The strange story of Huai'an Inn

On the desert covered with dead fish, a group of people, like a line of ants, slowly moved towards another ship and the direction of the city mirage.

Zhu Helan walked in the front, walking very fast.His black hair fluttered in a strange posture in the air, fluttering like seaweed even though there was no wind.The crew members who followed were terrified of him, because they still remembered seeing the strange changes in him on the boat.

Immediately behind him were Song Mingzi, Daoist Qi Yao and several alchemist disciples who came with them, followed by Mr. Xuanwu, Xu Hanke and Liu Sheng.There were not as many sailors following them as there were when they sailed.Some of the sailors didn't want to go with them, so they stayed on board.

Everyone must stay within a certain range, because at this moment, the concentration of foul air in this "sea area" has surpassed Dao Qi. If it weren't for Daoist Qi Yao and Song Mingzi still maintaining their formation, some people would have already been killed by the foul air. Infection is distorted.

This part of the road has not been smooth.The underwater terrain is complex and strange, and there are maze-like coral reef caves everywhere. If you are not careful, you will get lost.Zhu Helan concentrated on sensing the direction of the foul air in the air. He was the only one who could move outside the magic circle.

Accidentally, Xu Hanke's foot stepped on a limp dead fish, the fish's eyeballs were squeezed out, bursting out a milky white mucus and emitting an unusual stench.Xu Hanke suddenly felt a churning in his stomach, and at the same time there was a strange itching, faintly stirring deep in his skin.

Ever since the marvelous scene of the seawater inverting and the seabed becoming deserted, he began to feel this kind of unusual itching that he hadn't seen for a long time, as well as the lingering nausea.

It's a bit like... the situation when he just had the worm miasma.

"Are you okay?" Liu Sheng asked in a low voice.

Xu Hanke shook his head, pretending to be relaxed, "It's okay, it's just that there are too many dead fish here."

"These fish... don't look right. Look." A sailor pointed to a strange fish on the ground that was covered in gray and had several frog-like hands growing on its belly. "I've never seen it in my life. Such a fish."

"We should have stayed on board..."

"Stay on the boat, in case something breaks, wouldn't it be a death if you get on the boat?"

At this time, Zhu Helan's footsteps stopped suddenly, and he raised his hand to the crowd, signaling them to keep silent.

In the cloudy and dim light, some shadowy things flashed behind the colorful coral reefs.Zhu Helan's strands of hair suddenly deformed and lengthened, like a few bright red whips thrown across the sky, and the next moment there was only a wet landing sound, accompanied by a few uncomfortable grunts.

In front of them lay a humanoid figure.

A water ghost with a fish-headed human body and a back covered in scales and slime.Its cloudy protruding eyeballs covered with translucent membranes blinked from time to time, and the distorted face has surpassed the ugly category, becoming monstrous and terrifying.

Zhu Helan completely ignored the sticky and unknown secretions on its body, stretched out a hand to grab its throat, and lifted the huge creature up.

"Where is Guan Chongliu?" Zhu Helan asked in a dangerous voice.

A string of indistinct grunts came out of the water ghost's throat, and it was unclear whether it was crying, laughing or talking.Pus-green foam overflowed from the corners of its flat, fish-like mouth, as if injured and sick.

Zhu Helan clasped his hands to the top of the water ghost's bare head with fan-shaped fin-like protrusions, and the fine red silk strings extended down his arm like rhizome meridians, spread all the way to the fingertips, and penetrated into the water ghost's brain.The water ghost howled suddenly and struggled vigorously, but Zhu Helan's hair curled up from all directions and entangled its hands and feet, making it unable to move.

Because the water ghost did not cooperate, Zhu Helan could only see fragments of fragmented memories.He saw the ferocious tentacles fighting, and also saw the scene of Dagon's body splitting and bursting with filth.

Behind him, several alchemists were discussing in low voices.

"This shopkeeper Zhu... seems to be the priest of the Goddess of All Things, and also a monster..."

"Can we trust him? In case he gets cold feet..."

"There is no normal person in their inn..."

Song Mingzi turned around and scolded, "What are you muttering about! Follow me obediently!"

Several disciples quickly fell silent.

Song Mingzi clicked his tongue, and elbowed Daoist Qiyao, "What's the matter with you disciples, you're talking nonsense."

Daoist Qi Yao glanced at him with his slender eyes, "I have a lot of work on weekdays, so I don't have time to teach them well. You just need to watch more in the future."

"Your apprentice, why did you let me teach instead?"

"Because you are free." Daoist Qi Yao looked at Zhu Helan, who was half-opened in front of him and focused on absorbing the memory of the water ghost, and sighed, "If we can all go back safely this time..."

Song Mingzi looked up at the undulating sea water in the sky and the ominous corpse-like city in the distance, and quietly held the hand of Daoist Qi Yao, "It will definitely be possible."

Zhu Helan let go of the water ghost, and his face became paler.

"Liu'er was dragged into the city." He turned to Song Mingzi and said, "I have to go find him."

Song Mingzi glanced at the shadow of the other big ship in the distance, and said, "That's fine, we'll go straight into the city. But if that ship is really innocent, it might go in ahead of us. Be careful, everyone."

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When they gradually approached the city standing on the dry seabed, they realized its majesty and majesty, as if it was built for giants.The huge sloping walls collapsed into rolling hills covered with layers of densely porous coral rock.They walked around the steep ruins like cliffs, and finally saw a giant city gate hundreds of meters high.

Ancient shell fossils and pitted sediments blur the original appearance of the sculpture on the building door. The slightly inclined, primitive and rough posture carries ancient arrogance and arrogance.

From this angle, the afterimages of the vast city are inexplicably familiar.As Zhu Helan walked forward into the city gate, she rummaged through her too vast memory, where she had seen this scene.

He remembered...

Su Lang fan... the picture of the ancient city on that fan will make people crazy, isn't it the scene in front of me?

All the clues have long been leading them to this city, this erratic city that sleeps on the bottom of the sea and is often seen by people, where the throne of Cthulhu is...

At the beginning of stepping into the city, Mr. Xuanwu was very excited.Touching the limestone-covered reliefs and characters with his hands, he sighed, "This city should have sunk to the bottom of the sea hundreds of millions of years ago, but people can occasionally see it at sea."

Xu Hanke said, "Billions of years ago? I'm afraid people haven't been created by God Wa?"

"Humans are not created." Mr. Xuanwu said inscrutablely.

The moment Daoist Qi Yao and Song Mingzi entered the city, they immediately felt a sense of oppression that was almost suffocating.It was as if they were two grains of sand that accidentally got into the slimy shell, and were wrapped in layers of mucus by the soft body inside.

All the buildings are disproportionately large, far exceeding the scale of the Star Elder Clan's underground city. It is hard to imagine what kind of biological group created such a civilization in that ancient era.

Even more bizarre is the structure of many buildings...it is impossible to appear at all, and it is completely against the laws of nature.Too many odd turns, impossible angles, straight lines mixed with curves.They were still going up a second ago, but suddenly realized that their heads were pointing at the ground.Obviously they were going down the stairs, but when they reached the last step, they turned into the top floor... Every passage may lead to unexpected directions. They walked around, but suddenly found themselves back in the city not far from the city. That square.

Everyone's faces are not very good-looking. Getting lost in this kind of place is the most terrible thing. Who knows when the pouring sea in the sky will come back?Then everyone will die.

"It's amazing!" Only Mr. Xuanwu was amazed, "This is really a poor island, and there is no place that can be deduced according to common sense!"

"What should we do?" Liu Sheng said, "Now we don't even know the time, we don't know where we are, and we don't even know if Tiangu is nearby."

"I'm sure Tianguren is nearby." Zhu Helan said, "I can feel it. I can also feel that Liu'er is nearby, very close."

"Can't the guide fish find the most filthy place?"

"There is foul smell everywhere, and the guide fish can't find their way. What's more, the water we carry is limited."

"Hehe, we are clearly at the bottom of the sea, but we don't have enough water. It's a great irony." Xu Hanke said, grabbing the back of his hand vigorously.

The itching on my body is getting worse...

Zhu Helan squatted down, put her hands on the ground, and let herself stretch out along the ground.But the dao qi here is an ever-changing chaos, which is completely different from the earth qi he perceives elsewhere, like a mess of constantly changing shapes, and there is no clue at all.

Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a familiar faint blue fluorescent light in the turbulent stream.

Six children?

He opened his eyes and said to everyone, "I sense him, this way!"

They walked through several high and low corridors, and bypassed several sky-pillar-like towers.Zhu Helan noticed that there were some very recent-looking... defects on the wall, as if there were some huge long strips or spirals embedded in them, which were suddenly removed, leaving only a huge hollow in place sunken.

Suddenly, someone let out a scream.

Everyone hurriedly turned their heads and looked at each other, not knowing what happened or who called it.

Zhu Helan hurriedly counted the number of people.

No less.

Not only is there no less, but there is one more.

"How is it possible?" Song Mingzi didn't believe in evil, and ordered it himself, and there was really one more person.

They checked the names one by one, and the sailors themselves confirmed each other's identities, but they just couldn't find out who the extra person was.

"Could it be that I made a mistake when I was traveling?" Xu Hanke asked.

There is also this possibility, so everyone continued to move forward.Suddenly another scream was heard.

This time I stopped to count, and there was one more person.

So everyone's scalps exploded. If they counted wrong last time, how can they explain it this time?

They checked their identities more carefully and recognized each other.But everyone knows each other, there is no abnormality.

Who is the extra?What got in among them?

So doubts immediately began to breed in this team that was not united enough.Everyone stared at each other with suspicion.

"Consciousness invasion..." Zhu Helan whispered, "I'm afraid Tianguren is nearby, and may even be among us. The filth here may have benefited the spells of the great witch, so it doesn't matter if we are affected by it unknowingly." Noticed."

Song Mingzi grasped the long ax in his hand, and Daoist Qi Yao also grasped the sword.

They cannot stay, only continue.

The ancient city, which was supposed to be silent and only the undead, could occasionally hear various disturbing and strange sounds.Some sailors said they heard people talking, others heard laughter, and some alchemists even heard children crying.Zhu Helan ordered everyone not to respond no matter what they heard, and never to leave the team.

Their number increased by two more, but everyone tried their best not to think about it, but the distance between them became wider and wider, and their guard against each other became deeper and deeper.

Could it be a memory error?Could it be that they don't know each other at all?Could it be that they are already dead and this whole city is just an illusion before death?

When doubt develops in oneself, no one can be trusted.

Suddenly, Zhu Helan raised his hand to signal everyone to stop.They saw a huge high wall standing in front of them, with an extremely well-preserved fossil embedded in the wall.

From the huge spiral shell like a carriage, two long spines protrude from it, and the ends of the spines are two human skulls.

The place where Mengku real person appeared in the dream!

Zhu Helan sniffed the air and could smell Chong Liu's body.He knew that Liu'er had been here, and he had only passed by not long ago.

He focused all his perceptions on his sense of smell, looking for the bright breath trace, turned around several collapsed buildings, and saw a towering temple.And on the ground in front of the steps that are too huge for humans to climb, there is a figure crawling.Long blue tentacles dragged on the ground, leaving wet trails.

"Six children!"

Zhu Helan ran a few steps, and suddenly realized the subtle difference in the breath.He realized that it was not a double six, but a double five.

"Xiao Wu?" He quickly approached Chong Wu, and when he was less than ten steps away, a strong premonition of impending disaster suddenly struck.The ground beneath his feet began to tremble and groan, forcing him to stop. .Immediately afterwards, a few feet in front of Chong Wu, the ground split open rapidly.

The sand and stone collapsed and were swallowed by the bottomless chasm of the abyss.And in the dark shadows, Zhu Helan saw countless shadowy, human-shaped figures climbing up quickly.

It seems to be a water ghost, but it seems to be more deformed, more twisted, more sinister and uglier...

And directly in front, on the top of the high steps behind Chong Wu, a black figure walked out slowly.The black feathers held up a smiling mask, and the endless chaos and evil condensed into a dark mist that enveloped his whole body.

Mulberry.

The real raven, which is neither a dream nor a hallucination, finally appeared.

The Great Witch of Chaos looked down at Zhu Helan and everyone behind him, his lips curled up behind the mask.

"Today, you will be the witnesses of the doomsday, and the first batch of sacrifices that my god will come to this world."