Chapter Twenty-Five: I was almost rewarded
"We have some relatively low-risk items stored here, which either carry some transcendent forbidden knowledge, or are transcendent items with special effects, and of course they all have their own side effects and effects.
We watch over them, and they are our means of countering extraordinary events, special events in the diocese.
Some of these items carry some repeatable learning knowledge, which can also allow newcomers to tungsten filament to quickly improve their survivability.
Traditionally, you can pick two of them and get them for free, and after that, you may need some contributions to apply for some new transcendent items and knowledge. ”
“…… I suggest you choose some knowledge instead of something otherworldly. Otherworldly items don't necessarily have to be reused, but knowledge certainly can. As a knowledgeable archaeologist, you should know this very well. ”
Chasing more books on the shelves and then popping up small red dots,
Yun Qingmu, who was originally watching on the bed, saw the notification in the status bar,
Turning over, I started reading the APP and clicked on the book to read it.
The dog author has been updated, and there are three more chapters.
Looking at the beginning of the new chapter, Yun Qingmu's eyes lit up,
I moved my body, chose a more comfortable position to lie on my side, and temporarily unplugged the mobile phone charging cable.
The new chapter seems to be interesting.
Yun Qingmu continued to watch.
“…… Ampton said to Howard, leading him from a deep staircase leading down to a walkway that was clearly underneath.
Howard listened to Ampton's narration, and then looked at the sides of the underground corridor.
The corridor is deep and not very wide, only allowing three people to pass side by side, and on the obviously heavy walls on both sides, hanging tungsten lamps that seem to be the new rise of the kingdom,
It emits a dim light that dispelles the dimness of the corridor. ”
"You can think about it first, what to choose, and I can give you some advice."
"The knowledge contained on the item numbered 325 is a good choice, and you can think of it as a form of witchcraft, or a kind of ritual.
Its function is to allow the damage received to recover quickly, and it can also dispel the negative effects on the body to a certain extent. is a good general-purpose ability.
His rituals are not complicated, they don't require a sacrificial medium, and they can be used quickly when you are fighting.
Of course, I feel that your blood wounds, your pain is the medium - using this sadhana will also cause you great pain when it comes to damage recovery and other functions.
If you're going to choose this, you have to get familiar with the pain as soon as possible.
Are you going to choose this? ”
In the text, Ampton led Howard through the long corridor to a closed door as he spoke.
“…… Then I choose this. ”
"Wise choice. I also chose this at the beginning, otherwise I might not have survived now. ”
Howard followed Ampton's advice, and at the same time was a little confused,
"This is where those special items are stored? So why are we here? ”
"Because, for the sadhana to work, you have to touch that object and make it, well, or He remember you, for the sadhana to work."
As he spoke, Ampton turned his head with a smile and said to Howard.
Howard smiled at Ampton, but his heart was a little chilly.
"What is it?"
"A pair of eyes. The Night's Watch once destroyed the church of an evil organization, and this is the eyes of one of the leaders of this evil organization, a pair of eyes that are still alive. ”
Ampton smiled at Howard and said,
Reached out and clasped the closed door.
There was no sound behind the door, but it opened immediately after.
"This is Old Hopper, the caretaker of our Night's Watch squad, and if something happens in our parish that is in a hurry, and I can't find it, we can come here to find Old Hopper.
But if there's nothing to do, stay away from here. ”
The plot in the text continues to advance, and Howard follows Ampton into the door,
only to find that there was a white-haired old man standing behind the door, wearing a robe similar to that of a church priest.
just raised his cloudy eyes and glanced at Howard and Ampton, and then lowered his head,
His lips moved slightly, and he whispered something repeatedly.
Then, when Howard listened closely, he realized that he was chanting the prayers of the gods of steam and machines.
"'It's too close to madness, old Hubb has to keep his sanity'
Ampton said.
And Howard followed Ampton two more steps forward, and found that some thoughts in his heart that should not have appeared kept appearing,
It was crazy thoughts, some of them suddenly wanted to kill the Ampton who was walking in front of them, and some of them snatched away the otherworldly items stored here.
Howard could clearly feel the madness of these thoughts, as if another self suddenly appeared in the bottom of his heart. ”
……
“…… It's kind of interesting. ”
Wrapped tightly in the quilt on the bed, like a silkworm cocoon,
Yun Qingmu flipped back and forth, looking at the novel on his phone with an excited face,
That's what it feels like, that's what fiction is!
Yun Qingmu was a little excited when he saw it,
I can't wait to slide my hand faster, so that I can see the next plot soon,
But I was worried that I would slide too fast and miss some details.
……
“…… It's almost time to brush your teeth and go to bed, don't play with your phone here and there, don't you hear me! ”
In the house of the owner of the noodle restaurant in the city,
The son of the noodle shop owner who is in junior high school,
is curled up on the sofa, holding the mobile phone, his eyes are burning, staring at the phone.
The owner's wife just washed out of the toilet,
I also saw my son playing with his mobile phone on the sofa and shouted.
The child held the mobile phone, looked back at his mother, and then glanced at the mobile phone screen, still a little reluctant.
"What about playing games? When you have a holiday the day after tomorrow, you are playing, and you will still go to school tomorrow, so hurry up and wash and brush your teeth, and go to bed after brushing your teeth. ”
The boss's wife walked into the living room again and said.
The child sat up straight again,
“…… Mom, I didn't play a game, I read a novel, can I read two more chapters, just read two chapters and it's over. ”
The child begged his mother.
The boss's wife glanced at her son and paused,
"Okay, it's just two chapters, after reading it, hurry up and wash up, do you hear it?"
"Got it, Mom."
Hearing his mother's words, the child looked at the phone excitedly.
“…… What to see, to see so fascinating? ”
His mother glanced at her too, and then, not very interested, she turned her head,
“…… What is my precious son looking at, so happy to see. ”
At this time, the owner also cleaned up the restaurant and came back from outside.
As soon as I entered the house, I saw my son who was looking excitedly with his mobile phone, and greeted him with a smile.
"Your son reads novels."
"Dad, this novel is really well written, it's different from other novels, this novel will definitely be a god!"
The child said excitedly.
"Then I'll take a look, what's the name."
The owner of this noodle shop also came over and took a look.
"It's called Resurrection Cthulhu"
……
“…… Hmm, updated? ”
In front of the computer, I was busy with today's business,
After moving his muscles, Ye Linhan was ready to go downstairs and trot around before going to dinner.
Touched the phone and looked at it again,
Discover that the author's new book "Resurrection of Cthulhu" has been updated with three more chapters.
For this author's new book, he has naturally been paying attention,
I've read five chapters before, and I feel good, and I'm interested.
However, his opinion is the same as that of other readers in the book friend group, this book may be difficult to reach the results of the previous book "Mortal Cultivation of Immortals".
Although his starting stats are much better.
But the subject matter is still too niche.
While walking downstairs, Ye Linhan clicked on today's update of this book and read it.
……
“…… Howard understood that this place was very close to madness, and the crazy thoughts that kept popping up in his heart were obviously influenced by something stored here.
Howard didn't have long to follow Ampton inside before he stopped.
It was a pair of eyeballs in a glass jar.
He also understood what Ampton meant when he said that the pair of eyeballs were still alive.
The pair of eyeballs were suspended in the glass jar, and the scarlet eyeballs were still moving, staring at Howard and Ampton, the two people who walked in front of it.
Looking at this scene, Howard seemed to have a chill on the top of his head, which made him tremble a little.
“…… The Great Mother of Flesh and Blood, the Mother Tree of Life......
…… You are the source of all life, you are the end of all life.
I am your most devout believer, and I am the life you created.
I pray, I pray that you hear, I pray that you hear the call of your lost Lamb......"
At the same time, Howard heard a whisper in his ear,
The whisper was fanatical and even crazy, as if it was praying frantically towards some indescribable great being. ”
"Do you hear that?"
"This is the mantra and ritual that heals the wounds, and now, as long as you meditate on it in your heart, it will come into play."
"It sounds more like a prayer to an unknown being."
"Yes. But only madness can fight madness. Of most transcendental knowledge and items, his side effects are already mild.
Perhaps, it was not His intention to restore the wounds on our bodies, or maybe the unknown existence just wanted to see the desperate struggle of human beings before they died.
Watching humanity struggle between life and death, this drama for Him that makes Him a little more pleasant. ”
This is the dialogue between the protagonist Howard and Ampton in the text,
Looking at this description on the mobile phone screen, Ye Linhan couldn't help but pause,
This description seems to pull him into that chaotic and absurd and crazy world,
Let him see the world in this "Resurrection Cthulhu" more clearly.
Keep scrolling down,
Ye Linhan continued to watch,
“…… But at least it works, doesn't it? We were born in such a chaotic and crazy world.
I can't see anything just good, only endless madness,
We have no way to steadily increase the strength we need to fight these madness, we can only borrow madness to fight madness,
The more capable you are, the closer you are to madness.
Sometimes, I also feel that the world is crazy, and I am crazy. ”
The dialogue between the protagonists Howard and Ampton continues,
In a conversation,
Ampton is like a guide to the role of the protagonist, revealing the truth of the world for the protagonist Howard,
It also reveals the background of this world for the reader,
In the end, Howard fell silent during the second conversation, and so did Ampton.
“…… Your first chance is to choose this, and you have one more chance to choose an item. What do you want? I can likewise give you some advice. ”
"I want to get some more ability to attack. Preferably knowledge that can be reused. ”
"I have three here that I can recommend to you. One is a sadhana that can be petrified, but it is you who petrify it.
After using this ritual, your body will gradually petrify, your skin will gradually harden, and your body will be able to resist some of the stronger attacks, and you will be immune to the rituals and supernatural effects of the flesh to a certain extent.
Of course, your attack power will also be strongly increased by your heavy and hard fists,
The longer you use this sadhana, the more petrified you will become, and the strength and stiffness of your body will gradually increase, and in the later time, you may be able to smash a room?
The side effect is that when you use the sadhana, your body will gradually petrify until you become a solid humanoid stone, and if you don't finish the sadhana before that, the results are obvious.
At the same time, even if you are able to control the time every time you use this ritual and ability, as time passes, even in normal times, your body will develop some petrified characteristics, such as the loss of pain.
The other is the ability to use your eyes, which requires you to insert a transcendent object into your original eye socket, and for this, you suffer the pain of gouging out your eyes.
Its ability is madness, it can use something in a vicious transcendent event, it can make them fall into 'your madness' for a short time, and you can build a nightmare-like ability to control them for a short time.
If you keep it in control long enough, you can even take your dagger and walk up and gently slit its throat.
Of course, the side effect is that he will also gradually make you fall into madness, make you have nightmares every night, and at the same time, gradually lose your eyes. Nightmares can also spread from night to day.
Meditation can slow down this process to a certain extent, barely maintaining our spirit and sanity.
The last one,
It's the ability to release fire, and it's the same ritual that you get to restore power, and it's a prayer to a 'god of fire'.
It's not small, and if your spirit is strong enough and your fragile mind is maintained, it can easily destroy houses.
Under normal circumstances, though, it's hard to use that much power, as fireballs or flames will appear in front of you and lunge at your enemies.
Its heat wave will also hit you, and it has the side effect of rage, and if you can't keep your sanity, it can also drive you into madness, and you may end up in a raging fire in the capital of the kingdom of Lancey. ”
“…… You can choose.
However, I remind you that when choosing abilities, it's better to choose ones that work with each other than those that are powerful. ”
In the text,
The protagonist Howard finally chooses and then chooses the ritual of releasing the flames.
The burns of the flames happened to be something he could resist and recover from in another ritual.
And after trying again.
"Hmm...... It doesn't seem that bad.
Just as I was using these two sadhanas, I seemed to hear the murmur of 'Azathoth' again?
Is this the mark of 'Azathoth' that has allowed me to mitigate the influence of many of the other two unspeakables? ”
Seeing in the novel,
The protagonist Howard relied on the previous whispers that frequently appeared in his mind to reduce the side effects of the two ritual abilities to a certain extent.
While going downstairs, Ye Linhan, who was reading the novel, was interested again,
"It's kind of interesting. The more the author writes, the more interesting it becomes. ”
Read on,
Ye Linhan finished reading the three chapters that Ji Zhuo updated today,
Then he felt like he was going to retract his thoughts,
"Although the background of the subject matter is niche, after reading it, it still feels very interesting...... The book should have done better than expected, right? ”
Ye Linhan voted for all the recommendation votes and monthly tickets in his account for this book, and then gave a small reward of fifty yuan to this book.
……
"Beautiful! The more the dog author's novel is written, the more interesting it becomes...... Well, do you want to give the dog author another reward for the alliance leader......"
After reading the new chapter, Yun Qingmu pondered,
“…… Forget it, let's wait for the dog author to recommend it, so maybe I can give him more data! He must be happy! ”
Yun Qingmu thought excitedly, and temporarily gave up the idea of rewarding.
……
"Hiccup......
On the other side, Ji Zhuo, who was almost rewarded,
After finishing the code, I had a three-in-one dinner of morning, lunch and evening.
is slumped on the sofa, drinking Coke, looking at Shuangwen.
In reality, he has been 'repeatedly frustrated' in the system, and he always has to read novels to relieve his mood.