Chapter 1186 – Hidden God

　　”Cthulu is from another world? Then what is this? A fae invasion?” Lin Qiye asked in disbelief.

　　”I don’t know, these are just my guesses as well, after all, I can’t think of any other explanation besides this theory.” Remembrance shrugged and said, “But what’s certain is that this group of setting monsters that came out of novels are definitely not the gods and myths that we perceive, and our existing intelligence on battle ranks, abilities, laws, and the like can’t be applied to them.

　　Their very existence is an ‘unknown’.”

　　Lin Qiye’s gaze swept over a few of the booths, “Other than that? Are there any other clues?”

　　”There is.”

　　Remembrance nodded solemnly, “See that broken piece of volcanic rock in the center?”

　　Lin Qiye walked over to the booth that Memorial was talking about, his gaze pierced through the glass and landed on top of a one-meter-high piece of fractured rock, and on the rough surface of the rock, one could vaguely see dense and twisted patterns, like some sort of ancient drawings.

　　”What is this thing?”

　　”It’s an ancient inscription that was unearthed around one of the Cthulhu ruins, the exact era it was from is indistinguishable, but after the technical restoration of the Second Research Institute, it’s roughly possible to decipher the meaning on it.”

　　Remembrance paused for a moment, “What is recorded on this inscription should be the history of the time when the gods of the gram system were sealed on the moon.”

　　Lin Qiye raised an eyebrow, “But, aren’t we already clear about this history?”

　　”No, it’s not that simple.”

　　Remembrance reached out her hand and pointed to one of the areas, “Look at this painting.”

　　Lin Qiye followed her fingertips to see that on the ancient picture, a mass of twisted lines flew up and converged within an orb in the sky, hanging high above the top of the picture.

　　”This is the Grammatical Gods landing on the moon?” Lin Qiye roughly guessed the meaning of the picture.

　　”That’s right, look here again.”

　　Remembrance moved his finger, again, to the very bottom of the picture.

　　”This is ……,” Lin Qiye’s eyes narrowed slightly.

　　On the surface of the black rock body, three clusters of twisted lines with dark red brushstrokes lay prostrate below the countless soaring lines, as if they were hibernating in the deep underground, not moving a muscle.

　　”Judging from the meaning of this drawing, there are still three grammatical gods that aren’t sealed above the moon.” Remembrance looked solemnly into Lin Qiye’s eyes and said word by word, “They …… have been lurking somewhere on Earth.”

　　”There are still grammatical gods on Earth?!”

　　Lin Qiye’s face instantly became grave.

　　”After we discovered this possibility, we deployed a large amount of manpower and explored the extant relics of the gram-type gods more deeply, and through technical restoration, with countless inferences and guesses, and combined with the relevant contents of the Cthulhu myths, we can roughly lock down the identities of these three gram-type gods.”

　　Memorial took a deep breath and slowly said:

　　”They are:[Black Goat] Shabu Nicholas, [Key of the Gate] Jug Sotos, and [Chaos] Naiaratotepe. In some fictional settings, they are also designated as the Three Pillar Gods of the Grammy System mythology.”

　　”[Black Goat], [Key of the Gate], [Chaos] ……” Lin Qiye muttered these names.

　　Suddenly, he felt that the name [Black Goat] Nicholas seemed like he had heard it somewhere before ……

　　An Qingyu?

　　Lin Qiye thought for a moment before recalling the future An Qingyu that appeared at the end of the long river of time when he was judged by the angels in hell.

　　At that time, An Qingyu looked at the blazing angel Uriel, who was being manipulated by the red bugs, and said, “I also didn’t expect that if we met again, it would be in this form …… It seems that I also have to thank Nicholas properly.”

　　So it seems that the future An Qingyu also knows about the existence of [Black Goat] Shabu Nicholas? Or perhaps …… they were originally from the same camp?

　　Why did he thank [Black Goat]?

　　Because it facilitated the meeting of the two across time and space? It, or part of it, was the little red bug that manipulated Uriel to trigger the future judgment?

　　Just as Lin Qiye pondered, Memorial continued:

　　”According to our speculations, at least two of these three gram system pillar gods left behind on Earth have already awakened.”

　　”According to gram system mythology, one of the characteristics of the [Black Goat] Shabu Nicholas is that it possesses superb reproductive ability, and for this reason, it is known as the supreme mother goddess, the Black Goat of the Mori, who gave birth to thousands of offspring.

　　And the red bugs that you encountered in Hell before, manipulating the corpses of angels and demons as well as the sarcoma, and the mass of bugs that made up Odin’s eyeballs some time ago, are most likely all descendants spawned by it and controlled by it.”

　　”In the second place, there’s the [Key to the Gate] Judge Sotos, the nameless fog that extinguished the world a hundred years ago was inextricably linked to it, and it can even be hypothesized that this fog is a part of its body.”

　　Lin Qiye’s frown grew tighter and tighter.

　　According to what Memorial said, the [Black Mountain Goat] and the [Key of the Gate], the former manipulated the heavens and the hells in an attempt to create an exclusive divine kingdom that belonged to the grammatical gods, while the latter single-handedly created the present day Earth’s tragic state and was the root cause of the Daxia gods’ descent into the cycle of reincarnation……. Their power and intent to subvert the world far exceeded Lin Qiye’s imagination.

　　”What about the last one?”

　　”[Chaos] Nyarlathotep, one of its most important characteristics is its passion for deceiving and seducing humans, and takes its highest delight in plunging them into terror and despair to the point of eventual insanity.

　　Events related to it, we have yet to discover at this time, so for the time being, we have classified it as not yet awakened …… or rather, it’s just waiting for the right time.”

　　Lin Qiye nodded thoughtfully, “This, on the contrary, has indeed not been discovered.”

　　”All in all, we must always be on guard against these three grammatical deities lurking on Earth …… otherwise, things will become very bad.” Memorial licked his somewhat dry and cracked lips and said.

　　”I’ve already reminded you of what you should be reminded of, and I’ll synchronize any new discoveries over at the Second Research Institute to you.

　　If you’re looking for information about the Sumerian mythology, take your time, I’ll go and work on something else first.”

　　After saying goodbye to Lin Qiye, Memorial walked straight out of the ancient castle.

　　Lin Qiye took one last look at the Cthulhu Ruins’ collection, took a deep breath, and slowly exhaled, as if he hadn’t recovered from the heavy news he had just received.

　　He returned to the third floor of the ancient fortress, casually picking up a Sumerian mythology investigation file, sitting down in place, and carefully flipping through it.

　　Although, as Memorial had said, there were very few files on the Sumerian Mythos, trying to extract useful information through these bits and pieces was a vast undertaking.

　　Time passed by minute by minute, and by the time Lin Qiye finished flipping through all the files and left the ancient castle, it was already late at night in [Utopia].