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Chapter 163 Before Dawn, Part Three
"……crusader?"

Zhe Lukui nodded, but said: "Write to me the inscription you saw on the alchemy container."

Huiyuan wanted to take out his cell phone out of habit.But when his hand reached his empty waist, he remembered: his mobile phone had been buried under the ruins of the old Rose Hall together with his last body.

But it doesn't matter, he remembered it all with his power.

He immediately found a piece of paper and drew the series of characters from memory.

Zhi Lukui took the paper, quickly scanned the six lines of characters, and began to read softly.

"All things originate from spirit. It is the perfect origin of the universe, but it slowly precipitated and became earth."

"The return is to ascend from the earth to the sky, gathering the power of all things in the upper and lower realms. The return wins the glory of the entire universe and keeps itself away from all darkness."

"After completing my unique and great return, the me in the lower world will become the me in the upper world."

"Return is to separate earth from fire, to separate dispersion from condensation."

"The regression is from yellow to white, and then from white to red."

"Once the red return is cast, its power will be the most powerful, surpassing all subtle things and cannot be blocked by any solid matter."

Hui Yuanchu scratched his head and said honestly: "...I don't understand."

It's not much different from the phrase combinations he got through translating on his mobile phone.

This time Zhe Lukui didn't laugh at him, but nodded: "This is an alchemy term, which is more obscure than ordinary teachings, so it's normal that you don't understand it."

Hui Yuan was a little surprised: "...Is there really alchemy?"

Although he also felt that those glass containers were like alchemy containers, to him, the "alchemy" here was just a summary of elements from anime novels, and he never thought that alchemy really existed.

Zhe Lukui nodded and explained calmly: "As a sect of the Holy Spirit Church - alchemy really exists."

"Alchemy's understanding of the world is in the same vein as the Church of the Holy Spirit. It's just that they later developed a semantic system that was incompatible with the church as an 'interpretative tool' to facilitate their research."

"Because the teachings of the Orthodox Church focus on explaining clearly why light fell, why the world was born, why people exist, and the messenger's journey of salvation... But alchemists only care about one thing, and that is to study how to rely on their own strength to The true spirit is stripped out of the human prison.”

"For example, this passage——

Zhe Lukui shook the paper again, making a crackling sound, reminding Hui Yuanchu to pay attention, and she will explain the meaning of this inscription in detail next.

"These six inscriptions are the alchemists using their own semantic system to reinterpret the teachings and explain how to ascend.

"The first sentence is actually a rewriting of the canonical teachings of the Church of the Holy Spirit about Sophia and the true spirit falling and being trapped in the world by the Creator.

"The second and third sentences emphasize the significance and necessity of the return of the true spirit.

"The fourth and fifth sentences are what alchemists are best at. They use expressions similar to chemical experimental steps to metaphor the process of separating the true spirit from humans. They divide this step into three steps: yellowing, albino and Reddening.

"The 'red return' and 'unstoppable one' in the last sentence refers to the 'philosopher's stone' obtained after the final 'reddening' step - it is also the alchemist's exclusive term for the true spirit. "

Zhe Lukui explained carefully enough that Haiyuan understood.

Moreover, Orokui told him this in such detail, so he understood the meaning of the action itself.

He turned on the cicada group as an auxiliary brain and continued to think amidst the noisy cicadas: "So, if this passage appears here, it can prove that... the puppet maker is an alchemist?"

Zhe Lukui nodded slowly.

"But just proving this point doesn't seem to be enough..." Hui Yuanchu was thinking, and suddenly he had a flash of inspiration, and looked at Zhe Lukui, "Wait, you just said that alchemists are actually a sect of the Church of the Holy Spirit?"

Zhe Lukui smiled, seemingly satisfied that Hui Yuanchu had finally caught up with her train of thought.

"Yes, the alchemists have always been a faction within the Holy Spirit Church." "But after the Messenger Disaster, most of the alchemists left the Orthodox Church... Xiao Hui, guess where they went?"

Huiyuan's thoughts suddenly changed and he blurted out: "——Crusader!"

He remembered that Aoi Oriuchi had told him during the Tamaki Yumiko incident: The Crusaders abducted innocent people around the world for human experiments in order to separate the true spirits. Tamaki Yumiko became their target for this reason.

...and Hui Yuanchu now realizes: This means that in addition to the soldiers responsible for the battle, there are also a large number of researchers within the Crusaders.

So if it corresponds to the information about the alchemist that Oriuru Kui just told, there is only one conclusion.

Zhe Lukui praised softly: "Yes. In fact, the Crusaders are divided into two parts."

"One part is a soldier, responsible for plundering experimental products, guarding the nest, snatching funds and other combat tasks. The other part is an alchemist, responsible for conducting specific experiments."

"The leader of the soldiers, you have already dealt with him, is the warrior captain."

"And the leader of the alchemists...according to the information we know, he happens to like making dolls."

"The name of the apostle, everyone calls him - 'Artisan'."

--artisan.

Hui Yuanchu naturally understood that what Zhe Lukui meant was that the puppet operator hidden in the Holy Knot was probably the apostle called "Artisan".

At this time, Zhe Lukui had already reached out and took the list with clues in Hui Yuanchu's hand.

"Now, these two types of events can be explained in unison."

"The puppet incident group and the liberation incident group are indeed completely independent in terms of 'development'... but at the same time, in terms of 'cause', they are related."

She first crossed out "Manipulator" in the yellow circle representing "Doll Incident Group", and then wrote "Artisan" next to it.

Then he crossed out "Evil Spirit in Chains" in the red circle representing "Emancipation Incident Group" and re-wrote "Messenger" next to it.

Then, he changed to a black marker and drew a particularly thick arrow, pointing from "Messenger" to "Artisan".

Finally, she used a black pen to circle the red and yellow event groups together.

After doing all this, Zhe Lukui slapped the paper into Hui Yuanchu's arms. She took two steps back, held her elbows and watched for a moment. She nodded with satisfaction and said, "...Well, it's all connected."

Hui Yuanchu looked at this new circle from the side, calculated it in his mind, and nodded in approval.

He has always trusted Orukui's ability to analyze and summarize information.

But Orokui didn't seem to like him like this.

Soon the girl cast a stern look over her: "Don't just nod like a nodding guy! You have to think for yourself! For example, who is the messenger?"

"Ah, who is the messenger..." Hui Yuanchu quickly activated the cicada auxiliary brain, "Oh, you mean, who is the image used by the messenger?"

"Yeah." Oroku Aoi pressed forward step by step, "——Insert an additional question, why is the question 'Who is the messenger?' so important?"

"Because... because the image borrowed by the messenger is always the deepest image in the mind of the person who ascended to the spirit. So once you know who the identity the messenger borrowed is, you have the opportunity to deduce who the person who ascended to the spirit is from this identity."

"Very well. Then, recall the appearance of the messenger."

Hui Yuanchu remembered it very clearly, so he immediately shook his head and said, "It's a stranger."

Zhe Lukui then stuffed a pen over and said, "Then, draw it. I know you can remember every detail with your power."

This was indeed the case, so Hui Yuanchu had no choice but to take over the pen and start drawing.

(End of this chapter)