Deep sea, anchored, huge twisted corpses.

Su Qi floated in the deep sea and could see,

Hans Christian Andersen was behind the huge, twisted corpse, slowly cutting off an anchored white thread.

Implanted in the back of his own head.

……

It's hard for us to build anchors on our own, but there are plenty of existing anchors in history.

The original owners of the anchor have passed away or never even been born, but the traces and memories associated with them still exist in this world.

Let yourself be them.

Little by little, take over their anchors.

……

The pressure of the water is surging, and the vision is blurry.

Su Qi withdrew from the deep sea and woke up.

He is still at the Black Gate Club.

"I think it's more intuitive for you to see the shortcut with your own eyes."

Hans Christian Andersen clapped his hands, and the red gravel he was holding in his hand just now turned into powder.

The red gravel is very similar to the Sage's Stone in the photo that Mayumi Kamigawa showed Su Qi.

"It's really intuitive, I see what you mean by shortcuts."

Su Qi was still shocked by what he had just seen in the deep sea of Hans Christian Andersen.

Twisted gigantic corpse, anchored by white lines.

The so-called "shortcut" to take over the existing anchorage.

That is, to imitate, to play, to become the way that person is, to live like that person's life, to replace it.

"It" doesn't have to be a real person.

It can also be fictional.

But there is only one point, the perception of it must be rooted in the hearts of the majority of people, human social groups.

"Hans Christian Andersen, not your original name?"

"I don't remember my original name."

Andersen turned his cane.

"Obtaining the divine object corresponding to the fusion is only the foundation of the foundation.

In addition, you have to give up your original self and live another life in fiction in order to replace the original owner and take over the anchor. ”

"Director Alice too?"

"Of course, she's far more invested than I am, and she should have gotten a lot of anchor lines from the original owner."

Su Qi thought for a moment and asked again:

"The same 'original owner' shouldn't have more than one divine thing, right?"

"Your mind is quite sharp, and before I said it, you raised this question first."

Andersen smiled, raised his staff in one hand, and took out a silver lighter in the other.

"That's right, for example, the divine object ability I have now, the emperor's new clothes and the lighter, these are two divine objects from the same original owner."

"If one original owner is attacked by two or more Mystics at the same time, choose it as an anchor shortcut......"

"Someone is bound to get out of control."

Andersen smiled.

"It is extremely cruel to accidentally choose the same original owner with someone else.

There are only so many anchor lines, and they are spread across multiple people, which increases the risk of losing control.

The deeper the mysticus dives, the more urgent the need for anchorage, and the battle for the sole anchor spot is often a bloody process.

I've seen a few times strife between the mysteries who are fighting for the anchorage of the original owner.

The ending is not very good. ”

"Can't you anchor it with another original owner?"

"Of course not, the 'shortcut' is an irreversible process, and changing the original owner will only get out of control in an instant."

Su Qi thought in his heart, this is still a matter of opening the bow and not turning back.

"So, if you're going to choose the anchor owner, be cautious."

Hans Christian Andersen found a few books on the basics of occultism and lent them to Su Qi.

"You've been studying the occult for the past few days while you're thinking about anchoring.

If you decide to join the Black Gate Club, we can help you with the divine objects that anchor the original owner.

Of course, even if you don't want to join, you can learn some introduction to the occult here.

The deep sea is a dangerous talent that requires occult knowledge to harness it so as not to get out of control and become a ghost.

We are not stingy with knowledge, if there is one less ghost and god in this world, there will be no more. ”

……

Mr. Andersen was a gentleman.

Su Qi thought to himself.

Even if he was unclear, Mr. Andersen helped him free of charge.

"Sir, can you tell me what you just said...... The mission of maintaining human order. ”

"The Black Gate Club is an organization established to prevent ghosts and gods from harming human society."

"Ghosts and gods endanger humans?"

Su Qi was stunned.

"They are not in the deep sea, where humans are invisible, and they cannot interfere with each other."

If you can't see it, you can't hurt each other.

The closer you get, the more dramatic the impact.

This is the core rule of the mysterious world.

It is also mentioned in the notebook.

Ordinary humans, who do not see ghosts and gods, are the safest beings in the deep sea of the mysterious world.

……

"Ghosts and gods are in the depths of the ocean, it is."

Andersen nodded.

"But if they float up, it's different."

"Float up?"

Su Qi was stunned.

"That's right, from the deep sea to the surface."

Andersen took a sip of tea from a porcelain cup.

"A ghost god that can be seen by all, with supernatural powers that ordinary humans are far beyond the reach of ordinary humans, and...... It will also eat people who can see it. ”

“……”

Su Qi swallowed.

"Can ghosts and gods really be seen by ordinary people? How they float up. ”

"Through the anchor line, as you have just seen, it is the mysterious power that we mystics anchor ourselves to ensure that we do not get lost in the deep sea.

Ghosts and gods also have anchor lines, and beliefs and cognitions are their anchor lines. ”

Andersen flipped the notes in Su Qi's hand to a page of hand-drawn drawings.

The hand-drawn picture shows some devotees praying on the sea.

Bright white lines hung from them into the deep sea.

In the middle of the sea there is a distorted ghost, connected to these bright white threads, which are being pulled upward.

"Spirits and spirits are called idealists because the more we believe, the more they float up and get closer to us.

Belief can be relied upon as an anchor line, or fear can be relied on as an anchor line, and the spread of panic that is consistent with the nature of their ghosts and gods may cause them to surface.

For example, cult rituals, which are a way to summon ghosts and gods.

There are also natural disasters, which can panic human society and generate a large number of anchor lines.

Then the ghosts and spirits will come up.

The main radiation lord who completely wiped out the Tokyo branch in the first place was because of the panic spread due to the Fukushima incident, and a large number of anchor lines were generated, and thus surfaced.

The more visitors to the abyss, the more terrifying they become. ”

"So, the job of the Black Gate Club is to destroy these ghosts?"

Su Qi asked.

"No, the ghosts and gods that start from the abyss layer and go down are no longer existences that can be easily destroyed.

The methods of the Secret Cultivators are almost impossible to deal with the ghosts and gods of this level.

There are only two ways to get rid of ghosts.

One is to make him a Buddha.

One is to sink it again, to let it go back to where it came from, to get lost in the deep sea again. ”

"How can you make the ghosts sink?"

"Destroy its anchor line.

Power has a place, just as people will go to school when they reach age, they will graduate, and then they will inevitably come to the end of their life.

The power of ghosts and gods is as deep as they are.

They come up against the anchor line, and if we break the anchor line, they come from and go back. ”

"And how do you break the anchor line?"

"Do you know how the Vikings treated the pagans when they believed in gods and Valhalla before they became Christian? It's brutal and primitive. ”

"Black Gate's job requires killing?"

"Of course not, that's just a last resort, the most untechnical approach.

In this day and age, killing does not dampen faith and suspicion, but rather brings trouble and panic.

I mean destroying the beliefs, rituals, and gathering places of the followers of ghosts and gods, and suppressing those believers from summoning ghosts and gods through strange rituals in advance. ”

Cracking down on illegal pyramid schemes?

Su Qi thought about it, and Andersen's words seemed to mean this.

"Will this work?"

"It's best to dispose of it at the source, and of course, there's another means of coercion."

Andersen said, taking out a red gravel and showing it to Su Qi.

"The Philosopher's Stone can forcibly sink the ghosts and gods."

The red Sage's Stone is crystal clear, like a condensed bead of blood.

The anchor line is the only link that floats from the deep sea to the surface.

The Philosopher's Stone is the opposite.

It is a medium that sinks down into the deep sea.

……