This chapter is subtitled: The World of Seafood, Bugs, and Molluscs

The author should first state that I didn't plan to go into detail about Cthulhu, but I asked several readers who knew each other in reality, and they didn't even know what this thing was, and they never asked these friends to really go to Baidu. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info friends who are familiar with Cthulhu or have read "Dagon" and "Jerusalem Territory", please forgive me.

If you have friends who are interested in Cthulhu because of these chapters, but don't want to read those obscure novels and complicated settings, then Murong recommends the first season of the American drama "True Detective", and it is because of this American drama that I learned about Cthulhu.

In addition, in addition to the indispensable excerpts from the original text, this chapter was typed out by Murong word by word, which really can't be regarded as water injection.

Before Cthulhu, there were no horror novels, and in the 18th century, the Gothic novel, the originator of modern Western horror novels, appeared, which had elements of "surreal horror" in addition to the "Gothic castle" scene from which it was named. "Surreal horror" refers to the heightened anxiety of fear of death or madness in which the characters are infested with some form of ghost, ghost, monster or "unknowable".

Of course, in our Seris there are strange novels that correspond to Gothic novels

The background world of Eastern Zhiwei novels and Western Gothic novels is "warm and affectionate". These two types of fiction are like someone eating an apple and being very unlucky enough to bite a caterpillar. This apple fruit is good, but there is a hairy insect factor. Whether it's praying to God or meeting an immortal by chance, as long as you find the right way, the protagonist can still get rid of or even get rid of this caterpillar.

In contrast, the world of Cthulhu is much colder and darker, and can even be called despair. The "apple" of Cthulhu itself is composed of "caterpillars", but ordinary people can't find it, and the so-called "God" or "immortal" is actually some kind of "caterpillar".

In other words, the world of Cthulhu itself has malicious intentions towards humans, at least not for us. There will not be a stern god in this kind of work, because the human race has angered him and sent down the great flood that destroyed the world, and the Cthulhu evil god flooded the human world because he was the one who defecated in the open; There will be no evil ghosts who deliberately harm the protagonist, and those extraterrestrial or prehistoric races in Cthulhu may be reminding humans of "kindness". But even if the protagonist understands their intentions, there is nothing they can do, so they have to wait desperately for the inevitable return of the evil god.

"Fear is no longer just a human being, or a myth that comes from human parochialism...... True fear comes from beyond Earth, from the vastness of the universe, from the unintelligible beyond. ”。

Of course, such a worldview alone is not enough for Cthulhu to have such an impact. In addition to this, the evil gods and monsters of Cthulhu are very "distinctive". This feature is "unspeakable", and it is impossible to show their image in words, even the master himself, so he drew a lot of illustrations by himself.

So how did you know about him......

Yuan Yanqian got up, opened the drawer, took out a newspaper from it, and said, "Mr. Ai Craftsman, I found you through this newspaper." ”

If you buy a racist newspaper, you know that the editor-in-chief is a horror fiction author...... Anyway, our Master Yuan always has a way.

The master who loves craftsmanship took it and took a look, and it turned out to be "Conservative" published by himself. He couldn't help muttering in his heart, this is written for "conservatives", what kind of excitement does this Chinese make?

Our Master Yuan took a sip of Wujiapi and said with a slight smile: "After I saw the name of the editor-in-chief of this newspaper, I suddenly remembered that I once read the novel you published in The-Vagrant magazine last year, what is it called......

Hearing this, the eyes of the master of love and craftsmanship lit up, and he said, "Mr. Yuan, you are talking about "Dagon"? ”

"Yes, yes, that's the name."

Dagon (translated as Dagon or Dagon) was originally the ancient Semitic god of agriculture, in the image of a man dressed in fish skin. This deity was worshipped by the early Amorites (ancient Babylonians) and was the head of the Philistine gods. However, because of this, Dagon was considered a devil by the ancient Israelites, who had been the "prisoners of Babylon" and were also the old enemies of the Philistines.

In the Cthulhu mythological system, it exists with the female Mother-Hydra as a follower of the old ruler Cthulhu, the leader of the Deep-Ones, the Father God, and the Mother Goddess.

In the DND Dungeons & Dragons system, which is also a tabletop RPG, Dagon is a powerful demon, one of the ancient demon lords, and the lord of the 89th floor of the bottomless abyss. Also known as the King of the Deep, the Shadow of the Ocean, and the Lord of the Sea and the Sea Monster. It rules over those creatures that inhabit the pitch-black depths of the sea.

And in video games, Dagon is even more familiar. To give you just two examples, it is not only the boss of The Elder Scrolls 4, but also the origin of the name of the red staff (Dagon's divine power) in DOTA.

"Dagon" was the first book with a Cthulhu-esque twist, and since then the artisan has been writing about all kinds of seafood and molluscs. And "The Territory of Jerusalem" "written" by Yuan Yanqian should be the second Cthulhu novel in this world, our Master Yuan spared the seafood and couldn't get along with the bugs.

This novel is about an American sailor who was captured by the Germans and stole a lifeboat to escape on his own in the early days of World War I. He wandered into a black swamp and saw stone sculptures built by deep divers, followed by giant creatures that appeared to be Dagon......

Although rescued from the sea, the crew member is still suffering from visions in a psychiatric hospital in San Francisco.

Of course, like most of the protagonists of Cthulhu novels, the protagonist's SAN value reaches zero at the end.

The SAN value is the Sanity value, which literally translates to mental power, and is the most important value for Cthulhu Mythos table gamers, which is equivalent to HP in other games. Once the SAN value reaches zero, it means that the character's three views are completely destroyed and sent directly to Qingshan.

“…… Deliverance is at hand. There was a sound in the doorway, like a large, slippery body moving slowly. It won't find mine. God, the hand! Window! Window"

Yuan Yanqi's "Jerusalem Territory" tells the story of a gentleman who accepted his cousin's inheritance in 1850 and moved back to his ancestral home, where he found a strange town called "Missionary Point" near his ancestral home, and not far from the town was an abandoned hamlet called "Jerusalem Territory". In the village church, he found an evil book written in Latin and Druidian called The Secret of the Worm.

After some investigation, he was shocked to learn that his grandfather was the leader of the cult in the Jerusalem Territory, which had been turned into a demonic abode through a profane ritual. And through "The Secret of the Worm" and the summoning of the protagonist's bloodline, his grandfather will be resurrected again.

Although the protagonist stops his grandfather's evil attempts, like the protagonists of most Cthulhu novels, the protagonist eventually loses his SAN value to zero and commits suicide.

“…… I am a channel, I am the last blood of the Boonni family. For the sake of the good of all mankind, I must die...... Break that connection completely, forever.

I'm out to sea now, Burns. My journey, like my story, is coming to an end. May God bless you and give you peace.

Your Charles"