"Since it's not Dad, it must be Audrey. Think about it carefully, when did you discuss the topic of time?"
Alexia gave another hint.
After Alexia's guidance, Jenkins finally remembered. That was after Miss Audrey's "failed" water divination ceremony, the two returned from the past time and space and fell to the bottom of the lake again.
After being "rescued" ashore by chocolate that dived to the bottom of the lake, he once talked to Miss Audrey about time. At that time, the topic of the blue moon was brought up, and Miss Audrey’s words almost pointed to whether the blue moon is the master [closed circle] or a symbol of righteousness, and the blue moon is also the core of many secret rituals involving time (1709 chapter).
The example she mentioned at the time was the ritual [Contact Time Paradox]. Although the mention of the ceremony does not mean that Miss Audrey must know all the contents of the ceremony, but at least it is a good breakthrough direction.
"But the problem is that Audrey is also in the missing convoy."
Alexia spoke again, and Jenkins nodded:
"Yes, I remember her and Miss Bronyance in the carriage behind us..."
Thinking of this, he opened the window again and shouted loudly:
"Miss Audrey, can you hear me?"
Chocolate, dissatisfied with Jenkins' rude behavior, buried her head in her little paws, curled up in a ball on the upholstered seat.
He shouted three times in a row before being stopped by Alexia. Of course, there was no reply from the empty field covered with ashes. This was also expected. Jenkins just wanted to try his luck.
"Since Miss Audrey knows about this ceremony, maybe other people in Church of Destiny know about it too... I'll go back to the church to try my luck."
This is the only way now.
"Okay, I'll stay here to take care of your cat and try to contact Audrey. You don't have to worry about us, just go about your business. Now we need the help of fate."
"Yes, we need the help of fate."
Alexia used "fate" to refer to the fortunetellers, but Jenkins suddenly had an inspiration:
"Maybe instead of going to church, now I can see if fate helps me."
As he said that, he directly activated [Unknown Way Ahead], and the purple thread that symbolized the guidance of fate actually appeared.
"What do you see?"
Looking at Jenkins' eyes, Alexia knew that Jenkins had made a discovery, and she understood after asking:
"Has that ability responded?"
"Yes, this means that not only do I know all the information I should know, but this moment is a key node that will affect my future destiny."
The long purple line of fate pointed to Jenkins' coat pocket, and Jenkins simply took out all the messy things in the left and right pockets.
The side pockets of the coat are very deep and large, and Jenkins put in them including but not limited to some dried flower petals, a few raisins, a handful of seeds, two packs of colored powders, air bomb rings, and a stack worth about 3 Banknotes around 1,000 pounds, the stub of an opera ticket that I somehow put in my pocket, a piece of blue chalk, a short sterling silver dagger in a wooden scabbard, a box full of heavy bullets, my own key chain, the key chain Scratched pens, carefully kept notebooks, and bottles of drugs the size of three thumbs.
While it sounds like his pockets are like trash cans, the items are put into little bags and then put in pockets, so it's actually not messy at all. He usually doesn't bring so many things with him. It's just that he will encounter an accident at some point recently, so he has to bring all the important things with him.
In fact, there were more odds and ends hidden in the side pockets of his overcoat, around his waist, in his shoes, in the lining of his hat, and in the cuffs of his turned-up sleeves. It's like the metal block that stores the divinity, which is put in a bag and hung around the waist, together with the pistol.
"this."
He picked up the notebook, which was given to him by the ancient fortune teller girl Ovia, and it was a note of her own knowledge of divination that she spent a lot of time writing. Of course, the one in his hand is not the original, but he drew it with the [Book of Memories]. After all, you can't take things with you in your dreams.
Although the notebook is not very thick, but the content is too large, and his talent in divination is not very high, so although after leaving Blacktown, he read it whenever he had time, but he has not read it intensively until now. one third. He knew all the contents in it, but at that time he just wrote it down like a painting. He didn't know if there were secret records in the unread part.
According to the guidance of fate, I turned from the back to the front to about the back of the middle. On the edge of a page with a star map illustration drawn with a pencil, I found the same beautiful handwriting as other positions, and there was a long string of words written there.
These words are the complete content of the ceremony [Contact Time Paradox].
"Oh, Ovia!"
He touched the page and sighed. Alexia didn't comment on it. She poked her head and looked at it, trying to translate those ancient words into modern common language:
"This ceremony is really simple."
So simple that it doesn't even involve any ancient material.
The core of the ceremony is the blue moon, that is, the ritual matrix can only be unfolded under the light of the blue moon. In addition, three symbols that symbolize "time" are needed. These symbols do not necessarily have to be extraordinary, but must be related to time. Subsequently, three symbols related to the host of the ceremony, symbolizing the "present", "past" and "future" are required. Afterwards, three objects related to the current time point that can symbolize the current era are needed.
The nine symbols are all the materials needed for the ceremony, and Ovia wrote down the drawing method of the ceremony matrix, the mantras that need to be recited, and the techniques for activating the ceremony, etc., in the notebook.
The nine symbols can be found very easily, and "symbols" are one of the most important contents in occultism. The "blue moon", which was almost ignored in the past, has instead become a problem for this ceremony.
Although it is night now, black clouds cover the sky, and the two-color moonlight is blocked outside the black clouds. Not even unicorns can advance to the top of the cloud in the black cloud.
"Since only a blue moon is required, and no real blue moon is required, you may think about it in a different way."
Alexia also said that in front of her, Jenkins often felt that he hadn't learned any knowledge from his father this year.
"What's another way of thinking?"
"The reason why the blue moon is used as the core of the ceremony is because it symbolizes the power of the Lord of Time. In theory, other items that can symbolize the power of the Lord of Time can also be used as the core... Do you have any?"
"No... maybe there is."
When dealing with the time loop event last time, let the time paradoxists help build a method that can realize time anomalies, so as to forge the king soul. Although the pocket watch presented by his younger brother John, who has stored power, can only be used once, but because it has been contaminated with special time power, it can of course be used as the core symbolizing the power of time.
In this way, there will be no problem. Find pocket watches, watches, and clocks as time symbols, find old clothes, your own hair, and the power ring of the king's identity to symbolize the past, present and future, find a wisp of gray fog, and a schematic diagram of the steam engine structure. , Soil to represent the era. For the sake of safety, he deliberately left the carriage and used the ceremony outside the thick fog.
An ambiguous gray light hovers above the ground as the ritual is used. There were footsteps in the air, but no one could be seen with the naked eye. The clicking sound of the clock appeared in my ears, and some phantoms from different time and space, as the ceremony progressed, were brought to this point in time by uncontrolled intertwined forces, but were soon automatically expelled by the world.
Afterwards, the figures of the time paradoxists gradually solidified in reality. However, although these people seldom act alone, once they appear, most of them are two or more individuals appearing at the same time, but more than 30 time paradoxists in black formal suits, black hats, black leather shoes and black briefcases Appearing at the same time still startled Jenkins.
"I salute you, god of lies."
They said at the same time.
"It's good for you too... In fact, there are not so many people... Is the ceremony I used wrong?"
"No, your ceremony is perfect. It's because this time is unusual, we must remain vigilant, in fact, just these people are far from enough."
"Yes, the fog is unusual, so it takes a lot of hands... Can you dispel it?"
"Can."
The leader said, but considering that these time paradoxists even look almost identical, Jenkins cannot distinguish the difference between him and his companions.
"These fogs are accompanied by the appearance of a creature. As long as the creature is expelled or re-sealed, the chaotic fog of time will naturally dissipate."
Said the Time Paradoxist.
"That is to say, there is a monster hiding in the fog right now? Why didn't I find anything... Forget it, it doesn't matter, what kind of thing appeared to produce such a terrible fog?"
"Paradox."
"Paradox... eh? Sorry, what did you say?"
Jenkins suspected he had heard wrong.
This is the second time Jenkins has heard of the name [paradox bug]. This bug is a beast of disaster closely related to time, a beast of disaster in the past era. Even if you don't know what kind of power it has, you can tell from the name that it is unusual. A look of panic appeared on Jenkins' face:
"You mean..."
He pointed to the fog behind him, and then to the group in front of him:
"That thing... escaped the seal?"
The last time I met time paradoxists in the time loop hospital, they came for the seal of the paradox bug:
"The paradox bug escaped to the present time point?"