.
Since it was a question of whether or not the little “sun” would be able to get out of the strange predicament of repeating a small part of her life, he decided to tell what he knew.
Of course, to introduce and show the image of the six gods inside the underground ruins at length was not in line with the identity position of the “Fool”, and he intended to manipulate the “world” to accomplish this matter.
And that’s in line with the idea that he’s been working on equating the World with Sherlock Moriarty.
”The Fool” would be the inscrutable “Night, Sun, Storm, Wisdom, Earth, Giants,” without explanation or description. …… Klein thought freely for two seconds and let the “world” hiss and speak:
”I’ve seen similar statues.”
After catching the crowd’s eye, he paused and added:
”On an adventure exploring the ruins of the Quaternary.”
”Justice” Audrey was very interested, but maintained a basic reserve on the surface:
”Mr. ‘World’, what kind of statue is that? Can you show it to us? Of course, if you don’t want to, or if you need to be paid, it can all be discussed again.”
”No need, as it would also clear up some of my doubts.” “The World” laughed grimly.
He pretended to make a request to Mr. “Fool”, and after receiving permission, he manifested the statues of the six gods and the corresponding holy emblems he had seen one by one.
Pillowed by the full moon, dress layers but not complicated lady looks hazy, but gives a person an exceptionally beautiful feeling, her black dress, also has a little starlight, as if the late-night sky, coupled with the iconic darkness of the holy emblem, “justice” Audrey immediately recognized that this is their own belief in the goddess of the night.
And this statue and the upper left corner of the fresco of the evil god has seven or eight points similar, but the face is closer to human, surrounded by the environment has not hidden a strange eyes!
Blasphemy! This was blasphemy against the goddess! Audrey hollered with some anger, but quickly calmed down.
As the most famous evil god, it was to be expected that the “True Creator” would allow his followers to vilify the goddess ……But why would there be a human statue of the goddess within the underground ruins ……Isn’t it true that the positive gods only have symbols? said that the positive god only symbols? Audrey frowned slightly and fell into deep thought.
”The inverted hanged man,” Alger is a little dazed, sigh-like said:
”So the mural is a distorted image of the six gods.
”The k’s used to actually have human images ……”
This may be hiding the reason why the major churches have been trying to find the “God’s Abandoned Land” …… and the “God’s Abandoned Land” is probably really in the depths of the Sunia Sea, well, it certainly does not exist in a normal state! Otherwise, it’s impossible for the gods to not be able to find out …… Alger silently added two sentences in his heart.
”The sun” first froze, then realized:
”Mr. ‘Inverted Man’, this is the Goddess of Night, Lord of Storms, and other deities you mentioned?”
”Yes.” “The ‘Inverted Man’ gave an affirmative response.
”What do the K’s have to do with the end of days? What does it have to do with the fact that the earth we are on has been forsaken by the Lord?” “The sun,” Derek pursued subconsciously.
Unfortunately, no one could answer him.
”The Magician,” Forsyth, on the other hand, raised his hand in some confusion:
”Why is there no God of Steam and Machinery?”
This was the deity she believed in.
In the North and South Continent, it had always been the seven gods that were called together!
”Rumor has it that the God of Steam and Machinery, the original God of Craftsmen, wasn’t born until the Quaternary Period, so it seems to be true, and the node of k’s birth seems to have been in the middle and late Quaternary Period, not the early and middle …… “”Inverted Hanging Man” ” said, half-explaining and half-guessing.
He had a hard-to-conceal enthusiasm for similar topics.
In that case …… Forsyth was inexplicably a little vain, for she had not read the Canon of Steam and Machinery seriously, and faith seemed to be a mere habit of life.
”Sun,” Derek asked instead, without dwelling on what had just happened:
”Is this mural the key point?”
”Maybe it is, you can try to break it, but don’t, heh, don’t let the Chief doubt it.” “The Hanged Man” was about to say that he should not try to chant the honorific name of one of the six gods, or else K or the K’s would probably descend directly into the “Godforsaken Land,” but after careful consideration he realized that the little “Sun ” did not know the corresponding honorific name at all.
”Well, thank you, Mr. ‘Inverted Man,’ you are always so kind and welcoming, and, Miss ‘Justice,’ Miss ‘Magician,’ Mr. ‘World’, you are equally kind.” Derek thanked sincerely.
Kindness? Enthusiasm? “The Inverted Man” didn’t know how to react for a moment.
This was the first time he had been described in similar terms.
Seeing that they had finished their discussion, Klein suddenly remembered something, that is, in the previous exploration of the semi-abandoned temple of the “True Creator”, Silver City had discovered the name “Redemption Rose”, but this time, it seemed that he did not pay attention to this point.
Can not be ignored …… According to the words of the evil spirits in the underground ruins, this extremely secretive organization dominated by fallen angels will not be much inferior to the “Dusk Hermits”, and the “time loop” may be their arrangement. Maybe this is their arrangement …… Thinking of this, sitting in a high-backed chair, the “Fool” leisurely adjusted his sitting position, tapping the edge of the mottled table with his fingers.
”Justice” Audrey immediately turned her head, slightly excitedly looked at Mr. “Fool”, quite excitedly waiting for k to give hints.
”The Hanged Man, the Sun, the Magician, and the World also looked at Mr. Fool with anticipation. “Mr. Fool.
In the fog, Mr. Fool Klein laughed softly and said:
”Redemption Rose.”
”Redemption Rose”? What is this …… the key point to get out of this predicament? By the way, the name was in the corner of one of the murals above the temple! “The Sun” Derek seemed to understand something.
”Hanging man” Alger, “Justice” Audrey and “Magician” Forsyth also recalled and valued the name “Redemption Rose”, but could not find it. “They also recalled and valued the name “Redemption Rose”, but were unable to understand what Mr. Fool was really trying to say.
”Dear Mr. ‘Fool’, what does ‘Redemption Rose’ stand for?” Audrey raised her hand and took the initiative to ask a question.
This time, Klein did not answer and just let out a laugh.
His thoughts were very simple, the “Redemption Rose” organization had a close relationship with the “True Creator”, and no matter how the things that happened inside the temple were circled around, they could be pointed to them in some way.
As for whether this name is the so-called key point, Klein is not sure, nor worried, anyway, the interpretation is in his hands.
”How could it be Mr. Fool’s problem if they misunderstood the true meaning of “sun”?