By the time Kuroda recovered from his panic, Fuyuki was no longer by his side. In extreme panic, he turned and ran wildly for an unknown amount of time, and by the time the remnants of reason returned to his mind, he had no idea where he was.

What is that?

Kuroda's memory of how he escaped from there is blurry. His lungs were on fire. The last scene in my memory is that after Fuyuki pushed open the door, the terrifying scene that cannot be described in any words.

"The gods and Buddhas bless ......"

The opposite side of the gate was empty, but filled with the shadow of a colossus that was not projected by any light source. A bone-chilling cold like death and the void filled the entire space, and then, the "whole" dark void that seemed to be condensed into substance moved, and the invisible dark vortex jumped and stretched, making Kuroda understand that it was alive.

It was pitch black. The phone has long been lost in the depths of the mine tunnel, and there is only boundless darkness as far as the eye can see.

Whether it was the cause of night blindness, or just temporary blindness caused by a pseudo-psychological disability, Kuroda couldn't see anything.

"Fuyuki-kun? Fuyuki-kun! He shouted hastily.

No one responded to him. The always cunning and high-minded talker of all sorts of topics, it's as if he has evaporated directly from this world.

Kuroda sat on the ground in despair. Like Fuyuki, he relied on his father's fame and connections to get a stable and decent position, and now that he is in a state of isolation, he doesn't know what to do.

I don't know how long it took—maybe minutes, maybe hours—but Kuroda noticed that his eyes seemed to be seeing again. He could dimly make out the stones on the soles of his feet, or the shapes of his own hands.

It can't go on like that, Kuroda thought. If you keep staying, even if you don't encounter the monster just now, you will definitely die of hunger and thirst.

I must have gone deep into the mine. The labyrinthine alleyway stretched deep underground, and Kuroda couldn't tell where he came from, and he didn't know which one was the way to the ground, so he could only support his body with the rock wall and grope his way forward. The only consolation to him was that the rock walls were extremely smooth, apparently artificially processed.

Finally—

He saw the light.

It doesn't matter if it's an underground organization, Kuroda thought ecstatically. Anyone can do it, he thought, as long as it's human, take me out of this hellish place!

He ran wildly towards where the light was.

“……”

In the middle of the alleyway, four ghouls with blood-red eyes carried a bloodstained, intact cow bone that had just been eaten and wiped clean, and Kuroda stared at each other with wide eyes.

Kuroda could see that the deformed cow bones were densely stamped with strange black patterns, as if they had been born on the bones.

Ghoul: ⊙▽⊙

Kuroda: (ΩДΩ)

"Hey, you're ......" The lead ghoul straightened up his slumped body.

What's the deal with this stunned intruder? Even the Skeleton Eaters don't dare to run around in the underground tunnels here.

【SC0/1D6】

[Kuroda sanity test 91/17 failed, 1D6=5, current sanity 12]

Kuroda, who was not really out of his madness, was stimulated again, screamed, and ran behind him.

"Ahead is ......"

The four ghouls watched as he once again lost his eyesight from the excessive psychological impact, and he slammed straight into the rock wall and passed out.

……

Meanwhile.

Another part of the underground labyrinth.

Chen Qiang took Keshila, Gu Shiyin and Cecilu and walked in the long alleyway. An elder of the Skeleton Eaters leads the way.

As for why these people?

At Chen Qiang's behest, the priestess woke everyone up from their sleep. The awakened investigators then argued over whether or not to continue working with the ghouls, and in the end, the co-op barely got the upper hand.

The crowd split into two groups—one group remained on the ground with the priestess, and the other group explored the underground space under the guidance of another elder.

Chen Qiang originally wanted to go to the meeting alone, but he thought about it for a while, and brought the technical Gu Shiyin (the ancient had the ability to see at night and did not need to be sanity tested) with him.

After realizing the humiliating deeds of her fall, Cecilu insisted on continuing to stay by Chen Qiang's side and perform the duties of a bodyguard.

"What? You say I'm hurt? She stubbornly said, "This little injury will be completely fine with a glass of vodka!" ”

Of course, there was no vodka in the camp. However, considering that Sai Qian's sanity is good (her will is 70 points, but her sanity is 71 points because of the reward), Chen Qiang also granted her request.

Xiaoxue also wanted to go with Chen Qiang, but was stopped by Helena. Xiaoxue's spiritual healing is not yet complete, and the old occultist does not want her spirit to be further stimulated.

Helena herself had other plans.

"Take this." Helena said, carefully taking out a monocle from her small bag and stuffing it into Chen Qiang's hand.

"Once you've put it on, you'll be able to share your vision with me on the ground." She introduced.

As a hero investigator of the knowledge department, Helena still has a lot of magic methods. In the underground world, which is used as a base by the Skeleton Eaters, it is difficult to connect with normal communication waves, so spells are quite important.

Even if Chen Qiang could read to the investigator with the system's built-in communication function (even if his ears were blocked, he could hear it, as if he was talking directly to the target), Helena still hoped to receive real-time visual information.

Many people were skeptical that Chen Qiang had brought Khira. Even with the explanation that "she is a modified person with a modified body, with night vision and the ability to breathe underwater", Mrs. Megan still questions the necessity of Chen Qiang to take "a child of twelve or thirteen" down to the underground world.

Gu Shiyin also looks very young, but in Mrs. Megan's imagination, Gu Shiyin's actual age should be a little older than her appearance.

In the end, under Chen Qiang's eye instructions (Kehira will only react to Chen Qiang's orders, provided that it is not too difficult to understand), Kehira silently performed a huge performance of carrying the safe and desk with both hands, walking from one end of the room to the other, and the agility of everyone rushing up without touching the corner of her clothes, the speechless Mrs. Meghan reluctantly agreed to Chen Qiang's taking Kehira.

In fact, Chen Qiang has a sentence that he wants to say-

Don't be fooled by appearances. One of these two Buddha-figures is an immortal, and the other is an old ruler. Together, everyone's ages are not a fraction of Gu Shiyin's age (100 million and 3,913 years old).

And Khira was born before Cthulhu came to Earth, and her real age is much older than Gu Shiyin......

"Safety first, loading first...... Friendship second. ”

Chen Qiang didn't bring Khira to fight.

If you bring the daughter of the Cthulhu family, even if the negotiations fall apart, if necessary, you can let the ghoul side throw a mouse bogey, and dare not do it easily. Maybe ordinary ghouls can't recognize it, but presumably the old ruler behind the ghouls should still be "knowledgeable".

Pen fun pigeon