Chapter 165 The Answer in the Mirror

The next morning, Nino arrived at the sanctuary and met Salomo.

Salomo returned the extracted inspiration to him.

"How is it, have you identified anything?"

"At first, we only discovered that it was the inspiration extracted from ordinary human believers. It did not contain any other impurities, and the residual induction power was extremely rare. Apart from that, there was nothing worth paying attention to." Salomo took a sip of water.

"So there's no problem?"

"No, there is a problem." Salomo said, "With my level of expertise, I can only identify the basic ingredients, but seeing how pitiful you are, I went back to ask my acquaintances in Andemiye."

"The result is that the information inside this inspiration has been intentionally adjusted."

"Is it possible to do such a thing?" Nino asked in surprise.

"Yes, and it's not a particularly difficult method. You can use a self-miracle called 'Echo' to do it, but this miracle is very old and unpopular."

Salomo explained the miracle in detail.

The miracle of echo is a very useless miracle, but as long as all the victims of detective novels know this miracle, then perhaps there will be no need for detectives.

Using this miracle when near death can actively form a kind of incomplete inspiration, in which the additional induction component is rarer than normal, and excludes the contamination of all other miracle powers.

In return, you can encode the memory you want to load into it.

However, the amount of memory that can be encoded is pitifully short.

Sensing power, miracles, symbolic perception, and memory are all things that can be obtained from extracting inspiration. Using echo miracles can adjust the final memory component to a certain extent while largely eliminating the first three.

"That means Navidad may have left some information in it!" Nino said excitedly.

Salome nodded.

"Thank you, Salomo!"

"Don't be so quick to thank me. This is something that extracts inspiration and integrates into one's body after absorption. For believers, purity is very important. Even a small piece of external memory may have some kind of bad influence. Anyone who casually eats this thing as candy is crazy. You should think carefully."

Salomo's suggestion was to find other people who could accept it, such as the people from the Land of Destiny. The people from the Land of Destiny were not so resistant to extra sensitivity, and were even keen on such things. Inspiration extracted from them often had greater value, such as being used to repair a broken life lock.

"There's no time. I'll do it myself." But Nino shook his head, very decisively.

Salomo opened his mouth slightly, but in the end said nothing.

Nino tightly grasped Navidad's extracted inspiration and directly mobilized his own inductive power to absorb it.

Suddenly, a fragment of memory flashed through his mind.

Navidad gently placed a mirror in the bottom drawer of his study and closed it.

"Mirror!" Nino blurted out.

"what?"

Nino described the memory scene he saw.

Salomo thought for a moment and said, "It could be some kind of miracle item. Navidad left this memory behind when he died. Obviously, there is something hidden in it."

Nino didn't say much and set off immediately.

Salomo sighed, took out the sanctuary postcard and took a look at it.

Miss Aoife is about to arrive, I just hope things won't turn out to be the worst.

……

Nino came to the Sun City Library, which was an open area and there were no obstacles along the way.

After explaining his purpose to some scholars here, they did not stop him and took Nino to Navidad's study.

After Navidad was captured, the place was thoroughly searched, but because there was nothing worth noting, the guards quickly withdrew.

After thanking him, Nino watched the scholar leave. According to his previous memory fragments, he quickly went to the desk and found the mirror under the drawer.

It looks like a plain mirror, nothing special about it, except that the pattern on the frame may have some historical value if studied in detail.

I don't know how to use it, but since it's a miracle item, it shouldn't be a problem to use my induction to test it.

After Nino's sensing power enveloped the mirror, suddenly, the image reflected in the mirror changed.

Nino's figure was blurred and finally turned into Navidad. Nino was startled and tightened his grip on the mirror.

"So Nino was the one who found the clue in the end? It seems that even though I was caught, my luck was pretty good in the end." Navidad in the mirror showed his usual confident smile.

"Navidad? You are not dead?" Nino asked in surprise.

"What are you talking about? The inspiration has been analyzed, how can I still be alive? I'm not that powerful. I just used this mirror to imitate and record the shadow left behind by Navidad." Navidad in the mirror shrugged.

Nino calmed himself down. "Why did you leave this record and even use the inspiration as a guide for your afterlife? There is still a lot of information behind your betrayal of Sun City that you haven't revealed to me. What else are you hiding?"

"I just tried my best for my ideal Sun City. Wengerson and his group thought too simply. In an era when the influence of the chaotic world has not yet dissipated, their approach is bound to fail."

"What do you mean?"

"The Zhuyang above our heads has been alive. The first signs of it appeared about ten years ago. At that time, the craftsmen who maintained the Zhuyang discovered a problem. The matter was urgently reported to Lord Wengerson, and then a secret meeting was held involving only the core members of the Grand Conference Hall."

Navidad said: "It is said that there was a fierce dispute. I was not an eyewitness, but I heard about it from my deceased teacher who participated in the conversation. In the end, they told the top leaders that Zhuyang was seriously aged and needed to start preparing a new Zhuyang. This is the version we know."

"The truth behind Zhuyang's 'aging' is that it has actually begun to activate!?" Nino was stunned.

Navidad in the mirror continued, "Initially, we took a slow approach and waited to see what would happen. Then, there was some good news. Aging actually does exist, but because of this aging, Zhuyang's activation progress has been stuck. Its consciousness cannot be born in its old body. However, the accumulation of power caused by the activation tendency may turn Zhuyang into a bomb hanging over Sun City at some point in the future."

Is this good news?
As if he could see what Nino was thinking, Navidad smiled and said, "This is certainly good news. Since this problem has been discovered, Wengerson and the others will have to start facing this problem and make a choice as to how to deal with Zhuyang."

"And in the end, he chose to continue Zhuyang, so the construction of the new Zhuyang project began."

Nino was silent for a moment, digesting the information before asking, "What does this have to do with your actions? You secretly contacted the Night Chaser Church and obstructed the New Sun Project in every possible way."

"The fact that you were able to find my mirror means that you should have guessed it." Navidad said in the mirror, "My actions are not betrayal, but the advancement of the New Zhuyang Project. It is part of the plan."

Stimulate conflicts, create oppositions, and consolidate faith!

"It is impossible for us to replicate the miracle of Zhuyang now. Even if we can do better in terms of craftsmanship, it is still not enough to fill that gap. Xuri City has filled this gap with a wandering god, and we... seem to have a ready-made wandering god." There was an inexplicable meaning in Navida's smile.

"...If that's all, it doesn't seem unacceptable...but you then planned to summon an ancient being to destroy the old Zhuyang in advance. This part should not be part of the new Zhuyang project."

Nino said after thinking calmly for a moment.

"Ha, although you are a little naive, you are not stupid, Nino." Navidad laughed.

"...You don't need to learn this part from your original master." Nino's eyes twitched.

Then, Navidad's smile faded in the mirror: "Because I am willing to dedicate everything to my hometown, the City of the Sun, and even take on all the sins on the back of the black hand, so that the old sun can be born as a wandering god and then embedded in the new sun to illuminate the world."

"But I don't intend to watch Wengerson dedicate the City of the Sun to that wandering god and truly deify him."

"What!?" Nino lost his voice, shocked by this incident.

If they wanted to use Youshen as the core of the new Zhuyang, Nino could accept it. After all, Rising Sun City also did this and had successful experience. There was no reason why they couldn't do it in Sun City.

However, even the Rising Sun City concealed the existence of the second Sun-Forging Core from the outside world.

A wandering god cannot become a real god!

This is the essence that has survived from the chaotic times of the present era.

There is a big difference between using the parade and worshipping the parade.

"So while I continue the New Zhuyang Project, I also add a little bit of my personal thoughts. In my opinion, this may also be an opportunity to break free from the Zhuyang cradle. Even if there will be turbulence in the process, people can stand up firmly in the times. Isn't this also the case with our earliest ancestors in Sun City?"

Nino wanted to speak.

But Navidad in the mirror continued first: "I know my thoughts may be biased. After all, I am the only one who makes the choice, but it is the people of Sun City who suffer the consequences. However, I will not change my mind."

"If the old Zhuyang is really allowed to become an unclear wandering god and rule the Sun City as a false god, then it would be better to destroy it outright."

Are there any kind people among the parade gods?

Although there are almost no records of this, considering the rigor, we can barely say "maybe". However, the biggest threat to ordinary mortals from the harm of wandering gods is not the gods themselves, but their uncontrollable influence on the outside world.

Madness, assimilation, curse...

The history of the Forty-Four Gods Era seems like a vague myth to this day, and the chaotic times of wandering gods are still a lingering haze for countless people.

In addition to the distance in time and the clarity of history, this difference between the powerful pillar gods and the complex wandering gods is the biggest reason.

(End of this chapter)