I created the myth of the Great Old Ones.

Lu Ban was covered in a lot of juice. He shook off the spider in his hand, sniffed the juice, and smelled a fishy, ​​foul odor, like a piece of meat that had been rotting for many days.

"move."

When Trist ran out of ammo, compared to Sia, it was like a tickle to him. Arriving at the hotel entrance, he ignored the darkness outside and rushed out.

Lu Ban and Xi Ya followed closely behind. They saw the spider crawling around on the ground, densely packed, with more crawling onto the hotel owner's body. However, he remained unmoved, and even when the spider covered his face, he did not resist.

The three left the hotel. The night was deep outside, but the streetlights in the town were on.

Lu Ban looked up and carefully examined the streetlights.

"What, did you find something?"

Trist followed Lu Ban and looked up. Apart from noticing that the streetlights were lit by some kind of animal fat, there was nothing else unusual about them.

“I think this is a good place for capitalists who exploit workers.”

Lu Ban withdrew his gaze.

"capitalist?"

Tristan heard words he didn't understand again.

“We should go back to the church; I feel the ancient capital is still there.”

Xia glanced at the church, which was still brightly lit.

As they prepared to go to the church, they saw a crowd gathered in the street.

The men in black suits stood in a circle, seemingly observing something.

"I gonna go see."

Lu Ban was curious.

"do not go."

Trist couldn't stop Lu Ban, and saw Lu Ban sneakily approaching without even attracting the attention of the others.

He had become exactly like these weirdos, even better.

Lu Ban leaned forward, looking towards the center just like the men in suits.

Then he saw that in the middle, a man in a suit was struggling in pain.

The man's expression remained numb and indifferent, but his movements were extremely strange, convulsing and writhing on the ground as if he were having an epileptic seizure.

Then, with a silent scream, his mouth opened to the limit that would have dislocated it, and then there was a cracking sound as his jaw dislocated.

His mouth remained wide open, his tongue and throat sticking out as if something was pulling and dragging them to dig out what was inside.

next moment.

With a hissing sound, the man's throat was ripped out.

No, that's not a throat.

Lu Ban saw that a gray, rough, and sturdy tentacle protruded from his mouth.

The tentacles caused the man's entire body to lose its momentum, and he quickly burrowed out, like a newly hatched snake.

As the tentacles appeared, the man's body gradually shrank and twisted. Finally, when all the tentacles were revealed to Lu Ban, the man in the suit was gone, replaced by a twisted monster with tentacles as its head, limbs, and body.

The monster seemed to have no eyes or mouth; its main body was a tentacle that was wriggling on the ground, as if it were a parasite searching for a host.

"So, these people are actually monsters that have turned into this kind of thing?"

Faced with such a frenzied and irrational scene, Lu Ban thought to himself.

At this moment, Lu Ban suddenly felt much quieter.

He looked around, and all the people in suits suddenly turned their heads and stared at Lu Ban.

The heads that were turning normally and those that weren't turning normally had no expression, only unreadable gazes fixed on Lu Ban.

In the silent and still night, even the streetlights dimmed.

"Sorry to bother you guys."

Lu Ban stealthily tried to leave the group.

But a man in a suit reached out and grabbed Lu Ban.

One, two, three, and more people reached out and grabbed Lu Ban.

In the silent night, under the watchful gaze of the lights, they opened their mouths.

Without any unusual sound, slippery tentacles emerged from deep within its throat.

Like the convulsing man, these people in suits had contorted, shriveled faces, and from their mouths, the tentacles that formed their true forms were gradually revealing their original shapes.

Seeing this, Lu Ban did not panic, but opened his mouth.

In an instant, a kind of manic, incessant, tormenting muttering arose.

It's like scratching a blackboard with your fingernails, like rubbing a stone against a smooth hole, like a sharp, piercing buzzing sound echoing.

In an instant, all the tentacles began to twitch wildly, and the men in suits collapsed to the ground as if they had lost all reason. At the same time, Trist instinctively covered his ears in the distance, and when Sia heard the murmur, her eyes widened suddenly, bloodshot, and she immediately used a spell to temporarily block her hearing.

Lu Ban stopped muttering and walked past the tentacle monsters writhing on the ground to reach Trist and Sia.

"It seems they don't really welcome me."

He said.

Ignoring the convulsing monsters, the three went straight to the church entrance in the center of town.

Pushing open the church door, Lu Ban saw the priest standing in front of the pulpit, reading a book.

"Perhaps you'd like to see this."

He pointed to the original manuscript placed on the last row of benches.

Trist pulled out his revolver and picked up the stack of manuscript papers as Lu Ban closed the door.

"Spiders, spiders everywhere, spiders falling from the sky..."

Chapter 228 A Story

Without even needing to read it carefully, Drizzt could tell what was written in the original manuscript.

It was nothing more than everything that happened to them after they arrived in North Cold Town.

Enough, Drizzt thought, that's enough.

"Where exactly is the ancient capital? What is all this about? Stop with the tricks, I can't take it anymore."

Drizzt pulled out a revolver, not the one he usually used, but the more powerful [Mimetic Sunfire].

If necessary, Drizzt could simply grind the church to dust. At that point, it wouldn't matter where the ancient capital was hidden, since it would all be destroyed in one shot anyway.

This period of time had been extremely torturous for him. The fact that his actions were being manipulated and presented in a way that was written by someone else made Drizzt deeply doubt himself.

"Don't worry, when you are able to see my Lord, you will see him immediately."

The priest spoke calmly, looking at the pistol that Drizzt had raised.

"You won't kill me, you won't destroy this church."

What makes you say that?

Trist placed his finger on the trigger. Although he wouldn't fire immediately, it wasn't because he was afraid, but because firing now might cause the church to collapse and injure himself and Lu Ban.

“Because in my Lord’s holy book, you do not fire a gun.”

The priest looked very devout, like the martyred saints in ancient legends.

"Holy Scripture? You mean these terrifying things?"

Lu Ban took out "The Spider in the Corner," which he had gotten from the hotel owner, and waved it in front of the priest.

“These are the divine pronouncements of my Lord, sacred words.”

The priest answered.

"Then let's talk about your god, what kind of guy is he?"

Lu Ban took a few steps forward and sat on the first row of benches, like a believer listening to a sermon.

"He created this world, possesses all authority, is supreme, and is all-knowing and all-powerful."

The priest used the usual religious rhetoric, but he didn't convey any message.

"Is all of this, like everything outside, his doing?"

Lu Ban pressed for an answer.

"Even you and I are creations of my Lord."

The priest looked at Lu Ban.

"Me and you?"

Lu Ban found it fun.

"I do have some insights into your master. He should be able to control the environment, human cognition, and even monsters to some extent within a certain range?"

“I do not deny what you have said, because this is what my Lord has allowed you to know.”

The priest had no intention of discussing it with Lu Ban.

"Your statement sounds just like those fortune tellers who speak in an ambiguous way. If they guess right, they're considered diviners; if they guess wrong, it's just fate."

Lu Ban added.

"Let's not waste our breath on him. I have a feeling that the ancient capital is in this church. Why don't we take care of him and then go find the ancient capital?"

Tristana was getting impatient.

Xia nodded in agreement.

"There is another space beneath this church, and it seems there are people inside."

Upon hearing Sia's words, the priest suddenly took a half step back.

"Don't make things difficult for him, come down."