Haunted Places Live

Lynch expected that in the moment of darkness, the Awanich people might lose their sense of proportion in the panic, so he was already prepared.The moment the flashlight was completely extinguished, he immediately threw Chu Yang down, avoiding the passing arrows.Before he could catch his breath, he got up from the ground, grabbed Chu Yang, and rushed towards the direction he had just looked at.Endless darkness is not unfamiliar to him. After receiving the stigmata, the senses of people who have received the stigmata have a sensitivity that exceeds the average number of times. The slight change in the direction of the wind in the air, the intensity and speed of the return of the sound hitting the solid body, can all be told. his general surroundings.

He didn't turn on the phone's light source, because that would reveal his and Chu Yang's positions.But after running for a while, he suddenly felt something was wrong.

Suddenly the smell is wrong...

He immediately turned on the screen of his phone and took a photo behind him, only to see the terrified and bewildered face of the Awanich translator, as if he didn't know where he was.

"Why is it you?!" Lynch felt his brain explode, "Where's Chu Yang?!!"

The young man stared at him blankly, shaking his head like a rattle.

"Fuck!" Lynch was anxious and angry, swearing.But at this moment, he vaguely heard Chu Yang's voice coming from a distant place, as if calling his name.But the voice was a little weak, and soon stopped abruptly.

"Xiaoyang!!! Xiaoyang!!! Where are you?!!" He didn't care whether his position would be exposed, he shouted loudly, but he never heard back.

Something must have happened.After receiving the stigmata, Chu Yang's hearing was so sharp that it was impossible not to hear his call.

Lin Qi couldn't care about anything else, and rushed towards the direction where Chu Yang's shout came from, relying on the faint light of the mobile phone and relying on the memory of the moment just now.The young Awanich interpreter followed him like a lost puppy.

And those Awaniche people also heard his voice, and started shouting and rushing towards him.However, they didn't have Lynch's strong perception, so they couldn't keep up with the speed as they stumbled in the dark.Lynch quickened his pace, almost running wildly, bypassing strange and twisted buildings, and climbing up a section of steep slopes covered with tubular objects.

He realized that the city was getting higher and higher, and those pipes were scattered from the center of the city to the surroundings.In this light, the center of the city is likely to be an extremely important place, even the heart of the city.

Was Chu Yang taken there?

Could there be another shoggoth dormant in this city?

All kinds of speculations circled chaotically in his mind.He always felt that everything that happened just now was too weird.When he held that hand, he obviously didn't smell any abnormal smell. It was obviously Chu Yang's smell, so he couldn't possibly admit his mistake, right?

Shoggoth does have a strong ability to imitate, but in such a short period of time, it can't even imitate a deer. How can it imitate the smell so vividly?Except for Hadok, no other holy race can do that.And Adok could imitate only after eating the prey, but Chu Yang must still be alive in that dark moment, after all, he heard Chu Yang's call for help afterwards.

The closer he got to the city center, he finally found a faint familiar smell in the air.He was sure that Chu Yang had been here, so his steps became more hurried, looking for the smell to find the past.He came to a three-story slope that resembled a Mayan pyramid. Countless pipes converged from all directions, and spread upward along the slope like a snake, until they disappeared into a pyramid-shaped building on the top platform of the pyramid.

But the smell suddenly disappeared here.

Lynch struggled to climb up through the gaps in the pipes, but even when he climbed to the platform and in front of the round platform-shaped building, he still couldn't find any more Chu Yang's scent.He walked around the trapezoidal building, but he didn't see any entrance, and he couldn't even see any gaps where it connected to the pyramid platform below, as if it was a whole.

At this time, the interpreter also followed, silently watching him leaning against the wall with a dejected expression on his face.Lynch's eyes fell on the piece of purple crystal hanging on the translator's neck, and he pointed to the crystal after thinking about it, "What is this?"

The translator said, "Protection, Jada." He pointed to himself as he said the latter word.

It seems that Jiada is his name. Does this mean that this crystal can protect him?

So the Awanitches thought the crystal shard was something like an amulet?

"Where did you find it?" Lynch asked.

Jiada thought for a while, squatted down, stretched out his hand and drew two people made of circles and straight lines on the ground with his fingers, and then drew a smaller person under the two people, pointing to the little person and pointing to himself , "Jada."

Lynch knelt down and looked at it, nodded, "These two older ones are your parents?"

"Parents." Jiada nodded, and then drew a triangle next to the bigger circle of the parents, and connected a line to the side of the villain.

"Your parents gave it to you?" Lynch asked.

Garda nodded.

"What about other people's? They were also given to them by their parents?" Lynch asked while gesturing at the pictures on the ground.

Jiada nodded again.

Lynch pointed to the crystal again, and spread his hand, "Can you show me?"

Unexpectedly, Jiada immediately shook his head repeatedly, and covered his crystal with both hands to look alert, as if he was afraid that he would jump over and snatch it.Lynch sighed and said, "I will pay you back."

Jiada still shook his head, "God's gift. Don't give it..."

God's gift...

If these crystal amulets were indeed from the crystals of the Old Ones, how did the first Awanich get them?Have their ancestors entered this dungeon?

According to ancient records, the crystal of the ancients was the greatest invention ever owned by that lost civilization. It could store endless energy in it, and it could also be used to hypnotize and enslave the creatures created by them, including Shoggoth.The more energy absorbed, the colder the crystal will be, even to the point where human hands cannot bear the cold.But the crystal fragments on the necks of these Awanich people should not be particularly cold, otherwise they would not be able to wear them.But even in a state where not much energy is stored, the crystal apparently has the ability to prevent the wearer's mind from being hypnotized.So these Awanichi talents were not affected by his singing before.

Could these fragments be a kind of identity marker?Anyone who doesn't wear the fragment may be affected by some kind of force?

And he suspects that there is a limit to the capabilities of these fragments.Now in the sealed state, he only has the strength equivalent to a high-level fourth-level observer, and cannot break through the protection given by the crystal.But what about level [-] observers?

Lynch whispered, "You don't need to take it off, just let me touch your amulet."

He repeated it patiently over and over again, and finally Jiada seemed to loosen a little.He sighed, picked up the pendant and put it in Lynch's palm.

The pendant was not particularly cold as he thought, but it still carried a hint of coolness.At the moment of contact, he suddenly felt a strange... clarity.

Something like a gray fog that had been wrapping around his senses was suddenly lifted.And he didn't even know that layer existed until it was lifted.

It seemed that he was really affected by some kind of influence unknowingly, causing the senses to become chaotic and chaotic, but he didn't know it.

He felt a subtle change in the atmosphere around him.The smell became clearer and clearer. He closed his eyes and felt it vigorously, and finally caught the tail of a gossamer-like breath.

"Below..." Lynch opened his eyes, but his heart began to beat faster.In that breath, he smelled the smell of fear.

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Chu Yang felt that he was awake, but in that strange state, he seemed to be floating in a cloud. He couldn't concentrate, and his eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of fog.

This space is filled with light, a mysterious cold bioluminescence that only creatures in the deep sea emit.But he couldn't comprehend what he saw.

In front of him stood a gigantic, two-story-high spindle body, covered with rings of rough folds.On the top of its head and the soles of its feet, there are five thick arms spreading out like starfish, but at the end of each arm, there is a strange organ like a hand, which keeps waving in the air.Among the five slightly deformed "hands" on the top, there is a round red sphere resembling an eye, and five poisonous needles protrude from the center of the five-pointed star from time to time.In addition, on its back, there are five pairs of fin-like wings; from the interruption of the spindle body, there are five slender organs that are much thinner than the arms and limbs on the top of the head, just like the filamentous sea anemone in sea water. Stop shaking.

Chu Yang looked at that thing, numb confusion and dull fear were reflected in his eyes, but he still felt like he was in a dream, unable to make any response.

His hands and feet were fixed on the ground by some kind of extremely strong translucent jelly, which opened in a large font.But in fact, even if he is not fixed, he doesn't have much strength to move.

He felt that thing was watching him, and the two wrists on the ground lifted up, spread to his chest, and ripped his clothes apart.He felt the leathery "hand" keep stroking the protrusions of the parasitic stigmata on his chest and ribs, as if curious.He saw a thin strip of something in the middle of the spindle land on his skin, wet to the touch, and a burning pain.Immediately afterwards, the spindle grabbed a sharp slice with a wrist at the bottom, and gently dropped it on his chest.

In such a state of emptiness, even when the skin was cut open, I just felt a strange numbness.

Is it going to dissect him?Chu Yang thought blankly.

The blood flowed down the ribs. Although the mind was paralyzed, there was not much pain, but the feeling of the body being opened still caused Chu Yang to groan as thin as a gnat.

The spindle made a thin humming sound, using those filaments to "taste" Chu Yang's blood.Another hand grabbed his hair and turned his head.The huge spindle was bent, the hand at the top landed in front of him, and the red eyes stared at his hard-to-focus eyes, as if he was studying what Chu Yang's facial features were used for.

A straw-shaped probe protruded from the middle of the five-pointed star at the top, dangling in front of Chu Yang's eyes.

Chu Yang was very scared. He didn't want to be blinded by the probe, and he didn't want to be disemboweled and gutted, like a dissected frog.

But now his mind is so chaotic that even fear is covered with fog.

However, the needle did not go through after all.The spindle slowly straightened its body and moved to another direction.Behind it, a ball of purple light that keeps flickering can be vaguely seen.

It seemed to be a sphere of many amethysts spliced ​​together, placed on a bracket.There are quite a few translucent pipelines descending from all corners of the sky, connecting to the scattered amethyst sphere.Chu Yang saw that the spindle reappeared, holding two similar translucent pipelines on the wrist above his head, except that there was a silver needle at one end of each pipeline.He saw the spindle attach the end of the tubing to the crystal, and move towards him holding the end with the needle.

His body convulsed and trembled, and his eyes reflected the needles that were getting closer.Until the needle was pierced into Chu Yang's temple by the spindle, and completely penetrated into the skin.

The author has something to say: I modified some things in the first two chapters, and wrote some details about the crystal of the ancients in advance (worn as a talisman by the Awanich people), so as to connect with this chapter and make the plot smoother .