I created the myth of the Great Old Ones.

Lu Ban thought to himself.

When faced with a choice, most people who have witnessed the destruction of many worlds would probably make the same decision.

Rather than gradually losing your rationality, eventually succumbing to madness, dying in some corner of a foreign land, or being corrupted and transformed into a monster, it's better to exchange one life for one with the source of that corruption.

Just like Drizzt, just like this nameless director.

Perhaps, Lu Ban will also face such a day in the future.

"It seems you've already foreseen the ending."

A voice suddenly came from behind Lu Ban. He turned around and saw Feng Yu wearing a long trench coat and jeans.

Are you alright?

Lu Ban frowned slightly, took out his phone, and checked the messages.

"It's not that nothing happened, it's just that we encountered a small problem."

Feng Yu tucked her hair, which had been tousled by the biting wind, behind her ear and pointed in the direction of the school gate.

"Let's talk as we walk."

Chapter 791 Videotape

Lu Ban and Feng Yu walked side by side.

The two attracted a lot of attention.

The main problem is that girls can't move when they see Lu Ban, which causes traffic jams.

Lu Ban quickly pulled out a mask and put it on for Miskatok's traffic safety.

“I told you before that there was a hidden danger in North America, which I later discovered was in Miskatonic.”

Feng Yu said as he walked.

Lu Ban thought about it carefully and realized that there was indeed such a thing. Feng Yu had joked before that Lu Ban should repay his favor by accompanying him to Massachusetts. Now it seems that Feng Yu had probably already discovered the problem with Miskatonic.

“This land is strange. Since ancient times, there have been frequent pollution and strange occurrences, until problems arose in Miskatok.”

“Every year during the film festival, that space appears here. I tried to go in and investigate before, but I quickly ran into trouble. As you probably know, what dwells there is no ordinary, eerie thing.”

Feng Yu and Lu Ban walked out of the school gate. There didn't seem to be as many churches in Miskatonic as Lu Ban had seen last night. Although there were still some ancient-style buildings, it was obviously more modern than the city landscape with its strong religious atmosphere.

I don't know which period of Miskatonic Scott captured, but I imagine it was from an earlier era.

"So you want me to go and test the waters?"

Lu Ban slowed his pace slightly.

"Don't worry, I've been watching over you. If something really comes up that we can't solve, I'm willing to die with you."

Feng Yu smiled and pointed to the videotape in Lu Ban's hand.

"Who do you think gave you this videotape?"

"Was that old woman you?"

Lu Ban turned the videotape in his hand over.

"To be precise, I've been observing you through this videotape all along; otherwise, how could I have left those words?"

Feng Yu answered.

It is indeed difficult to leave clues out of thin air, but for the scenes in the movie, Feng Yu only needs to find the corresponding film and then leave the text on the film.

Similarly, if you want to add something, you can simply add it directly to the film.

But this film was clearly left behind by that chosen one, possessing certain extraordinary qualities, and cannot be altered at will.

Lu Ban looked at the videotape in his hand, and many words appeared on it.

Welcome to the Miskatole Film Festival

【alienation】

The Miskatonic Film Festival is a carnival for niche enthusiasts, a feast for the imagination and the horror.

This videotape contains a film about a film festival; it's a bit thriller, slightly scary, and very easy to get lost in.

Once it's broadcast, it will inevitably come to an end. As for the role you play in the movie, that's up to the director.

Do your best to survive to the end, or at least never be the first one to die.

"Every household has a videotape they don't want their children to see, and this is one of them."

This videotape, along with the contamination from the Great Old Ones within it, has been collected and transformed into a transcendental object.

If this videotape is played, those around it will be sucked in and experience a horror movie. They can only escape by letting the movie reach its ending.

As for what the plot of the movie will be now that the statue of the Supreme Mother Goddess has been taken out, Lu Ban is not quite sure.

He put the videotape away and then took out the ball wrapped in stone.

"And this, what should we do with it?"

The stone-encased statue continued to erode the outside world. In just a short time, Lu Ban noticed that some strange, dark purple moss had grown in the cracks of the stone, which he quickly wiped away.

"That's easy. We'll just find a destroyed alien world and dump it there."

As Feng Yu spoke, he reached out his hand to Lu Ban.

Lu Ban grasped the slightly cold hand. The next moment, he felt the surrounding sounds fade away, and countless vibrant colors enveloped him and Feng Yu. When he came to his senses again, the surroundings were already bathed in the glow of the setting sun.

"Is this... Twilight City?"

Lu Ban confirmed that the desolate scene and the unchanging sunset were indeed the alien land where the four-eyed people lived, the City of Twilight.

He remembered that he had spread some of his faith here before, but he didn't know what the situation was like now.

"This place has been completely destroyed."

Feng Yu pointed ahead.

Lu Ban discovered that this was the place where he had used the [Strange Amusement Park] to manifest his power and take away a group of bespectacled people. If he remembered correctly, there should be a ruin nearby.

The ruins are indeed still there.

However, this place has changed a lot compared to what Lu Ban remembers.

Previously, this place was filled with dilapidated buildings left over from the last era, with only low bungalows remaining.

But now, the ruins have obviously been rebuilt to a certain extent and have expanded in scale. The place where Lu Ban placed the amusement park has now become a huge city center square. It is conceivable that a city of this size must be home to a large number of residents. Perhaps after Lu Ban left, this place became the political and cultural center of Twilight City.

But this place has been destroyed.

Even the remains have weathered away, and the once magnificent buildings are now just ruins, overgrown with weeds, and shrouded in a deathly atmosphere.

If it were due to war, this place should have become a city occupied by the victors. But now, there is not a single person to be seen in the entire city, and the surrounding wilderness is extremely desolate. Lu Ban suspects that some extremely strange event may have occurred here, leading to the silent destruction of the entire city.

"The City of Dusk was already a fading alien realm, filled with pollution that no one could handle. Their chosen ones were ultimately powerless to reverse the decline. They attempted to summon a new god, and so, after a sacrificial ritual, all creatures of the alien realm—past, present, and future—became sacrifices, offered to that god. But naturally, He did not grant salvation to this place."

Feng Yu sighed.

Although the City of Dusk and the alien realm where Lu Ban resides are hostile, and Lu Ban has fought against those bespectacled people before, seeing a civilization that once had a breath of life annihilated still makes Lu Ban feel a sense of shared vulnerability.

"And what about the deity they summoned?"

Lu Ban asked.

Feng Yu did not answer, but pointed to the sky.

Lu Ban looked up and saw that in the eternal twilight, a bluish-green flame was tearing the sky apart. The flame seemed to rise from the other side of the horizon and fall into the other side. In the cracks of the earth, emerald green gas was spreading, about to devour the entire planet.

Chapter 792 Destroying you is none of your business.

These flames erupted from the deepest part of the earth like a volcanic eruption. Unlike ordinary flames, they did not cast shadows on anything. Although these flames were burning at their most intense intensity, they could not bring any warmth. Only the stench of death and decay permeated the air.

Upon seeing the eerie green flames, Lu Ban felt countless images flood his mind.

Dark green smoke fell from the flames, seeping into the planet's interior through cracks in the earth's surface, staining its core with the same green hue. Then, the pale green beams of light would erupt again from every corner of the earth, causing surrounding life to wither and die, and even rocks to be eroded and transformed.

Only after all the matter on an entire planet has been eroded will the flames quietly depart, leaving behind a desolate world, becoming a lonely tombstone in the universe.

Dark red blood flowed from Lu Ban's nostrils, eyes, mouth, and ears. His brain had just gone through a period of turmoil, and it took some time for the boiling and restless cerebrospinal fluid to return to normal before Lu Ban's rolled-back eyes finally returned to normal.

"Is this also an Old One? No, He should be of a higher rank than the Old Ones, but not to the level of Charlotte and the others."

Lu Ban asked.

"Outer Gods are beings above the Great Old Ones, beings closest to the essence of this world, and the source of all pollution in the world."

Feng Yu answered.

"This is one of them, but He is not interested in the insignificant prayers of mankind, nor is He sealed away. Therefore, few people know of His existence. Some say He is the dancer in the abode of that supreme being, and the churning of flames is His swaying dance. But for most humans, once they see these flames, it heralds the arrival of the end times."

There are many such beings in the universe. They have no distinction between good and evil, and simply follow their own will to move among the stars, taking what they need. As for the consequences, that is not something these Outer Gods would care about.

Perhaps, like this eerie green flame, it simply draws energy from the planet. And when the planet's core energy is exhausted and it cools down, what changes will occur to the civilization on the planet? It certainly hasn't considered that.

If the evil creatures in other realms committing slaughter and destroying civilizations are malicious, then the actions of these gods are completely devoid of emotion.

This proves the saying: "Destroying you is none of your business."

Such indifference is the main theme of the Great Old Ones, while those who walk the world like Charlotte or the "Dark Ones," meticulously preparing for their own purposes, are the truly rare creatures.

Of course, the Great Old Ones are free, so it's quite normal for this to happen.

“You can place this idol here. This planet has completely lost its future. The Outer God above us will completely digest this place in about three thousand years. Don’t worry about the idol causing any harm.”

Feng Yu pointed to the ground in front of him.

Lu Ban thought for a moment. This statue represents a deity in charge of reproduction and childbirth. It can corrupt everything it touches, causing it to reproduce and mutate. The result of placing it in the wilderness is probably that this barren land will give birth to twisted life again.

Perhaps in the beginning of the universe, in the desolate world, it was precisely because of the authority of the supreme god that brilliant life was born.

However, the power that exists here is ultimately just a statue of a god, and the green flames that stretch across the sky will eventually devour everything.

Lu Ban took the stone out and placed it on the ground.

The stone had been severely eroded, and the creeping grass and trees in the cracks began to spread and grow as soon as they touched the hard ground, and soon a lush meadow appeared on the cracked earth.

However, the grass was not green, but a mixture of deep purple and crimson, swaying like seaweed in the shallow sea.