The birth of life is inseparable from pain …
Gu Jun's head was splitting with pain. He seemed to hear someone singing in a foreign language. He had heard this song before …
Illusions flickered before his eyes. He was breaking through the layers of fog. The blur became clearer, and the illusions slowly wrapped around him.
A large fountain was spewing out strange blood. It was hard to tell whether it was fresh blood or just a blood-red color. It was mixed with some unknown black mucus. The blood and mucus sprayed into the air before falling back to the statue in the middle of the fountain. The once white stone was dyed black.
The sculpture was that of a beautiful and gentle woman.
This place was so familiar, yet so different …
Suddenly, Gu Jun recognized it. It was the Fountain of the Goddess of Life. However, when he saw it in the illusion last time, the fountain was still clear, and the statue was still holy. It was full of life and peace.
This was … Carlott College.
After understanding it, the nerves in his brain tightened, and the pain intensified.
The chanting became clearer, but it was not the youthful chanting of young boys and girls like last time. Instead, it was a dark, strange, and frenzied cacophony. Suddenly, he could see more. Around the fountain, there were many people dressed in black robes.
Fire was rising from the buildings in the distance. It was the place where the students of Carlop had their classes and studies, but now it was reduced to rubble by the fire.
Carlott College no longer had Doctor Carlop.
The foreign people around the fountain all wore a black goat mask.
Two thick and twisted horns stood high above them. The eyes of the mask were hollowed out, revealing pairs of eyes. There was both apathy and fanaticism in them.
It was they who were chanting. It was they who had destroyed Carlott College. It was they … who were calling for the real Goddess of Life.
Gu Jun's wandering consciousness suddenly saw the dirty water in the fountain roil like it was boiling. It bubbled up and then burst into stinking bubbles. The malice of darkness permeated the air. He heard the sound of a baby crying. It was getting closer.
A group of black-robed people walked towards the fountain from all directions, each of them holding a crying baby in their hands.
The horns of the black goat masks they wore were especially thick and ferocious.
It seemed that the babies had just been born. They were not covered in swaddling clothes, but their bodies had not been cleaned. There were still traces of blood and dirt from their mothers' bodies. Some were still wet, some were already dry and stuck to their flesh.
Those black-robed men with thick goat horns carried the baby and walked to the side of the fountain, forming a circle.
Under the high spirited chanting of the people around them, the thick horned black robed men all lowered their bodies, dipping the infant in their hands into the fountain's spring water.
The filthy, stinky spring water immediately spread over the babies' bodies. The babies cried even louder, and their young eyes were filled with fear that they were born with. The dirty water soaked them, but it did not drown them. The dirty water seeped into their skin and flesh.
Through the filth, one could see the blood vessels hidden in the flesh. The blood flowing in them was no longer red but had turned pitch-black.
These babies were being baptized.
These babies were also mutating, transforming, and gaining new life.
"The nightmare grows stronger every day, waiting to break out from the earth.
Mother thinks every day, is it a young creation in her womb, or a ghoul living in it.
She sometimes thinks sadly.
Life cannot be born without pain.
She sometimes thinks peacefully.
Life cannot be born without pain. "
The chanting caused Gu Jun's head to explode with pain. He seemed to feel the pain of the pregnant women, and the pain of the babies …
His body seemed to be undergoing a wild transformation, as though he was submerged in dirty black spring water, looking up at the enormous statue.
But the statue was no longer in the shape of a beautiful woman, but a black and red ball of flesh that looked like a uterus and a goat's head.
Uterus, goat's head, the two were so similar, and the two overlapped.
The two fallopian tubes and ovaries were goat horns, the uterus was the mouth of the goat, and the opening of the uterus was the mouth of the goat … On the outer skin, there were many ligament-like tentacles. This statue was both an enormous black goat's head and an enormous uterus.
Countless lives gushed out from it, and countless lives descended into the world.
Life of darkness …? Didn't all life originate from darkness?
It was not that the Goddess of Life had abandoned the foreign civilization, but the Goddess of Life that they worshipped did not exist.
They were deceived by Carlott College. The arrogant Doctor Carlop presented a fake God for them to worship.
The Goddess of Life was not like that.
The cries of the babies intensified. At that moment, the goat-horned men in black robes submerged the babies into the black water. The newborns struggled in the water, and the black water choked their lungs. 'Children, this way, you will not be afraid of hemoptysis.'
After staying in the black water for 10 seconds, the babies were suddenly lifted out of the water.
The dirty water had already soaked their faces black, and these young and tender lives already looked different.
They had been blessed by the Goddess of Life.
At that moment, the goat-horned men in black robes raised the babies high into the air. They knelt down, raised their heads, and shouted in unison at the blood-stained statue.
“Ia！ Shub-Niggurath! The black goat that gave birth to thousands of children! "
This call landed on Gu Jun's mind like a hammer, knocking at his brain.
Gu Jun couldn't help but wail in pain. The illusion before his eyes shattered. The destroyed Carlott College, the black robes, the newborns … all of them twisted and faded away from his sight. However, the womb-and-goat statue was still in his mind, still watching him.
It was the thousands of children in the womb watching him …
The lives that were sacrificed, the lives that were waiting to be born into the world, the lives that were aborted …
With a snap, Gu Jun's heart squeezed. He collapsed to the floor of the nursery. His body convulsed uncontrollably.
"Captain Gu!" There was an urgent cry. The nursery door was pushed open. Yu Chi rushed into the room and screamed, "Help, help him!"
Wu Shiyu just stood up from the chair when Feng Peiqian rushed into the nursery. She shoved Wu Shiyu aside and rushed to Gu Jun's side. "Do you need CPR? I'll do it!" Just as Feng Peiqian's lips were about to land, Gu Jun suddenly took a deep breath and mumbled, "No, there's no need …"
Yu Chi was overjoyed. Together with Feng Peiqian, he helped Gu Jun up.
Feng Peiqian sighed in relief.
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