Nuke Miko: Chronicles of America

After learning that this black cat goddess actually has the ability to enter other people's dreams, but the current magic power (spiritual power) is not enough to perform "dream jumping", the little witch Akiyama Hui suddenly had a flash of inspiration in her mind and found a neglected dream. blind spot.

——The serious ancient Egyptian cat god Bastet seems to have no ability to enter dreams.But another Buster built a cat kingdom in a dream!

In other words, this Buster, not Pi Buster!

——Although there is indeed a little indirect connection between the two...

"...Master Yuzao! I got it! I got it!! This cat god Buster is probably not the original one!

I'm afraid she is not the ancient Egyptian cat god Bastet you know, but the new American god born and raised in the New World! "

Megumi Akiyama excitedly asked for credit for the report: "...do you know the myth of Cthulhu? It is something created by Your Excellency [Ai Craft]!"

Chapter 38: The Cthulhu Mythos is a Genuine American Myth

"... Huh? The cat god Buster in the Cthulhu mythology? What is that?"

Regarding Akiyama Megumi's report, in front of the ancient fox god Yuzao who was resting, it seemed that he hadn't recovered for a while, and opened his mouth slightly with a dazed expression on his face.

On the other hand, the two girls, Valentina and Sonia, reacted quite violently to this, and their faces turned pale in an instant, their eyes confused.

——To be honest, even in the 21st century, the Cthulhu mythology is still just a niche subculture that is not out of the circle, and many simple-minded and straightforward Yankees know nothing about it.

But as one of the beautiful girls who aspire to pursue their dreams in Hollywood, they are also undergraduates who have studied in Southern California, the two girls, Valentina and Sonia, have somewhat dabbled in this aspect.

No way, among American fantasy horror video games, there are too many works that refer to and borrow the setting of Cthulhu Mythos.

As for the Cthulhu Mythology, which has a great visual impact and mind-distorting effect, as long as you understand it a little bit, it will definitely leave a deep impression.

Of course, basically it will not be a good impression with positive energy, but a negative impression that can make people sick and fearful.

Thinking of those indescribable, blind and ignorant evil gods in the Cthulhu mythology, maybe they will soon walk out of online games, board games, script killing, cartoons and movies, come to reality, and face to face with themselves... Naturally let everyone The girls couldn't help feeling chills down their backs, and their faces paled.

"...Cthulhu Mythos? Are we going to deal with the kind of stuff that loses SAN value as soon as we see it? No way?"

"...The monster in the Cthulhu Mythos? The Old One? Oh, no!! I hate tentacles the most!"

Seeing the horrifying appearance of the two of them about to transform into the world-famous painting "The Scream", Akiyama Hui curled his lips helplessly, "...please stop screaming, please. Of course I don't like those tentacles and eyeballs, and An indescribable thing that drives people crazy. But the problem is..."

She spread her hands with a wry smile, "... This is America after all! Girls!

And Cthulhu Mythos is an American myth with its roots in full swing—right now, the aura is recovering on the land of the United States, just like the stars in Cthulhu Mythos returning to their positions...so, some of them will definitely appear! "

After listening to Qiu Shanhui's decisive judgment, the faces of the other three girls were very ugly:

Hey, why is the myth that really belongs to the United States, which is completely different from other myths, such a set of indescribable things?

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As we all know, the United States is a young country.

Therefore, the myths that truly have American characteristics must also be a set of youthful myths.

——On the land of the North American continent, there have certainly been aborigines since ancient times.

But these native Indians have long been driven into the reservation area to survive, and their culture and gods are nothing but the tears of the times, dying like candles in the wind, and cannot represent today's America at all.

In the same way, the Christianity that Americans generally believe in comes from the old European continent, and it seems that it cannot be regarded as a myth that truly belongs to the United States.

So, just like the British Tolkien, in order to create a myth with truly British characteristics, he wrote the magnificent masterpiece "The Lord of the Rings".

In the United States on the other side of the Atlantic, there is also Lovecraft, a "master of craftsmanship", who created the world-renowned [Cthulhu Myth].

——To be honest, the literary level of the "seafood feaster, lord of thousands of evil gods, god of the world of Cthulhu" is not very good, and most of the stories are quite boring.

Except for his best-written "Call of Cthulhu", other works of Ai Craft read like waste articles sent by a depressed patient. The things written are too literary and youthful, which makes readers confused. As for him, he spent his whole life on the street until he died, and he didn't gradually become famous until many years after his death.

However, since his writing skills are not very good, why can he be praised and worshiped by so many people after his death?

Because he is not someone who is good at writing novels, but someone who is good at setting.

Although the novels of Love Craftsmanship are generally written, the level of setting collections is so high that later American and English academic circles and Hollywood film and television drama screenwriters refer to Cthulhu culture when writing magical and mysterious things. , and finally even "broken the circle" spread to East Asian countries.

More importantly, just like Newton who was the first to think about the fall of an apple, in the history of human literature, Mr. Ai Craft is also the first to make a reasonable and logical comment for [God], which also makes everyone feel creepy:

"...Compared to the universe, small human beings are meaningless at all. If there is a god, it is impossible to help such small human beings, unless...they have malicious intentions!"

How earth-shattering and deafening this is!

——Those ancient religions that originated in the age of ignorance, after being handed down to modern times, are basically full of stale preaching such as "God loves the world" and "benevolence, righteousness and morality", which are empty and boring, seriously divorced from reality, and make people think. I'm not excited.

But the gist of the Cthulhu mythology is to reveal the desperate and cruel truth of the whole world under the appearance of false peace.

This may sound like nothing in modern times, but in Europe and the United States more than 100 years ago, if you think the words of loving craftsmanship are reasonable, then when you go to church to worship, look at Jesus Christ on the cross in front of you, and listen to the priest Or when the pastor told you that God loves the world, what would you think of?

Is there a rebellious thrill?And a kind of fear and throbbing from the soul?

What's more, no matter how you think about it, as long as you don't lie to yourself, you will find that this is probably true! ! !

This is the charm of Cthulhu Mythos!

Well, just as Mr. Lu Xun revealed with his pen, behind the "benevolence, righteousness and morality" in traditional culture is the principle of "cannibalism".

What's even better is that this lunatic-like world view of bewildered nightmares is more suitable for modern capitalist society than those ancient myths and legends, and it can better reflect the strong feeling of modern human beings when facing the unknown and mystery. When one's own fragility and insignificance, the shared emotions.

——With the development of science and technology and the explosion of knowledge, the horizon of human beings is getting wider and wider, but each person himself becomes smaller and smaller.

Therefore, the fear of the unknown revealed by the Cthulhu mythology is more and more in line with the aesthetic needs of modern people, especially urbanites.

Therefore, although the story of love craftsmanship is mediocre, after his death, many American literary and artistic creators were enlightened by this concept, adding their own second, third and N designs, creating horror stories one after another, and finally creating Create a grand and complex Cthulhu Mythos universe...

From the DC superhero comics to the game "Radiation", among countless well-known IPs, there are hidden stalks that pay tribute to Cthulhu.

——If you think about it carefully, isn't this kind of collective creation the process of forming the myth systems of ancient human civilizations?

From this perspective, the Cthulhu Mythos is, of course, an out-and-out American mythology...just like the even more outrageous Flying Spaghetti Cult.

Now encountering the great changes in the recovery of spiritual energy, the Cthulhu mythology has begun to move from fantasy to reality, and it is almost an inevitable prospect...

—Because this is the real American myth!

Chapter 39, My Cat God Pet

What I have to admit is that in front of those indescribable gods in the Cthulhu mythology who can no longer be described as ugly, but can make people crazy just by looking at them, even the bloodthirsty, violent, life-loving gods in the Aztec mythology The cruel god of human blood sacrifice seems to have become more beautiful in comparison.

Perhaps, as a master of capitalism, the myth that symbolizes the United States of America is so ugly under the glamorous surface!

As Ma Sheng described in his book—every pore of capital has flowed with blood and dirty things since capital came into the world...

Myths, on the other hand, have always been human imaginations and sublimation based on real life, and cannot exist without human civilization.

Since the capitalist society itself is such a Cthulhu thing, it is no wonder that the Cthulhu myth appears in the United States.

Fortunately, although the various evil gods and monsters in the Cthulhu myth are mostly hideous and ugly, they are full of wriggling tentacles, stinky mucus, dense eyeballs... they are daunting, and they can't wait to retreat.But there are also occasional beautiful and pleasing existences among them:

For example, the cat god Buster of the Cthulhu pantheon.

——"Seafood Banqueter, Lord of Thousands of Evil Gods" Mr. Lovecraft, the cat god Bastet created in Cthulhu Mythos, although it somewhat refers to the setting of the ancient Egyptian cat god Bastet, but the prototype is actually It is the pet black cat of Ai Craft-sama.

The cat has the extremely politically incorrect name "Nigger Man", which literally translates to "nigger".

Uh, no way, who made Lovecraft, the god of the Cthulhu mythology, actually a white supremacist racist?

However, even though he named the cat a "nigger", Mr. Ai Craft did not treat his black cat as a black slave to torture him in reality.

On the contrary, this "Father of Cthulhu Mythos" is an out-and-out cat slave. He not only pampered the black cat with food and drink, but also wrote this cat into his novel, which really made people Buster, the cat god based on it, shows his presence in his works.

For his own cat, the cat slave love craftsman described it this way: "...beautiful, calm, noble, self-sufficient, possessing a philosophical tranquility but not losing wildness - except for cats, what other creature can be so classic Ze Junya, extraordinary and free from vulgarity?"

The "Cat in the Dreamland" written by him is almost the most beautiful fairy tale part of the Cthulhu mythology based on madness.

——In the dreamland of Cthulhu Mythos, cats not only have their own fairy tale kingdom, they can even land on the moon through space jumping...

Now, with the resurgence of the aura in the western United States, Buster, the cat god in the Cthulhu mythology, also descended on a stray female cat in Los Angeles, and in order to compete for the place full of magic spirit veins, to this apartment The unopened cat cafe on the ground floor launched a confident attack.

Then, amidst the aroma of catnip and meowing joyously, Buster rushed to the street in an instant, and fell humiliatedly under the palm of Shiba Mao in front of Tamamo,

"...Ah, that is to say, she is not the cat goddess of Bubastis City I once knew, but just a fake?"

After hearing Akiyama Megumi's explanation, the ancient fox god Yuzao turned his head and looked at the black cat Buster with rather unfriendly sharp eyes.

It's a pity that Buster, the American parallel version of the cat god, just had a full meal, and then sucked up catnip. He was also scratched and scratched by Megumi Akiyama and Valentina in turn, so comfortable that he closed his eyes and purred. Hmph, I didn't notice the disdain and malice of the nine-tailed white fox at all.

"...Yes, it's just borrowing the name of the ancient Egyptian cat god Bastet. At best, it's equivalent to a backdoor listing."

Megumi Akiyama pointed to the robe transformed by magic on the black cat goddess Buster, and replied, "...Look at the clothes and jewelry transformed by magic. Although they look like ancient Egyptian styles, except for the pattern , without half of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, how does it look like an Egyptian god?"

——Uh, such a specious style, there is no other way.

A newly born mythical creature without the wisdom accumulated over a long period of time cannot possibly surpass the writer of the myth.

And the craftsman who created the Cthulhu myth is not an archaeologist. How can he know what ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs are?

In addition, according to the common understanding of modern uneducated superficial Americans through Hollywood movies and computer games, those Greek, Viking, Egyptian gods, plus Christ Jesus and his twelve disciples, about All speak English.

But in fact, the birth of modern English has to be counted from the time of Shakespeare, about the [-]th and [-]th centuries.

Old English and Middle English in the British Isles of earlier times were completely different from modern English.

The British kings of the Plantagenet Dynasty seven or eight hundred years ago, such as the famous Charles the Lionheart, simply spoke French.

——This is also why the ancient fox god Yuzao, after discovering that the black cat goddess Buster can only speak American English, felt something was wrong: because before the "Great Dry Demon Period" that mysteriously disappeared from the world 800 years ago, this English in the modern sense does not exist in the world.

Now it is found that this seemingly ancient Egyptian cat god "Baster" is just a counterfeit produced in the United States.

Then, the attitude of the ancient fox god Yu Zaoqian will naturally change, and she will no longer treat her preferentially as an "old friend with amnesia".

"...Since she is not an old senior who I used to have friendship with, you don't have to be too polite to her."

The nine-tailed white fox arrogantly judged the fate of the black cat goddess. At the same time, it stretched out its claws and swipe in the void, drawing spiritual power to condense a volume of radiant and mysterious divine contract, "... Let her sign this deed of selling herself, and make you a shikigami!"

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"...Woo meow! Don't! Don't meow! Cats will never be slaves!"

Looking at the shikigami contract spread out in front of her, the black cat goddess Buster couldn't help shedding two wide noodle tears.

At this moment, she finally understood what is meant by "every gift that fate bestows on you, is actually secretly marked with a price."

But it was all too late.

At this time, she had already been crouched behind her back by the ancient fox god Yuzao, sealing her spiritual power so that she could not escape or resist.Then let the little witch Akiyama Hui pinch the cat's paw, and regardless of her struggle and howling, she forced her way to the blank space at the end of the contract and pressed the paw print hard.

Just like in a popular video, a desperate male cat was grabbed by the cat's paw by its owner and pressed the paw print in the "Consent Form for Castration Surgery".

——Although she is actually a female cat.

PS: Some readers may have misunderstood what I mean: Cthulhu Mythology is an American mythology that is rooted in the roots, and it does not mean that there is only Cthulhu Mythology in the United States!Just as Buddhism and Taoism run parallel in ancient my country and gods and demons are everywhere, all kinds of superheroes and horror stories will also be arranged in the book.

Chapter 40, My Cat God Pet

The next moment, as Buster's cat's paw print appeared on the shikigami contract, the contract formed by the condensed spiritual power also turned into two strings of colorful light beams, which entered the bodies of Megumi Akiyama and Buster respectively. , let Akiyama Hui instantly feel that he has some kind of secret connection with this cat.

Then, in front of the ancient fox god Yuzao, who was lying behind the black cat goddess Buster before, also shrugged off the cat.

Afterwards, she flicked her furry nine big tails vigorously, and disappeared into Qiu Shanhui's body with flashes of light.

Fox ears and fox tails appeared on the body of the little witch Akiyama Megumi again, turning into a fox-eared lady again.

Only Buster, the black cat goddess, was still lying on the ground crying, with a decadent look of lovelessness.

"...Okay, okay, don't cry, Buster, you are already my cat anyway, so it's okay to sign another shikigami contract, right?"

The little witch, Hui Akiyama, squatted down, stretched out her hand to stroke the cat, and said comfortingly in a gentle tone - very much like those scumbags who smoke after-event cigarettes in love hotel rooms and comfort the crying virgin girls on the bed.

"...As long as you stay with me obediently, there will be enough dried fish and canned food to eat every day. If you want to eat steak, you can also discuss it. Ah, and catnip as much as you want. Row……"

"...Woo meow! You just want to send me away for such a small thing? Where's my temple? Where's my golden crown?"

The black cat goddess raised her tail unhappily, "...Don't treat me like a stray cat that can be bought with a few dried fish, meow!"

"...Temple? Gold jewelry? Well, our business has just started at the moment, it is really impossible!"

Akiyama Megumi scratched her hair in embarrassment, "...Tamamo-mae doesn't even have a real temple! How about I ask the landlady to help you remake a cat climbing frame in the style of ancient Egyptian murals? Her handmade carpentry work Very powerful.

Please be patient, before long, there will be some in the Bast Temple, and there will be gold jewelry..."