Chapter 48: Pure Land = Blurred Illusion?

The process of entering the Pure Land is like a phantom shift, and the whole body seems to be spinning and rolling in a washing machine, and then thrown out again, and finally landing on the edge of a river of sewage.

It's a place that Zhang Jin is all too familiar with: a long river of sewage runs through the small town of Cokworth, bordered by an overgrown embankment full of discarded garbage, and from here you can see a huge chimney that belongs to an abandoned mill.

On the side of the abandoned mill, there are rows of dilapidated brick houses that Zhang Jin is very familiar with, they seem to be buildings of the last century, the mottled marks on the walls have covered up the original pattern, the road surface is a cobweb-like alley paved with cobblestones, and one of the alleys is called Spider Tail Alley, where there is a poor community where the "lower three indiscriminate" converge, and it is also Severus. The home where Snape lived for more than twenty years.

The other side of the sewage river is much more neat and clean, there are no mountains of garbage piled up on this side, and there are no various abandoned sundries facilities, but there is a playground that is not very crowded, and there is a relatively new community, and Severus's childhood friend Lili. Evans lives in this neighborhood.

Severus had spied on Lily and her sister Penny from the bushes at the edge of the playground several times, and it was there that she discovered that Lily was a fellow wizard and had spoken to her for the first time.

Then there was the river of sewage in front of him, a not very wide river that meandered into a small lake nearby, where Severus and Lily chatted, and he told her everything he knew about magic, showing her his magical abilities, and expressing his youthful emotions to her.

They held hands here and spent Severus's best childhood here.

Zhang Jin felt as if there was a voice roaring and longing in his heart, and he seemed to see the two children sitting cross-legged facing each other, and then the girl pretended to be a magic wand with a twig to cast a spell, and the boy was laughing, and he had never laughed so happily.

Then the roar became louder, and it seemed to rush out of Zhang Jin's body, out of the cage that had been blocked.

The willow tree on the bank of the river still swayed its branches, and the hollow in the tree where Severus hid still awaited its owner.

The slightly pungent smell in the air faded a little, and a silvery-white mist began to float on the surface of the river, just like the sky in the distance, except for the very clear scenery in the near distance, which was always shrouded in this silver-white fog, and it was impossible to see it in the distance.

Then in the midst of the silver-white mist, the two children ran out, and they came to the bank of the river, and sat cross-legged; They began to laugh, they began to look forward to the future, and they began to imagine what life would be like at Hogwarts......

And Zhang Jin couldn't help but have tears in his eyes, he already knew what kind of place this was, it was the most mysterious place of death in the magic world in the original book, or the place that connected to death - Blurry Illusion.

It exists in the mind of every wizard, presenting the deepest view of the wizard's mind when he dies, and it can also be the imagination of the wizard, from memory or fantasy, which changes according to the imagination of the wizard.

The picture in front of him clearly belonged to Severus, including the voices, including the two children who appeared at the end, Severus. Snape and Lily. Evans, that was Severus's last wish.

However, Zhang Jin knows better what it means to stay here, and to stay is to die!

In the original book, Harry came here because he was under Voldemort's curse, and the soul belonging to Voldemort in his body died, just because that soul did not have a complete and independent consciousness, so it was Harry's own inner world, that is, the famous King's Cross station platform nine and three-quarters, and he also met Dumbledore here and learned the cause of everything.

However, Zhang Jin came in through the entrance of the Pure Land, so it can also be said that the Pure Land is a blurred illusion.

It makes sense to think so, after all, both the Pure Land and the Blur Illusion are called the Land of Death, or it is through the Blur Illusion that the real Land of Death can be reached.

It's just because neither is certain, and it's often speculated that the Blurry Realm is illusory and the Pure Land is real, that no one connects the two.

Walking along the cobblestone path of Spider Tail Alley, the picture in front of him is not much different from reality, but when Zhang Jin wants to manifest some other things, there is no change here, which makes Zhang Jin realize more clearly that this illusion is not under his control, at least not all.

So what's beyond the distance? Harry chose to go back, so he didn't know what lay ahead.

And what if forward? Is it death or something else?

Continuing to walk forward, he soon came to the edge shrouded in a silvery-white mist, and then passed straight through.

It was still a silver-white space again, only there was nothing here anymore, and it was surrounded by silver-white patches, silver-white sky, silver-white ground, and silver-white mist shrouded all sides.

Then a crisp tapping sound came, and the fog in front of him gradually rolled and poured out a person.

It was a handsome middle-aged wizard dressed in a silver-green robe, a pointed wizard's hat on his head, and a half-man-tall cane in his hand.

The cane rested on the ground and made a crisp collision sound, which was the sound Zhang Jin heard.

He looked at Zhang Jin and said, "You're finally here, I've been waiting for you." ”

Zhang Jin just looked at him and asked, "Who are you?" Why are you waiting for me? Did you know I was coming? ”

"My name is Merlin, you should know me." The man continued, "I once made a prophecy in which you appeared. ”

Zhang Jin: "Merlin should have died a long time ago, right?" ”

Merlin: "Where do you think this is?" ”

Zhang Jin felt that this trip was really not in vain, not only saw the legendary fairy Weiwei An in the lake, but also saw Merlin, who is known as the god of magic and the strongest wizard.

But why would Merlin be waiting for him here? Could it be that there is a reason for the crossing, as in other novels? And he was arranged by Merlin?

Zhang Jin: "Why are you waiting for me?" ”

"I'm waiting for someone who can enter the Blur in the flesh, and the prophecy tells me that this person will come at this time."

"You should have seen Wei Wei'an, it's only possible to let people enter here directly through the entrance there, although I don't know what she told you, but I have another way of saying this, I don't know if you're interested in listening to it?"

"It's a secret about the origin of magic!"