149. Popular attractions
Chapter 150 149. Popular Attractions
Why did my sister receive such a submission?
Lloyd was genuinely surprised.
Today, he looked for the Mizcatok University mentioned by the presiding judge in the library, and there were only a few words.
There are a lot of titles to say 'the highest institution of learning that transcendents dream of', 'a true temple of knowledge', 'at the forefront of mystery and transcendence', 'beyond time, beyond humanity, beyond reality', and so on.
But there is no substantive content at all, and after watching it for a long time, Lloyd doesn't even know how big it is, how many people there are, and what the disciplines are......
It seems that everyone is eager to do this, but only the top geniuses can enter.
That's why Lloyd went to the club to inquire.
Judging from the manager's reaction at the time, it seemed that the place was really quite mysterious, and it was actually on the same level as the 'Dream Theater' of unknown origin, which made Lloyd even more curious.
But he wasn't in a hurry, he just learned about it in advance, and the presiding judge said that he would not be arranged to enroll until he was promoted to the third rank, and the process seemed to be quite complicated? Need the help of a top powerhouse at the level of the Grand Judge?
But I didn't expect that my sister would actually receive a submission about it?
Lloyd hurriedly looked at it seriously.
And the first sentence of the opening above is a little scary:
"If you saw this letter, I should have been burned......"
The rest of the content is probably from the perspective of a faculty member, describing two 'strange things' that happened at Mizcatok University.
The first is a study hall that is always occupied.
No one knows which school building it is in, and no one knows what floor it is on, so it seems that it takes a bit of luck and fate to find it?
That study room doesn't matter in spring, summer, autumn or winter, in the middle of the morning, there are always people and lights.
Sometimes it's three or two, sometimes it's as many as a dozen.
They are also not very good at following the rules of the study room, and are always reading a book while making some slurred whispers.
But if you look closer, you will hear them talking about various legends in the school, and they will mention all kinds of strange things that happened in various parts of the school.
Seeing this, Lloyd's gaze moved down again, and a line of shocking blood-red characters jumped into view:
"Those legends, they are true! It's all true!! It's all true!! But don't believe it! Don't believe it!! Don't believe !! ”
This line occupies almost half of the manuscript paper, and the ink used is as bright red as blood, which is strange and scary at first glance.
But it shouldn't really be written in blood, otherwise it wouldn't be so red, but it would be very dark and dark.
As for the fact that this is 'true' and shouts 'don't believe it', the contradictory statement only attracts Lloyd to continue reading.
It turned out that a few students once walked into the study room by chance, and then believed in those legends, and ran to investigate in a daze.
It never came back......
Since then, students have walked into the study hall every semester, so many students have been 'lost', and the school has to issue a rule prohibiting talking about the study hall in the school.
But there are still students who come across this study room, and then unconsciously enter it, and then disappear into an unknown corner.
"If you come across it, don't enter, keep your head down, close your eyes, cover your ears with one hand, light the candlesticks with the other, and run in the direction of the candlelight flickering, run, run faster, and get ahead of them before they catch up......"
This concludes the first story.
Lloyd's scalp tingled for a while, and he couldn't help but move to Evrol's side at the thought that he might go inside to study later.
But Ephrol said with a wicked smile:
"Hehe, if Xiao Yi is scared, she can hide in her sister's arms."
Lloyd was stunned, reached out and gently scratched the soles of his sister's feet in white stockings, took advantage of her opportunity to reach out to protect them, seized the gap, snatched the hammerhead shark puppet in her arms, hugged it tightly, and then continued to watch the second story.
The second story takes place in an old-fashioned school association, a radical society that is keen to explore the mysteries of the occult, and is so popular that almost every student related to the occult wants to enter.
But on the third day of a new semester, the association suddenly disappeared.
Whether it was the members of the association, or the meeting places, or the various periodicals they produced, and the various records they left behind, all disappeared inexplicably overnight.
"At first we thought it was an accident with their overly radical occult research, which is not uncommon in places like Mizkatok, where all sorts of accidents are staged every day, and at one time the students jokingly called the 'Calamity Academy' until the school came forward and banned such non-rigorous ......"
"But none of us could have imagined that this accident would almost destroy the entire university......"
"On the fourth day of the semester, the day after the gang disappeared, everyone felt that there was an unsettling atmosphere in the college...... Some believe it may have something to do with the disappearing association, others think it's another accidental ......"
"In any case, we take this very seriously, and have arranged for three senior teachers to investigate the disappearance of the association......"
The next step is to describe the results of each of the three teachers.
The first to bear the brunt was one of the oldest and most powerful teachers, who committed suicide by the shore of a lake in the school, by pulling out his own heart......
At his feet, there was also a report of the investigation, on which was left a sketch depicting what he saw.
It was a paradise-like country, colorful and colorful, and everyone gathered in a circle, singing and dancing happily.
Then came the second teacher, who suddenly went crazy in his dormitory, kept saying things that no one understood, tried to break his fingers and arms, and became bloody all over, as if the capillaries under his skin had burst at the same time.
But he didn't turn into a monster, he was just sent to a mental hospital, and when the next semester started, he came back to teaching.
It's just that he has forgotten what happened to that investigation, or maybe he wants to hide something deliberately.
Finally, the third teacher dug up a pile of fossils on the site of the group's daily meeting......
Fossil ...... of humans
Their bones were left on a huge rock wall under the pressure of a long time and the heavy crust, and they were very well preserved, clearer and more complete than the fossil handicrafts processed outside, and they could feel their fear and despair before death through the body movements of the bones.
The specific number of people and the gender above are exactly the same as the number of people who disappear from the association......
"It's probably just a coincidence, we all know that the time it takes to form fossils is measured in 'billions'."
"But the senior teacher confirmed that this was the missing association and wanted to investigate further, but the school forcibly stopped it, and the precious fossil was destroyed and smashed into a large pile of pieces."
"The teacher was so dissatisfied with this result that he announced his resignation on the spot, left Mizkatok and decided to continue the investigation on his own."
"It was only at the end of the semester that I heard about him again - he died, in the dark alley behind the tavern, and was robbed of everything valuable by a gang of homeless men, who smashed his head."
"From then on, the occult became Mizkatok's most rigorous subject, and only the best students had the opportunity to choose it, and only the strongest teachers could teach it."
This is the end of the second story.
At the end, Lloyd saw a line of statements:
"This story is purely fictional, and if there are similarities, it is a great honor."
And then there's a joking byline:
There are no staffed temporary workers.
Seeing this, Lloyd couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, it's all fiction, if it's all true, Mizcattok University is really so dangerous, and it will disappear for some reason, so how dare you go to it?
This is reasonable, after all, it is such a mysterious, such a high-end and high-end place, even if there is a story, it is impossible to contribute to a folk magazine, right?
Lloyd pondered in his heart for a moment, and then commented on these two stories.
Compared to the first story, the second one looks much better, at least that's what Lloyd thinks.
The occult is such a dangerous field, how dare you play so aggressively? It's a little bit of a warning that if you die, you'll die.
He hoped that his sister would publish this story and warn those occult lovers in the city not to believe in any 'love divination' and 'transfer rituals'.
Although most of them are fake, if one of them is true, I don't know what kind of mess will happen.
In fact, the reason why Lloyd supports his sister to work so hard to run a magazine is that in addition to supporting his sister's choice and career, he also has some thoughts of 'alerting the world'.
He has always felt that he is an enthusiastic young man with a sense of social responsibility, and hopes that through these bizarre folklore, citizens who have nothing to do will not always think about dying.
"The first story is very good, sister, will you publish it?"
Lloyd asked.
Evrol nodded and replied:
"Well, I also liked the first story, especially the way it was expressed, it was a very new way of writing in many of the submissions I received, and it was the most special of all the submissions about Mizkatok University."
"Huh? Are there a lot of submissions from that university? ”
"Yes, in the field of folklore, that university is as popular as Arkham Town."
Thanks to saltfish for the 500 points
(End of chapter)