Chapter 80: The King of Ghouls
[Because you looked at the sacrificial skull and felt an indescribable terrible aura, the cold in your heart made you afraid, and your sanity value dropped by 5%]
"Chu Ge, are you okay?"
Chubby's voice brought him back to his senses, he rubbed his eyes, and the illusion in front of him disappeared, and he immediately said: "It's okay, there is something wrong with those skeletons, don't look at them casually, they will lose their sanity." ”
Hearing Chu Ge's words, Xiaopang remembered the lesson he had learned in the museum before, and immediately turned his head away from looking at the skull.
At that moment, there was a sound of footsteps behind them, it was the sound of walking, and there was no one else in this catacomb, only them.
Other words...... It's a ghoul!
Chu Ge immediately turned on his spiritual vision, and sure enough, he saw several red shadows behind them walking towards this side.
"The ghouls are coming, hide!"
Chu Ge and the others hurriedly hid next to the bookcase, and the ghouls walked past them, as if they hadn't noticed them.
Chubby was relieved, but unexpectedly he stepped on a broken bone on the ground and made a clicking sound.
Broken!
The ghoul in the back heard the voice, and when he looked back, Chubby was very close to him, and as long as he tilted his head a little more, he could see Chubby shivering and nervous.
"Squeak, squeak. ”
At this time, the cry of a mouse was heard not far away, and the ghoul was attracted away by the sound of the mouse and left here, and Chubby breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's a good thing it wasn't discovered, otherwise I don't know what would have happened if I was found in the ghoul's lair. ”
"Rest assured, for the safety of the mission, we will not save you. ”
Chubby: "......"
Of course, Chu Ge was deliberately teasing him, and now that they are seriously understaffed, regardless of Chubby, their dungeon adventure this time will be really cold.
And as a friend, how could Chu Ge not save Chubby when he saw death?
Poker Face's face had been ugly, the wound on his neck had worsened, and green pus was oozing, "You'd better kill me before I turn into a ghoul......"
"What are you talking about, we have no way out, since we are here, we must find the antidote!"
Poker Face didn't say much about Chu Ge's reaction, "The catacombs are like a labyrinth, as long as we are careful, we won't necessarily bump into those ghouls." ”
As Pokerface said, the structure of the catacombs is very complex, and there are multiple forks in the interior that lead to different areas, Chu Ge uses a compass to guide the direction, and Fat uses his spiritual vision to detect the enemy from time to time.
"Left. ”
"Go straight. ”
"Right. ”
"No, it's still left. ”
Chu Ge led everyone towards the depths of the catacombs, and there were no other ghouls along the way, they walked a few forks in a row, and after turning a few corners, their eyes suddenly brightened, they seemed to have walked out of the scope of the catacombs.
This is a wide flat land, deep in the underground world, there seems to be a mysterious building on the flat ground, it is a palace, an ancient temple, I don't know how many years have passed, it is covered with moss and traces of the passage of time.
"There are no ghouls in here. Chubby glanced at it with his vision, but found no trace of the enemy.
Chu Ge looked at the compass and found that the pointer pointed straight to the temple, "Let's go, the antidote is inside!"
Hearing his words, they immediately walked towards the temple, and for some reason, as soon as they stepped up the steps, they felt a cold air rushing towards their faces, which made people very uncomfortable.
They kept walking towards the inside of the temple, and Chu Ge was surprised to find that there was actually a striped path on the floor under his feet, spreading across the ground and extending towards the depths of the temple.
When he looked closely, he realized that these lines were actually slender grooves, and there seemed to be something reddish-brown in the grooves, which had already dried.
It was blood, and there used to be blood flowing through these lines, and I don't know how long it had passed, and it had already turned into blood scale.
"Chu Ge, look at this side. ”
Fat said, it turned out that there were some reliefs carved on both sides of the walls of the temple, and there were a total of four reliefs on the left and right.
From left to right, the first relief depicts a human-like creature with a hyena-like figure gnawing on something.
The second relief shows a corpse lying on a six-pointed star circle, and a man in a robe holds a book in his left hand and a dagger in his right hand, stabbing the corpse in the chest with the dagger.
The third relief is the resurrection of the corpse, the shell of the corpse cracks, and a hideous figure crawls out of the shell, turning into a newborn ghoul.
The last relief is a little vague, with countless robed men kneeling on a stone slab carved into an indescribable strange figure, like a black mist, and in the black mist there is a reptilian figure.
"Is it carved about the origins and legends of ghouls?" Chubby's expression was confused.
"In the Cthulhu Mythos, most ghouls are infected and mutated, and only a few are converted from believers who believe in Morkidian, the king of ghouls. ”
Poker Face began to popularize science again, although his face was very ugly, but he still tried to explain: "Lily in the murderous mansion is a monster born after death by the believers of the Ghoul King. ”
"The King of Ghouls?" Chu Ge asked curiously, "Is that a large ghoul?"
"He is a powerful god, the ruler of the old, known as the god of gloom and cold bones. ”
"Tsk. Chu Ge pursed his lips, he was the old ruler again, he had heard about the old ruler in the madhouse before, and he didn't know if these two old rulers were the same thing.
Chu Ge and they continued to walk inside, and they came to the hall of the temple, and in the hall of the temple stood a tall statue, which looked like a ghoul, but it was not like it, because he wore a skull mask on his face, and there were several old seals carved on it.
"What is this?" Illya's brow furrowed slightly, how could the old seal appear on top of this statue that the ghouls hated.
Chu Ge's brows furrowed, he felt that things were not so simple.
He touched the statue and saw that the ghoul's claws seemed to be movable, and he snapped them, followed by the sound of a mechanism rattling.
A stone box slowly emerged from the top of the statue, and just inside the stone box, there were six of them, and the container contained a mysterious blue liquid.
【Side quest completed】
【Name:Antidote】
【Type: Consumables】
[Collateral Effect: Remove the Ghoul Curse, after successfully taking the antidote, the player's mutated state will be lifted, which can weaken the ghoul's power]
[Comprehensive evaluation: blue bottle, delicious]
"The God TM Blue Bottle is delicious. Chu Ge couldn't help but complain, he took a look, there were a total of six antidotes in this stone box, it seemed that it was just for the six players of them, but now Hai's son-in-law and Shui Wuyue were hanging, and they only needed four.
I don't know why there is an antidote in the ghoul's temple that can relieve the ghoul infection, and it will be protected by the old seal, and it can't be destroyed by other ghouls.
But now that the antidote has been found, we have to get Poker Face to drink it.
At this moment, Chu Ge found that Poker Face suddenly squatted down, his head lowered, and his face could not be seen, but his body was trembling.
"What's wrong with you?" Chu Ge asked.
Poker Face didn't speak, he fell to the ground, his body trembling slightly. After a while, this tremor was over, Chu Ge thought that his poker face was better, but the next moment, the other party raised his head.
Poker Face's face became extremely hideous, there were green tendons bulging on his face, the teeth in his mouth turned into fangs, and his two eyes bloomed with a terrifying red light!