Lin Qiye followed her guidance and his eyes fell on the dark and mysterious castle.
"Cthulhu ruins..." Lin Qiye frowned slightly, "Is there such a thing on Earth?"
“Yes, but those ruins are not as simple as you think.”
Ji Nian nodded and walked straight towards the castle. "To enter there, you need the highest authority. Come on, I will take you in personally, and then you will know."
Lin Qiye followed.
After taking two steps, Cao Yuan patted him on the shoulder and said seriously:
"Qianye, I can't figure out anything like this even if I go there... You and President Jijian go in alone, I'll walk around outside by myself."
"And me!" Baili Pangpang immediately spoke up, saying seriously,
"I'll follow Lao Cao, otherwise he'll get lost easily if he's alone here."
Lin Qiye: ...
Lin Qiye was too lazy to expose the two men's true thoughts, so he just nodded and said, "Okay, be careful, and contact us by radio if anything happens."
After Cao Yuan and Baili Pangpang walked away, Lin Qiye followed Ji Nian and walked into the door of the archives.
After a dazzling array of security measures, they walked directly into the first floor of the castle.
Although the castle looks a bit shabby from the outside, the furnishings inside are quite neat. The rows of supports are classified according to different divine systems and arranged layer by layer. It is clear at a glance.
"This floor contains information about the Greek and Nordic kingdoms of gods. The second floor contains information about India and Egypt. The information about the Sumerian pantheon you're looking for is on the third floor."
While introducing himself to Lin Qiye, Jinian walked up the stairs to the second floor.
"Sumerian mythology originated in the Mesopotamian Valley. Unlike Greek, Nordic, Indian and other mythologies, this mythology is too ancient, and with the passage of time and the change of dynasties, few people know of its existence.
Due to the lack of faith and some changes in the pantheon, the Sumerian pantheon has basically declined and been lost in the long river of time. It is even hard to say whether any gods from this pantheon have survived to the present day. "
The two walked to the third floor, and Ji Nian reached out and pointed to a dusty bracket in the corner:
"That's the shelf that contains the archives on the Sumerian pantheon. There aren't many documents, so it looks like it should be quick... But you can start later."
"Why?" Lin Qiye asked in surprise.
"Because I want to show you something else."
Jinyi put his hands in his pockets, turned around and continued walking upstairs.
"About Cthulhu?"
"That's right."
The two walked to the fourth floor, where several heavy pixel doors completely sealed off the entire floor. With a wave of Ji Nian's hand, the doors rose one by one.
The dim light shone at the end of the corridor. Ji Nian walked in front with a serious expression and said slowly:
“During the search of the Daxia Exploration Team and the development activities of the Shangxie Society, we have successively discovered some mysterious relics on different continental plates.
After investigation and research, we can basically confirm that these relics were left behind in a very ancient period. We spent a lot of manpower and material resources to explore them, and finally confirmed that these are relics left behind by the activities of the gods of the Ksitigarbha system. "
At the end of the corridor, a large and spacious space appeared in the two people's field of vision. Dozens of exhibition booths were arranged in an orderly manner on the pixel floor, covered with glowing glass, like a museum full of mystery.
Lin Qiye's eyes swept across the glass booths.
Black soil seeping with strange blood, broken tree trunks with strange palm prints, dark red insect exuviae lying dormant among the rocks, gray river water contaminated by some kind of gas...
These bizarre exhibits all exude a weird and unusual atmosphere.
“Shangxie has a [Research Institute No. 2] that specializes in secret archaeological research. This castle was built by them.
After the research of [Research Institute No. 2], it can be basically confirmed that in ancient times, there were already small-scale Cthulhu gods active on Earth, and later they were suspected to be sealed on the moon by the gods in heaven, which led to the previous red moon scene. "
After the words of commemoration fell, Lin Qiye stopped in front of one of the glass exhibition stands, observing and saying calmly:
"It's not a suspicion. The Holy Lord of Heaven summoned some of the Supreme Gods of Earth and set a trap on the moon. He used the origin of Heaven to seal the gods of Ke. The other gods of Heaven basically died in the war with Hell."
"oh?"
Ji Nian raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Tell me in detail."
This matter was indeed a secret to other people, but Lin Qiye had just returned from heaven and hell not long ago, and he learned about that history from the Seraphim Michael, which was enough to fill the gap in the intelligence of the evil society.
"I originally wanted to share information with you, but I didn't expect to gain something from it." Jin Yi wrote down the cause and effect of the matter and sighed.
Lin Qiye walked through the display cases one by one, as if remembering something:
"Oh, there is another question. Why can't the Asylum of the Gods detain the souls of the creatures of the Ke family? What on earth are they?"
Ji Nian pondered for a moment, looked into Lin Qiye's eyes, and asked seriously:
"Let me ask you, how do you know the story about the gods of Cthulhu?"
"..." Lin Qiye shook his head, "I can't remember clearly. I should have heard it from someone else? Or from some novel, or on TV?"
"Daxia has never published any novels or TV shows about the gods of the Ke family. As for what you said about hearing it from other people...haha, almost everyone gives the same answer." Ji Nian shrugged. "Don't you find it strange?"
"It's a bit strange. I heard someone say before that this pantheon seemed to suddenly appear in everyone's mind... No one can accurately say where they got this information."
"Of course no one can tell it." Ji Nian shook his head and said, "Because it shouldn't appear in this world at all."
"What's the meaning?"
“I should have told you that I’m not from this world… In the world I’m from, there is indeed such a thing as Cthulhu Mythos.
Cthulhu Mythos is a novel setting system based on the world view of The Call of Cthulhu, a novel published by American writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft in 1928. Fundamentally speaking, this is just a novel, not a myth.
"1928? America?" Lin Qiye's eyes were full of confusion, "This time..."
“That’s right. In this world, the fog had already covered all places except Daxia in 1922, so the United States naturally wouldn’t exist… The Call of Cthulhu, which was supposed to be published in 1928, naturally shouldn’t have appeared either.
But it has reappeared, still in such a strange form. No one knows who proposed it, and no one knows how it spread to everyone's cognition. It is like a ghost, quietly descending on this world, and even in the ancient earth, their presence can be found. "
A moment of remembrance,
"I even suspect... they, like me and your hospital, are not from this world."