Chapter 78: .Naya

The air seemed to freeze.
All of this is so familiar. The drops of water roll on the dry ground, and gradually seep into the soil, making the pattern that has been splashed and blurred, making it even more dizzy.
Langton's face rose to a strange pig liver color.
"Yes, it's you--" This familiar style finally awakened his dusty memory. He raised his index finger and pointed at Linyou's face tremblingly. This tremor was a kind of extreme anger mixed with fear, "You actually still Dare to come back?"
"Why don't I dare to come back?"
Lin You said innocently. Skull shook his head and sighed. It could almost guess what was going to happen next.
"It's not me who burned the base camp."
Langton: "..."
He was stunned by what she said, and what she said was tantamount to thrusting a knife into his heart again. With his eyes bulging out and his chest rising and falling, it seemed that he might pass out of breath at any time-but he didn't know if people like him who were not "alive" in the usual sense would pass out.
When Linyou saw him last time, Langton claimed that he had been blessed by the mother when he tried to sacrifice himself to the black goat and was able to return to the world. Of course, in the form of dying or not, he has no shadow, and he lives like a tangible ghost.
Langton didn't really faint after all. He grinded his teeth to "creaking", letting the suppressed roar pierce his throat.
"I will kill you--!"
"Trust me." Lin You said, "You still have time to run."
Yu Yu's swollen body was blocked in front of Lin You like a wall.
Langton, who was originally murderous, almost changed his face when he saw this guy clearly.
For the first time in history, Lin You heard the water ghost-now it seems more appropriate to call her "Mrs. Langton"-and started speaking.
Her voice was weird, low and dumb, and it sounded like it came from a very deep place, with a faint echo. Obviously on the land, with the sound of ticking water, she could hear the sound of bubbles blowing when she opened her mouth.
"We still have accounts that haven't been settled," she called his Christian name. "Aph."
"Do not."
Langton said as he stepped back.
"It's been so long, you won't..."
"I will."
Mrs. Langton said contemptuously.
"You know why I can't move you for so long," she gave a short, sharp smile, "now you are nothing without it! It's time to calculate your account of drowning me in that lake— "
Frightened and fearful, Langton turned his attention to Lin You for help, who just shrugged.
Knowing that there was no way to ask for help, he turned around and tried to run but failed. The bucket of water splashed by Lin You accumulated a shallow puddle at his feet, and Mrs. Langton obviously felt that this was enough. A palm made of water came out of the puddle and gripped Langton’s ankle tightly. The force used seemed to be about to twist his ankle, leaving only a skeleton with bones. There was sore teeth.
"Uh……"
They stood so close, the punches and kicks could be heard clearly, and the skull asked uncertainly: "Are we here to watch?"
"You heard what she said, and the last time we came here, he told the black goat cub to chase us down."
Lin You said: "Fortunately, I still bear less grudges."
"Leave a breath for him." She exhorted.
Mrs. Langton's movements didn't even stop.
She beat her so happily, Lin You still listened to her words. At least when she got up and left, Langton, who was lying on her stomach, could still cover the bruise on her body and yelled "Ouch, oh,".
He got up with a swollen nose and a big face. Langton looked at Lin You and his ex-wife with fear and resentment. At the end, he didn't dare to say anything. He found a strong enough root and sat down, remembering what Lin You asked him before.
This person doesn't say how shrewd he is, but he still knows what to do at this time to his advantage.
"Very good," he said discouragedly, obviously not wanting to be beaten again, "what do you want to know?"
"and many more."
This time, Lin You interrupted him, "I'll talk about it later."
She had her own thoughts. The water ghost was holding her arms behind her, almost forcibly driving Langton along with her. She disappeared after the five-minute time limit passed, but Langton obviously didn't figure out what was going on, and he would look back from time to time.
He did not dare to run-in fact, he did not have the opportunity to do so. The skull was staring at him, even if it was hanging on the bag to keep his sight in the same direction.
"Just do it."
They returned to the burnt hotel ruins and beside the car, Lin You picked up a sharp stone among the adjacent grass.
Skull: "...Huh?"
"Keep a mark so they two know where to find me." Lin You said, weighing where to mark the bark, "I can't wait here all the time, in case those guys have a whim again." Come back."
Around the lake, every few trees, Linyou will draw a shallow trace on one of them. When she reached the depths of the forest, she confirmed that she would not be easily seen before stopping.
"Now we can talk."
"Where do those people come from?" Lin You asked.
"What?" Langton, who had followed honestly, retorted, "Should I not ask you about this?"
Seeing Lin You's sight, he forgot who was beaten just now, and laughed mockingly.
"You call for police assistance—"
He said.
"It has attracted the attention of some people. They gathered here and discovered its existence. It preached to them the gospel of the mother god," Lin You noticed that he no longer called the black goat cub as before. That lord" said, "and then accept the offerings of these believers."
"There is a problem."
Skull interjected, it had already heard of the connection between Langton and the black goat cub.
"Didn't you summon it?"
The subtext is how to be so unwelcome now, and being pushed out by those hooded guards.
A muscle on Langton's face twitched.
"You have to know that not every one of them—every one acts resolutely as the messenger of the Mother God," he said dryly, pulling his hair that is not so luxuriant. "Some also like to just enjoy human Their sacrifices... since it discovered that what they sacrificed to it was much richer than what I sacrificed..."
Lin You: "..."
Are even black goat cubs so realistic these days?
"So," the skull said, telling the truth about Langton's faltering, "it kicked you?"
If Mrs. Langton were still here, she would have sneered "deserve it".
Lin You suspected that she heard the violent sound of Langton's veins.
"Yes." He endured and endured finally, and said.
"Now I'm going to summon the mother goddess. I found them and wanted to join, and then I was kicked out... It seemed to hate me for letting it squeeze in the attic, but what could I do then?!"
"However," Lin You said, "Anyway, don't you have experience? Why do they—"
"I'm not important."
Langton gritted his teeth.
"As long as it is there, the chance of successfully summoning the mother goddess is greatly increased. Anyway, I haven't called the mother goddess. I just know how to do it. It can tell another person the way-I don't matter, understand? "
"I don't care if you break the ceremony," he stared at Lin You, "If I can't participate in this ceremony, I won't be able to let the mother see my loyalty. What is the difference between success or failure!"
He took a deep breath, and then continued without angrily.
"They must have prepared the open-air altar, and the summoning ceremony must be held on a crescent night—"
In the past, the enemy became an assisting role in a sense, which is a bit strange, but Lin Yu, who is used to driving ghosts and monsters, has long been used to it. She looked at the still bright sky, "New moon? When?"
"Tomorrow night," Langton said.
Time is limited.
Their conversation ended with a rustling sound. Lin You didn't worry too much. She knew who the person was more likely to be, and even if the group of believers really chased them, there was a solution.
The blade of grass shook, and the person walking in front saw her at a glance.
"Sister Yu!" he exclaimed in surprise.
Geng Qinghe looked at Langton on the side again, maybe because the other's face was so swollen, he didn't even see who he was for a while.
Langton did recognize him—the kid in the hotel. But his rival with him is not as great as Lin You's, and coupled with the fact that he was beaten and revealed his face, he didn't want to talk, but sneered.
Geng Qinghe: "...?????"
He was scorned for nothing, and his face was dazed. Thinking about it, he should turn his gaze back to Lin You.
"I saw the scratches on the tree," he scratched his head, "then Gu Heng guessed that it was the mark you left on Sister Yu"
Behind him, a strange-looking person came out.
"I heard him talk about the situation."
Gu Heng said, he looked at the skull on Lin You's waist, "...who is this?"
Skull and Crossbones were fairly satisfied with his name, and hummed, "Thank you for not asking'what is this'."
Geng Qinghe: "..."
so close! He almost asked!
"I met it in Silent Hill." Lin You said, she didn't intend to say too much, "Did you see anything on the way?"
"No," Geng Qinghe replied without hesitation, "I haven't seen it except the burned hotel."
He immediately remembered something, "But..."
Ok?
Lin You raised her eyebrows.
"Let me talk about it." Gu Heng took out something from his own bag. "I didn't see it on the road, but before we left, we found something interesting."
What he held in his hand was a long and narrow box.
"Checked the record and it was the latest commission from'I'. The client inherited this from his uncle, and was attacked that night. The attacker almost snatched it. So he deposited it to the office, hoping to help Look up its history."
Gu Heng opened the lid.
On the soft cushion, lay a dagger.
The dagger is about thirty centimeters long, the blade is made of sterling silver, and the handle is made of bronze. The overall style is ancient and delicate, carved into the shape of a water bird, with the beak as the hand guard and the long neck as the handle.
A line of...hieroglyphs is engraved on the knife?
"This is Toki."
The skull said suddenly.
Lin You: "Ibis?"
"The holy bird of the Egyptian god," said the skull in a tone of "You have never even heard of this", "I have studied them very well."
--and many more.
Lin You suddenly had an idea.
"Can you understand ancient Egyptian?" she asked.
"--It's better to say," If the body is intact, the skull stands out proudly, "You can ask what language I don't know."
Geng Qinghe: "...Can you translate the meaning of this sentence?"
"No, no, the meaning is not important."
The skull said repeatedly.
"The real translation of this line of characters is transliteration, the first character is pronounced ‘ny’, and the pronunciation of the second character is ‘har’"
Listening to it read these two sounds, Lin You already faintly felt something.
She lowered her head, "You don't want to say..."
"Yes." The skull said calmly. "It can be pronounced as'Nyaratotip' when connected. The inscription is his real name."
This dagger is a token of Nyarlatotepu, one of the original gods of the three pillars.
Now it's great fun.