Plague Doctor

Rustling, the sound of the sea water rolling.

"Leave me alone..." Gu Jun stopped his hand and listened silently to the sound of the waves, letting it take his thoughts far away and to the blur in his memory. He seemed to be gradually leaving the anatomy room, and the light of the shadowless lamp was fading...

Another kind of light appeared in front of his eyes, like the light of scales flashing, no, it was more like the sparkling waves of sunlight shining on the sea.

When the scale-like things become clear, they are the light and shadow of the sea water.

The whine of the ship also came, and Gu Jun seemed to be on a ship, the bow deck of the Seabird.

This "scientific research vessel" includes his parents. The registration information shows that the length is 103.8 meters, the displacement is 5536 tons, the ship building is four stories high, the crew capacity is 28 people, and the scientific expedition capacity is 82 people. The normal total is 110 people. He seemed to be able to vaguely see some figures walking around on the ship...

He liked to run around when playing on the ship, and he had seen almost every member of the crew, but he was too young at that time to notice anything strange about them.

When these people looked at the sea and talked about the sea, there was an unusual fanaticism in their eyes.

"Boy, let me tell you, this world is very strange." A voice suddenly sounded, "There are places where you clearly know that they exist. You have heard of many things there and been exposed to many things there. I’ve even seen people coming there, but I just can’t find the place.”

Gu Jun's head felt more and more painful, but he still concentrated on the feeling, and the Chinese-character face was flickering...

But as the voice and the face gradually overlapped, he suddenly remembered someone, Uncle Li! Uncle Li Zhenhong.

First mate, the first mate of the Seabird, Uncle Li Zhenhong.

Gu Jun's head hurt even more, and his heart suddenly tightened... Although he didn't go to the Seabird many times, he had memories of Uncle Li Zhenhong, because Uncle Li was tall, handsome, and humorous, and he was very fond of He is also very nice, tell him stories, give him snacks...

Uncle Li...has he transformed into this half-human, half-fish alien...

"Where?" He heard himself asking, it was him at that time, his immature voice didn't understand the deeper meaning of the other person's words. Raleye?

"There are many." Uncle Li said with a smile, his hazy face illuminated by the sun facing the distance of the sea, "For example, a small town called Innsmouth. It should be there, but I just can't find it. Arrived. If I tell you this, your parents will have to talk about me again, haha."

Innsmouth? Gu Jun's painful head contained his own doubts at the moment and curiosity at that time. Where was that place?

"There are too many secrets in this world." Uncle Li said and walked away, gradually getting further away.

"Wait..." Gu Jun wanted to stop him, but this memory or illusion was distorting and shaking, and the surroundings suddenly seemed to become violent and stormy. The scientific research ship rumbled in the tumbling waves. And in the huge waves, there seemed to be some indescribable strange shadow looming.

He seemed to hear a cry of surprise and fanaticism. It was the crew shouting, Dagon, Dagon, Dagon...

Suddenly, the scene disappeared and Gu Jun came back to his senses, almost losing his balance and falling on the autopsy table.

"Ajun?" Fortunately, Uncle Dan next to him helped him. Wu Shiyu, Deng Ximei and others had already come over. Wu Shiyu asked hurriedly: "Do you want it?"

"Not bad..." Gu Jun's voice was hoarse, staring at the inhuman face of the deep diver's corpse, the protruding dead gray eyes, the scales all over the body, the white abdomen, the gills on the neck, the hands and feet The webs between them, the long pointed claws...

How could such a monster be Uncle Li... But this, it seems, is indeed Uncle Li.

If the first mate of the Seabird is like this, have the captain, doctor, and other crew members of the Seabird also become like this?

Are those 110 crew members among the 165 deep diver corpses?

Why do you want to transform into a deep diver in order to go to R'lyeh?

Gu Jun has thought about this a long time ago. According to the research of the Angel School, it is said that Raleye is an ancient city sunk at the bottom of the sea. If you want to go there, it seems difficult to reach it with an ordinary human body, but if it is deep Divers can dive thousands or even tens of thousands of meters into the sea...

"I remembered something. Let's talk to the command center first."

After talking to others, he put down the scalpel first, left the dissecting room and went to the communication room next to him, and told the command center that this might involve confidential matters.

The body is suspected to be that of the Seabird's first officer, Li Zhenhong. Finding the mysterious town "Innsmouth" is also a goal of the Seabird. The name of that place probably sounds like this, but I don’t know exactly what language it is in and how to spell it. There is another name that is suspected to be a giant sea monster, "Dagon" and "Dagon", which sound like this.

"Received, received, investigation has begun." the command center replied.

But he could answer the latter question right away. Tong Ye said: "Dagon is the fish god of the Philistines, who looks like half man and half fish."

Gu Jun listened to the information in silence. The Philistines were an ancient Mediterranean nation that had long since disappeared before BC. This nation was good at sailing and worshiped the god of the sea. “Dagon” was their fish god. This is often mentioned in the religious classics "Old Testament" record.

In fact, the Tianji Bureau has already compiled data on these legendary sea monsters, because myths and legends often have their prototypes.

It's just that there are similar sea monsters in various ethnic groups.

There are many related legends. I didn't know that Dagon would be the important one before.

If Gu Jun's memory is correct, Dagon is likely to have some relationship with the Deep Diver and R'lyeh.

Just as Gu Jun was thinking that there was progress at the command center, Tong Ye said in an energetic tone: "I found an old newspaper from the Republic of China, from 1920. There was an anecdote in it about a Citizen Navy officer who claimed to be in the Pacific. I saw the sea monster Dagon on an isolated reef on the mountain!"

The Bureau's database has always included various newspaper materials. Knowing that secret organizations such as the Afterlife Society and the Raleye Order existed as early as the Republic of China, and were even established in an earlier era, the Tianji Bureau collected a large number of old newspapers and other information from the Republic of China, and made information on them no matter what they were. Entry work.

Now when I search on my computer, I find such an old story, which was published in the "World News" column of "World Journal" on June 20, 1920.

It is usually difficult to pay attention to the things recorded in this kind of column, because they are all strange stories, sometimes ghosts and gods, and sometimes spirits.

Unexpectedly, I seem to have dug up some interesting material now.

Soon, Gu Jun saw the fax copy of this page of the old newspaper. It was in traditional Chinese characters, vertically arranged, and read from right to left. This world anecdotes column only occupies a small corner of the world affairs page. I guess it was just for reading. People are just looking for novelty and entertainment:

[Missing Citizen Navy officer survived mysteriously, claiming to have witnessed a sea monster in the Pacific]

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