In the yellow sand, the abandoned city shrouded in red mist.

The wandering ghosts and gods that once crowded the city are gone.

The ritual of the land training works.

door, in the fulfillment of the law of equivalent exchange.

until the red mist liquefies and concentrates.

Lin Wei's figure standing in the center of the ceremony was re-revealed.

The original body was already full of holes and tatters, as if most of it had been eaten by a bite.

In this case, even breathing and vital signs are maintained, which obviously does not look like normal life.

The red mist condenses and liquefies into a viscous liquid philosopher's stone, like blood.

Shadows and shadows, chaotic whispers.

In the viscous philosopher's stone, there were faintly deformed human heads and severed limbs, like the resentment left by countless refined ghosts and gods.

Chaos, madness.

This condensed philosopher's stone was distilled and cooled into the glass flask in Lin Wei's hand, and he looked at the red liquid shaking in the bottle and drank it all.

The Philosopher's Stone began to spread along the body, the original flesh and blood were eaten little by little, and the Philosopher's Stone filled with a new life structure.

One day, two days, three days......

In an abandoned city.

The Territory Refining Ceremony has been discontinued.

The door and the red mist vanished.

The ghosts and gods of the whole city were refined and disappeared without a trace.

Only a fair-skinned figure remains.

Lin Wei looked at her body, listening to the never-ending chaos and crazy whispers in her body.

……

The space around him shook, and a vague figure was about to appear.

Lin Wei came back to her senses and picked up the gravel beside her.

One grip.

The rubble turned into a robe and was worn on the body.

The intellectual rituals of the alchemy school, equivalent exchange.

It is possible to disassemble and reassemble substances.

The transformation of a stone into a long robe is a simple ritual of equivalent exchange.

However.

Lin Wei did not pass the ceremony.

She didn't draw a ritual formation.

She performed the ritual empty-handed.

The ritual array is the carrier of the ritual, with graphics to provide function and origin imprint to provide energy.

This is like people using tools, they need to rely on flashlights to shine light, and if you want to go to a distant place quickly, you need to use vehicles such as cars and trains.

Rituals are the tools used by human beings when they want to achieve actions that they are beyond their means.

And if, apart from the tools and rituals, the same effect can be achieved, it is obviously out of the category of human beings.

……

Space shook, and the figure of the messenger appeared.

"The spreader of truth and knowledge, the great alchemy sage Lin Wei, greets you from the chaos of the ambush."

"You don't have to repeat such a lengthy greeting every time, you may think it's an imitation of human behavior, but in fact it's crappy like a funny clown."

"Humans say etiquette is a protective color, and I don't want to be eaten by you."

The messenger said strange things.

Lin Wei didn't answer his words, and held the gravel in his hand, and the gravel turned into a small glass test tube.

She cut a small cut in her fingertips.

Three drops of crystal red blood are dropped into the test tube.

"Three Philosopher's Stones, it's time to tell me what method you have prepared to send me to Tokyo."

"Of course, great sage, I have prepared a ceremony for you in Tokyo."

"You want to send me in through a ritual?"

"I call it the 'Ritual of Eternal Life,' and human desires are always simple and easy to understand, even though I don't understand the meaning of long life.

But there was a human in Tokyo who was very interested in this, so I told him that it wasn't an instigation, it was just some whispers and suggestions. ”

"The rule of the door, all things are always exchanged for equal value, and the ritual of life must be exchanged for life."

Lin Wei withdrew the test tube in her hand.

"I didn't say I wanted to get into this kind of trouble, I'm not satisfied."

"I understand that alchemists always regard life as a forbidden ritual, rest assured, you won't get into trouble."

The messenger smiled, his swarthy face showing white teeth.

"It's not an exchange of lives, it's just an exchange of 'punishment'."

Lin Wei threw the test tube in her hand to the messenger.

"How long will it take?"

"It won't be long, I think it should be soon."

"I'll wait here."

Lin Wei turned around and left, returning to the abandoned city.

looked at the back of Lin Wei leaving.

The messenger's eyes narrowed.

The soul of a man, the body of a ghost or god.

This is the life form that is already extremely close to perfection in the progress of 'life completion'.

Human beings are on the path of completion, and ghosts and gods are on the path of completion, and the path is different, but the end point is the same.

That's ...... Perfect lifeforms.

Space shook, and the messenger disappeared into the abandoned city.

The yellow sand is all over the sky, and the waste capital is only empty and silent.

……

Tokyo.

Inside the tram.

Su Qi's thinking withdrew from the ideal country.

In the aisle of the carriage in front of you.

Two pieces of kidney flesh with small thin legs were chasing each other and running.

Su Qi felt more comfortable and less depressed in a sealed room that could not see the sky.

Because you won't see a 'cafeteria' indoors.

Of course, there are still some other things to see when you look up.

……

Su Qi was on top of his head.

A translucent peristaltic pipe is connected and runs through the roof of the tram car, through the ceiling, and upwards.

The peristaltic ducts are fully transparent and inconspicuous if you don't look closely.

In the peristaltic pipe, there is a large number of dense arrays of symbols, which are transmitted upwards.

Not only themselves, but all human beings have them.

Where do the peristaltic pipes connect?

Black cabinet on the clouds, confessional.

This strange scene.

Just as all human beings are transmitting certain thoughts from their minds upwards to the black cabinet for repentance.

……

What are these peristaltic ducts?

What is the dense 'array of symbols' in the pipeline?

What's in the black closet?

Su Qi didn't know, he didn't know.

The unknown of the Moho layer has far exceeded his imagination at the beginning.

I thought I was just seeing more ghosts and gods.

But the appearance of the 'cafeteria' and the 'confessional' made him understand that this was obviously not simply a matter of seeing more ghosts and gods.

It is not for nothing that so many mysteries who have sunk into the Moho layer have lost control and cannot die well.

So here's the problem.

Yourself here...... How long can you live?

……

Tram arrival.

Su Qi walked out of the subway station with his bag on his back, and held his mobile phone as a bowing person on the way.

He needed some time to buffer.

At least until you are familiar with the ghost ecology at this level and adjust your acting skills, looking down at your phone is a tricky way.

……

Shooting gallery.

Today is Saturday, and I have long made an appointment with Ms. Yamaruzod to train to touch guns.

It had been delayed for a week because of the Weeping Angel in the Tram Theater.

"I see you don't look good all the time."

Shanlu Zodd fired a few bullets at the humanoid target, took off the protective headset and looked at Su Qi and said:

"Andersen said that you are quite deep in the sea, and you haven't been able to fully adapt to it yet.

Take it easy, you will soon get used to it in a year or two, we all came over like this, the abyss layer will indeed be difficult for newcomers like you. ”

Su Qi smiled reluctantly.

How much he wished he was in the abyss layer now!

……

Su Qi touched a few commonly used models of pistols and rifles in the shooting hall, all of which were available in the "arsenal" of the Black Gate Club, and he put what he learned into practice.

Of course, there is no sniper rifle, and it is impossible for the shooting gallery to have this thing, so you can only practice in the arsenal later.

Shanlu Zodd corrected Su Qi's posture, as for the shooting accuracy, according to Su Qi's current accuracy of marksmanship, he still has to practice slowly.

When it comes to accuracy, you have to hit the target first, don't you?

"You don't have to save targets for the shooting gallery."

This is what Yamaruzod said at the end of the training.

Su Qi didn't expect that he was actually a hidden master of human body strokes.

……

After the morning firearms introductory training.

I had a simple meal at noon.

In the afternoon, there is a physical combat training.

Although Su Qi didn't require him to be more proficient in martial arts, he also needed to learn some simple self-defense grappling moves.

Ms. Yamaruzod is one of the best players in the Black Gate Club, just look at Mr. Green's secretive attitude towards her.

Su Qi didn't have a good afternoon.

Shanlu Zodd trained mercilessly, opening and closing, which really made Su Qi a little suspicious of life.

This is the legendary learning to fight and learn to be beaten first?

"The physique is good, the technique is poor, but there is room for improvement."

This is the evaluation of the afternoon training.

……

"Do you have time in a moment?"

In the afternoon, after the training.

Ms. Yamaruzod asked.

Su Qi was stunned.

"It's fine, except for a visiting ghost at night."

"Okay, come with me to another place, I have an informant here about slandering the mage."

"Where are you going?"

"Ningyocho."

……

The first volume of [Black Gate Club] ends.

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