World Occult Usage Guide

Chapter 184 Doris's Diary (Part 1)

Just as Joshua was about to say something, the Bluetooth headset suddenly started playing the sound of water splashing, followed by three minutes of static.

He heard a strange noise and assumed it was another new employee. His eyes sharpened, and he quickly chased after him, only to see Lin An swaying and trembling, holding onto the cargo box to steady himself.

"Teacher, you are here!"

Joshua stared in astonishment at the scene, quite certain that no one was there!

Teleport?

As expected of a teacher, completely disregarding physical space, what a powerful Stand user!
Lin An turned the Philosopher's Stone, and a green, healing power covered his entire body, relieving his discomfort.

The Zomo Rabbit is merely a mysterious item of the Ghost Story level, with limited abilities. Moreover, its mystical magic is more like a rapid spatial "jump" than spatial teleportation.

Injecting the "Dreamer" medium into the rabbit's body, the scene before him changed rapidly. Lin An quickly transformed into a ghost deer to have enough reaction time to follow the navigation and head towards Joshua's coordinates.

It was as if someone had put him on a supersonic conveyor belt and propelled him into a VR world, where he traveled over 30 kilometers in three minutes, almost making Lin An vomit.

In short, as long as we reach our destination, that's all that matters. He nodded slightly to Joshua.

"Quickly finish this. Steve, where's that container?"

Lin An had just plunged into the river, causing his companions to gasp in alarm. They are now presumably launching a search and rescue operation.

There might be a better excuse to leave, but with only twenty minutes left until five o'clock when Doris was to leave, Lin An didn't have time.

Joshua led Lin An around several cargo racks and got a clear look at the container. Just like in the surveillance video, it was gray and dirty, with Hebrew light leaking through the gaps, as if it were imprisoning a group of blue fireflies.

Narrowing his eyes slightly, Lin An noticed that its fluctuations were different from the barrier of "soul and flesh separation." Moreover, it seemed to have subtle differences from the Canaanite magic he had seen before.

Doris's fifth ability...

Although the Philosopher's Stone could be used to dissolve the container's outer shell, Lin An was unsure of its internal structure. Instead, he took out Bennett's key and began trying to disassemble it piece by piece.

Joshua saw this and looked ashamed.

The previous battles were so realistic that he began to doubt Lin An's purpose, feeling that this place was not a simple "newcomer onboarding test".

Now he was certain once again that his teacher had indeed set up a brilliant scheme to test him.

Lin An still has the key to the final trial!
"Oh, what rare treasure are you looking for?" Bennett's voice echoed in my mind. "Don't bother, Monsieur, there's nothing in there. If you really want to pan for gold, just grab a handful of gold and jewels, that'll be enough to live comfortably for the rest of your life."

"If you keep bringing up these useless clues, I'll kill you four hundred times every day."

"Oh my god, it's a misunderstanding!" Bennett immediately backed down. "This box has been here for three years. I've been inside more than once, and it's really empty!"

What is Doris's attitude towards it?

“The young lady liked to stay inside alone and didn’t allow anyone to disturb her; but when she wasn’t there, I would often have the cleaners clean the inside properly, and she never stopped us from coming and going,” Bennett said. “This box must have been the young lady’s sanctuary.”

"Um……"

Lin An had already figured out the correct key, but to be on the safe side, he released Bennett's mental image and sent her to investigate.

For the first time, Bennett truly felt himself being controlled by Lin An. He struggled violently for a few moments and reluctantly floated into the container.

Lin An and the spiritual portrait could not share a field of vision, so he could only give general orders. He had Bennett walk around inside a few times to make sure there were no traps that would harm the soul, and then he called Joshua to lead the way.

"crunch..."

The jarring sound of the door opening echoed, and Doris's "treasure trove" came into view.

The enclosed space was almost spotless, with no artificial lights. The Hebrew inscriptions on the walls, shimmering with light, rotated clockwise from left to right, providing a soothing, ethereal blue illumination visible only to the mysterious.

The five-pointed star carpet stretched to the end, each about the size of an adult's head, and kept spinning in circles.

Furthermore, as Bennett noted, the container was empty inside.

Lin An stroked Zomo's shoulder, and the timid rabbit lay obediently, further proving that there was no danger here.

"This is the final test?" Joshua's questioning voice echoed through the terrifyingly large space, leaving a series of reverberations. "I'm not sure I know what to do."

The entire interior of the container was enveloped in Doris's magic, but Lin An was unsure of its effects.

Not getting an answer, Joshua tentatively stepped on a pentagram pattern, and the note "Do" rang out.

The sound emanating from the "Comer's" energy rippled like waves.

Joshua took a step forward, and this time the sound was "Do" again; he took a step to the left, and the note that rang out became "No".

Do no mi f sol la xi?
"It's a musical instrument!" Bennett listened intently. "My 'radiation level' used to be too low to hear anything, let alone those cleaners. So, Miss is here leisurely playing the piano."

A five-pointed star is... a musical scale?
Lin An fell into deep thought. Joshua, who was beside him, stared at the pentagram on the ground for a while, then suddenly spoke up. "Teacher, does the pentagram represent the devil? I saw in a Hollywood movie at an amusement park that every time a corpse appeared, a pentagram was painted on the wall."

Lin An glanced at him, thinking to himself, "You really have no memory left at all. Even your family's sacred symbols have been brainwashed into symbols of evil."

"That's not the case. Long before the formation of the Saviour Church, the pentagram was synonymous with holiness, guidance, and the soul."

Lin An stepped on a note to make sure there was no danger, and then he started walking forward, with a series of repeating notes playing along the way.

“Teacher, you’re absolutely right,” Joshua said with a smile. “Your words always feel so comforting to me.”

“Since the Canaanite tradition, the pentagram has been a microcosm of the world. Because there is only one point at the top of the pentagram, it is known as the ‘ascending point’ and is a sign of the communion between God and man. The balance and symmetry of the other four points also signify the balance of Yin and Yang and the harmony of the universe.”

“Symbols have changed throughout history. The early Church of Christ changed the meaning of the pentagram. As part of the Vatican’s purge of the Old Testament and the conversion of the masses to Protestantism, the symbol of the pentagram was restructured and became distorted and misunderstood.”

“I can’t sense any malevolent intent emanating from these pentagrams. Their owner must be a Canaanite, right?” Joshua said. “However, their use is… a little different from what I imagined.”

You guessed right, Doris's cousin, you are related to the Laméists and the Enochists.

Lin An continued speaking while sorting out his thoughts.

"Regardless of the struggle between the old and new factions, the pentagram remains one of the most powerful ritual symbols in magic. Legend has it that it was the image that 'guided' the Three Wise Men from the East to the Stables of the Infant Messiah, and it is also closely associated with the underworld and illusions."

"For example, a ritual record of hiding things from reality involves drawing a pentagram on a lambskin with cinnabar; lighting incense, myrrh, aloe vera, sulfur, and rosemary in the north, south, east, west, and center positions in that order; and then invoking the names of five angels of the Calabash to enter the space of the soul."

"Therefore, I believe that the secret of this space has already been revealed to us, and the truth is only a code away."

Lin An walked to the end of the container and counted that it had 30 musical notes.

30 is a magical number, representing both the amount of silver coins Judas received before his betrayal and a hidden "Requiem".

"What kind of password?"

"Since a certain family has a particular fondness for Leonardo da Vinci... I'll venture a guess: the password to the hidden space is the 30 notes of 'The Last Supper.' Do you know that painting, Steve?"

"Please tell me, teacher."

"That was Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, completed in Milan, Italia, when he was about forty-five or forty-six years old. It depicts the Messiah's last supper, with him sitting in the center, spreading his arms, announcing to the crowd that someone is about to betray him."

"The twelve disciples formed a wave-like layer around him, each with a different expression: some excited, some sad, some nervous, and some incredulous. Their expressions were vivid and lifelike, and their artistic skill alone was enough to make them famous for all time."

"But what makes this painting most famous is its occult information. For example, although it is called 'The Last Supper,' the Savior is depicted in a peaceful daytime scene, with a bright sky that seems to be a halo from heaven."

“That does seem strange…” Joshua said.

"That sky may be similar to the pentagram magic, referring to 'another hidden spiritual space'."

"What does this painting have to do with musical notation?"

"If you join the hands of all the disciples in The Last Supper, you can make a requiem that can be played. Its melody is peaceful and sacred, beginning and ending in E major, forming a perfect cycle."

"Just a painting..."

"As soon as this research was published, it was immediately attacked by the public because only four-line musical notation existed in Leonardo da Vinci's time, and five-line musical notation only gradually became popular two hundred years later."

"It seems this musical score is merely a product of later generations' imagination," Joshua mused. "Something like the five-pointed star from a Hollywood movie?"

"And Guan Yu fighting Qin Qiong."

"what?"

"That's not important. It can't be said to be entirely based on imagination. In 2007, a wealthy person publicly released Leonardo da Vinci's 'Codex Hammer,' which clearly recorded the painter's attempts at musical notation, far ahead of the curve in the industry."

“Maybe he’s just trying to get attention, just like the so-called ‘Pentagram Killer’,” Joshua said, drawing inferences from one instance to another.

“This billionaire is somewhat famous worldwide,” Lin An said. “He once used this manuscript to create screensavers and desktop programs on a system called Windows 95; his name is Bill Gates.”

"I do not recognize."

Joshua shook his head, perfectly illustrating the level of cultural literacy achieved by someone who has lost their memory and is completely blank-slate.

“In any case, this idea is worth trying.” Lin An directed Joshua, “Let’s step on them together, the order is E1, E1, G1, C2…”

The gentle and soothing melody flows like a gentle stream, indescribably comforting the heart, making one feel so small, while heaven is so sacred and immeasurably high.

As the hymns began, the container was slowly unveiled.

In Lin An's pupils, a mirage-like spectacle transcended concrete boundaries; a bizarre altar appeared out of thin air inside the dimly lit container, expanding from a single point to a whole, within reach.

(End of this chapter)