Evening Bell Church

Su Ge stood in a strange city. For some reason, his heart was constantly throbbing. He had a vague feeling that he had been here before.

He stood in a somewhat narrow square, surrounded by three roads leading to other directions of the city.

There was a dry fountain statue in the middle of the square. The surface of the white rock was cracked everywhere, and the inside was overgrown with weeds and desolate.

Most of the bricks on the ground around were broken, cracked, and bumpy, as if the ground had been stretched and hit by some huge hard substance.

The buildings in the city were old-fashioned Gothic style, with crowded and dense houses and tall spires on the top.

The walls had been covered with coal and turned black. The walls were very shabby, the windows were full of stains, some doors were dilapidated, and the oil lamps hanging in front of the doors were about to go out, flickering.

Su Ge's eyes swept left and right and found that this seemed to be at the bottom of a city. The streets were narrow and winding, and the crowded houses on both sides were crooked, comparable to the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

On the top of the houses, you can see the mountain road going up, and there are higher buildings built in the mountain outside.

Looking further, you can see the tall and majestic church, the towering tower, and the bell tower.

Overall, the city seems to be built in a huge valley. At this moment, Su Ge is at the bottom of the valley.

Raising his head slightly, Su Ge's eyes see the sky.

What surprised him was that he could see a complete starry sky here.

There are many stars in the starry sky, but there is no moon. There are obviously no dark clouds, but it gives people a turbid feeling.

I don't know if it is Su Ge's illusion, he faintly feels that the starry sky is slowly creeping.

In an instant, Su Ge thought of something, so his spiritual vision increased a little again.

"Don't tell me that this starry sky is the huge body of the Shoggoth, and these stars are its eyes!" Su Ge said with an ugly face.

He hurriedly lowered his head to collect his mind, and the soul-calming evening bell slowly echoed in his mind, and the palpitation gradually subsided.

After stabilizing his mind, Su Ge released the aftermath of the evening bell to detect the situation around him.

This time, the aftermath of the evening bell could finally stretch out normally.

Su Ge first discovered that there was a very developed underground pipeline system under the ground of this city.

In his exploration, he now had a three-meter-wide and four-meter-high sewer under his feet.

There was still a lot of sewage flowing inside. And in this sewage, Su Ge found some huge rats.

These rats were generally more than one meter tall, and could even reach two meters when standing up.

The huge rats were now moving along the sewage, not knowing where to go.

Walking slowly in the square, Su Ge was full of caution.

While his eyes were scanning around, he was also paying attention to the situation under his feet.

The neat floor tiles were stretched with the ground, and many gaps appeared in the middle.

The paved soil and sand can be seen in the gaps.

Although there is no danger in stepping on it, if you run quickly or move in a small range. If you accidentally step on it, you will not only sprain your ankle, but also fall to the ground out of control.

"These gaps are comparable to those very vicious traps." Su Ge moved forward slowly, thinking to himself.

The bell sound continued to emanate. Su Ge found that although there were many dim lights in the rooms around him, there was no one in them, or even any creatures. The whole city was silent at this time. He couldn't even hear the voices of the clergy and mysterious people who fell together.

Su Ge looked up and looked ahead. In front of him was a small church full of ruins and dust. Next to the church was a small cemetery full of tombstones, which was covered with weeds and dilapidated.

There was a bell tower next to the church. The bell tower had a roof with flying eaves connected to a higher staircase, and it seemed that you could go directly to a higher place from there.

On the left was a staircase leading to a higher place. The steps went up to a high platform, with two intersections on the left and right.

Behind him was another small path, winding and tortuous, leading to the middle of densely packed buildings.

These three roads all led to densely packed towns.

On Su Ge's right was a staircase going down. This side was not a crowded house, but a place shrouded in mist.

The stairs down connected to an aisle that looked like a long corridor stand, and the aisle led to two sides without knowing where to go.

Outside the tall fence was a sea of ​​fog.

It was gray and nothing could be seen, as if it was in the clouds, as if it was in the sky, and there was no sense of security.

After Su Ge looked around, he did not rashly enter the narrow path of the town, but came to the edge of the clouds first.

Walking down the steps, Su Ge clenched his cane and looked around cautiously, like a thief who had just stolen something.

This corridor extended to both sides for about two hundred meters and then gathered back, as if it could lead to somewhere.

On the inside of the corridor, most of them were three-story houses with relatively elegant and beautiful shapes, and there were many strange stone carvings.

Su Ge stood cautiously on the edge, releasing the aftermath of the evening bell to detect in the sea of ​​fog in front.

The next second, Su Ge suddenly turned pale, took two steps back in a row, and almost sat on the ground.

"What the hell is that?" Su Ge couldn't help but tremble, as if he had encountered something very scary.

Snap!

This time, the spiritual vision directly increased by 7 points to 53 points.

Su Ge did not stop, turned around and ran back to where he had just stood along the steps.

However, even so, he still felt that the twisted and strange body pressed on his body, as if it would crush him and swallow him at any time.

Su Ge could not describe what the huge swollen existence he had just seen was.

The huge body covered the entire fog sea, and the pale swollen skin was full of hair-like tentacles. Under the bloated skin, the twisted and deformed purple-black blood vessels could be clearly seen.

Some parts were even full of thick water.

The monster that looked like countless swollen corpses was a polymer of countless deaths and ulcers...

Su Ge felt that he was completely submerged in front of him by the terrifying thing and could not see anything else.

Mentally disordered, he could not even use the Soul-Calming Evening Bell to stabilize his mind.

In a state of chaos and confusion, he watched his mind gradually lose control and fall into madness.

At the critical moment, he used his instinct to send a message.

The next second, he felt a crazy idea and frantic thoughts gradually occupying his brain, pulling his will down from his body quickly.

Below, there were countless hideous man-eating monsters waiting for him. He knew clearly that as long as he went down, he would never be able to come up again.

However, he had no way at this time. He could not control his body, could not control his will, and could only be gradually invaded by these crazy things.

Hehehe...

A few seconds later, Su Ge looked a little crazy, his mouth slowly opened, and he let out a low silly laugh.

Saliva flowed from the corners of his mouth, and his sharp and deep black eyes gradually became chaotic and frantic.

A lot of red long hairs grew rapidly from Su Ge's pores.

Hahahaha! Ah ah ah!

Su Ge's mind gradually lost control, and he sometimes shouted and sometimes screamed with fear.

The cane was still beside him, his hands hugged his head, and his whole body was shaking violently... or twitching.

Just when Su Ge was about to lose control of his beast, a ripple like water waves suddenly appeared in the space behind him.

Then, a pair of eyes flashing blue light appeared out of thin air in this space, like an illusion reflected on the other side of a transparent glass.

However, this was obviously not an illusion.

Because this blue eye gradually emerged from the ripples in this space, a hideous and scary head stretched out from the space and appeared behind Su Ge.

This head was very hideous and terrifying, as if countless pale bones were glued together by a special retina.

Its body had no fixed shape, like a gust of wind, and also like a gust of fog. Unpredictable.

Those bones gathered together were constantly gathering and squirming, and the gray retina seemed to be slowly agitated like thin skin, emitting a strange and indescribable weird breath.

At this time, it only stuck out a head, and then behind the head was a very slender body, still formed by bones and retina.

Gradually, its skinny and slender body appeared directly from the space.

There are countless horns formed by bones on its head, and its body is covered with hideous bone spurs.

It has an indescribable tail, and its skinny but powerful limbs are inserted into the ground, like four thick bone claws.

It seems to be an undead bone dog, and it seems to be a gathering of some rules. It has a body, but it has no body.

Its body is constantly changing like the wind, and it is looming in the silver-gray light, changing unpredictably.

People see its form differently from different angles. From some angles, it looks like a huge bone dragon.

From some angles, it looks like a thick python, from some angles, it looks like a hideous monster, and from some angles, it looks like a harmless pet dog.

From other angles and perspectives, its shape and everything about it cannot be remembered by people. Only the pair of ice blue, like the blue that runs through time and space, makes everyone who has seen it unforgettable.

It was once called Kiruyesla, and also called the monster waiting behind the door.

As time goes by, it is also called the key to the door.

It is everywhere, leaving its own legends and fears in different eras and at different times.

It is also called the hound of time and space.

People have few records about it. They only know that it exists in the ninth sequence of the spiritual vision system. It is rumored that it needs 95 points of spiritual vision to see the legendary family: the hound of Tindalos.

Tindalos, in the ancient divine language, represents boundlessness and no boundaries.

After coming out, it shook off its thin, skeletal body that looked like it would fall apart at any time.

A bubble full of brilliance appeared in its ice-blue eyes.

The bubble was full of terrifying blizzards, so it got into it.

Countless wind and snow, countless white frost, and countless dead souls attached to its skinny body.

With white frost as its body, wind and snow as its hair, and ghosts as its spirit, it became a pet dog with a different face and a demonic expression.

It opened its mouth and quickly spit out a strange book.

Woof!

It barked and suddenly threw the book to the black cloak.

The black cloak had already sensed it, and it flew up and opened the book in an instant, and immediately stuck it to Su Ge's eyes.

Facing this book, the frenzy and chaos filled him with fear and dread as if he had seen his natural enemy or his master.

The red hair quickly receded and fell off, and his chaotic eyes gradually regained clarity.

In a world of chaos and frenzy, Su Ge showed a calm smile, and his thoughts quickly detached from this primitive world.

Soon, he took back his will and his body.

He saw this world again and felt the reality of his body again.

He lowered his head, and he was not surprised at the arrival of Erha, because its arrival was his guidance.

Squatting down and touching Erha, Su Ge looked doting: "Idiot."

After Ge Wens proposed the name Kiruyesla, Su Ge had been paying close attention to Erha's situation.

He was very clear about Erha's specialness. When he first crossed over, his ice heart was exposed outside, which was very conspicuous.

After Erha pounced on him, he licked it a few times and actually hid the ice heart under the skin without any abnormality. At that time, Su Ge knew very well that the core of the connection between Erha and himself was this ice heart.

In the days that followed, he often used his divine body to think about the relationship between the two when he was free, but due to the lack of necessary conditions, the progress was not obvious.

Until he got the meaning of the name Kiruyesla from Father Watt, Su Ge figured out a lot of things at that moment.

At that time, he had guessed the identity of Erha, but he was not sure about some details.

It was not until he met Sheryl this time that he confirmed the identity of the divine body and the relationship with Yog-Sothoth that he really confirmed the true identity of the dog.

The Wild Hunt had some intersections with Yog-Sothoth in the past. He was dissatisfied with being summoned here, so Yog-Sothoth gave him some of his own power and gave his servant or familiar, the Hound of Tindalos, to the Wild Hunt as his mount.

After that, the Hound of Tindalos combined with the power of Yog-Sothoth in the Wild Hunt's body, and a stronger relationship was formed between the two.

From a simple mount, it became a partner.

After the Wild Hunt died, He gave everything to this companion of his. This Hound of Tindalos used his own abilities and the privileges given to him by Yog-Sothoth to pull the last battleship from reality to the cracks of dreams, and opened up that space to protect the remains of his former master.

Even the Great God's Declaration of Crossing the World may have been shot out by it, bringing Suge into this world.

Because apart from Yog-Sothoth, only it has the terrifying ability to travel through time and space and enter different worlds.

Suge touched its soft fur, and many doubts in his mind were solved.

When he was summoned by Hills and Bernice for the first time, Suge felt something was wrong, because the spell that summoned Yog-Sothoth should not have such a huge summoning power for him, after all, he had just obtained the body of God at that time and knew nothing.

However, now that he thinks about it carefully, Suge understands that the main effect of that spell was not on himself, but on this dog.

The Hound of Tindalos, who can travel through time and space at will, was once the familiar of Yog-Sothoth, or a pet.

The spell was to summon this dog at that time, and the reason why Suger was brought over was because Suger and the divine body were too weak at that time. For some reason, the divine body has the same origin as this dog, and it can even be said that the roots of the divine power of the divine body that does not belong to the Wild Hunt itself are likely related to this dog.

"Breaking time and space is your ability, so Hills and Bernice can summon us without preparing any ritual materials, magic circles and runes. Strictly speaking, it is not them who summoned us, but you heard the voice and wanted to go over, right?"

Erha licked Suger with a different look on his face, grinning as if he was laughing.

"You and the divine body share the same origin, and after my soul was pierced by the Great God's Declaration and arrived in this world, the knowledge and laws condensed by the Great God's Declaration formed this Frost Heart, which can connect and resonate my soul with my body and divine body. At the same time, you can also use this connection to shape yourself into this appearance according to my memory in that piece of ice and snow."

Yesterday, after Su Ge figured out the whole thing, many of his previous doubts and fleeting sense of missed opportunities were all found back.

The sense of disharmony caused by the previous advent, the strange connection between a man and a dog, Erha's special howl that can penetrate the mental barrier, space, and will, and so on can all be explained.

Rubbing Erha's dog head, Su Ge stood up and looked at the fog sea, still with lingering fear: "Why is it here? Shoggoth, macrophagous worms, and now the Swelling Daughter has also appeared."

Although he didn't see it all at that glance just now, Su Ge still judged at that moment with the relevant knowledge and characteristics that the disgusting and terrifying thing was the Swelling Daughter, one of the incarnations of Nyarlathotep.

Although he was an incarnation, he was after all Nyarlathotep, one of the three pillars of the legendary gods. His form had far exceeded human imagination and reached a level on par with the gods.

When Suger knew it through the evening bell, he knew that something was wrong. He knew that he could not bear the horror of looking directly at the gods this time, so he issued an order while his rationality was not yet devoured.

This order was sent through the connection between the heart and Erha, and the content was only one sentence: Come to me immediately with the "Book of Madness".

Su Ge is very aware of the cause and effect cycle between this. His will is swallowed up by the Swollen Daughter. If he wants to stop this swallowing, or reverse it, he must use the most powerful deterrence to show his identity and status. .

The thoughts that have been synchronized with the divine body all year round thought of many key things in that moment.

The Swollen Daughter is the incarnation of Nyarlathotep, the messenger and heir of Azathoth, known as Wriggling Chaos.

So at this moment, the only thing that can save his will is the majesty of Azathoth.

The Book of Madness, as one of the five apocryphal books of the Book of Azathoth, records the knowledge of Azathoth's madness.

By bringing this book over, Su Ge believed that he would be able to resist the invasion of fear and chaos.

And the result was exactly as he expected.

Erha, who received an urgent mission like Su Ge's, immediately locked onto Su Ge's location, picked up the Book of Madness, and ran straight out of the camp.

Then he instantly shed his skin and disguise, transformed into the original Hound of Tindalos form, entered the space and came to Sugar's side.

At the last critical moment, Su Ge was saved from the edge of madness.

Su Ge looked down at the Book of Madness in his hand and sighed: "I almost made you crazy last time. I never dreamed that you would save my life one day. Things are so unpredictable!"

The first time he read the Book of Madness, Su Ge almost went crazy. If it weren't for Erha's scream, he would have gone crazy.

And this time, thanks to the special knowledge and pressure in the Book of Madness, all the chaos and madness were suppressed, and his consciousness was brought back.

"This incident tells us, don't throw away rags even if they are in danger, maybe it will save your life one day." Su Ge muttered and put the book into his arms, bent down and picked up the cane.

He didn't want to take another look at the foggy sea.

After finally coming back from that state, he didn't want to go there again.

Now there are three paths in front of him, left, right, or running along the chapel to the roof.

"The terrain here is too narrow and the roads are complicated. It is easy to be surrounded and ambushed. Under normal circumstances, it is definitely safest to walk from the roof. But..."

Su Ge's eyes fell on the dark top of the head: "Now the location and intention of the Shoggoths are unknown, and the situation in the entire city is completely unknown. There is still a swollen girl who seems to be sleeping in the fog. It is okay to walk rashly on the top of the head. You see more, but you can easily become the target of many monster attacks.”

"I have the aftermath of the evening bell, and my detection ability is first-rate. Overall, walking on this ground is the most appropriate."

After making the decision, Su Ge gave up going up to the church and looked around. There was a passage on each side.

One goes up and one goes down.

"There are two intersections on the left, and the location is relatively high. It is more convenient to walk along this side than walking down. The entire city should be built in a hierarchical manner. Standing at the relatively high class, it is better for the bottom class. I can see it more clearly.”

Thinking of this, Su Ge took Erha and walked towards the steps on the left.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

At this time, a low bell suddenly sounded in the distance.

Woohoo!

Along with the sound of the bell, a very high-pitched and harsh roar resounded throughout the city, and Su Ge could hear it very clearly standing here.

"What kind of monster is this?" Su Ge's heart was shaking.

Because this sound is really scary to listen to.