At around 11:30 p.m., after bidding farewell to the team members who left the base, Ye Yifan went to the canteen to have a meal, planning to wait for the reserved plane to arrive while eating.

Since he couldn't reveal the identity of the Neo-GUTS team members, he changed into civilian clothes early, which could prevent the people at the base from detecting his body, and he could also move freely abroad.

Ye Yifan casually found an empty place to eat cheese baked rice, and the terminal in his hand also inspected the information of the place he was going to. It was a town shrouded in mystery - Arkham!

When it comes to that town, all that can be thought of is weirdness and ruin, because in history, there was a horrific case in that town, that is, the Salem witch trial, and to this day, the horror of that case still hangs over everyone in Arkham Town.

Perhaps because of that case, Arkham founded Miskatonik University. In this era of advanced technology, it is the only qualified magic school, and its archaeology, occultism, history, psychology, geology, biology, and engineering majors have reached the world's top level, attracting many talents to this school every year, but many people are sent to mental hospitals.

So Arkham's psychiatric care is also the most developed in the world, and now the Arctic expedition's Pierce and Sotoi's spies lie on Arkham's insane asylum.

In short, Arkham is known for its mystery, which attracts those who dabble in weird stories, and Ye Yifan feels that he is one of them.

After reading the materials, the reserved aircraft also arrived on the artificial island of the base. Ye Yifan put the clean lunch box in the washing bucket and took the elevator to the artificial island.

He still remembered that after Gao Tianyun heard that he was going abroad, he yelled for him to bring back some souvenirs, but at that time Ye Yifan smiled and said that there was nothing to bring back, at most he brought back a "foreign bodhisattva". Gao Shui Fengyun didn't understand the meaning, but he could see the sinister smile on the corner of his mouth......

After landing on the artificial island, Ye Yifan saw a special passenger plane on the tarmac, and there was a western face walking towards him.

"Hello, you're the Neo-GUTS leaf team, aren't you? I'm Skipp Wright, a support staff member at TPC USA, and I've been asked to work with you by the Deputy Director of Intermediary. The Western man's face was very kind, and he stretched out his hand towards Ye Yifan.

Ye Yifan shook hands with Skipp and said, "I'm Ye Yifan, a member of the Neo-GUTS team, and I'll leave this work to you." ”

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, the two boarded the plane to prepare for Massachusetts, USA, where the town of Arkham is located.

Along the way, Skipp was talking to Ye Yifan about Arkham Town, because he was born there, but there were too many strange things happening there, and his parents felt that living there was not conducive to their children's growth, so Skip moved to New York when he was 12 years old.

His description of Arkham was that it was a dark city because of the three neighboring towns around it. Dunwich, Innsmouth, and Kingsport are all god-cursed filthy places, and many strange things have happened.

Ye Yifan has never heard of those three small towns, and they are not even marked on the satellite map, maybe those three places are really places that even the gods spurn, right? Ye Yifan was still a little curious about how Arkham Town survived in the indescribable weirdness.

However, Ye Yifan will not go to those three small towns, and he still doesn't know too much about weird things, he only needs to consult the Book of Necromancy at Miskatonik University, after all, that book may hide a way to deal with the omniscient and all-powerful god.

After a three-hour flight, the two finally arrived in Massachusetts, USA. Because Arkham did not allow the plane to stop, the two took another two hours by train, and finally another hour by bus to reach Arkham, which was already approaching evening.

If he had known that it was so troublesome, Ye Yifan should have come over earlier, hoping that the content of the Book of Dead Souls would be worthy of his long journey.

When he arrived in Arkham Town, Ye Yifan found that the buildings here were all complex old era buildings, with green moss growing on many walls, and green meadows scattered like rocks.

After entering this dark town, Ye Yifan felt a little uncomfortable, and his inspiration was exploding, but he seemed to be blocked by a mysterious force. Maybe it's whispering to stop him from snooping into secrets? But this old town is not as simple as it seems......

Then, Skip took Ye Yifan to walk around Arkham for a while, and invited him to dinner by the way. Ye Yifan found that although this town is ancient, it also has the technology that it should have, and this is also a modern world.

During the meal, Skipp told Ye Yifan a lot of Arkham's dark legends. In addition to the Salem witch trial in 1600, there was an outbreak of typhoid fever in 1905 and centuries of May Day disappearances, presumably murdered during a sacrificial ritual.

However, the most famous event was the Advent of the Stars, which caused the flora and fauna around Arkham to mutate.

There are so many dark legends, Ye Yifan speculates that they are all related to the old rulers and outer gods. However, there has also been a legend here, he is similar to Ye Yifan, and he also specializes in dealing with indescribable cases, this is where Skipp admires Ye Yifan, daring to face the darkness.

Out of the dining room, Skip took Ye Yifan for a walk again. The town of Arkham is divided into two parts, built on the banks of the Miskatonik River, divided into north and south, which are connected by three bridges.

However, both sides are old-era buildings with iconic rattan roofs. The place is small, but it has a lot of organs. In addition to Miskatonic University, Arkham Asylum, there are hospitals, prisons, theaters, churches, as well as supermarkets and some entertainment venues.

Among them, Skip also mentioned whether to go to the witch's ruins to see the witch's own occult carvings, spells, etc., but Ye Yifan only said that next time it must be, next time it must be ......

After all, the 1600-year-old site, although savage, still has dark power.

In addition to the witch ruins in Salem, Skipp also spoke of the Daily Arkham newspaper. It records the most detailed dark legend of Arkham so far, if Ye Yifan is interested, he can go and see it, but Ye Yifan just said that he will wait until he goes to Miskatonic University, and if he can know the news of the all-knowing and all-powerful god, he can also find a detailed record in the "Arkham Daily".

After shopping around the circle, Skip took Ye Yifan to Miskatonik University. Passing by the river on the way, Ye Yifan saw that the sparkling river was a little sailing, there were white pigeons flying on the riverbank, and some old people fishing.

It was a peaceful scene, but Ye Yifan always felt an indescribable sense of weirdness, as if everything was arranged......

Built in the middle of Arkham, in the middle of the canal, Miskatonik University is connected by a number of small stone bridges, and the architectural style is more dilapidated than the town, but it has a retro feel.

It was already eight o'clock in the evening when the two of them arrived at Miskatonic University, and the dark night covered the campus, and some of the gray-walled spired teaching buildings stood there, as old as Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the movies, after all, both studied magic......

"I can't accompany you here, people who are not from the Miskatonic Academy need to make an appointment in advance to enter. The assistant director has already helped you apply, and you can go directly to the library when the time comes, and the administrator there will help you. ”

After Skip finished speaking, he stuffed Ye Yifan with a map of Arkham, and he told Ye Yifan to look for him in the hotel when he came out, and he would send him back when the time came.

After Ye Yifan thanked him, Skip left, and Ye Yifan was also put into the campus by the security guard after showing his appointment.

There was no one on the road on the campus, only darkness, which made Ye Yifan's heart a little cold, and he hadn't walked a few steps before he saw a huge humanoid statue placed on the lawn, and the plaque below read "Randolph Carter, the best student of the college" in English.

Randolph Carter, as Skipp calls himself a legend, has spent his life exploring the unknown and fighting the darkness. His experience was not a success, but he had like-minded friends and had seen amazing wonders that could not be seen in the world, and his life experience was both thrilling and colorful. It is both bumpy and tortuous, but also shocking.

He is a low-key man, and he prefers to see the unknown, see the wider world, explore new worlds, and learn ancient and mysterious knowledge than the money power that the worldly people are keen on......

Ye Yifan felt that his previous experience was much similar to his own, so after his death, would TPC erect a statue for himself?

Without staying too long at the statue, Ye Yifan walked through a dense forest and finally saw the library of Miskatonik University, which showed the mystery and weirdness of the old times in the hazy moonlight and the fog of the night......

The library was very large and tall, and the roof was almost poked into the clouds. After Ye Yifan entered the library, he found that this place was even more expansive, dozens of times larger than the library of their University of Science and Technology.

The library is three stories high, and each floor has shelves full of books, and the shelves are as tall as five people, including I don't know how much knowledge. If Ye Yan is here, I'm afraid he will go crazy with excitement......

It's half past eight in the evening, but the library is still brightly lit, and there are many students around their desks, reading books, writing notes, and some tapping on the computer.

But their voices were very soft, after all, the library was a place that needed to be quiet, but Ye Yifan could hear the dog barking, barking fiercely, and even the library echoed and never stopped.

Ye Yifan didn't care, he walked to the third floor of the library, because that was the place where the forbidden books were stored, there were no students at all, most of them were on the first and second floors, reading and studying very engrossedly, so that he didn't know that Ye Yifan had entered the third floor of the library.

Scanning the rows of books, Ye Yifan didn't find the shadow of the Book of Necronomicon, but the barking of the dog became more and more fierce, and the listeners were upset, and he saw that many students also complained, and some people put down the books and went to the administrator for comment.

Ye Yifan didn't know if it had always been like this, or if the dogs only started barking after he came to this campus, after all, since the influence of whispering, all dogs would bark when they saw him......

Just call it, it won't affect reading anyway.

Although Ye Yifan didn't find the Book of Necromancy, he was quite interested in one of the books, the title of the book was "TheKinginYellow", which translates to be the king of yellow....... It's a bit obscene, it should be said that it is more appropriate to call it "The King in Yellow".

Ye Yifan took down the book, the book cover was made of yellow parchment, there was a very old feeling, and at the same time, there was a very bad premonition, it should be a book about the old rulers.

Ye Yifan wanted to open the book, but before he could open it, he felt that the back of his head was twitched, it was very painful, and he screamed out in pain.

He looked back and saw that it was an old man with glasses, a melon seed face, and a gray-white five-pointed star hairstyle, as if he still had an Asian face.

"Ah~! Who told you to mess around with the books here? Don't you know that most of the books on the third floor have curses? If you don't want me to be angry, just put the book back!! The old man roared at Ye Yifan in a hoarse voice, looking at his appearance and habits, Ye Yifan always felt that he was like a person in an American cartoon he watched when he was a child......

"I'm sorry!" Ye Yifan put the book back and asked. "Old man, who are you?"

"My name is Ango, and I'm the caretaker of the third floor of this library. Who are you, boy? Dare to go into the third floor to read forbidden books? Aren't you afraid of being damned? You're not afraid of Uncle Ango, I can't bear this responsibility! Ange yelled at Ye Yifan with his face against him, Ye Yifan felt that he was becoming more and more like the animated character.

"I'm sorry, I'm a member of the TPC and Neo-GUTS team, I've already made an appointment, and I'm here to see the Necronomicon this time."

After Ye Yifan finished speaking, the old man's face immediately changed, as if he had seen something more terrifying than the devil......