PFC Chapter 3224 The Shadow of Faraines (21)
Chapter 3224 The Shadow of Faraines (21)
Chapter 3224: The Shadow of Faraines (Twenty-one)
Naya's silence revealed surprise.
This is an emotion that can be felt without psychoanalysis. He didn't seem to have thought that Schiller would choose him.
But then came a feeling of joy, and Schiller was even disturbed by his emotion. He sighed and said, "I advise you not to be happy too soon. Although I am not the kind of person who borrows money and does not pay it back, whether I can pay it back is another matter."
"Okay." Naya said, "My conditions are actually very simple. I put a box deep in the underground cave, and I hope you can help me find it."
"…Is it that simple?" Schiller's tone was full of doubt.
"Your request is not difficult to achieve." Naya said in a seemingly fair manner: "It does not necessarily drive people crazy. Even if you read it with a resistance mentality, it may be nothing. Otherwise, how did those lunatics in Arkham study the spell?"
Schiller's mind moved, and he asked, "Is there a town called Arkham in this universe? Is there a Miskatonic University?"
"Maybe, but that's far from here."
Nayya gave an ambiguous answer, but Schiller felt that this might be an important clue.
Because he remembered that the famous University of Michigan was located in Massachusetts, and the Siltek family's insurance business was distributed in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Could this be a coincidence?
Connecticut and Massachusetts are two neighboring states located in the northeastern United States. The two states share a large bordering area and can be said to belong to the same region.
These two states are not very noticeable because of their small area, but they have one thing in common, that is, they have very good educational resources. One has Yale University and the other has MIT. In addition, there are many other famous universities.
The town of Arkham, where Miskatonic University, the most famous fictional university in the Cthulhu mythology, is located, is located in Massachusetts.
Combined with the climate conditions of Faraines, Schiller could roughly judge that this small village should also be located in the northeastern United States and on the sea. Even if it was not in these two states, it would not be too far away, possibly in southern Maine or northern New Jersey.
Schiller didn't think this was a coincidence. Since they were placed so close to Misty University, there should be a map that can be explored. However, Arkham Town is not peaceful either. With Schiller's current level of knowledge, he would just be sending himself to death if he went there.
Could it be that Naya was trying to seduce me to go there?
Schiller certainly wouldn't be fooled so easily, so he also wanted to see the legendary University of Michigan, but it was clear that none of the conditions were ripe now. When it was difficult to deal with a deep diver, it was too early to compete with the legendary investigators.
“Okay, I promise you,” Shiller said. “You know this won’t be the last deal.”
"Don't worry, you won't die easily."
As Naya's voice fell, Schiller felt a shadow covering his vision, his mind became very clear, and the cover of the Book of the Water God in his hand showed bizarre colors.
Schiller opened the book. Reading Latin was a little difficult for him, but after all, he had the skill and quickly understood the content.
In fact, rather than saying it is a book of spells, it is more like a travelogue, which records all kinds of strange stories about rivers and lakes. From a literary point of view, it is very interesting.
However, whenever the gods and monsters that may exist in these water systems are introduced, the introduction becomes very detailed, with some hand-drawn pictures, and many spells and texts below.
Just looking at these things made people dizzy. Schiller felt that the shadow in front of his eyes was gradually fading. He understood that too much forbidden knowledge was impacting the barrier that Naya had given him, so he quickly turned back.
Although the contents of the book did not cause him any real harm, he still remembered almost all the names and spells. Although many of them were things he had known before, learning more about them in this world would give him a legitimate reason to share the information with other teammates. His teammate was Batman, and this was very important.
Schiller quickly finished reading the entire book and successfully found a distorted five-pointed star-like pattern on the penultimate page of the book. This was the famous old seal in the legend.
In Schiller's vision, this pattern exuded a soft light that was completely different from the entire book. It had neither the frivolous color changes nor the frightening shadows. Just looking at it was invigorating.
Schiller placed his hand gently on it.
Suddenly he felt a pain in his palm. When he pulled it back, there were some intermittent ink marks on his palm. Although it was still emitting light, it was a little weak and it seemed that it could only be used once or twice.
But this is also good news, which means that Schiller will no longer be eroded by forbidden knowledge in the short term, nor will his mental health value drop due to seeing anything distorted.
The old seal on the book was still emitting light, but Schiller didn't dare to move it. Although he felt that he should be able to draw power from it again, it would be more troublesome if the old seal lost its power and the book escaped.
Even though this book has no arms or legs, it is a living thing certified by Naija himself. This cursed thing has many ways to bring you bad luck so that it can fall into the hands of a more careless person and spread this forbidden and filthy knowledge.
The previous owner of this book must have been a crazy cultist, otherwise he would not have devoted his body and soul to this book.
Having obtained what he wanted, Schiller closed the book, put it and the Bible in his arms, and walked toward the street again.
Batman came back at the perfect time and met Schiller who was walking out. He was holding something in his hands, which was obviously what he had prepared.
"I made some homemade gasoline bombs, and I also made a dust explosion device using flour from the kitchen of a house not far away, an igniter, and I also want to go back to the lighthouse and improve the electric shock device made by the clown, which should be useful."
The two returned to the lighthouse together. This time there was no need to hide their whereabouts. They simply found a car on the side of the road, put their things in it, and headed towards the lighthouse.
There were also Deep Divers blocking the road, but Batman was a good driver and left them all behind, and they arrived at the lighthouse in no time.
The two of them replenished their supplies here for the last time. They ate something and treated their wounds. Batman improved the electric shock device that the Joker had made and made two simple electric batons, and gave one to Schiller.
Schiller actually didn't want to use such a dangerous weapon. This thing looked like a detonator in his hand, ready to explode at any time.
But he also had to admit that electric current was too lethal to carbon-based organisms. If he used this thing to electrocute deep divers, they would be knocked to their knees. If it weren't for the poor power storage capacity, he could have killed seven of them on the ship.
Before they set off for the dock, Schiller gave Batman the cross necklace he had found in old Siltk's safe. He said, "This thing should have the effect of resisting mental pollution, but it can only be used a limited number of times, so it's best not to take risks."
Batman didn't be polite to him and didn't ask stupid questions like "What are you going to do?" because he knew that since Schiller gave him this thing, he must have other ways of doing it.
Neither of them is the type of person who would sacrifice themselves for others at any time. Even though Batman is a good guy, he knows his own importance and would not do meaningless things to block the knife. The same is true for Schiller.
Having a teammate like this really makes things worry-free. Both of them feel that there is no need to explain anything. All they have to do is move towards their goal.
They headed towards the dock from a path on the southeast side of the lighthouse and encountered two or three waves of patrolling deep divers on the way.
But this creature that walks on two feet obviously prefers to walk on the roads built by humans rather than wandering through the woods, so Batman and Schiller who were walking in the woods were not discovered.
The sun was shining brightly at this time, but the dock was shrouded in thick fog, so thick that you could hardly see the sun. It was only slightly brighter than the previous darkness, and the visibility was still very poor.
Schiller and Batman climbed over the fence of the dock, and with the help of the goods piled on the dock, they made their way to the pier near the first large ship.
There was a guard at the door of the ship, and Schiller was a little hesitant whether to kill him because he was not sure how many people were inside the ship. If they went over and dragged the people away, it would alert the deep divers inside and it might cause big trouble.
But Batman had already crouched down, ready to go, and Schiller could only follow behind him.
The moment the Deep One turned around, Batman grabbed his throat beautifully and dragged him to the stern of the ship. With a force of his arms, he broke the Deep One's neck.
Schiller dragged the body aside and threw it into the sea.
He didn't know whether the Deep Diver would be resurrected after returning to the sea, but obviously the body couldn't be left here. After all, if a patrol came, they would know that there was an intruder.
At this time, Batman had walked quietly to the door and waved to Schiller. Schiller raised his eyebrows and gave him a look, and Batman nodded.
It was high tide and the ship was floating relatively high, which allowed them to enter directly from the lower loading area without going through the most heavily guarded deck. The two men entered the door carefully.
After entering, it was pitch black. Schiller put on night vision goggles, while Batman didn't wear any equipment, but walked calmly.
Schiller finally couldn't help himself and asked in a low voice: "How did you do it? Did you use perspective?"
Batman turned around and gave him a slightly puzzled look.
Schiller then remembered that Batman seemed to have maxed out his psychoanalysis skill, and his current mental state was very bad, which meant that he was in full-fire mode, and Pride might be guiding him from the side, wasn't that equivalent to turning on the perspective?
Thinking of this, Schiller felt relieved. He didn't care who went crazy, as long as it wasn't him.
While moving forward in the darkness, Schiller couldn't help but start thinking, Naya actually placed his own things deep in the cave. Did he add this plot when the Transcendent was away?
What would be in that box?
I had barbecue today. It was delicious.