A few days later, an investigation report on Cordu Village was submitted to the Eighth Bureau of the Intis Intelligence and Homeland Security Committee, the "Machine Heart" of the "God of Steam and Machinery" Church, and the Inquisition of the "Eternal Sun" Church.
Several bigwigs read the report for the first time.
Preliminary situation: In the past year, there have been many cases of missing persons in Grabaka Province of the Feneport Kingdom near the Darle region and Upper Hel Province of the Renburg Republic. Several extraordinary people without official permission have also disappeared mysteriously. These incidents vaguely point to the shepherds who migrated in these three regions. Among them, those from Koldu Village are our main focus.
So, after receiving that strange letter for help, we attached great importance to it and dispatched elite personnel to the area as a joint investigation team.
The following is the complete written statement of the investigators: "The anomaly in Koldu Village is divided into two layers, one is reality, and the other is dreams. Reality: Koldu Village has actually been destroyed by a massive, but ultimately unsuccessful evil god sacrificial ritual. Except for a very few, no one survived." Most of the villagers became nutrients for a failed evil god creation, and the rest were reorganized in strange ways and turned into different monsters.
"The evil god's sacrificial ceremony brought about changes in the terrain. The river dried up and changed its course. The village square and church were pushed to a height of nearly 40 meters by a small-scale mountain-building movement, turning into a giant blood-red pillar." The failed evil god's creation was at the top of the giant pillar, but when we found it, it had already been destroyed. This could have been caused by self-disintegration, or it could have been due to interference from other forces.
The houses in Koldu Village were also reorganized. Some of them formed a circle of twisted thorn walls around the blood-red pillars, while others spread out layer by layer in a circular manner.
In these severely damaged buildings, we only found some coins and the most common small blue books. We did not find any written materials or anything that could clearly point to the village of Koldu. The reason is unknown.
Only the target person Lumian Ji's home has books, newspapers, magazines and other things with clear directions.
In the ruins of Cordu Village, there are two areas surrounding the blood-red pillar that are inconsistent with the overall abnormality. One area can make people fall into a sleep and enter a dream without resistance, and the other has strong vitality, is full of flowers and trees, and has a self-rocking crib.
For the latter, we guess that it is closely related to Mrs. Puaris of the village of Koldu (see the dream section for a detailed explanation).
On the other side of the bloody pillar, we dug out four relatively well-preserved bodies. Their location probably corresponds to the original church cemetery.
"The first body was a female, no older than 20 years old, who was strangled to death; the second body was a young male, also no older than 20 years old, who died of drowning;
"The third body was surrounded by coffin fragments. It was a female, over 60 years old, who died of mechanical asphyxiation. Combined with other traces, we speculate that she was suffocated to death with a pillow;" The fourth body was a male, who had not yet rotted. His tongue was cut off before he died, and there were obvious marks of strangulation on his neck.
For speculations about the above corpses, please see the dream section.
When we entered the ruins of Cordu Village, we were probably affected by the power emanating from Lumian's body. Our memories became confused and we no longer thought about when to leave.
We fell asleep one after another, and after entering the dream state, our bodies remained in a state of only weak activity and did not need food for several days.
If this situation continues for another ten days or half a month, I’m not sure whether we will wake up from hunger or starve to death in our dreams.
"The entire ruins are in a cycle that could return to their original state at any time. The trigger is most likely Lumian's self-perception and the various restrictions he set.
The former means that if Lumian's subconscious mind believes that it will restart, it will definitely restart. The various restrictive rules come from his desire not to have anyone disrupt the current state of Cordu Village and the development of the dream. Once related things happen, it will immediately lead to a restart.
We asked the villagers in several surrounding villages, and they didn't notice anything unusual in Koldu Village. "Through their answers and the information we had previously obtained, we confirmed three things: Second, no elves that looked like lizards had appeared in the Dallie area;
Third, Lent is a traditional folk custom and originally had no problem with it.
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Dream part: "This is a dream from Lumian Lee, a dream so real that we can't even tell we are dreaming.
We visited some psychologists and dream experts, and based on their opinions, we had some guesses about this dream. In this dream, the situations we encountered were not all real, but also not completely imaginary.
The disrupted facts, the details of people's daily interactions and Lumien Lee's impressive fantasy scenes are reorganized in a very chaotic and symbolic way and presented to us.
In the following sections we will describe in detail every detail of our experience...
We should have noticed that we were dreaming, and the most obvious thing was that we didn't remember to change our clothes until Lumian reminded us or the clothes were seriously damaged. This was quite abnormal, but humans couldn't think so much in dreams.
"It has been confirmed that we did not send a telegram, and the corresponding reply is likely to come from Lumian's subconscious and the knowledge he possesses." Combining the various events in the dream with the reality, our speculation is: our consciousness and cognition enriched the dream to some extent, and also exposed some of our secrets to Lumian.
There are at least two different evil gods in Cordu village. One is represented by Madame Puaris, the wife of the administrator Beost, who is close to the nature of the "Mother Earth Goddess". The other is the one followed by the former parish priest Guillaume Bennet and most of the villagers, and is the evil spirit that ultimately destroyed Cordu village. During the Lenten celebration, the spring elf was beheaded and forcibly sent away, which symbolized that the power represented by Madame Puaris was driven out of Cordu village. It is very likely that a bloody battle broke out between the two sides. At the same time, the beheading of Avalizie, the incarnation of the spring elf, also symbolized that when the girl discovered something unusual in reality and tried to escape or inform on someone, she was secretly strangled to death by Guillaume Bennet and his gang.
Raymond Craig was thrown into the river and his spirit appeared under the church, which symbolized that he, like Ava, was considered an informer and was forcibly drowned.
"When Mori discovered that his wife Sibyl was having an affair with the former parish priest, he became so angry that he became mute. This symbolizes that when he, as a devout believer of the Eternal Sun, noticed something unusual in the village and tried to tell on the person, his tongue was cut off. His subsequent disappearance represents that he was murdered.
Naroka's death, like Ava and Raymond's, has a strong symbolic meaning.
First, she was supposed to be following Mrs. Zipualis secretly, wanting to let the spirit of her dead husband return home through the soul-teller, so her manifestation after death was entering the other world.
Second, she was most likely murdered by her youngest son, Arnaud André, probably because he discovered problems with Guillaume Bennet's gang and wanted to tell Madame Puaris.
Combined with our search of the ruins, the Lenten celebrations and the words that Lady Puaris could leave at a certain time symbolize that the lady and her husband Beost, the butler Runen Louislund, and the maid Cassie had already left the village of Cordu before the Twelfth Night ceremony and are currently alive, but their whereabouts are unknown.
This is reflected in the dream that the lady refused to provide help at the critical moment.
But based on the situation presented in that strange area with vigorous vitality, we suspect that Mrs. Pualis left something behind before leaving and indirectly participated in the ceremony of Twelfth Night.
The black-robed man in the wizard's tomb should symbolize Lumian's alienated personality due to pollution, but for some reason, Lumian's pollution was not that serious, so that in the self-competition, he easily won with more courage... "The strange lizard-like creatures in the mouths of Aurore Lee, Michelle, Garrigu and others may symbolize how they were polluted and alienated little by little, and finally turned into another self.
question!
1. Why did Lumian Lee know what abilities Guillaume Bene, the shepherd Pierre Berry and others possess? If he had secretly watched once or twice in reality without being discovered, it would be understandable. There must be an internal reason why he could have so much information without being processed.
2. How could those villagers and Auror behave like real people, making it difficult for us to realize that we were dreaming, until Lumian thought they should be abnormal
3. What does the other world symbolize
4. What does Mrs. Priss raising her child in the castle and the crib containing the invisible object symbolize
5. Why did Lumian imagine the villagers’ pollution process as a lizard-like elf parasitizing their bodies
6. What does it symbolize that Lumian and Aurore Lee tried to escape from Cordu Village but ended up entering the other world
7. Why did the ritual on Twelfth Night fail
8. Why can Lumian let us enter his dreams? He obviously does not have this ability.
9. Why do people suddenly gain normal extraordinary abilities
10. Why was he able to survive? Why was he able to cause the ruins of Korshe Village to fall into a loop even though he was not very strong
11. Aurore, Lumian's abnormalities occurred at completely different times in the two loops. Why is this the case and what does it mean
13. What does the corpse of the wizard lying in the coffin in the crypt symbolize
14. What does the owl symbolize
15. What does the change of constellations symbolize
16. Where does the matter originate
Conclusion and suggestions: "This is a typical disaster caused by worshiping evil gods. There are currently six survivors: Lumian, former parish priest Guillaume Bene, Puaris de Roquefort, Beost, Louis Luislond, and Cassie. The last five are all believers of the evil god and must be found and eliminated as soon as possible.
“As for Lumian, it is not recommended to kill him directly. Before we figure out what is wrong with him, his death may lead to more serious changes. The best way to deal with him is to capture him and seal him away somewhere.
Reporters: Ryan Vichiel, member of the "Mechanical Heart", Lia Belot, Major of the Eighth Bureau, and Valentine Delacorte, Purifier of the Inquisition.