Be it Nyarlathotep or Azathos, these two names were unfamiliar to Zhang Heng.
After realizing that he might be involved in a game of gods, Zhang Heng browsed through all the myths he could find on the market. However, be it Greek mythology, Roman mythology, Norse mythology, or even ancient Celtic mythology, he couldn't find any stories related to these two names.
However, Zhang Heng knew very well that this was different from the first time he encountered the monster from Papua New Guinea. The tribe that worshipped the monster had perished in the long river of history, and almost no one in modern society knew the monster's name. All it could do was linger in the still world of time.
However, the opponent Zhang Heng was facing this time was obviously not such a weakling.
When Satchus told the bizarre story, he mentioned something that caught Zhang Heng's attention. He said that humans lived on an island called ignorance, and they were surrounded by a black ocean. However, the black ocean wasn't an obstacle to exploring the outside world. Instead, it was a kind of pity and protection for humans. So we should never get close to the truth because it would bring us endless madness and fear.
As if to prove his own theory, after he and Dr. Beck returned from their expedition, they tried to find the cause of his mental problems. Sarchus found a book related to the city under the ice in the library, but after reading one of the articles, his mental condition worsened further, and his nightmares became more frequent. Thus, the two of them had no choice but to stop investigating.
After that, they chose to live in the depths of the ice, trying their best to isolate themselves from the outside world. Satchus hadn't watched TV or surfed the internet for more than a decade, which meant that the thing they were afraid of was not a nobody.
Before Loki died, he also mentioned that humans felt that the previous version of the apocalypse wasn't exciting enough, so they created a new god. Not only did he have the genes to kill, but he also had the seeds of destruction. This new god fed on fear, spreading like a virus through the new media on the internet, harvesting faith, and growing at an unimaginable speed.
If Zhang Heng wasn't mistaken, this new god was the master of the city under the ice, the current boss that Nyarlathotep mentioned. It was also the culprit that caused Satchus and Dr. Baker to fall into madness. But the strange thing was that Zhang Heng didn't know about its existence before this.
This situation was undoubtedly abnormal. Recalling the porcelain metaphor that Nyarlathotep mentioned not long ago, Zhang Heng frowned. "Someone did something to my body so that I can't receive any information related to you. Who did this? Is it Kronos?"
"Your intuition is very sharp," the monster in the black fog said. The monster in the black fog said, "That's right. At the request of your adoptive parents, Kronos created a protective amulet for you. The protective amulet can cut off the connection between you and the master of the city under the ice, and at the same time, drive everything else related to it out of your life. Well, you can think of the amulet as an escort software similar to Green Dam, which can automatically block information that is very dangerous to you."
"Dangerous?"
"That's right. Your situation is very special. The master of the city under the ice doesn't stay there willingly. Rumor has it that only when the celestial body returns will it be able to wake up from its slumber and bring destruction to the world. However, no one knows when the celestial body will return. This matter sounds like a gimmick to fool people, so all these years, its minions and believers have been looking for new ways to let their master leave the city.
"They have made many attempts and put in unimaginable effort. Unfortunately, most of their attempts were in vain. The seal of the celestial body is very strong, and their master's body can't leave the underwater city at all. He can only affect its believers and potential believers through his mind. Finally, one of them was inspired after a nightmare and found a solution that seemed, at least in theory, feasible.
"Since their master's body can't leave the city, why don't they create a vessel so that their master's spirit can descend into the vessel and escape the cage? When he told the other zealots about this method, the zealots were excited because they seemed to be able to see the day when their master returned to the earth.
"But this method sounds simple, but it's not easy at all. This is because it's too difficult to find a container. It's not something that you can build on the side of the road. Just the spirit emitted by their master while he's asleep is enough to make ordinary humans fall into a state of complete madness, serious illness, or even madness.
"Not to mention bearing the descent of the main body. Although its zealots regard this as the glory of their lives, I'm afraid that as soon as the descent ritual begins, their spirit will be completely unable to bear it and they will choose to commit suicide. So, choosing a suitable vessel has become their top priority.
"They carried out many experiments and finally found that newborns were the most compatible among all the experimental subjects. Not only humans, but also various animals. However, they also took a detour after that. Initially, they set their sights on newborns who were born with psychic abilities. For this reason, they even attacked the Inuit tribe in Greenland. Those psychic newborns were indeed more likely to accept the descent, but they only lasted a little longer than ordinary people. They still couldn't survive the ritual.
"Those zealots were very distressed until they found a special baby in Tibet. He was different from the others when he was born. He could still breathe, have a heartbeat, and all his physiological functions were normal, but he had lost his soul. There was no spirit in his big eyes, and he looked like two glass marbles. He was abandoned in front of the temple by his biological parents.
"The Lamas in the temple picked him up, but they couldn't help but sigh when they saw him because they knew that this child should not have been born in the world at all. Even if he was born, he was destined to not live long. However, the Lamas were kind and still took the child into the temple and fed him with rice porridge.
"It's just that no one would have thought that this news would be known by the fanatics deep in the mountains. They attacked the temple on a moonless night. Although they were eventually repelled by the Lamas, they succeeded in snatching the child, the vessel that they dreamed of."
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