[Camila: What about you, sir, the mask needs to be taken off.
Stranger: Really
Cassida: Really, it's about time. We've all lost our pretense except you.
Stranger: I'm not wearing a mask.
Camila (shocked, whispering to Kasida): No mask? No mask!]
—The King in Yellow, Act 1, Scene 2
In the quiet meeting room, Gu Jun silently flipped through the tome on the table.
He didn't turn to the last chapter directly, but read from the first chapter, "The Man Who Restored His Reputation". In this chapter, he saw "Mr. Wilde", an evil dwarf, conspired with the protagonist to destroy Citigroup and establish the empire of the King in Yellow, and the protagonist with Hastur lineage will be crowned King in Yellow...
These sayings, the king in yellow, the yellow talisman, Hastur, are completely the set of the Brotherhood in Yellow...
Then there is this second "Mask", which has a script paragraph at the beginning.
Gu Jun read very quickly. This is English. His English level was not good enough to be so fluent, but the strange thing is that he can understand it completely now.
"Mask" has different protagonists and different characters, but one thing is the same as the first chapter. The protagonists in it all lost their minds and became crazy because they read a forbidden book called "The King in Yellow Clothes", and finally went to perish.
After reading this page of the story, for some reason, Gu Jun couldn't help but take a deep breath, feeling a little swollen.
"Jem..." Perry Sanders could see his strangeness, and persuaded him again: "That's it? You should rest for a few more days..."
"I'm fine." Gu Jun said in a deep voice, his head was very swollen and painful, but compared to the time in the altar space, compared to the many moments he experienced, this pain is almost like scratching an itch. It can be said that it is no more serious than being bitten by a mosquito.
There are many messy thoughts in his mind, and there must be some power behind this matter.
As early as when he was in the ward, he noticed a situation, the shattering force in his mind seemed to have disappeared.
Now, with this book, it seems that it is inseparable from the king in yellow...
However, it could also be a mockery of Nyarlathotep.
When Gu Jun thought about it, it was like mocking the Yisi people, mocking them human beings by imitation. In the final decisive battle at that time, both the Tianji Bureau and the Mystic Bureau were summoning and driving Baiyaki, and he and Yu Chi summoned and drove Little Night Dire. The source of power in "The Seven Secrets of the Earth" and "The Nine Secrets of Mystery" was the king in yellow …
In his current situation, reading this "The King in Yellow", how could it be a coincidence.
In that decisive battle, did we lose or win...
Xian Yu, Yu Chi, Zixuan, monitor, Ah Mei, Uncle Dan, Master Tong, everyone, are they still alive...
Gu Jun flipped through the other chapters, and finally turned to the last chapter of the book, The gue Doctor, "Plague Doctor"
This chapter occupies most of the book's space, and the proportion is quite unbalanced, accounting for about three-quarters of the space.
He then discovered that there are different parts in this chapter:
Different banyans, different dreams, different coughs, different scales, different locusts
Looking at these, Gu Jun had many memory images rushing past in front of his eyes, and he knew what these nouns represented.
Fingers rub the paper lightly, with a rough grainy touch.
He stared at the list of chapters, and hadn't opened them for a long time. In his heart, he was also deterred by this weird unknown.
"Who is this Robert Chambers?" Gu Jun asked, it was marked as the author of "The King in Yellow".
"An unknown author." Perry-Sanders answered what he knew. "This book has been published for several years, and only a thousand copies have been printed. There has been no response. You borrowed it from the University of Michigan library, and you Surprised by the coincidence of this chapter with you, you shared this with your family and friends, but everyone regarded it as a general anecdote, I didn't expect you to get so deep... Jem, you need to know, this is just a book , not the real one, the real one is yourself."
Gu Jun looked at the name Robert Chambers. There is no photo of the author printed on the front and back of the book. Maybe there is a chance to meet this guy...
Perhaps, this is another incarnation of Nyarlathotep.
After pausing for a while, finally, Gu Jun opened the chapter on the different banyan tree and started to read it.
Gu Jun, an eight-year student majoring in clinical medicine at Dongzhou University School of Medicine, orphan, brainstem tumor...
"..." Gu Jun's breath was getting heavier, his brows were frowning and there was no Panasonic, looking at the pages of words, the past was vivid in his memory.
Not everything is written in the book, but the "Gu Jun" in it is him, his experience, his life...
After reading more than ten pages in a row, my head became more and more swollen and tingling, my heart felt suffocated and stuffy, and my whole body seemed to be losing strength.
In fact, it doesn’t need to be Nyarlathotep. Even the people of Yisi, who only act as observers and travel back and forth in time and space, can know what happened, and weave those things into stories, and the words he said It's not impossible to write lines...
Is Gu Jun here
Or is Gu Jun from the parallel world seeing another Gu Jun
Or is there another Gu Jun that doesn't exist, it's really just a story...
"Jem, it's time to stop!" Sanders called out hastily, "Your complexion is very bad, don't be brave in such things, it's unnecessary."
"Don't make noise..." Gu Jun suddenly stopped shouting, glared at the other party, and murmured: "How many times have I said, I'm not crazy."
He directly turned to the end of the article on different locusts, and saw the ending paragraph:
["I know what I have done." Gu Jun sat upright, with a fixed face, and told them solemnly: "I am saving people, I am not crazy."]
Gu Jun had a headache. It was in the interrogation room. His S value was only 51. The interrogators were evaluating whether he was insane, and then they blew up the passage to the other world.
51. Wu Shiyu...
He shook his head, interrupted his thoughts, and continued to turn the pages of the book until he reached the ending of the chapter of different dreams, [I wish everyone a good dream.]
These sentences that truly recorded the past hit Gu Jun's heart like a heavy hammer, making his spirit start to feel a little dazed...
The speed at which he turned the pages of the book couldn't help becoming more and more frantic. He calmed himself down, slowed down, slowed down, but he still quickly turned to almost the end of the book.
There is a prayer, so boldly printed on the last line of the page.
["I?! Shab Nicholas! The black goat of the forest that breeds thousands of descendants!"]
Then, then... Gu Jun took a deep breath, rubbing the paper with his fingers, there are still a few last pages in this "The King in Yellow".
I don't know what is recorded, and I don't know whether it is true or not.
But, in this book, this entry always has an end.
Gu Jun slowly turned a page and read it again.