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Although he really didn't want to get involved with another cult, Ran Wenyu didn't dare to refuse the priest's invitation forcefully—it is said that the cult members are all lunatics (huh? Seems like he's scolding himself?), especially those involved in When it comes to the gods they believe in, even if they say they turn their faces, they turn their faces.Ran Wenyu didn't want to escape from their gods with great difficulty, and then be killed by their priests.

Therefore, Ran Wenyu could only show a somewhat agitated but hesitant expression, frowned slightly, and hesitated to speak: "After I participate in the festival, can I still leave Sabos Island?"

"Of course." The young priest smiled, "I will not force you to join us, please rest assured. If you still want to leave after meeting the true God, I will not stop you."

Ran Wenyu breathed a sigh of relief, but he couldn't care whether the priest was talking nicely or if he was really "reasonable".Since there was no reason to refuse, Ran Wenyu could only bite the bullet and nodded, agreeing to the priest's invitation.

It was getting late, coupled with the day of fighting and being frightened, Ran Wenyu was physically and mentally exhausted.The priest noticed that he was not in good spirits, so he didn't pull him to chat, and soon sent him to the temporary room.

This room is also located in the building, right next door to the young priest's residence.The decoration of the room looks simple, but it is extremely comfortable to use. At least the big bed is no worse than a five-star hotel.

The islanders brought rich food to Ran Wenyu, and the priest repeatedly told him that if you have any problems—no matter how big or small—you can go to the next door to find him at any time.

After Ran Wenyu was settled properly, everyone left the room and finally gave him peace.

Ran Wenyu ate something casually to barely fill his stomach. According to the islanders, he put the rest of the food at the door, took a battle shower, and couldn't wait to throw himself on the big soft bed.

Ran Wenyu, who was so tired, fell asleep in a second, and when he opened his eyes amidst the crisp birdsong, he had already slept until dawn.

The crazy period of amnesia passed, and all the memories returned to the brain.Ran Wenyu sat on the bed blankly and digested for a long time, then stroked his chest, secretly feeling his good luck.

——I didn’t expect amnesia to be able to save lives. This is thanks to the timing of his madness, and it’s all due to my amnesia but not chaotic, and I gave full play to my acting skills.

Thinking about it this way, I'm really awesome!

After praising himself wildly in his heart, Ran Wenyu finally had the opportunity to continue thinking about the extremely real dream that drove him crazy: "KP, what happened to that terrible dream I had yesterday? I summoned the evil god Plot killing?"

【No. ] KP replied very calmly, 【That's your OOC punishment in the process of summoning the evil god. 】

Ran Wenyu was speechless for a moment. After all, KP had repeatedly told him that OOC would be punished, but he still escaped without hesitation, which was considered "crazy".

Putting the cause of the dream aside, Ran Wenyu began to recall the content of the dream.He compared the thing that scared him crazy in the dream with the Cthulhu gods and monsters he knew, and asked uncertainly: "The god that this island believes in... is the king in yellow?"

The King in Yellow, said to be the most common incarnation of Hastur, is most prominently characterized as a tall human figure in tattered yellow or mottled robes and a pale mask.In the dream, because the light was too dim, Ran Wenyu couldn't distinguish the color of the robe, but other features could be matched one by one - including the squid whiskers that covered his face under the mask.

As for Hastur, he is one of the old rulers who are familiar to the players of the Cthulhu running group. He is also known as "The Unspeakable One" and "The Lord of the Deep Sea Starry Sky". At the bottom of Harry's Lake, however, there are countless incarnations, active in various running group modules, and its family members—such as the monster "Bayaki" who attacked them in the hotel—are also frequent visitors in the modules.

Hastur is called "the indescribable one" because there are no specific descriptions of its appearance in various classics, and human beings cannot know its true appearance, so they can only get a glimpse of it through its incarnation. For example, Ran Wenyu not long ago The "king in yellow, the indescribable high priest" I've seen before, or the "distant reveler" who is black, can fly, has sharp claws, is wrinkled, and has tentacles on the top.

——Compared to this well-known high-level ruler of the old days, it is not incomprehensible that the "Little Poshen" summoned by him was easily handled by the other party's tentacles.

At this moment, after recovering his memory, Ran Wenyu began to think seriously about the possibility of his apostasy.After all, compared to the unknown small religion that I now believe in, neither the god Hastur nor the religion that believes in Hastur is comparable in strength.

Of course, it's too early to tell.After Ran Wenyu straightened out his thoughts, he got up and took a shower. The first thing he did after tidying up his housework was to find a pen and paper, and write down the information he thought was more important—after all, he lost 1 point of SAN value now. The goldfish who is about to lose his memory, this time he passed the test smoothly, but it does not mean that he will be equally lucky next time. He must leave some clues for the future self who will lose his memory.

Ran Wenyu recorded the name of the priest and his first encounter with the other party, the name of the teacher he made up, and the true identities of several of his "teammates" on the note.Of course, for example, Zhao Yong was regarded as a sacrifice by himself, and the information that he summoned the evil god was blurred by him.

Firstly, he couldn't guarantee that this record would not be discovered by others. Secondly, yesterday's experience also told him that sometimes it is safest not to know anything.

Of course, in order to prevent this piece of paper from being suspected, Ran Wenyu wrote his records in the form of a diary, and added a habit of "like to keep a diary" to himself-after all, he made up his own identity as a novelist , It is also a matter of course to record your own experiences and inspirations.

After sorting out what he should know after losing his memory, Ran Wenyu put this piece of paper together with his character card and kept it safe. At this time, someone knocked on the door of his room.

Ran Wenyu immediately adjusted his expression, opened the door in response, and found that Martha, who hadn't seen him for a day but seemed to have been disconnected for a long time, was holding breakfast and smiling sweetly at him at the door.

"Good morning, Mr. Ran, did you rest well yesterday?" Martha raised her eyes and greeted energetically, as if she had completely walked out of the shadow of a broken relationship.

"Very good, thank you." Ran Wenyu said truthfully, and let Martha into the room sideways.

Martha was not polite to Ran Wenyu either, she put the breakfast on the table with brisk steps, then sat down opposite Ran Wenyu, resting her chin and watching him eat.

Ran Wenyu didn't feel uncomfortable being watched by her, he tentatively asked while eating: "What do I need to do today?"

"No need." Martha smiled, "My lord priest said that you can move around on your own, and you can go wherever you want. You can spend time in the temple or go to other places. Of course, because the jungle is more dangerous , if you want to leave the temple and go outside through the jungle, you need to bring more than two guards. My task before the ceremony is to accompany you and teach you about our beliefs as much as possible."

Ran Wenyu was stunned in his heart, feeling that he really couldn't escape the fate of being brainwashed a second time by the cult.Fortunately, this is also good. Compared with being targeted by a cult and being exterminated as a heretic, it is safer to be favored by the other party and develop into a believer.

What's more, after knowing that the gods on this island know how to check memories, Ran Wenyu always feels that the things he remembers in his head are like time bombs that will explode at some point, making him restless.

Recalling the "diary" that he had just carefully sorted out, Ran Wenyu began to consider the possibility of "artificial amnesia" again.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that amnesia seemed very good. After breakfast, Ran Wenyu began to actively approach the cult, asking if he could take a look at their sect's teachings and classics.

Martha was very happy about Ran Wenyu's cooperation, and took him to the library without saying a word.

The library is located in the "back"-shaped inner building. The guards here are stricter than the outer layer. From time to time, you can see strong and heavily armed islanders patrolling back and forth with serious expressions, just like Baiaji in the hotel Statues can be seen everywhere - although it is not clear whether they can all "live", but the deterrent effect is really not small, people dare not act rashly.

Knowing that Ran Wenyu was a guest invited by Priest Anfiel, and would probably become their important companion in the future, the guards treated him fairly friendly and did not regard him as an outsider to beware of.But Ran Wenyu also knew that once he made a slight change, these islanders would not show mercy to him either.

So, along the way, Ran Wenyu obediently followed Martha. He walked through the corridor with a high dome, and casually glanced sideways at the stained glass windows with strange patterns on both sides of the corridor.Suddenly, Ran Wenyu stopped abruptly, and a sense of familiarity that made his hair stand on end arose spontaneously.

"What's wrong?" Noticing Ran Wenyu's strange behavior, Martha also stopped and asked in surprise.

Ran Wenyu was shocked into a cold sweat, but shook his head calmly: "No, I just think these stained glass are pretty, so stop and take a closer look."

Hearing what Ran Wenyu said, Martha immediately became happy, and nodded again and again: "Really? I think it's very beautiful too! This is specially ordered by the priest who sent someone out to sea!"

Ran Wenyu nodded absently, echoed a few words, and then poked KP in his heart: "KPKP! I have been to this corridor in my dreams!"

KP smiled, not surprisingly.

From KP's attitude, Ran Wenyu faintly sensed something, and silently closed his mouth.

After walking for about ten minutes, Ran Wenyu finally stepped into the library tremblingly.Surprisingly, the library is not filled with tall bookshelves and countless books as Ran Wenyu expected. There are only five wooden bookshelves the height of a person.

There is only one book on each bookshelf—compared with the bookshelves, Ran Wenyu feels that these are more like small altars one after another, enshrining ancient and mysterious classics.

Martha greeted Ran Wenyu to clean her hands together, then walked to a bookshelf first, bowed to it, and then respectfully took off the books on it with both hands, and solemnly handed them to Ran Wenyu.

It was a thin booklet. There was no book title on it, but a golden, strange and mysterious pattern was printed on the dark cover.

Ran Wenyu also took the booklet with both hands, as if he was holding a mountain weighing more than a thousand jun, and he felt a little uncomfortable.

"Looking at the appearance of this booklet, and then contacting the dream, I strongly suspect that this is a copy of "The King in Yellow." Ran Wenyu said to KP with a heavy tone.

KP chuckled lightly: [You can use the Cthulhu mythology to identify it. If the identification is successful, you can confirm whether this is "The King in Yellow". 】

Ran Wenyu: "...No, after I read it, I'll know if it's true."

"This is the most important scripture of our sect." Seeing Ran Wenyu accepting the book with such a solemn demeanor, Martha was obviously very satisfied, and her smile was much more sincere, "To understand us and join us, you must first understand this book read the book and understand the will of God contained in it.”

Ran Wenyu nodded, held the book and walked to the table not far away, and then looked at Martha hesitantly: "I need to concentrate on reading..."

Before Ran Wenyu finished speaking, Martha nodded knowingly: "Okay, I'll go out first, there are guards waiting at the door, if you have any needs, you can tell them directly, or you can send them to find me."

After finishing speaking, Martha smiled at Ran Wenyu, turned around and left with her long white skirt in her hands, as if she was not worried that Ran Wenyu would destroy this precious book.

——Of course, the most likely thing is that Ran Wenyu has no ability to destroy it at all.

Ran Wenyu didn't intend to try such a dangerous thing desperately.He watched Martha leave the library and close the door, then sat at the table, picked up the quill on the table, and wrote three words "reading the diary" in the palm of his hand—yes, facing the eyes Ran Wenyu is ready to lose his memory after reading this mythical classic that is destined to lose his sanity.

After thinking that there was nothing missing, Ran Wenyu took a deep breath, turned the pages of the book, and planned to continue cheating on himself after amnesia.

This book is written in English, and it is not too difficult for Ran Wenyu to read, but its content is an ambiguous, dreamlike drama.Ran Wenyu couldn't describe the content in detail, and even he couldn't be sure that he understood it, but he couldn't help but indulge in it, greedily read every word of it, and was deeply moved by it .

Intellectually, Ran Wenyu warned himself to be sober. This is just a drama, but no matter how absurd and bizarre what happened in the drama, in Ran Wenyu's eyes, it is the same as what happened in reality—the falsehood and the real are unified together at this moment .

KP：【阅读神话典籍《黄衣之王》，理智损失1D10=4，克苏鲁神话点数增加1D4=3点。理智降低1点以上，调查员冉文宇进入临时疯狂状态，疯狂症状为失忆，持续时间1D10=8小时。】

Ran Wenyu held the book that had been turned to the last page, with a dazed expression:? ? ? ? ? ?

——One second he was packing his luggage in the hotel room, and the next second he was sitting in an extremely weird stone room with a strange book in his hand. What's the matter? !

Ran Wenyu was not well. He looked around, then lowered his head, couldn't help being curious, turned the book in his hand to the first page again, and read on.

KP who didn't have time to say a word: [………………………]

Ran Wenyu, who is obsessed with reading mythological classics, cannot extricate himself: "…………………"

——At this moment, KP finally knew where the saying "curiosity killed the cat" came from.

The author has something to say: Many little angels suspected in the comments that amnesia was the back door that KP opened for Ran Wenyu... Actually it wasn’t cough cough cough, it was opened by me, it has nothing to do with KP wwww

Crazy symptoms and amnesia was voted by Xiao Curly himself, and KP did not manipulate it. After all, running a group is an unknown, so what's the point of following KP's script?