Chapter 68: Innsmouth
The last time I was able to successfully make [Dagon], I was somewhat mixed with luck.
At that time, Li Ming did not have a thorough understanding of the card-making rules of this world, and he was not fully prepared before starting to make cards.
If he didn't succeed at that time, he would have been greeted by the collapse of the spiritual sea, and he might even attract the attention of the Ensul Blood Brotherhood.
Memories of the past came to Li Ming's heart, and he shook his head self-deprecatingly, completely bidding farewell to the fear in his heart.
To make this Innsmouth, he had done a number of tests related to scene cards.
During this period of time when the sea of spirit was gradually filled, Li Ming's ink manuscript in his belly could be said to have been changed and changed, and the card face of Innsmouth was also painted and painted.
Coupled with the help of the surrounding scenes, he was confident that he would recreate one of the most famous scenes in the Cthulhu Mythos, the seaside dead town in Essex County from The Haze of Innsmouth.
As a famous check-in mecca in the Cthulhu Mythos, Innsmouth often appears in various stories, and the investigators basically come in a car.
Speaking of which, Li Ming remembers that there seems to be a small town called Innsmouth mentioned in "Celephaus", but its geographical location is not in Essex County but in New England.
Many crocologists at the time had their own views on this theory, but the more dominant one was that Lo Lao later moved Innsmouth from New England to Essex County.
But Li Ming still prefers a more idealistic statement - Innsmouth is not a specific location, it can appear anywhere, any sea town willing to trade souls with fish monsters.
After calming down his thoughts a little, Li Ming pulled a small part of the spiritual sea under his feet and placed it in front of him, and a blank card glowing with fluorescence appeared on his chest.
In the previous experiment, the fourth word of the spiritual sea was almost at risk of collapse, but this time......
I don't know why, anyway, Li Ming thinks that he will be able to succeed in making cards.
Even if he was in the sea of spirits, he could still smell the salty smell from the surrounding sea breeze, and even water droplets continued to fall on Li Ming.
Li Ming took a deep breath and began to become famous-
Stamp...... This...... Mao...... This!
Sure enough, compared to the previous understatement, Li Ming could clearly feel the feeling of exertion when making Innsmouth, beads of sweat continued to seep out and slide down his forehead, the turbulent sea of spirit swayed wildly, and a dazzling and soul-shaking beam of light burst out of Li Ming's body.
The huge spiritual power not only affected Li Ming's spiritual sea, but even in the real world, a dark green light could be seen cutting through the clouds along the tip of the monolith, and a lush, dark green ominous sea mist appeared above the seaside town of the deep diver group.
But at this time, Li Ming couldn't perceive this, he let out a low breathing sound, as if Wanjun gravity was pressing on him, and Li Ming tried his best to maintain the sea of spirit without collapsing.
Fortunately, the surrounding deep divers, strange underground towns, and the huge monolith seemed to help Li Ming maintain the spiritual sea, and the cracks that should have appeared did not appear around Li Ming's spiritual sea.
After finally dropping the four words [Innsmouth], looking at the four words that glowed with faint fluorescence, Li Ming finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Good...... Step 1 is complete!
Next, draw the card face!
Li Ming had repeatedly drawn at least 100 drawings of Innsmouth before, and at this time he was already familiar with it, and he only needed to draw the things in his mind on the card surface "according to the script".
For many people, it is very difficult to combine the card name, card face and Kari's story, but for Li Ming, it is a breeze.
At this moment, the sea of spirit is constantly dissipating, and a steady stream of spiritual power turns into streamers and pours into the [Innsmouth] that is drawing the card face, and Li Ming does not see anything unusual until it is completed.
Very good...... The name and card drawing links have been completed, and the next step is the last and most critical step.
Li Ming took a deep breath and poured the words that appeared in his mind into the blank card in front of him in the form of spiritual power little by little.
[In the perception of ordinary people, Innsmouth is a small settlement built on the edge of the harbor, which was mainly shipbuilding and fishing in the past a long time, but it was not until after a certain war that a very influential captain discovered a number of islands hanging overseas, which gradually evolved into today's Innsmouth. 】
[The Kanaks of that island seem to be 'trading' with some creature beneath the sea, offering children and virgins to the gods of the ocean in exchange for all sorts of bounty in exchange for an inexhaustible supply of fish and gold. 】
[But later the captain discovers that the Kanaks are not really humans, they all have the blood of those creatures under the sea, and their appearance will gradually be no different from fish monsters, and finally completely transform into 'deep divers', which also makes the captain completely enter the abyss.] 】
[The fish flocked to the harbor, the young people of the town mysteriously disappeared, and the townspeople of Innsmouth began to slowly become deformed and ugly until they finally disappeared completely from the land, while the captain's wife and daughter wore ornaments like gold. 】
[A man who went to Innsmouth to celebrate his coming of age heard the muffled conversation of some kind of non-human voice in the doorway, and witnessed a large group of strange-looking strangers with lanterns in hand, and Innsmouth, like a dead town, came to life at this moment......]
[He fled from Innsmouth like crazy, but he couldn't escape his nightmare, and everything that happened in Innsmouth was tossing and turning in his mind; In his dreams, he saw Shogues, the Deep Divers, Laleye, Cthulhu, and the "Great Gon Secret Cult" that the townspeople of Innsmouth embraced. 】
[Eventually, one morning, he was on the verge of collapse from a nightmare, and he looked in the mirror, revealing a face that only an Innsmouth would have......]
After filling in the background story, Li Ming let out a sigh of relief, and when he came back to his senses, the spiritual sea under his feet was almost on the verge of being completely exhausted.
Fortunately, the last sentence has already been filled.
The cards floating around Li Ming are [Misty Ghost Mist (Purple)], [Corroded Street Wall (Purple)], [Bad Water Dead Town (Purple)], [Half-Fish Vendor (Blue)], [Filthy Water (Blue)], ......
The three purple cards suddenly turned into a burst of purple streamers, and they all surged towards the [Innsmouth] that had already fallen into the name.
When the streamer dissipated, Li Ming reached out and took the [Innsmouth] in his hand.
And he was already sweating profusely.
"Whew...... It's finally done. Li Ming let out a sigh of relief, and the whole person almost fell directly on the monolith.
But fortunately, it was done.
No, I finally came here once, and I had to eat a grilled fish.
The grilled fish here is really delicious.
At this moment, a deep diver with only half of his head exposed swam over, looking at Li Ming with big bulging eyes.
Someone is approaching here!