Apostle of Cthulhu

The following excerpt is from a letter to Si Wei:

Professor Si Wei, I haven't contacted you for a while. I wonder if you are in good health? The situation here is a bit bad. The villagers are acting a little strange. At night, they like to walk in the forest with torches. I don't know what they are looking for, but they have a purpose.

Because they are villagers, I certainly can't shoot them, but I have a hunch that if I leave them alone, it will make a big mistake one day.

You told me a long time ago that you can seek help from a religious organization called the Star Foundation. I didn't take it seriously because I am a devout believer in the spirit.

In daily life, I feel more and more that the spirit guardian cannot protect every life in the world. Maybe I am the one who is forgotten, or... the one who is chosen to fight.

After thinking about it, I still chose to try to seek help from the Star Foundation, but I didn't know the information of this religious organization at all, so I didn't mention this matter to you in my letters for a long time.

But a few days ago... maybe more than ten days ago after you received this letter, I found news about the Star Foundation!

That person claimed to be from the capital of the empire. When I first met him, I always felt that she was a little strange. But she said to me, "I read the desire for the Star Foundation from your eyes. I am willing to let you become one of our believers!"

I don't know how she did it. The legendary missionaries seem to have those abilities? I don't know. Since she can tell the answer, it proves that I can't hide it from her.

So, I nodded and gave a positive answer.

She told me that the deity worshipped by the Star Foundation is called the Chaos Goddess, who has the power to control the shuttle between various worlds. I raised my confusion and the dilemma I faced to her. Those guys are definitely not species in our world. If this Chaos Goddess really has the power to travel through the world, then He may also have the power to cut off the channel!

In this way, I don't have to worry about those guys who cross the limit at dusk, and they will never invade our world.

The missionary gave a positive answer, but she asked me to pay a certain price for it.

I know very well that asking for the grace of the gods requires sacrifice.

I am not a famous general, a businessman who promotes the development of the world economy, or an inventor who illuminates the world.

I am not a hero, and many people are not heroes.

There are things that heroes can do, and there are things that heroes cannot do.

There are things that ordinary people cannot do, and there are things that only ordinary people can do.

The missionary stayed in my house for a few days and helped me make an amulet. When I wore it, I did feel some power wrapped around me. Although it did not belong to me, it made me feel at ease.

She told me the nest of those guys. She believed that there was a passage in the nest, which could only be transported from another world at dusk, and my mission was to destroy the passage.

We cannot act rashly, and we must make a careful plan. But this is not in my professional field, so I handed it to the missionary.

In this short free time, I wrote this letter with a restless mood.

Perhaps this will be the last letter I write. If I am still alive, I will definitely write another triumphant letter to report my safety to you.

I am very scared, but this is not a reason for me to retreat.

I was once rejected by the villagers and regarded as a weirdo because I was the only one who could see those alternative existences. But as time went by, their power became stronger and even the villagers could see them. Some people went crazy after looking directly at them, but I still insisted.

There must be something I can do, so I will stand up.

Professor Si Wei, I am very grateful for your tolerance of my tedious and lengthy letters during this period of time, and even took your own time to write a reply letter. I think you should be respected by people because you are a very knowledgeable and kind professor.

I have run out of words to write here, and I don’t know what to say.

The missionary is calling me, and I have to stop writing. I will ask her to help me send the letter to you later.

Finally, I still thank you, and at the same time, please wait for my triumphant letter with hope.

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Si Wei’s face was heavy and he closed the letter.

It was the Star Foundation again, and from the words in the letter, Si Wei could guess that the original owner also knew about the existence of the Star Foundation, and that they had a close relationship.

Otherwise, how could the original owner introduce the Star Foundation to others as a means of help?

Since the original owner knew? Does that mean Jia Ya also knew about it?

Putting the letter down, Si Wei looked at Jia Ya who was sitting on the single sofa and asked, "Jia Ya, do you know what the Star Foundation is?"

Jia Ya moved her eyes from the book to Si Wei's face, "Star Foundation? What is that?"

Don't know?

Without asking more, Si Wei waved his hand, "Nothing, just pretend I didn't ask, I'm just very interested in this thing. By the way, if you have any news about this organization in the future, you can tell me."

"Okay." Jia Ya agreed and buried her head again.

Si Wei got up and went to Room 666 as usual to find Nidhogg.

But before Nidhogg taught him the corresponding knowledge, Si Wei asked him the same question again, "Nidhogg, did the original owner tell you about the Star Foundation?"

"Star Foundation?" Nidhogg glanced at Si Wei, "I did, so what?"

Finally found a reliable guy!

Si Wei hurriedly asked, "What kind of organization is this?"

"A religious organization similar to the Cross Church and Pantheism." Its answer was quite simple, but it answered something Si Wei already knew.

"No, I want to ask for more details...all the information you know."

Nidhog turned his head away, "You are very greedy. You just found out the whereabouts of the second Fool's Bone Fragment. I don't think there will be any benefit in telling you these things."

Siwei's tone slowed down, "It may not be good, nor may it be bad, right?"

"At this stage, many things you want to know have an answer in the Wallis area." Nidhog avoided the focus of the topic with other words, "Some things are not something you can know just because you want to know. Only when you reach a certain milestone can you unlock the corresponding knowledge. Do you understand?"

This sentence coincides with what Egbert meant. Both Siwei must reach certain conditions before they are qualified to peek into the secrets.

This can be understood as a kind of spurring from Nidhog to Siwei, because one of the ways to improve the sequence node is to maintain "curiosity".

If Nidhog answered all the questions for Siwei, how could the latter still have a huge "curiosity"? How can he improve his own sequence node?

If Si Wei really wanted to intervene in the affairs between the three major religious groups, the second node would definitely not be able to handle it alone.

And in Nidhogg's view, once Si Wei learned some of the truth, it is very likely that he would not be able to correctly understand himself, and thus lose control and fall, which is definitely not the result most people want to see.

Si Wei is not a fool, he can also guess what Nidhogg is thinking, and he can't deny that the latter's approach is wrong.

So, he chose to give up temporarily and prepared to rely on his own efforts to understand the truth bit by bit.