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Dark clouds were pressing down, sticky water vapor was floating in the air, and the heart-wrenching cicadas were chirping in the dense shade of the trees. It was a sultry summer afternoon.

"What! Another person died! Okay, I'll go right away! You protect the scene." Zheng Tuanwei hung up the phone with a gloomy face.

"Boss, is it that case again?"

Zheng Tuanwei nodded and said to his subordinates concisely: "Follow me first, and we'll talk about it on the way."

In the dog days of summer, Zheng Tuanwei broke out in a hot sweat almost as soon as he walked out of the police station. He turned on the air conditioner when he got in the car, but the strong cold wind could not dispel the heat in his heart at this time.

Including the person who died today, seven murders have occurred in just three months.

The deceased had nothing in common, the only thing in common was their death.

The victims did not leave a complete body at all, only a pile of flesh, and in the sticky liquid mixed with blood and broken organ fragments, a hideous head lay quietly.

Even a bomb can't blow up such fine meat particles. It looks like someone chopped it up with a knife.

This is the first time Zheng Tuanwei has seen such a miserable death scene in his 22 years as a police officer. When he saw it for the first time, he almost vomited bile.

Even the forensic doctor who came to perform the autopsy vomited so much that he turned pale and had nightmares for several nights at home.

After a careful search of the crime scene, Zheng Tuanwei and his team found a hideous wooden puppet and a notebook full of words that sounded like a madman's ravings.

The handwriting on the notebook was messy and difficult to read, filled with a large number of unreadable symbols. Only on the first page of the notebook were there two relatively clear sentences:

[Humans are neither the oldest nor the last masters of this earth. Ordinary living things and materials are not alone in the world. ■■■■■ was there in the past, ■■■■■ is there now, and ■■■■■ will always be there. ]

[If I were crazy, it would be ■■'s mercy! May the gods pity this man, who is insensitive and still sane in the face of the most terrifying ■■! Come on, go crazy while He is still calling us with mercy! 】①

Obviously, these are just the ravings of a madman, but Zheng Tuanwei couldn't help trembling when he read them, goose bumps kept appearing, and his brain was throbbing. There was an intuition that stopped him from reading.

He suddenly closed his notebook, his face was pale, sweating profusely, and the whole person seemed to have just been fished out of the water.

...Is this the work of a cult?

Because the crime scene was too bloody and horrible, and the case itself was too strange and dark, the case records were immediately sealed by the authorities, the media was prohibited from broadcasting, and those who knew about it were also ordered to keep silent, and it was treated as an ordinary homicide case.

But this case was just the beginning.

In the next three months, five similar cases occurred one after another, and all the victims turned into meat paste.

And there was no clue about the murderer who killed them. It was as if they had suddenly exploded into pulp - but there were no bomb fragments or chemical components in their bodies!

After investigation, the deceased were all fans of Cthulhu mythology. Before their death, they all seemed to have mental problems, often experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations, and their personalities changed drastically, and they occasionally behaved insanely.

At first, they were able to block the information, but after a series of similar murders, the relevant gossip had already spread. The official blockade instead stimulated the soil for the birth of conspiracy theories. For a time, various urban legends were widely circulated, the most famous of which was the cult sacrifice theory.

In order to stabilize the people's hearts, the director gave them an ultimatum and ordered them to solve the case within three months.

Seeing that one month had passed within the three-month deadline, Zheng Tuanwei still had no clues.

At the scene, there was no trace of the murderer. It was as if the murderer did not exist at all.

No, the murderer must exist, but they have not found any clues yet! This time, he must catch the murderer's fox tail and give justice to the victim!

…

When Zheng Tuanwei saw the flesh splattered on the ceiling again at the crime scene, his face was unexpectedly calm. At least this time he just turned a little pale, and he didn't vomit like the first time.

The first person to discover the scene was the victim's neighbor, who called the police immediately. The police from the police station came to the scene first. After discovering that this was a mysterious cult murder case that the criminal police brigade was tracking recently, they immediately called Zheng Tuanwei.

Zheng Tuanwei and his men dug the crime scene almost three feet deep, but they didn't find any useful clues. The surveillance video didn't capture the murderer at all.

The matter was once again deadlocked.

…

Le Jing walked quietly to Zheng Tuanwei and stood still, staring at the bloody crime scene with his amber eyes without any ripples. At the murder scene where people came and went, no one noticed Le Jing's figure, as if he was a transparent person. Le Jing is indeed a transparent person now.

He glanced at Zheng Tuanwei. The man's brows were furrowed, his eyes were bloodshot, he had two big dark circles under his eyes, his beard was untidy, and his expression was listless. It seemed that he was under a lot of pressure during this period.

Under the order of the superior to solve the murder case, the entire Beicheng Public Security Bureau has been busy for several months. As the captain of the criminal police, Zheng Tuanwei has no time to investigate the previous drug addict disappearance case.

Those drug addicts are doing a lot of infrastructure in the other world, and they are much more motivated than when they were on Earth.

With the joint efforts of the earthlings and the natives, the Mireka continent finally regained some vitality. Although life is difficult, at least many people can survive.

In another month or two, Le Jing will erase the memories of those people and send them back to Earth.

The crisis of the Mireka continent has been resolved, but the real crisis of the Earth has just arrived.

The evil gods in the Cthulhu mythology are about to wake up.

Just like what is said in the Cthulhu mythology written by humans: "In his palace in R'lyeh, the sleeping Cthulhu is waiting to dream. When the stars return to their positions, R'lyeh will rise from the bottom of the sea, and the great Cthulhu will wake up."

By then, it will be a real catastrophe for the Earth and the real end of mankind.

Before Le Jing returned to Earth, Xingxiu told Le Jing: "It is not the body of the Old Ones that will awaken on Earth. He is just a seed planted by the Old Ones in the past. The body of the Old Ones exists in a higher plane and space outside the Earth, millions of light years away from the Earth. They are the dark side of the universe and endless madness."

"But once the seeds that break through the ground grow up, they will attract the attention of the mother body. At that time, the Old Ones will descend on Earth through the channel built by the seeds. By then, no one can stop them."

"...But we can." Le Jing said firmly, looking at Xingxiu with a look full of inquiry, "Didn't you expel the evil god Nyarlathotep before?"

Xingxiu smiled, but the smile contained endless deep meaning: "Yes, we can."

"This is the only way for us to restrain the evil god with our human body, and it is also the secret of our civilization rescue team's infinite life and powerful power."

Xingxiu gently told Le Jing the secret, and this is exactly the purpose of Le Jing's return to Earth.

Le Jing took a deep look at the blood in the room, then turned around and left without looking back.

These bloods were just signs that the seeds of the evil god had begun to sprout.

As fanatical fans of Cthulhu, these people were naturally the first to be eroded by the power of the seeds. Their fear became the feed for the growth of the seeds, so they briefly saw the projection of the evil god from the starry sky.

Many ancient books have warned believers not to look directly at the gods.

This is a wise saying.

The evil gods of Cthulhu are such a terrifying and strange monster. Humans who face them will either lose their minds and become lunatics and then be assimilated into deformed monsters, or... just "bang", turn into meat paste.

In the dark corners that the police have not yet discovered, there must be many humans who have been transformed into monsters wandering around. They are the minions of the evil gods, the poor creatures who are trapped in chaos and madness for life, and they will also be the key to opening the era of chaos on the earth.

According to Xingxiu's estimation, in about fifty years, the seeds will be fully mature, the Old Ones will descend on the earth, the end of the world will come, and the world will become a slaughterhouse and meat storehouse for evil gods.

So Le Jing must speed up the implementation of his plan.

He once died as Le Jing, but he is about to be resurrected as Le Jing.

He will be reborn and grow up as a human being.

But this time, he is destined to live brilliantly and become the rising sun of tomorrow praised by everyone.

He must live a life known to all women and children, and be famous forever, so that when humans mention his name, they are full of admiration, love and worship.

He wants to be deified in the hearts of people all over the world as a human being.

Only in this way can the positive emotions of human beings gather on him, and these pure beliefs are precisely the only magic weapon to fight against evil gods.

The Old Ones represent the ultimate "evil". They are the embodiment of chaos, madness, evil and fear, representing all the dark sides of all things in the world. And only light can restrain shadows.

Positive emotions belonging to humans are extremely poisonous to them, and they are the only natural enemy that can restrain them.

This is also the only reason why human civilization can continue to this day in the face of the powerful evil gods.

Xingxiu can expel the evil god Nyarlathotep because he is the "Human Glory" of that plane. He represents the faith and destiny of the entire plane of human beings, so he can use the powerful power of faith to drive away the evil god and save human civilization.

Le Jing's mind once again recalled the words that Xingxiu warned him before leaving:

"Although in your concept, I was away for only a few months, but in fact, it took me a full ten years to drive away Nyarlathotep."

"I don't know how long it will take you to complete this task. You just need to know that you only have one chance. Once the task fails, you will be destroyed together with the human civilization of this plane, and your body will be destroyed and your body will be gone."

"Only after completing this task can you truly be immortal and immortal like human civilization."

Two months later.

The wife of China's richest man gave birth to a boy.

The boy was born without crying or making a fuss, but with a peaceful and clear smile.

The kind mother kissed her son's forehead lovingly and said with a smile, "Let's call your nickname Lele."

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① Excerpted from Howard Phillips Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror" and "The Temple"