Dice In The Darkness: Cthulhu Calls

Since the birth of Earth, many Great Old Ones have arrived, including Zhatuogua and Elephant-headed God Fanggen. However, these Great Old Ones mostly adhere to the philosophy of "quietly make a fortune". Once they find a suitable place on Earth, they become "homebodies", not bothering themselves with worldly affairs. Consequently, the Ancient Ones who arrived later were initially unaware of having such "neighbors".

The Ancient Ones, who thought they had found a suitable colony, soon encountered attacks from various mythical creature races. Even Cthulhu personally intervened and fought against the Ancient Ones, indicating how difficult life was for the Ancient Ones back then.

However, this was something Liu Xing hadn’t figured out before: why Earth was so "popular", why so many mythical creature races and Great Old Ones flocked here. Could it be because Earth had abundant water?

Now it seems that Liu Xing believes, at least in this parallel world, the reason can be attributed to the scapegoat Nyarlathotep causing trouble, deliberately summoning a group of mythical creature races and Great Old Ones to Earth.

However, Liu Xing couldn’t help but think that Chrisiano’s strength was a bit strong now. If he were to regain his peak strength, Chrisiano would at least be on par with Dagon.

After all, Chrisiano had integrated the strengths of various mythical creatures, possessing abilities such as Star Kin and Earth-boring Demon Worm. This is understandable why the Ancient Ones decided to seal Chrisiano’s abilities. After all, nobody wants an uncontrollable nuclear weapon suddenly appearing in their capital city.

Thinking about this, Liu Xing couldn’t help but ask, "So, Mr. Chrisiano, can you still restore the identity of the Ancient Ones?"

Chrisiano was first stunned, then shook his head helplessly, saying, "It’s probably not possible. The ones who exiled me were the top figures of the Ancient Ones, so if I want to restore my identity as an Ancient One, I would have to seek their forgiveness or simply return to the capital of the Ancient Ones in the stars and seek forgiveness from even higher-ranking figures... These two paths are basically impossible because those top Ancient Ones who exiled me won’t admit their mistake. As for returning to the capital of the Ancient Ones in the stars, I’m afraid it’s very difficult for me now because I have lost the ability to survive in space."

Degradation.

Liu Xing rubbed his chin. The Ancient Ones who came to Earth, due to their comfortable early life, lost their ability to survive in space and extreme cold conditions. The Ancient Ones only discovered this when preparing to fight the Migo in outer space. It can be seen that the Ancient Ones who came to Earth had become complete "shut-ins" after arriving, to the point where they didn’t even realize their own abilities had degraded.

This was also the reason why the Ancient Ones on Earth couldn’t contact the headquarters of the Ancient Ones in space after being attacked by other mythical creature races.

However, what surprised Liu Xing was that even after absorbing so many exclusive abilities of mythical creatures, Chrisiano still couldn’t survive in space.

Seeing Liu Xing’s confusion, Chrisiano shrugged and said, "Although I have gained many abilities from other mythical creatures, those abilities are basically their special abilities. Abilities like surviving in space are basic abilities that most mythical creatures have. So, until now, I still can’t survive in space... But I have also come to terms with my identity as an Ancient One. After all, I don’t want to go back to the depths of the sea now. There are not many entertainment facilities there. It’s not as colorful and enjoyable as the human world. But I must reclaim my abilities now because I can feel that this world is undergoing changes, and some things are stirring."

Liu Xing frowned, feeling that by "things," Chrisiano meant the Deep Diving Society and the Cult of the Cadaver, those secret cults wanting to cause trouble.

At this point, Liu Xing and the others had returned to the control room of the research facility.

Entering the control room, Chrisiano went to a control panel and skillfully started it.

"I used to be a low-level clerk of the Ancient Ones, so I know these things well. Now that the research facility has lost control, I can bypass identity verification and forcibly activate some instruments and control panels with relatively low confidentiality levels," Chrisiano explained.

Soon, Chrisiano activated most of the instruments and control panels in the control room and began searching for the information he wanted.

Because Liu Xing’s skill in Ancient One language was not very high, he couldn’t understand the professional terms in Ancient One language. Therefore, he only knew that Chrisiano was indeed accessing the research data from these years in the research facility.

Feeling bored, Liu Xing shrugged and decided to go chat with Zhang Jingxu and the others, which seemed more practical.

After all, he couldn’t understand anything...

At this time, Zhang Jingxu and the others were chatting with the two China Daoist members who had come with Chrisiano.

The two members of the China Daoist were named Qin Le and Tong Hui.

Qin Le and Tong Hui were dispatched by the China Daoist to handle supernatural incidents encountered by Chinese people within England. Their superficial identities were employees sent by a state-owned enterprise to England for training.

Initially, Qin Le and Tong Hui had refused to come to Zekiel Island because they had heard of the island’s "reputation". However, since Chrisiano was valued by the China Daoist, Qin Le and Tong Hui had no choice but to follow Chrisiano to Zekiel Island.

After arriving at Zekiel Island, Chrisiano had Qin Le and Tong Hui hide the yacht they had come on in a secluded reef, and he had also specifically used magic spells to secure the yacht, so even in storms, the yacht should be fine.

So, this yacht should be the key for themselves and their group to leave Zekiel Island.

As for Chrisiano’s actions with Qin Le and Tong Hui on Zekiel Island, they could basically be summed up in one word: reckless.

After dealing with the yacht, Chrisiano took Qin Le and Tong Hui straight into the research facility, with a rather straightforward process. When they approached the research facility, they directly used short-range teleportation to send themselves, Qin Le, and Tong Hui into the facility... Then the three of them were pursued by automated defense robots.

As a former member of the Ancient Ones, Chrisiano was well aware of the characteristics and capabilities of the automated defense robots. Therefore, he decisively chose to avoid direct confrontation, taking Qin Le and Tong Hui to hide and engage in hit-and-run tactics against these automated defense robots.

As a result, although Chrisiano’s group had dealt with many automated defense robots over these days, they had also suffered greatly. Even Chrisiano himself was considering leaving the research facility and returning for recuperation.

"Fortunately, you arrived just in time. If you had found us just an hour later, we might have already left the research facility," Tong Hui said with a smile.

Zhang Jingxu rubbed his chin and said with a smile, "Then you should thank us now. Thank us for saving your lives just in time, because the situation outside the research facility is not optimistic at all. There have been a

large number of synthetic beasts appearing."

"Synthetic beasts have appeared so quickly? Wasn’t it supposed to take a few more days?" Qin Le said, looking surprised.

Ling Ishikawa shrugged and told Qin Le and Tong Hui about the thunderstorm that day.

Upon hearing this, Tong Hui suddenly realized, "So that’s it. That day, we were supposed to arrive at this control room, but suddenly there was another batch of automated defense robots, forcing us to retreat to the laboratory. It turns out it was all because of that thunderstorm."

At this moment, Chrisiano suddenly said, "Mr. Ryuusei, could you please come over here?"

Liu Xing nodded and immediately went to Chrisiano’s side.

After all, Chrisiano was the key to whether they could safely leave Zekiel Island.

"Mr. Ryuusei, now I would like to ask for your permission to open this folder," Chrisiano said, pointing at the screen.

Liu Xing looked at the folder on the screen and found that it contained research data on Zekiel Island from the past few hundred years.

So, Liu Xing contacted the system to open the folder.

Because the confidentiality level of this folder was not high, the system didn’t say much and simply opened the folder.

Then, Chrisiano began to concentrate on studying the research records.

Because these research records were automatically recorded basic data, even an outsider like Liu Xing could understand them—because these basic data only recorded the situation of the top three surviving synthetic beasts in each round of experiments and the scores given to them by the system.

Interestingly, after looking at the basic data of several rounds of experiments, Liu Xing found that the synthetic beast with the highest score among the three synthetic beasts was not usually the first place.

And the first place usually had a characteristic: their main body was not a fierce beast.

It seemed that compared to those fierce beasts, originally harmless herbivores had more development potential.

At this moment, KP Chopsticks suddenly said, "By the way, Liu Xing, you can conduct an inspiration judgment on these research data now."

Inspiration judgment?

Liu Xing couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow.

To be honest, Liu Xing didn’t think there was anything worth inspiring in these research data. After all, at most, one could only deduce what type of synthetic beasts their group would encounter next from these research data.

Was there anything he hadn’t thought of?

So, Liu Xing said to KP Chopsticks, "Alright, KP, I’ll conduct an inspiration judgment on these research data."

Liu Xing, 68/70, success.

Fortunately, almost failed.

The moment the judgment result came out, Liu Xing found an inexplicable thought in his mind—these research data were very important.

Mysterious.

This thought made Liu Xing feel very strange because it was inexplicable.

It seemed that this ordinary successful inspiration judgment couldn’t provide him with too many clues.

But since the judgment result said so, Liu Xing naturally chose to believe it and considered these research data very important.

So, Liu Xing contacted the system again, hoping the system would allow him to download this research data.

This time, the system seemed to "freeze" a bit, and didn’t respond to Liu Xing for two or three minutes.

Just as Liu Xing was about to give up, the system suddenly spoke up, "Based on the current situation, I can meet your request, but you must provide a corresponding carrier."

Carrier?

Liu Xing didn’t think his mobile phone could serve as a carrier to download information about the Ancient Ones. After all, even human information had many formats, and ordinary devices couldn’t handle them all.

However, Liu Xing seemed to have an Ancient One creation in his hand—Sirius’s Soul Casket.

In Liu Xing’s view, Sirius’s Soul Casket should be able to serve as a carrier, because this Soul Casket could even contain Sirius’s soul, let alone some information.

And with this information stored in the Soul Casket, Sirius should be able to know and interpret it immediately. Then, Liu Xing would just need to enter the Soul Casket to get the answers.

Thinking of this, Liu Xing decisively took out the Soul Casket and said to the system, "System, can I download this research data into the Soul Casket in my hand?"

"Yes." This time, the system’s response was very prompt.

But at this moment, Chrisiano, who had been staring at the screen, suddenly turned his head and said to Liu Xing, "Mr. Ryuusei, how come you have a Soul Casket? This is an important item of the Ancient Ones. I lived in the Ancient Ones for tens of millions of years, and I’ve only heard of the existence of the Soul Casket. I’ve never actually seen one!"

Liu Xing raised an eyebrow. Chrisiano’s words were quite rich in content.

Obviously, this Soul Casket was not a common item. It might only be qualified for use by those who were rich and powerful in the Ancient Ones. This was different from what Sirius had told him before. After all, according to Sirius, it was just an ordinary mid-level military officer.

So, there must be a liar between Chrisiano and Sirius.

And the likelihood of Chrisiano lying was much lower than Sirius, after all, Chrisiano had no reason to lie in this regard.

So, Sirius was not simple.

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