Chapter 16: Temptation
"Haha... That's refreshing, Miss Meshhos. Your demeanor is becoming more and more extraordinary."
In the library, Aldridge took all the money Dorothy handed over with a smile, while Dorothy complained in her heart with a cold face.
"I can't bargain with you anyway, so how can I not be straightforward?"
"Please wait a moment. I will write down all the divination knowledge that is worth the price." Aldridge said as he put down the feather duster in his hand, then slowly walked to the desk and sat down. Then he took out a piece of paper and placed it in front of him, picked up the pen and began to write.
Aldridge wrote very quickly and finished in less than ten minutes. When the ink was dry, he folded it and put it into the envelope he took out of his pocket. Dorothy sat by and watched silently throughout the whole process.
"Divination... the important thing is not the technique but the material. These simple divination techniques do not involve any profound mysterious knowledge. The knowledge of poison can be ignored. You can watch it with confidence."
As he said this, Aldridge handed the envelope to Dorothy, who felt a little disappointed after taking it.
"I don't know the poison... Does this mean I'm not mysterious enough and can't have sex with spiritual beings?"
After many attempts, Dorothy roughly understood that she might be immune to the poison recognition, so for her, the stronger the poison recognition in the knowledge box, the better. After all, the stronger the poison recognition, the more profound the mystery, which means more spirituality.
It's too bad that this little knowledge didn't identify the poison. It really is a cheap product at less than £100.
Dorothy complained in her heart while putting away the envelope handed to her by Aldridge. Then she thought about it and asked the other party again.
"By the way, sir, I would like to ask you a question. In the mysterious world, how can one 'corrupt' a person?"
Dorothy inquired and said that from the information she had obtained from the Holy Communion before, Dorothy knew that they wanted to corrupt her and then use her to corrupt Greg, so she felt it necessary for her to figure out the meaning of the so-called "corruption".
"Corruption..." After listening to Dorothy's words, Aldridge thought for a while and then spoke.
"10 pounds for consultation..."
Without thinking too much, Dorothy took out the money and put it in front of Aldridge. After receiving the money, the other party continued to explain.
"The so-called corruption... has a broad meaning in occultism. It generally refers to the process in which one thing is affected by another or another environment, resulting in psychological and physiological changes. Depending on the influencer, the term will also change. For example, some guys think the word corruption is not nice, so they call it sanctification or purification... No matter what it is called, the core concept is the same. For example, I prefer to call it pollution. In the secret world, various associations like to use different means to corrupt the people they want to control into part of their own party."
After Aldridge finished speaking, Dorothy thought for a moment and then continued to ask.
"So, what kind of corruption methods does the 'Cup' association have?"
Dorothy continued to ask, and as expected, Aldridge spoke again.
"10 pounds..."
Dorothy took out the money silently, and after receiving the money, Aldridge continued to speak.
"For large associations of the 'Cup', such as the Afterbirth Cult, they have many ways to corrupt, usually involving very profound mysteries. I am not too sure about the details, but the more general associations are not so complicated. There are usually two methods, one is drug control, and the other is drug identification temptation."
"Drug control...know the temptation of drugs..." Dorothy murmured as she listened to Aldridge's words, and Aldridge nodded and continued.
"Yes... First, it's drug control. All spiritual attributes have multiple meanings, some on the material level, and some on the spiritual and conceptual level. The 'cup' symbolizes the flesh and blood of life on the material level, and on the spiritual level it also symbolizes the endless desires derived from biological instincts, and appetite is an important one among them.
"And by taking advantage of the spirituality of the 'Cup', some 'Cup' societies can use trace amounts of spirituality to make some addictive drugs. After ordinary people take them, they will be stimulated to have strong hunger and thirst, and become dependent on the drug. They will try every means to take the drug again. The more they take, the stronger the dependence. If they take it for a long time, even extraordinary people will not be able to withstand it. Some 'Cup' societies mix such drugs with ordinary food and feed them to unsuspecting people. Then, they gradually control them by providing drugs. If the controlled person wants the drug, he must obey the drug provider."
Aldridge said slowly. Dorothy was stunned when she heard his words.
"This, this is a drug, right? It turns out that these 'cup' associations not only eat people but also deal in drugs? No wonder they are on the top blacklist of the Security Bureau."
"So... what about knowing the temptation of poison?"
After just a moment's thought, Dorothy continued to ask Aldridge, and the other party continued to answer.
"Regarding the temptation of knowing poison, this method of corruption is not limited to the 'Cup' Society. You know that knowing poison is a toxic substance that exists in all secret knowledge. It will cause varying degrees of damage to the reader's spirit. Most of the time, some of the lighter damage will manifest as a desire to learn about this kind of spiritual and mysterious knowledge. You have also felt it, even if you read the secret after taking sufficient protective measures, you will have a morbid desire after reading it, a desire to obtain more knowledge about this spirituality.
"This is actually a manifestation of being corroded by the poison. The mind damaged by the poison will make people more eager to read more and deeper mysterious knowledge corresponding to spirituality. Then step by step, they are tortured by the poison and gradually become mentally ill. But they can't stop, and finally they are driven crazy, killed, and out of control by the gradually accumulated poison."
With a strange look on his face, Aldridge spoke slowly, and Dorothy murmured as she listened to his words.
"Is drug identification also tempting?"
"Yes, and this is often more terrible than the temptation of drugs. Many high-level extraordinary people can resist drugs, but they cannot resist poison recognition. Poison recognition can stimulate people's infinite curiosity about mysterious knowledge, but it will gradually torture people to madness after leading them to explore the way. The temptation of poison recognition often makes senior high-level extraordinary people fall into the abyss accidentally.
"For example, a profound secret book should be carefully read in three days according to the correct anti-drug reading process, page by page, and ingested in moderation, slowly clearing the drug knowledge while absorbing the knowledge of drug knowledge. However, if the temptation of drug knowledge is not suppressed during this process, and the secret book is read quickly in violation of the process, then the reader will be crazy because of the rapid accumulation of drug knowledge...
"Heh... I don't know how many talented people have met their end because of this."
As he spoke, Aldridge looked at the sky outside the window with some melancholy, and it was unknown what he was thinking in his eyes.
Seeing Aldridge's expression, Dorothy suddenly felt something in her heart.
"This old man... seems to be even more complicated than he said before..."
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