Chapter 2778 Underground Cave
The five people looked at the mysterious man, with a playful smile in their eyes.
Obviously the mysterious man is a spy sent by the incense forces.
He is responsible for spreading incense in this medieval town.
At this moment, these people have fallen into despair and are waiting to die.
As long as there is a hope, I will pounce on it and grab it.
Sure enough, after hearing the mysterious man's words, everyone gathered around.
"Can it really be done?"
"You're not deceiving us, are you?"
"Is this true?"
Drunkards and homeless people all gathered around.
But the homeless man who had just assassinated the mysterious man shouted miserably: "Don't go there, he is the real devil, he created everything!"
However, people thought he was crazy and venting his anger.
"Stop taking your anger out on others!"
"Although the whole family is sad when you die, the town still needs to survive!" the tavern owner said first.
"Yeah, George, don't go crazy again!"
"Fortunately, this one is a messenger of God, so he will not be killed by you."
Everyone was mocking the assassin, thinking he was a madman.
And Wen Rensheng's sight has been cast here.
But he knows that this is a sensible person...
In other words, this maniac-like vagabond saw a strange scene in his dream.
This is of course one of the characteristics of the Cthulhu world: people with extremely high inspiration can see some pictures of the future or the past.
What this crazy tramp saw in his dream was a picture of the past.
In that scene, it was this mysterious man who came to the mouse cave.
He freed all the rats.
Otherwise, rats would just starve to death in solid stone caves like humans and animals.
At least not that many in one go.
It caught everyone in the town off guard, leading to a catastrophe.
This is the truth.
Then the mysterious man demonstrated his magic easily.
He glanced at the homeless maniac, but did not kill him.
Instead, let the other party ruin your reputation.
Wen Rensheng knew that this was the genius.
Black and red are also red.
There is someone who talks bad about himself all the time, which happens to form a hot spot in this closed medieval town.
Killing the opponent would have no such benefit.
As long as people think that the homeless man is a madman, and the more the madman says that the mysterious man is the murderer, other people will think that the mysterious man is the savior.
……
Soon the mysterious man took root in the town.
With the help of the townspeople, he secured the old church.
From then on, the statue of the Madonna disappeared and was replaced by a statue of a spider.
After replacing the spider statue, people did feel a little safer.
That's the constant noise of mice in the middle of the night, and the occasional missing person no longer appears.
"Sure enough, this is the real god." Someone said in surprise.
In this way, the old priest also became the temple blessing of the spider statue.
And there is a madman who often appears near the church.
"They are the devils, the devils, the rats, the terrible rats, they are the ones who let it out."
"Mouse, spider, and centipede, they all work together!"
There he was shouting.
However, no one cared about him, and occasionally children would throw stones at him.
But he survived like this.
Because for some unknown reason, the old priest brought him leftovers every day, which allowed him to continue to live.
……
Until this day, the five people who had done the investigation began to come into contact with this crazy homeless man.
They quietly took him away from the brightly lit and bustling church in the middle of the night.
He was taken into an abandoned courtyard. Before questioning, Lin Feng used a little magic trick to give him a bath and clean him from head to toe.
Then he changed the clothes of the crazy tramp, and then gave him a bronze mirror.
"Is this me?"
"Isn't this me?"
Crazy George looked at himself in the mirror with a new look, and suddenly felt as if he was alive again.
"This is you." Lin Feng said with a smile.
"Okay, why do you want to see me?"
"We want to know what happened to you, and what happened to those rats."
……
Three days later.
George led everyone to the back of the abandoned yard of the mayor's house, and uncovered a pile of weeds, revealing a deep hole.
It was completely obscured by thickets of thorns and weeds.
Only by getting closer can you see the dark hole.
Everyone did not approach immediately, but observed it carefully.
It is like the mouth of a giant beast that swallows all light, and a chilling gnawing sound can be heard from behind.
It was the sound of rodents gnawing at bones.
There are some broken stones scattered around the entrance of the cave. The stones are covered with moss and wet, exuding a cold and damp atmosphere.
Occasionally, a few rays of sunlight filtered through the gaps in the branches and barely shined near the cave entrance, but they were quickly blown away by the dark wind coming out of the cave, leaving the cave entrance always shrouded in hazy shadow.
After everyone watched for a while, Lin Feng took a deep breath and said to everyone:
"Okay, let's go down."
"Let's see which god is causing the drama here."
Everyone then got in one after another.
The entrance to the cave is relatively wide, and the interior is intricate, like a natural maze.
They walked along the narrow passage, bowing their heads and bending forward.
I saw that the passage was winding, sometimes climbing upwards, sometimes diving downwards.
The walls are covered with sharp stone edges and protruding rocks, as if they were traces carved randomly by nature.
But if you look closely, you can see that there are many traces of artificial carvings.
Those traces have been decorated, outlining a story.
"This is a painting." The girl said suddenly.
"Painting?"
"Yes, I can see it. This describes a family that was the first to receive a gift from a certain god." The girl described it fearfully,
"The gods gave them immortality at the cost of feeding on humans."
"It is said that if you eat the 10,000th person, you will become immortal."
Lin Feng frowned when he heard this.
"The familiar smell of a liar."
"It must have been Nayako who did it again." He guessed.
Everyone continued to move forward.
There are small holes branching out from time to time on both sides of the passage. These small holes vary in size. Some can only accommodate one person barely crawling, while others are spacious enough to accommodate several people walking side by side.
It’s hard to find the exact path without someone to guide you.
And the most dangerous thing is that some roads are dead ends.
The kind that you can’t turn around while walking.
That is to say, you can get in, but it is impossible to go back.
This kind of road usually goes downwards and its walls are smooth.
There is a gravity bonus when you go down, allowing you to squeeze down.
But if you want to climb up again, it will be difficult. Because you have no place to exert force.
As you continue to walk forward, you will find that the road is a "U"-shaped bend, which is an up and down road.
When I reached the front, I realized there was no way forward.
There is no way out, we can only die trapped in this U-shaped bend.
This is the most typical dead end.
It's like a natural trap. If you fall in, you can't climb out.
Fortunately, under the leadership of George, everyone avoided many such traps.
Of course George didn't know that for these people, this kind of trap didn't matter.
However, the five people will naturally not reveal their extraordinary power.
Because in that case, it would be difficult to use the method of "using the small to lure the big" to seduce the terrifying evil god behind it.
Everyone walked forward in the same way as ordinary people.
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They saw countless stalactites hanging from the ceiling of the cave. They had different shapes, some were like upside-down swords with sharp edges; some were like hanging curtains, soft and elegant.
But as they watched, they felt as if they were hallucinating before their eyes.
Those stalactites were like tentacles waving towards them.
"These stones are soft, don't touch them!"
The ghost touched it subconsciously and found that a stone swayed and even dented.
This frightened him.
There's something wrong. It's obviously a stone, why has it become so soft?
Everyone looked at it immediately.
Under the dim light, the stalactites sparkled with crystal water drops, like pearls embedded in the darkness, adding a touch of mysterious beauty to this gloomy cave.
They felt a hint of fear, the unknown, and the evil gradually appeared.
Wen Rensheng smiled when he saw this.
This is the characteristic of the world of Cthulhu: a little weirdness, gradually magnified.
Finally, a super big monster appears.
It can directly frighten people to paralysis and give them a super emotional stimulation.
This is how to survive in this world.
……
Soon they came to a large, dark and damp underground cave.
Just walking out of the narrow passage and coming here, they felt as if they had entered a huge underground world!
There are many shimmering stones in this large underground cavity, which are obviously radiated stones.
They illuminate the hollow as brightly as day.
This is obviously very evil.
"Ah!" the girl screamed.
It turns out that a large group of rats appeared here!
They are absolute masters here.
They shuttle through the hollows in groups, and their numbers are staggering.
A group of rats were busy carrying away food scraps.
They bite the food with their sharp teeth and drag their long tails quickly deep into some branch holes.
And these food residues are actually some human bones, index fingers, hair, and toes!
There are also some normal foods, which may have been foraged from the garbage pile above.
For mice, it is undoubtedly a rare delicacy.
They carefully observed the large underground cavity.
They could see that they were surrounded by artificially carved stone walls.
There were many gaps in the stone walls, and rats were crawling in and out of those gaps.
Their bodies twist flexibly, as if those narrow gaps are passages tailor-made for them.
Some mice climbed on the stalactites on the roof of the cave. They clung to the rocks with their sharp claws and moved cautiously close to the cave wall.
They may have been disturbed by the visitor.
They are either looking for a hiding place or observing new food.
Yes, in their eyes, five people are five big guys.
In some spacious branch holes, rats gather together.
They chase and play with each other, or comb each other's hair, making tiny squeaking sounds, as if they are exchanging secrets.
Everyone looked at this place cautiously.
I saw a water-filled depression deep in the cave, with a thin layer of mist floating on the water.
The rats built small nests around the depression.
These nests are built from human ribs and skulls.
Simple and appropriate.
Everyone looked horrified.
But for mice, it is a warm haven.
They just go in and out of the nest, some going in with food and some coming out with their cubs.
Occasionally, two rats will fight over territory or food.
They bite each other and make sharp screams, attracting the surrounding companions to watch.
This is a paradise for rats.
"What do they eat?" the girl asked in shock.
"The mayor's backyard used to be a cemetery. Bodies from nearby villages and the town would be transported here for burial." George's words answered everyone's questions.
The entire cave was filled with a pungent smell.
It was the stench of rat excrement mixed with rotten food.
The air is filled with humid water vapor, making people feel breathless.
From time to time, the sound of dripping water came from the cave, which was crisp and ethereal, intertwined with the squeaking of mice, adding to the eerie atmosphere.
In some corners of the cave, a large number of human skeletons can be seen.
Their skeletons are scattered on the ground, eroded white by time, silently telling the fragility and cruelty of life.
There are also many grave goods.
Some are diamond rings, some are swords, some are gold teeth...
They even saw the corpses of one or two grave robbers.
The reason why we know they are tomb robbers is because they have shovels, a classic tomb robbing tool, with them.
This underground cave is like a kingdom of mice, where they thrive without interference from the outside world.
For humans, this is a dark world full of fear and unknown.
Not long after, suddenly, the ghost found a statue in the corner of the cave.
It was a stone statue with many tentacles.
It looks like an elephant's head.
"This is a typical Cthulhu statue." Lin Feng breathed a sigh of relief.
Then everyone saw a dozen mummies kneeling around the statue.
Then, there was a roar behind them.
They turned around suddenly, only to find a giant rat appearing behind them!
The rat was as huge as a wild boar. When it saw them, it immediately pounced on them.
The ghost subconsciously wanted to kill it with a sharp sword.
But he was stopped by Lin Feng.
"Run, run!"
He said this and started running with the four of them.
Why did you bring four people?
Lin Feng was thinking in his mind, and suddenly realized that George was missing!
"Yes, where did George go?" The other four looked at each other in confusion.
But they couldn't think about this problem. Lin Feng wouldn't let them resist, so they had no choice but to run away.
……
George turns into a giant rat.
Wen Rensheng said this.
As the only spectator, he saw the whole process.
When George brought everyone here and saw the Cthulhu statue, he gradually turned into those mice!
When everyone paid attention to the statue, no one thought of George.
(End of chapter)