A split cross was carved on the square before him.
Gu Jun had already searched the square but he did not find anything else. He still did not know how to leave this nightmare. In the end, he returned to this place. He stood before this symbol and stared at it …
He had a feeling that this was indeed left behind for him.
However, it was unclear whether the person who left this mark was from the City of Dusk or someone who had destroyed the City of Dusk.
He looked around him. The chill seeped into his bones like many shadows were watching him.
After a while, Gu Jun walked into the middle of the symbol. The four dividing lines were aimed at him. He looked here and there, and his mind started to race. The four dividing lines started to spin, and it was as if the world was spinning. Everything in this ruin was twisting and turning.
His whole body felt like it was being torn apart. Every cell in his body was drifting.
Suddenly, countless images rushed at him. It was hard to tell when they happened.
The sky was burned red, and a chaotic fireball fell from the sky, followed by another, and another … Those fireballs were like missiles of another kind of technology, falling unstoppably, landing on those houses, streets, and palaces. The rumbling explosions pierced the eardrums.
He saw the palaces collapse, the statues in the square were blown to pieces, and the elegant houses crumbled one by one.
Wails of grief and indignation echoed in the city. Some human figures tried their best to resist but they could not stop the fireballs from falling.
He saw some figures being hit by the fireballs and being burned to ash. He saw some other figures retreating. They walked down the long staircase and reached the balcony. Strangely enough, no fireball landed on the balcony. Even if they hit the staircase, there was no immediate collapse.
But before he could think too much, a wave of fire fell from the sky like a storm. It drowned the whole balcony in a sea of fire.
The fire blocked his vision and made the disappearance of the figures on the balcony a mystery.
It was unclear whether they had all been burned to ash or they had escaped somewhere else.
There was a pain that consumed Gu Jun …
It was like he was the City of Dusk. All the beauty, hope, and light were here but they were bombarded, polluted, and destroyed.
The City of Dusk had been destroyed …
'That power in the sky …' Gu Jun stared at the Chaos fireballs that were still falling. 'That Chaos form … Hidden Chaos …'
Chaos, chaos. At first, the energy in his mind was like a mass of chaos.
Because of these thoughts, he felt a sharp pain in his heart. It was as if he was being stabbed by a knife. There seemed to be a calm and quiet voice speaking in his ear.
[You saw it. The power that destroyed the City of Dusk was Nyarlathotep …
As long as Nyarlathotep was willing, as long as Nyarlathotep suddenly had that kind of interest, the destruction of the City of Dusk could be done with a single thought.
But how can you be sure that what you see is not what Nyarlathotep wants you to see?
How can you be sure that what you saw was real? Or fake?
How can you be sure that the City of Dusk and the Randolph Carter Foundation that you came into contact with weren't Nyarlathotep in disguise?
Nyarlathotep had a thousand faces. How can you be sure that one of them is not the City of Dusk?
Do you think that the power of light will not be controlled by Nyarlathotep?
Light, darkness, they are all part of divine power.
You were able to escape from the world of the King in Yellow because of the City of Dusk, but how can you be sure that it wasn't Nyarlathotep's arrangement?
You and Yu Chi worked together to repel the power of the Black Goat from this world, isn't that what Nyarlathotep wanted to see?
That crow, that crow … Isn't it helping — or rather, arranging for all of you?
How can you be sure that you've escaped from Nyarlathotep's arrangement?
Can mortals really escape from their own fate?
Be careful, Gu Jun, you have to be careful. Didn't I tell you that?
Because Nyarlathotep is the Hidden Chaos. You will never know when you'll meet it, when you'll be talking to it, socializing with it, fighting alongside it … but you'll be dealing with it … because Nyarlathotep is the Hidden Chaos …
The voices rained down on Gu Jun's heart like fireballs, trying to turn it into a wasteland.
He woke up with a start. Instead of the ruined City of Dusk, he saw the empty wall in the base's sanctuary …
"I …" Gu Jun stood up abruptly. Looking around him, he felt like … he had finally woken up from that nightmare.
Ignoring the confusion in his heart, he hurried to open the new system in his mind.
He tried to open the new system but it was gone … What was left was a ball of broken chaos that glowed faintly.
Gu Jun opened his eyes again and sat back in his chair. The new system had also shattered …
Trying his best to get more help, to obtain breakthrough technology, such a possibility, such a path, seemed to be gone.
Furthermore, there was another unknown factor. There might be some residual power of Nyarlathotep and the power of the Black Goat mixed inside his body.
"Captain Gu, what's wrong?"
His reaction attracted the attention of the people in the surveillance room. Wu Shiyu used telepathy to ask him, "Dirty-minded Jun, are you alright? I feel like your heart is hurting … Please answer me if you can hear me, beep beep. "
"There's something wrong." Gu Jun said darkly. In his mind, he told Wu Shiyu, 'Don't tell anyone … The City of Dusk has been destroyed.'
"Hmm." Wu Shiyu's voice came again. It was tinged with surprise. "Okay then … What do you plan to do?"
'What do I do? ' Gu Jun stared at the empty wall. It was like a blank heart.
He tried to shake it off, tried to find some color but it was still a blank, stagnant, and lifeless blankness.
'I don't know … I really want to know what to do. I'm afraid there's no chance to contact the City of Dusk …
The help we received earlier, I am not sure whether it was Nyarlathotep's arrangement or not … I do not know whether the power behind the split cross has always been Nyarlathotep. Different lines, different worlds, different faces … I am not even sure whether this moment is real or not … I am not sure whether I am talking to you or to one of Nyarlathotep's faces … Dirty-minded Yu, I am not sure whether the City of Dusk has really been destroyed or whether it is due to the influence of my mental state that I cannot come into contact with the City of Dusk and reach that place again … But I am not sure whether the City of Dusk has really been destroyed or whether it is because of my mental state that I cannot come into contact with the City of Dusk anymore …
Dirty-minded Yu, I can't be sure, I don't know anything. "
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