Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 269 Pentagram Creatures and "Shoggoths"

[It is a mountain range with all the peaks black, but there is no snow at a very high altitude, and there seem to be two smoking flames in the mountains on both sides of the field of view]

[At that time, I, including many people including Professor Dale, regretted that I could only squat in front of the radio and listen to Professor Lake’s description, in order to satisfy my inner desire for adventure, because that was a world that might surpass 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 sent 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 be a martyr.】

[The next day, January 1, the blizzard intensified and we lost contact with the secondary expedition led by Professor Lake]

[Frenzied storms are raging on the Antarctic permafrost, many people headed by Professor Dale have many terrible speculations about the fate of the secondary expedition]

[January 1, 25:7 AM, the storm subsided, we decided to quickly set off to the latitude and longitude coordinates sent by Professor Lake to carry out rescue]

【After four and a half hours of flight.】

Qin Zhibo experienced the perspective of Master Mamiya, riding on an old-fashioned plane from the 30s, looking into the distance.

It is a jagged mountain range of countless hideous pinnacles, gleaming clouds of ice crystals against these eerie peaks.

The bald, nightmarish peaks are like doorposts marking the entrance to the abyss of hell, malevolent and menacing.
Continuing to fly forward, the plane gradually approached those black mountain peaks, and the gel-white sky suddenly melted away like cream ice cream, turning into a strange mirage.

The mirage is located between the chaotic ice crystal clouds above the mountain peak. In the strange mirage that looms, you can see some strange spire structures, as well as a chaotic labyrinth 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 sinister that it makes people chill]

[Afterwards, I also proved that my evaluation of it was not wrong]

Next, we will enter some trivial memoirs of Mr. Mamiya again.

[After hours of cruising in the sky, we finally located Professor Lake's camp after the blizzard cleared]

【In the situation of Professor Lake, what awaits us is...】

Qin Zhibo once again returned to the perspective of Master Jiangong.

In the dilapidated camp left behind by the blizzard, what was found were not frozen to death humans, but some people and dogs whose corpses were twisted to the limit.

Torn tendons protrude from under broken skin, and there are even humans cut in half by something delicate.
The men were treated like livestock, piled with sled dogs who were equally twisted and torn.

[I believe Blizzard can't do such fine work]

Looking at the scene in front of him, Qin Zhibo knew that this was a hundred times worse than any corpse at the scene of a murder he had encountered so far.

Fortunately, after maybe a day, maybe two days of drying, the degree of blood on it has been greatly reduced under the cover of ice and snow.

In Master Jiangong's view, some people with weak nerves ran aside and vomited.

Master Jiangong stood there in a daze, probably out of shock.

[The remnants of these corpses are hard to distinguish between humans, even humans and dogs, so we can only put aside the idea of ​​​​separating their flesh and blood tissues for the time being and continue to search the camp]

[In the half-collapsed tent, we found the body of Professor Lake again]

Qin Zhibo looked at the curly-haired man in the tent who was hung on the beams of the tent like pork from a slaughterhouse, and whose head looked like a curly blessing, and he thought of the man in the Wutiangou case who was hung on the beams of the training room like a sausage old abbot.

It's just that this curly-haired man called "Professor Lake" by Master Mamiya was not treated as a human being at all, but a beast waiting to be slaughtered or an experimental subject.

His clothes were stripped, and his flesh was carefully dissected by an anatomy tool. Some of the tissues inside were scattered on the ground, and some fragments were placed on the kerosene lamp beside him and roasted into coke.

Judging from the frightened 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 missing of an assistant, a large amount of supplies and a sled dog, but when we found some strange five-pointed star cemeteries near the camp, all the strange things seemed to be solved】

[Those terrible grave mounds are piled up in the shape of a five-pointed star with ice and snow, a total of six]

[When we dug up this strange tomb with a vertical structure, 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-awareness could experience the shock of seeing something astonishing.

It is a winged creature whose trunk is like a large spindle-shaped barrel, and in the middle of the torso, there are some relatively slender tentacles extending horizontally.

The top of this creature is a five-pointed star structure that hangs weakly, and five siphons with ciliates extend from the middle of this structure, and the bottom is the axe foot of a shell creature.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Qin Zhibo couldn't construct a creature with a reliable image through a single description of these strange structures.

But through the memories of Master Jiangong, Qin Zhibo found that this strange and complex creature had a feeling of deja vu.

This feeling comes from Mi-Go, a strange creature found near the monastery where the foggy dog ​​haunts.

It's just that Mi-Go is still active in an unknown dark corner of the world until now, and has left derivative legends such as "foggy dog".

And the origin of this creature may be too ancient. Before the Miskatonic expedition, no one had seen its existence.

[Next, Professor Dale 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 the instructions of Professor Dale to bury the corpses in the camp on the spot, and brought the unknown biological samples and rock samples dug from the Pentagram 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 about it]

[However, that poor fellow Danvers ended his adventure and got mad within less than a month after returning to Arkham Town, and was admitted to the Arkham Asylum]

[I visited him in a lunatic asylum on the eve of finishing my study abroad and leaving the United States, but at that time it was difficult for him to communicate with people, he just kept repeating "all eyes", "squirming black", "Tekeli" and so on discourse]

[According to the psychiatrist in charge of him, when he occasionally returns to normal, he will say that he has seen "Shoggoth"]

(End of this chapter)