Chapter 1387 Waiting for the opportunity (there are too many games to play recently)
Early the next morning, the news reported that the entire Jiumen family home was blown up due to a gas explosion. Of course, as part of the social news, the host also asked the city government to test the safety of the gas pipelines. request... But only ordinary people in the city would pay attention to this kind of boring news.
For example, Duanmuhuai will not pay attention.
“Are you sure you want to watch it?”
Duanmuhuai sat on the sofa and stared at the two detectives.
“I’ve already told you about the danger, you won’t forget it.”
?After entering Jiumen''s house last night, Duanmu Huai found the script of "The King in Yellow" and brought it back. Duanmuhuai did not mention this. But he also gave some explanations to the two detectives, especially about "information pollution". After all, this is much scarier than ordinary monsters.
I have to say that after hearing the explanation from Duanmu Huai, the two of them were quite shocked. After all, they had never heard of something that would lead to infection as long as they knew about it.
So Duanmuhuai gave the two of them some time to consider whether to accept it.
Now, it’s time for the two of them to give their answers.
Facing Duanmu Huai’s question, the two looked at each other, and then the idol detective raised his hand.
“No problem, we accept it!”
"Really? Are you sure? If you just leave without knowing anything, you won''t encounter any trouble in the future. But once you learn that information, you will be entangled with it your whole life, and it may even be possible for you to Your family and descendants will also become victims. Even so, are you willing? "
"certainly."
?The food detective nodded vigorously.
"Detectives exist to explore the truth. If we had chosen to leave without knowing anything, then we would not have chosen to be detectives in the first place. After all, truth and danger always live next to each other, and no one knows it better than the detective. This is the truth.”
"very good."
Duanmuhuai nodded, then reached out and took out two injections from his pocket.
"This is?"
“This is an anti-memetic vaccine that protects you from contamination to a certain extent.”
“Anti-memetic vaccine...can it also be used for protection?”
The idol detective took the injection curiously and looked at it carefully.
“Is this also a product of that organization called the Inquisition?”
Absolutely.
Duanmu Huai casually dismissed the idol detective’s question. This vaccine did not come from the Tribunal, but from the Foundation. When Duanmu Huai used the Heart of the Blood Crow to dig out the foundation''s lair in Yellowstone Park, he found some good things besides [Deus ex machina], and the anti-memetic vaccine was one of them.
Strictly speaking, this thing is also very useful. After all, the evil **** of subspace is also information pollution similar to the King in Yellow to a certain extent. Of course, this vaccine was a copy of Duanmu Huai''s shadow copy after scanning it from the inventory, so strictly speaking, he planned to use the two detectives as guinea pigs.
If it works well, then Duanmuhuai can start the mass production of anti-memetic vaccines when he returns.
“How to use this?”
“Just inject it into the arm.”
The two of them followed Duanmu Huai''s words, picked up the injection gun and pulled the trigger on their own arms. After a while, after confirming that everything was normal for both of them, Duanmu Huai took out the book "The King in Yellow" from his arms. 》script and then threw it over.
“That’s it?”
?Looking at the script placed on the table, the idol detective was a little surprised.
“Frankly speaking, in my opinion, it is no different from an ordinary script. It’s like I’ve seen too many similar things when I was on set.”
“That’s why it’s dangerous, because something that’s really dangerous won’t have it written on my face that I’m dangerous.”
“Are you sure?”
?The idol detective glanced at Duanmu Huai, then looked away with a smile, then took the script and opened it.
“Okay, let’s take a look at what’s written in it.”
The entire script of The King in Yellow is actually very simple to say.
?Queen Cassilda''s time was running out, and the country she ruled began to decline, with riots and devastation everywhere. Cassilda had a daughter and two sons. As queen, she had to choose one of her two sons as the next heir to the throne. But in fact, in addition to Cassilda''s two sons, her brother Adonis also coveted the throne.
In addition, the priests who believe in the sect hope to let the great unknown king rule the country. The priests cooperate with one of their sons to try to find the yellow seal, thereby calling for the arrival of the king in yellow and making this eternal **** become the country. of rulers.
?A palace conspiracy, a boring drama, and finally the arrival of the King in Yellow, the shadow of the lost city covering the kingdom, and the country becoming an eternal part of the eternal God.
“Now it seems that the most important characters in this drama are just a few.”
After reading the script, the idol detective spoke first.
"As the queen with a coherent main line of the story, the queen''s two sons - victims who were deceived, played with, and then killed. The queen''s brother who thought he had everything under control and played tricks. And the queen who fell into madness and finally ended up The princess who met a tragic end, the priest who believed in the evil god, the guards guarding the palace... In other words, according to Mr. Duanmu, we are now in the middle of a large-scale drama in reality?
“Then, just like the final performance of this drama, the King in Yellow will eventually come here and devour the city?”
“If this city were a country, that would be it.”
Duanmuhuai nodded.
“To be honest, it feels like a nightmare.”
?The food detective put his hands on his forehead and kept shaking them.
"A drama, the resurrection of an evil god, the destruction of a city... Is this a mythical story? So what can we do? Do we have to find the evil **** and kill him?"
"It''s a good idea, but we won''t find it until it''s resurrected."
After all, people are far away in outer space. Duanmu Huai doesn''t even have a shuttle at hand, and even if he does, he doesn''t know where it is.
“I don’t think it’s that simple, but there’s no way we can tell other people about it, right?”
“Yes, the anti-meme vaccine is not cheap. You wouldn’t think that it could be given to everyone just like chickenpox vaccination.”
??And after all, it is a printed copy. It will disappear fifty meters away from Duanmuhuai.
“Well, now we’re facing a completely different enemy, but we don’t have any means to deal with it yet…”
As he spoke, the food detective walked to the window, opened the window and looked out. And just when he cast his gaze to the sky, the food detective seemed to see something. He suddenly trembled and sat down on the ground in fear.
“Oh my God! What is that!?”
"Um?"
?Seeing the appearance of the gourmet detective, Duanmuhuai and the idol detective also came to the window and looked outside. However……
“There’s nothing?”
?Looking at the blue sky, the idol detective blinked, looked at the sky, and then at the food detective, with a puzzled look on his face. Duanmu Huai narrowed his eyes, and his thousand eyes opened at this moment, passing through countless dimensions and capturing the scene hidden in another world.
That''s a lake. Existences from distant planets, huge lakes hanging upside down in the sky. What emerged on the other side of it was the silhouette of a huge city. The spiers on the horizon, the two strange, pink moons. The long shadows illuminated by them, the ancient palaces and domes.
?That is the lost city of Carcosa.
?Silhouette from a distant planet, it is like a meteorite, slowly but surely approaching.
Duanmuhuai closed his eyes and then opened them again. The sky in front of him was still blue.
?At this moment, behind him, the conversation between the idol detective and the food detective came.
“Did you see it? Did you really see it?”
"Of course, it''s right there. Damn it, you didn''t see it? Why was it only me who saw it? We were all vaccinated... That''s Carcosa? What will it bring to us? Hey, answer me!"
“There’s not much we can do.”
?Hearing the food detective''s inquiry, Duanmu Huai was silent for a moment, then he turned his head and looked at the others.
“At least for now, it seems that all we can do is wait.”
Waiting for the inevitable coming, and...the appearance of the unknown king.
?As long as it breaks away from the seal and appears here, Duanmuhuai will be confident enough to take care of it.
No one saw it.
In other words, others cannot see it.
?That silent, terrifying, indescribable ancient city. The streets look like they have been completely frozen in time. When you look up, what you see is the huge city that is slowly approaching. It hangs upside down over March City, completely casting its shadow over everything here.
It was not just Duanmuhuai and the food detective who saw this scene.
?On the highest balcony of a hotel, a man in a suit was sitting in an outdoor chair. He was wearing a pure white mask with no expression or facial features, and was holding a glass of red wine in his hand.
“No one can stop this.”
??The laughter coming from behind the mask is full of calm and madness.
"The show has begun, the roles have been assigned, and everyone''s fate has been determined. The great unknown king is about to return, and all struggles are but futile resistance."
??He knew what happened in the city during this period, and also knew the news about the destruction of the mental hospital and the Jiumen family, but for him, all this would only make the stage more exciting and eye-catching. This will be the most wonderful drama. Nothing they do will destroy the progress of the plan, but will only make everything return to its original track.
“When the city returns to Carcosa, these words will forever echo in the streets outside. There will be no relief, no ending, no future…”