The Milky Way hangs upside down and is also reflected on the clear lake. Today is a good weather, there are no dark clouds to block the starry sky, showing the all-encompassing galaxy to the mortals on the ground. The trajectories of the starry sky are connected together, which is the trace of God and fate. According to divination, the night with stars is the best time to do divination, because that is the moment when mortals are closest to fate.
Jenkins recalled this knowledge, but suddenly felt the cat on his shoulder move uncomfortably, and then let out a "meow~", then lowered his head eagerly, his back paws grabbed the clothes, and his front paws grabbed Jenkins' shoulders alternately.
Jenkins was a little puzzled, and at this moment, he saw the dim candlelight under the water in the middle of the lake, shaking abnormally.
"What's wrong?"
Thinking in my heart, without hesitation, I took two steps forward and broke into the ceremony venue by the lake. At the same time, a gust of wind suddenly blew from the west. While causing the forest trees to rustle, it actually blew out more than half of the 365 candles that were part of the ritual formation.
This is not normal. After the ceremony started normally, the flames of these candles cannot be blown out by the wind at will because of the mystery.
Jenkins was taken aback, but he didn't care to observe, and ran to the lake in a hurry. At the same time, the candlelight in the middle of the lake was completely extinguished after shaking violently for a few times. This meant that something went wrong with the ceremony, and Miss Audrey might be in trouble.
Before he could take off his shoes, he just threw the cat and his coat on the grass, and Jenkins stepped deep into the mud of the river beach, and then plunged into the water.
The lake water has a strange cold feeling, which quickly takes away the heat from the skin. Jenkins, who is not very good at swimming, fluttered a few times before he got used to it. He raised his head from the water and swam forward, while his eyes of reality kept catching the aura of Miss Audrey under the water.
After swimming to the middle of the lake, he took a deep breath and plunged into the water. Using the Eye of Reality with his eyes closed, the aura around him became more obvious and strange. Now not only can I see Miss Audrey's light spots, but the vague aura forms her shape, and I can even barely see some of her expressions.
Miss Audrey was at the bottom of the middle of the lake, with her hands stretched upwards and her long hair swaying with the deep and strange water below the lake, as if she wanted to touch the starlight that could not shine here.
Jenkins felt that he was going to lose his breath. The lake was deeper than he thought.
"But do I really need to breathe?"
He thought about continuing to go downstream, and with the emergence of this idea, the feeling that his lungs were about to explode disappeared instantly. The spirit circulating in his body provides him with the necessary living conditions for all living organisms, and he is the embodiment of life.
Going down, he managed to touch Miss Audrey's icy fingertips, and then grabbed the woman's hand and wanted to pull her up. But it didn't work. It seemed that something was pulling her from below. Jenkins had no choice but to let go of her hand and swim further down, only to find that it was aquatic plants.
"Damn it."
Thinking in his heart, he grabbed Miss Audrey's leg and shook it to confirm that she was unconscious, so he could only reach out and touch the water plant. With the influx of the spirit of life, the originally slender water plant seemed to come alive automatically. Let go of the woman's ankles.
Jenkins immediately kicked off the slope at the bottom of the lake, and then went upstream with his teacher in his arms. Because the robe was taken off, Miss Audrey is now only wearing simple summer single clothes. She wasn't heavy, and carrying her upstream was easy for Jenkins.
It's just that the "water divination" ceremony didn't seem to be over yet. Not long after Jenkins swam upstream, a strange spirit flowed into Jenkins' body from Miss Audrey's hand. At the same time, the red moon in the sky was covered by dark clouds, leaving only the blue moon to cast a mysterious light on the lake.
The 365 candles that were all extinguished had a wonderful reaction with the blue moonlight. Under the gaze of chocolate, the ritual matrix seemed to be rewritten by an invisible hand, and the two people under the water fell into a coma at the same time.
(Finnie is praying... )
cold, shaking...
At the moment of waking up, Jenkins did not immediately jump up from the ground like a gorilla, but closed his eyes and scanned the surroundings with real eyes. At the same time, the eyeballs under the eyelids turned slightly, and the fingers trembled regularly and slightly. After understanding the situation around him, he groaned in his mouth, and slowly sat up while supporting the ground, as if he just woke up and didn't understand the current situation.
"Yes, you are the one with the best quality among the people who came this time."
It was a stone room without any windows on the walls, except for one door that was opened. There was no light inside the stone room, but the light came in from the outside, making the talking middle-aged woman standing at the door seem to be glowing:
"Okay, go outside and wait."
The woman said, and Jenkins nodded hesitantly, but said nothing. He deliberately pretended to be dizzy, so when he stood up slowly while leaning on the wall, he had time to look around. The dark room was full of young boys and girls, some of whom looked like they were about to wake up.
Jenkins saw Miss Audrey in it, to be precise, it was a younger Miss Audrey. Although the lady looked only in her mid-twenties when Jenkins met her, she should be in her real mid-teens at this time.
He hesitated for a moment, instead of pulling up his teacher, he walked straight past the woman standing at the door and came to the stone room.
Outside was a forest, which made Jenkins much more comfortable. He took a deep breath, and it was easy to understand from the feedback of the spirit of nature that this was not the evergreen forest.
Looking back, a lonely stone house stands in the forest, and a path connects the stone house with the distance.
After waiting for a while, people came out one after another. Jenkins also took advantage of this time to confirm that it was not a dream, but he was not sure whether it was a hallucination, but he was sure that the current body was still the normal body of Jenkins Williams, and it was not "Shrink" like Miss Audrey.
He looked suspiciously at the young version of the teacher, who was standing next to Jenkins, but the young lady shook her head, motioning Jenkins not to speak.
"Okay, it looks like this group of qualified candidates are you guys."
The woman standing at the door held a pocket watch and said, and then people in gray sacrificial robes around the room entered with water bottles, seemingly trying to forcibly wake up others.
"Being a qualified fortune-teller requires not only the talent of fate, but also strong mental resistance, because we can never predict what we will 'see' in our next fortune-telling and prophecy."
The woman's voice was very soft. She wore a slightly pink lady's formal suit on her upper body and a black skirt on her lower body. This combination would be strange on other people, but it is very suitable for the unpredictable temperament of this woman.
"You have passed the penultimate test, and then you only need the last test, and you will be qualified to touch your fate.
Young people, come with me. "