"Little Jun, we have something to tell you."
Gu Jun vaguely felt himself wandering in the darkness. The faint voice of a woman seemed to be guiding him. It was his mother … The scene before him gradually became clearer. It was his old home. The typical warm living room, sofa, television, fridge, green plants …
This seemed to be the night before his parents went out to sea for the last time. At that time, he was not even ten years old. After that, the house was emptied and he moved to the custody center.
It was said that when people were about to die, they would see a scene that they missed …
The silhouette of a tall man and a woman with long hair stood there. Their faces were covered in a layer of blur.
However, Gu Jun vaguely noticed some details that he did not pay attention to back then. There seemed to be a trace of worry in their expressions.
Worry? Why? Wasn't it their wish to go to Longkan to search for the mysterious power?
Or was there another reason?
"We are going out to sea soon." Just like in his memory, his mother told him gently, "You are going to stay in the custody center for a while …"
Gu Jun heard a child's tender voice. "Then how long will you be gone this time? When will you be back?"
"Very soon." His mother was a little hesitant. At that moment, he felt that there was a genuine reluctance in her eyes. "You have to study hard. Be good. You said you want to be a doctor in the future. No matter what difficulties you encounter in the future, you have to face them with determination, understand? "
"I know." The child promised. Sulking, he ran away. "All you know is to go out to sea."
Gu Jun's consciousness was drifting. He felt like he was following the child around the house and was a hindrance to his parents who were tidying up.
He was not allowed to enter the study, but in the closet in his parents' bedroom, he found a crumpled piece of paper in the pocket of a coat. He unfolded it.
"Little Jun!" His mother exclaimed. She rushed over and snatched the paper away. "Go out and play. I need to pack my clothes."
Gu Jun was shocked. He did not pay much attention to this small matter at the time. Later, he had forgotten about it and categorized it as a matter of him causing trouble before they parted.
Even when he searched through his memory, he did not remember it. From what he knew, all the important things were in the forbidden study.
But just now, he clearly saw that on the crumpled paper, there were some lines that looked like part of a sea map, as well as some words.
The words were densely packed and written with a black fountain pen. The handwriting was rather messy, but they all contained the same mysterious and strange sentence:
[Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn]
[Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn]
[Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn]
If this was not a foreign language, then what was it? How do I pronounce it …
Could these be "those documents"?
Gu Jun's heart sharpened with suspicion. He had thought it was referring to the foreign paper he drew when he was a child, but it was not that the Afterlife Cult did not understand the foreign language. In fact, they could use spells that he did not understand …
He should have handed over the drawings back then, and "those documents" were another secret. They might be the real research results of his parents at the sea …
His parents should belong to another force within the Afterlife Cult. They had secretly betrayed the cult and had a different goal from these men in black and red.
But whether they were good or bad, why did they join the Afterlife Cult, why did they split up, and why did they go to Longkan …
What did that sentence mean? What was the connection between the Son of Steel and the Son of Misfortune that housed Lenton and the Son of Misfortune?
His mind was in turmoil. Suddenly, it felt like fresh air had rushed into his lungs. Gu Jun sucked in a deep breath like he had woken up from a nightmare, but the mysterious sentence on the paper was still fresh before his eyes.
"He's awake … He's awake, Uncle Dan, Gu Jun has woken up!"
He heard Lin Mo's excited voice. He opened his eyes to see that he was still surrounded by the ruins of the altar, and he was lying on a stretcher.
"Ah Jun, do you recognize me?" Uncle Dan rushed over and happily performed a series of vital signs on Gu Jun.
Xue Ba, Lou Xiaoning, and the rest surrounded him happily. Gu Jun suppressed the memory that he had just woken up and listened to Uncle Dan's account of the rescue after his cardiac arrest. First, they performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation and then injected him with an adrenaline shot. Only then did he regain his breathing and heartbeat. However, he had been unconscious for more than three hours.
The situation was very dangerous. After all, cardiac arrest was the most serious clinical emergency. Even with the help of the medical professionals, the success rate was only fifty percent. After six minutes, the success rate was less than ten percent.
They had been worried that his nervous system had been seriously damaged and that he had fallen into an irreversible coma.
"Uncle Dan, who performed the CPR on me?" Gu Jun had a small question.
"Of course it was me," Uncle Dan answered. His round, middle-aged face was open. "Uncle Dan, what haven't I done before?"
Gu Jun was silent. 'Fine … I really can't just collapse like that … If there's a next time, then I really shouldn't ask …'
This was the price of casting a curse. His brain felt worse than before he took the tumor-targeting drug. He had no idea how long it would take for the dark consciousness to consume his mind, and he had no idea whether he could recover from it or not. Just like that, if he used the Destruction Curse again, he would really be destroyed as well.
After Uncle Dan finished his examination, Gu Jun pushed himself up. Seeing that there were still people cleaning up the battlefield, he asked Xue Ba, "Captain Xue, what's the situation now?"
Once the subject was brought up, everyone's joy faded. Xue Ba sighed. "One hundred and eleven men in black and four in red. They're all dead."
The captives who were still alive had strange expressions on their faces after they were captured, and they died while mumbling a foreign language.
After Gu Jun analyzed the situation, he confirmed that it was the Mad Arab's poem. He mumbled something in the foreign language, and his face paled again. Uncle Dan quickly stopped him from continuing.
The mutated wolf beast did not appear again. Xue Ba had previously put on a mask and gloves and used a military knife to dissect a beast carcass. There were no abnormalities in its skin, flesh, or internal organs. It was just a ferocious creature like the jinmenken.
After Uncle Dan saved him, he and Zhang Huohuo went to dissect the faces of the leader in red. Why did they all look the same?
Some of the faces were bruised, but some were still intact. There was no sign of plastic surgery, it appeared like they were born with this face.
"I think … these people are all related by blood. For example, they have the same father or mother."
Gu Jun said darkly. This should be one of the main factions of the Afterlife Cult, the 'descending of the foreign civilization'. His parents belonged to another faction. Perhaps it was related to the sentence on the paper …
There had to be different factions because there were more than ten men in red who knelt before the banyan tree, but there were only four here.
It was time to reap the fruits of their labor, so anyone who could come would naturally come.
"Now that's strange." Uncle Dan could not wrap his head around it. "The oldest among them should be over seventy, and the youngest is not even thirty. Could they be the grandfather and grandson?"
But that was too similar, and even the physiologically female looked like that. The group did not think so.
"I mean, they are the children of some kind of existence." Gu Jun had a guess. "They are not normal people."
Xue Ba and Uncle Dan nodded slightly, but no one could say for sure. More information could only be gleaned from a DNA test.
These bodies could not be taken away. They did not have the strength to do that. They could only take some tissue samples, but they had to take the head of the leader with them.
That was what the team was doing. They searched the bodies, collected samples, and imprinted fingerprints. The fingerprints of these people were different.
No one could say for sure whether there were other living people in this space. Because the team had not explored the strange and silent banyan forest, there was a possibility that the Malformed Banyan Disease could be found in these banyan trees. Xue Ba planned to clean up the battlefield and then personally lead the team to put on the only three sets of protective gear.
Of course, they had to find the way back. The team was still thirsty. The water that was used to rehydrate Gu Jun was dirty water from his hands.
After the team dispersed, they said that they should rest. Gu Jun lay on the stretcher, but he could not stop thinking about that wrinkled piece of paper and many other things.
Just like that, half an hour passed.
Xue Ba walked over again. This time, there was a different seriousness on his square face. He told him, "Ah Jun, we found something on the leader earlier. You were not in a stable state earlier, so we did not let you look at it. You look fine now. Can you see if there are any clues that can help us leave this place? "
"Oh?" Gu Jun frowned and sat up instantly. The thing that the leader carried with him had to be very important to the Afterlife Cult.
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