I Forged the Myth of the Old Ones

Once the spark of Stone's thinking emerges, it is difficult to contain it.

He quickly thought of his answer.

The reason Gothe's internal organs point to Byron is because Byron is Gothe's internal organs.

Or if you think about it from another angle, Gothe is Byron.

This sounds outrageous and unbelievable, but in the background of the foreign land, it seems very reasonable.

Whether Gothe or Byron, both are one.

Gothe is Byron, and Byron is Gothe.

They're all part of the slime monster.

Since the silt monster can mimic a human being, he can mimic two people.

Gothe and Byron are humans mimicked by silt monsters.

This is why Stone's "Summer Reappearance" will find Byron's hiding place when tracking Gothe.

The two of them were one.

Thinking of this, Stone suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

He is now in the same room as this slime monster.

Regarding the power of the mud monsters, Stone is very clear, and it can even be said that no one understands what these monsters can do better than him.

Ten years ago, he witnessed these monsters burrowing into the human body, causing a glass flower to bloom from their internal organs, and all this only needed the monster's gaze.

Although Stone knows how to get along with these monsters and avoid their harm, this does not make them less dangerous.

"what happened?"

Byron asked suddenly, he turned his eyes away from the swinging pendulum and turned to Stone.

"I thought of something."

Stone turned his head calmly and looked at Byron.

"Do you know how a detective works a case?"

"How could I know, sir, that I'm just a bum."

Byron frowned slightly, expressing that he was not very clear.

"A detective needs to believe first."

Stone said seriously.

"Believe it? Isn't it doubt?"

Byron felt strange, and he asked curiously.

"If you choose to doubt, then all people and things are doubtful, and all evidence and testimony can be overturned. Things in the world are no longer true, and investigation work will never be carried out normally."

Stone said he kept both hands on the table to give Byron a sense of security.

"So, the first step in the investigation is to believe, believe the testimony of each witness, agree with each piece of evidence, and use these evidence and testimony to start the restoration of the case."

"But won't there be conflicts in this way?"

Byron asked.

"That's the point."

Stone replied.

"When all the testimonies and evidence are combined and produce contradictions, we can find suspicious targets. We can investigate these contradictions and find out who is lying."

"Good way."

Byron couldn't help saying.

"Yeah, so, I asked Mr. Steward before, and he said that during this period of time, no vehicles have ever arrived at the Rainstorm Villa. We assume that what he said is true, then during this period of time, except us , no one else came here by car."

Stone said slowly.

"But according to what you said, Mr. Byron, you fell asleep on the way here, and when you woke up, you found yourself in a wine barrel. Moreover, Mr. Gould arrived before you, so there must be a car carrying You entered this Rainstorm Villa, which contradicted the testimony of Mr. Steward."

"You, are you saying that I lied to you?"

Byron suddenly felt a little nervous, he retracted his hands, looking very cramped.

"But according to my investigation, you didn't lie. There was indeed a car that brought you in, and you were indeed put in a wine barrel, and you were not released until we found out."

Stone looked at Byron.

"That's the paradox."

"Mr. Detective, I'm not lying, really, I don't know anything."

Byron leaned back, which was a subconscious movement to avoid danger.

"I don't think either you or Mr. Steward is lying."

Stone pondered.

"It's just that there are some deviations in the middle."

Byron looked confused.

"To put it simply, you did go here at the invitation of Gao De, and you did come here in a car, and lost consciousness halfway, but that was not in the past few days."

Stone explained.

"You were favored by Gao De a long time ago. As the material for this ceremony, I don't know why he favored you. Maybe it's because you have come into contact with the works of Taoist Heming, or maybe it's for other reasons. You made up a reason and asked you to come here to preside over the spiritual summoning ceremony, and then on the way, you lost consciousness, were locked in a wine barrel, and stored in an underground wine cellar, until now."

"How long has it been, I'm not sure. According to the layout of all this, it is even possible that when the mansion was sold to Browning, you had already been locked up in the underground wine cellar."

Hearing Stone's words, Byron was even more puzzled. If it was true what Stone said, he should have starved to death long ago!

"Yes."

Stone saw Byron's doubts, and he quickly explained.

"Because you are no longer human."

He ties it all together.

When Byron lost consciousness, he had been swallowed by the silt monster, and his soul and memory had been absorbed, and the culprit of all this was Gothe himself.

When "Gothe" suffered fatal injuries, in order to hide himself, the mud monster activated Byron's consciousness in the wine barrel, pretending to know nothing, and hid in Gothe's subconscious.

Obviously, because "God" needs to hide something.

What is he hiding?

When Stone was thinking about this, a thunderbolt struck, and he saw that the expression on Byron's face was constantly changing. After panic and doubt, it finally turned into numbness and indifference.

His eyes were lost, like a doll that has been broken.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

From Byron's throat, a sound like bursting bubbles echoed.

===639. Sublimation===

Taoist Heming.

I don't know why, when Lu Jian heard this name, he didn't have any special emotion.

Probably because he already knew the identity of the other party, and witnessed how he changed from an ordinary person to what he is now.

It's as if you see a gangster boss who is vicious, as if he wants to take hands and feet if he disagrees, it looks terrible, but if you start to see him running in the alley with a pacifier in his crotch pants, it will also be the same as Lu Feeling similar now.

It's just that Taoist Heming has obviously experienced a lot of things, and he doesn't remember Lu Juan either. He just doesn't know if Lu Juan said that he ran across the street in crotch pants when he was a child.

"You are Taoist Heming?"

Lu Jian asked in confirmation.

"What do you think Taoist Heming is like? He ascended to become a fairy? Or has he decayed into dust?"

Browning seemed to have misunderstood what Lu Jian meant, so he asked a question, and before he could answer, he went on to explain.

"Sublimation is a special kind of transformation, which can make people abandon the shackles of the body and become a truly high-level existence. In this case, my existence is not limited to matter."

Browning explained.

His words were tainted, causing Shia to frown slightly, but for Shia who had studied magic, Browning's speech was not too outrageous and could still be accepted.

"Human consciousness also relies on matter to exist. Without matter, human consciousness is impossible to talk about. If you want to obtain eternal life and sublimate yourself, you must first abandon your own body, including all your own matter."

As Browning spoke, he took out a small knife out of nowhere. He picked up the knife and cut towards his finger. The sharp blade cut through the skin, gouged into the flesh, and rubbed harshly on the bone. There was a sound, and then, he cut off the entire finger from the joint and put it in the palm of his hand to play with.

"Flesh and flesh are fragile, and even those monsters cannot escape destruction."

He was referring to those silt monsters. It seems that Taoist Heming had indeed used the content of "The Seven Chapters of Xuanjun" to summon silt monsters, and tried to fuse his will with them.

It's just that he didn't succeed, or he retained his will in a certain way, or it was proved through experiments that this method was unreliable.

"As long as there is still a body that can be destroyed, then it is quite far away from immortality. Some people are ignorant and blindly strengthen the body, wanting to obtain a body that has been tempered, and want to rely on their own strength to defeat everything, but they are wrong."

Browning put the piece of finger into his mouth like eating a biscuit, chewed and swallowed it.

The old butler at the side saw this scene, his eyes were already bloodshot, and he fell to the ground, as if he had been thrown into a bell and hit dozens of times, unable to react to the outside world.

Seeing such an old butler, Shia punched him directly, knocking him out, so as to save him from being polluted later.

"The sublimation you are talking about refers to the process of changing from an ordinary person to a god? How is this done?"

Lu Jian asked unhurriedly.

He is very clear that Taoist Heming is not a threat to them at present, otherwise, according to Taoist Heming's own state, there is no need to chat with Lu Jian and the others here.

The reason why the other party communicates with him is that he has a request.

Combined with Taoist Heming's saying that he was hiding here and using the paintings of the ancient capital to suppress it, Lu Jian felt that there should be some missing link in the middle that he hadn't discovered.

Gu Yan

"Good question."