The speed of the car was maintained at about eighty yards, but it could not get rid of the rickety figure walking in the thick fog behind it.
Not only that, the old gentleman is slowly approaching...
Catherine, the co-pilot, stared at the thick fog ahead, thinking about ways to get the team out of danger.
Time passed by, and this outstanding explorer in the Queen class was still unable to find a way for everyone to escape.
After all, there is still a long way to go to escape the spiritual fog barrier, and the pursuer is a problem against the Ace level.
Catherine sighed imperceptibly and said in a deep voice: "We can't escape like this, so I can only get out of the car to stop him..."
Sean next to him kept driving at full speed, stared at the road, and said in a loud voice: "Stop joking! How could you stop him?"
Catherine's eyes were calm: "Sean, maybe you will be exposed to a concept later, called 'specializing in studying ancient books'.
"In some rare mysterious books, there may be a complete set of legendary gods.
"Seekers can choose to invest a lot of time, energy and resources in studying this book. Although it will affect the accumulation of knowledge breadth, the rewards are also huge..."
Sean quickly turned his head and glanced at Catherine: "Why do you specialize in ancient books? Why are you telling me this?"
"..." Catherine was silent for a while and continued, "I am very lucky. I found a rare ancient book called "The Book of Red Clothes".
"Although it has strong evil attributes, occultists believe that this ancient book is the original belief of the god of drama [Dionys]...
"So I spent a lot of time to understand the knowledge in "The Red Book" to a certain extent... That's why my acting skills and personal abilities have made a bigger leap among the same level...
"In addition, specializing in studying ancient books will lead to some special knowledge. For example, the "Book of Red Clothes" records a method of playing the role of the god himself.
"So, the next plan is this..."
Behind the car, Finks' figure was getting closer and closer, and several people in the car could already feel the tremor of his cane when it touched the ground.
In the carriage, Captain Catherine quietly stated her plans and requirements.
After hearing what Catherine said, Sean had a stern expression: "Performing a god... sounds very dangerous, so is it likely that you will fall out of the role?
"After all, the role you have to play is a being that is much more powerful than you. Will you lose yourself?"
Catherine nodded: "There is indeed such a danger, but after all, it is only a short-term role, and the possibility of falling out of the role is still very high.
"However, just in case, if any unplanned changes occur, you must cooperate with the emergency response team to solve the crisis. After all, it will not take long, and the Lord in Red cannot fully obtain his power... …”
Sean and Moonlight were silent. Teammates need to take huge risks to escape. This kind of thing... cannot make the two of them feel relaxed no matter what.
While the two were still thinking about whether there were other ways, Catherine said sternly: "I'm not discussing with you. This is the captain's plan and order, just follow it!"
Boom! The vibration of the cane had already made the Ford jump.
"Slow down." The captain has ordered.
Sean seemed to force his body to move. He stepped on the brakes and slowed down the vehicle...
The car didn't stop completely. Catherine opened the door and jumped out of the car, rolling to absorb the inertia.
The car sped up a bit more, but didn't leave completely - because Sean and Moonlight needed to make sure that Catherine wouldn't turn into another threat after playing...
Catherine half-knelt, holding the pendant of the God of Drama on her chest, and began to whisper the most dangerous prayer in the "Red Book"...
“Along the shore, the clouds and waves broke…the twin suns sank behind the lake.
"The shadows lengthened, and dark stars rose in the strange day of the city of two suns.
"The stars circled the sky in strange trajectories. Over the lost city of Two Suns, ragged red clothes floated like the sky stained with blood..." (Note 1)
Countless red streamers suddenly appeared in the thick fog. Catherine's figure was wrapped in floating red robes. She suddenly became extremely tall, standing on top of the red figure like a strange peak, with her face in the thick fog. It is difficult to distinguish, and only an ancient bronze crown can be seen on the head of this being.
"The Lord in Red..." Sean looked at the thin, tall, blood-red back in the car and felt an unprecedented sense of oppression...
One of the ancient evil gods, the master of the red mark, the cruel side of the belief in the god of drama, [Dionys] who was later beautified by people, the true image after breaking through the fog of history...
However, the Lord in Red in front of him at this time was only played by Catherine. Although he had some divinity, he was not a complete evil god.
Finks, who had been chasing, stopped. In front of him, a lake stained with blood-red sunset appeared.
Above the lake are two twin suns. Two bright suns shone on the foreign land in the fantasy world, and a desolate and desolate feeling arose in his heart.
Phinks raised his head and saw a mysterious city with a spire piercing the sky under the twin suns.
On the other side of the Lake of Two Suns and in front of the Spire City, stands their master, the Lord in Red...
The Lord in Red is a cruel god hidden in ancient dramas, and occult scholars have extremely limited knowledge of him. They only know that he is in charge of the City of Two Suns and uses seven horrific scripts as a way to travel to the material world. Door……
Behind Finks, countless wax figures rushed out of the thick fog in strange postures, and they also stayed at the lakeside in confusion.
Finks could feel what kind of threat he was facing. If he hadn't been curious and greedy about the value of Sean's soul, he might have retreated, but now...
Finks took a few steps back, and the wax on the surrounding flesh-wax figures began to melt. They leaned their bodies together, as if they wanted to fuse each other together through the wax...
A huge structure of flesh and wax is taking shape, and Phinks seems to be using flesh and wax to create some kind of disgusting art...
He seemed to want the large wax figure that was gradually taking shape to cross the Lake of Two Suns...
Faced with this rude move, the Lord in Red opened his long, slender hands.
Under the double sun above his head, seven more red suns appeared behind him, and cruel stories seemed to be unfolding in the red sun.
After a while, the Lord in Red chose a script for the perverted person in front of him.
A red sun projected out, instantly transporting Finks and his ridiculous works into a certain world.
In that world, a prince summoned the princes and nobles to perform a masked song and dance that lasted for three days and three nights, and people were drinking and carousing.
The ingenious prince designed a unique decoration for this banquet, and the seven halls were filled with seven rich colors.
The last hall was decorated completely in red, hundreds of candlelights were shrouded in red gauze, the floor and walls were painted with red paint, and even the glass of the windows was as red as flowing blood...
The play is called "The Ball of the Red Death" and tells the story of the absurd life of the princes and nobles who led to death in extravagance and debauchery against the backdrop of the Red Death ravaging the world. (Note 2)
This horror play was created by a talented playwright in the middle of the last century. After only one performance, it was permanently banned for causing horrific incidents that interfered with reality.
Was it the genius playwright whose story was chosen by the Lord in Red, or did the Lord in Red write the story with the help of that playwright? No one knows the answer.
In the blood-red hall, all the wax figures of Finks were missing.
The slave master of the Undercurrent Street now stood among the crowd wearing masks. Along with the guests, I saw an uninvited guest wearing a red mask and covered in blood slowly taking off the mask... There was nothing under the mask.
The extremely powerful Red Death broke out in the hall. Phinks, who was substituted into the story, seemed to have a physical body at this time. Red chickenpox appeared all over his body. The chickenpox was connected to each other by bloodshot threads until all the skin gradually changed. It became blood red...
In the eyes of Sean and Moonlight, Finks suddenly knelt on the ground, trembling, and seemed to be experiencing great fear and pain.
The Lord in Red, played by Catherine, can only cause fear and sensory pain to Finks, but this is enough to stop his pursuit.
"It's done!" Sean patted the steering wheel, looking forward to seeing the tall red figure that was almost invisible above his head, gradually dissipating...
However, the head of the Lord in Red slowly turned around in the dense fog. The bronze crown was firmly placed on his head. A pair of deep eyes penetrated the fog and stared at the car behind him, seemingly unaware of the situation. There is no intention of leaving the role.
Sean's heart trembled: "Oops!"
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Note 1: Adapted from an excerpt from "The King in Yellow".
Note 2: Adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's work "The Mask of the Red Death".
