[It is a mountain range where all the peaks are black, but there is no snow at the extremely high altitude. There seem to be two smoking flames in the mountains that span both sides of the field of view]
[At that time, I, including many people like Professor Dell, regretted that I could only squat in front of the ticker and listen to Professor Lake's description to satisfy my inner desire for adventure, because it was a world that might exceed the Himalayas.
First altitude]
[If I can follow Professor Lake and become the first Showa man to climb that mountain, then my news will be spread back to my hometown, and my father, mother, brothers and sisters will all be proud of me!]
[But at the same time, I will also become a martyr...]
[The next day, January 24, the snowstorm intensified and we lost contact with the secondary expedition team led by Professor Lake]
[Crazy storms are raging on the Antarctic frozen soil, and many people, led by Professor Dale, have many terrible speculations about the fate of the secondary expedition team]
[January 25, 7:15 AM, the storm subsided, and we decided to quickly set off to the latitude and longitude coordinates sent by Professor Lake to carry out rescue]
[After a four and a half hour flight...]
Qin Zhibo experienced Master Mamiya's perspective, riding on an old-fashioned airplane from the 1930s, looking into the distance.
It is a jagged mountain range made up of countless hideous peaks, with shining clouds of ice crystals setting off these eerie peaks.
The bare and nightmarish peaks are like doorposts marking the entry into the abyss of hell, vicious and dangerous...
Continuing to fly forward, the plane gradually approached those black peaks, and the glue-white sky suddenly melted away like cream ice cream, turning into a strange mirage.
The mirage is located between the chaotic ice crystal clouds on the mountain peaks. In the vaguely bizarre mirage, you can see some weird spire structures and a chaotic maze connected by fortresses and high walls.
If you look carefully, you can even see a large number of buildings with five-pointed star domes in the maze, just like some big stars covering the beach at low tide...
[It does not have any sense of beauty, it is a mirage that is so menacing that it makes people shiver]
[It was later proven that my evaluation of it was not wrong]
Next, we will once again enter into some trivial memoirs of Mr. Mamiya.
[After cruising in the sky for several hours, we finally located Professor Lake’s camp after the heavy snowstorm]
[In Professor Lake's situation, what awaits us is...]
Qin Zhibo once again returns to the perspective of Master Mamiya.
In the dilapidated camps left behind after the raging blizzard, what was found were not frozen humans, but people and dogs whose corpses were twisted to the extreme.
Torn tendons protruded from under the damaged skin, and there were even humans cut in half by something delicate...
These people were treated like livestock, stacked alongside sled dogs that were also twisted and torn apart.
[I believe that a snowstorm cannot do such delicate work]
Qin Zhibo looked at the scene in front of him and knew that it was a hundred times worse than any corpse at a murder scene he had encountered so far.
Fortunately, after maybe one day or two days of drying, the bloodiness on it has been reduced a lot under the cover of ice and snow.
In the sight of Mr. Mamiya, some people with weak nerves around him ran to the side and vomited.
Mr. Mamiya stood there blankly, probably out of fear.
[The remains of these corpses are difficult to distinguish not only between humans, but even between humans and dogs, so we can only temporarily put aside the idea of separating their flesh and blood tissues in detail and continue to search the camp]
[In the half-collapsed tent, we found the body of Professor Lake himself...]
Qin Zhibo looked at the curly-haired man in the tent who was hung on the beams of the tent like pork in a slaughterhouse. His head looked a bit like a curly hair, and reminded him of the man in the Wutiangu case who was hung like sausages on the beams of the training room.
Old abbot.
It's just that the curly-haired man whom Mr. Mamiya calls "Professor Lake" is not treated as a human being at all, but as a beast to be slaughtered or an experimental subject.
His clothes were stripped off, and his skin and flesh were carefully cut open with dissection tools. Some of the tissues inside were scattered on the ground, and some fragments were placed on a nearby kerosene lamp and roasted into char.
Judging from the horrified and distorted expression on his face, he was not anesthetized when he was treated like this, but was alive...
[There are still many strange phenomena in the camp, such as the disappearance of an assistant, a large amount of supplies, and a sled dog. However, when we discovered some strange five-pointed star cemeteries near the camp, all the strangeness seemed to be solved]
[Those terrible grave mounds were piled with ice and snow in the shape of a five-pointed star, six in total]
[After we dug up this strange vertical tomb, we finally saw the strange creature that Professor Lake mentioned in his report two days ago]
Qin Zhibo looked at the creature in front of him. Although he couldn't feel his body, his self-consciousness could experience the shock of seeing something shocking.
This is a winged creature with a trunk like a spindle barrel. In the middle of the trunk, there are some relatively slender tentacles extending horizontally.
The top of this creature is a five-pointed star structure that is hanging powerlessly. From the middle of this structure extend five ciliated siphons, and the bottom is like a shell creature's axe...
Without seeing it with his own eyes, Qin Zhibo would not be able to construct a reliable image of a creature through a single description of these strange structures.
But through Mr. Mamiya's memories, Qin Zhibo found that this strange and complex creature had a sense of déjà vu.
This feeling comes from the strange creature found near the temple where the foggy dogs are infested - Mi-Go.
It's just that Mi-Go is still active in unknown dark corners of the world until now, and has left behind derivative legends such as "Fog Dog".
The origin of this creature may be too ancient. No one had seen its existence before the Miskatonic expedition.
[Next, Professor Dell decided to take his assistant Danvers to continue searching for the only missing team member in the camp]
[The remaining team members, including me, followed Professor Dale’s instructions and buried the corpses in the camp on the spot, and brought the unknown biological samples and rock samples dug out from the five-pointed star grave back to the southern base]
[As for the adventures of Professor Dale and his assistant Danvers in the Black Mountains, I don’t know]
[But the poor guy Danvers got mad and was admitted to Arkham Asylum less than a month after returning to Arkham Town after his adventure ended]
[I visited him in a lunatic asylum on the eve of my studies abroad and before I left the United States, but at that time it was already difficult for him to communicate with others. He just kept repeating "all eyes", "squirming black", "Tekeli" and so on.
words]
[According to the psychiatrist in charge of him, when he occasionally returns to normal consciousness, he will say that he has seen "Shoggoths"]