Chapter 501 Miskatonick University


    Miskatonick University.


    In this world, this is a university that is famous among players. It has the world''s top majors in archaeology, occultism, history and psychology. Not only that, in the library of Mida University, the most famous magic books are also kept, including the most original version of "The Book of the Dead", which players are jealous of.


    In addition, the museum of Mida also has priceless treasures, including jewelry from Lalaye, rare treasures from fantasy and dreams, and even Naia cultural relics from Egypt.


    For players, Mid-United University is more than just a university.


    It is even more a treasure house and a bank!


    So many treasures are hidden inside, waiting for them to explore!


    That’s right, for players, universities like Mida University, which are of a bank treasure house, are simply the most jealous treasure in their eyes!


    Not to mention anything else, the dense library alone made a group of players drool.


    Do you want "The Book of the Dead"?


    Do you want "The King of Yellow"?


    Do you want "The Secret of the Worm"?


    Do you want "Naket''s Codex"?


    Do you want "Lalaye Text"?


    …No, I can’t continue to say anything, just reading the title of this book makes me drool.


    The kind that can''t stop.


    Logically speaking, in a place like this, players must be flocking to the demons and the disaster is even worse than Insmouth. But this is not the case, for two reasons.


    First, the security power of Mida is extremely strong, and most people can’t get out when they go in.


    Second, if you have the fate to take these books, it may not be useful!


    Of course, these are not a big problem for Duanmu Huai. After all, he not only has the genes of guarding the crow, but also has the heart of the blood crow.


    How did you say that sentence?


    Knowledge is power!


    Let''s guard it!


    That’s right, as the judge who inherited the Heart of Blood Crow, what happened to Duanmu Huai borrowing a few books?


    Can the matter of the judge be called stealing?


    But Duanmu Huai didn''t plan to take action.


    The reason is very simple. If you have the life to take these books, it may not be useful!


    You know, it is enough for the judge to deal with the evil gods in the subspace of the Milky Way to get rid of the external gods in the universe. This is simply bored with life.


    Of course, it is not without judges who want to drive away the wolf, such as letting the Treacherous Queba fight Naya... But for most judges, they would rather use this as a last resort.


    After all, no matter which one wins, it is not a good thing for humans.


    And in fact, strictly speaking, many players think that the evil **** is basically no chance of winning when facing the external god.


    Although both sides have never fought head-on, many investigators and judges think so.


    The reason is very simple.


    The evil **** is ultimately a subspace creature, which can only "indirectly" affect the real world creatures in subspace. Simply put, all believers who believe in evil gods take the initiative to hold some evil blasphemy rituals after being bewitched by them in the real world, and then use these rituals to weaken the boundaries between the real world and the subspace, and then the evil gods can send their subordinates out to open PARTY.


    But external gods are different. Their bodies are located in both subspace and real world. This is also why many people can unintentionally feel the thoughts of the external gods through sleep or spirit. Not only that, external gods do not care too much about believers, because their own power is strong enough to not need to collect their souls by bewitching and seducing mortals into falling and thus strengthen themselves like evil gods.


    Not only that, the spiritual sense of the external God is more like a kind of spiritual pollution. It does not transform firm believers into depravity, but directly destroys their minds and turns them into crazy fragments.


    As we all know, destruction is much easier than building. Of course, your evil **** can do everything possible to make mortals fall and kneel down at the feet of yours to become your believer. Then maybe your believers will go crazy when they look at the outer God. They don’t want your believers, but they just simply make them crazy and collapse. So what can you do?


    So compared to the evil gods, what everyone is more afraid of is the external gods.


    Although a judge once made a harsh statement saying that if humans could not defeat the evil god, he would go to the Eye of Chaos to summon Azathus...


    Of course, that''s just a talk. There is still a glimmer of chance for you to fight against the evil **** of Chaos. If Azathus is really summoned, then let''s wait for death together.


    So Duanmu Huai was very well-behaved in this prestigious university. Even if he saw the Mida Library not far away, he didn''t want to go there - it''s not the time yet.


    Not to mention that there are dog guards in the Mida Library that can kill the offspring of the outer god... they can''t afford to offend them.


    After the night after passing the museum, Anthony first called someone to take away the monsters'' bodies and burned them completely. Then he went to Miskatonik University in Arkham City with Duanmuhuai to investigate the man named Christine.


    "Ah... Kristen... I remember her."


    Sitting in front of Duanmu Huai and Anthony was the director of the Art Department of Miskatonik University. He looked very rich, with a smooth head, and the pipe in his hand gave him a bit of an artist''s aura.


    "That''s a good girl, she''s very talented, I still remember she wanted to hold a solo exhibition...."


    "Sorry, Professor Osborne, we are not here to chat with you."


    Anthony''s tone was a little stiff and interrupted the man in front of him trying to immerse himself in the memories.


    "We came here because this student is related to an incident we are investigating. I wonder if you can give us any clues? We didn''t see her name on the school''s graduation roster..."


    "Oh, it''s very simple because she dropped out of school."


    "Exit school???"


    I have to say that this answer did surprise Duanmu Huai and Anthony. Professor Osborne knelt on his pipe and nodded at them.


    "Yes, she did not graduate successfully, and I don''t know much about the specific situation. I only know that for a while, she went out to find inspiration. After she came back, she locked herself in the studio and drew a picture. Then her spirit seemed to be hit by something... Sorry, I can''t say this, but later her family completed the procedures for her to drop out of school and took her home. That was five years ago."


    "So why did her paintings appear at the Museum of Art in Newburyport?"


    Duanmu Huai stared at the other party and asked, and Professor Osborne recalled for a moment, then he nodded vigorously as if he had remembered something.


    "Oh, by the way, I remember the Newburyport Museum sought us paintings, and then we picked out some of the students'' paintings and gave them. Maybe it was at that time that her paintings were mixed in."


    “…………”


    Hearing this, Duanmu Huai and Anthony looked at each other, and their expressions were a little solemn. Then Anthony turned his head and looked at the old professor. “Can we tell us the address or phone number of Miss Christine?”


    "Of course there is no problem."


    Professor Osborne took a pen and wrote a string of addresses and phone numbers on the paper, and then handed them to Anthony. Then he looked at Duanmu Huai with a surprised look.


    "Oh, by the way, I have a heartless request."


    "What''s up?"


    "This gentleman is really indifferent to his figure and appearance. Such exquisite human body proportions are even more touching. I hope to hire him as a **** model in our art department. What do you think?"


    “…………I will consider it.”


    Faced with Professor Osborne''s warm invitation, Duanmu Huai twitched the corner of his eyes - he finally understood why the professor''s eyes had been curiously circling on him since he entered the office.


    Sure enough, there are few normal people who can become professors at Mid-United University.


    Professor Osborne was not concerned about Duanmu Huai''s reaction at all. On the contrary, he also enthusiastically left Duanmu Huai his phone number and said that if he was willing to be a **** model in Mida, he would receive a generous reward. Considering that it was not harmful to establish a good relationship with the professors of Mid University, Duanmu Huai still bit the bullet and reluctantly accepted the other party''s business card.


    Of course, as for whether he wants to be a **** model, that is another matter.


    When the two left Miskatonick University, they had already sorted out the situation.


    According to the information provided by Professor Osborn, the female student named Christine was once a talented painter five years ago. When she went out to look for inspiration, she painted the "Empty Ghost" after she came back. After the painting was completed, Christine broke down and was taken away by her family and applied to drop out of school.


    I don’t know if it was a coincidence or something else, Christine did not take the painting she painted, so shortly after that, when the Newburyport Art Museum issued a request to Miskatonick University, the other party packed the painting together and gave it to the Newburyport Art Museum as a student work.


    It is this painting that calls on evil creatures living in subspace and attacks humans hidden in museums. It eventually led to a series of tragedies.


    Well, the context of the matter has been basically clarified now, and there are only two problems at the moment.


    1. Is Christine still alive?


    2. What did she encounter to draw such a painting that can summon monsters in another world?


    These two questions are very important. If Christine is still alive, will she draw a second "Empty Ghost" or a similar painting? By that time, things will only get worse. Similarly, the "inspiration" that allowed her to draw such a terrifying monster was also a problem.


    But no matter what, they can be sure that the focus of all this was on the woman named Christine.


    Sheriff Anthony called the above phone according to the information provided by Professor Osborne. To be honest, for a moment, he was a little worried about whether the other party had left or the phone had been abandoned. Fortunately, the other party answered the phone and said when Anthony asked about Christine that she was indeed still at home. Although at the beginning, Christine''s parents were a little uneasy about Anthony''s request for visit, they finally agreed to Anthony''s request.


    Then the two rushed to the woman''s house again without stopping, and met Christine in the living room.


    I have to say that after seeing this woman with my own eyes, Duanmu Huai and Anthony were both shocked.


    They once saw a photo of Christine in the student file given by Professor Osborne. He was a girl with brown curly hair and a sweet smile.


    However, what appeared in front of them was a thin skinny and bone-like body, with completely lost all hair, and it looked like a cancer patient who could only survive after several rounds of chemotherapy.


    According to her parents, she has been like this after she dropped out of school. Not to mention painting, she can''t even hold her pen. In fact, she is not even afraid to see anything related to painting now, whether it is a brush, paint or canvas, and as long as she sees it, she will fall into a state of hysterical horror.


    Even her parents didn''t know what the girl had experienced.


    Duanmu Huai stood in front of the woman and stared at her. Her eyes were as dull as the eyes of dead fish, and even when she saw Duanmu Huai, she did not change her expression at all. Her godless eyes seemed to have completely passed through Duanmu Huai, but looked at a certain position in the void.


    "Hello, Miss Christine."


    Duanmu Huai coughed, squatted down and stared at Christine, who was just sitting in a wheelchair, shaking, like a patient in a mental hospital, muttering in a vague way, and no one could understand.


    "We came for your paintings, you should remember..."


    As he spoke, Duanmu Huai stared into Christine''s eyes.


    "It''s what you painted, that ''empty ghost'' painting."


    “………!”


    Hearing Duanmuhuai say the word "empty ghost", Christine trembled suddenly, and her eyes seemed to have returned to a little light at this moment - just like a few rays of fire appeared again on the charcoal that had already been extinguished.


    “Ah…ah……”


    She opened her mouth and made a vague cry, while Duanmu Huai stared at her eyes and slowly released a trace of fear aura.


    "Tell me where did you get inspiration? How did you draw that painting?!"


    "No, it''s not me... that''s not me..."


    At this moment, in the living room, not only Christine was trembling, but even Anthony and Christine''s parents felt the aura of fear coming from Duanmu Huai. They wanted to step forward and stop him from asking about his daughter. However, the aura of fear tightly fixed their bodies, making them dare not move for a moment.


    "Tell me, what''s going on!"


    “Ah…ah……”


    Faced with Duanmu Huai''s inquiry and eyes, at this moment, Christine seemed to have finally recovered her consciousness. That fear saved her from nothingness and numbness. At this moment, she seemed to have completely restored her original rationality. She trembled and reached out and took out a diary from under the blanket covered by her knees, and handed it to Duanmuhuai with trembling. At the same time, she widened her eyes, stared at Duanmuhuai, opened her mouth, and said a place name.


    “Dun…wich!”


    (This chapter ends)