After the global recovery I crossed

three years ago.

Foggy streets, smoky skies, and yews with squatting owls.

"The black smoke from the Bally factory can already pass through the Vosges Mountains. The color is disgusting." A woman in a purple high-waisted dress stepped on the back of the groom and covered her face with lace gloves with a look of disgust. .

A pair of blue eyes appeared under her gauze hat decorated with black lace, and soon, another man in a long black coat was reflected in those eyes.

"Gaspard, put your hat on."

"Okay sister." The man named Gaspard replied politely. With a twist of his wrist, he put a black top hat on his head.He didn't step on the groom's back to get off the carriage, but jumped down lightly.

The perched owls, unfazed by his jump, stared and remained motionless on the branches.

"They're waiting for the Darkness to come." Gaspard's green eyes met the owl's blood-red eyes.

"That's enough, my dear brother." The woman looked around, "Even if you like archeology, you shouldn't always say these weird and decadent accents."

Gaspard said: "On my last archaeological adventure, I found something very strange. It disappeared very quickly. In fact, I always felt that it was following me."

"I have to go back and check the ancient books at home. Those legends may be true."

The woman listened quietly, and at the end of the road, she saw a courtyard shrouded in shadows.

"There, the orphanage we reserved."

They walked gracefully at the same time, and their blonde hair became the only bright color under the gray sky.

At this moment, a homeless man trotted over with his bowl in hand.

He nodded and bowed and followed the two nobles, begging: "Your Excellency, honorable man, can you give me a little help?"

The delicate face under the woman's veil turned cold, and her tone was a bit sneering: "Sir, are you in good health?"

"Isn't your body intact?"

"If you want money and bread, why not work in a factory in Bali. I believe that after working for two years, you will have enough capital to marry the begging girl in the corner."

"Retire, lazy vulgar person."

Embarrassed, the tramp turned to the man who seemed to talk better.

"Uh, this honorable gentleman, you and your sister are so good-looking. Your sister said that I will marry a wife. I don't dare to expect anything extravagantly. I only hope that you have a good marriage." He said nice words , quietly handed over the bowl.

Gaspard smiled, putting his hands in his pockets amid the expectant eyes of the homeless man.

But he took out a knife that was shining with silver light.

The knife was twirling at his fingertips, and he said calmly, "You want money and food? Then, exchange it with your own meat."

"Cut off your own flesh and feed those hungry owls, I'll give you what you want."

Silver light flickered, and there was soft encouragement in Gaspard's green eyes.

The tramp trembled, but he still dared not take the sharp knife.

After waiting for a while, watching his sister go further and further away, Gaspard put away the knife and said:

"Poor man, just think I'm lying to you."

"If you really cut your own flesh, I will suspect that you are a vicious person, and I will ask my servants to arrest you."

"Go to my groom to get the money, I hope you don't have to beg in the future."

Gaspard turned and left amidst the homeless man's joyful thanks.

"By the way, she is my sister and my wife. Thank you for your blessing."

Watching the two nobles walk away, the tramp went to the groom to get the money, and he asked, "Excuse me, is your master—"

The groom said: "They are the Viscount and Viscountess Salian, take the money you begged, and get out!"

The homeless man hurriedly nodded and returned to the original place. In the end, he couldn't help but kicked a tree, and cursed: "What kind of viscount or nobleman, look down on me... Devils don't know how to incest, bah! The factory eats it!" Where there are people, go to the fart!"

Under his kick, the eyeballs of the owl on the tree rolled down.

He couldn't help shivering.

……

"The owl ate him, the idle waste, we can't be like him, we have to become screws~" In the orphanage, the children sang nursery rhymes.

The dean hurriedly shouted: "Audrey, Alan, have you changed your clothes yet! The adult who adopted you is here!"

As soon as the nursery rhymes stopped, the children looked enviously at the girl Audrey who stood up.

"Why is it only you, Alan?"

"Ma'am, I don't know... He may have gone out for fun." Audrey quietly waved to another boy hiding behind the door.

"How can you keep the nobleman waiting for a long time! Allen has always made me worry about what will happen-"

Just as the dean was angrily walking into the yard, Audrey pulled past the boy and suggested in a soft voice: "Ma'am, let me go with my brother Louis. Although Louis is a little younger, he is also very cute." , grown-ups will like him."

"Allen, Alan doesn't seem to want to go..."

The dean stared at the two children, and finally agreed: "Take your brother to change clothes!"

marvelous!Audrey secretly smiled, and quickly helped her younger brother put on some oversized clothes.

"Louis, we're going to have a home."

"It's great, sister." Lin Xingtao said.

After announcing the name of the god, he walked towards Renault's scattered corpses, and then he fell into a strange scene that he didn't know whether it was a dream or a memory or something else.

It's very similar to seeing the Viscount last time, the difference is that he completely controls his current body.

He was held tightly by Audrey's hand, and beyond the envious eyes, he walked to a door.

The dean's humble explanation came from the door: "He was originally a better-looking boy, and his hair is still very pure red... If you are not satisfied with him, I will ask Alan to come back."

Audrey held Lin Xingtao's hand nervously, and told her softly, "You must laugh later, if you really can't... my sister will definitely be with you."

"Let them in," said a cold female voice.

The door opened before Lin Xingtao's eyes.

The first thing he saw was the big smiling face and warning eyes of the dean who opened the door, and then the two people sitting on the chair.

Viscount and Viscountess.mom and dad.

The lady wearing a veil paid more attention to the girl. She looked at Audrey first and nodded: "That's right."

When her eyes turned to Lin Xingtao, she moved her fingers clasped on her lap.

"Son, your eyes tell me you know me," she said.

Lin Xingtao stared at the blue eyes under the black lace, and answered clearly: "Yes, madam, you are very much like my mother."

Madam paused, took off her hat, and revealed her exquisite face. Her tone was subtle: "It is said that your parents are workers from Bali. My child, are you comparing me with your humble parents?"

She accentuated the word low and low, but judging by her expression, she didn't really dislike someone comparing her to a commoner.

She just wanted to see the reaction of the two children.

Audrey explained in panic: "No, ma'am, he just, just wants you to be his mother."

Facing the oncoming pressure, Lin Xingtao remained unmoved in the slightest. He even came up with a funny idea:

If he went back in time now, what would happen if he kept Louis from being adopted...

laugh--

"Interesting child." A vague laughter came from the Viscount.

The Viscount, who had been silently looking at the child, got up from his chair and walked in front of Lin Xingtao.

He squatted down and looked straight into Lin Xingtao's eyes.

"Are you playing a trick, little Louis?"

"I ask you a question."

He handed out a small knife, twirling his fingertips teasingly: "If you tell a worker—such as your parents, that if you cut off your own flesh, the nobles will give you money, then what do you think the worker should do. "

The Viscountess reprimanded: "What are you doing, he is still a child."

Lin Xingtao took the knife under the viscount's gentle eyes——

He showed a mischievous smile like a child, and then put the knife on the viscount's neck.

The nobleman's slender neck trembled slightly under his knife.

resist.To cut the flesh of the noble.

Viscount Wen let out a breath of admiration.

This made Lin Xingtao think of the father whose organs were torn out by him.

"Dad?" he called softly.

Audrey cried in fright.

The Viscount grabbed his palm and pulled him away from Audrey's hand.

The Viscount hugged Lin Xingtao, kissed his brow, and said, "I like him, that's him, I don't need anyone else. He already calls me Dad."

"Little naughty boy, come home with me."

Lin Xingtao hugged his neck, while the Viscountess wiped Audrey's tears.

They left the orphanage.

The owl hooted continuously, Lin Xingtao looked at the yew tree in the distance.

There was blood under the tree, and there were messy footprints of adults and children.

Lin Xingtao whispered in the Viscount's ear, "Father, you wanted to take a pair of siblings back."

The Viscount smiled: "What a smart boy."

He lowered his voice: "Is Louis willing to marry his sister like me?"

The Viscountess cast a displeased look and said, "Shut up, Gaspard, you're teaching bad boys."

-

When the luxurious carriage stopped, the two children were peeking on the wall of the orphanage.

Allen smiled and said to Audrey beside him, "Look, that's the family who wants to adopt us."

Audrey tugged at his sleeves: "Let's go down, Madam Dean is looking for us."

Allen went down the fence, but he went to the other side.

Audrey looked at his back, moved her lips, and said softly, "Since you're gone, don't come back, I want to be with Louis..." She ran away in a hurry.

And Allen listened quietly to the sound of Audrey locking the backyard door.He sighed: "I don't want to be just siblings with you, Audrey."

Then he walked up to the homeless man who had been bitten to death by a mad owl.

"You made the wrong choice," he said, picking up the money on the ground.He has the calmness and even coldness that is not suitable for children of this age.

"If you take a knife, you have a weapon. If you feed the owls, at least they won't kill you."

"Resistance and obedience, you just choose one, instead of doing nothing."

He quickly counted the money in his hand, and said with a smile: "Generous nobleman, this money is enough for me to go to the capital."

"I'm going to the capital and make a lot of money." He looked at the owl resting on the tree after eating.

Why do owls go crazy?Because of industrial waste gas, because of pollution?Or weird times?

Even the precocious Allen couldn't think clearly about such a complicated issue.

He collected the money and was ready to go.

But at this moment, a hand grabbed his ankle.

He was taken aback.The tramp isn't dead yet?

Don't let him get in your way!After a moment of thought, he stepped on the homeless man's neck without hesitation.

Click.

The homeless man's neck was broken, but he still held out his hand persistently.

Can the dead still move?Allen dodged in surprise.

boom!He was smashed against a tree trunk.

A metal box fell from the owl's nest, right into Aron's hands.

It's a strangely asymmetrically shaped metal box with the flap flipped over to the back.

Allen noticed that the homeless man stopped moving.

Allen was keenly aware that the abnormality of the homeless man was related to the box, and he looked at the box carefully.He saw a nearly black polyhedral sphere with red stripes and many irregular planes inside the box. It was suspended by metal straps, and near the top there were seven supports extending horizontally to the corners of the inner wall of the box.

A new age handicraft carved with precious minerals.

[Close the box!close it! ]

The sudden whispering sound made Allen in a trance.

[Summon the gods of this era——]

Aaron remembered what the dean often said about how the industry is so advanced now, it must be because of the birth of a god called the God of Industry.

[That’s right, it’s the God of Industry, it’s him—Nyarlathotep! ]

hum!

The huge impact made Allen drop the box with trembling fingers.

But without hesitation, he picked up the box and ran away.

He was excited.

To earn a lot of money as a child laborer in a factory in the capital?

No, he can get greater glory and wealth, get--this country that is changing!

"I chose, it must be right." He closed the box.

A large bird with a horse's face flew up from the Vosges Mountains and landed in front of him.

Let's go to the capital!Proclaim the greatness of the God of Industry!

A year later, the God of Industry rose in an all-round way, a huge temple was built in the capital, and the number of believers increased day by day.

The author has something to say: However, Aaron, who likes Audrey, does not know that the Salian family has been married by siblings for generations...

Viscount: I finally have a name.

Shiny Tractohedron: From the Cthulhu Mythology, it summons the props of the outer god Nyarlathotep, stares at it to establish a connection with Nyarlathotep, and then puts it in the dark to summon Naia Latopep.

The description in the article comes from the original text.