Do not engage in underworld operations in the human world!

"Although I don't know the principle, it seems that he can extract certain substances from the ancient artifacts to make the beings with the origin of the ancient artifacts enter a state similar to poisoning. Although they will not die, they can be made comatose, lose all ability to move and perceive the outside world, and become a breathing corpse."

Jiang Lu was stunned.

Nodens said that the ancient artifacts, which were actually embryos of the Old Ones, would absorb the energy of the Old Ones and put them into a deep sleep. It was precisely by utilizing this characteristic that the Old Gods were able to keep the Old Ones out at the cost of huge casualties, thus achieving the delicate balance of today.

The situation described by the homeless today seems to be exactly in line with this point.

In other words, Nyarlathotep is not only immune to this reverse erosion, but can also master this characteristic and use it for his own benefit?
but
"Why is he targeting me? And how do you know he is preparing a weapon to poison me?" Jiang Lu asked.

Hearing this, the homeless man just opened his mouth for a moment, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

Jiang Lu saw this and immediately realized something was wrong, and asked, "Is it necessary to hide it now?"

Lucifer also said: "He is our number one enemy. If possible, I hope you have nothing to do with him."

In just a few seconds, many guesses had already appeared in the minds of the two people based on the homeless man's reaction, and most of them were not positive. Almost all of them represented that they were already falling into crisis step by step.

But what was unexpected was that although there was indeed a hidden secret, it was not some hidden conspiracy, but something that the homeless man simply found difficult to talk about.

"I didn't know at first. I didn't even know who Nyarlathotep was."

Under the pressure from the two, the homeless man knew he couldn't escape and could only stammer and explain:

“In theory, only your father and I know about this place, so when I found a stranger in front of the ancient artifact, I acted without hesitation.

However, I didn't even see how he made the move, and by the time I reacted, I had already fallen down.

It's hard for me to describe what that feeling was like. From my perspective, it was as if I was not knocked down, but I was still standing, but the world suddenly turned upside down, the ground turned over and hit me in the face.

Not only that, I also lost the ability to move, as if the tendons in my hands and feet had been plucked. I couldn't feel my limbs at all and could only collapse to the ground with numbness all over.

But fortunately, I was still conscious. While I was shocked that there was someone in the universe who could defeat me so easily, I also widened my eyes and stared at the guy's back.

After knocking me down, he didn't even look at me. He turned around and carefully scraped something from the antiquity. If my perception was correct, he probably scraped for more than half a month and finally collected a few drops of black juice the size of a fingernail.

After that, he held the juice in his palm and stood for more than half a month. Finally, he produced a small piece of black crystal.

And then."

"And then what happened?"

The homeless man's expression showed a hint of fear, as if he was unwilling to recall that time.

"Then, he fed the crystal into my mouth. He actually used me to test the medicine!"

The homeless man gritted his teeth, but besides being angry, he felt more helpless.

“As soon as I ate the crystal, I lost consciousness. When I opened my eyes again, I had no idea how much time had passed. Everything around me hadn’t changed, but it felt like a lot of time had passed.

Judging from Nyarlathotep's reaction, he was not satisfied with the results of the first trial, so he started the process of making the medicine again.

By then I could feel my limbs again, and seeing that he was defenseless, I immediately wanted to run away.

But what I didn’t expect was that before I could run to the cave entrance, I was pulled back by an irresistible force. Then he said the first words I had seen him say -

"Don't think that you can call yourself a human just because you stole a little human food. A mouse is a mouse. Just accept your fate of being used as an experimental subject."

When he repeated this sentence in the tone of Nyarlathotep, Jiang Lu and Lucifer both frowned.

This is an arrogance that tramples all living things as lowly lives, an extreme contempt with disgust. Even if they just listen to the retelling, it is enough for Jiang Lu and Lucifer to feel Nyarlathotep's disgusting self-esteem. Perhaps in his eyes, the ancient gods are just a bunch of despicable rats who sneak onto the candlesticks and eat the tributes, and the gods or immortals who are not even as good as the ancient gods are just like harmless microorganisms and are not worthy of his eyes.

"At that time I had a vague idea of ​​his identity, but I didn't know who he was."

The tramp continued:

“I only know that he is far superior to me, someone I cannot defeat even if I complete all my origins. The only person in my mind who might be able to fight him head-on is probably the one in the Dream Realm.

I knew that I had no chance of escaping, so I could only make the same choice as when I was trapped in the antiquity: pretend to surrender first, and then look for an opportunity. So I tried while asking questions to see if I could get anything out of him.

But he didn't seem to bother to communicate with me and just kept feeding me crystals.

It was not until the third or fourth time that he woke up, I had forgotten, that he said the second sentence -

'Why is it that no matter what the dosage is, the results are the same? Give me some feedback, you damned rat! Why did I wait for such a long time only to get a loser like you? ! '"

At this point, the homeless man smiled in revenge: "Haha, he's anxious."

Jiang Lu opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but finally held it back.

But Lucifer couldn't hold back: "Bushgomen, why do you sound as if your successful revenge has caused him so much harm? Is there any need to be so proud?"

But the tramp disagreed: "That's because you didn't understand the implicit meaning."

"How to say?"

"What he said means that he knew someone would come back, and he seemed to be certain that the person was me who took away the 'energy'. He intended to use me to test the drug from the beginning."

The tramp explained:

"Of course, I also felt strange at first, so I couldn't help but ask, and this is what he answered -

"I didn't expect that stealing some of the essence would make stupid creatures like you smarter. Yes, I am waiting for you here, using you to test the medicine, and then give it to the Lord of the Underworld."

I was very surprised, why he called me "stupid creature" and called Jiang Lu not only the Lord of the Underworld, but also the honorific "that one".

"Is this a problem worth worrying about?" Lucifer was speechless.

“So you are stupid too.” The tramp shook his head. “The reason why he called me that is, of course, because Jiang Lu and I have different status in his eyes. Because Jiang Lu was chosen by the ancients, although his bloodline is not the bloodline of the old times, in Nyarlathotep’s eyes, he can probably be considered half of his kind.”

Lucifer was stunned and wanted to refute, but he felt that the other party's words made sense.

"Since he considers me a fellow tribesman, why did he use medicine on me? Why did he want to harm me?" Jiang Lu was puzzled.

"I am not sure."

The tramp shook his head:

"But one thing I can be sure of is that he is not trying to harm you.

And no matter what he wanted to do, he had no intention of appearing too early in this conspiracy. From the beginning to the end, he was just hiding in a dark corner and did not leave any trace in front of the public. Otherwise, with his strength, if he wanted to harm you, he could have subdued you as easily as he did me.

But as far as I know, the one who poisoned you was Yin Di.

All Nyarlathotep did was to help Yindi find a way to deal with you, and then led him to think that he had found a way to deal with you, that's all." (End of this chapter)