Chapter 631 Extraction
What Milo remembers clearly is that there is such a saying-there is something stored under Nanwei City that even the gods are afraid of.
Older than the Sumerian civilization, and one of the reasons for the fall of that civilization.
The ultimate goal of the Deceiver Imnar's so-called Foolish God Plan was also the "thing" underground.
Including the contracts between the gods in the dreamland, it is also related to this so-called "thing".
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Now that such a large area of things that are neither animals nor plants has emerged from the bottom of the canal, it is difficult not to remind Milo of that ancient legend.
But he soon denied the speculation.
Because at this moment, the continuous mountains are covered with the giant butterflies that previously released red light. They retracted their membrane wings and took root on the surface of the mountain like trees, maintaining the weird posture of their forelimbs pointing upward. , as if "begging" for something from heaven. And Milo noticed a familiar feeling from these giant weird creatures that was not very friendly.
They and this mountain that isolates the night do come from underground, but they definitely do not originate from the deepest layer. Rather, it comes from the remains of the previous civilization, that is, the entire world of Sumeru where the altar was buried with the Unseen Land as the center.
As for the familiar feeling that Milo noticed, it actually came from a place he had never seen before.
At that time, the incarnations of the Knights of the Golden Law Temple crossed the border and all fell. Especially when the blade was beheaded, many of the soul qualities had been lost in the unseen land, leaving only an empty body. The undead are still mourning for the blade, because those people are essentially believers and worshipers of the golden tree, and they died on the side of the worship pit.
The worship pit is the place where the golden tree was burned and eaten away, so those scattered ownerless wills can also be understood as the victims of the golden tree.
That familiarity comes from the giant butterfly and the will of the ownerless.
But there are obviously many differences between the two.
The giant butterfly came from under the canal, squeezed out of the surface, and devoured everything around it. However, the church building located on the upper floor of the unseen place was still intact at this moment.
It is not difficult to understand that in the ancient Sumerian civilization, even the same race may have completely different beliefs.
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The people of Sumeru in the Unseen Land and outside the Unseen Land are obviously not exactly the same.
Just like the origin of the Golden Rule Church, the Contract Organization also gave rise to aggressive and hard-line factions like Monsis due to differences in the study of blood, and its beliefs have since deviated from the Golden Tree and turned to " moon".
It is known (not) that Sumeru artificially created the son of God Megao through the research of blood, but before Megao was born, they incurred the ultimate malice of the gods, and the blood moon never came in that era.
Don’t forget, there are many corpses of old and even external gods in the Unseen Land, including the active blood of the old gods collected by the contract organization, which actually came from them A corpse that was not completely decomposed.
Maybe the people of the Golden Tree in the Unseen Land do not support the Blood Moon.
The will of the Sumerians who truly supported the Blood Moon, today, tens of millions of years later, evolved into these butterfly life forms with huge membrane wings growing on the mountains.
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"The Enlightenment of the Moon."
A man carrying a suitcase walked out of the night behind Milo.
He stared at the mountains that completely replaced the canal in front of him with a hint of awe. After being silent for a long time, he said:
"Their name is 'Pilgrimage Butterflies'."
< br>The speaker is Investigator C from Miskatonic University.
Speaking of which, Milo didn't think there was anything surprising about the fact that C was the first person to rush to the scene, but it was a bit beyond his expectation that C could name those giant butterflies.
The two of them stood on the edge of the dividing line between night and the red world.
Milo turned his head and glanced at C: "Did you get up?"
C shook his head: "We have seen this form of creature in the Miskatonic River Basin, exactly. Say, it’s a simplified model of this creature, an unformed embryo.”
“Then what?”
"The embryo told us." C replied.
"Okay." Milo did not question this imprecise-sounding story, but instead asked: "Why are you on a pilgrimage? For whom?"
"I I thought you knew." C looked at Milo with some surprise. Milo shrugged: "They didn't tell me."
"Of course it's an advance tour for the upcoming moon." C said.
Milo blinked, paused for a while and then nodded:
"That's reasonable."
In this case, the pilgrim butterflies should represent those in the Sumeru civilization who hope that the blood moon will come. will.
“But didn’t you say that the gods had plowed the entire Sumeru and buried it underground? Didn’t they plow it thoroughly? How come so many weird things emerged.”
Milo doesn't know what the real Sumerians look like, but he doesn't expect to be born with the shape of a huge butterfly. This should be the will of the ancient Sumerans that has evolved underground for millions of years. result.
"This involves a blind spot in my knowledge." C shook his head in confusion and then continued: "But I can tell you with certainty that the unformed embryo of the pilgrim butterfly was born in the laboratory of XMU. "
"New U of M? What about old U of M? Wait, why are you here?"
“As the first place to notice the phenomenon of star displacement and celestial song, madness and disaster began to break out and spread from the school’s astronomy department, throughout the Miskatonic Valley, all the way to the Severn Valley, They have all fallen, and people have either degenerated into beasts, or degenerated into nothingness, controlled by some simple will."
C was very calm when he said this.
It seems as if what he is describing is just a very common thing, rather than a disaster affecting the county level area.
His words made Milo's expression gradually become serious.
Facts have proved that, just like the overseas Pohnpei Peninsula, disasters have actually been rampant from the beginning.
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Although Milo still didn’t understand the part about the new U-M and the old U-M.
But he knew that C must have crawled back to Nanwei City from the pile of dead people.
Because of the existence of the Shadow of Great Fear, people in this land and surrounding areas have not yet been affected by the song of the heavenly body, that is, the song of the blood moon. In other words, the impact is not that serious.
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In fact, if you have to figure out the true will of the Pilgrim Butterfly, you can probably analyze it from the death of the Blood Saint.
After she told Milo about "forgetting her real name", she was silenced by the patrolling butterfly.
And this bulging red mountain isolated Daisy and the entire church on the other side of the night.
It seems that something can be inferred from both angles.
Those "insiders" are being removed from Milo one by one.
It can be understood this way, right?
Eye Saint Daisy received a warning from the hound.
The Blood Saint was directly killed by the patrolling butterfly.
Will someone else be taken away inexplicably next?
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Thinking of this, Milo suddenly realized something.
He turned his head again and looked at C seriously.
Seeing that the other party looked like he was about to speak, Milo yelled:
"Shut the fuck up."
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Unfortunately, it's still a step too late.
(End of this chapter)