my cthulhu game

Chapter 240

A faint whimper echoed through the room.The sound was so soft that Chen Qiang could only hear a little bit even if he pricked up his ears.

【SC0/1】

[Chen Qiang failed sanity test 54/43, current sanity 42]

"Back off."

Chen Qiang took out his pistol and fixed his eyes on the dusty door beside him.The room fell silent, but so did the ghostly whimpering.

"Lily, stay here and don't move."

Chen Qiang walked towards the decayed door.Lily also realized that something was wrong, and tiptoed back to the window.

"Stay vigilant," Chen Qiang said, "The 'owner' of this room will come back anytime."

Lily nodded.

"……it is good."

Chen Qiang stood by the door.Maybe this room holds a agonizing victim, but maybe...

Chen Qiang took a deep breath and pushed open the door.

The decayed door let out a mournful "creak" and opened.

"Oh, God." Lily covered her mouth.

It was one person—"could" be one, and "could" be two.A rusty iron chain tied "his" neck.His skin was shriveled and broken, his bones were exposed, his flesh and blood had long since rotted, and he lay motionless on the ground.

On the shoulder of the corpse grew another neck and head, which was also rotten and broken. The eyes in the eye sockets had long disappeared, and the mouth made a strange "hissing" sound, twitching and twisting, trying to get out of the restraints. The other body broke free, and as if venting its mad hatred, it kept biting the other's still head with the remaining teeth.

Chen Qiang couldn't help feeling a spasm in his stomach—he had seen a lot of disgusting things, but he wasn't Leon Kennedy after all.

【SC1/1D8+1】

[Chen Qiang failed sanity test 54/43]

[Burning luck 43/43 success, current sanity 42, current luck 46]

[Lily Coolidge's sanity check was 33/65 successful, current sanity is 64]

The insane monster made Lily dizzy and almost fell over, but she finally got over her nausea.Even Chen Qiang couldn't help but took two steps back.The head seemed to be aware of Chen Qiang's existence, and tried its best to probe in the direction of the door, but it couldn't move half a point.

[Chen Qiang's detection check was 70/72 successful]

Chen Qiang noticed that a bullet split the head of a complete human body.

So Chen Qiang understood...

"I see. A 'joined zombie' with one head shot through."

Knowing how to make this kind of thing, Bigby's aesthetics are also impressive.But indeed, this thing is enough to scare 90.00% of normal human beings in this era.

At this time, Chen Qiang didn't know that before Bigby released the zombie as a "watchdog" yesterday, this miserable creature had been wandering in the storage room of the big house for more than half a century.Bigby and a few of his disciples made this thing just out of "experimental" psychology, and let its endless pain continue.

[Chen Qiang failed the shooting test 82/79]

【陈强射击检定6/79成功，伤害1D10+2=5】

【陈强射击检定55/79成功，伤害1D10+2=3】

【陈强射击检定9/79成功，伤害1D10+2=4】

Chen Qiang poured four "old bombs" into the howling head from a safe distance, and the thing finally stopped moving.

Lily breathed a sigh of relief.

She thought of her own father, the fearless Captain Johansen.Nothing to worry about as long as it can be killed by bullets and impacts...

But Chen Qiang did not dare to take it lightly.It's not surprising that this zombie-like thing might suddenly "resurrect from the dead".

He made a gesture to tell Lily to stay outside, while he cautiously walked towards the motionless "joined corpse".

This is obviously the study of the big house.The books on the shelves were decayed; in one corner of the room a granite altar enshrined a gold necklace set with blood-red pebbles.

[Chen Qiang's detection check was 50/72 successful]

Chen Qiang noticed that the candle on the desk had obviously been used not long ago, and there was a magnifying glass and some messy parchment beside it.A large book with a green leather cover and yellowed pages was spread out on the lectern at one side of the study, and it was written in words that Chen Qiang did not understand.

"Mr. Chen?" Lily's worried voice came from outside the room.She lit her own lantern, stood outside and looked in worriedly.

"It's okay," Chen Qiang said, "There's no danger, come in. No, wait..."

He stepped on the head of the zombie's shoulders.

[Chen Qiang's strength test is 5/65 great success]

The zombie was directly broken into two pieces.Lily swallowed, luckily it didn't cause further sanity loss.

"Be careful not to touch anything in the house."

God knows if that old fox Bigby set a trap in the house, Chen Qiang thought.

[Lily's Greek test was successful 14/30]

"It's in Greek." Lily recognized the words on the big book at a glance.When Chen Qiang sold "The Order of the Great Universe" in Greek, she had successfully deciphered the words on it.And the classic book in front of him has a skull-shaped buckle, and the ominous atmosphere is even higher than the books sold by Chen Qiang.

……

Underground of the mountains.

Edmund Bigby crawled slowly down the secret passage.After completing his revenge on Mr. Foster, he found worryingly that the enchantment he left on the window frame of the big house was touched.Maybe his house was under enemy surveillance, he thought.

Hope it's just an intruder who knows nothing about magic, he said to himself.The two-headed corpse in the study is enough to scare away those uninvited guests, and by the time the Arkham Police Department frees up police forces to deal with these "strange stories", he will have gone far away.

But the two-headed corpse can't scare the well-informed mages and agents.To them, Bigby left other traps.He cast a powerful curse on the altar pendant, and he had no doubt that those who coveted his magical powers would touch the pendant with their greedy hands and fall under the curse.

After spending a long time underground, and being imprisoned in a madhouse by Gu Shun, Bigby has already worn away the edges and corners of the past.Even with an invulnerable body, he still dare not take the potential danger lightly.

Even with the cover of night, Bigby still chose to enter and exit through the secret underground passage.

……

In a decaying study.

Li Li silently read the words on the big book.

The book was full of ghost stories, but Lily didn't associate the book with real spells.

【... It is known to the ancient secret witches, its name is Kwache Utaos...】 Lily read the words in the book silently in her heart.

At least one-third of the words in the book were unknown to Lily, so she could only guess from the context that the book was about a monster named Kwache Utaus.And Lily had never heard of such a myth.

【...It is rarely present, because its abode is outside the boundless circle of samsara, in the void of time and space, as a dim and lightless border. 】

If Gu Shun was here, he would naturally explain that the entity of Kwache Utaos might be wandering in the distant outskirts of Calcosa, on the shore of Lake Hali where Hastur the Unspeakable lives.However, even these followers of Hastur have never seen the true identity of Kwache Utaus under the mummy-like shell.

[Although hidden in the heart and unspoken, the words that are evoked are chilling, because Kwache Utaus is the ultimate corruption.When it is approaching, a moment is like an eternity.Under the footsteps, the flesh and rocks are unbearable, and everything returns to dust.Therefore, it may be called "the dust treader"]

　I'm having a headache, I'll update it first.The content of the mythological text is "Cannamagus Testament", quoted from "The Treader of the Dust", translator: the invisible player.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)