"they?"

Lin Qiye raised his head and looked at the place where Chen Yangrong was pointing. He could not see anything except the pitch-black stomach wall.

"There's nothing there." Lin Qiye shook his head.

"Just because you can't see them now doesn't mean they don't exist." Chen Yangrong's gaze seemed to penetrate the boundless void, and a hint of fanaticism emerged in his eyes, "'They' have always been in a place where everyone can only look up, but no one has noticed...

They are looking from afar, they are waiting, and they will eventually come back. "

…

"You mean, there's something on the moon?"

On the coast of the fishing village, An Qingyu frowned when he heard Chen Gou's words.

Chen Gou nodded. "After my father died, I kept having this dream. Every time I woke up from the dream, it was in the middle of the night. My bed was right next to the window, so when I opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was the moon..."

"What did you see?"

"Eye." Fear appeared in Chen Gou's eyes. "There is a huge eye on the surface of the moon. It is looking at me."

"Does the moon have eyes?"

An Qingyu was stunned and looked up at the sky again. The looming moon shadow was blurry and there was nothing to be seen at all.

"I know it sounds ridiculous, but I actually saw it."

"And then? Can you still see it now?"

"No, every time I see that eye, a golden light flashes across the moon, and then the eye disappears, and everything returns to normal."

The golden light on the moon?

When An Qingyu heard this description, a thought flashed through his mind like lightning. He seemed to have grasped something key, but also seemed to have grasped nothing...

Just when he was about to calm down and think, a series of noisy sounds came from the village behind him, as if someone was screaming and cursing.

Chen Gou was startled and looked back at the village. He saw that a fire had been lit in the corner of the village and thick smoke was rising.

"What happened?!"

Chen Gou saw a villager running over in a hurry, and quickly grabbed him and asked.

"Widow Wang from the west side of the village stabbed our pregnant youngest sister with a knife!" the villager asked anxiously.

"What?" Chen Gou's eyes widened in disbelief. "Hasn't the relationship between their two families always been very good?"

"I don't know! He was stabbed six times, all in the stomach! He was mumbling like a madman while being stabbed: 'Your child... my child', like he was possessed by a demon, and two men couldn't stop him!"

Chen Gou stood there in a daze, seemingly unable to understand it all.

"I'll tell you in detail when I get back. I'm going to the next village to find a barefoot doctor. I don't know if my little sister can be saved and come back..."

The villager sighed, quickened his pace, and ran quickly towards the other side of the coastline.

An Qingyu looked at his departing back and fell into silence.

He knew very well that this fishing village was completely isolated from the outside world. Even if this villager ran far, he could not reach the next village, let alone find that barefoot doctor... Time had already wiped out everything.

An Qingyu is not a doctor and does not know how to cure illnesses and save lives. Even if he could use some means to save the pregnant woman's life, there is no time left.

He turned to look at the village that had fallen into chaos, his expression more solemn than ever before.

If his guess was correct, this was just the beginning.

"Why hasn't Erzhuzi come back yet?" When Chen Gou heard the news from the villager, his expression was also extremely anxious. He turned his head to look at the horizon in the distance, but there was no ship.

He gritted his teeth and ran towards the fire.

However, he had only taken two steps when he stumbled and fell to the ground.

He lay there for a while, then slowly sat up, motionless like a sculpture, his whole body in a daze.

"Uncle Chen?" An Qingyu frowned, ran up to help Chen Gou up, and asked in confusion, "Uncle Chen, what's wrong with you?"

Chen Gou stared blankly ahead, and it took him a while to come to his senses. He turned to look at An Qingyu, a hint of scarlet in his eyes spreading like a tide.

"I heard it..." he muttered.

"What?"

"I heard it." Chen Gou broke free from An Qingyu's arms and covered his ears, his face full of fear and disbelief, "My father... my father is calling me?"

…

Shangjing City.

Night Watch Headquarters, interrogation room.

Chen Lu, who was locked alone in the center of the interrogation room, suddenly trembled, raised his head abruptly, and his eyes quickly turned scarlet.

His expression was twitching like crazy, as if he was in pain, as if he was struggling...

"Here it comes again, here it comes again..." Chen Lu's lips trembled, the veins on his neck bulged, and he muttered madly in a voice that only he could hear, "Grandpa... I know, Grandpa... Don't say anymore, don't...

Damn it! Damn it! Can you guys shut up!

I already know how strong you are, how determined you are... Enough! Stop talking..."

His voice became louder and louder, and his expression became more and more ferocious. He stared with those scarlet eyes, raised his head, and banged his head against the chains in pain, making a series of dull sounds!

Outside the interrogation room, Zuo Qing and others saw this scene and their faces suddenly changed!

"Open the door! Let me in!"

Zuo Qing opened the door of the interrogation room and walked straight to Chen Lu, who was growling in pain, and said with a frown:

"Chen Lu! What are you talking about?"

“Damn it…” Chen Lu raised his head, staring at Zuo Qing with scarlet eyes, his body shaking uncontrollably, “I can’t win…”

"What?"

"Night Watch, Daxia, Daxia God... We can't defeat them!" Chen Lu growled, "They are too powerful, so powerful that it is beyond our comprehension! The day they return, no one can stop them!

Only by disarming, giving up resistance, kneeling at their feet, believing in and worshipping their existence... can humans have a glimmer of hope!"

Zuo Qing's face darkened visibly.

"Are you crazy? Chen Lu?! What are you talking about?"

"Over the years, I have heard their voices every three days. They whispered madly in my ears, instilling all of their power and will into my mind...

In this world, no one understands their horror better than me!

Believe me, Zuo Qing, we really can’t win…”

Chen Lu's expression was extremely painful, and in his eyes, which seemed to be bleeding, there was a deep sense of sadness and powerlessness.

"Who are 'they'?!" Zuo Qing grabbed Chen Lu's collar and asked in a roar.

Chen Lu's facial muscles trembled uncontrollably, and the corners of his mouth raised a pale arc. He spoke slowly in a trembling voice:

“‘They’ are the end of the universe, the origin of all weird and mysterious things, and the supreme existence that transcends all laws!

Their name is...

[Cthulhu].