Li Ming set off directly after accepting the mission of "Xingzhu Investigation". He first took a taxi to the outskirts of Xingzhu City, and after making sure there was no one around, he summoned the Shattuck Bird and flew to the mission location.
Shattuck birds are good everywhere, but summoning them among crowds can easily cause panic.
I have no choice but to endure it.
After arriving at the beach marked as the mission location, Li Ming looked up at the dim sky and the heavy smoke clouds hanging low.
It is clear that there is still blue sky, white clouds and clear sky dozens of meters away, but if you walk further you can see a thick light gray fog permeating the shore, and a strange atmosphere lingers over this desolate and dilapidated environment.
The waves hit the beach, and the cold and hard impact kept reverberating; the seaside reflected a shadow, deep and bottomless, and the distorted light seemed completely unable to penetrate the mirror-like water surface.
Any normal human being would feel something is wrong when he comes here.
"Can't these cultists keep a low profile? How can they not be noticed when they turn the seaside into a gray and foggy place..."
Li Ming complained in his heart, then took back the Shantak bird, summoned Dagon and Shoggoth, and held the sacrificial knife in his hand to deal with sudden dangers at any time.
As long as they are not in combat, the Shoggoth is just a big lump, looking like a giant gray slime, with no indescribable appearance.
Maybe Li Ming often called it cute, so it really learned how to be "cute". After all, Shoggoths are very good at imitating creatures.
Dagon stood behind Li Ming, constantly observing the surroundings with his bulging fish eyes. If anyone dared to approach Li Ming, he would probably be torn into pieces on the spot.
However, although Dagon was always vigilant, his eyes kept wandering around, his face full of excitement.
It’s been too long! It’s been too long!
It’s been a long, long time since I’ve appeared in a physical form!
Although as a purple card, Dagon can still observe the outside world even if he maintains the card state, but it is not as wonderful as looking at the world with his eyes!
Looking at Dagon, who was full of excitement, Li Ming also let out a sigh of relief. This may be one of the reasons why he came to this place where he was doing nothing.
and……
As long as Dagon and Shoggoth are by his side...
Ah, this damn sense of security!
What he wants is safety, and Li Ming is not the kind of fool who has to act cool and wait for someone to show his face before calling him immediately.
He still cherishes life very much!
In history, there were many card makers who trusted their hand speed, but ended up having their wrists cut off before the cards were even taken out.
After all, this kind of cultist is not a believer in the first place. If there is a chance, he will definitely kill the card maker first or eliminate the threat of the card maker. Do you think that this is a game of Yu-Gi-Oh? You have to have a duel to decide life and death.
Therefore... In Li Ming's impression, the first rule of the Investigators Association's code of conduct seems to be that when performing non-stealth, disguise, etc. tasks, one must be ready to respond to emergencies at all times.
However, compared to these two, Shantak Bird was not very satisfied.
Why don't you summon me too? I want to come out and play too!
Li Ming patted the card deck gently, indicating that it should be quieter and get down to business now.
Although Li Ming has been very diligent in cultivating his spiritual power during this period, and the spiritual sea is not as full as before, but with the mana regeneration effect of the sacrificial knife, summoning Dagon and Shoggoth is already the limit.
As for the moon beasts... the amount of mental power required to maintain the current state of fifteen moon beasts is also an extremely huge amount. Anyway, it is not very useful this time, so we can only save what we can.
He still has a good idea of the upper limit of his mental power.
Dagon, who had not felt the sunlight for a long time, immediately turned on his mental power, spreading his mental power around wantonly to explore the surrounding things. The terrifying head made a rhythmic sound, conveying information to Li Ming through spiritual connection.
The Shoggoth rolled slowly aside, like a gray-black balloon. Its protoplasmic bubbles that looked like sticky mud were not stained with sand on the beach, and its twisted and squirming body followed obediently.
But this cuteness only lasted a few minutes.
Deep in the ocean, a mysterious and terrifying aquatic creature lurks quietly. Its figure is like a phantom swimming in the darkness. Its body is four to five meters high, like a giant smooth-skinned creature. Like a frog.
Seeing Li Ming approaching, it raised its head high and sniffed, then immediately jumped out of the water, and the fingertips of its forelimbs instantly transformed into water blades as thin as cicada wings and waved towards Li Ming.
Then.
A tentacle nearly five meters in diameter blocked its direction. The black-gray tentacle was soft but tough, with strange lines and texture marks emerging from it. The water blade that seemed to be able to cut off gold and jade disintegrated in an instant. .
Immediately afterwards, countless eyes glowing with light green fluorescence appeared on the huge tentacle. They opened from the root to the tip, and then their eyes were all locked on the water frog.
The source of this tentacle is just a lump of protoplasm like a solid paste - the Shoggoth's tentacles knead it hard, grinding the captured object bit by bit into a mixture of flesh and bone, and then bit by bit The ground devours and digests.
In the end, he seemed to imitate humans and chirped.
In less than half a minute, Dagon on the other side was even more simple and rude.
Several other fish monsters and frog monsters around them were already unable to move before they even launched an attack, as if an invisible tentacle was pressing down on them.
In just a few seconds, they were crushed into a pile of mud on the beach.
This is one of the spells Dagon mastered - Cthulhu Grasp.
As soon as the Shoggoth saw that there was something to eat on the ground, he immediately stretched out five or six tentacles in joy and rushed towards the flesh and blood mud on the ground, crushing and devouring all their remains.
After cleaning up the evil things left on the beach, Li Ming reached out and touched his chin, thoughts gradually arose in his mind.
I always feel...
There's something familiar about this monster from your mother.
He shook his clothes and walked towards the seemingly bottomless water, where the water frog had just been lurking.
really.
Li Ming had just taken a few steps when he noticed that there was a cave under the water.