[You have arrived at Enkai, the abyss, and touched the real taboo...]
Although the huge rewards from completing the main missions have been integrated into the system, Qin Zhibo can't focus on those "unimportant" things at the moment.
The dark temple in front of us is the core of Enkai - the temple of Tsathogya.
In the middle of the temple is a spacious passage, with sunken stone troughs on both sides of the passage.
The searchlight on Qin Zhibo's head shone there, and he saw living things flowing out of the stone trough.
These living creatures are like lumps of amorphous ooze, constantly changing into various shapes.
As if feeling the stimulation of the light, they slowly squirmed towards Qin Zhibo and others.
"Then, what is that?" Koizumi Anko took two steps back in disgust and asked.
Qin Zhibo looked at those slimy creatures and immediately thought of the Shoggoths described in his novels.
The difference is that these oozes do not have countless eye bubbles, nor do they undergo countless reorganizations and divisions.
This makes them less terrifying than the Shoggoths described in the books.
"have no idea……"
Qin Zhibo shook his head and turned to look at Mr. Clock. He was already walking towards the deepest part of the temple.
Seeing this, he and Koizumi Hongzi immediately followed.
Three slender figures slanted towards the ruins that existed before eternity. The surrounding stone troughs continued to flow out of the ooze-like amorphous creatures, approaching the intruders with malicious intent.
In order not to be caught up by these creatures, the three of them had to speed up their pace into the temple.
Until at the deepest base of the temple, the dark, hazy huge body became clearly visible.
It was a giant toad statue.
In the stone trough near the base, countless ooze-like creatures flowed out of several metal sacrificial basins as tall as a person.
They transformed into various shapes and worshiped the giant toad statue above the base.
The toad statue may be carved from basalt or onyx, with a wide mouth and wrinkled eyelids lazily closed...
No, that's not a statue.
That's alive!
The huge toad-shaped head opened its eyes with a slit, like two phosphorescent slits on its eyebrowless face.
The lofty eyes revealed divine laziness and infinite laziness, which made Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi feel hesitant first, and then a deep sense of fear.
Qin Zhibo:Will-20
Koizumi Anko: Will-20
Feeling the same fear, Koizumi Anko shook her body and was so dazed that she almost fell to the ground.
Fortunately, with Qin Zhibo's support, she didn't really sit on the ground.
Unlike these two hesitant humans, the alien Mr. Clock behaved very naturally.
He may have rehearsed the current scene in his mind countless times. After sizing up the huge creature in front of him, he bowed respectfully and bowed.
"Oh, Lord Tsathogya, I am your loyal believer!"
"Please accept my most sincere kneel down!"
Mr. Clock was prostrate on the ground, trying to be consistent with the surrounding ooze creatures, and it even felt like he was the leader of these ooze creatures.
Sathoggua on the pedestal glanced at Mr. Clock below the stage, his eyes widened slightly, and the light in his eyes poured down from his wrinkled face like a viscous stream.
After a while, a heavy rumbling sound came from the base.
Although this voice was rough, it was pieced together into meaningful syllables and words in the minds of Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi.
"What do you want when you come here?"
Mr. Clock bowed sincerely and continued: "I would like to ask you to give me the 'inner keeper'."
"And I, your most loyal believer, will offer you two delicious sacrifices!"
Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi, who were standing behind, were shocked when they heard this.
There is no one else here, the so-called two sacrifices can only be mentioned by them!
Mr.clock spoke English without any ambiguity, and he was planning to use Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi as sacrifices.
From the beginning when Qin Zhibo stated that he wanted to join Enkai's trip, Mr. Clock had already planned to use Qin Zhibo as a sacrifice to Satogua.
A series of events happened later. Although Mr. Clock realized that Qin Zhibo was behind the scenes, he never showed it.
Because it has always planned to lead Qin Zhibo into the abyss step by step.
"you……!"
Qin Zhibo gritted his teeth. He did not expect that the alien Mr. Clock would come up with this trick - to kill someone with a borrowed knife!
At this moment, the relationship between him and Mr. Clock in the character relationship network instantly jumped from "cooperation" to "enemy".
Qin Zhibo raised his head and looked at Satogua. His body wanted to retreat quickly, but he couldn't use any strength at all. It seemed as if he was being restrained by some powerful force.
At the same time, the ooze creatures at the rear continued to flow out of the stone trough, and had already surrounded everyone's retreat.
Oops!
Qin Zhibo realized that he could no longer escape at this moment, at least not with his own abilities.
No matter how talented he is, he is still just a human being.
And the person in front of him is Enkai’s master!
A true god!
On the pedestal, as the decider, Sathoggua lazily stared at the three people below.
The body that resembled both a bat and a sloth swayed a little, or maybe not.
But what is certain is that the conditions proposed by Mr. Clock aroused his interest, causing him to slowly spit out his weird tongue and lick his plump lips.
The rumbling sound sounded again, pieced together into words that everyone could understand.
"Thank you for your sacrifice. My heirs and I are hungry at the moment. These sacrifices will give us temporary satisfaction..."
"But how can I be sure that you are not part of the sacrifice?"
As a god, Tsathoggua's brain circuit is different from ordinary people.
Among the believers he met, there were many fanatics who would serve as sacrifices and perform sacrificial rituals.
Therefore, even if Mr. Clock proposed that the sacrifice be made by someone else, Tsathoggua would not think there is any difference between the sacrificer and the sacrifice itself.
As long as Sathoggua is in a hungry state, everything in front of him can be called a "sacrifice".
At this time, Mr. Clock suddenly took out a disk from his clothes and raised his hands above his head.
"Great Lord Tsathogya, this is my proof."
"This thing is enough to prove to you that I am your oldest and most devout believer!"
Qin Zhibo stared closely at the thing that Mr. Clock presented to Satogua, which was a disc made of all the pieces of Paneste.
Until this moment, Qin Zhibo also truly understood the use of the Panest fragment.
The most terrifying threat in Abyss Enkeli is Tsathoggua itself.
The fragments of Paneste represent the token of the contract that Tsathoggua established with the clan that believed in and continued to sacrifice to him in ancient times.
Holding this object can prove that you are a descendant of an ancient clan and avoid being devoured by Zathoggua in a hungry state.
Mr. Clock, who had done a lot of homework in advance, knew this very well, so he could safely lift the disc at this moment.
This disc is the amulet that allows him to safely enter and leave Enkai.
With the protection of this disk, his face showed a confident and proud expression, which was a rare human expression he showed.
Although this expression is a bit redundant...
Above the pedestal, the sleepy Tsathoggua was awakened by the contract from ancient times.
His gaze is intense, and the sticky light lingers on the panest disk.
Suddenly, His breath became heavy and he made a deafening hum.
"No, you're cheating!"
"This is not a token between us, a counterfeit!"
Satogua suddenly became angry, and the black fur all over his body was like a rolling black wave, wrapping around Mr. Clock's relatively thin body.
Upon seeing this, Mr. Clock was shocked, his trembling limbs were controlled by fear, and he turned around and wanted to escape.
However, Tsatogua's giant arms moved faster. Before Mr. Clock could escape a step, he was firmly grasped by the bloody claws.
“Buzz——!”
"Buzz buzz..."
Mr.clock did not emit human screams, but the original screams of their alien race.
The intense buzzing sound resounded in the space, and even a hive with thousands of bees could not compare to the din at this moment.
Mr. Clock struggled with all his strength, but he was still grabbed by Satugua's thick arms and brought into his mouth in the most primitive way.
The thick lips and the sharp teeth wrapped in them are constantly chewing Mr. Clock's body.
The flesh-colored human skin covering Mr. Clock's body became full of holes under the huge force of tearing, revealing the pink carapace body underneath, entangled with the human skin.
The carapace body was not easily broken, but it became vulnerable to Sathogua's heavy bite force.
The unique tender green blood of the Mi-Go race burst out between Tsatogua's lips and teeth. In the next moment, it flowed down from the thick black lips like a loss of vitality and dripped on the black fur on the belly...
This scene was so crazy that it made people tremble. Satugua had no intention of eating it and chewed Mr. Clock whole like a chicken skeleton.
Seeing this scene, Koizumi Hongzi's body was trembling slightly, and she stood behind Qin Zhibo in fear.
Qin Zhibo was also shocked by the scene in front of him. He had never thought that Abyss Enkai's punishment for losers would be so terrible.
But fortunately, he has not failed yet, and has seen with his own eyes the fate of the loser, Mr. Clock.
Mr. Clock's head is still outside Sathoggua's lips, and half of the human skin on the head has fallen off, revealing the original oval-shaped, weird head covered with tentacles.
Those tentacles were trembling wildly at the moment, as if it was some kind of death struggle or a stress response to pain.
As for the remaining half of the human face, Mr. Clock used it to create extremely complex human expressions.
The expression at this moment is the pinnacle of Mr. Clock's performance as a human being.
Surprise, anger, humiliation, fear, unwillingness and other emotions merged into that half of the face, until the entire head was swallowed into the endless abyss-like mouth of Sathogya.
Satogua held the whole Mr. Clock in his mouth, chewed it for several minutes, and then spat it out in disgust.
"It tastes really bad."
Among the puddles of things spit on the ground, Qin Zhibo could vaguely distinguish some pink fragments of limbs and broken human skin.
Especially Mr. Clock's face, which was rubbed like a tattered rag in light green and off-white turbid mucus, and his empty and boring fake eyeballs rolled aside.
Koizumi Anko accidentally glanced at the puddle of things and was so disgusted that she retched.
Seeing this situation, Qin Zhibo couldn't feel better. He felt that his stomach was churning. Fortunately, there was not much food in it to stir up.
But the invisible heirs who had been waiting around for a long time regarded the vomit of Tsathogua as a treasure, and all the charred ooze around them rushed forward, like hungry animals beside the water source in the arid desert, continuing to devour the food.
Residue and slime.
At this time, Tsathoggua made a rumbling sound and spoke again.
"This sacrifice does not satisfy me, and it is the turn of the next sacrifice."
Satogua's lazy gaze was directed at Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi. The huge mouth that had just chewed Mr. Clock was about to become their grave.
Qin Zhibo was immediately shocked, raised his hands and shouted.
"I am your true believer!"
"Please wait a moment, I can come up with proof!"
Qin Zhibo had no time to have a complicated conversation with Satoguya, so he immediately left to pick up the disk that fell on the ground.
When he smashed the disk with both hands, the whole disk fell into pieces, like a cut pizza pie, breaking into six fan-shaped pieces.
One of the fan-shaped fragments is quite special, as it is made up of two diamond-shaped fragments.
This fragment was the key to Mr. Clock's failure. One of them was replaced by Qin Zhibo with a fake fragment obtained from Belmode.
At this time, he took out the important diamond-shaped fragment from his arms.
This fragment was obtained by Qin Zhibo from the Hall of Angels. It was a fragment of Panest given by the boss of the organization to his subordinate, the former "Rum" of the organization.
Mr. Clock originally wanted to obtain this fragment, and sent Qin Zhibo to obtain the fake fragment from Belmode to divert his attention.
However, Qin Zhibo, who was on the safe side, received information directly from the organization's boss, obtained the fragments of his predecessor Rum in advance, and replaced them with the fake fragments of Belmode.
This led to Mr. Clock's failure. The Panestre disk he pieced together was fake.
Qin Zhibo took off the fragment from Belmode and replaced it with the fragment from his predecessor Rum.
This fragment fits perfectly with the fragment Mr. Clock obtained in Arkham, and can be pieced together into a complete fan-shaped fragment.
Qin Zhibo carefully calibrated the disk, and just as he was about to open his mouth to present it, something suddenly dawned on him.
He hesitated.
What he hesitated about was whether this thing would really go so smoothly?
The so-called former rum fragments were obtained from the boss of the organization as a reward for returning Belmod.
However, the organization boss did not fulfill his promise immediately. Instead, it took a few days for him to tell him the clues about his predecessor Rum Fragment.
If you were going to keep your promise, why did it take a few days to tell yourself?
Is there a possibility?
Both myself and Mr.clock were deceived by the boss of the organization.