Chapter 77: .Revisit the old place

"so."
After hearing Lin You's retelling, Skull and Crossbones clarified the outline, thoughtfully.
"You and a few other people, after staying in this hotel, found that the boss was a fanatic who wanted to use sacrifices to call the evil god. You really summoned its heirs, and you set fire to this and the black goat cub. ?"
"No," Lin You said, looking at the broken roof, "I can't burn it."
At that time, the flame was burning quietly, giving them the illusion that it was also buried in the fire. But I was afraid that shortly after they were rescued, the black goat cub burst open the ceiling, not knowing where it had escaped.
"Ah, this is normal."
Skull said with knowledge.
"The body of a black goat cub is not made of substances in our cognition. It cannot be killed by fire alone. Heat, explosion, or poisonous corrosion will not work. Knives or penetrations can cause some damage."
This was all an afterthought, and they had nothing to protect themselves at the time. The boss and his wife used ropes for even killing, so don't expect to have many weapons. but--
"You still know a lot." Lin You looked at the skull dangling from the bag.
"Isn't it." Skull and Crossbones said triumphantly as he hadn't heard the meaning in her tone at all.
"I know more than this."
It ostentatiously said: "At the beginning of the universe, Asathos gave birth to ‘darkness’, ‘nameless fog’ and ‘chaos’, and then they gave birth to the three pillars of the original god"
"Shabu Nicholas of the'Black Goat of the Forest', Yug Sotos of'The Key of the Door', and Nyaratotip as the'Messenger'."
"Oh, yes," she used it for a while before remembering the name of the innkeeper. "What Langton wants to call is the Black Goat Mother."
"Remember the manuscript that the lady picked up?"
Lin You made it clear that it was referring to the two pieces Jian Mingjia found in the basement of Silent Hill Hospital.
"Remember, what happened."
"It is said that the full version records all the magic tricks and gifts, not to mention the three pillars of the original god, even Asathos can-of course, the two pieces of paper in your hand only record a few kinds of dust But it’s also very useful."
Lin You: "Have you read the whole story?"
The skull shut up.
It obviously didn't intend to answer this question head-on, and started humming again, vaguely able to hear words like "in the heart" and "remorse late".
Sing well, but unfortunately none of the notes are in tune. Lin You thinks that if she releases the beauty now, the latter will probably be enraged and come alive when she hears it sung like this.
Its stubborn character is destined to be impossible to pretend to be stupid without saying anything. Before ten minutes passed, the skull couldn't help but speak.
"What are you going to do now?"
"I didn't think I needed to say it."
At that time, Lin You had already reached the side of the car, and she held the door handle, "Of course, to see if there is any way to contact her teammates."
She is lucky.
As soon as he opened the door of the driving seat, Lin You's eyes fixed on the dashboard. She paused for two seconds, then took out the phone tucked in the groove.
When she did this, a thin piece of paper floated under the seat.
Lin You bent down and picked up the piece of paper, and saw a long line of numbers on it.
Anyway, maybe she should give it a try.
She turned on her phone and started typing the number. After pressing the dial key, the phone rang two times before being connected.
Lin You put the phone close to her ear and just "heed", the person on the other end of the phone immediately recognized her voice.
"Sister Yu?!"
The man was uncertain.
"Oh my God, luckily you called, I thought--"
As soon as Lin You heard who it was in this voice, Lin You immediately interrupted him without letting Geng Qinghe talk about his rich brains anymore.
"I'm the only one here, what about you?"
When it comes to this topic, Geng Qinghe's tone is obviously hesitant.
"Not just me, there are others..." he said, "but..."
His voice was a little farther away, as if another person had picked up the phone, and then a strange male voice rang, "Hey, it's me."
Lin You: "Who are you?"
On the phone: "..."
"I--"
"Just kidding." Before he explained, Lin You spoke again, "Knowing who you are, no one else thinks I should know you after changing your voice."
Gu Heng's person may have never eaten such a big deflation since he was born. The phone was quiet for a long time, and Lin You suspected that he heard him breathing deeply.
"I hope there are other teammates." After a while, he said dryly, "If it was just you, I would have nothing to expect."
Lin You realized that she hadn't heard another voice from beginning to end, "Isn't Jian Mingjia on your side?"
"No, no, she's not here." Geng Qinghe said a little further away, "Sister Yu, you are calling me, and there are only two of us here."
"This is an office."
Gu Heng was speaking.
"My name is on the business card-it should be thought of as ‘I’."
"Do you have a computer?" Lin You asked.
Geng Qinghe: "Yes, yes, but—"
"Don't ask so much. I'm in a mountainous area and the signal is not very good." She said, "Help me check if there is news of a family hotel on fire a while ago.
"Ah good."
Although he still didn't understand what was going on, Geng Qinghe immediately did as she said. The phone was in his hand again, Lin You heard the keyboard crackling, and then he said:
"I found it, let me see-the most recent one seems to say that a hotel had a strange fire a month ago. The owner is still alive and dead. The police are not far away to rescue a group of passengers whose bus broke down...Huh?"
This description obviously evoked his memory, and Geng Qinghe was stunned: "Difficult, can it be said—"
"Yeah." Lin You affirmed his thoughts, "It's the previous copy. The timeline now seems to be one month later."
"Look up again."
she says.
"Has anyone ever witnessed a tall black monster with long tentacles?"
There was another rush.
"No!" Geng Qinghe hurriedly replied, "Not this one."
Is that so?
Lin You almost understood.
She and Geng Qinghe have been to this copy once, and now they have established identities. They were the tourists who survived the fire, and now they reappear in front of the hotel because they felt something was wrong and chose to come alone.
And Geng Qinghe, "he" went to a certain office for help, and Gu Heng was appointed the person in charge there. The three are so connected together.
"We have positioned where the hotel is."
Gu Heng said: "You will leave after you do something. You can wait there."
She quickly hung up the phone, closed the door and locked the car, and then listened to the skull saying: "Very good, I guess your friends will come to help later?"
"Maybe when they come over," Lin You said, "I have already checked."
She took a deep breath.
One month is not too long, and there is no news about witnessing strange black monsters-if it weren't deliberately pressed by someone, the black goat cubs would probably still be in this forest.
Lin You returned to the ruins beside the road.
She found a burnt iron barrel among the rubble. Compared with its counterparts, it is obviously well preserved.
Lin You picked it up and walked around to the lake behind the hotel, hitting a bucket full of water.
"What is this?" Skull asked curiously.
"Don't say anything else," she said, "I now agree with Geng Qinghe's view that the mucus of the black goat cubs is disgusting. It's okay if you get it."
Besides, there is no need to carry it by yourself.
Lin You put the things in the backpack, and she was going to go back from the original road. But at almost the same moment, she suddenly caught a glimpse of something.
She subconsciously held her breath and dodged behind a wide tree.
Skull: "You—"
Lin You: "Hush."
The warning was correct. Two people came out from the woods across the road and saw her car parked not far away.
They all wore long robes, and their broad hoods cast shadows, covering most of their faces. Lin You could only see the chins of the two men. They looked at the car as if they were discussing something in a whisper, and then looked around vigilantly.
When one of them swept the direction of Lin You, she shrank back.
Not found.
The two wearing hoods still didn't let their guard down, they separated one to let the wind go, and the other searched among the ruins.
After nearly twenty minutes passed, he apparently got nothing like Lin You. After standing up and saying something with their accomplices, they turned around together and walked in the same direction as they came and went.
Lin You took a step quietly.
"You won't tell me--" the skull whispered.
"Yes," she replied in the same volume, "of course I want to follow."
A rare opportunity.
These two guys are too suspicious.
Lin You kept a certain distance from them, and at the same time be careful not to step on any branches or grass blades that might make noise.
She was very successful. It's just that the path the two people in front walked was too winding, and even Lin You couldn't remember how long he had been with him — finally, they walked a little slower.
The place further ahead seems to be their destination.
That is a cave guarded by people.
They were big enough to pass side by side, but they walked in one by one in front of the "guard" who was also covered by a hood.
Lin You was still thinking about how to break in or pass the level foolishly, and within two minutes, a guy was pushed out.
He didn't wear a hood, his face was full of terror, and he was still struggling when he was pushed.
"You can't do this to me!"
He shouted.
"I have been blessed by the mother god, without me, you would--"
"I know him," Lin You lowered her voice when she saw the man's face clearly, "he is the guy who summoned the black goat cub. It seems that he doesn't get along well with the new comrades."
Speaking of which, the summoning circle he painted with great pains was splashed with a bucket of water by her.
"I think so."
Skull and Crossbones said truthfully: "Maybe the word associate has to be quoted."
Sure enough, before Langton's words fell, his shoulder was pushed heavily by the opponent. He staggered a few steps back, stayed there for a moment, and turned away cursingly.
Lin You changed her mind.
After confirming that the group of people guarding the cave no longer paid attention to Langton's side, she turned around and followed silently.
I don't know how long he walked, Langton stopped.
There was a clearing in front of him, covered with lots of hay. He looks a lot thinner than when Lin You saw him last time, his cheeks are deeply sunken and his beard is shaggy, not to mention how sloppy.
But when he brushed away the hay, his smile made his entire face look sordid.
"It's almost," he said, "it's almost... it's almost done..."
"Let them look down on me, they will pay the price. I can summon once, and I can summon a second time. This time is definitely more than the last time..."
"Mind if you tell me what happened?"
She has a lot of questions to ask.
Where are the black goat cubs, what happened to that cave, and where did those people come from—
"Who is there?!" Hearing Lin You's voice, Langton suddenly turned his head, "You--"
Lin You walked out from behind the tree without concealment, thinking that Langton had recognized her, but saw that his face was not hatred, but alert and doubt, and the twisted smile that had not completely disappeared was still hanging on it.
"who are you?"
……Ok?
Lin You raised her eyebrows, and said to her heart that it was the fire that dropped a beam and caused him to lose his memory, or was it too hard to forget?
"It's okay," she looked at the complicated lines that spread to her feet, "I have a way to remind you."
Most of the hay covering it had been removed by himself. Right now, he could clearly see that it was a magic circle that was not yet fully formed. The dark red blood stains turned black, and I don't know where the suspicious blood came from.
With a "pop", the water splashed all over, and the small pattern that was splashed into it became a ball. Lin You took the time to put the burnt and deformed iron bucket aside, and said that if it wasn't enough, she could ask Chu Renmei to fill it up.
Langton's smile froze.
"Now, can you remember who I am?"
She asked.