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Chapter 503 The Identity of the Ancient Ones
The light of the mobile phone lighting was reflected on the ceiling, and the fine dust trembled in the constantly vibrating air, floating around in the thin white light.

Until it touched the slender tentacles like the spokes on a wheel, it suddenly bounced off as if it had encountered some kind of special protective layer.

These tentacles suddenly appeared in this billiard room, exploring the unfamiliar environment. The gray-brown cortical folded body emerged in the center of the billiard table. Extend five long flat arms that taper at the ends like starfish.

Even though he once had a relationship with this ancient intelligent race in Greenland, Zhu Jue's sanity still suffers when he meets again now.

The instinct of the body is urging him to leave here quickly, the farther the better!

"Hello?"

He waved his hand and greeted like a young man participating in a college student's fellowship activity.

The mood is the same tense, not because of fear, but because he is worried that the other party will leave directly like before.

The purpose of summoning the ancients has been completed, and the next thing to do is to find a way to communicate with the other party. Zhu Jue heard the cultists inside use human language outside the corridor, and the ancients can understand the meaning.

The ancients did not respond to the sacrifices offered by the cultists and chose to leave directly, but Zhu Jue didn't even prepare the sacrifices. He didn't want to let the ancients disappear before his eyes with a word.

There was silence after the hello.

But compared to the illusion when it first came, the spiritual projection of the ancients not only has no meaning of returning, but is more solid.

A tentacles stretched out towards Zhu Jue.

Forcibly restraining the body's subconscious counterattack, Zhu Jue vaguely sensed something, stood there frowning, and even the scavenger was deliberately hidden in the body.

The ball on the top of the old man's head, like the end of the starfish's limbs, suddenly brightened, and the brownish-yellow light immediately lit up on the top of the limbs, and an inexplicable suction completely enveloped Zhu Jue!
Deep purple light appeared everywhere in the body, Zhu Jue's eyes widened, he never knew that there was such a thing in his body.
no doubt.

This is the remnant of the ancient crystal!

"Crystal. In your body?"

The vibration of the air brought a low humming sound, and for some reason, an intermittent sound suddenly appeared in Zhu Jue's mind.

Sure enough, the sacrifice is secondary, the key to the ceremony is to make the ancients willing to talk, otherwise no matter how many things are offered, it will have no effect.

Zhu Jue decided to continue following the words of the ancient.

"I got it in Greenland when I met creatures like you and a shapeless horror that saved my life and transformed my body."

Trying to lead the topic to the changes made by the ancient crystal to himself, Zhu Jue was not in a hurry to reveal his true purpose.

"That's the case of our servants, crystal-controlled Shoggoths, of the same race"

Obviously, the accidental knowledge of the information of the same race made the ancient man in front of him interested in the topic mentioned by Zhu Jue, and the content transmitted through mental fluctuations increased.

Crystals controlling shoggoths?
Can the ancient crystal control that shapeless horror?

No wonder it was desperately chasing and killing the person who held the ancient crystal, and the ancients were also trying to find the crystal, but in Zhu Jue's memory, the ancient should have obtained the ancient crystal first. , why the final result is still killed?
"They were devoured by the Shoggoths, and the crystals seemed useless. I really wanted to help you, but my soul was completely polluted at that time. It was your fellows who threw the crystals to me. I survived only by the crystals. "

Zhu Jue was a little cautious when it came to this part of the content. He was not sure if the ancients would suddenly be furious and make some unexpected moves after learning of the death of their kindred.

"The crystal needs to be activated by the device. I want you to destroy the Shoggoth. You have fused the crystal. You are very special."

The old man's emotions did not fluctuate, and his absolute rationality allowed him to keep thinking even in the face of the death of his own race.

Before the words fell, several tentacles stretched out, and began to really contact Zhu Jue.

This time there was no light, Zhu Jue only felt a weak electric current flowing through his whole body, and the tingling feeling spread from the tailbone to the back of the head.

"You, special, human soul, shouldn't be so powerful. Is helped you. Strange energy, water, its minions. Or itself? No, it was sealed and now asleep, Lale Yea hasn't risen yet, it's a deeper level that even I have never seen."

The ancients who noticed something through detection once again emphasized the specialness of Zhujue, and there was even a layer of doubt in their words.

In the long years, it has accepted many contact requests from human beings, but it has never seen such a special existence. In Zhu Jue's body, it really felt the energy of the crystal, but at the same time it was in the other party's body. The imprint left by the great race of Yith and some other extremely strange energies were felt in the soul.

For the person in front of him, the ancient man was full of curiosity. The ball on the tentacles on the top of his head flickered again and again, and the slender tentacles in the middle of his body curled up and stretched, and his body also slightly swelled.

"In fact, I contacted you because my current ability has reached its limit, unless it is enhanced by external objects, but those abilities are not my own after all. I want to break through this layer of boundaries. Your crystal once made me It worked once, so I thought you might have other ways"

Zhu Jue undoubtedly overestimated his mental capacity. Conversations with the ancients are extremely exhausting. After all, Zhu Jue is not a cultist who has been completely polluted. As a person who maintains his own consciousness, he was barely able to resist at first.

But when the ancients began to mention some special existences, the mental shock became more and more serious. The crazy whispers began to ring in his ears, so that Zhu Jue had to take the initiative to express his goals, hoping to get what he wanted as soon as possible reply.

"You want to be stronger. You have reached the limit, the energy in the crystal is extremely huge, you fuse it to complete the strengthening, the great race of Yisi releases the soul, which changes your soul without shackles, but your body restricts your soul We used to have great technology that might be able to help you, but time has weakened us, years of war and Shoggoth's betrayal have made our civilization decline again and again, and I can't help you!"

The meaning revealed in the intermittent words made Zhu Jue feel cold. He didn't think the ancients had any reason to deceive him here.

The implication of the ancients is very clear. With the help of the great race, Zhu Jue's soul may have escaped the restrictions, but his body has not been liberated. Or in other words, on the premise that he does not give up the human body, his soul restricted.

To give a simple example, if Zhu Jue's soul is compared to water, then his body is a wooden barrel, and his behavior of absorbing the energy in gemstones and reading ancient books is like adding water to a wooden barrel, no matter how much you add or how little you add , the key is that the size of the wooden barrel is fixed, even if the entire sea is poured in, the amount of water that can be contained in the wooden barrel is still only so much.

This is not to say that Zhu Juewei is weak. In fact, his current strength has surpassed most of the human beings and even a considerable part of the spiritual pollution source monsters. With the help of special means, he can even defeat some superior independent races.

But just defeating the superior independent race obviously can't make Zhu Jue feel at ease. Regardless of the distance, the future that I saw when I accidentally released the divination method that night in the clinic, the black cocoon that seemed to condense all dark matter was revealed. No matter how many times I think about the breath, all Zhu Jue can feel is the panic of being overwhelmed.

He couldn't make any comments on the scene at that time, he could only recollect it over and over again in the indescribable bitterness.

Even such aftertaste was out of his control, and only appeared in his nightmares.

If his own soul was not strong enough, he might have fallen into an irreversible madness like most people who have seen those indescribable things.

As for the words of the ancients, Zhu Jue could actually vaguely feel them in the few battles in which the mutant state was used so far.

Five years ago, because of the influence of the fur monster, every time he entered a mutation, it felt like a game of life and death. Today, five years later, this situation is completely reversed.

In the mutant state, he can feel his own relaxation, as if this is his original appearance. It's like the frame of the wooden barrel is raised a bit, and the water in the barrel will naturally flow more easily.

After returning to human form, although the spirit will return to normal, but Zhu Jue can realize the stagnation of strength.

And this is the biggest contradiction Zhu Jue faces.

Perhaps it is also the contradiction faced by all human beings infested by indescribable things, but they do not have the power to choose, and they often lose control over their souls and bodies the first time a contradiction arises.

But Zhujue is different.

Even if he knew clearly in his heart that he could no longer be called a human being to some extent, it was absolutely unacceptable for Zhu Jue to give up his identity and live as a monster.

Because he also understands that once he truly accepts this kind of self-cognition and maintains a mutated form at all times, then one day in the future, his spiritual will may truly transform in this way.

What is the difference between this kind of him and the mutation after being mentally polluted?
"Is there really no way?"

He still asked a little bit unwillingly.

"Our technology can't help you. The souls of the great race of Yith are extremely powerful. Even if they perform some actions, they have to temporarily abandon their bodies, and you can't be them."

So far, the ancient man's voice became weaker and weaker in Zhu Jue's mind. Obviously, it was preparing to end this conversation.

Zhu Jue opened his mouth, and finally said dryly: "Goodbye, thank you for answering my questions."

The figure in mid-air gradually became transparent, and its head and limbs could be vaguely seen shaking, as if paying tribute to Zhu Jue.

Rubbing his forehead, he let out a breath of disappointment.

Suddenly, the space in front of him shook again!
The figure that should have disappeared completely reappeared!

"Mi Ge. I can feel their existence. They are nearby. They actually appeared on this planet. Humans, you may still have a chance!"

At this moment, the voice of the ancient is really wonderful!

(End of this chapter)