Chapter 338 Chaotic Night
After the viscous and slippery liquid entered the body along the mouth, it gradually became overwhelming.
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 sense of reason gradually began to fall into chaos, and all kinds of messy thoughts were flying around in his mind.
But no matter what changes occurred in his body, Hastur still stood upright with an expressionless face, while trying his best to suppress the various changes in his body.
On one side was the cold rules and order, on the other was the lively and extreme chaos. Reason and chaos were constantly colliding and tearing apart, as if they were about to tear his body in half.
In such a torn and entangled situation, he seemed to see black chains of rules extending vertically to the sky from every place in Backlund, eventually converging into a regular mountain that was steadily pressing on everyone's heads.
The hard and cold chain of rules is difficult to shake, but there is a lingering shadow surrounding each chain of rules.
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 consistent they are, wherever rules are born, there will inevitably be a shadow of order.
As the vision deepened, he saw an individual under the chain of rules. Perhaps he could no longer call them human beings.
Those are twisted lines, and they are being alienated, or should be said to be domesticated, by the so-called rules.
Obeying the law is itself 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 first, the turkeys thought about foraging on their own, but as they got used to having two meals of feed a day, every time it was time to eat, they would run from various places to the feeding point.
Those turkeys that stubbornly insist on themselves can only starve or be beaten. After this behavior continues a few times, when it comes time to feed food, they will obediently follow other turkeys to the feeding point and start to grab it. food.
If there is a scientist in the turkey who is good at summarizing, he can summarize a set of rules applicable to the turkey group based on daily life experience.
This is another story.
When chaos and reason were slightly balanced, Hastur braced himself, left the dinner, got on the carriage and left.
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 mysterious world, chaos is the permanent resident, and reason is only a temporary visitor.
So after taking the magic potion and being promoted, he must hurry up and return to South Wales.
In that country where he has only one voice, his chaos will not be noticed by others.
If he continues to stay in Backlund, his abnormal behavior that occasionally falls into chaos 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 taken care of it and does not need to report anything more 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 to see how she is doing during this period of study.
As for the matter of dealing with the Abraham family and the followers of the stars, leave it to Bernadette. She alone is worthy of the entire Abraham family today.
While Hastur was thinking, his reason was swallowed up by chaos again, and his eyes were blurred, at a loss and at a loss.
After returning home, Butler Neil asked the maid to bring the sweet sobering soup. Hasta took a sip and frowned slightly: "Sweet? Is this what sobering soup should taste like?"
"Don't you like sweet food? You even asked the chef to develop this sobering sweet soup."
"I like the spicy hangover soup, I will remember it next time."
"..."
The maid looked at Hasta's back upstairs in confusion. Spicy hangover soup?
Do you want to add chili pepper segments to the hangover soup?
But wouldn't it taste weird?
Perhaps his lordship's eating habits have changed due to his life in South Wales.
She didn't understand but was shocked, and turned to the kitchen to convey the latest instructions from the Earl to the chefs.
In the bathroom, Hastur habitually took a bath before going to bed, but he brushed his teeth. After brushing his teeth, he shouted toward the door: "Send some breakfast."
breakfast?
Shouldn't it be time for late-night snacks?
The two maids guarding the door looked at each other and interpreted this sentence as using breakfast food as a midnight snack.
After finishing a breakfast in the bathroom, Hasta remembered to take a bath.
After taking a bath and going back to the room to rest, Hastur could not fall asleep while lying on the warm quilt.
There were all kinds of voices in his mind all the time, some urging him to sleep, some calling him to get up and get high, some wanting him to go out and commit thief at night, and another telling him to sneak to Earl Hall. Home knocks on Miss Audrey's window.
How could he do such a disrespectful and embarrassing behavior?
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Earl Hall's house.
Audrey did not attend the royal dinner tonight because she had turned down the dinner a few days ago. She could only listen to her eldest brother briefly describe what happened at the dinner tonight.
It was already past ten o'clock in the evening when she returned to her room after taking a bath. She stretched and lay on her side on the bed, telling Susie not to stay up late to read.
"Audrey, don't you think it's best to quietly communicate with books when it's late at night?"
"I don't think so. Night is the time to sleep, and day is the time to work hard. This is why a day is divided into night and day. Well, this is the will of the Creator."
Audrey firmly opposed Susie's behavior of secretly rolling inward at night.
"Oh."
Susie couldn't argue with Audrey, so she could only close the book and lie down in her doghouse with her eyes closed to rest.
Audrey turned off the lights in the room with satisfaction, and fell asleep with a soft pillow.
After an unknown period of time, there was a rhythmic knocking sound from the window.
Dong, Dong, Dong Dong
Susie, who was not very sleepy, woke up immediately. She crawled out of the doghouse, her tail erect, her eyes wide open, and stared at the window as if facing a great 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 hurried to Audrey's bed and barked loudly twice, which immediately made Audrey open her sleepy eyes and wake up.
"Susie, is it dawn?"
Audrey rubbed her eyes a little confused.
"Audrey, something is knocking on the window!" Susie was afraid of disturbing the unknown creatures outside, so she tried to lower her voice.
"??!"
Susie said it several times, and Audrey woke up suddenly, her eyes subconsciously looking at the window.
There was indeed a black figure like a human, and that figure was still knocking on the window rhythmically.
The bat man in the folk horror novel?
This was the first thought that came to Audrey's mind.
In a horror novel she had read, there was a record of a batman who was similar to humans and liked to haunt at night.
Along with the batman, there were also mothmen, owlmen, and so on.
Audrey was a little scared at first, but she thought that she was already a sequence 7 psychologist, and even if she really encountered some unknown creatures, she would have a certain ability to protect herself.
Besides, there was Susie next to her, and this was 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 got up from the bed carefully, put on a pink and white coat, and gestured with her hands, beckoning Susie to approach the window with her.
Closer to the window, the light of the stars in the sky fell, allowing Audrey and Susie in the room to see the outline of the unknown creature outside the window more clearly.
It seemed like a human figure?
How could someone come to knock on her window in the middle of the night?
It must be her own illusion, Audrey shook her head and suppressed this absurd idea.
When Audrey and Susie were about to approach the window, the figure outside the window suddenly fell from the window as if frightened.
Audrey hurried to the windowsill, pushed the window open, and looked under the window. She could only vaguely see a figure that quickly merged into the night and disappeared.
She blinked and asked curiously: "Susie, do you recognize what this unidentified creature is?"
Susie came to Audrey, stretched out her front paws and rested on the edge of the windowsill, tried to stand up straight, looked out the window, and said uncertainly: "Audrey, I seem to smell a familiar smell."
"Familiar smell?"
"I can't be sure, maybe it's really a bat man."
"What a wonderful night." Audrey sighed, and murmured: "It happens that I will visit Mr. Hasta tomorrow morning, and ask him by the way if there are really such creatures as bat men in this world."
"Audrey, I also want to visit Mr. Hasta . "
Audrey thought for a moment and frowned slightly, saying: "Then you are not allowed to 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 it is inevitable that there will be mistakes." Audrey sighed again and said: "You must learn to have your own thinking ability, and you can't just learn knowledge from books."
"Audrey, I understand!" Susie's eyes lit up, as if she had figured out an important juncture.
Audrey had a bad premonition, but she didn't have the mind to explore these things now, she still had to sleep.