As if his vision penetrated the long river of time, Zhang Heng's eyes were in a trance. He seemed to see a string of lighting equipment on the top of the mine constantly lighting up. It was no longer as dark as before. Not only that, but hundreds of people appeared out of thin air in the mine. These people were wearing mining equipment and yellow safety helmets. Zhang Heng could also see the word "Dunwei" on everyone's safety helmets. Governance Corporation's logo.
In a daze, this group of people came in and out, like watching a fast-forward movie. Countless workers passed by Zhang Heng when going to and from work, and many equipment were also moved around. Zhang Heng You can only see that the mine is getting deeper and deeper, getting farther and farther...
This scene continued to play out in the mine, as if the situation had been compressed for several years, and Zhang Heng was still in a trance. He couldn't help but lift his feet and walk step by step towards the depths of the mine. With every step he took, the mine The darkness in front of the cave was drawn closer, but after walking thirty or forty steps, suddenly his eyes lit up, and Zhang Heng found that he had reached the end of the mine thousands of meters away.
At the end, there is a hall that is not too spacious or too small. In the center of the hall is an altar with a strange shape. Around the altar, dozens of people are kneeling and worshiping toward the altar. Everyone has a face. They are all filled with indescribable morbidity and fanaticism.
A strange sound came from these people, and Zhang Heng's dull eyes moved slightly. If he were awake at this time, he would be able to tell immediately that this sound was exactly what he heard from Abbott's mouth. A weird sound! It's like iron sandpaper scratching glass, not only harsh, but also inexplicably irritating.
But after entering the hallucination, Zhang Heng was always in a haze, as if he was dreaming, and had no idea what he was doing.
After an unknown amount of time, these devout believers with fanatical faces finally stood up with satisfaction, and then only saw countless corpses being brought in from outside the mine and placed on the altar according to certain pictures. The identities of these corpses were those workers. Hundreds of corpses were stacked on top of each other, almost forming a mountain of corpses!
These fanatical believers did not know how they killed hundreds of workers. Although Zhang Heng was in hallucination, his memory still worked. Almost every face he had seen before could be found on the corpse. Found in the mountains.
It seemed that not long after, a thick plume of smoke rose from the altar. At the same time, the killed workers began to transform one after another, and their corpses continued to shrink. Although the mine was definitely not dry, those corpses All the water in the body evaporated within a few seconds, and the skin with corpse spots began to wrinkle and dry up, changing from ordinary skin color to dark red and crimson. Not only that, a big red light also appeared in the eyes of these corpses. Keep emerging…
Hundreds of corpses slowly climbed up from the corpse mountain. These corpses have completely become monsters like crazy corpses that are free from life and death!
A deep coldness hit Zhang Heng, and a flash of struggle flashed in Zhang Heng's eyes. At the end of the hallucination, he seemed to sense that an indescribably huge consciousness was slowly awakening, with deep malice. And greed, wanting to completely engulf the entire world!
Wow!
The next second, Zhang Heng suddenly opened his eyes. At this time, he was still standing at the coordinates that Gu Zhan told him. Adam was looking at him with concern. From the moment Zhang Heng fell into the hallucination to when he left the hallucination, there was not even a moment. None!
If it were just this, it wouldn't be a big deal, but after sensing that hallucination, there seemed to be a click somewhere deep in Zhang Heng's mind!
A sealed memory was suddenly broken through by Zhang Heng!
After recalling that word, Zhang Heng's pupils suddenly shrank, and a strong fear flashed in his eyes. He opened his mouth bitterly and said in a dry voice,
"Cthulhu..."
Yes, he remembered that the word that was erased in the radiation plane was the word 'Cthulhu'!
The moment Zhang Heng said these three words, the entire space seemed to tremble. The earth's rotation and gravity, as well as the electromagnetic mutual force of every charged particle in the world, seemed to be chaotic for an instant, and an invisible emanation emitted. of fluctuations!
"Warning! Warning! Emergency mission started!"
Just when Zhang Heng was inexplicably surprised, suddenly, the dimensional star in his mind suddenly sounded!
"Urgent mission: Call of Cthulhu—prevent the awakening of 'Cthulhu'!"
Zhang Heng was shocked. He never thought that just speaking subconsciously would trigger such serious consequences! Prevent the awakening of Cthulhu? What kind of international joke is this
However, what is even more unexpected is that just when Zhang Heng's whole body was freezing, the Dimensional Star actually sent a message again!
"Urgent Mission: Call of Cthulhu—Urgent Mission Complete."
"The host authority progress is one-third of C level!"
"Current permissions: C."
Are you fucking kidding me
Zhang Heng stumbled and almost fell to the ground!
Adam behind him immediately supported Zhang Heng and said in surprise, "Commander, what's wrong with you?"
"It's okay!" Zhang Heng immediately shook off Adam's support, turned around very quickly and walked out of the mine.
Seeing Zhang Heng's extremely ugly expression, although Adam was puzzled, he still followed Zhang Heng step by step, silently protecting him.
It wasn't until he returned to the Falcon that Zhang Heng sat limply in the driver's seat, with cold sweat pouring down his forehead!
It’s not that Zhang Heng has a bad mentality, as the saying goes, he who doesn’t know is fearless, but it’s precisely because Zhang Heng knows what kind of existence Cthulhu is, that’s why he’s so rude—that’s something that can’t be explained by the existing scientific system of mankind!
That's right, it's 'something'!
From beginning to end, Zhang Heng didn't even know what Cthulhu was. According to the setting of the novel, Cthulhu was the 'evil god' and the 'Old Ruler'. However, Zhang Heng understood that the so-called 'god' Maybe it's just an alien with advanced biotechnology, or maybe Cthulhu is not a living thing at all, but some phenomenon in the higher dimensions of the universe, or even some kind of memetic effect, etc...
However, no matter what Cthulhu is, once Zhang Heng wants to stand on the opposite side of Cthulhu, there will be no life or death! Because the two sides are not in the same dimension at all, it is described in the book that any human being who sees the existence of Cthulhu will become seriously ill, comatose, collapse, and go crazy because they cannot bear the amount of information. To put it simply, the SAN value is reduced to zero. —That is a situation that only occurs when low dimensions see high dimensions, just like Zhang Heng saw the four-dimensional world through the dimensional star! What he saw at that moment caused Zhang Heng to lose the sight in his right eye, and it was not until the help of the Dimension Star that he recovered again.
Zhang Heng's brain was very confused. He took a few deep breaths and forced himself to calm down, and then he began to meditate silently. What exactly did I do? Why did I just release the task one second and then say I had completed the task the next