The strange story of Huai'an Inn

Intense light erupted in the pitch-black sea, and a huge filth swept across all directions, colliding with the Dao Qi array laid down by Daoist Qi Yao and Song Mingzi, and the entire hull began to tilt.Everyone screamed in panic, thinking that the ship was about to fall apart, and grabbed all the ropes, masts, iron chains and other things that could be grasped.At this time, Zhu Helan's body exploded with filth, and a mighty red mist immediately surrounded the entire ship.Everyone was in a state of chaos and couldn't see anything, but they were horrified to find that many red vine-like things spread out, wrapped around their waists and arms, and firmly fixed everyone on the boat.

The ground shook again, and there were terrible rumbles coming from all directions, as if the world was about to be overthrown.All the crew members only felt that they were going to die here, some entered a certain state of emptiness, and others cried out their family members' names in pain.

And Qi Yao and Song Mingzi, who had been firmly maintaining the barrier and bearing the impact of the ship's hull, lost their internal breath under these violent blows, and their internal organs were severely injured to a certain extent.The two of them vomited a mouthful of blood at the same time, and the blood fell on Qingyi Mountain and gradually smeared.But they can't relax. If the enchantment is broken at this moment, the filth of the demigod will sweep over, and everyone will be seriously deformed.

Zhu Helan's face was also pale under the double pressure of internal Dao Qi and external filth.But what made him more anxious was the heavy six and heavy five that were still in the water.

What's going on in the water?

He could feel that the moral balance surrounding them had undergone a fundamental change.The filth seemed to be released from a box suddenly, unstoppably devouring and infecting the dao qi that originally ruled.The sea is boiling and rushing to the sky.And the sky is tilting and distorting, being swallowed by the sea.

Their small boat is like a crumbling Dao Qi bubble in the boundless sea of ​​filth, which may be punctured in the next moment.

When the world was turned upside down, they heard a loud bang, and the hull seemed to hit something hard.The sea rose from all directions, like a high dark green wall running through the fields.Everyone on the boat looked at this unreasonable doomsday scene in shock and despair, like a group of ants lying on the leaves waiting to die.

After an unknown period of time, the rumbling, tsunami, collision and some soul-stirring roar from something unknown gradually subsided, and the seething world seemed to finally be quiet.

Everyone on the boat still hugged the ship's side mast tightly, lying on the wet overtime, soaked in water, panting heavily, unable to recover.

Zhu Helan restrained all the filth, raised her head, but saw an incomprehensible scene.

The sky is gone.To be precise, the sky turned into a sea, and the dark green sea water turned into a floating sky, and the sparkling light shot down one by one.

The sea turned upside down...

Zhu Helan leaned over the side of the boat and looked down.I saw their boat stranded on a piece of land covered by coral rocks and fine white soft sand. As far as the eye could see, there were clusters of rod-shaped corals, sea anemones lying on the ground limply, piled up layer upon layer. A complex cave full of holes... Countless fish corpses lay horizontally on the ground, emitting a stench of decay, and opening pairs of eyes without eyelids.

The bottom of the sea seemed to be completely exposed to the air after that moment of madness, like a brightly colored desert.

One by one, the crew members slowly let go of the ropes and masts they were holding on to, and looked at the strange scene formed by the sky and the earth in bewilderment.They were stranded on the bottom of the sea, but the sea was in the sky... Even the moment they raised their heads, they could see a huge black shadow slowly moving past their heads.

"This is... what's going on?" A crew member seemed to be on the verge of collapse, and his legs slid and sat on the ground.

Daoist Qi Yao and Song Mingzi broke the Dao lock, both of them were pale with blood on their lips, and Daoist Qi Yao was obviously injured more severely, even the corners of their eyes were bleeding.Song Mingzi hurriedly supported his precarious body, letting him lean on her shoulders.

"You directed most of the shock to yourself..." Song Mingzi's voice tightened, half angry and half distressed, "You don't believe me? I don't need your protection!"

Daoist Qi Yao put his forehead against Song Mingzi's shoulder, let out a long breath, and chuckled, "Sorry...it's probably a habit."

Song Mingzi knew that Qi Yao had protected him since he was a child.Even when he got into trouble and was punished, Qi Yao would come out to speak for him every time, and would even take the blame on himself.

He hugged the person in his arms tightly.

Zhu Helan turned over and fell lightly, standing on the still wet sand.He looked around, but couldn't see anyone.

There is no shadow of the water ghost, and there is no heavy six.

"Liuer!!!" He hissed and his voice spread across the bare and empty seabed desert, as if it had been diluted and there was no echo.

He could feel Chong Liu's breath floating in the air, but he couldn't see him.

"There seems to be a city over there?" Someone on the boat shouted.

Zhu Helan raised his head and looked in the direction of the man's finger.However, the air in the distance was shaking strangely, and there was a layer of fog floating on it.The shadow of a city is half real and half false, like a mirage printed in midair.

He narrowed his eyes, mobilizing the filth to let his senses extend.Then he noticed that near the afterimage of the city that wasn't real or fake, there was another big ship that was stranded on the bottom of the sea just like them.

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After Chong Liu's consciousness became clear again, he realized that he was surrounded by a bottomless sea.

Not a single ray of light.

He could still see, though, and his vision changed to see more light and color than the human eye could.He realized that he still maintained his original appearance, with tentacles entrenched layer by layer on some hard and rough surfaces.

This is a... ladder?

He raised his head and saw that he was in a complex of buildings that had been buried in the deep sea for an unknown amount of time.This is already a very deep seabed. The heavy seawater can crush human beings into flat meatloaf. Naturally, there are not many living creatures. Only these ruins of ancient buildings, such as rotting meat, only bones are left The wreckage generally surrounded him.

The steps are extremely huge, with a sloping slope, which has been worn down by the sea water and is as difficult to climb as a ruined wall.All the buildings are too huge, even more magnificent than the buildings of the Xinglao people.And most of the buildings have rather weird angles, almost like structures that cannot be formed and exceed the laws of the universe.Stairs that should not be connected at all are connected in series, and the trestle passage that is obviously going down is connected to the top floor.

At first I thought it was an optical illusion, but it didn't look right no matter how I looked.Even after watching for a long time, you will feel dizzy and lose your balance.

Most of the tall towers are only half left, and the damaged boulders are piled up in the abyss, forming a hill that no one cares about.Chong Liu was perched on the steps next to the platform of a high tower, carefully looking down.He was slightly dazzled by the height of the depth.

How could there be a city buried in such a deep darkness, in an abyss in the sea that no human being can set foot in?

How long ago was the city? 1000 years? 1 years?[-] million years?

Has this magnificent city ever been inhabited before?No... Looking at these incredible structures, it is simply not something that humans can build.

Is this related to Qiongji Island?Was it the shadowy underwater city he had seen in his dreams before?

"Xiao Wu!" he shouted, "Helan!"

His voice spread out along with the still sea water, and echoed in the dead and strange forest of buildings, like the raving of a ghost.

He lowered his head and stretched his tentacles, and found that he had not suffered any trauma, and even felt more energetic than before.His memory is a bit fuzzy, he vaguely remembered hearing drums suddenly, and then the water ghosts started attacking him.But then what happened?

That sea demigod Dagon... where did it go?Where did Xiao Wu go?

Thinking of the uncertainty of his brother's life and death, Chong Liu immediately wriggled his tentacles, kicked hard, and floated up like a giant jellyfish dragging its long tentacles.A mysterious and seductive blue light permeates the darkness, washing all the colors into the same mysterious and oppressive.Like the only light in the darkness, he silently passed over those impossible building structures, and his soft tentacles swept over the twisted and bent columns.

Many ancient biological bones and ancient shellfish shells were embedded in those limestone ancient buildings, like some kind of strange relief.Those ancient creatures are generally huge in size, and the spiral shells are like vortex black holes that appear randomly.Chong Liu passed several magnificent corridors, but began to notice that the further down he went, the more... lifelike the fossils looked.

Originally, there should be only bones left, but he began to see the color of some shells, vivid colors as if they were still alive.After swimming for a while, I even started to see a complete giant worm spreading on the wall, with rings of texture so clear, just looking at it, I even felt that its body was still soft.It's only when you touch it that you realize it's a stone.

But after a while, he saw a huge fossil that seemed familiar to him.The huge spiral shell almost occupies the entire tall wall.Two spines protrude from the shell, but a complete humanoid skull grows on each of the tops of the spines.

He stared at the strange fossil, but for a while he couldn't remember where he had seen it... or heard of such a strange thing.

Ah... It was Mengku Guoshi who told him and the shopkeeper, when he asked them for help for the first time...

Here... Could it really be Poor Island?But shouldn't the poor island be on the sea?Why did it sink to the bottom of the sea?

But at this moment, he heard a call.

"little six!"

The sound of Chong Wu, Chong Wu is near here!

Chong Liu hurriedly responded loudly, "Xiao Wu! Where are you!"

The voice said again, "Xiao Liu!"

Chong Liu then swam towards the direction of the sound, not noticing that after he passed by, the fossils and bones on the walls were moving silently and subtly.The two humanoid skulls quietly turned their positions, the huge worm twisted its body, and the flat trilobite moved its limbs...

All kinds of strange creatures that have died and been dusted in the long river of time are waking up, and the whole city is waking up...but Chong Liu still doesn't know anything about it.

He followed the sound to a dark fortress larger and more distorted than any building.Mountainous slopes unfolded before him.Chong Liu stopped, and a strange sense of depression and terror suddenly permeated from every brick, every rugged sticky substance, and every disturbing corner of the building, like a mouth-watering trap.

"Xiao Liu! Is that you! Are you here?" Chong Wu's voice seemed to suppress a trace of pain, coming from the dark hole in the building... Was he injured?

Chong Liu looked around, hesitated for a moment, and swam up.

He didn't see heavy five.

The inside of this building is extremely empty, like a temple.Seventy percent of the huge space inside it is occupied by a huge, hideous ancient statue.

It froze into a motionless shadow of evil, squatting silently in a mocking and malevolent manner.Thousands of tentacles dangled from its misshapen, menacing face, spreading haughtily across the ground.Behind it, a pair of huge fleshy wings were closed, as if they had never been opened.

Chong Liu had seen its statue, and the shopkeeper had shown it to him.It is feared by even the most seasoned sailors, and the mere sight of its miniature statue is enough to scare the guts to pieces.And the statue in front of him is so well preserved that it makes one's scalp tingle, it's so huge and ugly that one's stomach churns, and he dare not even move his body.

The Devourer of the Sea... Cthulhu.