After Youdekao opened the script, the scenes in the script appeared in his mind.
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A strange stranger wearing a white mask sneaked into the palace banquet, shouting,
"Carcosa is gone!"
The palace guards went to subdue the man, and after torture, the man confessed his identity.
He called himself the Pale Mask and was a member of the Brotherhood, but all the members of the Brotherhood had disappeared and they were both real and illusory.
“A pair of proud brothers sharing a room.
Their family, once wealthy, was now destitute and had only a jar for water, a jar for food, their old house, and a dog.
One day, the dog accidentally knocked over a lamp, causing a small fire.
The two brothers argued over who was more qualified to put out the fire, until the fire spread and burned down the entire house.
The grain jars, the water jars, and their houses were all reduced to ashes in the flames, and the brothers finally made up their minds to kill the dogs as well.
The angry queen ordered people to turn the capstan frantically, torturing the man to death.
The confusing story made the Queen feel fooled, but the pale mask's hands were torn apart from her arms where they were tied with ropes, and white liquid continued to flow out of them.
Until the pale mask melted away. The empty rack laughed at the queen's ignorance, and Carcosa in the sky was indeed gone.
The pale mask's robe fell to the ground, and Princess Camilla, who was standing beside her, held it in her arms as if it were a treasure.
"I found it, I found it! Rejoice! Great joy! The Yellow Seal is in my hand! The end is coming!"
Camilla spoke in a low voice at first, and then shouted words that were incomprehensible.
Prince Tyre, who was blind and bleeding from his eyes, walked on his own, talking to himself,
“I walked out of the city gates to find a way out, but I saw only tombstones and graves;
I saw through the veil of the world and became blinded by it.
A battle flag stood outside the city, and the sound of cannons and gun smoke echoed in the end, a scene like a nightmare. "
Tyr was found lying beside the city wall and brought to the palace.
Tell shouted like a madman,
"Ask Nautauba! Ask him! Where is Carcosa?! Why are our friends who died long ago wandering our streets?! Where do the armies outside our gates come from?! Ask the high priest - you have brought him here! Those are secrets you don't know! You ignorant people are only here to protect your own kingship and status! Just outside your comfortable walls, the future is already unfolding. Ah! I can no longer bear the beauty outside the walls. Our world is dying in despair! Along with all our creatures! Nothing we do can delay it, and nothing we do can speed it up. The end is at hand!"
The royal city of Iti was filled with chaos. Camilla, wearing dirty and tattered pajamas and with messy and damp hair, walked around the city showing the yellow seal in her heart - the robe of the pale mask.
King Adonis, who had always been absolutely rational, did not believe what Tyr and Camilla said, and he did not think that Carcosa would exist.
Nautauba said sarcastically, "You never see Adonis, Carcosa, and the Yellow Seal."
"I don't care about the future. What we need now is the guards to provide support. Lieutenant Birk, this is your mission."
Adonis said.
The sounds of gunfire and people's desperate cries outside the city gate were vague and low-frequency at first, but later became louder and more frequent.
Adonis drew the sword at his waist, ready for the battle.
With a loud bang, the two flags symbolizing royal power fell, revealing a banner embroidered with a yellow seal.
The throne collapsed into the wall, and the wall began to crack, with smoke pouring out of the cracks.
The Yellow King, about three meters tall, descended in ragged robes and a hood, his face hidden behind a billowing veil of yellow silk.
His hands were covered with yellow gloves.
As he drifted forward, his small steps moved with the wind.
"Everything you have is meaningless. I am the beginning of a new era. I am eternity. I am Hastur and the liberator of Iti.
Carcosa is already here in Iti, this is Carcosa at this moment, and Carcosa is already here in all of you."
After saying this, all the people in the venue will turn into a wisp of gray smoke and disappear, leaving only the King in Yellow sitting on the collapsed throne, watching His territory.
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Yudkau felt a sincere worship of the power of the King in Yellow. Although the King in Yellow only appeared briefly at the end of the play, he was still very powerful.
He closed the script with joy, the book that led him into a mysterious world.
There was a knock on the door.
"Hello sir, this is room service, we will clean your room for you."
That was the voice of the innkeeper, but Yudkao heard several light footsteps.
Yudkao opened the window, activated the Blind Eye's invisibility spell, and then climbed out of the window.
Ever since seeing the wanted poster for himself, Youdekao has been very cautious.
There was the sound of a key turning in the door.
"Click"
The door lock was opened with the key, and standing outside the door was the man whom Yudekao hated so much, Joe Butran.
Jobtran strode into the seemingly empty room, with Tristana following behind him, while the innkeeper hid in the doorway.
"Damn it, he ran away! Boss, are you sure you watched him go upstairs?"
Jobtran confirmed this with the innkeeper, who nodded timidly.
Yudekao never thought that Joe Butran would come so quickly, he couldn't even figure out where he was exposed.
Judging from the character setting of his traveling merchant, it should be seamless.
Every year, countless merchants come to Umr City, as numerous as the stars in the sky, so why did they target me
He couldn't figure it out.
But he didn't expect that he was just out for a meal and happily ate some spaghetti with cheese and meat sauce, but the boss saw through him.
After Youdekao left, the boss went to the local police department to report the abnormalities he had discovered.
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The restaurant owner walked into the investigation bureau, and a member of the team on duty saw him and asked,
"Hey, Old John, why are you here?"
This is a regular customer of Old John's restaurant, and Old John himself is a retired investigation team member who retired early after being injured in a mission.
He opened a small restaurant to make a living with his pretty good cooking skills. Old friends would usually go to Old John for a drink after get off work.
“I found something!
He was a man who looked to be in his twenties, spoke fluent German, and claimed to be a perfume merchant from Catania.
I suspect it's one of the wanted criminals!"
Old John said quickly.