Mystery: The Returner of the Stars

Chapter 338 Chaos Night
After the viscous and slippery liquid entered the body along the mouth, it gradually turned upside down.

The internal organs also began to become disordered and torn, and the skin under the fine fabric began to develop fleshy bumps, which were itchy and numb, and tentacles seemed to grow out of them.

The originally clear mind gradually began to fall into chaos, and all kinds of messy thoughts flew around in my mind.

But no matter what kind of changes in the body, Hastur still stood upright with a blank expression, while trying his best to suppress the various changes in the body.

On one side is the cold rules and order, on the other side is the extremely lively chaos. Reason and chaos are constantly colliding and tearing, as if to tear his body in half.

In this kind of entanglement, he seemed to see a series of black regular chains extending vertically from every place in Backlund to the sky, and finally gathered into a regular mountain, pressing firmly on top of everyone's heads.

The hard and cold rule chains are difficult to shake, but there is a lingering shadow around each rule chain.

Especially right below the regular mountain, the light of the crimson moon at the top is reflected, forming a shadow of order on the earth.

No matter how strict the rules are and how one says the same, where there are rules, there is bound to be a shadow of order.

As the illusion deepened, he saw a person under the chain of rules, and perhaps they could no longer be called people.

Those are distorted lines, they are being alienated by the so-called rules, or domesticated.

Law-abiding itself is a process of domestication.

Just like the turkeys on the farm, the farmer only provides a delicious meal at twelve noon and five o'clock in the evening every day.

At the beginning, the turkeys still wanted to find food by themselves, but as they got used to the existence of two feeds a day, they would run from various places to the feeding point every time the meal came.

Those turkeys who stubbornly insist on themselves can only be starved or beaten. After this behavior lasts for a few times, when it is time to feed food, they will obediently follow other turkeys to the feeding point and start to grab the food. food.

If there is a scientist who is good at summing up among the turkeys, it can sum up a set of rules applicable to the turkey group based on daily life experience.

This is another story.

When the chaos and reason were slightly balanced, Hastur braced his body, left the dinner, and got into the carriage to leave.

The carriage slowly moved forward along the street. Hastur opened the windows on both sides. The cool breeze blew on his face, which slightly weakened the chaos in his mind, and his reason temporarily prevailed.

In the world of mystery, chaos is the permanent resident, and reason is only a temporary visitor.

So after taking the potion and being promoted, he had to hurry back to South Wales.

In that country where only his voice is his alone, his chaos will not be seen by others.

If he continues to stay in Backlund, his abnormal behavior of falling into chaos from time to time will definitely be noticed by others, especially the Loen royal family.

So before taking the Chaos Mentor potion tonight, he had already made some preparations.

He had already asked someone to buy a ticket to leave Backlund tomorrow afternoon. He only needed to maintain his sanity for half a day, and he didn't have much to worry about.

As for King George III, he has already dealt with it, and there is no need to report anything when he leaves.

He also took the time to visit Gray Linte, Greco, Professor Wayne and others, leaving only Miss Audrey who he had yet to see.

I can just visit her tomorrow morning and meet Susie by the way to see how she is doing in her studies during this time.

As for dealing with the Abraham family and the followers of the stars, it will be handled by Bernadette. She alone is worth the entire Abraham family today.

While Hastur was thinking, his sanity was once again swallowed by chaos, and his eyes were blurred, dazed and at a loss.

When he got home, Butler Neil asked the maid to bring the sweet soup for sobering up. Hasta took a sip and frowned slightly: "Sweet? Is it supposed to taste like sobering up soup?"

"Don't you like sweet ones? You even asked the chef to develop this sobering sweet soup."

"I like spicy hangover soup, I will remember it next time."

"..."

The maid looked at Hasta's back upstairs in confusion. Spicy hangover soup?

Is this going to put chili slices in the hangover soup?
But wouldn't it taste weird?

Maybe it's because the earl's life in South Wales has changed his eating habits.

She didn't understand but was greatly shocked. She turned and went to the kitchen to convey the latest instructions from the Earl to the chefs.

In the bathroom, Hasta used to take a bath before going to bed, but he brushed his teeth. After brushing his teeth, he shouted to the door: "Bring some breakfast."

breakfast?

Shouldn't it be supper now?

The two maids guarding the door looked at each other and interpreted this sentence as using breakfast food as a midnight snack.

After eating a breakfast in the bathroom, Hastur remembered to take a bath.

After taking a bath and returning to the room to rest, Hastur was still unable to fall asleep while lying on the warm blanket.

There are all kinds of voices in his head all the time, some urging him to sleep, some calling him to wake up, some wanting him to go out to be a thief at night, and another one telling him to sneak to Earl Hall Home knocked on Miss Audrey's window.

How could he do such a rude and embarrassing behavior.

……

House of Earl Hall.

Audrey did not attend the royal dinner tonight because she had declined the dinner a few days ago. She could only listen to her eldest brother briefly describe what happened at the dinner tonight.

It was past ten o'clock at night when she returned to her room after taking a bath. She stretched herself, lay on her side on the bed, and told Susie not to stay up late to read.

"Audrey, don't you think that in the dead of night, it's best to quietly communicate with books?"

"I don't think so, night is the time to sleep, and day is the time to work hard. That's why the day is divided into night and day. Well, this is what the Creator meant."

Audrey firmly opposed Susie's secret involution at night.

"Oh."

Susie couldn't say no to Audrey, so she could only close the book, lie down in her kennel and close her eyes to rest.

Satisfied, Audrey turned off the lights in the room, and fell asleep on the soft pillow.

After an unknown amount of time, there was a rhythmic knocking sound coming from the window.

Boom, boom, boom.

Susie, who wasn't sleepy at all, woke up immediately. She crawled out of the kennel, her tail raised up, her eyes widened, and she stared at the window as if facing a formidable enemy.

In addition to the sound of knocking on the window, a black figure could be vaguely seen hanging outside the window.

Like a giant humanoid bat?
Susie quickly ran to Audrey's bedside and barked loudly twice, causing Audrey to wake up with her sleepy eyes open.

"Susie, is it daylight?"

Audrey was a little confused and rubbed her eyes.

"Audrey, something is tapping on the window!" Susie tried to lower her voice for fear of disturbing the unknown creatures outside.

"??!"

After Susie said it several times, Audrey woke up suddenly, and subconsciously looked at the window.

There was indeed a black figure that looked like a human being, and that figure was still tapping on the window rhythmically.

The Batman in folk horror novels?
This was the first thought that came to Audrey's mind.

In a horror novel she had read, it was recorded that there was a kind of batman who was similar to human beings and liked to haunt in the middle of the night.

Along with the Batman, there are also the Mothman, Owlman, etc.

Audrey was a little scared at first, but she thought that she was already a Sequence 7 psychiatrist, and even if she encountered some unknown creature, she still had a certain ability to protect herself.

Besides, there is Susie next to her, and this is still her home.

Audrey regained her composure, and looked at the unknown figure who was still knocking on the window, but a strong curiosity arose instead.

She carefully stood up from the bed, put on a pink and white coat, gestured with her hands, and asked Susie to approach the window with her.

Getting closer to the window, the stars in the sky were shining brightly, allowing Audrey and Susie in the room to see more clearly the outline of the unknown creature outside the window.

Looks like a silhouette?

How could someone come and knock on her window in the middle of the night?

It must be her own illusion, Audrey shook her head, suppressing this absurd thought.

When Audrey and Susie were about to approach the window, the figure outside the window suddenly fell from the window as if it was frightened.

Audrey hurriedly walked to the window sill, pushed the window open, looked down the window, and could only vaguely see a figure that quickly melted into the night and disappeared.

She blinked and asked curiously, "Susie, do you recognize what this unknown creature is?"

Susie came to Audrey, put her front paws on the edge of the window sill, tried to stand up straight, looked out the window, and said uncertainly: "Audrey, I seem to smell a familiar smell."

"Familiar taste?"

"I can't be sure, maybe it's really some kind of bat-man."

"What a wonderful night." Audrey sighed with emotion, and murmured again: "I happen to be going to visit Mr. Hastur tomorrow morning, and by the way, ask him if there is such a creature as a batman in this world."

"Audrey, I'm going to visit Mr. Hastur too."

Audrey thought for a while and frowned slightly: "Then you must not let Mr. Hasta send you some messy books."

"..." Susie was silent for a while and said, "Audrey, I just want to learn knowledge."

Audrey said earnestly, "Susie, knowledge is poisonous."

"Audrey, but the book says that knowledge is beneficial."

"Books are compiled by people, and there will inevitably be mistakes." Audrey sighed again: "You have to learn to have your own thinking ability, and you can't just study the knowledge in books."

"Audrey, I understand!" Susie's eyes lit up, as if she had figured out an important point.

Audrey had a bad premonition, but she didn't have the time to explore these things now, she still had to sleep.

(End of this chapter)