Plague Doctor

[Camilla: As for you, sir, you need to take off your mask.

Stranger: Seriously?

Cassida: Really, it's time. We have all lost our pretense except you.

Stranger: I'm not wearing a mask.

CAMILLA (whispering to Cassida, frightened): No mask? No mask! 】

——The King in Yellow, Act 1, Scene 2

In the quiet meeting room, Gu Jun silently looked through the large book on the table.

He did not read directly to the last chapter, but started from the first chapter, "The Man Who Repaired His Reputation". In this chapter, he saw "Mr. Wilde", an evil dwarf who conspired with the protagonist to destroy Citigroup and establish the empire of the King in Yellow. The protagonist with the Hastur lineage will be crowned the King in Yellow...

These statements, the King in Yellow, the Yellow Secret Talisman, and Hastur, are completely the same as those of the Yellow Brotherhood...

Then there is the second piece of "Mask", which has a script paragraph at the beginning.

Gu Jun read it very quickly. This was an English novel. His English was not good enough to read it so fluently, but the strange thing was that he could understand it now.

"Mask" has different protagonists and different characters, but one thing is the same as the first chapter. The protagonists in it all lost their minds and became crazy because of reading a banned book called "The King in Yellow", and finally ended up going crazy. perish.

Reading the story content of these pages, for some reason, Gu Jun couldn't help but take a deep breath, his head felt a little swollen.

"Jem..." Perry Sanders could see his strangeness and persuaded him again: "That's it? You should rest for a few more days..."

"I'm fine." Gu Jun said solemnly. His head was very swollen and painful, but compared to the time in the altar space and the many moments he had experienced, this pain was almost like scratching an itch. It can be said that it is no more serious than being bitten by a mosquito.

There were many messy thoughts in his mind, and there must be some force behind this matter.

As early as when he was in the ward, he noticed something. The broken power in his mind seemed to be missing.

Now, there is this book, which seems to be inseparable from The King in Yellow...

However, this could also be a mockery of Nyarlathotep.

Gu Jun thought like this, just like mocking the Yi people, mocking them humans with imitation. In the final decisive battle at that time, both the Tianji Bureau and the Mysterious Bureau were summoning and driving Bayaki. He and Yu Chi were summoning and driving Little Nightmare. The source of power of the "Seven Secrets of the Earth" and "The Nine Mystical Techniques" were all the King in Yellow. …

How could it be a coincidence that he was in this situation and reading this book "The King in Yellow"?

In that decisive battle, did we lose or win...

Xian Yu, Yu Chi, Zixuan, squad leader, Ah Mei, Uncle Dan, Tong Ye, everyone, are you still alive...

Gu Jun flipped through the other chapters, and finally turned to the last chapter of the book, The Plague Doctor.

This chapter takes up most of the book, and the proportion is quite imbalanced, taking up about three-quarters of the book.

He then discovered that this chapter was subdivided into different parts:

Strange banyan tree, strange dream, strange cough, strange scales, strange locust

Looking at these, many memory images rushed past Gu Jun's eyes, and he knew what behind these nouns represented.

My fingers gently rubbed the paper, giving it a rough grainy feel.

He stared at the chapter list and didn't open it for a long time. In the bottom of his heart, he was also afraid of this weird and unknown thing.

"Who is this Robert Chambers?" Gu Jun asked, this was marked as the author of "The King in Yellow".

"An unknown writer." Perry-Sanders responded to the information he knew. "This book has been published for several years, and only a thousand copies were printed. There was no response. You borrowed it from the University of Michigan Library. You I'm surprised at the coincidence of this chapter with you. You shared this incident with your family and friends, but everyone just regarded it as an ordinary anecdote. They didn't expect you to get into it so deeply... Jim, you have to understand that this is just a book. Books are not real, the real thing is yourself.”

Gu Jun looked at the line of names robert.chambers. There were no photos of the author printed on the front or back of the book. Maybe there would be a chance to meet this guy...

Perhaps, this is another incarnation of Nyarlathotep.

After a pause, Gu Jun finally opened the Yi Rong chapter and started reading.

Gu Jun, an eighth-year student majoring in clinical medicine at Dongshu University School of Medicine, an orphan, and a brain stem tumor...

"..." Gu Jun's breath became heavier, his brows furrowed and he couldn't relax. Looking at the pages of text, the past events were still vivid in his mind.

Not everything is written in the book, but the "Gu Jun" in it is him, his experience, his life...

After reading more than ten pages in a row, my head became more and more swollen and tingling, my heart was almost suffocating, and all the strength in my body seemed to be draining away.

In fact, you don’t need to be Nyarlathotep. Even a Yithian can know what happened by just being an observer and traveling back and forth in time and space, and weave those things into stories and what he said. It's not impossible to write it as lines...

Is it Gu Jun who is here?

Or is it Gu Jun in the parallel world who saw another Gu Jun?

Or is the other Gu Jun not there? It’s really just a story...

"Jem, it's time to stop!" Sanders called quickly, "You look very bad. Don't be brave in this kind of thing. There's no need."

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"Don't make any noise..." Gu Jun suddenly stopped shouting, glared at the other party, and murmured: "How many times have I told you, I'm not crazy."

He turned directly to the end of the Alien Locust chapter and saw the final paragraph:

["I know what I did." Gu Jun sat upright, sternly telling them: "I was saving people, I'm not crazy.\