Chapter 878
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Chapter 878 Cthulhu
“Cthulhu?!”
Left Qing heard these three syllables and paused briefly, then firmly shook his head, “Impossible, the Cthulhu mythos didn’t arrive with the Mist. Apart from a few ancient ruins suspected to be related to Cthulhu, no traces of Cthulhu deities have been found anywhere in the world… They’re not here.”
“Is that so?” Chen Lu sneered, “Then… what about beyond Earth?”
Left Qing froze.
“You’re right, the former [Blue Rain] team and the Shangxie Society have basically explored every corner of the Mist, and there truly aren’t any traces of Cthulhu deities on Earth… but what about beyond Earth? Have we looked there?
Do you think the Moon above our heads is real?”
After Chen Lu’s words fell, Left Qing stood stunned for a long while before speaking in disbelief: “Are you saying that the Cthulhu deities also arrived with the Mist? And they landed on the Moon?”
Chen Lu shook his head.
“It’s reversed.”
“What’s reversed?”
“The order is reversed.” Chen Lu spoke word by word, fighting through pain, “It’s not ‘Cthulhu arrived with the Mist,’ but rather ‘the Mist arrived because of Cthulhu.'”
“The Mist is a product of the Cthulhu gods?” Left Qing’s mind shook.
In the Night Watchers’ current understanding, the collapse of world order originated from the Mist that suddenly emerged from Antarctica a hundred years ago. After the Mist’s arrival, most countries in the world became dead zones. Only the gods of Daxia sacrificed their divine power and physical forms, transforming into nine national divine steles that completely isolated the Mist outside the borders, allowing Daxia to escape disaster.
After the Mist’s arrival, countless bizarre “mysteries” began appearing around the world. To eliminate the “mysteries” that appeared within Daxia’s borders, the Night Watchers came into being.
Meanwhile, the appearance of the Mist caused the gods who originally resided in the divine realm to lose their divine power, their status and strength declining as time passed. With divine power also declining in the divine realm, some deities left their realm to walk among the Mist, presumably investigating the cause of the Mist’s appearance. They were discovered by Daxia’s Night Watchers exploring the Mist, which led to the creation of the deity observation sequence.
During the Night Watchers’ century-long exploration and observation, they gradually discovered traces of deities from various pantheons, but some pantheons’ deities never appeared, with the Cthulhu mythos being one of them.
Strangely, although no Cthulhu deities had been discovered, the Shangxie Society had found several ancient ruins related to the Cthulhu mythos around the world, suggesting that the Cthulhu mythos might have truly existed in ancient times. But why they hadn’t been observed now remained unknown.
Now, Left Qing got the answer from the half-mad Chen Lu… Even if this answer wasn’t necessarily correct, it provided them with a direction.
More importantly, if Chen Lu’s words were true, then the appearance of the Mist could also be explained, and the puzzle that had troubled both the Night Watchers and the gods for a hundred years would be solved.
Left Qing walked to the window, looked up at the increasingly clear moon in the sky, and frowned slightly.
“This doesn’t make sense. If the Cthulhu gods really exist on the Moon, we should have discovered them long ago. Daxia has so many astronomers watching that moon, we’ve even observed the Seraph Michael before. Cthulhu deities are extremely large, there’s no reason we couldn’t have detected them.”
“Hehehe…” Chen Lu lowered his head and laughed weakly. He looked up at Left Qing and slowly spoke, “Don’t you find it strange?”
“What?”
“Michael, why has he always stayed on the Moon?”
Hearing these words, Left Qing froze in place.
“In 1928, a golden sword beam shot out from the Moon, crossed through space, and leveled the North American volcano where Lucifer was located. Only then did we turn our attention to the Moon and observe His existence… Since we discovered Him, Michael has remained stationed on the Moon, never moving an inch.
Over these hundred-plus years, He has only done two things: launching a sword attack from the Moon to suppress the fallen angel Lucifer, and… giving [Mortal Divine Domain] to an unnamed youth in Cangnan City.
He completed both these things from the Moon.
Don’t you find it strange? The deities of all mythological systems walk among the Mist, even Lucifer, who shares the same origin as Michael, is active in North America. Why does Michael alone stand on the Moon, watching over the human world?
What is He doing there?”
…
In the deep sea of the fishing village.
“‘They’? Who are ‘they’?” Lin Qiye frowned and asked.
Chen Yangrong’s mouth curved uncontrollably upward. He raised his head, his elderly disheveled hair floating, those crimson eyes staring in the direction of the Moon. He spread his arms and fanatically called out “their” names:
“‘They’ are the endpoint of the universe, the origin of all mysterious anomalies, the supreme existence above all laws… ‘They’ are [Cthulhu].”
Hearing Chen Yangrong’s almost fanatical way of praising, Lin Qiye’s brows furrowed.
Cthulhu?
Of course Lin Qiye knew of this pantheon’s existence.
However, as far as he knew, no Cthulhu deities had ever been observed in the current Mist world. During training camp, the instructor had also taught that the gods of the Cthulhu mythos might not exist at all…
Thinking about what Chen Yangrong had just said, Lin Qiye pondered for a moment, then raised his head again to look at the darkness above.
Always in a place where everyone could only look up to… watching, returning…
“…the Moon?” Lin Qiye turned to look at Chen Yangrong, his eyes full of shock, “The Cthulhu deities are on the Moon? Are you an agent of the Cthulhu gods?”
“Agent? No, I’m not worthy to represent the great Cthulhu, I’m merely their follower.” Chen Yangrong’s eyes were full of fanaticism, but his tone was extremely humble, “It was the great Cthulhu who granted me a second life, bestowed upon me great power, cleansed my polluted bloodline, and through this pivot, allowed me and my descendants the chance to hear ‘their’ voices, to approach the ultimate truth of this universe…
This is the glory of our Chen family!”
He stared with his crimson eyes, twisting his body as if insane, while reaching out to gently caress the stomach wall behind him. The flesh that had swallowed half of his body suddenly began to twist and writhe, crawling up from his waist, as if wanting to swallow him whole.
“You’re mad.” Lin Qiye’s spiritual power swept over that wall of flesh, as if discovering something, and he spoke coldly, “You’ve already been consumed by this flesh, it’s devouring your body.”
“No, I’m not mad!” Chen Yangrong’s body was gradually being swallowed by the flesh as he laughed, “Do you know, since embedding this piece of flesh, I’ve gone from being an ordinary fisherman who nearly died at sea to nearly touching divinity, and it only took four days!
These four days, I’ve been listening to ‘their’ voices every day, I can feel ‘their’ desire to return…”
Chen Yangrong reached out his hand, as if trying to touch the unreachable moon, and shouted in an excited and maniacal tone:
“I, Chen Yangrong, Cthulhu’s most faithful believer, will personally guide ‘their’ return!”
