I really don't want to be a novelist

Chapter 25
"We store some relatively low-risk items here. These items either carry some supernatural taboo knowledge, or they are supernatural items with special functions. Of course, they all have their own side effects and influences.

We keep watch over them, and they are our means of fighting extraordinary events, extraordinary events in the parish.

Some of the repeatable learning knowledge carried on some of these items can also allow newcomers to the tungsten wire to quickly improve their survivability.

According to tradition, you can pick two of them and get it for free, and after that, some contributions may be required to apply for some new extraordinary items and knowledge. "

"...I suggest that you choose some knowledge instead of some extraordinary item. Extraordinary items may not be able to be used repeatedly, but knowledge obviously can. As a knowledgeable archaeologist, you should understand this very well."

After chasing books on the bookshelf, little red dots appeared,
Lying on the bed, Yun Qingmu, who was watching the show, saw the notification on the status bar,

Turning over, excitedly opened the app and started reading the book.

The author of the dog has been updated, and three chapters have been updated.

Seeing the beginning of the new chapter, Yun Qingmu's eyes lit up,
He moved his body, chose a more comfortable position to lie on his side, and temporarily unplugged the phone's charging cable.

The new chapter seems interesting.

Yun Qingmu continued to read.

"...Ampton said to Howard, leading him from a deep staircase extending downwards, and walked into a corridor that was obviously at the bottom.

Howard listened to Ampton's narration, and then looked at both sides of the underground passage.

The corridor is deep and not very wide, only allowing three people to pass side by side. On the thick walls on both sides, there are tungsten lamps that seem to be emerging from the kingdom.

Dim yellow lights radiated, dispelling the darkness of the corridor. "

"You can think about what to choose first, and I can give you some suggestions."

"The knowledge carried on the item numbered 325 is a good choice, you can understand it as a kind of witchcraft or a ritual.

Its function is to quickly recover the damage received, and to a certain extent dispel the negative effects on the body.It is a good general ability.

His rituals are not complicated and do not require a sacrificial medium, so you can quickly use it in battle.

Of course, I think your blood wounds and your pain are the medium - using this ritual will also bring you great pain when the damage recovery and other functions are played.

Get acquainted with this pain as soon as possible if you choose this.

Are you going to choose this? "

In the article, while talking, Umpton led Howard through the long corridor to a closed door.

"...Then I choose this."

"A wise choice. I also chose this at the beginning, otherwise I might not be alive now."

Howard followed Umpton's suggestion, and at the same time was a little puzzled,
"This is where those special items are stored? Then why are we here?"

"Because, for the ritual to work, you have to touch that object, let it, um, remember you, and the ritual can play its role."

Umpton was talking, turned his head with a smile, and said to Howard.

Howard smiled at Ampton, but felt a little chilly in his heart.

"what is it?"

"A pair of eyes. The night watchmen once destroyed the church of an evil god organization. These are the eyes of a leader of this evil god organization, a pair of eyes that are still alive."

Upton smiled at Howard and said,

He reached out and knocked on the tightly closed door.

There was no sound from behind the door, but the door opened right after.

"This is old Hopper, the keeper of our night watch team guarding the items. If something urgent happens in our parish and I can't find it, you can come here to find old Hopper.

But if you have nothing to do, stay away from here. "

The plot in the article continued to advance, Howard followed Ampton into the door,

Only then did I realize that there was still a white-haired old man standing behind the door, wearing a robe similar to that of a church priest.
He just raised his cloudy eyes to look at Howard and Ampton, then lowered his head,
His lips moved slightly, repeating something in a low voice.

Then, Howard listened carefully, only to realize that he was constantly chanting prayers to the God of Steam and Machinery.

"'It's so close to madness here that old Hobbs has to keep steadfast in his sanity'

Upton said so.

And Howard followed Ampton and walked two steps forward, and found that some thoughts that should not have kept appearing in his heart,

Those were some crazy ideas. Some suddenly wanted to kill Ampton who was walking ahead, and some snatched away the supernatural items stored here.
Howard could clearly feel the madness of these thoughts, as if another self suddenly appeared in his heart. "

……

"...It's kind of interesting."

Wrapped tightly on the bed, like a cocoon,
Yun Qingmu flipped back and forth, looking excitedly at the novel on the phone,

This is the feeling, this is the novel!
Yun Qingmu looked a little excited,
I can't wait to slide my hands faster, so that I can see the next plot soon,
But I was worried that I would slide too fast and miss some details.

……

"...It's almost time to brush your teeth and go to bed, stop playing with your phone here and there, do you hear me!"

In the house of the owner of Fancheng noodle restaurant,
The son of the noodle shop owner in junior high school,

He was huddled on the sofa, holding the mobile phone, staring at the mobile phone with burning eyes.

The boss's wife just came out of the toilet,
I also saw my son playing with his mobile phone on the sofa and yelled.

Holding the phone in his hand, the child looked back at his mother, then at the screen of the phone, still reluctant to part.

"What about playing games? You are playing after the day after tomorrow. You still have to go to school tomorrow. Hurry up and wash and brush your teeth, and go to bed after brushing your teeth."

The boss's wife walked into the living room again, talking.

The child sat upright again,
"...Mom, I'm not playing games, I'm reading novels, can I read two more chapters, just two chapters and I'm done."

The child begged his mother.

The boss's wife glanced at her son, paused,

"Okay, there are only two chapters. After reading it, go wash up quickly, do you hear me?"

"Got it, Mom."

Hearing his mother's words, the child held his mobile phone and watched excitedly.

"...What are you looking at, so fascinated?"

His mother glanced at it too, then turned away without much interest,
"...What is my precious son watching? He is so happy."

At this time, the boss also cleaned up the restaurant and came back from the outside.
As soon as he entered the room, he saw his son holding his mobile phone and looking at him excitedly, and greeted him with a smile.

"Your son is reading novels."

"Dad, this novel is really well written. It's different from other novels. This novel will definitely become a god!"

The child said excitedly.

"Then I'll take a look too, what's the name?"

The owner of the noodle shop also came over and took a look,

"It's called "Resurrecting Cthulhu""

……

"...Well, updated?"

Sitting in front of the computer, after finishing today's work,
After exercising his muscles and bones, Ye Linhan was going to go downstairs for a jog before going to dinner.

I picked up my phone and looked again,

I found that the author's new book "Resurrecting Cthulhu" by "Era Coincidence" has updated three more chapters.

He has naturally been paying attention to this author's new book,

I read five chapters before, and I feel good, and I am very interested.

However, his opinion is the same as that of other readers in the book friend group. It may be difficult for this book to achieve the results of the previous "Mortal Cultivation".

Although his start data is much better.

But the subject matter is still too small.

While walking downstairs, Ye Linhan clicked on today's update of the book and read it.

……

"... Howard understands that this place is very close to madness, and the crazy thoughts that keep popping up in his mind are obviously influenced by some things stored here.

Howard didn't go inside for long with Umpton before stopping.

It was a pair of eyeballs in a glass jar.

He also understood what Umpton meant when he said that the eyes were still alive.

The pair of eyeballs were suspended in the glass jar, and the scarlet eyeballs were still rolling, staring at the two people who walked in front of it, Howard and Upton,
Looking at this scene, Howard seemed to have a chill rushing to the top of his head, which made him shiver uncontrollably.

"...the great mother of flesh and blood, the mother tree of life...

... You are the source of all life and you are the end of all life.

I am your most devout believer, I am the life you created.

I beg, I beg you to hear, I beg you to heed the call of your lost lamb..."

At the same time, Howard heard whispers in his ears,

This raving sound was frenzied and even crazy, as if praying frantically to some indescribable great existence. "

"Did you hear that?"

"This is the mantra and ritual that heals the wound, and now, if you just say it in your mind, it will start to work."

"This sounds more like a prayer pointing to an unknown existence."

"Yes. But only madness can fight madness. Among most extraordinary knowledge and items, his side effects are already considered light.

Maybe it wasn't His original intention to restore our wounds, maybe that unknown existence just wanted to see the desperate struggle of human beings before they died,

Watching human beings in pain, struggling between life and death, staged this drama for Him that made Him a little bit happy. "

This is the dialogue between Howard and Umpton, the protagonists in the article,

Looking at this description on the phone screen, Ye Linhan couldn't help but pause,
This description seems to pull him into that chaotic, absurd and crazy world,

Let him see the world in this "Resurrecting Cthulhu" more clearly.

keep sliding down,

Ye Linghan continued to read,
"...But at least it works, doesn't it? We live in such a chaotic and crazy world,

I can't see any perfect beauty, only endless madness,
We have no way to steadily increase the strength needed to fight these madnesses, we can only use madness to fight madness,

The stronger the ability, the closer to madness.

Sometimes, I also feel that the world is crazy, and so am I. "

The dialogue between the protagonist Howard and Umpton is still going on,
During a conversation,

Ampton is like a guide, revealing the truth of the world for the protagonist Howard,

It also reveals the background of the world for readers,
In the end, Howard fell silent during the conversation, and Umpton also fell silent.

"...You chose this on your first chance, and you have another chance to choose an item. What do you want? I can also give you some advice."

"I want to gain some more ability to launch attacks. Preferably knowledge that can be reused."

"I have three kinds that I can recommend to you. One is a ritual that can be petrified, but you are the one who petrifies,
After using this ritual, your body will gradually petrify, your skin will gradually harden, your body can resist some strong attacks, and to a certain extent, you will be immune to rituals and supernatural influences on the flesh.

Of course, your attack ability will also be greatly increased because of your heavy and hard fists,
The longer you use this ritual, the more severe your petrification will be, and your physical strength and stiffness will gradually increase. In the later time, you may be able to smash into a room?
And the side effect is that when the ritual is used, your body will gradually petrify until you become a solid human-shaped stone. If you don't end the ritual before then, the result will be obvious.

At the same time, even if you can control time every time you use this ritual and ability, as time goes by, even in normal times, your body will show some characteristics of petrification, such as losing the sense of pain.

The other is the ability to use the eyes, which requires a supernatural item to be embedded in your original eye socket. For this, you have to endure the pain of eye gouging,

Its ability is madness, which can be used on certain things in vicious supernatural events, causing them to fall into 'your madness' for a short time, and you build nightmare-like abilities to control them for a short time.

If you hold it in long enough, you can even take your dagger, walk up to it, and gently slit its throat.

Of course, the side effect is that he will also make you gradually fall into madness, make you have nightmares every night, and at the same time, your eyes will gradually become blind.Nightmares also gradually spread from night to day.

Meditation can delay this process to a certain extent and barely maintain our spirit and sanity.

the last one,
It is an ability to release fire, which is also a similar ritual to the recovery ability you get, and it is also a prayer to a 'God of Fire'.

It's powerful enough, if your spirit is strong enough and your fragile mind can hold, it can easily destroy a house.

But under normal circumstances, it is difficult for you to use such a great power. Fireballs or flames will appear from in front of you, and then rush towards your enemies.

Its heat will hit you as well, and it has the side effect of rage, which can drive you mad if you can't hold your sanity, and you might end up with a raging fire in the capital of the Kingdom of Lancie. "

"...you can choose.

But I remind you that when choosing abilities, it is best to choose ones that can match each other, rather than powerful ones. "

In the text,

The protagonist Howard finally chose the ritual of releasing flames,

The burn of the flames he can just resist and recover with another ritual.

And after trying again.

"Hmm...it doesn't seem that bad.

Just when I was using these two rituals just now, I seemed to hear the ravings of 'Azathoth' again?

Is it because of the mark of 'Azathoth' that I have successfully mitigated the influence of many other two unnameable beings? "

see in the novel,
The protagonist Howard reduced the side effects of the two ritual abilities to a certain extent by virtue of the frequent babbling in his mind.
Ye Linhan, who was reading the novel while going downstairs, became more interested,

"This design is a bit interesting. The more the author writes, the more interesting it seems to be."

Keep looking down,

Ye Linhan finished reading the three chapters that Ji Zhuo updated today,

Then he felt that he was going to take back his previous thoughts,
"Although the theme and background are small, after reading it, I still find it very interesting... The results of this book should be better than expected, right?"

Ye Linhan voted all the recommendation tickets and monthly tickets in his account for this book, and then gave this book a small reward of 50 yuan.

……

"It's beautiful! The dog author's novels are becoming more and more interesting... Well, do you want to give the dog author another reward..."

After reading the new chapter, Yun Qingmu pondered,

"...Forget it, let's wait until the author of the dog recommends it on the Internet, maybe it can give him more stats! He must be happy!"

Yun Qingmu thought excitedly, and temporarily gave up the idea of ​​rewarding her.

……

"Hiccup..."

On the other side, Ji Zhuo, who was almost rewarded,
After typing the words, I ate a three-in-one dinner of morning, middle and evening,
He was slumped on the sofa, drinking coke, and looking at Shuangwen.

In reality, he has been "frustrated repeatedly" by the system, and he always has to read novels to calm himself down.

　happy New Year to all.

　　New Year's Eve, are there any big readers who want to read novels again?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)