Simultaneous Journey: Starting from Holy Terra

"It seems these middlemen aren't clean either. No wonder they're called the Koreans, the world's largest cult base."

Ye Ming pursed his lips, leaned against the door, took out his pistol, cocked it, and cautiously looked around.

It's not completely dark yet, and there are still people working at the port. Although South Korea was showing signs of decline in 2000, it was still at its peak overall, which can be considered its last moment of glory.

Even at 8 p.m., the port was still brightly lit.

According to them, it's not that they don't schedule night shifts, but rather that the machines need rest.

There were still many people around, so Ye Ming concealed his gun slightly. If a fight broke out here, the cleanup afterwards might be a bit troublesome...

He peered into the container warehouse.

At this moment, all the lights in the entire container warehouse were on, and every corner inside was lit. Except for the bottom of the machine, everything was clearly visible from Ye Ming's direction.

He slowly walked into the warehouse and did not sense any living creatures, but Ye Ming still felt something was amiss.

After setting foot in this place, he always had a strange sense of "peace of mind", and that special feeling even slowed down his thinking speed!

If it weren't for the outer layer of soul protection, Ye Ming might already have fallen into their trap!

"Who could have done this?"

Ye Ming frowned slightly and began to carefully check the entire warehouse and equipment. Finally, he found a pad under the assembly line.

The moment he saw the pad, he instinctively pinched it and then dragged it outwards.

But Ye Ming quickly realized what was happening and pushed the pad back with all his might, but it was too late!

The image carved on the pad should be of some unspeakable thing, and Ye Ming had just seen a corner of that image!

—Doubt, strangeness, curiosity, obsession, fanaticism, madness, frenzy…

Ye Ming felt the changes in his emotions. These clear and layered changes made Ye Ming realize that he must have seen some forbidden knowledge!

Along with these emotions came a name that simultaneously flooded his mind—"The Secret Scripture of the Mysterious Lord in Seven Chapters, Volume Three: The Talisman for Subduing Demons and Ghosts"!

"Not again!?"

Ye Ming's expression changed drastically.

If he had only seen a glimpse of something before, which led him to begin his corruption and depravity, he was only somewhat worried.

But it's still within one's tolerance range; those extreme emotional changes are offset, and the outer "shell" of the soul can still withstand them.

But when that knowledge entered his mind and he saw that name, he completely lost control!

Ye Ming's actions were swift enough; he upheld the dignity of a veteran investigator.

But even a seasoned investigator like him, with his many battles under his belt, appeared powerless and weak when faced with the deliberate targeting of something indescribable.

Ye Ming's eyes twitched, but he quickly reacted and viciously moved everything in the warehouse, including the pallet, into the shared space.

Then he lit a cigarette, made a phone call, said a few words, and after smoking half of it, he casually threw the cigarette on the ground, turned around and left.

Not long after Ye Ming left, a group of people dressed in various styles gathered from all over the port. They acted quickly, erasing all traces of Ye Ming's arrival at the port, and also altering access records and surveillance footage.

Then the entire warehouse burst into flames, and amidst the sirens of the fire department, all traces were completely erased...

As the fire raged here, a group of figures dressed in black robes appeared at the port.

They watched the fire, then silently bowed their heads and chanted the name of their supreme being…

……

Sitting in the car, Ye Ming was calling Inspector Chen. After all, this incident showed that he was indeed being watched!

I definitely can't handle this alone; I need to find some support.

"Yes, I might be being targeted by some ancient being... Hmm, maybe. I can still hold on, and the mission here can continue."

"Go back tomorrow after you finish? To the snow area?"

"Hmm." Chen Sir's voice came from the other end of the conversation. "Some people over there believe in the Old Gods. Although they are not trustworthy, they are still better than these Great Old Ones and Outer Gods."

"Understood, I will arrive on time."

After hanging up the phone, Ye Ming leaned back in the back seat and closed his eyes to rest.

He no longer has the strength to enter the shared space. His "soul shell" is covered in black, corrosive energy, like mud covering half of his body.

Although it is slowly being eliminated, it will slightly affect Ye Ming himself because it has exceeded half of the limit he can withstand.

It is normal to experience mild symptoms such as fatigue, weakness, and inattentiveness frequently.

In that hazy state, Ye Ming began to recall the first half of his life.

Ye Ming felt very lucky, but also felt somewhat ashamed of the "weakness" in his personality.

He traveled back in time to 1972, the year he was born.

Before he was born, those intensive disasters ended, such as the great war between the United States and Britain against the Kryptians—the burrowing worms—from 1964 to 1969.

For example, in 69, the Wilmas Foundation launched an attack on the leader of the Citonians, the Old One Shud Meier, which ended in disaster.

This was their second attempt to use a nuclear bomb vehicle, commendable in its courage, but it still failed.

Ye Ming didn't participate in any of the major events of the 70s.

When Ye Ming was 18 years old in 1990, he came into contact with the "nascent" Investigation Bureau. With the help of the Investigation Bureau, he was able to block out the subtle feeling of being spied on.

Afterwards, he studied various subjects, went abroad to Miskatonic University, and enrolled in the Faculty of Languages, Literature and Art, where he studied ancient history, archaeology, anthropology, geography, history, modern languages, Oriental studies, philosophy, religion and other disciplines.

He minored in art, music, psychology, socioeconomics, classical languages, and English, while also studying engineering, metallurgy, astronomy, biology, geology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and some medical knowledge.

However, they are not very proficient in any of them; they are at the level of being able to use them all.

As for his personality, it was formed while learning this knowledge and participating in some activities.

Being cautious is because one must be careful not to see things one shouldn't see in the University of Michigan's library;

It's kind of funny; it's to adjust my mindset so that I don't become a machine or get swallowed up by despair.

Being serious is a way of protecting yourself. If you're not serious, you might die in some unexpected place or be killed by something unexpected.

Thanks to his unique circumstances, he completed these courses and also developed powerful fighting skills.

Of course, these are just other people's opinions of Ye Ming. Only Ye Ming himself knows what he carefully avoided and what he missed!

He was not a legendary Chinese investigator, but just a coward who dared not confront the past head-on!

He studied at the University of Michigan for three years.

During this period, he didn't touch any of the major events of the 80s and 90s!

Even if offered a chance, he had no intention of participating, watching his friends from the academy die...

Compared to Ye Ming of Warhammer Fantasy, who rose again after a crushing defeat, Ye Ming of the Cthulhu universe was pessimistic and timid.

Before awakening his cheat ability, his mentality was to just get by, at most just to live a serious life, which was even worse than Ye Ming from Super God Academy!

He has avoided all the major events in the Cthulhu universe so far, without participating in a single one!

After returning to China, he went north and trained under the KGB for two years, becoming a professional agent and assassin.

When he came out, he was already 23 years old.

After returning to the Investigation Bureau, Ye Ming fought for five years, until now in 2000, when he was 28 years old.

And now, what he had been running away from seemed to have been swept away by all the powerful humans of the old era, who, without any scruples, turned their attention to him, this special lamb...

This time, however, the cowardly man had no choice but to fight alone.