Mystery: The Stars Returner

At the same time in the Church of the Stars, Mrs. Pope Lisa heard the oracle again.

"The Order of Cthulhu, what kind of organization is it that deserves a special oracle from the gods?"

Mrs. Lisa just thought about it in her heart for a moment, and then went to faithfully carry out the oracle.

That night, a piece of information about the Cthulhu Order was delivered to her desk.

In a room illuminated only by the light of the starry sky, Mrs. Lisa was bathed in the starlight and quietly flipped through only three pages of information about the Order of Cthulhu.

The information mentions that the Order of Cthulhu was first discovered near the island of Sonia.

At first, it was a merchant ship that was sailing there. Due to the storm, it deviated its direction and accidentally came to an island that had not yet been discovered and developed.

On this island live a group of aboriginal tribes who have obviously not been in contact with civilized society. They speak words that do not belong to any known language system.

They are cruel by nature. There were originally twenty-three crew members on the merchant ship, but when they encountered the aborigines on the first day, they were killed and only three were left. One of them was the captain, one was the first mate, and the other was a man with a complexion. A pale, usually talkative young man.

Although the crew members had weapons such as pistols, the indigenous people seemed to have some extraordinary ability to interfere with their mental state of mind, making it difficult for their weapons to be as effective as they should be.

After being imprisoned for four or five days, on a full moon night with calm tides, the aborigines held a grand sacrifice, with more than two hundred aborigines participating.

What they worshiped was a clay statue. At first glance, it looked like a life form that combined various characteristics of an octopus, a bat, and a human. The body looked like a gelatinous substance covered with scales, with giant claws and a pair of broken bones behind it. Little tattered wings that have not yet formed.

The poor first mate was unfortunately chosen as a sacrifice, and his head was chopped off by an aborigine armed with a stone machete. The blood looked particularly poignant under the moonlight.

After offering human sacrifices, more than two hundred aborigines divided into two circles, the inner and outer circles, and began to call and pray around the bonfire and statue.

The language they shouted could not be heard clearly because it was not in any existing language. If forced transliteration was required, Cthulhu and R'lyeh were two closely related words that they often mentioned.

At the end of the sacrifice, the captain who was tied to the wooden frame was also used as a sacrifice to the gods believed by the aborigines.

At this critical moment, the pale young man, who was also tied to the wooden frame and in a daze, suddenly seemed to be possessed by an evil spirit. He swayed his body crazily, and finally broke through the shackles of the rattan bars on his body and became mad. He rushed towards the mysterious statue enshrined in the center of the altar.

When he held the statue high in the moonlight, all the surrounding aborigines seemed to be frightened and fell to their knees on the ground. Their trembling bodies and vague words seemed to be communicating with some ancient existence, hoping that That great being should not be angry with them because of such changes.

The captain seized this opportunity and kicked down the aborigine who was preparing to execute him. With the help of a bonfire, he endured the severe pain and burned away the vines wrapped around his hands, thus regaining his freedom.

When he completed this series of actions, the aboriginal executioner kept prostrate on the ground, his face full of panic and fear, and he did not dare to make any other movements.

Although the captain felt strange when he saw this scene, he didn't think too much. He came to the young man who was still holding the statue high and told him to follow him and leave the island.

The young man did not speak, but held the statue tightly with both hands and placed it next to his right ear, as if he was listening carefully to something, and made weird giggles from time to time.

The captain had no choice but to hold the young man's shoulder with one hand and forcefully pull him away, while the aborigines still knelt on the ground and allowed them to leave freely.

Arriving at the beach, he drove the aboriginal fishing boat and quickly moved away from the island.

After leaving the island for some distance, the captain glanced at the island and seemed to see a huge and bloated life form entrenched on the island, its body hidden in the sea and layers of mist.

"Cthulhu." The young man who had always been stupid and crazy suddenly spoke. His right index finger pointed to the depths of the sea, and in a voice similar to the roar of a beast, he shouted another word, "R'lyeh!"

This is the earliest record about Cthulhu and R'lyeh. As for the final captain and the young man who left with the mysterious statue, there is no mention of the follow-up and ending in the intelligence.

After reading it, Mrs. Lisa read the story again, trying to find something, but in the end she found nothing.

Today's Cthulhu Order has gradually become known to the outside world because it has begun to frequent coastal areas.

The believers of the Cthulhu Order do not shy away from their beliefs. What they believe in is the great being named Cthulhu.

As for R'lyeh, it is the undersea city where Cthulhu sleeps.

It is said that if a person is lucky enough to enter the city of R'lyeh under the sea, he will gain endless wealth and rights.

But the believers of the Cthulhu Order do not believe in this great existence for this reason. Their biggest goal is to welcome the awakening of Cthulhu.

As for why they wanted to welcome Cthulhu's awakening and what the purpose of doing so was, the intelligence did not mention it in detail. It only said that all the ultimate secrets pursued by the Cthulhu Order may be hidden in a book called "I Inside the Book of Bonn.

In addition to these sources, the influence of the Order of Cthulhu is also mentioned.

It is said that the great being Cthulhu will have some kind of overlapping connection with specific groups of people through induction.

In dreams, He will invite spiritual callers to visit the underwater holy city of R'lyeh, or stimulate those spiritual callers to re-examine the world from different perspectives, and may teach some taboo knowledge that does not belong to this world and should be heard.

But when the dream ends, the spiritual callers will forget the memory of the dream, and some lucky people can barely remember some fragments of the dream.

But without exception, they all became crazy, because this was not a world they should have access to. It was beyond the knowledge they could understand, and it tore their spiritual world into pieces.

But there are also rumors that they will gain wisdom and understanding beyond ordinary people, and they will easily become painters, artists and other special talents with rich imagination.

Half a month ago, a very special architectural painting appeared in Pulitzer Harbor. It was an ancient ruin from the depths of the sea.

Unfortunately, the ancient undersea ruins in the painting are only the tip of the iceberg of the overall building, and cannot give people a full glimpse of the true appearance of the undersea temple.

There was also a mysterious incident surrounding that painting. When the painting appeared in front of everyone at the exhibition, everyone who saw the painting dreamed of a mysterious sea ruins that night, but when they woke up... When I arrived, I could only vaguely remember that I had gone to the depths of the sea and saw an ancient mysterious ruins. There were different opinions on the specific appearance of the ruins, and it was impossible to piece together a complete underwater holy city from the fragmented descriptions.

After that, pictures of dilapidated scenes of the underwater holy city appeared on the market, affecting more people.

Before the second round of dreams began to erupt, the Church of the Stars and the Church of the Night Goddess joined forces to take away all the undersea scrolls that would emit influence, and controlled all the people who came into contact with the undersea holy city who claimed to have seen it in their dreams.

At this point, this underwater dream incident comes to an end. This is also the first incident where the Church of the Stars comes into contact with Cthulhu and the Holy City of R'lyeh.

In the days that followed, a mysterious organization called the Order of Cthulhu began to gradually appear in the sights of major organizations. Apart from promoting its own doctrines and developing believers, it did not make any other moves.

As for the "Book of Ebon", it seems that the Cthulhu Order has been looking for it.