Smelting everything from pirates

Chapter 585 Got the book, "The Book of Sotos"

Go up the stairs on the second floor, draw some small grids on the edge of the stairs, and place unburned candles in the small grids, and Barrett will light all those candles

There are still some small portraits behind those candles, but the content on them has long been blurred. Mr. Barrett looked carefully at the side of the photos for a while, but he still couldn't make out the specific content on them.
I can only sigh in my heart, the situation on the second floor is still a little different from the first floor

At least the style of the furniture has become very different. The furniture below is mainly made of rosewood as the raw material. It looks elegant and luxurious, and the colors are mainly gold and red.

The light emitted by the huge glass lamps above the head is also a golden light, and even the tiles made of the floor under the feet are dark blue, mixed with some golden star points
But the situation on the second floor is completely different, it is pure white and light blue, it seems that Grant is still very rich

Walking in it, every piece of furniture is covered with white cloth, and a thick layer of dust has accumulated on the cloth, but for some reason, the guy 'Gloria' has not been on the second floor.

Walking among the pieces of furniture, Barrett kept removing the white linen from the top of the furniture, checked the furniture above, and checked to see if the book was placed on top of the furniture.

I searched for about two hours on the second floor, but I didn't find anything strange at all.

Why did that fellow Grant not tell him where the book was kept when he told Barrett? Before that, Barrett was directly attracted by what Grant said about Miskatonic University, so he didn't think much about it.

But when he arrived at the villa, Barrett immediately remembered that the guy Grant hadn't told Barrett about the book and where to find it.

Didn't Grant come to this villa at all?He just has the key to this villa, and his real purpose is to let Barrett find that book.

But the problem is that Grant wants Barrett to do it, doesn't he know what the price is?It is not easy to know Barrett's identity, but it is very simple to kill Grant.

Could it be that Grant was telling the truth, that he wanted to use Barrett's rune ability to obtain that book? At this time, Barrett had even more doubts in his heart.

And the purpose is to destroy books, which is even more strange

Walking in the lobby on the second floor, I have never found out how to get to the third floor. Maybe to get to the third floor, I need to use other methods or find other stairs.

This villa is very strange, not only the stairs but also the layout outside. Only now did Barrett realize that there are actually two huge towers behind the villa.

On the top of the two huge towers, there is actually a huge bell. Before Barrett came to the Western world, he thought that every villa would have a bell. In fact, it is very abnormal to have a bell. .

Because clocks were extremely expensive in the past, only religions could use them, which is why those clocks often appeared on the top of cathedrals.

But in the two towers at the back of this villa, there are two huge clocks, but because no one maintains the surfaces of those clocks, they have already been damaged and collapsed.

The hands of the clock have fallen from the building, and it seems that they have been corroded by time for a long time.

After investigating the building on the second floor for a long time, Barrett raised his head unconsciously, and found that the ceiling above his head seemed to be somewhat unusual.

The lines on it seemed to be different from other ceilings, but because it was night, Barrett didn't care.

No clues have been found so far, so Barrett raised the candle in his hand and shone it towards the ceiling, only to find that there was an attic above the ceiling.

To be precise, there should be a compartment above the ceiling.

"Could that book be placed in that compartment?" Barrett had some doubts in his heart, but he still lifted a table, went to the ceiling, and opened the attic.

Slowly climb up through the stairs, the dust on it is dense, and there is even a puff of smoke and dust.

Barrett suppressed the nausea in his heart, used his arms to disperse the fog in front of him, and looked up.

It was found that a circle was drawn on the ground in this interval, and all of the circles were formed by bright yellow runes.

Those runes were all Barrett had never seen before, but because Barrett had the fruits of language and words, he recognized the functions of those runes at a glance.

"There used to be a group of cultists who made strange summons here, but their runes were obviously incomplete, and the objects they summoned were random. Who knows what kind of thing that group of guys summoned, and these There is no mechanism for the rune to return, which means that thing seems to be still wandering in this villa."

Seeing the contents of those runes, Barrett cursed inwardly, and instantly thought of the 'Gloria' who was placed in the yard by him. Could it be that Gloria was summoned by those cultists.

But the problem is that Gloria can be killed by guns, unlike other monsters from other spaces outside the earth.

But to Barrett's surprise, there was a book drawn from human skin in the center of that magic circle.

There are three runes on the book, all three runes are composed of equilateral triangles, inside the triangle, there is a circle, draw these complex characters and symbols in the circle .

Holding a candle, Barrett slowly crawled to the front of the book, carefully observing the three triangular symbols.

A word came out of his mouth unconsciously.

"The Book of Sothoth."

This book comes from above the starry sky. According to this situation, this book should be summoned through this magic circle. This book contains a lot of scientific knowledge.

But that knowledge is about science, which is actually almost the same as magic, but in the world of Cthulhu, science and magic have always been two sides of the same body, regardless of you and me.

Where did the book in front of me come from?Barrett didn't know, but he thought of the three words 'Sothos' at the beginning.

There was a vague guess in Barrett's mind, but he didn't dare to make any thoughts. If it was outside Cthulhu's world, Barrett would dare to think about it.

But this is the real world of Cthulhu, even if there is a trace of imagination in Barrett's mind
Then the price is very likely to be unbearable for Barrett himself. He can only hold the white cloth next to him to pick up the book and take a good look at it in the next time.

Then Barrett remembered from this compartment, and didn't search it properly at all. Now Barrett has focused all his attention on this book.

And Gloria, who was in the yard, stood up suddenly at this moment, and the five holes on her back had all healed at this moment.

I really don't know what the current Gloria is?
Barrett, who came down from the second floor, walked into the living room on the first floor, lit a large candle, sat in the center of the candle, and slowly flipped through the "Book of Sothos" in front of him

The content described in this book is all described with strange three-dimensional runes. As long as the pages of a book are opened, the previous page of this book will have some connections with the next page. Some connected places will form some three-dimensional scenes.

It looks like a very delicate carving.

The content of this book is very complicated and difficult to understand. Although Barrett, who has the fruit of language and writing, can understand it, it takes a lot of time to really understand it. Three-dimensional.

In Barrett's mind, he even estimated that human beings would not be able to speak such language and characters, and could only view them.

In fact, the content described in this book is to praise the god in the book.

As for the content of the hymn, it is not even comparable to those of Christian libretto, but since the text used is three-dimensional, Barrett has no way to translate it with flat text and superficial language, and can only have some impressions in his heart. exist.

This kind of impression is like a person walking on the street and looking up at the dusk in the distance, with purple light on it and clouds floating in the sky.

At the same time, there is still infinite shock in my heart, but that kind of feeling cannot be described in words, and I can only comprehend it by myself.

When he saw this book, Barrett had this feeling in his mind. He was vaguely able to understand a little bit, but when he thought about it carefully, he only felt a blur, and there seemed to be a gray mist in front of him. .

As Newton said, he is just a child on the beach, the sea of ​​truth has never been touched.

So is Barrett now.

But at this time the crunching sound was heard again.

(End of this chapter)