Chapter 34: Popular Science on Esoteric Buddhism

Watson put down the bucket and lifted up the towel covered with blood foam, revealing Feuerbach's pale and twisted face.

The other party felt the sobriety and beauty of the air for the first time in a long time, and he gasped greedily. On the contrary, it stretched the wounds in his lungs, and another mouthful of blood spurted out.

Watson wiped the blood off his fist and said calmly:

"Go on, I'll give you a happy ending."

Feuerbach gasped violently for a while before he came back to his senses. His turbid brain was reactivated by the fresh air.

He recalled the desperate suffocation pain just now, which was a torture that even a disciple of the Scarred Centurion could not bear - the pain erupting from the inside was far more intense and vicious than the flesh wound cut by the blade.

He shouted with tears in his eyes: "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! I said it, I said it, I said it!"

"I belong to the Order of the Flashing Blade. The order worships the great Scarred Commander and mainly practices the secret transmission of blades and lamps."

"I came to trouble you this time because I received instructions from the leader. He said that you have criminal evidence about our cult and will cause us a lot of trouble... He, he also gave me 50 pounds as a reward. I only used a small part of the reward and kept the rest in my inner pocket.”

The criminal evidence of the Order of the Flashing Blade... Watson thought to himself: When will I get hold of this thing? It sounded like a random excuse made up to cover up the real reason for killing me.

He took out a few 5-pound banknotes from the boy's inner pocket. They were as new as if they had just been taken out of the printing factory. They also smelled faintly of ink... It seemed that there was no way to get anything useful from them. clues.

"Tell me about your sect."

"The Order... The address of our Order's headquarters is located in an abandoned factory in the river bend. The previous owner was Kate and Hero Co., Ltd. As far as I know, there are currently eight members of the Order besides me. The leader, five A believer, two disciples.”

Kate & Hollo Co., Ltd.... Watson thought to himself that this was another familiar name, and it was also a suspected mysterious case mentioned in Holmes's notebook. Why had he been unknowingly involved in the cases in that book lately? Get in touch?

“What is the difference between a believer and a disciple?”

"Whether it passes the promotion ceremony."

Watson perked up after hearing this. He dragged a chair to sit down and asked with interest: "What is the promotion ceremony?"

Feuerbach swallowed a mouthful of blood foam and continued: "It is said that it is a secret ritual that can quickly improve the strength of believers without practicing secret transmission. I don't know the specific content of the ritual. I have just joined the sect. For half a year...and when the ceremony is held, the leader and the ritual performers will hide in a secret dark room, so I am not qualified to watch. "

"The only thing I know is that the success rate of this ritual is very low. It has been held on average once a month since I joined the cult, but most of the time the leader alone drags the corpses of believers covered with black cloth from the dark room. Coming out... In such a long time, I have only seen a believer successfully promoted to a disciple. When he came out, he would put on clean clothes, but his face was pale, as if he had lost too much blood, and he needed help from others to barely walk. Look. It looked very weak.”

Watson nodded secretly. It sounded like some kind of dangerous transformation surgery? Or is it a way to overdraw your potential in advance? Not necessarily. Bizarre things related to Si Chen often surpass his poor imagination. Maybe he shouldn't try to guess, but wait for seeing to be believed.

He finally met an apprentice with systematic knowledge of the hidden world, so naturally he wanted to ask all the questions he was concerned about.

"How many types of secret transmission are there? What are the effects of each?"

Feuerbach couldn't believe it when he heard this. His unrecognizable face was full of doubts. You don't even know the most basic information about the hidden world? How could such an amateur detective collect criminal evidence of our sect? !

Watson saw the boy hesitating and pretending to lift the bucket.

Upon seeing this, Feuerbach recalled the feeling of having a soaked towel covering his face and blocking his breathing, and said quickly: "I said, I said, today's hidden world is divided into nine types according to the principles and thoughts corresponding to the esoteric transmission: Lamp, cast, blade, winter, heart, cup, moth, secret history, enlightenment... Among them, the secret history is the most mysterious and does not have power. "

"Deng is the code of unkindness and rationality. Deng secret apprentices are pure scholars. They are weak in body but strong in spirit, and their desire for knowledge seems to be endless."

"Forging is the principle of transformation and destruction. Most of the secret casting apprentices have advanced craftsmanship skills and have a body as strong as steel that can withstand high temperatures."

"Blade is the principle of fighting and struggle. We, the blade apprentices, are real warriors and are good at the skills of killing and fighting."

"Winter is the code of silence, ending, and things that are not completely gone. Winter secret apprentices have very few voices in the hidden world. They seem to just hide and observe silently, and never take the initiative to get involved in worldly affairs."

"Heart is the principle of eternity and continuity. Heart secret apprentices are all energetic people, and they seem to have special abilities that can heal injuries quickly."

"Cup is the code of fertility and feasting. Cup secret apprentices are sensualists, a group of guys who are greedy for pleasure, but I heard that they are all rough-skinned and fleshy."

"Moth is the code of chaos and desire. Moth esoteric apprentices and lamp esoteric apprentices are two opposite examples. They are both crazy and irrational. Even if they study esoteric teachings normally, their bodies will become different from ordinary people. ”

"Qi, is the principle of opening and dismantling. Qi secret apprentices are very good at unlocking or opening something, whether it is a door or a lock, or even themselves."

Feuerbach finished this long string of information in one breath, and pulled the injury in his lungs again, coughing and spitting blood foam.

Watson nodded slightly. Sure enough, these serious pagans are more familiar with the basic knowledge of the secret world. It's just right for him to give him a good popular science.

And it sounds like this Blade Secret seems to be quite suitable for me... Maybe I should consider changing to other secrets. The current Moth and Cup Secrets sound really evil. He doesn't want to become a fat lunatic holding a rice bucket in the future-my own problems are already serious enough.

He politely scooped a cup of water from the bucket next to him and handed it to the other person, letting him rest for a while to moisten his throat, then poured the remaining half bucket of water on the other person's lower body to dispel the unpleasant smell of urine, and then asked the question he was most concerned about:

"Are there any tips for quickly improving the secret teachings? Can mortals practice multiple secret teachings at the same time?"

Feuerbach took a sip, "Goo, thank you... I don't know much about this, I only know that in the early stage of the Blade Secret Teaching, you can quickly improve by killing lives, but this method will be less effective as time goes on."

"And practicing multiple types of secret teachings at the same time... In theory, it is possible, but different secret teachings represent different principles , as the secret teachings gradually improve, the practitioners' thinking and spirit will gradually move closer to the corresponding principles. "

"At present, the secret world generally recognizes that the upper limit of concurrent secret teachings is three. It is not impossible to increase it, but it is necessary to ensure that the progress of secret teachings must maintain a certain difference, and ensure that the main secret teaching has the upper hand. Otherwise, the different principles represented by the secret teachings at the same stage will set off a tug-of-war in the apprentice's head, which is very likely to cause the apprentice to have a mental breakdown and become a madman with multiple thoughts. "

After hearing this, Watson narrowed his eyes slightly. The upper limit is three... and I already have two secret teachings. Doesn't that mean that I can only practice one more concurrently at present?

"Then after the current secret teaching is perfected, how can we continue to make progress?"

"We need to get in touch with the deeper history of Sichen... In the current secret world, the level of secret teaching is mainly evaluated by the depth and content of the Sichen secrets involved in the knowledge, from the most superficial first-level secret teaching that only knows the name of Sichen, to the seventh-level secret teaching that is related to the profound mystery of the essence of Sichen."

"The seventh-level secret teaching is like seven sharp blades. Mortals must climb up step by step carefully. If they accidentally come into contact with advanced secret knowledge and step over the ladder, they will roll down the ladder and be bitten by thousands of blades, or they will be killed. will be out of control and distorted. "

"And the number seven has a very special mysterious meaning in the secret world. Humans have seven orifices, there are seven kinds of pain in the world, there are seven named people under the Si Chen, there are seven immortals under the named people, there are seven knowers under the immortals... There are also many secrets that I don't know about that have some special connection with the number seven. "

Watson pondered for a moment. He didn't expect that these scholars in the secret world would summarize a seemingly stable way to rise from the bizarre knowledge... But will the mysterious Si Chen really be so easy to do as mortals wish?

"What do the Knowers, Immortals, and Named Ones mean? Explain."

Feuerbach shook his head. "I really don't know. I've only seen vague records of Immortals and Named Ones in the classics. I only know that they have shed their mortal bodies and ascended to Mansu to serve Sichen... As for the Knowers, I heard the leader mention them. It is said that they are secret researchers who have passed through the Stag Gate and have begun to truly come into contact with the true secrets of the first level of Mansu, and are no longer ignorant apprentices."

"Stag Gate?"

"The Stag Gate is also called the Apprentice Gate in the secret world. Those who have passed through this gate mean that you have known certain secret knowledge and can be promoted to Knowers. That is the real secret apprentice... But these are just what I heard in the cult. I myself I haven't left the forest yet, and I haven't even opened the first door of Mansu. I've always been wandering around the edge of Mansu."

"The second door...what is the first door?"

"The Pure White Door, also known as the Bone Door and the Ivory Door, is also the first door of the House. Although Mansu has no walls, only through the door can you reach the real Mansu. It is said that after the apprentice passes through this door, his soul about sound will be left outside the door, and he can only wander in Mansu in silence..."

Feuerbach seemed to have Stockholm syndrome. Before Watson asked, he took the initiative to explain: "By the way, the House is the real Mansu, where all the Sichen live and live."

Watson nodded. This kid is so cooperative that he is really a little embarrassed to start.

"Then how can we find the Pure White Door in the dark and silent woodland like the deep sea? What are the characteristics, shortcuts and methods?"

Feuerbach shook his head, "This... is a question that can only be considered after the secret teaching progress reaches a higher level. I really don't know."

"Oh, then do you have something containing secret knowledge on you now?"

"No——"

Bang, an undisguised gunshot echoed in Baker Street in the middle of the night, waking up the sleeping neighbors from their dreams, and every household noisily lit up the lights, and the detective who followed the sound pushed the door open...

Recently, I saw many book friends mentioned that the dialogue of this book is more like fantasy than fantasy...

No wonder the editor asked me whether I should vote for fantasy. I was wondering if it would be too inappropriate to put Victoria London in the fantasy category...It turns out that I only saw the first layer.

So I would like to ask for your opinions on how to change it:

1. Change the idioms and literary words in the dialogue to plain language.

2. Classic tone: Oh, I swear to God, if I hear you speak in this disgusting tone again, I will kick your ass with my shoe horn!