Doomsday Harvest of Cthulhu

Chapter 3 Crystals
Ren Xingzhi's hair and clothing were all reduced to ashes in an instant, he could even smell himself being roasted, but he could still smell it, he still had thoughts, all he could sense was the loss of everything. The pain of a loved one, the grief of losing a companion, and the torment of [-]% burns all over your body.

There was a crystal hanging around his neck, embedded in his flesh and blood, it seemed that the flesh and blood had been roasted until it was blurred and softened, so that the crystal could stick to the flesh and blood.

The crystal is still the same as usual, exuding a faint light, but in this dazzling flame, the light of this crystal seems to be even better.

Ren Xingzhi's thoughts are wandering. According to the Chinese tradition, it seems that everyone looks back on his life like a revolving lantern before death. Bao Xiaobao walked into the gate of Miskatonic University, lived in a four-person dormitory, and met Allen, Wipson, and Scott.The Chinese, the British, and the Americans all dislike each other.

In 1923, the four bragged about who killed the most deep divers in the basement of the library. Today, Professor Armitage wore a badge with SSC engraved on them. "Mysterious Creature Research Society, you are welcome to join." Britt and Zoe applauded behind, and Alice smiled, looking at the slightly childish Chinese in front of her.

In 1924, many people bowed their heads solemnly in the church. Professor Armitage on the stage was mourning for the dead professors and students. A photo of Scott was placed among those black and white photos.

When the picture arrived in 1926, things gradually couldn't be concealed, and the public also knew about those existences, because many creatures with strange characteristics appeared.Although the army is fully mobilized, it is still defeated, and there are many evil churches secretly promoting the development of things.

The scene seems to be fast-forwarded, as the Miskatonic University is destroyed by a thunderstorm, and the survivors start looking for a new place.Cities and oceans have been occupied by most of the strange creatures and cultists, and the surviving humans can only hide in the east and west, forming patches of shelter.

Ren Xingzhi also gradually changed from a student to an investigator, a warrior, or a wizard through repeated battles and wanderings.The emergence of those strange and mysterious religions brought strange powers to those who believed in them, that is magic power, and cultists who use magic power to fight are also called wizards.

The picture gradually freezes in the present. After Ren Xingzhi reviewed his life, he felt that his soul should also dissipate. Maybe it was his strong willpower and magic power that allowed him to review his life for a moment.

At this moment, he saw his body, which was burning up in the flames, and also saw the radiant crystal in the flames. His perspective gradually zoomed out, as if flying into the sky, still rising , he saw the whole valley, and saw the dancing flames in the center of the valley. Now there is nothing in this valley except the flames.

His perspective rose rapidly, he climbed to the top of the atmosphere, he saw the whole picture of the whole earth, he saw the boundless starry sky, saw the bright stars, he was shocked, he didn't know how to deal with the situation in front of him. He tried the scene, but he couldn't make a sound or move. His perspective could only be fixed on this blue planet.

He stared at this planet, he saw it, he saw a great scene, he saw the truth behind this earth.

Ren Xingzhi's eyes were fixed on the earth, watching everything on the earth, at this time he had a panoramic view of all the scenes on the earth.

He saw nine huge stones erected on the vast plain, they were arranged in a V shape, 361 people in yellow robes knelt down around the stone formation, and above the stone formation was a huge creature in yellow robes floating In the air, countless tentacles stretched out from the hem of the yellow robe and flapped. The tentacles wrapped around the people in the yellow robe around them, and the sharp tentacles pierced into their brains.

There are a large number of creatures flying in the sky, with bat wings, bird heads, and insect body features. They are flying, circling, and roaring in the air. They are welcoming and singing praises to their master:

The Nameless One, Lord of the Star Sea in Deep Space, Hastur.

In a complex mountain range, many ragged people are kneeling in a huge cave. In front of them, there are many human beings tied up in the middle, and there are many cattle, sheep, and horses.

In their neat whispers, a group of phantom descended, it was in the shadows, a black creature with the characteristics of bats and toads, its eyes were half closed, and it seemed to be still dozing off.

It noticed that there was a ripple in the air below, and all the creatures in the same cave disappeared, and the dark creature fell into the cave, as if asleep.There were ripples in the space next to it, and something fell around it.The general appearance of this creature is engraved on the stone wall, and it is recorded in Greek next to it:

Sleeper of Ngai, god of toads, Satogua.

In the South Pacific Ocean, the sea water in a sea area began to rippling violently. Two huge monsters were swimming in the water. Their huge and ugly bodies were covered with blue scales. They slapped the reef with their powerful giant arms, making rhythmic sounds .

And around them are many smooth bodies, high ridges with scales on their backs, human body shape, but the head is fish-like, with two huge eyeballs without eyelids, constantly agitating gills, orderly in the water wandering around.

Suddenly a boulder rises from the bottom of the water, and then slowly rises. This is an underwater city. Algae hang on the stone buildings that exude an ancient atmosphere. It makes people worship, but there is an indescribable disgust in my heart.

The huge stone tablet in the city is engraved with obscure patterns. Perhaps this is a language that only ugly deep divers can understand. The meaning on it is:
City of R'lyeh.

Ren Xingzhi stared at all these things. He had never seen these things before. He didn't understand the meaning of these pictures at all, and he didn't understand what these creatures he saw. Seeing these incredible pictures, but the earth is full of such pictures.

He looked at the earth in front of him, and felt extremely strange. The earth in his eyes began to change, gradually becoming flat, and then into a square. In his eye sockets, the black pupils began to spread to occupy the entire eye socket, and the earth appeared in the In his eyes, his mouth murmured a sentence he once witnessed in the tomb of the black pharaoh.

"What has risen may sink, what has sunk may rise, abominations await awakening in the abyss, decay spreads in the precarious cities of mankind, that moment will come, that moment will come."

After he had been muttering to himself for an unknown amount of time, he woke up in the starry sky, his hair was throbbing with pain, as if his soul had been torn apart, he recalled the scene just now, but he couldn’t remember anything, the most recent The memory stays at the moment when he was engulfed by the flames, and then his consciousness rose above the sky.

He looked at the earth in front of him, and the earth began to slowly slow down and stop its revolution and rotation, and he realized that before he was shocked, the earth stopped completely, and at this moment, the entire universe seemed to have stopped as well. Time has no meaning in this moment.

Under Ren Xingzhi's gaze, this blue planet began to turn upside down, skimming over the traces it had passed by. Just as the earth started to turn upside down, the earth in his eyes also began to grow slowly, and he was gradually falling into the earth.

He was slowly falling into the earth, he saw the leaves rise from the ground and grow back on the branches through layers of clouds, he saw the waterfall flow backwards, and a few small fish flew from the lake to the waterfall, he was experiencing a A great magic trick, the name of this magic is Back in Time.

I have seen enough unspeakable things today, this scene made his heart unable to get excited again, he could only silently watch all this and wait for the result.

When Ren Xingzhi watched the withered flowers bloom again, he felt that there seemed to be something behind him. He moved his eyes back and saw an evil and filthy existence.It was a creature with an extremely vague shape. It looked like a wolf in appearance, but its outline was constantly changing. Its skin was light blue and undulating. A long tongue, limbs and razor-sharp claws.

Just when Ren Xingzhi saw this terrifying creature, the creature's eight eyes stared at Ren Xingzhi at the same time, and it saw him.This is a gaze spanning billions of years. When Ren Xingzhi was stared at by this monster, boundless terror surged in his heart. He immediately looked away, trying to calm down. At the same time, he He also understood a fact in his mind-that terrible creature would chase him across the barriers of time and space.

At this time, Ren Xingzhi's perspective has come to the sky above Arkham City, and he can clearly see the well-known Miskatonic University, known as "the cradle and grave of investigators", located in the city. The northern part occupies a quarter of the land of Arkham City.

The angle of view is getting closer and closer to the ground, and he can clearly see the shop below, and the three big characters "Yipinzhai" are written in front of the shop door.In the room, a bald man in his forties was counting money with a smile and said to a man and a woman in front of him that money changed hands and he was not responsible.
The woman in the room had her hips akimbo, and looked at the man holding the crystal in front of her with some anger.Ren Xingzhi's perspective gradually pulled behind this man, who was Ren Xingzhi in 1923.

As soon as the viewing angle went dark, when he opened his eyes again, he saw that he was holding the crystal inlaid in his own flesh and blood in the valley in his hand, but it was different from the previous crystal, this crystal did not emit any light, it was just an ordinary It's just a crystal.

Alice next to him pinched Ren Xingzhi's arm angrily: "You have been watching it for seven or eight seconds after paying the money. Does it look better than mine? I think it's a fake. You just say it's an antique. Go back and wait to be trained by Professor Mills."

Ren Xingzhi was pinched in pain and made a hissing sound. He turned his head and looked at the little girl beside him who was puffed up and had a little freckles. He pinched her face lightly with his hands. With a bright smile, he said:
"Hey, don't be angry, let's go buy flowers."

(End of this chapter)