Haunted Places Live

Chu Yang was woken up before six o'clock in the morning, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that Lin Qi was fully dressed and had a deck of cards spread out on the coffee table.

Chu Yang rubbed his eyes, touched the glasses and put them on, and then he could clearly see the appearance of the deck.It was the pair Lynch used to tell his fortune at the burger restaurant when the two of them first met.

The card he drew was the Hound.And all the turning points in his life basically fell on that one card... It can be seen that this deck of cards is powerful.

"What is this for?"

"Didn't I say that I will teach you the spells of the Presbyterian Church?

In the first class, fortune-telling with the silver key. Lynch sat on the sofa with his hands folded on his knees, looking like a solemn teacher, "Get up quickly." "

Chu Yang couldn't react for a while, but he still sat up obediently, yawned, put on his pants and jacket, sat next to Lynch, and stared at the table of cards of different colors in front of him in a daze.The size of those cards is slightly longer than ordinary poker cards, and some strange lines are used to form a mysterious pattern like a magic circle.Lynch divided them into four major groups, but not entirely according to the color of the cards.

"Don't worry, you don't have to memorize all these cards at once. I want to sort out the most important cards for you first." Lin Qi smiled and looked at Chu Yang's dumbfounded expression, "We elders believe that reality is actually In the ever-changing world, every choice made by everyone in this world will affect the trend of reality, and even cause the creation of new reality or the collapse of existing reality. However, even so, due to the multiple observers and multiple observation points As well as the existence of a higher force that we still don't fully understand, we believe that certain nodes in the future can be predicted. So the role of this deck is to give us a rough prediction of the limited future."

"First of all, the black one is the god we believe in, the entropy god that tends to chaos. The white one represents the order god that has evolved into the order of our current universe. But it should be noted that chaos is not necessarily bad, and order does not mean good. The two are just opposites, but there is no difference between good and bad. Any living thing has these two forces in balance. If there is too much entropy, diseases such as cancer may occur. If there is too much sequence, there will be no life at all. , the earth will be covered with carbon-structured inorganic substances that are too stable like diamonds."

As Lynch spoke, he reached out and took out a black card placed at the top.It was the strangest card, because there was no pattern on it, it was just black.

"First of all, this card is special. Because its influence is everywhere. This card represents the beginning and end of this universe, and it is also the greatest and most terrifying Lord of the Gods sleeping in the closed reality. —Azathoth, the god of ignorance."

"Stupid?"

"It means primordial, chaotic." Lynch smiled. "In the past, a small number of people in the four major Holy Sees were very afraid of this god, so unlike most believers who hope that reality will be unified, they hope to maintain the status quo and do not want closed spaces to be destroyed." Open. We call them the 'Painful faction.' But this little faction has all but died out now."

Lynch took out three cards with the same black background on the left side of the next row, one with a red cloud-like thing on it, and some chaotic curves hanging from the bottom; the second one was surrounded by golden lines. The figure in the figure seems to be a bit like the attire of an Egyptian pharaoh; the third is a collection of many iridescent spheres.

"These three are called the three pillar gods, and their status is second only to Azathoth. The first one, Shabu Nicholas, is called the reproductive mother goddess, and many gods were conceived by her. The second one is Among these black cards, the only god who is not trapped in a closed reality and can freely travel between different realities and any star in the universe is Nyarlathotep, the crouching chaos. It is also the main god believed by the Chaos Temple."

Lynch paused, and picked up the card covered with colorful spheres in Chapter 3, "This one is quite special. Yogg Sothos... the god who knows everything. It is above the world and space, time and space It cannot exist without it, so for it, time has no meaning, and what has happened and what has not happened are as clear as the picture unfolded in front of him. But because its cognition far exceeds the limit of human understanding, Therefore, if anyone tries to communicate with it, or ask it to grant knowledge, most of them will not end well. Some people believe that the emergence of multiple observers and the stability of the number are its arrangements. It guides different realities to one, And then open the closed reality."

Chu Yang took the card, looked at the colored spheres, and asked, "If it's so powerful, why don't you just collect all the realities together?"

"Because it is also in the closed reality, the intervention that can be done is limited. Moreover, there is one who is of the same origin as it when these gods are locked in the preface of the closed reality." Lynch picked up the rightmost one The bottom of the silver-white card has the same pattern of colored balls painted on it, "This one, Yad-Thaddag, was originally twins with Yogg Sothoth, a bit like the filthy twins. Together, but later there was a rupture and confrontation due to unknown reasons. The current time and space and the emergence of reality are dominated by it, so many times Yogg. Sotos’s movement is too big, it will immediately find out, and then destroy Yogg Arrangements made by Sothos."

"wipe out?"

"For example, creating various situations, causing suicide sacrifices of important multi-observers. Or preventing multi-observers who should have died from dying. Even installing multi-observers themselves."

Chu Yang was taken aback, "Arrange it yourself? So there are undercover agents among the multi-observers?"

"Not necessarily, because the multiple observers themselves don't know who arranged them, and it is even more impossible to know what role they will play in the score of time and space." Lynch shrugged, "Don't forget, Except Yog-Sothoth and Yad Sadag, no living being can understand the whole picture of time and space. Their struggles and plans, we simply cannot know and understand."

Chu Yang chuckled, "It sounds so like 'godworksinmysteriousways.' (Note: God works in mysterious ways, this sentence is a famous sentence often used by Christians to explain some irrational world)"

"Who knows, maybe the God Christians believe in is Yad Sadag." Lynch smiled wickedly.

Having said that, Chu Yang didn't know why he remembered what his grandfather once said to him: In the face of higher wisdom, time and death are meaningless; as long as they exist, they will exist forever...

Lynch pulled Nyarlathotep's card down and put it together with the three black cards on the next level, "You should be familiar with these four cards. The first card, Hastur, the king in yellow, , the main god of our Presbyterian Church; Cthugya, the lord of fire and life, the main god of the Ministry of Holy Flame; Cthulhu, the god of the sea, the lord of R'lyeh; The main gods of the temple. These four main gods are the most powerful entropy gods except the three pillar gods and Azathoth. However, their strengths are incompatible, so they have been fighting and devouring each other. This is why our relationship with the Holy Flame Department is still Yes, but the relationship with Chaos Temple and R'lye is quite opposite. It is said that when the ultimate reality is unified, whoever has more powerful observers, that god will gain more power and territory .”

Chu Yang glanced at the white side.He found that there are basically a few cards on the black side and a few cards on the white side, but the distribution is very even.

Except Azathoth at the top.Only it sits on top like a king.

"I have a question." Chu Yang pointed to Azathoth, "If it is the strongest god, why is it sealed by these lower-level white gods?"

"Because it's stupid~" Lynch laughed.

"...Can you say that the highest god you believe in...will you go to hell..."

Lynch smiled lowly, "We don't say hell and heaven. But I don't mean to say bad things about it. It is unconscious, and its existence itself is difficult for us to understand. Although it has a high status, because it has no Consciousness, so it is Yogg-Sothoth who actually holds the power."

Why do you still have the feeling of coercing the emperor to make the princes...

Lynch looked at the time and said, "Let's stop here today. There are still so many gods left, and there are demigods and different holy races underneath, and there are second-level races and slave races under the holy race... In fact, you don’t have to remember everything, just ask me if you don’t understand after drawing the cards.” After Lin Qi finished speaking, he gathered the deck of cards together, put them into a light black box, and handed them to Chu Yang, “Send your."

Chu Yang took the box, "Is this the one you used before?"

"No, this is a new one I ordered for you. The elders will have a pair." Lynch stretched his waist as if tired, "Let's eat something casually, and then set off to watch the dance master~"

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When the Taoist leader entered the village, he was picked up by a Mercedes-Benz, and half of the people in the village flocked outside the small courtyard of the village headman's house, stretching their necks to watch the excitement.

When Lin Qi and Chu Yang arrived, they were almost squeezed several meters away.They couldn't get close to the village chief, let alone ask permission for the filming, so they had no choice but to stop filming for the time being and see the situation first.

Firecrackers were crackling at the gate of the courtyard, and after the car stopped, some disciples went around to the back seat to open the car door, respectfully asking the Taoist priest to get out of the car.But I saw that Priest Pu Che was about 50 to [-] years old, with a goatee, wearing a pure sun scarf, wearing a Tibetan blue drool, and wearing Shifang shoes, he was as grand as a boss going to the countryside.

The village chief's name was Xue Zhenhai, and he immediately greeted him with a smile on his face, "Taoist chief, welcome, please hurry up."

The priest had his hands behind his back, and behind him were two young apprentices who were busy moving out several large boxes from the trunk.

The village head had to welcome the Taoist priest first, and it happened that the two little Taoist priests had to set up an altar in the main room first.Lin Qi and Chu Yang mixed in the crowd, but they didn't attract any attention for a while.

After a while, several cars stopped outside the village chief's house one after another, and the crowd's discussion became louder and louder.

The driver came down with several people, came to open the rear door, and pulled out a middle-aged woman who was tied up with ropes.An eighty-year-old man was tied up in another car.The person tied up in the third car was a boy who was about seventeen or eighteen years old.The fourth car was a man in his 30s.

These people were led and walked in a row to the village head's house.From the information gathered from the discussion, these are the villagers possessed by the fox fairy.

There was originally a 40-year-old man surnamed Dou, but he was taken into custody by the police after killing his whole family, and was sent to a mental hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, so he was unable to participate in the ritual.

However, Chu Yang felt that the scene was a little weird.In his impression, aren't the possessed people all as irritable as animals with rabies, and when they see who bites, don't they keep making animal calls or strange laughs?Is he watching too many fake videos?

Why do these people look so calm.

No...it can't be said to be calm.The faces of these four people have a...subtle, different dullness from ordinary people.

Just as he was thinking about it, suddenly the young man turned his head ninety degrees without any process in between. He turned it as precisely as a machine, and looked straight at Lynch and Lin Qi through the crowd. Chu Yang.