At this point, after finishing the last page of the King in Yellow, Gu Jun stopped. His fingers were shaking and he did not turn to the next page for a long time.
He was afraid that on the next page, he would see something like 'Wu Shiyu died of miscarriage'.
According to the book, his and Dirty-minded Yu's child, the child conceived by accident, the child that was not even fully formed, was already gone.
After a while, Gu Jun gave a long sigh. His heart was pained.
The pages were soaked in blood. The blood did not only come from the children but also the pregnant women, victims of Locust Sickness and other victims.
Gu Jun was prepared for this, he did not expect Shub-Nicholas to be a kind existence. Even though his fragmented memory told him that the foreign people believed this prayer could fight against Chaos. He wondered what was the relationship between the Black Goat of the Forest and the Goddess of Life …
But even using the power of the Goddess of Life required 'sacrifice'. Doctor Carlop sacrificed himself.
Therefore, he believed that summoning the Black Goat of the Forest would not come without a price.
"Dirty-minded Yu and I's children … the children around the world … the 'countless' lives that have yet to be born …"
'Blood Shadow' should refer to the life force and soul of the babies. Did those children become the sacrifice harvested by Shub-Niggurath? 'Gu Jun thought calmly.
Sacrifice, a word dripping with blood, sent chills down his spine.
Or was this the revenge of Nyarlathotep?
He reread the story several times but he still could not come to a conclusion. He only knew that he and Dirty-minded Yu had paid the price.
More than 100,000 victims of Locust Sickness from Mysterium and Phecda World lost their lives … Kathlyn and Peacock lost an arm …
Could this be called a victory? Gu Jun did not know that he and Wang Ruoxiang, the 'plague doctors', did not manage to save a single Locust Sickness patient.
As for the mechanism of this parasitic genetic disease, it was not much more than guessing.
How could this be called a victory …
"Have we managed to protect our home?" Gu Jun looked at Nyarlathotep's words again. "And I couldn't find my way home, so I was thrown into this world?"
So this really was Nyarlathotep's doing … But there seemed to be another reason for this …
His mind was a mess. Not only did Lou Xiaoning and Uncle Dan notice this, even Gu Jun himself noticed the similarity between the spell to summon the Mutated Banyan Tree and the Black Goat of the Forest. Even the spell itself had the phrase, 'Gather thousands of descendants with filthy flesh'.
Why? Could Shub-Niggurath be the Goddess of Life? After the Son of Steel became the Son of Misfortune, he used the power of R'yleh to mock him?
Gu Jun endured the headache and tried to recall the situation in the altar.
There was indeed a strange reaction between the shattering power in his mind and the prayer. He did not expect such an explosion.
"Jim, our meeting time is almost up," Perry Saunders said. "This book …"
"There are a few more pages, let me finish them first." Gu Jun's throat was hoarse. He suppressed these messy thoughts and turned the next page.
His heart squeezed tightly. He saw a paragraph saying that one minute before the mission was to depart for Mo Bei, the higher-ups canceled the mission.
The spread of the two mutated areas stopped. The locust swarm and flying polypus hydroids disappeared.
Over at the mutated area, the radiation had disappeared as well. There was no trace of radiation in the air or soil; instead, there was a new piece of barren land. With Tian Fuhou's tree farm as the epicenter, it was about 100,000 square kilometres wide. There was nothing on the ground but the scorched soil had reverted to brown sand.
Phecda sent out exploration teams to explore the area but they did not find any 'dividing line'. The overlap between this area and the Wasteland World had ended.
It was as if nothing had happened. Only old pictures proved that there was once a human settlement, a farm, a tree farm, a home.
At the desert wasteland, the bottomless abyss remained. It appeared to be the entrance to hell, there might be flying polypus hydroids lurking inside.
The abyss was temporarily surrounded. The alliance between Phecda World and Mysterium World had no idea how to deal with it.
The dividing line at the desert wasteland was still there. This 10 square kilometre area was the overlap between the two worlds. It became a junction. Those with high mental power from both worlds could sense the 'boundary' at the edge of the overlap and they could switch to different worlds.
Because of that, the situation on Earth changed drastically, the global political environment became more complicated.
The two worlds clearly knew that they had to form an iron alliance of mutual benefit as soon as possible to strengthen the human civilization so that they could deal with the 'disasters one after another' in the future. They even wanted to kill the disasters in the cradle, use order to defeat chaos, and suppress the forces of darkness.
However, things still could not be done quickly, humans were not that rational.
But at this point, Gu Jun's heart shook.
He did not want to accept the part of the book about the casualties, and the idea of doubting the veracity of its contents flashed through his mind.
But in this situation, the two Earths were interconnected. His willingness was real.
Even though it was hard to tell the good from the bad, on the bright side, they were of the same culture, they were two sides of the same coin, there was no problem in getting along.
Mysterium had stronger combat power, better spell resources, the Nine Mysterium Arts, they could bring Phecda to a higher level.
Phecda and Phecda World's unique competition was the Dreamlands and Mysterium World now knew the location of Pnakotus City. If they could find a way to develop the library and cooperate with the Zoogs, human civilization would grow stronger …
Gu Jun could not be completely optimistic. Some scary possibilities flashed across his mind like a war between the two worlds.
He could only hope that the decision makers from both sides had enough intelligence.
If he and Yu Chi were still around, as the messengers from their respective worlds, the alliance would be smoother …
Gu Jun finished the next page of the King in Yellow. It described the overall situation but it did not mention any specific members.
It did not mention Yu Chi, Dirty-minded Yu, Zixuan, Monitor … He still had no idea what had happened to them.
There was also the giant meatball in the sky above Mo Bei, the Black Goat of the Forest, what happened to it?
He flipped to the next page and the first paragraph read,
"When Wu Shiyu woke up, the first thing she asked was," Where is Gu Jun? "She still had no idea she had a miscarriage."
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