Doomsday Harvest of Cthulhu

Chapter 4 Miskatonic University
The sun is moving westward and the breeze is blowing. Arkham City in September is already autumn, and the weather is slightly chilly.

Alice held Ren Xingzhi in one arm, and a bunch of sunflowers in the other. The two walked on Central Street, chatting about trivial matters in life and study along the way, and arrived at the school gate after a while.

The gate of the school is closed to protect the safety and privacy of the campus. The school has 8 gates in total. This gate is connected to the commercial street of Arkham City, so teachers and students who go out for shopping or entertainment usually choose this gate to enter and exit.

The gate is made of metal, with a string of curlicue English "Miskatonic" printed on the gate, and the school emblem of Miskatonic University is engraved in the center of the gate. In the center of the school emblem is a shield, and the center of the shield is printed with an open book. Book, with a mysterious symbol on the left and right sides of the book.

Above the book is a small clock with the year 1690, when Miskatonic University was founded, engraved on it.

This school is at the forefront of the world in the fields of archaeology, history, occultism, psychology and anthropology, attracting many outstanding students and strong teachers.And well-known entrepreneurs and philanthropists in Arkham and even Boston have donated to the university.

Ren Xingzhi and Alice are third-year students in the history department of the university.After the two showed their student ID cards to the security guard in front of the gate, the security guard opened the gate and let them in.

After the two briefly tasted dinner in the cafeteria, they separated and returned to their respective dormitories.

Ren Xingzhi's dormitory is a room for four people, with two living rooms, one bedroom and one bathroom.Entering the door is a living room. There are two bedrooms on the left and right sides of the living room. Scott and Ren Xingzhi live on the left, and Wepson and Allen live on the right.

Ren Xingzhi sat on the sofa in the living room and thought about everything that happened in the past two days. He thought that everything he had with Alice just now was just a fantasy of himself, a dying person.

But when he saw Scott with short dark brown hair on the seat next to him, holding three chopsticks between his fingers, picking up the noodles on the plate like a Wolverine, he probably thought Got it, he really went back to eight years ago, 1923.

"Xingzhi, I just said that three chopsticks are more useful! You Chinese should use three chopsticks instead of two like me!" Scott muttered indistinctly as he ate noodles, with a smug expression on his face expression.

Ren Xingzhi looked at the strange man in front of him, his heart seemed to have been hit by a withering spell, he sighed, shook his head and said, "I'm going to the library, let's go first, you have a hard time eating." After that, he opened the door and walked towards the library.

He was walking on the way to the library, and his emotions were still fluctuating and not at all calm. He didn't know why all this happened, but now that he has gone back to the past, he may be able to find a way to deal with it and prevent that doomsday 's arrival

And he also wants to protect the friends around him, and decides to change all this.Recalling the scene of Scott just now, Ren Xingzhi showed a helpless smile, and said to himself: "My friend, this time, I will not let the tragedy happen again."

It was getting dark, and Ren Xingzhi walked into the library. The lights in the library were bright, and the desks on the first floor were already filled with more than half of the people who were seriously looking at the books in their hands, writing and drawing on the side notebook from time to time.

Ren Xingzhi walked to the borrowing office in the library, and there was a white woman who looked about 40 years old behind the counter sorting out the list of borrowed books. Ren Xingzhi said, "Ms. Is the book still available, I have greeted Professor Armitage."

The lady looked up at Ren Xingzhi and said lightly: "I remember you, I came to pick up this book before, and you Chinese people like to read books with such strange characters. That book is still in the old place. Go get it, old rules, you can’t take it away here.”

Ren Xingzhi nodded to express his gratitude.Walking to the basement, as soon as he walked down the stairs, he saw an administrator sitting there, and there were only two or three people scattered in the reading area. Ren Xingzhi signed with him skillfully, writing his name and When the time came, I walked to the occult books, took out a book, and walked to the table to read it.

The cover of this book is written "Xuanzi Qiaoben" in classical Chinese. The book here is bound by modern technology and well preserved. It can be seen that this is a manuscript, not like some ancient books in the library. The book, which is already in dilapidated condition in some places, is said to have been donated to the library by a Chinese businessman surnamed He.

Ren Xingzhi has been reading this book for half a year, and he has only comprehended about half of it. Logically speaking, such precious books cannot be borrowed, but Ren Xingzhi helped Armitage The professor investigated some things, so he had the opportunity to read this book.

This book was written by Xuanzi in the second century A.D. It was handed down from the time of the Yellow Emperor, and it is divided into seven volumes.This manuscript is mostly an excerpt, so it contains a lot of history and knowledge.

It records many incarnations of a great god, but its name is not written in classical Chinese, but is composed of a bunch of strange characters, like ancient Egyptian and Latin.

The book also mentions a related content called Dreamland, as well as some other knowledge about ancient Chinese history.

The reason why Ren Xingzhi came to read this book was because he had seen a description in a certain part of the book that resembled a strange wolf-like creature with eight strange-colored eyes, but there was too much content in the book , he can't remember where it is, so he can only search slowly, maybe he can find some clues about why he crossed.

The book is very thick, with more than 500 pages. The lines between the lines are very small, and the number of words is densely packed like many ants on it. He reads carefully, and the time flies by. Three hours have passed, and the library has reached the closing time. The administrator Students are already being asked to leave in an orderly manner.

At the same time, Ren Xingzhi sat at the table and carefully looked at every line and every word in the book, for fear of missing some important information, his eyes were fixed on these words, and his brain was running fast to understand the meaning.

If someone is in front of him, you can see that the veins on his forehead are slightly bulging, and his eyes are gradually getting bloodshot.

Ren Xingzhi looked at the information in the book, and he felt that the words seemed to be moving and full of vitality, turning into small symbols and gradually combining together to form a painting.

The painting is of a woman, but the proportion of the woman's body and head is extremely huge, the body is huge, or it is swollen, and then he saw that the woman was holding a fan to cover her body. On the face and on the head is a bamboo hat.

Just as the woman was about to take off the fan to reveal the face covered by the fan, she gently patted Ren Xingzhi's shoulder with one hand.

"It's time to go, the library is going to be closed." The basement administrator patted Ren Xingzhi's shoulder with his hand, pulling his thoughts back to reality.Ren Xingzhi trembled slightly, he turned his head and looked at the man behind him and said with a slightly trembling voice, "Okay."

After that, he turned his head to record the page number. He found that the pictures in the book disappeared, and the words just stayed there calmly, as if nothing had happened. Ren Xingzhi comforted himself in his heart, maybe he was too engrossed in reading the book , Coupled with the fact that there are too many weird things I have encountered recently, and the pressure is too great, I have hallucinations.

He got up and returned the book to its original position, only to find that the clothes on his back were already wet with his own sweat when he got up.At this time, only he and the administrator were left in the basement. He went to the stairs to sign his name and leave time. good."

Ren Xingzhi looked up at the black man in front of him, with Newt's work card hanging on his chest.Ren Xingzhi thanked him sincerely, and left the library quickly.

(End of this chapter)