Fang Zheng felt like he had done nothing in this world but traveled everywhere, to the sea, the swamp, Antarctica, and now the desert... Well, if there were no messy alien creatures, then on the surface this did look like a honeymoon trip for the two of them with the little angel.

But the desert is not very fun.

"How boring, Master."

Nymph swung her legs and sat on Fang Zheng's knees, and Fang Zheng also yawned.

"It's really boring... Hey, be patient, this is not Antarctica after all..."

To be honest, at least there are penguins and seals to play with in Antarctica, but there is really nothing in the desert. Although the workers and explorers are busy, it seems very boring to Fang Zheng. Nymph is also bored. After all, there is nothing to see in the yellow sand. When you go out, you will see sand all over your head and face. Moreover, Fang Zheng cannot use magic in this world, nor can he summon the wizard's mansion to fish.

By the way, the old man hid away from Fang Zheng as if he were a mouse seeing a cat. Fang Zheng didn't have any special thoughts about this. Maybe for the old man, his voice was enough to change his life, but for Fang Zheng himself, it was just a word.

Just when everyone was playing chess out of boredom, Nymph suddenly looked up.

"Master, the old man has left the camp."

"oh?"

Hearing this, Fang Zheng also perked up.

"Is he alone?"

"No, there is another person."

"Let's go out and take a look."

Anyway, he was free to do nothing. The explorers had been directing the workers to dig up some stone statues all day long. Fang Zheng had no interest in this, unless they could dig out a mummy. Otherwise, that was all that mattered... And now, the old man actually left the camp in the dark of night?

I'm afraid he didn't go out for a walk.

Thinking of this, Fang Zheng also slipped out of the tent with Nymph, and then quietly followed behind.

Soon, under the moonlight, Fang Zheng found the figure of the old man without much effort. He was stumbling in the desert, as if confused by something. Beside the old man, there was a young man following him. He looked like an assistant sent by Miskanitok University. At this moment, the young man was whispering something to the old man.

Not Professor Allen.

Seeing this, Fang Zheng frowned. You know, the old man's mental state is very unstable. Fang Zheng originally thought that the person accompanying the old man would be Professor Allen, but he didn't expect it to be a young assistant professor... Could a murder happen next?

You're overthinking it. We are in the world of Cthulhu, not the world of Conan. Where do so many murders come from?

All in all, let's go and take a look first.

So the two sides walked towards the depths of the desert, one after the other. The old man seemed to be aimless, but he stumbled forward as if attracted by something. After a while, he and the young man came to the heart of the desert. In the heart of the desert, one could clearly see some windowless rectangular black buildings buried in sand. They looked like stones, and there was nothing there except a few entrances that were almost filled with sand.

The young man supported the old man, smiled and stretched out his hand, saying something to the front, and the old man screamed, waving the flashlight in his hand, as if he wanted to leave. But the young man held the old man's arm tightly and continued to whisper in his ear. After a while, the old man finally calmed down, and he began to mutter to himself again, showing his previous fanatic state, and broke free from the young man, and climbed up to the top of the ruins with his hands and feet.

At this moment, Fang Zheng finally saw clearly the young man next to the old man.

"Um?"

In the moonlight, Fang Zheng squinted his eyes and looked at the young man carefully. He was a dark-skinned black man with a bald head, wearing a black suit and windbreaker, with a faint smile on his face. However, Fang Zheng was sure that he had never seen this person in the expedition team of Miskanitok University before...

"Nymph."

"What is it, Master?"

"Take an immediate count of the expedition team."

"yes……"

Upon hearing Fang Zheng's order, Nymph's eyes immediately began to flicker, and after a moment, she quickly gave a response.

"Reporting to the master, the number of members in the camp should be forty-nine, and the actual number is forty-six."

"Does that include us?"

"Yes."

"very good."

After hearing Nymph's answer, Fang Zheng nodded. He was now finally sure that this person was not normal. Logically, if the young man was also a member of the expedition team, there should be 45 people in the camp now. After all, among the 49 people, only Fang Zheng, Nymph and the old professor had left the camp. But now, there was one more person beside the old professor, but there were no fewer people in the camp.

In other words... this person appeared suddenly!

Who is he?

"Can you scan what's down here?"

"Yes, Master. There is a huge complex of buildings below. It should have been a city. It was built around..."

At this point, Nymph's eyes flickered for a moment.

"Six hundred and fifty million years ago."

It can’t be the Ancients again... Oh, no, this is a desert, and those guys froze to death.

"There are a lot of abnormal life reactions down there, and they seem to be sleeping."

"Since you're asleep, don't wake up. Let me go take a look."

Having said this, Fang Zheng raised his head and took a step forward.

The next moment, he reached out and pressed the old man's shoulder.

"Well, professor, it's so late, you should go back and rest."

“Uh… huh?”

Feeling the hand suddenly pressing on his shoulder, the old man turned around blankly and looked at Fang Zheng beside him. His eyes widened, his mouth opened, his hands trembled, and then his eyes rolled back and he fainted.

Seeing the unconscious old man lying on the ground, Fang Zheng nodded, then he turned around and looked at the young man behind him. The young bald black man also looked at him with a smile on his face, not at all surprised by Fang Zheng's sudden appearance.

"I never thought this would happen..."

"I didn't expect that someone would do something like that right under my nose..."

Fang Zheng stared at the bald man and snorted coldly.

"You are not human."

You know, although Fang Zheng still maintains his original appearance, he has released the dragon's might. The old professor fainted because he couldn't look directly at this dragon's might. However, for the bald black man in front of him, Fang Zheng's dragon's might seemed to be non-existent and had no effect on him at all.

"And you, too, sir?"

The bald man spread his hands with a smile.

"To be honest, this really surprises me. I didn't expect that someone like you existed... um... this really surprises me."

"I'm surprised too. So what do you want to do here?"

Fang Zheng stared at the man coldly and asked in a low voice.

"Although I don't know who you are, you brought the professor here so late at night. I don't think you came here to see the scenery."

"You are wrong in saying that."

The bald man rubbed his hands together with a smile.

"I just wanted to help him solve a few questions, his confusion, his problems, and the nightmares that haunted him. You see, I just wanted to help, and I didn't have any other ideas."

"But I don't think so."

Fang Zheng shook his head.

"To be honest, I don't think you're a good person. The smell you give off is very similar to some guys I've met before... Well, I don't like this smell very much."

"Really? That's a shame."

The two looked at each other with smiles on their faces. For a moment, it seemed that even the strong wind blowing across the desert had died down, and there was dead silence all around.

The next moment, Fang Zheng moved his right hand, and a pitch-black sword suddenly appeared. At the same time, the sand under his feet suddenly sank downwards, and then a huge earthworm-like monster suddenly jumped out of it, opening its bloody mouth big enough to swallow a container, and bit Fang Zheng!

"snort!"

Facing the huge monster insect that was as big as a truck, Fang Zheng snorted and swung the dark sword in his hand with a flash of fire from top to bottom, splitting the monster insect in half from the middle. Then the flames suddenly burst out and disappeared in an instant, leaving only a large piece of black ash floating in the wind. Then Fang Zheng took a step forward and stabbed the bald man's chest with the sword in his hand.

“Gah—!!”

At this moment, another strange bird that looked like a pterosaur fell from the sky. Its body was similar to that of a pterosaur, but its head was that of a horse. Its sharp claws flashed in the darkness, and then instantly turned into flying blood clots and disappeared. The horse head even maintained the expression of charging straight ahead with its mouth wide open, but before it landed on the ground, it was burned up in the flames.

At the same time, Fang Zheng stabbed the bald man in front of him with a sword.

“Puff!”

The sharp sword pierced through the man's chest, but even though he suffered fatal injuries, he still had a smile on his face.

"How interesting! It seems to be a very interesting existence indeed..."

As the man was speaking, the next moment Fang Zheng saw the bald man's body suddenly swell up, and then exploded with a "bang", and then a huge figure emerged from it!

It was a being that looked like a human, but his arms did not have palms and fingers, but smooth tentacles. Not only that, what was even more striking was that his head was also a long tentacle that looked like an elephant's trunk!

“——!”

"It's you!?"

Fang Zheng was greatly surprised when he saw the true form of the monster in front of him. If the bald black man just now had surprised him a little, then the monster in front of him was enough to reveal his true identity!

That is the Creeping Chaos, one of the Three Pillars - Nyarlathotep!