Chapter 1: The Cthulhu Mythos System

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"Hmm, I crossed over? Where is it? ”

Since Li Ming opened his eyes, the feeling of suffocation has not stopped for a moment.

Inside the eerie and humid underwater dungeon, dim green light surged one after another outside the transparent walls, and the sparkling water distorted everything outside the dungeon.

A long-dried skeleton was nailed to the surrounding walls, mixed with a strong rancid stench, and he and another old man who seemed to be lifeless became Li Ming's only two cellmates.

A few fish were wandering outside the water dungeon, but the next moment, a fish monster guard with a length of nearly five meters suddenly attacked, baring its sharp teeth and swallowing the group of weak fish into its belly.

Then, the fish monster glanced at Li Ming's location, his eyes were red and deep, hiding the meaning of terror and ferocity.

Just looking at him made Li Ming shudder.

"It's okay to cross over, but what kind of start is this?"

A few minutes ago, he was a mythology researcher.

Today, he had ordered a mythology book written in Latin online, but he never thought that he would be directly hit by a mud truck on the way to pick up the goods.

When I woke up again, I was already in this strange water prison.

What is this called?

Being under the deep sea, the accompanying suffocation sensation made Li Ming feel weak, and the pain of almost suffocation instantly hit his brain, as if thousands of ants were gnawing at his brain nerves.

As the headache gradually worsened, one memory after another that did not belong to him came back.

A few minutes later, Li Ming, who was dying with a headache, finally figured out the ins and outs of the matter.

"I see, I'm still Li Ming...... The body I have now is my alternate space-time isotope in this world. ”

"But the history of this world, how can it feel that it is a little outrageous?"

According to his memories in this world, this planet is called Blue Star, and its historical trajectory is roughly the same as that of his previous life.

The only difference is that about two hundred years ago, a powerful consciousness merged with the world, and the history of the world was deflected.

In the first 100 years, many mysterious and secret places appeared around the world, and many vicious evil creatures lived in them.

With the gradual exploration of the secret realm, it was discovered that if you defeat the evil creatures in the secret realm, you can obtain a card containing energy, which is later a material card.

By merging material cards into the sea of consciousness, compiling stories, drawing card images, and filling in settings, a variety of cards can be created, and this profession was later collectively known as "card maker".

In modern society, cards have long been integrated into all aspects of human civilization, travel, work, and daily life, and cards are everywhere.

It is precisely for this reason that the social status of card makers is extremely high.

However, card makers are not without thresholds, and if you want to make a card, you need far more mental power and brains than ordinary people, as well as enough material cards.

Then formulate the rules for your own cards, set the backstory, integrate the materials, determine the system, supplement the settings, draw the card surface, and finally pass the approval of the "world consciousness" to successfully make the card.

For this reason, "world consciousness" is also jokingly referred to by many as "card judges".

And Li Ming in this world is a senior high school student with the talent of a card maker, but because of his family and shyness, he thought about the story but had no material cards available, so he had to try his luck in the underground black market in Xingzhu City.

As a result, the material card was not caught, but it was taken by the cult lurking in Xingzhu City and used as a sacrifice.

The day of the sacrifice is tomorrow!

After reading the memories of his predecessor, Li Ming felt that his CPU was a little difficult to accept for a while.

He would rather be captured and taken to the waist of northern Myanmar than be sacrificed to some evil god tomorrow!!

At this time, he was in an underwater prison, not to mention that he couldn't swim at all, and even if he could really escape, the fish monsters outside could tear him to pieces in an instant.

There was a message written all over the body.

"Little brother, if you come, you will be safe, anyway, there is still a day, otherwise let's talk before we die?"

On the side, the old man covered in bruises suddenly opened his eyes and spoke, which really startled Li Ming.

Good fellow, it's a scam corpse!

Just now, seeing that the old man was covered with wounds, and even the blood scabs had coagulated, I thought that he was already dead.

I didn't expect to be alive?

Li Ming seemed to grasp a life-saving straw, and hurriedly asked, "Old man, do you know how to get out of here?" ”

"If I knew, I would still be here?"

The old man smiled and shook his head, his leg bones seemed to have been broken, and the whole person simply showed a look of life and death.

"Don't even think about running away, our cards have been taken away, you don't want to fight with those cult members who have cards just with the card maker's body, right?"

As he spoke, he also revealed the wound on his chest, revealing the fractures that had penetrated deep into the bone and the laceration wound that had not yet healed, and even the every peristaltic movement of the internal organs could be clearly seen.

Just looking at the terrifying crack in the old man's chest, Li Ming felt as if his heart had stopped beating for a moment.

"See, I've been beaten like this as a professional card maker, looking at your appearance, I guess I'm not even a trainee card maker."

"Anyway, don't want to escape, it's better to come and chat with me."

That kind of attitude of no desire and no desire, indifferent attitude Li Ming really can't learn.

Funny!!

Li Ming still didn't give up, and asked, "What about the investigators in Xingzhu City?" The cultists are sacrificing here, they should send someone to save us, right? ”

"Oh, I'm the investigator." The old man grinned.

Li Ming: "......"

I'm grass!!

What a start for this Tema!!

I've only been in this world for a few minutes, and you're telling me that a time-traveler has only one day left in his life??

Are you kidding!!

He forcibly suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, sat cross-legged on the ground, sorted out the memories in his mind, and thought about how to break the game.

The problem of the water dungeon is easy to solve, and the key is the fish monsters outside, as well as the cards in the hands of the cultists.

And the combat power of the card maker comes from the cards, and if he wants to escape from here, he can only make cards.

As a trainee card maker (not yet full), Li Ming has never made cards before, but he has a good understanding of the card making process.

It's just a story, originally Li Ming thought that he had read so many novels and understood so many myths, and he could more or less sew a worldview out, and even copy it directly.

But after confirming the card production rules, this road was basically blocked.

The myths and stories that already exist in the human world cannot be used to make cards, so the hardest part for card makers is to make up stories.

As a card reviewer, the "awareness" card review is extremely strict, and if you want to make those original mythical characters, you just don't have to review them!

Even the original people in this world, most of the cards they made only dared to use those myths as the background to compile some small stories in them.

For example, some people will use folk tales as the background and make up their own stories to make cards.

That's a bit of a dilemma.

Li Ming didn't want to let go of his previous life's knowledge of mythology, but to make up those little stories by himself.

Since there are 200 years of different histories, there must be cultural deviations!

Although mankind has not been happy with fantasy worlds since the Industrial Revolution, there may also be options available to Li Ming!

Fortunately, in order to avoid being convicted of plagiarism, and also to draw inspiration, the predecessor was quite familiar with various mythological systems.

It is only necessary to compare the worldview that does not exist in the memory of the predecessor......

"First of all, the combat power should not be too weak, at least it must be able to explode those fish monsters outside, and it is best to exaggerate the ceiling combat power a little......"

"The Nahuatl Myth...... No way...... With ......"

"Andean mythology...... No, there is a ...... too."

At this time, Li Ming's brain was running rapidly, and one mythical story after another passed through his mind.

When human civilization was still ignorant, many earth-shattering myths were created.

But as humans learn more and more about the truth of the starry sky, imagination seems to be lacking, and there are fewer earth-shattering myths and stories.

But that doesn't mean the human imagination is running dry.

Finally, after nearly half an hour of thinking, a mythological system born in the "Roaring Twenties" emerged in Li Ming's mind.

Cthulhu Mythos!

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