my cthulhu game

Chapter 137 The Final Choice
In front of the hospital gate.

Chen Qiang gave Xiaoxue a brief hug.

"Look!" Xiaoxue pointed at the hospital building in surprise.

In Jiadu at dusk, the sky was overcast, and most of the rooms in the hospital turned on the lights in advance.

But just now... all the lights were completely extinguished in an instant.

A dead silence.

……

In the movie theater, Su Yingliu and Qin Yixian were discussing in low voices.

"Only by offering a part of your body to the nameless one can you avoid death," Qin Yixian asked, "Uncle Su, what will you do?"

"I will cut off my little finger," Su Yingliu said with a blank expression, "I can bear the price of the little finger."

The tough veteran detective has faced countless adversities.He doesn't mind making sacrifices to save the lives of his teammates and himself.

"Do you understand 'part of the body' this way too..." Qin Yixian chuckled twice.

Return the yellow seal and part of the body to the guardian——

……

Cecilu held the jadeite pendant in her hand.

There was silence in the dark hospital corridor.A few corridors away, someone shouted "Power outage!", but the sound seemed to come from far away.

It must be done as soon as possible - otherwise, Uncle Joshua and even the other patients will be in danger...!
[Cecile’s listening test was successful on 12/26]

Even though the voice was almost inaudible, Cecil could still hear it.Closer, the footsteps of the pursuer are getting closer.

Cecilu held a military flashlight in one hand and a pendant in the other.

"bring it on……"

Then she saw it.

Wearing a shabby gray overcoat with a pale face, a burly man who looked like a worm appeared at the end of the corridor.His footsteps seemed to be staggering, but within a few breaths he was already approaching, and Cecil could smell the disgusting stench of corpses on his body.

Under the light of the flashlight, Cecilu could see the other person's face clearly.His emerald eyes were sunken in thick, scaly flesh, his limbs twisted like octopus appendages, and he looked like something out of a twisted caricature.

【SC1/1D8】

[Cecilu's sanity check is 38/70 successful, current sanity is 69]

[Cecci Luxulu Myth Check failed 66/10]

"cut."

Whether it was a monster transformed into a "covenant" between human beings and the old rulers, or a creature that traveled to the earth from a distant planet, Cecilu didn't know, and didn't care.

But handing over the pendant without any resistance like this is really not reconciled.

[Cecile Pistol Shooting Test Successful 15/45]

The monster didn't mean to dodge.

The bullet went straight through the monster's body.

The semi-liquid body of the monster froze for a moment, and then continued to move forward as if nothing had happened.

"...Sure enough, bullets are useless. If it was Xiaoxue, she would think of a way to use liquid nitrogen or something like that to set up an ambush. Forget it, it's not my style to continue to groan."

She drew her own Gurkha khukri.

"Do you want this?" She shook the jade pendant in her hand.

The monster let out a distorted howl and rushed towards Sisi.

[Hasta's contractor arm flail 78/85 success]

[Cecile's Fighting and Blocking Test 22/92 Success]

The monster waved its tentacles-like arms, but the sharp-eyed Cecilu cut off the tip with a saber.The huge force made Cecilu's right hand hurt sharply, but she still managed to use the force to roll and flashed to another direction.The monster's fluid tentacles whipped on the concrete floor, leaving a shallow dent, and the damaged part quickly repaired at a speed visible to the naked eye.

What a terrifying power, Cecil thought to herself.Without more powerful weapons, human flesh and blood want to stop this creature like a mantis.Even under heavy protection, the intermittent hallucinatory influence still allows the monster to take the victim's life.

If I faced this monster alone... No, if it was my past self, I would either fight to the death, or surrender my arm like the young man in the report.

Thinking about it this way, Sissy actually made a gesture on her upper arm with the kukri.

But it's different now, Sissy thought.

I must protect Uncle Yue Xia, as well as Chen Qiang and Xiaoxue.

Just let yourself risk your life to complete this experiment!
The Russian girl raised the Gurkha knife in her hand high, and instead of facing her arm or fingers, she rolled up a lock of her hair and swung it down decisively.

A section of brown hair was broken in Cecilu's hand.She took out another short black hair from her pocket, which belonged to Uncle Joshua.

"Ah. That's all."

The "Contractor of Hastur" remained there without moving.It just watched Cecilu's movements quietly.

"Give it back to you," Saixi entangled two pieces of hair and the jadeite pendant, and threw it to the contractor. "There's no more."

"Saixi!" In the distance, Chen Qiang and Qin Lingxue were rushing over pushing a cart.

【SC1/1D8】

【陈强理智检定79/42失败，1D8=7】

[Investigator "Chen Qiang" has lost 4 points of sanity in the past because of "Hasta's Contractor". The sanity value loss caused by "Hasta's Contractor" is up to 8. Chen Qiang is partly used to this fear, and will not lose more than 4 sanity points due to "Hasta's Contractor", and his current sanity is 40]

[Chen Qiang's current sanity is 38]

【秦凌雪理智检定82/29失败，1D8=8】

[Investigator "Qin Lingxue" used to lose 1 sanity point due to "Hasta's Contractor". The Sanity Point loss caused by "Hasta's Contractor" is up to 8. Qin Lingxue is partly used to this fear, and will not lose more than 7 Sanity Points due to "Hasta's Contractor", currently Sanity is 22]

【Qin Lingxue's current sanity is 22】

"It's the kind of monster that Wei Yuanshan turned into at that time." Qin Lingxue said in a low voice.She recalled the frightening memories of "The King in Yellow in the Board Game Club" a few months ago, and she knelt on one knee and retched.

"You ran away straight away," Chen Qiang said, "but you still figured out a way. Hey, wouldn't I be super-swimming by saying that?"

Could it be that this "Contractor of Hastur" has been a monster for so long that he can no longer understand human words?

"Oh, you just don't understand Chinese." Chen Qiang suddenly realized.

"Hasta's Contractor" has no intention of continuing to attack.He held the emerald pendant together with two locks of hair firmly in his arms, then silently turned to Chen Qiang and Qin Lingxue.

"Success!" Cecilu looked excited, "Sure enough, the so-called part of the body does not necessarily include bones and flesh and blood...!"

"Gods don't care, gods don't mind, gods don't care," Chen Qiang said, as if he was the high priest of Hastur, "mortals think that flesh and blood are more valuable than nails or hair, but it's just a self-righteous illusion .”

To the Great Old One, a part of the body is just a part.

The "Contractor of Hastur" let out an urging whisper.

"In the end, do we need it too...Okay." Chen Qiang shrugged.

This "Contractor of Hastur" seems to be different from Wei Yuanshan, he is not a sullen and impatient person.

He took out the knife from his bag, cut off his own hair slowly, threw it to the monster, and then came to Xiaoxue who was still retching, squatted down, and took off a strand of her hair.

"Huh..." After getting the hair of the last two people, the monster stopped moving.

　The second update arrives, and there will be another update in the evening.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)