yasinovel Chapter 3814 Sound and Light
Chapter 3814 Sound and Light
Chapter 3814 Sound and Light
Ingres first spoke of the sacrifice that he found most incomprehensible.
"A 'lamp' that has witnessed glory?"
After hearing this, Xiaolu was obviously confused: "Rongguang brand lamps? I don't know much about lamps, and I'm not sure if there is such a brand. However, I remember there is a lamp market in Lux Street. Maybe you can go there and ask the merchants there?"
Angel: "No, it's not the Rongguang brand lamp, but the one that 'witnessed' Rongguang..."
Seeing Xiaolu still looking confused.
Angel paused and scratched his head: "I don't know how to tell you."
"How about this, we have a face-to-face meeting?"
Xiaolu nodded without hesitation and said, "Okay, or Hotel Desire?"
"Row."
After making the appointment, Angel closed the holographic phantom and walked towards the house tower of the deep underground black market.
On the other side, Xiaolu also ended the call and waved to Karen who was dozing on the bed, "You heard it too, our distinguished member is looking for me, I have to go out for a while."
Karen's face turned pale and he groaned.
After Xiaolu left, Kalean slowly opened his eyes and murmured softly: "The lamp that has witnessed glory... is a bit strange. What kind of ceremony would use such a strange sacrifice?"
Karen couldn't figure it out, so he decided not to think about it anymore. He would know the answer when Xiaolu came back anyway.
Well, continue to rest.
Just a few minutes later, Xiaolu and Angel met again in the same room.
Xiaolu greeted Angel modestly and sat opposite Angel. However, as soon as Xiaolu sat down, she felt a breeze brushing her cheek.
Is it windy? Are the windows open?
Xiaolu subconsciously looked up at the window. The moment she raised her eyes, she vaguely saw a green light, getting closer and closer to her, until... it sank into her forehead.
There is no doubt that this green light is the nightmare cast by Angel.
However, this nightmare technique is not used to control Xiaolu, but purely to block her memory and reduce her mental activity.
To put it bluntly, it is to prevent her from making excessive associations.
Because Angel decided to confront Xiaolu directly and tell her the general content of the "ritual".
Under normal circumstances, if Xiaolu knew that the ritual was related to the "Carnival Night Clown", he would inevitably have associations and suspicions. Angel suppressed this groundless suspicion through nightmare illusion.
Angel: "Regarding the situation of the ritual sacrifice, I couldn't explain it clearly in the Hermit Ring before, but now that there are only two of us here, I can speak frankly."
Xiaolu smiled and said, "Are you worried that a third person will know about the call on the Hermit Ring? Mr. Angel is really cautious. However, it is my honor that you can trust me."
"Sir, go ahead. I will tell you everything I know."
Angell: "This ritual is related to the clowns of Carnival Night."
"Carnival Night Clown?" Xiaolu was stunned for a moment. She should have been very suspicious at this moment, but she was very calm inside. She herself did not feel strange, but objectively evaluated in an almost calm tone: "It is a very rare fashion monster, and it is also a high-level monster."
Angel was relieved after making sure that Xiaolu's emotions were stable and that she had not made excessive associations. He continued, "You can understand the ritual I mentioned as... a tribute to the clowns of Carnival Night."
"Worshipping high-level fashion monsters? It sounds a bit like what the Dark Corner Church does..." Xiaolu said this, subconsciously looking at Angel.
Angel was stunned: "What is the Dark Corner Cult?"
"A group of crazy people who worship Dark Corner think that Dark Corner is the source of everything and our origin." Xiaolu: "The more unknown and mysterious something is, the more people will speculate. Dark Corner is like this. Because it is too mysterious, under the instigation of those with ulterior motives, a group of fanatics gathered together."
Simply put, it is a religion that worships everything in the dark corners.
Ingres could probably understand it, just like some primitive people who saw fire for the first time. Because they did not understand fire and were afraid of fire, yet longed for the warmth that fire brought, they developed a worship mentality towards this mysterious and unknown existence, and had a mentality of worshipping fire.
The concept of the Dark Corner Cult is probably the same. Because people don’t understand it, they think it’s mysterious, so they start to fill in their minds, and then “self-attack”, and finally a circle that worships the Dark Corner is formed.
Angel: "I am not a follower of the Dark Corner Cult. I don't know anything about them."
Xiaolu glanced at Angel and nodded: "I believe it."
Under the influence of the nightmare, Xiaolu will not have any random thoughts and will trust Angel's words more.
"However, it doesn't matter even if it's the Dark Corner Cult. The followers of this sect are a little crazy about things related to the Dark Corner, but everything else is normal..."
Xiaolu shook his head, his thoughts no longer scattered, and continued to ask: "Let's talk about the sacrifice again? You mean, this sacrifice is actually used to worship the Carnival Night Clown?"
Angel nodded: "You can think of it as a ritual of worship."
Little Green: "Does it involve blood food?"
Angel shook his head.
Xiaolu shrugged: "As long as it doesn't involve blood, it doesn't matter...just keep talking."
Ingres: "The ritual requires three types of offerings, involving light, sound, and food."
"The sacrifice involving 'light' is the 'lamp' I just mentioned, which witnessed the glory."
Even though Angel had explained the general situation and even pointed out the "Carnival Night Clown", Xiaolu still didn't quite understand what the sacrifice of "light" was.
She thought for a moment and continued, "What are the sacrifices of sound and food?"
Ingres did not hide anything and told Xiaolu about the "sound" and "food".
However, just as Angel finished saying "sound" and before he could say "food", Xiaolu suddenly realized something and interrupted him, saying, "I understand what 'light' means."
Angel: "???"
"You just said that the sacrifice of 'sound' is the lively atmosphere during the three major competitions." Xiaolu: "Then I can reasonably guess that this ceremony is actually related to the love of the clown himself during the carnival night."
"The Carnival Night Clown usually only appears when you clear the three major tournaments. Because it likes the lively atmosphere when the champions of the three major tournaments are born, the cheers of the audience, the excitement of the contestants on the stage, everything, is what it pursues..."
"Then the sacrifice of 'light' is easy to understand. It must be related to the three major competitions."
What is glory in the eyes of the clown in Carnival Night?
That must be before the champions of the three major competitions are born, when darkness falls and everyone is waiting with one heart for the beam of light to fall on the only champion.
The "lamp" that creates this beam of light is naturally the "lamp" mentioned by Ingres that witnessed the birth of glory.
Xiaolu expressed her thoughts, and after listening to them, Angel immediately agreed with her guess without even verifying it.
Because this logic is completely self-consistent and Ingres can believe it.
"Then do you know what kind of lamp is used to project light beams onto the champions in the three major tournaments?" Angel asked quickly.
Xiaolu shook his head: "I don't know, but I can tell you clearly that the 'lamps' here are not the ones in the lamp market. The light in this kind of competition, especially when the champion reaches the top, must be the light emitted by the fashion monster, similar to the focusing technique of the light-chasing butterfly and the flashing light ball of the shining elf..."
Why can the three major competitions attract high-level monsters?
It's not just the event itself, but also the various details surrounding it.
These details are all "fixed", such as the stage material, stage specifications, and the arrangement of seats on site; for example, the light when the champion reaches the top must be the light created by the fashion monster...
These details are immutable and are the secrets of the organizations behind the three major competitions. Only they know all the details.
With the accumulation of these details, it is like completing a whole set of regular and complicated huge rituals, which can attract the attention of high-level monsters.
Therefore, you cannot attract high-level monsters by simply holding a large-scale competition.
It will be difficult to achieve success if you don’t have a complete set of details.
It is for this reason that Xiaolu is certain that "lamp" does not refer to a physical lamp, but the light created by a certain fashion monster.
But Xiaolu is not quite sure what kind of fashion monster it is.
However, Xiaolu also gave Angle a suggestion: "In the past, the detailed regulations of the three major competitions were not easy to explore because each company was very powerful. But now it is different. Prada Media has fallen into a slump. As far as I know, they have even started to sell off some detailed regulations of the three major competitions."
"If you want to know what kind of fashion monster's light it is, you can go to Prada Media and buy these details from them."
After many twists and turns, it finally landed on Prada Media.
But there is no doubt that Xiaolu is referring to the "bright road".
Because according to the normal process of the main quest, they should indeed return to Prada Media Company and get some gold coins from them...
Moreover, following the logic of the “Sacrifice of Light”, the “Sacrifice of Sound” can undoubtedly be obtained at Prada Media.
It is most likely what Ingres had guessed before, a past recording of the Prada beauty show.
Because the video must have captured the lively noises at the scene.
Xiaolu also confirmed this: "If the 'Voice Sacrifice' wants the bustle and noise of the three major competitions, then your guess should be correct."
“However, you don’t have to go to Prada Media to find images of the three major competitions. In fact, many organizations have them.”
"After all, the three major competitions can allow companies, consortiums and some individual studios to learn a lot from all dimensions. Leaving a video record is inevitable."
“For example, our Hermit Order actually has video records.”
Angel was stunned: "Hermits have video records?"
Xiaolu nodded: "Yes, we do. If you need it, I can ask Bambu to bring it to you now."
Angel nodded without hesitation: "Yes."
Although Prada Media should also be able to obtain relevant event videos, Ingres still understands the principle of not putting all eggs in one basket.
Xiaolu asked Angel to wait for a moment. She opened the hermit ring and quickly spoke a few words to the person opposite.
Not long after, Angel felt his hermit ring getting slightly hot.
He quickly turned on the projection of the Hermit Ring and saw a Tina Entertainment logo in the projection, with a red number below it: 1.
"The Tina Entertainment logo represents the image of the 'Modern Fashion Show' in the three major competitions. What I asked Bambu to forward to you is the last fashion show."
"However, because forwarding the image consumes a lot of energy, Bambu only sent it once."
In other words, the “1” below the logo means that Angle can play the image once.
"This video is free for you, sir. If you want to play it more times, you can buy it with your membership points." Xiaolu said.
You can purchase it once with 10 membership points.
Because he had generously given Angel one thousand membership points for helping Karen to tear the pages of the book before, so Angel was not stingy at this time. He simply waved his hand and purchased two more broadcasts of the "Modern Fashion Show".
Angel then asked if there were any images of the "Prada Beauty Show" and the "Dark Competition", but Xiaolu shook his head.
Video recording is prohibited for the Dark Competition, and as for the Prada beauty show… because the previous beauty show had declined somewhat and was not very popular, the Hermit Society did not record it.
As for the earlier beauty pageants… at that time, the Hermitage had not yet arrived in the modern city, so there was naturally no possibility of visual records.
So, there is only the last "Modern Fashion Show".
But this is enough. Anyway, what the clown wants for Carnival Night is the atmosphere of the three major competitions. It shouldn’t be too important which specific competition it is.
Finally, Ingres also talked about "food sacrifice".
Xiaolu was quite interested in the "food offerings" and listened very carefully, fearing that he might have missed something like "blood food".
After hearing the content of "Food Sacrifice", Xiaolu also breathed a sigh of relief.
Top-quality oil paints, colorful fabrics, oil wax in carnival paper lanterns… these are all very normal things. Although some offerings are a bit pricey, they are not shabby.
"Does the Hermitage have these things?" Angel: "If they do, I can buy them directly from the Hermitage."
Xiaolu: "The Hermit will have a lot of oil paints and fabrics, and they are all top-quality. But the wax in the carnival paper lanterns is a bit out of season..."
What are Carnival Paper Lanterns?
Simply put, it is the paper lanterns that are released at the annual carnival. The shape of this paper lantern is a bit like a "Kongming lantern". After it is lit, the buoyancy of the hot air allows the paper lantern to rise into the air.
Carnival paper lanterns are only sold during carnival, so Xiaolu said that it was a bit out of season. Will the hermit stock such festival items?
"However, if you only want to buy the wax for the carnival paper lanterns, you should be able to buy them." Xiaolu said, "I remember that during the carnival every year, there are also merchants specializing in carnival paper lanterns in the deep underground black market. I can ask for you, sir, and I should be able to buy them."
Angel: “That’s troublesome.”
"It's no trouble. I can just go back to the Hermitage branch and prepare the paints and fabrics you want... and I believe you will not be reluctant to pay for the errands." Xiaolu blinked.
She certainly knew that running errands for "free" would most likely earn her some small gratitude. However, this was too deliberate. She hoped that Angell could establish more long-term and continuous connections with the Hermits, rather than relying on such short-term and fragmented gratitude to retain people.
Therefore, it is most appropriate to maintain a businesslike attitude from the beginning.