submarine karst cave,

A relic of an ancient civilization lost in the depths of the sea.

Crash!!

The hand wrapped in a wetsuit tore through the water,

It's Li Zu.

He crossed the submarine canyon and made his way to the cave.

Sticks were intertwined, incandescent lamps were tied to them, and the battery-fed electric lights kept on for a week, and the cramped, damp, and somewhat stuffy cavern illuminated the place abandoned by the sun with uninterrupted lights.

There was already a person waiting here on the shore, like a full-time person in charge of welcoming Li Zu's arrival.

Judging by his clothes, he was supposed to be one of the members of the expedition, with a badge on his chest that would prove that he was a university researcher.

It's just that this expedition member has some strange movements.

"Hang down our gods!" The man crouched on the ground, put his hands on his head, and jumped.

Is he playing Bunny? Perhaps, this is not funny, but in this gloomy space, it seems even more weird.

"O god attached to me! Hehehe...... "He's still laughing, and his tone is weird.

"O god who chose me as a sacrifice!" Never-ending crazy laughter.

Li Zu quickly took off his diving suit, took off his helmet, removed the oxygen cylinder, and threw it aside.

He glanced at the madman crouching on the ground with some disgust, and quickly walked inside.

He had seen a lot of crazy people, and he couldn't get any useful information from them, and Li Zu had no intention of continuing to talk to them at all.

The next thing that came into view was a corpse, lying horizontally under the lamp.

Fish gills have grown on both sides of the face.

It wasn't the first time Li Zu had seen an Innsmouth, but every time he saw this subhuman creature that clearly looked like a mixed fish and human, it would make him amused.

He would love to know if there was reproductive isolation between fish and humans.

The corpse of an Innsmouth man in a dark trench coat, blood pooling at the back of his head, droplets of water falling above his head, pounding on the pool of blood that had long since congealed.

In the pocket of the Innsmouth's corpse was a mysterious knife carved with peculiar symbols, like sacrificial objects.

There are also mysterious symbols, peculiar eyes.

Li Zu unceremoniously lowered his head and picked up the pendant decorated with strange and mysterious symbols, and his interest in corpses ended there.

Not far from the corpse was the wall, except for a path that was dragged by the light to continue walking inside, the entire karst cave that he saw for the first time had been completely displayed in front of Li Zu.

It's not just the person who was muttering to himself who was going crazy.

Beyond the lights that illuminated the way, on the stone steps dripping with cold droplets, stood a man with a shaking head, and a seated man, both members of the expedition.

The standing man's illness seemed to be much milder, at least much better than the man next to him who was screaming and laughing.

On the small platform are peculiar pedestals, on which things have been taken.

"One step late......"

Li Zu was a little regretful, he was sure that the Titania expedition came to the demon's fangs for this thing, and he was sure that this thing had a lot to do with him.

Only now, it's nowhere to be found.

"Listen! He's coming! Carrying the Holy One! Take me away and give birth to me! Appeal to the gods! The man's eyes widened as he shook his head, but there was a flicker of madness in his cloudy pupils.

"Uh-huh~, God~" Li Zu shrugged.

"Our eyes! The first, the second, the third! All open in a glorious bath! You've seen all the things, but you still haven't spied on the holy virgin who sleeps here. The mad man continued, obscure words like some kind of chanted sacrificial repertoire, praising something.

After coming to Oakmont, Li Zu had seen this meeting many times.

Everyone who is about to go crazy will fall into the crazy worship of "gods", monsters with multiple arthropods, monsters that tear their faces, etc., are worshipped by believers.

I don't know what type of god he is believing in.

"I'm worried about your aesthetics," Li Zu replied casually.

"Wake up, stubborn! Take away his skin and bones, take away my faith, and may the gods grant you grace! This unexpectedly aroused the anger of the other party.

"Be our eyes, gods! Let's see the stars in the distance! The crazy people on the side also covered their ears and screamed.

The campfire flickered in the distance, and it told Li Zu that he should not stay here.

Bidding farewell to the two mad gentlemen, Li Zu quickened his pace and ran inside.

After walking through the darkness for a while, the light shining towards the abyss in the cave became a torch that drew Li Zu forward.

The first thing that catches your eye is a peculiar statue.

Two or three stories high, it is the most obscure statue Li Zu has ever seen.

The statue vaguely looks like a human being, curled up and crouched, with an octopus head and an octopus tentacle swaying wildly at its mouth.

He has a pair of broken, seemingly underdeveloped bat wings.

Just staring at the statue, it seems to have opened the scattered nebula, and the trembling feeling of looking directly at the magical black hole can't help but come to my face!

"5% of the world's exploration!"

When Li Zu came back to his senses, the statue was still a statue, and he gained more things.

And, a little bit of crazy laughter.

"Hahaha~!!"

Laughing, Li Zu turned and left, he couldn't stay here for too long.

……

On the stone steps, the muttering man was still shaking, and he held his head like a monster with a tearing face that he had seen before.

Infected by madness, who is sure that he will not become one of them?

"Bang!" Prop boxes fall from the sky.

Li Zu took out two bottles of Pocian Elixir and stabbed them on the man. The man's self-talk stopped, and he looked very calm just from his expression.

"I'm Private Detective Bruce Wayne, and Mr. Sloegmorton has asked me to investigate the expedition's disappearance, and I think you should be able to give me some explanation." Li Zu looked at each other with a smile, but unfortunately he couldn't get more expression replies.

Although Posian could not eliminate the mental madness, after the physical madness was quelled, the right to speak and the ability to think would be fully restored.

It's like being buried by a collapsing snow-capped mountain, hiding alone at the bottom, and it's hard to support.

The man who barely had his reason looked at Li Zu calmly.

"We found it, the lost ancient temple, and Professor Doe found that strange artifact, and she went crazy. A group of Innsmouth followed behind us, and when we found something important, they rushed out, and we fought back only to kill one of them. They kidnapped Professor Doa, and we were also affected by crazy hallucinations. ”

"Uh-huh, hmm-hmm......" Li Zu nodded hastily, obviously he didn't care about how things were going on.

The white apes, Sloghgmorton, clearly disliked the Innsmouth, or rather, it was difficult for the whole of Oakmont to find the part of the people who liked them.

There's no way there's such a bunch of freaks on the expedition team, and even if they have cheeks, they look like they're good at swimming.

As soon as Li Zu opened his mouth to ask something more about "God", the man had already covered his head and muttered to himself again.

Bosien couldn't suppress a man whose brain had completely collapsed.

"Reed might know more,...... Like, God? Li Zu changed into a diving suit and jumped into the water.

He was just a step too late.