Outside the library.

Three professors walk side by side.

Suddenly, Dr. Morgan turned to look at Dr. Rice and asked curiously:

"Professor Rice, do you know the young man you just greeted? I don't think I saw him. ”

"Of course I don't know, and I haven't seen it."

Dr. Rice frowned and wondered, "Actually, I thought you knew him, so I said hello to him." ”

"Oh well, it's incredible."

Dr. Morgan stroked his hair, "I mean, the young man was wearing a very similar style to what my father wore when he was a young student at Miskatonik University.

Well, maybe you haven't noticed, I mean...... He dresses in a retro style, a bit like the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ”

"Ahem~"

At this point, Dr. Armitage coughed twice and said:

"Sir, these things about men's clothing can be discussed later, and I think we must hurry to Tunwich for now.

The problem there is so serious that it can no longer be delayed. ”

As he spoke, he subconsciously took out a brass-colored pocket watch from his pocket and looked at it.

I saw that the perpetual calendar on it showed ...... It's August 1928.

in the library.

"Ahh

Randolph Carter, who had fallen back into a state of immersion in reading, had not been reading for long before he suddenly sneezed loudly.

Then, he took a keen eye on the library he was in...... It shook suddenly.

Randolph was well aware of the strange feeling, or rather the strange phenomenon.

This means that he is unconsciously ...... I have entered a futuristic scene in an unknown era.

"God, every now and then you will 'travel into the future' without warning, which is really annoying."

Randolph shook his head, a little speechless.

"Hey, it seems that the three professors just now ......"

Savoring the trance in his brain as the information about the three men quickly faded, Randolph furrowed his eyebrows and muttered, "Probably...... Is that the person I know in the future? ”

Based on past experience, he knew that he only needed to enter a certain future scene, meet someone in that scene, and happen to have all kinds of memories about the other person in an instant.

Then you represent yourself, and you will meet that person in the future.

Because that memory is his own memory in the future.

It's just that this wonderful process is only noticed by Randolph after the fact.

As for Randolph at the time, it was completely impossible to detect anything wrong.

It is described as a bit similar to the sense of déjà vu, or the enhanced version of déjà vu.

The so-called sense of déjà vu, also known as the "illusion of memory", is a physiological phenomenon.

It describes that when human beings are faced with a scene that they have not really experienced, they inexplicably have a sense of familiarity, or déjà vu, as if they have experienced it at a certain time and place.

Randolph Carter's experience every time he 'foresees' the future and happens to encounter a 'stranger' in the future is a bit like this sense of déjà vu.

It's just that it's much stronger.

It was so strong that at that moment, he couldn't distinguish and discover the problem of his memory.

These, in fact, are nothing.

Of course, in addition to the memory of coming in and leaving inexplicably, this did make Randolph a little uncomfortable.

But Randolph is more concerned when he 'foresees' the future into a certain future scenario...... It is actually possible to communicate with strangers in the scene, and even make physical contact.

It's kind of incredible.

So Randolph had long ago doubted that he was doing what he called 'predicting the future'...... It is possible that it is true that it has traveled through time and space to the future.

But if this is the case, then why does all the people who have spoken with him in the 'future scene' no longer know him after he has been out of the 'scene' for a long or short time, and after he has 'arrived' that moment again or really 'arrived'?

And it's completely complete, with no memory of any communication with Randolph.

It's as if everything was just a one-sided fantasy of Randolph.

Because he can't figure this out, he still tends to think that he is 'predicting' the future, rather than 'traveling' it.

"It's tiresome."

Randolph shook his head and continued to flip through the ancient book in his hand.

I saw that the yellowed pages of this ancient book read:

…… We cannot think that human beings are the oldest and ultimate masters of the earth above and under the sky.

Nor can it be assumed that ordinary life and matter can walk alone in the world.

The gods who are above all things have been there, they are now, and they are in the future.

He does not exist in the space we know, but outside the space.

He walked silently at the beginning of the years, unbound by the world and unseen by us.

We sometimes know His approach, but we cannot see His image, and we can only know a little from the countenance of the children He has brought to mankind.

There are many kinds of heirs of gods and men, ranging from man's most genuine fantasies to the most false nightmares to the formless and insubstantial.

God, He walks only at certain times, in the middle of nowhere, where the words of horror are spoken and the cries of hysteria are heard.

There was no trace of it, leaving only decay and dilapidation.

The wind whispers His voice, and the forest whispers His thoughts.

The gods distort the earth, and the gods crush the earth.

But neither the earth nor the earth can see the hand that caused trouble.

Cold ruins, desolate ice fields, oceanic islands, frozen ancient capitals, and ancient seals covered with seaweed and barnacles all swept under the feet of the gods.

The great Cthulhu is his vassal, but Cthulhu can only get a vague glimpse of him.

Babble! Supperion, you are the source of madness, you are the messenger of chaos.

You choke the throats of living beings, but they can only wail and never see you......

"Cthulhu~"

Randolph Carter put down the book and frowned.

He'd heard the word.

On the campus of Miskatonik University, there is an investigative team with the name 'Cthulhu' as the prefix.

However, Randolph did not know exactly what 'Cthulhu' meant, let alone which god the name 'Supperion' referred to in the books.

Neither antiquities nor knowledge of ancient inscription literature could provide him with an answer.

"Whew-"

Suddenly, a hazy and mournful dove cry came from outside the library.

This caught Randolph's attention.

He looked up and found himself in the library...... It turned into a low, damp cave.

At the same time, by the dim glimmer of light coming from outside the cave, Randolph also noticed that the rows of bookshelves that had stood around them had now become a tray of rugged gray-green vines of different shapes.

"It's ......"

He slowly stood up, his eyes amazed, "Which era?" ”

Yes, absolutely.

Randolph is very sure that at this moment, he has definitely entered a future scene that he does not know what era exists.

And quite possibly...... It was a very, very long time from the end of the nineteenth century.

'Long Away' to the library, it has become a cave.

Hurrying a dozen steps to the vicinity of the entrance of the cave, Randolph raised his hand, stroked the rocky outline of the cave entrance, which was only a head taller than himself, and thought:

"Between the complexity of geological processes and plate movements...... The duration of the orogeny is possible from millions to tens of millions of years, so this time ...... I may have come to 10 million years or more A.D. or more. ”

So tens of millions of years later, will human civilization still exist?

Randolph didn't know either.

He was inclined to possibly be extinct.

Because of the time scale of millions of years, tens of millions of years...... It's just too big.

So big that Randolph couldn't have imagined that humanity could have been qualified to develop for so long.

Whoa, whoa, whoa—

The rain was dripping.

Randolph turned his head to look out of the cave and saw that it was evening.

The gray sky was unusually cold, and it was constantly drizzling.

Through the slightest line of rain, Randolph saw a series of mountains lying in the southeast of the cave, not many miles away.

Above the mountains, heavy dark clouds are slowly accumulating, getting thicker and thicker.

I don't know if it's a rain cloud or something weird.

Click!!

At the end of the distant horizon, a dull thunder could be heard.

Immediately afterward, a fork of lightning swept through the gray sky, shattering hundreds of thousands of dark clouds and turning them into even greater rain that smashed the earth.

And after this dazzling thunderstorm, Randolph heard a hazy strange cry coming from all directions.

Woowoo woo –

Yaaaa

Surrounded by this gloomy cry, Randolph was in a trance and only felt the future world of this thousands of years later...... It's as terrifying as a dark realm ruled by an ancient nightmare.

What horrifies Randolph even more is his unusual trance...... Under the strange cries around him, he became deeper and deeper, and he was almost about to lose his mind.

At the same time, in the hazy line of sight, Randolph could faintly see...... Outside the cave, among the vast expanses of dark green grass and strange bushes, there seemed to be dense dark green eyes looking at themselves.

At this moment, everything unusual suddenly disappeared for no reason.

Strange screams, green eyes, trance...... In an instant, it was all gone.

Randolph Carter, back to normal.

"Ho~ho~"

He staggered back a few steps, grabbed the cold rock wall, and tried to catch his breath.

"Just now...... What just happened? ”

Randolph looked around a little dazedly, and noticed that the bushes and grasses outside the cavern, which had previously looked extremely eerie, now looked much more normal, just a little darker.

At this moment, a rather light voice suddenly sounded in Randolph's ear:

"If I were you, I wouldn't be looking at those bushes anymore."

"Who?!" Randolph looked startled and immediately turned back.

Then he saw a strange white man appear in the cave at some point.

The man was wearing a peach-pink suit, with a thin figure and a mysterious temperament, and he was now sitting in the chair where Randolph had been sitting before, smiling playfully.

"This strange gentleman ......"

Randolph's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he said with some confusion, "Who are you?" ”

"One, an ordinary time traveler."

The man in the suit smiled, "Same as you." ”

"Wait, you can travel back in time?! And my ......"

Randolph raised his hand and pointed at himself, surprised, "You mean I can travel back in time?!" ”

"yes."

The man in the suit casually took out his pocket watch and looked at it, "It's 480 million A.D., well, if you stay in this era."

Then unfortunately, your dissertation will not have a chance to be turned in again. ”

Completely ignoring the other party's boring jokes, Randolph held his forehead and said with a dizzy expression:

"Oh, sir, you have revealed so much information, I can't figure it out for a while, you mean I'm now in a few hundred million years now?!"

"Uh-huh." The man in the suit shrugged his shoulders and smiled.

"No, it's not."

Randolph shook his head and waved his hand, "I don't know where you learned about me, but I must say that I can only predict the future, not really reach it." ”

"Hehe, there's not much difference between the two." The man in the suit grinned and said, "Also, you think that everything you come into contact with in the future scene is illusory, but in fact, ...... That's all true.

As for why, in the subsequent time, the people you have come into contact with have no impression of you.

It's because the future scene you arrived at before is not this timeline, but other parallel universes. ”

"Parallel universes?" Randolph looked dazed, "What's that?" ”

"Oh, my bad."

The man in the suit looked in a trance, then patted his forehead and said, "I forgot, you are from the end of the nineteenth century, and the so-called parallel universe theory will not appear until another fifty or sixty years." ”

"Uh...... Mr. ”

Randolph gestured to the chair he was sitting in, "I guess I should be able to go back, right?" ”

"Oh, of course, of course."

The man in the suit, "You just need to say a few words in your heart, and you can go back easily, but don't worry, we can ...... Let's talk. ”

……

Beyond the infinite dimension, beyond the infinite time, sits the Lord of Light and Darkness, the Opposite of Chaos, and the source of change in the worlds, the pure white palace of Jojodern.

In this huge temple of the collapse of the cause and effect of the burning of the years, surrounded by the waves of countless praises and songs, like an infinitely huge and brilliant whirlpool, Jojo Deen is quietly hanging at this moment.

And in front of him, in the void of the same vast hall, there were three indescribable gods of all shapes and sizes.

If an old god were present, he would be horrified to find out...... These three gods of great size and mystery are none other than Sab Nicholas, Nyaratotip, and Yogsothoth.

It's just that at this moment, the state of the god of the three pillars is obviously not very good.

Because they ...... It has been dissected into huge pieces by some infinite power.