my cthulhu game

Chapter 216 How to Interrogate a Shoggoth Elegantly
"Ah!"

Mr. Albert Shani in the limousine sneezed.

Why does the Shoggoth Overlord sneeze?Mr. Shani thought depressedly.

Shoggoths are not a very intelligent race.Even with one of the highest IQs in the family, Mr. Shani's intelligence value is still only 65.It would sometimes take him years to learn a spell - he had plenty of time anyway.

"Maybe something happened." Said the black brother sitting in the driver's seat.

"If Billy hasn't come back by night," Mr. Shani snorted, "Go find him, Garp. Maybe he chased him in the wrong direction and is now wandering around in the ruins of Salem."

"Okay, sir."

……

On the outskirts of Arkham, in the building of a machine tool factory.

It went bankrupt decades ago, and in the last 20 years, except for a traveling circus that briefly rented these houses, it has been completely abandoned.

Mrs. Megan of the British "N Network" felt strange about her fate: a month ago she was still looking at Chen Qiang with suspicion, but now, Chen Qiang has sent investigators organizations what they have never received since their establishment Subject - A Shoggoth captive.

Unlike the Shoggoth Lords, Billy's ego has not yet completed its evolution.It obeyed Mr. Shani's commands as fully as it had been to its Old Master.

Different from the independent races with strong individual consciousness such as the ancients, Yisi people and Migos, they were originally created as servant life forms for their masters to use. The systematic "obey" command directly replaced Mr. Shani in Billy's consciousness with Chen Qiang.

It's just that Chen Qiang still doesn't know that the effect of "Bie God" on Billy is almost permanent.

The human-shaped Billy was locked up with chains scattered all over the place, and each chain was inlaid with old seals that had been performed with the "old seal consecration technique".More than a dozen barrels of liquid nitrogen were placed high above Billy's head. Once Billy showed signs of breaking free, he would be drenched in liquid nitrogen immediately.

Billy looked very weak, lowered his head and said nothing.

Mrs. Megan and several other agents looked down on him.She teamed up with Delta Green to build a small makeshift cell in an abandoned factory building.

"What's your name?" Mrs. Meghan asked condescendingly through the loudspeaker.

"B--Ly," Billy replied with blank eyes.

"Are you alone?"

Billy didn't speak.

"Do you have a master?"

Still Billy said nothing.Mrs. Megan frowned.

"You understand English."

Billy nodded.

"But you can't speak," Mrs. Megan pointed to her throat, "it's not good for you here."

With a blank expression, Billy uttered a series of whimpering and shrill flute-like words.

"Let me come."

Chen Qiang, wearing the "translation headset" produced by the system, came out from behind the crowd. The staff of N Network and Green Delta consciously made way for him.Billy's voice is essentially a distorted language of the ancients. As a "dialect" from the earth, it is also within the translation range of Chen Qiang's "translation headset".

"Good evening, Billy," Chen Qiang greeted gently, "I want to ask you a few questions now."

Billy nodded.

"Do you have a master?" Chen Qiang asked calmly.

"Yes." Billy agreed immediately.

"who is it?"

"It's you, the respected Lord of the Fortress of Sanity." Billy couldn't pronounce the "Fortress of Sanity" accurately, but Chen Qiang still understood its meaning.

Don't translate this sentence to others for the time being, eh.

"Did you have a previous owner?"

"My previous master was %^`%;," Billy replied respectfully, "the human name is 'Mr. Shani', and he is my kin."

"Oh, it's him. But your pronunciation is confusing." Chen Qiang made a gesture, "Come here, let him untie his hands. There is a circus imposition of letters for animals over there, we can just borrow it .”

Fortunately, the mobile circus that used to use the factory left a lot of discarded props, Chen Qiang thought.

People from "N Network" and "Green Delta" looked at Chen Qiang in awe: he was like an experienced animal trainer, shouting at the terrifying human-shaped Shoggoth.

"Spell the full name of 'Mr. Shaney.' Billy?"

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, that Shoggoth really spelled out the complete word honestly like an animal in a circus.

"Albert Shani. This is the name of your former master." Chen Qiang nodded.

Albert Shani should be the "only existence" of the Shoggoth family.Poor Mr. Shani, who has been lurking in human civilization for an unknown number of years, but now he is confessed by his most loyal subordinate...

"It's the well-known investment businessman in Arkham." A staff member immediately responded.

"What else? Do you have any other accomplices?" Chen Qiang continued to ask.

"Gup Shani." Billy continued to spell his name honestly.

"What's the relationship between your former master and Pickman? Oh, don't worry about it."

"They're business partners," replied Billy, "but my master told me he wouldn't be surprised by Pickman's duplicity."

The interrogation went extremely smoothly.

Interrogating mythical creatures has always been a difficult problem for the investigator organization, but for Chen Qiang, the process is:
First, bring out the mythical creature; second, ask it questions; third, listen to its answers, and then decide whether to translate for your allies depending on your needs and mood.

Chen Qiang thought for a while.

"Do you know what your former master and Pickman are planning together?" Chen Qiang asked even though he had no hope for Billy's IQ.

Billy thought for a while.Its comprehension is poor, but its memory is not bad, and it is absolutely loyal to every question of its master.

"Gup said it was related to my former master." After a while, Billy finally recalled the information that could answer Chen Qiang's question.

"Gep... is another Shoggoth who followed Shani. So that's how it is," Chen Qiang understood, "the former master. That is, the ancient family..."

The head boss of Sanity Fortress folded his arms.

He sorted out the clues he had so far in his mind.

Pickman, who is collecting "knowledge left behind by the superior race" by using the human bones and the secret techniques of the ghouls.

The Shoggoth lord who collaborated with Pickman to plan a plan related to the Old Ones.

There are some clues that seem to be fragments, and some connections appear faintly.

"Is there anything else you can think of about your former former master?"

"Gorp said that the legacy of the former owner can allow us to evolve to a new stage of life," he said, "sell the former boss and colleagues, and Gorp has no psychological pressure," but he refused to tell me the legacy of the former owner is What."

Thankfully, that shoggoth named "Garp" seems to be a bit of a chatterbox.

"Do you remember anything else?"

"We were visited by a lady like a china doll," Billy felt as his thoughts began to flow more and more smoothly. "Garp claims that without her help we would not have been able to learn anything about the former owner's estate."

The system's prompt finally sounded in Chen Qiang's ears.

[Task: Deciphering the evolution plan of Yidhera, the Dream Witch, has started]

……finally.sixth!

The goals of [Arkham Gods] are obviously divided into several groups: [Yog Sothoth, the coming of all things] and [Stop Msisha, the coming of the overlord of Tindalos] are from the same series Task.

The conspiracy of Mr. Pickman and Mr. Shani correspond to [Complete the commission of Mordiggian, the God of the Shrine] and [Decipher the evolution plan of Yidhera, the Witch of Dreams] respectively, and they should also belong to a group .

　Shani, Goop (Goop, flat, uninteresting person, also refers to slimy things) and Billy are all Shoggoth names that appear in novels and official publications, but they are only used here. are not exactly the same. PS: Eyes are uncomfortable, burning pain, this problem can't keep staring at the screen, and I'm afraid of the wind when I go out, it's just...

　　
　
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