Haunted Places Live

Although the prophet told Chu Yang to take a good rest, he had no time to rest.

The boy named Pu Yujun who had helped him back to the City of the Devourer brought Chu Yang a walking stick by the order of the prophet, saying that it could help him walk.At this very moment, Chu Yang was leaning on that cane and wearing a mask on his face, walking through the chaotic market that was crowded with fish and dragons, crowded by stalls and sundries.Due to the increasing number of Devourers, a small mobile city has been formed, and market vendors have also emerged as the times require.Creatures of different races gather here, and conflicts occur from time to time. It can be regarded as the most lively and bustling place in the entire Devourer City.

All of this was seen from another Chu Yang's consciousness.He remembered that there was a tower on the west side of the bazaar, which stored the manuscripts, spellbooks, or hedrons of strange energy and wisdom that the Devourers brought back from the various realities they had destroyed.He hoped to find a copy of the King in Yellow there, preferably a copy stronger than the English copy, and it would be even better if it was a yellow document written in the ancient script that appeared before human history.

He now understands that for observers like them, sometimes they don't even need to fully understand a language, and they can communicate with those ancient information through the power carried by the words themselves, which may even be more effective than reading the words.

If he had remained in the Council of Elders, under Antonio's control, he would not have had the opportunity to see the complete and more powerful copy of the King in Yellow.Antonio will not allow him to escape his grasp.

He needs to know why the King in Yellow put the Necronomicon into his body.What kind of plans does that ragged wind of death have for him?

Along the way, both observers and holy races would automatically make way in front of him, as if they were quite afraid of him.The only ones who were not too afraid of him were the few Tindalosian hounds rushing out of the corner, flowing past him like a dark river without seeing it.The sour and hot smell reminds people of thick acid and the picture of rotting bones.

"Priest Chu." Someone called him from behind him.

Chu Yang had no choice but to stop and turn his head slightly.

Sure enough, it was Yan Priest, the Devourer version of Yan Priest.The other party was handsome but always had a gentle smile on his deceitful face, followed by several fourth-level observers walking towards him.His eyes fell on Chu Yang's cane, and he pretended to be concerned, "I heard that you were injured in a battle with a fourth-level you. I still don't believe it. Is the injury so serious? Did you see a doctor to take a good look?"

Caring on the surface, actually laughing at him.

Chu Yang said, "He's not level four, but level five."

"It seems that the Necronomicon is more powerful. No wonder you have been looking for it." Priest Yan approached him and patted him on the shoulder pretending to be affectionate. "If you need help, just ask."

Chu Yang turned his head slightly, as if looking at the place where his shoulder was patted, with a bit of cold disgust.He sneered and said, "Thank you for your kindness, but you still have to think about how to get rid of yourself in the No. 35 reality. After so long, he is still alive and kicking, and he doesn't look good in front of the prophet."

Priest Yan still smiled, "Then I would like to thank Priest Chu for his concern. The road here is slippery, please walk carefully, don't force yourself."

After finishing speaking, he nodded again and left with his own people.

Chu Yang knew that Priest Yan had a lot of eyeliners, and it was hard to tell whether those people in his own family had been bribed by him.But in the past, Chu Yang never cared about these things. He always had a simple purpose, and all his actions were for that purpose.He has no interest in playing with them whatever tricks and plots those other people want to play.

But now Chu Yang needs to be extra careful.Because he does have a handle that can be caught.

Watching the tower are two docile elders.They squirmed in the narrow shadows of the towers, among the spiraling upward stacks of bookshelves filled with ancient scrolls.These two ancients were no strangers to Chu Yang. In order to become stronger, Chu Yang obtained permission from the prophet to enter this place.Most of the time in the Devourer City is spent here, studying those mysterious and obscure manuscripts.But he spent most of these years fighting, so even if the secrets here, he only saw less than one-tenth of them.Even the other self doesn't know if there is any copy of the king in yellow here.

If you directly ask the ancients, will it arouse the prophet's vigilance?But I just finished fighting with another self, and the Necronomicon on my "enemy" was put on "him" by the servant of the king in yellow, so it is not surprising to investigate the copy of the king in yellow thing.

To communicate with the ancients, ordinary human language is not feasible.He needs to use a kind of strange fleshy device installed between the bookshelves by the ancients, which looks like a suction cup, and stick them to his temples, and then he can communicate with those huge spindles.

As soon as the suction cup was attached, there was a weird cool feeling in the mind, as if the brain had been put into a puddle of slightly cool water.An ancient man quickly wriggled five tentacles and swayed his huge spindle body and walked down the ramp.

This was the first time Chu Yang had seen the ancients since Yosemite.The fear of being dominated by this thing last time still lingers, and even though he is no longer what he used to be, he still resists instinctively.

A piece of consciousness came into Chu Yang's mind, "What are you looking for?"

Unexpectedly, the other party turned out to be very polite, which was quite different from the one that came up last time and wanted to turn itself into a humanoid flint and steel.

"Is there a king in yellow here?" Chu Yang asked.

The old man shook the tentacles on the top of his head, as if he was not sure.He slightly turned a tentacle with eyes on the top of his head, as if he was looking at another ancient man from a high place, probably asking if he knew the King in Yellow.

They chattered for a while, and a piece of consciousness came again, "Complete manuscripts of the king in yellow are rare, and we only have some fragments that lack the second act, but there is a part of the broken chapters of Nacht called the 'yellow manuscripts. 'Yes, although it is not the real King in Yellow drama, it is said that it has an inseparable relationship with the King in Yellow, and may even be the more primitive King in Yellow. Do you want to watch it?"

Chu Yang nodded, "Lead the way."

However, the ancients hesitated a little, "The yellow manuscript is very powerful, and it may have a far-reaching impact than the king in yellow. Although you humans will not go crazy immediately after reading it, your sanity will gradually collapse and become chaotic, and you will fall into eternal chaos." Darkness. Even the Yisi people have not dared to read it until now, and other observers are even more afraid to touch it."

Falling into eternal darkness... as if I heard a sentence somewhere.

Chu Yang said, "I am very familiar with madness."

The Nacket fragments are countless fragments carved on ancient rocks, scattered in every corner of different realities, recording many mysterious past events outside the universe.The yellow manuscript is one of the records related to Hastur, which was rubbed and transcribed on scrolls by some who accidentally discovered them.

The old man stretched out his tentacles that could be stretched and retracted, and carefully lifted an old wooden box from the upper shelf of the bookshelf, and placed it on a round table made of stone.The five tentacles dexterously stretched and thinned, penetrated into the keyhole of the wooden box, and opened the wooden box with a snap in a short while.

A burst of smoke flew out, and inside was a roll of old and yellowed sheepskin.

Just as the ancient was about to leave, Chu Yang suddenly said coolly, "By the way, lend me your crystal shards of the ancient."

The old man will be in place all of a sudden, the few siphons protruding from his body tremble uneasily.

"The crystal of the ancients? That kind of thing failed for unknown reasons 1 years ago. How could we have it?"

Chu Yang saw it in his memory. One day in the past, another Chu Yang used to read the manuscript of the Chaos Temple here. When he saw that he was drowsy in the middle of the night and woke up in the middle of the night, when he was about to leave, he accidentally saw those two ancient men. Sneaky hid in the shadow of a bookcase high up in the tower and the wall, regurgitated a purple thing from the siphon and handed it to another elder to swallow.The other Chu Yang doesn't know much about the crystal of the ancients, because he has not experienced the incident in Yosemite.The ancients are also a race that has long since declined. They have lost their own science and technology, and they don't have much combat effectiveness. They are not valued among the Devourers, so he didn't think too much.But the moment Chu Yang saw this scene in his memory, he knew what the purple thing was.

"You're lying." The treacherous and sinister black lens of the bird's head mask reflected the dancing candle flames nearby, "You picked up the crystal shards of the ancients but didn't hand them in. What's on your mind?"

The huge ancient, facing the seemingly small and fragile human beings, felt a sense of fear.Chu Yang's gaze pierced its fear through the lens of the mask, and the pair of fleshy wings on its back were also trembling.

Everyone knew that Chu Yang was the prophet's most valued subordinate, and his ruthlessness and cruelty were irrespective of who he was.

Someone has personally seen him manipulate another reality to try to sneak attack three of the ancients who were hostile to kill each other. The scene was so bloody that four of the five brains of one ancient were crushed, and the other was crushed. Torn in half from the middle, the remaining one woke up and found that he was crazy about what he did to his companions, and committed suicide within two days.

Finally, the ancient man's spindle-shaped body began to squirm, and the folds of layers of flesh kept pushing, making a disgusting sound like vomiting.Finally, a tiny purple thing fell out of a siphon, covered in thick slime.

Chu Yang used his sleeves as a cushion, picked up the crystal shards, and asked without raising his head, "How many pieces have you collected?"

"Only this piece."

Chu Yang slightly raised his head and stared at it, but didn't make a sound.

After 1 minute, it said, "Three pieces...but we need them...we are very old, and there are too many powerful manuscripts around, we need to use its power to maintain the stability of our thinking." It is in Chuyang The consciousness presented in the mind has the emotion of pleading.

"Don't worry, I don't plan to tell anyone about this right now. It's just that I want to borrow this crystal for a while." Chu Yang imitated another Chu Yang's voice that gave people a chill because of the lack of any emotional fluctuations, If he hadn't really experienced another life of himself, I'm afraid he would never be able to pretend to be so similar.

The ancient man fled away, unexpectedly the five wrists at the bottom could wriggle in such a fast way.

Wipe the ancient crystal clean and put it in the shirt pocket under the black coat.In Yosemite, he saw that the Awanichi people were protected from the music of him and Lynch by the protection of the crystal, which means that the crystal of the ancient is like a talisman, which can protect the holder to a certain extent Immune to Observation.

But at that time, both he and Lynch were still at the fourth level of power, but they didn't know how much they could protect with the power of the fifth level or even the copy.

Either way, some protection is better than nothing.Now that he is deep in the enemy's cave, if he goes completely crazy, his identity will almost certainly be exposed.

The place where the Ancient One's crystal is close to the skin exudes an unusual coolness, not like the bone-chilling chill he felt in Yosemite.Probably because there is not much energy gathered in this fragment.

Chu Yang stretched out his hand, carefully picked up the old and fragile sheepskin roll, and spread it out in front of him.

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At the Presbyterian stronghold, Chu Yang stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, looking at the city under his feet that had been destroyed by the Devourer.

The cities he destroyed.

He has destroyed the same city many times, so looking at those broken and collapsed steel bars, the deep twilight with flying smoke and dust, and the mysterious and strange colors constantly flashing in the distant sky, his heart is dead silent, without any feeling.

It's been a while since he's used a stigmata.After using it this time, the long-lost numbness made his camouflage somewhat difficult.

He had thought about not controlling the frequency of his use of stigmata anymore, even if he completely lost his ability to empathize and become a cold-blooded psychopath, it didn't matter.At least that way, he wouldn't have to experience every time his ability to empathize recovers little by little, he would feel a sense of nausea from the bottom of his heart when he looked at the rot, destruction and death brought about by himself.He didn't have to think about it, if Lynch was still alive, seeing himself like this, would he also show the horror and disgust that everyone else looked at him.

Ignorance and insensibility used to be so terrible to him, eternal numbness, no matter what he did, there was only silence and a sense of boredom in his heart, like a walking dead.But later, he found that he could no longer bear the pain without the suppression of that numbness.The aftereffects of using the stigmata became like drugs for him. Every time he recovered for too long and the pain became too severe, he had to find some excuses and find some opportunities to use the stigmata again.

The subsequent numbness made him do more horrible things, and the recovery was even more painful.Such a vicious cycle goes on and on.

But he couldn't completely let all his emotions disappear.

He was afraid that once he really discarded all human emotions and turned into a machine-like thing, he would gradually forget Lynch and even his own purpose.

The door opened, and Bai Hongyu was outside with two fourth-rankers, but he didn't come in right away.

For some reason, Bai Hongyu was a little jealous of Chu Yang.

He didn't know what happened when Chu Yang fought against Chu Yang the Devourer, but after he came back, Chu Yang didn't seem to have changed, and he cooperated very well when he put the Osar ring on him.But he could feel a kind of...subtle darkness and chill emanating from the other party.

"The Great Elder wants to see you." Bai Hongyu said, staring at Chu Yang's back.

Chu Yang turned around and strode towards him.For a moment, Bai Hongyu wanted to back away.

Chu Yang passed by him, paused slightly, turned his dark eyes slightly to look at him, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "Are you afraid of me?"

Bai Hongyu's cheeks flushed with embarrassment and anger, "What? You start to swell after defeating your other self? Why should I be afraid of you?"

Chu Yang looked at him, Wei suddenly smiled.It was still the kind of polite smile with a little shame, but the hairs on the back of Bai Hongyu's neck stood on end.

what happened?

Bai Hongyu hated this feeling of being suppressed.It was obvious that Chu Yang had always been at a disadvantage before, what happened?

"Tell me, if you liked Lynch, why did you betray him in the first place?" Chu Yang tilted his head slightly, as if he didn't quite understand, "If you like someone, shouldn't you hope that everything will be fine for him?"

"If you really want him to be well, you should kill yourself." Bai Hongyu also smiled, innocently like a teenager, "Didn't you already know that he can only survive if you die."

Chu Yang hummed lightly, as if he was seriously considering this choice, "Not a bad idea."

After speaking, he took the lead in the direction of the elevator.Bai Hongyu gritted his teeth and led others to follow.

Priest Yan and seven or eight elders, Priest Yan and several other priests from the Chaos Temple, plus some mages from the Holy Flame Department.They sat around the conference table, facing a map of Eurasia projected on the wall in front of them. The large red areas along the coast were occupied by devourers, just like the virus spreading in the zombie apocalypse movie.

And those people who I tried to destroy stood in front of me.Antonio, he used to hate this person so much that killing him once was not enough. Every time he went to a reality, he would kill him again, in various cruel ways.But now, he also started to feel numb.

However, the Antonio in front of him should not know what he did to other versions of him, because no one who has seen those scenes will live to have the opportunity to tell him.

Everyone's eyes fell on him, and he was very familiar with that kind of cold, fearful gaze.His gaze turned slightly and landed on Jin Xuanmin's body. Some kind of bloodthirsty desire was clamoring in his blood, which made him shiver uncontrollably.

"Chu Yang." Antonio actually smiled at him, but the smile was only superficial, without any sincerity at all, and only innocent people would be deceived, "The Devourer's attack has slowed down, this is a serious blow to you One of the most important leaders of the Devourer has a lot to do with it. You deserve a lot of credit."

Chu Yang lowered his eyes slightly, appearing a little frightened.

"However, I would like to hear the details of how you defeated the other you. After all, the other you is at the fifth level, even if you are the carrier of the Necronomicon, after all, you have not yet developed all your power." Antonio slightly He leaned forward, clasped his hands on the table, and looked very interested, "The music of the two of you has had a strong impact. If it weren't for Bai Hongyu and the others wearing some special 'talismans' , I am afraid it will be difficult to come back unscathed."

Clusters of unclear gazes fell on him, and Chu Yang looked a little uneasy.He took a deep breath, and then said, "It was he who messed up, and I was lucky enough to win."

"Oh? What kind of mistake did he make?" asked the Archmage of the Holy Flame Department.

"In the final analysis, we are fighting for who can mess up whose sanity first, and whose weakness is the first to collapse, and whoever loses. And we actually have the same weakness. It's just that my weakness is still alive, but his is dead. "Chu Yang said, "You should have investigated it long ago, right? Why did he look for the Necronomicon?"

Antonio's posture didn't move, but his brain was spinning rapidly.Chu Yang could even see the strings of mind that were constantly changing shapes.

Antonio has sent all the eyeliners, even non-human eyeliners, to find Lynch.But the strange thing is that Lynch seems to have disappeared from this world.

Did he stay in other realities?

As long as Lin Qi is controlled, it is equivalent to restraining two Chu Yang at the same time.And Chu Yang in front of him will obediently work for him.

"In this way, Lynch is in a very dangerous situation." Antonio pretended to be concerned, "Now that the Devourers are invading, and he is out alone, it is hard to say whether he will be caught by them."

Chu Yang said, "He is in a safe place."

"There is no safe place in this world anymore. Even in other realities, the Devourer can come and go at will."

"Is it safe here?" Chu Yang asked back.

Antonio raised his eyebrows slightly.

At this time, the Archmage of the Holy Flame Department looked at Antonio and said, "Since they have suspended their attack, it means that they should also realize that our reality is not so easy to win. Maybe this is a good time to negotiate peace with them."

One or two other elders and mages agreed, but Priest Yan said, "The Devourer has destroyed countless realities. Do you think those realities have never thought about peace talks?"

"What if we can prove that our reality is good enough?" A mage said, "I heard that the goal of the devourers is to destroy all realities, and then they will confirm a most perfect reality. If we can prove that our reality is It's good enough..."

Before they finished speaking, several priests of the Chaos Temple laughed mockingly, "Our reality is good enough? Mage, don't you usually watch the news? Wars, terrorist attacks, gender and racial discrimination, religious conflicts... Even robbery, rape, and murder are trivial matters, and no one watches it when it appears on the news every day. How could this be the best reality?"

"Perhaps..." Xiao Yiquan, who had been sitting silently behind several mages, suddenly said with some hesitation, "Can we join hands with other realities?"

Chu Yang's gaze turned slightly, and fell on Xiao Yiquan.

A petty official of the fourth rank dared to speak up, but no one scolded him.After all, some elders, mages, and priests have had this idea.

But because there is always a gap of distrust between reality and reality, coupled with...

Perhaps even many members of the Presbyterian Church and the Holy Flame Department do not know that, in fact, the radicals of the two Holy See have secretly entered many realities together with the Chaos Temple and R'lyeh, which are already dominated by the radicals, causing chaos , mutilate the zero-level observers, plunder their treasures, and assassinate enough fifth-level observers, so that those realities become more and more fragile, towards self-destruction and collapse.So now going to other realities, it's hard to be sure whether people in those realities are going to help them or make things worse.

"The Devourer has always been invincible because they have gathered many high-level observers of reality. I believe that there must be other realities that have noticed their threat. If we fail, they will not be able to escape. As long as we send appropriate lobbyists, Maybe we can get powerful reinforcements." Xiao Yiquan analyzed seriously, and several priests from the Holy Flame Department nodded slowly.

"It's also possible to bring in powerful enemies. What if they take advantage of our weakness to plunder our reality after driving away the Devourer?" Priest Yan asked back.

At this moment, Chu Yang let out a low laugh.This caught Priest Yan's attention, because there was an imperceptible trace of... mockery in that laughter.

"But if no one helps, we can't stop the Devourer at all." Chu Yang said, "Don't forget, their prophets haven't even appeared, and we have already retreated steadily."