One hundred and seventy-five. The mysterious Dagon secret religion
Zadok Allen once believed in the Father, God and Mother more devoutly than anyone else, but they never paid attention.
Because of the Deep Diver bloodline, he can stay in the town of Innsmaus as a "human" and will not be invaded by pollution. Also because of the bloodline, he is out of place in the town.
The unconverted townsfolk looked down upon him, and the Deep Ones considered him a pathetic creature.
"Boy, what are you going to do... hiccup... become a deep diver and gain eternal life?"
Zadok Allen's saliva mixed with wine lay along the corners of his mouth and covered his beard, exuding an indescribable rotten smell.
He doesn't have many years to live.
"I once took a train through the town of Innsmouth. When I stopped at the station, many townspeople gathered around me. Do you remember?" Lu Li did not continue Zadok Allen's inquiry.
As for the deep diver, Lu Li may have been in contact with him a long time ago, and even Dagon or the Lord of the Deep Sea...
On Friday, or in the final test of other unknown beings, Lu Li saw the fish-like and frog-like humanoid creatures on the coast, and the existence at the bottom of the sea called the Old Ones, sleeping in the deep sea.
Once the train passed through Insmaisin, and the townsfolk gathered around him, this was also the result: Lu Li had the faint aura of their Lord.
"Old times? Train station? I have no memory. Maybe at that time you... hiccup, there was something about you that attracted them."
Speaking of them, Zadok Allen raised his waving fingers to the sea, hating them more than being close to them.
"Hiccup...what did you ask me before? That woman named Walawula."
Zadok Allen drooped his eyelids, and strong alcohol was gradually flooding into his mind.
"Katerina, she was taken away by deep divers in the ice-free port of Vina a few days ago."
"Vina Freeze Port? Hiccup...there is also their sect there?"
"No, she was taken away after being contaminated."
"Today is the 31st day of October...I know."
Zadok Allen pointed to the sea again, but Lu Li could not look at the port: "Today...they will perform sacrifices at the Renaissance Festival tonight, calling their father and mother gods, and let your Catalina
Become a deep diver.”
Lu Li didn't come late.
But with only a few hours left, they didn't have much time to prepare.
"Not hers!"
Anna, who was sitting on the stone wall and swinging her legs, retorted.
"You really don't want to be them? There's nothing wrong with that. You are no longer weak, not afraid of pollution, have power, and can live almost forever..."
Zadok Allen fell into a strange drunken babble, as if he might doze off and fall asleep at any time.
"In the port square?" Lu Li asked.
"Right there..."
After asking for more information and about pollution, Zadok Allen's answers gradually turned into meaningless babble.
"If you don't want to be them, get out of here. Outsiders are not welcome in Innsmouth...unless they are no longer outsiders."
Bracing himself to leave the last sentence, he dozed off against the broken wall.
Lu Li briefly observed the area and confirmed that no townspeople were nearby. He left Zadok Allen, who was drunk and grinding his teeth, and walked around the stone wall toward the town.
People born of mixed blood and contaminated people will transform into deep sea creatures, deep divers.
The Deep Ones embrace their father and mother gods, Dagon and mother Hydra.
Dagon and his mother Hydra are the Old Ones who once slept under the sea, and are the servants of the Lord of the Deep.
Thinking more optimistically, they don't have to face the Lord of the Deep Sea, and they may not have to face Dagon, their mother Hydra, and their other servants. They only have the local cult and deep divers in the town of Innsmaus.
But when the fog dissipates, the endless mountains stretching ahead can indeed make travelers despair.
Back in the town, the ubiquitous sense of voyeurism reappeared. Ignoring Anna and the townspeople, Lu Li returned the same way, walking through the town towards the ruins to the south.
But he failed to return to where Ophelia was waiting.
Several townspeople followed without hiding their whereabouts. Lu Li spent some time and common sense to get rid of them, but it was in vain. Even though there were no traces of the townspeople in his field of vision, the feeling of being watched still lingered, which aroused Lu Li's suspicion.
Lu Li returned to the town under the strange and dull gazes of the townspeople.
"There is nothing our great exorcist can do?"
Anna, who was following behind, said.
Lu Li sat down on a bench outside the hotel, ignoring the nearby townspeople who were whispering here, and looked at the sea. Before he caught sight of the bay port in his peripheral vision, he withdrew his gaze, stood up, and entered the hotel.
"It seems you have gotten the answer you wanted."
The old man smiled when he noticed that the bottle was missing.
Unlike Zadok Allen, the old man is a human without deep diver blood.
The reason why he has lived in the town unharmed for decades is simple: he is timid enough and long enough to even talk to the deep ones. Although he never takes the initiative to contact them.
After Lu Li asked him for gloves and a scarf, the old man felt strange.
"Why? Those things will only make you more conspicuous and suspicious."
the old man asked strangely.
As an old man who has lived in a small town for decades, his opinions should be taken seriously, but Lu Li still had to get these two things and go back upstairs.
"You paid such a high price for Catalina, and you still said you don't like her?" Anna chuckled, sitting on the bed. "Or do you... want your story to end here?"
Bang.
After closing the door, Lu Li took off his hat and put it on the table, along with his scarf and gloves.
Strands of black hair fell down.
"You should try to believe Ophelia's words, believe that I am true."
Lu Li didn't answer and adjusted the monocular telescope.
"You care about your human identity more than anyone else, because Anna. Now you want to throw away this identity? When she sees the new you...will she accept it?"
Lu Li paused briefly, continued to stretch his hand to its longest position, and placed the monocular on the table.
"Find Catalina and I will recover," he replied.
"Maybe not."
Anna tilted her head slightly: "Then being treated as a monster and killed by Anna who doesn't recognize you... interesting."
Lu Li shook his head and said nothing.
"You don't think so? But you were pierced through the heart and killed by the real Anna herself." Anna bent her eyes and said cruel words like a lover.
"Do me a favor."
Lu Li no longer indulged in the conversation with the illusion, picked up the monocular and walked towards the window.
"The contamination process may cause loss of consciousness. I need you to wake me up every five seconds."
"You actually let an illusion help you?" Anna stopped shaking her legs.
"You saved me twice."
"I just don't want you to be taken away by anything other than me." Anna's clear eyes looked at Lu Li.
"That's just right."
Lu Li closed his left eye and steadily raised the telescope to his right eye.
"When my consciousness sinks into the abyss, pull me back to you."
