One hundred and seventy-eight. The rising deep diver
Deep divers emerge from the undulating waves, step onto the square or stay in the sea, echoing the Devil's Reef in the distance, seemingly endless.
The crawling townspeople got up and faced the ugly and blasphemous Deep Ones and their relatives and ancestors.
Several obviously strong deep divers took away the sacrifices tied to the stone pillars. Many years ago, the women who became the sacrifices were undoubtedly miserable and desperate. But now, they are lucky to have the opportunity to become the sacrifices.
No one noticed that a strange town citizen was missing, and no one noticed that a thick winding river was flowing from the fish processing factory upstream.
At the edge of the square, a deep diver lowered his head and stared at the sticky and greasy flippers with bulging eyes.
call
A cluster of flames lit up in the darkness and quickly spread towards the port.
Rising flames burned in the square, and the townspeople screamed and ran around in panic.
It's just that this is the coast, and divers are also here.
The townspeople and deep divers who were contaminated with burning fish oil retreated into the sea water, and after cryptic whispers, rain fell over the harbor.
However, the flames still achieved their original purpose, and no one noticed that a town citizen suddenly tackled the Deep Diver.
While knocking down the Deep Diver, Lu Li tore off the Doomsday Book and the Bee Sting. The Deep Diver cared about them more than expected and grabbed half of the Doomsday Book.
Lu Li didn't get the boost from the Doomsday Apocalypse Book, and the webbing on his hands and feet made it harder for him to exert any force. What's worse is that the longer he delayed, the easier it would be for him to be discovered by the surrounding deep divers and townspeople.
Without any further hesitation, Lu Li pulled out the psychic gun from his holster and pressed it against the gills on the side of the deep diver's neck.
But before pulling the trigger, the deep diver who suppressed Lu Li heard a surprised emotion in his unique noisy low voice.
"Lu Li?"
But Lu Li couldn't hear anything.
…
Catalina slowly woke up in the quiet darkness.
Catalina was lying on a bed as magnificent as agate stone. The air was rippling in the empty palace emitting phosphorescent light. Her chaotic thoughts made it difficult for her to recall.
But she saw her own body. There were flippers that would never appear on a human body, and clammy scales on her dark green skin.
But Catalina didn't feel any disgust at the weird and terrifying changes, as if she was already accustomed to this ugly form.
The emerging strength made her feel a little at ease in a strange environment.
Before Catalina could observe the environment more, an equally ugly presence appeared outside the palace.
"Child, you wake up."
The silhouette and the noisy, barking noise felt familiar to Catalina, because usually when she saw something strange, she would either stay away or take action.
"Katerina, I am your mother."
It whispered words that surprised Caterina: "Think of everything you saw in your sleep..."
Her memories flooded into her head in pain.
It started with being close to Himfast's coma.
Her consciousness fell to the bottom of the terrifying abyss, and she glimpsed a huge underwater city in the vast abyss, with blasphemous figures like fish and frogs wandering inside.
As the coma continued, she began to become part of the blasphemous figures, wandering with them, believing in Dagon, her mother Hydra, and the great being.
She almost blended into it, but it was the doomsday revelation book left by Lu Li that woke her up from her long sleep in the abyss.
But the nightmare continued into reality, and the deep divers from the underwater city came to find her. They called themselves compatriots, and invited Katarina to return to the embrace of her ancestors, Father God and Mother God, and the great being.
Catalina left with them, came to the underwater city in the dream, and fell into a coma.
"Mother...didn't you die in the corruption of the town?" Katarina understood the reason for her calmness in the face of them.
"My child, our family has always had the blood of deep divers. But we forgot this when your grandfather left the wasteland and died in a disaster. That disaster awakened my blood, and I can no longer go to you.
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"So you abandoned me?"
"I'm sorry, child." The deep diver's noise seemed to be tender. "The deep diver has eternal life, and we have enough time to be together..."
"Where am I?"
Catalina sat up on the agate bed, still holding on to the Doomsday Apocalypse Book.
"Iha Enslay, one of the cities of the ancient Deep Ones."
This term is quite unfamiliar to Katarina: "I still don't know...am I still in the Main Continent?"
"Humans call this place the Allen Peninsula."
"Ellen Peninsula..."
Catalina looked into the darkness outside the palace. "Eternal night?"
"No kid, Iha Enslay is located at the bottom of Devil's Reef." The mother hugged Catalina, and the fishy aroma flowed into her nose, but when she wanted to kiss her face, she was pushed gently with resistance.
open.
Caterina still can't get used to this kind of closeness.
A deep diver floated into the palace. The deep diver Katarina looked the same, but she could distinguish the appearance.
"This is your grandmother."
Mother greeted Caterina's grandmother, hugging her closely and rubbing her hair together, like lovers.
"She still wants to go to bed," her mother said to her grandmother.
"Weren't you like this back then?" Grandma gently touched her body and looked at Catalina: "Is she the one you like?"
Catalina wanted to nod, but then shook her head slightly after hesitation.
Grandma raised her mother's chin with fine scales, and while admiring it, she said in a nagging voice that Katerina had gradually become familiar with: "Carter, I was just like you when I was young. I resisted this ugly appearance and the terrifying abyss, and refused to leave everything outside.
Relatives, lovers... Many deep divers here are like this. The son of Orn of the Marsh family even rejected everything in this country with a gun. In our eternal life, twenty years of human life is just an insignificant time.
.You will understand everything."
"Think carefully, your mother and I are waiting for you in the garden."
"I want to go back to the ground!"
Catalina suddenly shouted to their backs.
Without further persuasion, my grandmother left the palace with her mother in her arms and walked towards the garden where strange scaly corals and weird bifurcated crystals grew.
"The town of Innsmouth will hold a revival day ceremony tomorrow night. You can return to the ground at that time."
…
The hand covered with webbed membrane inserted into the trigger, preventing Lu Li from pulling it.
Unable to pull the trigger and unable to retrieve the Doomsday Apocalypse Book, Lu Li seemed to be in a desperate situation. But he slowly loosened his fingers and remembered another thing, something that happened not long ago.
"If you are pointed at by a gun, it seems that there is only one way to die?" Catalina asked Lu Li who was wiping the psychic gun. "Lu Li put his finger behind the trigger and showed it to Catalina and Pusius, who was looking at him: "It's very close.
You can try to avoid the muzzle of the gun, or jam the trigger."
The whispers of the pastor of the Dagon Tantric Church also sounded in my ears.
"Don't be impatient, child, you will see her, tonight... I promise Dagon."
