No.192 The horror of a deep diver
The town of Innsmouth in the middle of the night exudes a thick shadow, which cannot be cut by a knife or pierced by a needle. The cold fog of the night filled the air, as if diving on the eerie bottom of the sea, and the light of the full moon shone through the clouds on the filthy streets, like the phosphorescent light of the seabed.
He couldn't hear anything, only his own heartbeat, and the extreme silence in the town terrified Megumi Kurama.
The night in this eerie town is harder than expected, and the grim mix of mold on the walls and the ubiquitous smell of fish in the town is a creepy mixture of death and decay.
There were thousands of thoughts in his mind, and sitting on the hard iron box, Megumi Kuruma's eyelids jumped. Speculation about the weirdness of this town and the secret cult of Dagon made Megumi feel a little guilty. Ye Yifan has been out for more than an hour, and he hasn't come back until now, and his left hand is still injured, which makes Megumi Juma even more worried.
Thinking of the taboo of Innsmouth, Mezu glanced at the dilapidated wooden door. There was no deadbolt on it, and anyone could open it. So Megumi took a bench against the door, she didn't think Ye Yifan would come back from the door, so she lay on the edge of the bed, waiting for the young man to return safely.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”
A heavy voice reached Megumi Kurama's ears, and she thought it was a bell, so she glanced at the time, it was exactly twelve o'clock, and it was also April 30th, the first day of the official start of summer.
Then Megumi seemed to hear intermittent creaking sounds from the stairs and corridors, like intermittent footsteps, and there seemed to be a slight sneakiness in these creaks.
At first, Megumi thought it was the innkeeper or Ye Yifan who had taken the right path, but she soon realized that something was wrong. As a captain at the old GUTS, she could make out the footsteps not like humans, but like giant ducks, or webbed things like frogs.
Megumi was a little anxious, and slowly came to the door and took out the GUTS Rhea gun, this faint but damn obvious voice was like a sinister foreshadowing, as if all the anxiety had come true. She heard keys cautiously, sneakily, tentatively trying to unlock the door.
This can't be Ye Yifan, because the innkeeper didn't give them the key at all, and it can't be the innkeeper, because he wants to come in and knock on the door directly, why bother to open the lock?!
Megumi instinctively became vigilant in order to get ahead of this real crisis, no matter what it turned out to be. Even though she was old now, she still had some skills as the captain of the old GUTS, so she clutched the GUTS Rhea gun and kept a deathly silence, waiting for the intruder's next move.
It was supposed to be a good sneak investigation, but it turned out to be a life-and-death battle .....
Megumi is not afraid of this, she is still worried about whether Ye Yifan is in the same crisis as herself? Now that the communicator is not working, the two of them cannot determine the location of the other party, and they have no idea where they will meet.
Suddenly, the disgusting smell of fish that permeated the surroundings became extremely strong. Then there was another knock on the door, and it was getting louder. Then the knock on the door turned into a violent thump, and Megumi heard creepy whispers, gasps, and barks coming from outside the door......
"W-......! …… Yikes! ”
Megumi Kurama doesn't know how to describe that bark, but it doesn't come from a human mouth. She saw that the old wooden door was beginning to crack, and she knew that it would not last long.
It may be the outliers sent by the cardinal priest, Megumi doesn't know how many of them came, but there must be a lot of them. It is impossible for him to slaughter them from the front, so he can only find a way to get out and join Ye Yifan first. As for the main entrance, you don't have to think about it, so you can only go through the window.
At the same time as this idea came to her, the broken gate finally collapsed under the burden, and Megumi saw the faces of the aliens who were chasing her, and the creepy faces almost made her faint.
Most of the aliens' bodies were shiny and slippery, with the exception of the white belly, which was a dull green. It had the vague features of a humanoid, with a scaly ridge on its back and a fish-like head, with large, bulging eyes that never closed. On both sides of the neck, there are constantly quivering gills, and there are webbed hands and feet.
Some of them are standing, some are lying on their stomachs. The hoarse, high-pitched guttural voice...... It conveys all the dark feelings that his face cannot express.
Megumi doesn't know their names, only that they are descendants of Dagon. If Ye Yifan was willing to confess to her the identity of the primeval one, then Megumi would definitely know the names of these half-human, half-fish aliens - Deep Diver!
As the captain of the old GUTS, Megumi Kuruma quickly came back to her senses, and before those divers could make any moves, Megumi Kuruma shot at the diver at the front! In an instant, a red laser bullet pierced the head of the lead diver, and dark red blood immediately gushed out of the charred skull, sprinkling the cracked floor and walls, emitting a fishy smell like dead fish.
This proves that the GUTS Rhea guns are useful for them, but with such a large number of them, even if they are useful, Megumi Rima alone can't cope with it.
One of the remaining divers crouched down, then jumped high and pounced on Megumi Kurama! Their legs are very powerful, like frogs, so they jump very high and fast.
Megumi was a little surprised by this strange creature, but her movements were not sluggish. Quickly lifted the iron box on one side and smashed the diver out of the air, and then climbed onto the windowsill without thinking, and jumped towards the old house opposite.
Megumi used all her strength to jump, and instead of jumping into the house opposite, she jumped onto the window sill protrusion on the second floor of the house. The second-floor window was at her feet, and she saw the diver on the other side jump out of the hotel and just onto the street.
It seems that the deep divers thought Megumi Kurama had run into the street, and didn't realize that she had jumped onto the window edge opposite, but this also allowed Megumi Kurama to escape.
The skylight wasn't high, but the street was still dark. Walking through the dilapidated houses, Meina saw the church of the Dagon Esoteric Sect, which shivered ominously and shone with a strong light.
"What the hell is going on?"
Megumi Kurama frowned, and suddenly she saw countless white points of light swaying left on the street below. It wasn't a lamp, it was the eyes of a deep diver, who seemed to be talking in a whispered voice that made Megumi tremble with fear.
But what was even more terrifying was that she saw a person wearing a strange robe and a very familiar crown, which still looked like a fish-man monster. At this time, Megumi realized that it was indeed the Dagon Secret Sect that was targeting them.....
There was no light here except the moonlight, but Megumi heard a hoarse voice, footsteps, and a strange slapping sound that didn't quite look like footsteps in the distance in several directions, and then, her sanity collapsed a little at this moment......
Then, in the cold moonlight, Megumi saw the inhabitants of Innsmouth gathered in all directions of the street, and they faltered one by one, walking in groups towards the distant shoreline. The smell of fish was disgusting, and the curled up and staggering gait made Megumi feel unusually disgusted.
The edge of the window where she was was not very high, so in order to prevent the monsters from detecting, Megumi Kurama carefully hid behind a signboard. She didn't know why the monsters were going to the shoreline, if it had something to do with Devil's Reef and collective delirium?
Megumi didn't want to go it alone, and the situation was completely beyond what they could accept. Now the best way is to find Ye Yifan and escape from this place together, and then use force to completely clean up this unclean place full of aliens when he returns to the TPC camp.
But now all the monsters are heading towards the coastline, and Innsmouth, which usually doesn't have many people, is now pouring out of those monsters endlessly. Megumi Kurama couldn't go in the opposite direction towards that church, the risk of being discovered was too great, as long as it was discovered by that group of monsters, it would be another life-and-death escape.
Of course, it wasn't possible to spend a night on the window, so Megumi decided to sneak up on the monsters and see what they were going to do. In the event that another cult ritual triggers collective delirium, not to mention the surrounding cities, even the TPC will fall into madness.
Now is a good time to stop cult rituals! Megumi Kurama cautiously weaves her way through the houses, but luckily the houses are dense and her movements are very light, so she doesn't attract the attention of the divers.
The movement across the street is unimpeded, and the sea at the end of the street is sparkling and dazzling in the bright moonlight. Beyond the breakwater, further out into the ocean, Devil's Reef looks like a hazy, dark western line.
When Megumi looked at the reef, she couldn't help but think of Ye Yifan's terrifying guess. There's a rugged rock where the Dagon Esoteric Cult will summon unfathomable horrors and uncanny freaks.
Then, without warning, Megumi saw an intermittent flash of light on the reef in the distance, and it evoked in her mind a blind fear that could not be measured rationally. She was ready to run away, but some unconscious caution and almost hypnotic magic kept her in place.
It was at that time that the most terrifying sight destroyed Megumi Kuruma's proud sanity. She saw a dense mass of figures emerge from the moonlit waters between the reef and the shore! It's the same as those monsters, but it's even more terrifying!
The heaving heads and flapping arms were so strangely deformed that they could barely be described, and they could not be consciously conceived. They crowded with the monsters, swimming together towards the glittering demonic reef.
At this moment, Megumi Kuruma understood that this town was full of such monsters! And the monsters that live in the town are not purebloods, those who live under the dirty ocean, those monsters that hide in the dark abyss, are the terrifying aliens who truly serve evil!
Now, they are preparing to head to the abyss, summoning the unspeakable horror. They want to drag the whole world into the bottomless abyss of madness......
For some reason, Megumi felt that the high walls of brick and stone around her were even more terrifying. In those stinking dead streets, surrounded by chaotic crowds, rotting rooftops and crumbling spires, the legends of madness that remain may have had an impact on the sanity of many.
Is this a creepy reality, or a nightmarish hallucination?
Megumi didn't want to think about it anymore, her sanity was almost destroyed by this terrifying sight. There was only one thing she could think of, and that was to run! Run! The farther you run, the better!
"W-......! …… Yikes! ”
In a panic and panic, Megumi heard an abominable voice from behind her. She quickly turned around and saw a huge shadow covering the moonlight, so that the shadow of the thing was thick enough to cover Megumi Kuruma's body.
The eerie horror was no stranger to Megumi Kurama, and she knew exactly what it was. The blasphemous god is half fish and half human, fresh and terrifying!
There was no time to react, perhaps the brain had been crushed by fear. The abominable smell of fish filled the tip of Megumi Kurama's nose, and the approaching terrifying body blackened everything she saw.
The next moment, Megumi Kuruma passed out completely......