Doomsday Harvest of Cthulhu

Chapter 2 Cthugha's Embrace

Ren Xingzhi finished eating the broth in front of him and sat on the bed to rest.At this time, Alice took out a string of crystals threaded with wool and handed them to Ren Xingzhi.

"I've made the string for you, it must be much stronger this time, and the crystal looks like it's still glowing."

Ren Xingzhi took the necklace, put it on his neck, looked at Alice and said, "I bought this at the antique shop north of the school, or did you go with me, you forgot about that."

Alice's cheeks turned red, and she said with some complaints: "Oh yes, I remembered Yipinzhai. Someone agreed to take me to buy flowers, but I bought a crystal, and I kept looking at it excitedly. Said it was an antique, I even forgot to buy flowers, hum.”

Ren Xingzhi scratched his head, took Alice's hand a little awkwardly, got up and walked outside the house, "Uh, the sun is nice tonight, let's go out and enjoy the sea breeze." Alice chuckled and held Ren Xingzhi's hand. hand went out.

It was getting late, around nine or ten o'clock, and the light in some wooden houses seemed to be ready to rest. Beside the big fire in the center of the village, a group of people gathered together and were talking about something. Ren Xingzhi held Ai Li Ruth walked there.

"Okay, we will pay attention, you should also pay attention to safety, stay vigilant and continue to contact at ten o'clock tomorrow night."

In the middle of the crowd, Britt was talking to a candle. What was weird was that there was a person reflected in the light of the candle, and what was even weirder was that the voice of that person could still be heard.

Ren Xingzhi looked at the surprised Alice and said, "This is the candlelight communication technique. As long as two people use the same candle at the same time and use the candlelight communication technique, then they can communicate." Alice nodded and calmed herself down a little. Mood.

Ren Xingzhi walked up to Britt and asked, "Who was that just now?"

"That's Malik, Mr. Chavez's secretary. They are also members of the school board. They are building shelters in Massachusetts."

"I just heard what you said, and it seems that something bad happened." Ren Xingzhi asked worriedly
"They just fought with the Dagon Secret Cult. According to their news, the cultists all over the world seem to be active now. He asked us to pay attention. It seems that some survivors in Kenya were killed by the Blood Tongue Sect. murdered"

Ren Xingzhi nodded, looked at the people present, and told about the Tianxing Flame Society. Everyone said that they had listened to Professor Armitage and the others. There are now two patrol teams in the village. , to ensure everyone's safety.

Just when everyone was about to leave and go back to rest, two shots of large shotguns were heard from the entrance of the village, and the loud sound resounded throughout the valley, "It's Allen and the others, go and have a look." With his stick and sword, he rushed towards the entrance of the village with the people around him.

Ren Xingzhi took Alice and ran all the way back to the house, picked up the Tang knife hanging on the wall and walked towards the entrance of the village. He told Alice to "go to Professor Armitage, he might be someone from the Skywalking Flame Society." , protect him and protect yourself." After speaking, he ran towards the entrance of the village.

Alice's anxious voice of concern was still echoing behind her, and Ren Xingzhi had already rushed to the entrance of the village, where two patrol teams of 12 people and Britt's group were meeting with a group of about 20 people wearing red robes covered with embroidery. People with flames struggled.

Allen and Webson each held a large double-barreled shotgun, and blasted the man in the red robe in front of him, while Britt led the man in hand-to-hand combat.

Ren Xingzhi took out the Tang Dao, walked briskly with one hand, and forced back a person beside Britt who wanted to attack him with a sword. Qu, standing still, parrying with Tang Dao horizontal bar, "A member of the Tianxing Flame Society? Running away at night to die?" Ren Xingzhi shouted angrily
"Today, everyone will return to the arms of the flames. This is a supreme gift." A person with a flame pattern tattooed on his face at the entrance of the village walked in, and the surrounding cultists quit the battle one after another and stood around him.

The man showed a seemingly friendly smile and said: "It was really hard to find you, so please become a part of the flame today."

The man hadn't finished the rest of the sentence, Wipson let out an Arkham swear word, and all the 12-gauge ammunition ejected from the double-barreled shotgun in his hand hit the man's body, but these bullets Hitting him was like hitting steel, and the body that dinged and dinged, then bounced to the ground.

"It's unlucky, Flesh Protection," Wipsen spat

"This friend seems a little impolite, so I will give you a small punishment."

As soon as the man finished speaking, his eyes were fixed on Webson's. The moment their eyes met, the flesh and blood on Wibson's chest appeared scorched and dilapidated along with his clothes. It looked like blackened flesh and blood kept falling down, and Wipsen fell down with a muffled groan.

This is the effect of the withering technique. This kind of magic is simple and brutal. The caster uses the magic power to condense into a violent ability to bombard the enemy's body. If the spell is successfully cast, the flesh and blood on the bombarded part of the enemy will appear scorched and withered.

"Fuck, wither, I can do it too," Allen roared angrily, his eyes fixed on the flame man in front of him, and when he finished guiding his own magic power, he covered his head with his hands and took a step back.

This is the backlash of the will. If the attack type of magic is to be applied to the enemy, the caster will fight against the caster's self-will.

If the will of the caster is stronger than that of the caster, the spell will be guided by magic to the target, and if the will of the caster is strong enough, it will cause backlash.

At the least, the magic will be invalid, and the magic will no longer be able to use magic in a short period of time, and at the worst, the will will be severely injured and unconscious.This is like a tug-of-war, the competition is the foundation of the wills of both sides, only those with strong enough foundations can win in the battle of wills.

Seeing this scene, the rest of the people took out their weapons and rushed at the cultists in front of them, wrestling with them. Ren Xingzhi rushed to Wipsen, pulled him behind the big rock behind the entrance of the village, and took off. He took off his clothes and temporarily helped Vipson to give first aid. It was the sound of many people's footsteps rustling in the village, and some people came to help.

The leader was Professor Phelan, leading a group of young men and women, who were armed with swords or pistols. Two people came to help carry Wimpson to the village for first aid. At this time, Professor Mills was holding a small revolver in his hand. He ran up to Ren Xingzhi and said enthusiastically, "Where are the enemies? Let's go and kill them all."

Ren Xingzhi looked at this little old man with some helplessness. Since he led a team to excavate cultural relics in the mountains near Arkham in 1926 and experienced the coma of the Roiger incident, this little old man has changed from his usual calm personality of a history professor. , become...somewhat cute?Lively?
The doctor said it might be a self-protection mechanism after being severely traumatized.But it's okay, in this era, it's good to be silly and happy every day, and to be lively.

Ren Xingzhi patted the old man on the shoulder: "Just shoot behind me, and don't hit Britt again, professor"

Mills smiled and agreed, and followed Ren Xingzhi to the battlefield.The battle at the gate of the village was extremely chaotic. Because there were not many bullets, most people in the village still used swords. There were many people who were stabbed by swords and hit by bullets lying on the ground, including people from the village and outsiders.

Ren Xingzhi looked at the man with the flame pattern on his face. The man didn't move, just watched quietly, looking up at the stars in the sky from time to time.Ren Xingzhi stared at the man, saw the route, pulled out the Tang knife, and dodged a cultist's slash sideways. When he flashed by, he could clearly see the bloodshot eyes of the cultist, as well as his thin and pale body. face.

Ren Xingzhi couldn't tolerate being surprised, he was like a dexterous butterfly, shuttling through the sea of ​​flowers made of swords here, just a sprint distance away from the mysterious man, a man holding a scimitar came from Ren Xingzhi's perspective. The blind spot rushed out, and the blade stabbed straight at Ren Xingzhi's side.

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Britt resisted the knife with his own body, and then used the inertia of his body to throw the enemy to the ground.

"Go quickly"

Ren Xingzhi gritted his teeth, clenched the knife in his hand even tighter, and stabbed at the mysterious man with a lunge. The mysterious man didn't dodge, but just opened his arms, and the Tang knife pierced his body completely.And the man just stared at the sky and said with a smile
"Time is up"

Ren Xingzhi looked at the man in front of him suspiciously. He turned around and found that all the members of the Tianxing Flame Society around him had stopped fighting. They were not afraid of being stabbed with swords and scars on their bodies. They just opened their arms and whispered With that dreaded name - Cthugha
Ren Xingzhi looked into the man's eyes, and there seemed to be flames beating in his pupils. He followed the man's line of sight, and stars rose from the horizon.

In his astronomy elective at Miskatonic University, he had learned that it was the constellation Pisces.And among those stars, there is one star that is extremely bright, and that star is Fomalhaut.

With a loud noise, the explosion occurred in the village, pulling Ren Xingzhi back from his thoughts.

Alice!Ren Xingzhi drew his sword and ran towards the village. There were 50 or 30 people there. There were only [-] people at the entrance of the village. The rest probably sneaked into the village. Why did I make such a low-level mistake? Ren Xingzhi blamed himself , just when he crossed the trail and entered the valley, the scene in front of him became an indelible memory in his life.

In the village, hundreds of comets flew from the valley in the east, and with a corona-like halo, they hit the village. After that, there were countless small light spots floating in the sky, and those countless small light spots were flame monsters. Wherever it went, everything burned.

A small spot of light rushed towards a person who was trying to extinguish it with water. When the water was poured on the small spot of light, it immediately evaporated into steam, and only a little water was poured on the spot of light, which only made the spot of light slightly of darkness.After that, the spot of light rushed into the man's body, and the man was immediately covered in flames, and let out a terrifying scream.

"Quickly put it out! Save me! Save me!"

The sound stopped in an instant, and the small light spot seemed to have finished eating, and it became a little swollen, drawing a beautiful light in the air, but it didn't seem to be satisfied, it needed more.

Countless small spots of light are preying on the village, no, they are enjoying it, whether it is wood or human beings.The village is turning into a desperate sea of ​​​​inferno at this time.

Ren Xingzhi anxiously looked for Alice, trying to get her out of this hell. The village was full of human wailing, and as far as he could see, there were flames.

However, above the valley, he found a group of people in red robes were holding torches, and they were slashing across the air, as if they were drawing something.But Ren Xingzhi has no time to worry about these things, he just wants to find out where Alice is now.

In the village, a large group of people gathered around Professor Armitage. He was organizing his personnel to build a separation zone without burning objects. When those small spots of light came into contact with the powder, they immediately began to tremble and then gradually condensed. After that, only a ripple appeared around it, and then disappeared.

Ren Xingzhi anxiously walked up to the professor and asked about Alice's whereabouts. The professor said, "Alice is giving first aid to Wepson in the medical room. If you want to find her, take these with you. This is Suleiman." The dust can drive away these alien life." The professor handed Ren Xingzhi a can of dust.

Ren Xingzhi took the dust and ran quickly following the route in his memory. After a while, he saw a clearing where there were some wounded, and some people were helping them to bandage them. There are no small spots of light wandering in the stream in the back mountain.Seeing Ren Xingzhi approaching, Alice stood up, the worried and affectionate face was swept away, and she opened her mouth to say something.

But her voice was overwhelmed by the rumbling sound in the sky, and the torches in the hands of the group of people from the Skywalking Flame Society in the valley had stopped. They threw the torches under their feet and let the flames sweep themselves. , staring at the sky.

The Fomalhaut gate became brighter and brighter, and suddenly a group of red light spots hit, and the red light spot gradually became larger at a speed visible to the naked eye, and within a few seconds, the sky was covered by red flames .

It was a burning and dancing flame, huge and full of vitality. It was flying in the air and smashed towards the ground. It was surrounded by densely packed small light spots. They danced happily around the huge flame. with.

That huge flame is Cthugha, one of the former rulers of the earth, known as the eternal flame, as long as Fomalhaut rises to the horizon, the correct Incantations, and using a torch to draw a seal pattern in the air, and offering sacrifices, Cthugha can be summoned.

The believers in the valley just used this method to summon Cthugya, and everyone in the valley will be sacrificed to this eternal flame.

Ren Xingzhi wanted to rush to Alice's side, and Alice watched as Ren Xingzhi was just about to rush to the man she loved to the core.With a bang, flames descended on the mountains, and a huge shock wave swept through the high-temperature heat wave, like a heavy TNT being thrown down from a calm lake.

Ren Xingzhi watched the beautiful woman in front of him being swallowed by the flames in an instant, his heart was like being bitten by a poisonous snake, even the pain caused by the high-temperature flames scorching his skin from the pavement could not compare to seeing his beloved The scene where the person died.

(End of this chapter)