Chapter 739: Apocalypse War (15) "The Call"
Lovecraftt woke up from his sleep and felt as if he had forgotten something, and after recalling it again and again, he still couldn't remember it, so he could only put it aside for the first time and start his social life today.
It has been a long time since he wrote "The Weaver of Battyros" and it was stolen, and nothing major has happened these days, and everything is peaceful, so Lovecraftt slowly forgot about the mysterious guest, but the tragic world he saw and encountered when he wrote the poem still haunted his heart.
How should those people's miserable situation be saved? Lovecraft didn't know, he only knew that the country would not do much for these people, except for workhouses and frontiers, and would not squander any money, which the upper echelons would rather lose in the struggle for wealth.
Aren't their lives so small and insignificant to the higher that they are not worth mentioning? But when the higher ones look at their fellow citizens in this way, don't the gods in heaven think this way of us human beings?
In the midst of great anguish, Lovecraft spent many sleepless nights, and finally decided to write about his suffering, not in poetry, but in form.
The editor of Louell's Club magazine received Lovecraft's latest work, and when he thought it was still a romantic, he opened Lovecraft's latest masterpiece while sipping tea, which meant that he couldn't finish the brown tea he hadn't finished drinking.
Named "Calling" from Lovecraft, the story begins with an adventurer who gets a new commission, and his employer acquires an ancient demonic evidence from the barbarians, hoping that the adventurer will find out where the demonic evidence came from, so the explorer ends his rest in the homeland and re-enters the vast and mysterious wilderness.
The devil also often dies in battle, and if there is no one to take over, then these devil physical evidence will be invalid and become one of the most valuable collections in the hands of collectors, but the magic of this devil physical evidence does not seem to dissipate, causing collectors to be disturbed by some kind of call, and because the devil is involved, he cannot ask the gods for help, so he can only let the adventurer go to the source to find a solution.
The adventurer embarks on his journey, but from the moment he gets his hands on the "Devil's Evidence", he steps into the back of the collector's path, constantly disturbed by some mysterious call, and all kinds of strange things appear along the way, and the closer the adventurer gets to the place where the call is directed, the things around him become more and more strange and distorted.
And unbeknownst to the adventurer, a few days after his departure, the collector died a strange death, nailing himself to the door after killing the entire family.
As far as the editor was concerned, he had never seen this genre, after all, there had never been a horror in this world, so the more the editor looked at it, the more sweat drops on his head, but fortunately, there were many other editors in the venue, but the editor was not scared to drop Lovecraft's submission immediately.
However, although I can continue to read it, I think of the strange and distorted things described in the article, and all kinds of indescribable tastes are churning in the editor's stomach, and I don't have the heart to drink this cup of tea that costs me a lot of money.
When the journey is about to reach the end, the adventurer already knows that the "devil's physical evidence" in his hand has been contaminated by the demon, and the terrible monsters chasing him along the way are not ordinary demons, but the demon's servants, and the adventurer still continues to walk, either there is a way to liberation at the end, or the adventurer himself has been distorted.
The end of the journey is an abandoned barbarian village, the altar of the village indicates that this barbarian is a rare demon worshipper, the demon corrupted the attracted devil, and finally the village was destroyed by the demon twisted and cannibalized, but because of the demon's power, it remained as it was before the destruction came, until the arrival of the adventurer.
At the end of "Calling", it ends with the demon about to descend from the abyss, and as for the adventurer's ending, what the demon will be, nothing is said.
The editor sweated profusely and put "Calling" on the table, panting with difficulty, and couldn't help but mutter: "Blasphemy, this is blasphemy." ”
The whole text of "Calling", except for the beginning of the collector talking about not daring to ask for help from the gods, there is no shadow of the god at all, and even the devil, only because of the devil's physical evidence, and when he went out on the way to go out and chase the adventurer's monster, the adventurer thought it was the power of the devil, but in fact, he knew that it was the power of the devil when he saw the end of the text.
What does this mean? It means that the world in the text is completely devoid of gods and demons, and some are only demons, and even at the end of the text, the demons only vaguely show a shadow and then stop abruptly, and do not really appear.
As for the ideological content of this article, the editor has not seen from others, most of them are romantic, that is, human beings are insignificant compared to nature, so they should not destroy nature, or it is a pious religious article, narrating that man is extremely humble to the gods, so he only needs to be at the knees of the gods to be free from all troubles.
But like this article, it is the first time that the editor has seen the object of comparison between humble and HTC on the devil, and the editor can also read what Lovecraft means:
Compared to demons, human beings are nothing more than demons, as if they live on an island called Ignorance in the middle of a dark ocean, and this ocean is vast and contains infinite secrets, and humans should not explore too much, or not at all, or they will end up like this explorer.
The adventurer's ending is not explicitly stated in "Calling", but the editor can guess that the adventurer in the previous article just looked at the statue about the demon, and was almost lost by the meaning buried in the statue, once he saw the real body of the demon in person, how could there be a second ending?
Although there are various problems, it is indeed a very good article, and the article contains the theme of "small man and great nature", which is also in line with the tenets of Romanticism, decadence and conservatism, respect for the world, and do not go too far.
In the end, the editor approved the call, and as expected, the new style of the call caused a lot of shock in Battyros, especially from religious and liberals.
Religious people are dissatisfied with Lovecraft's disregard for the gods in the text, believing that Lovecraft's voice is for the devil, while liberals fiercely criticize Lovecraft's sense of despair and decadence revealed in the text, believing that the world is progressive, will get better and better, and that the more you explore, the more you will be doomed, all nonsense.
However, he was not afraid of being scolded, he was afraid that no one would pay attention to him, and after two scolding battles, Lovecraft's reputation came up, and more people invited him to the banquet, and the number of people he received increased.
After "Calling", Lovecraft continued to write "Fallen Stars", "Dream Over the Wall", "Memory", "The Black Old Man", "Cat Under the Tree", "City Shrouded in Fog", "Stranger", "Painting in the Moonlight", "Murmuring in the Night", "Crazy Mountains", "The Dream of the Witch", "Shadow", etc.
Then Lovecraft's head ached like an explosion, and he remembered what he had forgotten before the sun had yet rist and the streets were filled with only the early workers, and Lovecraft's head ached like an explosion.
It's not that nothing happened after the theft of "The Weaver of Batyros", on the contrary, the Knights of the Apocalypse descended on the southern frontier with the Abyssal Gate, and each knight killed at least one lord of a country, such as the President of the United States of Sib who was killed by the Death Knights.
Is it the reason why Lovecraft's unnatural death in a conflict, which seemed to Lovecraft's generation to be a medieval event, and now appears in reality, as if it were a dream?
Lovecraft's temple tapped slightly, he felt his head being forcibly stuffed with memories of more than a year, as if from a world where the Apocalypse Knights had not occurred, and the ...... that came with those memories.
Lovecraft found that his memories were so clean, "The Call", "A Dream Over the Wall", "Memory", "The Black Old Man", Lovecraft vowed that he could write it all word for word.
When he remembered what he had written in that world, Lovecraft's body trembled, and he trembled and wanted to light the fire and turn on the lamp, so that he could pray to the god of the mountains, and then Lovecraftt suddenly realized that there was a person standing next to his bed.
It is impossible for Lovecraft to forget his appearance, as it is the first and most likely the only oracle Lovecraft has ever seen in his life, Randolph Haller.
But what are the messengers doing by their beds? And those strange dreams...... At this time, Lovecraft instinctively thought that it was something to do with the oracle.
And Lovecraft felt that Randolph at this time was different from the last time he saw him, last time Randolph had a lingering sadness in the corners of his eyes, but now he maintained a polite smile on his face, without any signs of exhaustion, but Lovecraft's instinctive feeling that he was not quite right.
Although he was not dressed, Lovecraft quickly jumped up from the bed, kept a distance from Randolph as a comforting effect, and after saluting, asked, "May I ask if God has sent your lord to come to me, is there any mission to be given?"
"When I saw you that day, I thought you were an interesting person, and when I asked him to cast a spell, I found out that my guess was correct, and those memories were my reward for you. ”
Lovecraftt actually wanted to ask Randolph who "he" was, but for no reason he remembered it, so he cautiously avoided this: "What else is there besides this?"
"No, no," said Randolph as he sighed, and Lovecraft felt him return to the way he had been a few days before, tired and apprehensive, a little more "human", but the change quickly faded and Randolph reverted to that eerie polite smile.
"I've seen my hometown, I've seen the interesting people I'm interested in, so I can go away and go to the Silver Gate in search of endless knowledge. ”
Lovecraft still saluted, and made up his mind not to ask Randolph any questions, and a moment later a gust of wind blew, and Randolph was gone, and Lovecraft's head was raised, and the sun had just risen, and the sun was shining into his bedroom alone.
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