Alien Executioner

"I know this is stupid. There is obviously a group of monsters watching us. There are too many coincidences in sending me to this place. They may be waiting for me to reach the finish line." Lalo smiled and continued to stick to his idea, even though the idea was too absurd.

Laluo didn't think Gu Zhilan would stop him, nor did he hope that she would follow him. It was time for this performance that had dominated his life to end.

"But I still have to reach the finish line. I have a feeling that if I don't enter that place, the nightmare will trap me forever. To be honest... Little sister, thank you very much for coming to save my brother, but you came too late. If you came a year earlier, we could have recognized each other..."

The sharp edge of the sickle pressed against Lalo's throat. Gu Zhilan's voice was low and dangerous:

"Some things can't be said casually."

"No, no, listen to me!" La Luo raised his hands and shouted, "Your father is Gu Simiao, right? He went to the Ninth District when you were a child and disappeared. Am I right?"

Gu Zhilan gestured for him to continue speaking with a cold face.

"I used to be very familiar with your father. He took care of me after I became an orphan! I always regarded him as my godfather! I was by his side when he died. That's why I came to District 3, because I wanted to find his daughter, you!"

"Why are you looking for me?" Gu Zhilan did not rush to make a judgment.

"He entrusted me with something before he died, and he hoped I would give it to you."

"The first few times we met you acted like you didn't know me, which was hard to convince me."

"That's because the things were lost, and I can't remember where I lost them. I feel ashamed to see the daughter of my benefactor." Lalo was very depressed.

"I understand. You are someone my father has taken care of." Gu Zhilan still had a cold face. "This does not mean that I have a brother. I will not enter the end. From now on, I will return the same way. Even if I am trapped here, it is like encountering the unknown existence of the end."

"You...believe it?" Lalo said.

"There's no need for you to lie in this situation. If you want to convince me to go to the finish line with you to die, this reason is too stupid." Gu Zhilan turned and walked to the door.

Looking at the girl's back, Lalo felt relieved. For him, facing the end alone was the best ending.

He ran along the last seven or eight meters wide passage and finally arrived at the core area. As he walked, he heard footsteps that did not belong to humans. He passed several doors along the way and there were fewer and fewer office scenes. At the end was... a warm bedroom!

Light footsteps approached.

Lalo turned around fiercely, and the phagocytes gathered in his hands dissipated. It turned out to be Gu Zhilan. It turned out that she had been following him and did not leave.

"You didn't leave?" Lalo was surprised.

"It's a temporary notice from that woman." Gu Zhilan shook the phone in her hand and put it into her pocket calmly.

"I don't know what got into that woman to ask me to follow you to the finish line, but this is indeed my mission. It's just that she described it very vaguely. She was also the one who gave me the map and took you out of the building. Now it seems that sending you to the finish line is the purpose of the mission."

"Who is that woman!" Lalo asked anxiously.

"Xu Yanqian, manager of the flower shop, is close to the abyss." Gu Zhilan stretched out her hand and pushed the door at the end open without hesitation.

Lalo felt a sudden pain in his chest and was pushed in, stumbling. The room was filled with a dim firelight and the edges were an indescribable golden color.

The candlelight flickered, and something completely woke up.

"Shoggoth..."

The whispers of the ancients returned to him, surging wildly, circling along the firelight, constantly stimulating Lalo's mind.

"The person who pushed open this door has finally arrived." A deep voice came from deep within the room.

An old man in pajamas sat beside the bed, his face looked so weathered, half of it was covered in haze, and the other half was a skeleton without flesh and blood.

The old man looked at Lalo with a kind smile.

"Shoggoth, you are finally here."

Chapter 109: The Wrath of the Shoggoth (XV)

The old man's words were strange, but they caused ripples in Lalo's heart.

The room is not big, and instead of being twisted and weird, it is strangely warm.

The dim candlelight burned, illuminating the old man's shriveled and scary face. What a hideous face it was! It turns out that horror and kindness can appear on the same face at the same time.

He subconsciously looked at Gu Zhilan.

Gu Zhilan remained calm and stood aside, without any excessive reaction, and had no ability to deal with the situation in front of her.

This is the end of the map, an old man's bedroom that is out of tune with the outside world. The bedroom is not big and has a simple layout. There is a bed hidden in a dark corner with only half of it exposed, a coffee table and a tattered chair... The old man stood in front of the table fiddling with a hand-rolled cigarette, raised his head and squinted his eyes.

"Don't be nervous, my friends. Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Rilaka Dio Tananya. In the family, they all call me the Great Elder."

The old man introduced himself amiably, with a kind smile on his face the whole time. He had no intention of killing, and like a harmless and kind old man, he rolled out two pieces of tobacco from the box and waved for the two men to come over.

La Luo wanted to follow Gu Zhilan's idea, but she didn't act. Instead, she turned her head and looked at him for a long time.

He suddenly realized that Gu Zhilan was waiting for his response.

The first person the old man looked at was Lalo. He was the main guest that this unknown guy was paying attention to. Guests were divided into primary and secondary. In the eyes of the old man, girls were just followers. Lalo had to make his attitude clear. He stepped forward and took the cigarette ready to be torn to pieces at any time.

The old man smiled and took out a match to light a cigarette:

"You can call me Mr. Rilaka."

"Ahem, this tobacco is quite old." Lalo choked on his throat with coughing, touched his mouth and looked at the old man, "Mr. Rilaka..."

Gu Zhilan interrupted him and clenched her fist to swallow Wu: V

“Grand Elder, you said you are the Grand Elder, the Grand Elder of the Tananya Family.”

"Are you surprised? The Great Elder Tananiya you've been looking for has actually been hiding in this haunted place where gods and demons coexist. I am also a rotten old man who is neither human nor ghost." said the Great Elder.

"To be honest, I never thought that anyone could really make it to the end. I have thought about it countless times in the past, when the door was pushed open by outsiders, but the only things I could rely on were the endless candles and cigarettes. The feeling of loneliness is so terrible that I would cry even when counting the stars at night." I

La Luo didn't know who the Great Elder was. Gu Zhilan's reaction was a bit excessive. She should have stood quietly aside and tried to hide her presence as much as possible, but she couldn't help but be surprised when she heard these three words. It was just surprise, not much fear.

So the Great Elder isn't a very scary existence... at least he's not dead, which is good news.

"You are the great elder we are looking for. You should know who I represent." Gu Zhilan took the cigarette handed to her by the old man.

"I can't hide this from you. The flower shop's actions were silent and concealed from the An family. You are looking for me, so of course I know." The old man laughed, his tone was not surprised at all, on the contrary, he was very excited, not like an old man who was almost decayed.

"I just didn't expect you to bring the Shoggoths here as well. Is this a gift for me? Actually, I do want to cooperate with the flower shop to change the world. You want the abyss to come, and we want to create a new world, but we both face the same obstacles, so we can cooperate." I

Lalo was terrified. Although he couldn't join the conversation, he was not deaf. The two of them communicated in the federal language. The amount of information in just a few sentences almost covered all his experiences during this period.

It turns out that the significance of oneself in the eyes of others is so great that it is unimaginable. ;

"In fact, I didn't expect to find you. Now it makes sense. Although the map the store manager gave me was flawed, she did know you were here." Gu Zhilan said calmly, "You weren't very surprised by our appearance. You knew about it in advance, right?"

"The moment you stepped into the Coster Theatre, I knew everything, including your recent experiences."

The old man did not hide anything. He squinted his eyes and opened them a little, and the light reflected in his pupils seemed to move.

"I know what your flower shop is going to do. From the beginning to the end, your appearance actually surprised and delighted me. I just need some reliable allies to help me out of this predicament, and the flower shop is the most appropriate choice. Don't worry, girl. You must have many questions in your mind. I still have plenty of time to tell you."

Gu Zhilan observed for a while and asked the first question:

"You have never shown up in public. Only the core members of the Tananiya family know about the existence of the Great Elder, and you have never revealed your appearance. So it's just a substitute? Is there no way for you to leave this place?"

"You actually know so much..."

The elder murmured, still smiling:

"That's right. I won't share this secret with anyone except those who can reach this place. But you are the only ones who have succeeded over the years. To be precise, it's not that I can't leave, but that I can't leave, otherwise I will die."

Gu Zhilan nodded; she understood.

"You are a dead person. You have reached some kind of deal with Shang, so you can continue to survive in the dreamland."

"Yes, haha, you are quite perceptive. I like it."

"Second question, what's going on with the robot in the underground theater just now, and what's going on with the woman?"

"I can't answer this question. I don't know the origins of the woman you mentioned." The old man took a puff of his cigarette and slowly exhaled the smoke.

"The robot is not from Tanania, but its companion."

"It?" Gu Zhilan asked, "Who is it?"

"Tananya, the canary, the original birdman, is also the one who made a deal with me. I am its follower, and this dreamland belongs to it." The old man's eyes were burning.

"So you are one of the instigators."

Gu Zhilan lowered her eyes and lit the cigarette in her hand herself.

"It's... terrible."

"Ok?"

The old man noticed something.

"The communication is over, and we don't have much time left." Gu Zhilan suddenly laughed, looking at the burning cigarette in her hand.

"It's okay. Although I'm not used to it... I can smoke."

She took a light puff and exhaled the smoke with a cold expression, and it was unclear whether it had passed her lungs.

"Why? You look regretful." The old man's smile changed, becoming extremely dangerous, and he opened his raven-like crimson eyes.

Gu Zhilan threw the half-smoked cigarette to the ground and said coldly with disdain:

"So far, you haven't noticed anything wrong. I never thought I would meet you, the Great Elder, at the end. I didn't know what was going on here at first. And you also said that you were very surprised by our appearance, which means that we didn't enter this dreamland under your control."

The old man's face changed.

"In other words, there was a hand that arranged all of this, so that we accidentally entered the dreamland when escaping from the underground theater and then met you. You should know what it means. There is a scary girl who can't go deep into the end. She is blocked by the dreamland and needs our help."

Gu Zhilan turned around and stared at La Luo, her scrutinizing eyes seemed to see through everything.

The Great Elder was silent for a long time, judging her words. At this moment, the sound of a young girl humming a song mixed with ethereal laughter suddenly came from outside.

He looked towards the door suddenly, and after a while he murmured:

"My house is going to be robbed."

Chapter 110: The Wrath of the Shoggoth (XVI)

"Great Elder." The girl's blood-red eyes were hazy.

At the moment the Great Elder took action, the figure lingering outside the door rushed in and the door creaked open.

They saw Naya's face clearly, and the crimson tentacles trying to break through some kind of obstacle. Naya showed a devilish smile, and put her hands on the invisible wall of the door frame. It seemed that she couldn't come in for a while, and she stared at the approaching old man outside the door.

This was the first time the Great Elder had close contact with Naaja, and the legendary blood-red devil was suffocating with despair.

He stood in front of the door and observed the girl carefully. Naya in front of him opened his eyes wide, turned around and took small steps away.

This is indeed Naya, the real Queen of Tentacles. She should have been rejected by the Dreamland, but she used one of Gu Zhilan and La Luo to successfully penetrate it. She was lively and playful, and didn't care whether she could get in or not. For the Queen of Tentacles, breaking through the obstacles was a matter of time.

Now Naya is gone, perhaps she is standing outside the door in silence. An indescribable sense of oppression penetrates the invisible wall. In reality, she is a desperate tyrant, but in dreams, she is like a butterfly-like elf, with ethereal laughter echoing, and her thoughts are never understood.

The Great Elder actually didn’t know much about Naya. He only knew that the other party was the terrifying Banshang. As a follower who had been hiding in the dreamland for a long time, his strength was not inferior to Banshang. He was just intimidated by the terrible sense of oppression from Naya for a moment.

When she saw Naya, Gu Zhilan felt a sense of long-lost love. They hadn't seen each other for a while since the Deyagus incident.

"It's Naya." Gu Zhilan told the great elder.

"She may have come for me. I heard that this is a monster cultivated by the An family." The elder rolled a cigarette and was not in a hurry.

"Does our cooperation still count? If you can represent the flower shop."

"The cooperation has taken effect. We need Xinmin's technology. We'll talk about the details later." Gu Zhilan looked at the door worriedly. "The situation is very bad now. Naya is guarding outside. She is a top hunter. Aliens and freaks are on the menu. We should leave quickly."

The Great Elder just smiled faintly and didn't care at all.

"I have been in this place for thirty years, but that doesn't mean I don't know what's going on outside. Naya's behavior is indeed terrible, but that's only for you. I am also a dependent, and this happens to be my home ground. She is the one who should be worried."

Your perception of her is still that of a dependent. Gu Zhilan remained silent and did not tell the truth.

"Besides, I can't leave this place. If she is really stronger than me, I have to get rid of her here for the smooth cooperation in the future." The old man smiled, "You are right, right?"

Lalo thought to himself, I have nothing to do here, I am just a tool. You are the key to completing a certain goal, and everyone is fighting for it. So I am quite safe. Every force is salivating over it, just like a delicious cake, and no one will step on the cake and break it when it is divided.

"This is not a suitable place. You can't guarantee our safety." Gu Zhilan glanced at Lalo deliberately, forcing the old man to make a decision.

"Yes." The elder murmured and put out the cigarette.

"We're going out now."

"You may not know what kind of monster you are facing." Gu Zhilan stared into the old man's eyes and gave him a little reminder, "The prey targeted by Naya usually cannot survive. I will give you some time. If the situation is not right, I will choose to withdraw at the right time, which means that the cooperation between us that has not yet begun will be interrupted."

"You are very courageous. No one has ever dared to talk to me like this." The Great Elder was not angry, but narrowed his eyes. "It sounds like I am a worker who has been given a target by you. If I fail to complete the task, I will be abandoned. How interesting. Where did you learn your strength?"

The tentacles outside the door hit the invisible barrier, and the transparent barrier inside the door showed faint signs of cracking.

"Time is running out, please follow me."

The Great Elder put out the half-smoked cigarette and closed the only door. When he opened it again, the scene outside the door changed and they returned to a certain floor inside the maze-like building.

"I hope she will regret it." The Great Elder walked out the door, stood on the red carpet with his hands spread out, his confident look illuminated by the candlelight.