Plague Doctor

Everything in sight is ruins.

Gu Jun looked blankly at the ruined city under the terrace. He glanced around and couldn't see any moving figures. The tall figures from the Sunset City Foundation and the figures standing on the street talking to him on the terrace...all disappeared.

The once vigorous vitality was replaced by desolate death, a dead city.

His heart cracked with pain.

What happened?

The weak steps slowly lifted up, and Gu Jun stepped on the still intact stone slabs on the terrace and walked towards the steps. He couldn't walk down the long stone steps before, not even one step, and the closer he got to the steps, the heavier the mental pressure felt, as if he was about to wake up from a dream.

This time was different. He walked through the middle of this huge terrace, dozens of steps away, and his mental pressure remained unchanged.

It's just that the confusion in my heart is even greater.

When Gu Jun stood on the edge of the steps, it seemed that a cold wind was blowing, or maybe it was just him who was shuddering.

The City of Sunset was destroyed?

But is this place... a sunset city?

The power of the yellow light seems to be contaminated by the dark atmosphere... Could it be that because of this, he has actually arrived in another place?

But why were the two so similar? He could tell that those ruins originally belonged to some grand and beautiful building... Mirror image? Reflection?

Of course, Gu Jun didn't want to think that Sunset City was destroyed, but his reason was pulling him, and his reason was saying that it didn't seem like there was any chance of luck...

He stood for a while, then finally took out his right foot and landed on the first step. He stepped firmly and went down without waking up from this nightmare.

The second step, the third step, the fourth step...the nightmare is still there.

He didn't know how he existed here. If this was a dream, why all the scenes were so clear, why the turbid air he breathed into his lungs was so real, making every pore of him feel the dead silence here.

Gu Jun walked down step by step. He walked for about an hour before he reached the end of the stone steps. The street was the next step.

He noticed along the way that the stone steps became more and more broken as he went down. The last hundred or dozens of steps were full of cracks. Several times he heard the sound of cracking deep under his feet. The stairs are crumbling, and soon a strong wind will blow, adding a pile of broken stones to the ruins.

Also on the way, he had a new idea.

Time is not a straight line, the universe is full of various dimensions...

Could it be that this was always the case? Did Sunset City originally exist in the past? The distant past?

The previous connections and help... were all the product of crossing time and space in the past, but now, the Sunset City no longer exists.

Still, the City of the Sunset is inseparable from the Black Goat and the Negative Choice Life. When the earth world cuts off its connection with the latter two, it also cuts off its connection with the City of the Sunset... Neither light nor darkness is possible. Exist alone...

Will it be so?

Gu Jun's head was swollen and painful. Too many chaotic thoughts were entangled together, strangling him like a rope. The air became more and more turbid, and the air below had a rancid smell.

He took the last step, left the steps, and stood on the city streets that were previously out of reach, but the exquisite cobblestones and marbles were covered with cracks and dust, and large chunks of broken stones and collapsed stone pillars blocked the way. The road was cut off and he had to go around.

"Is there anyone? Is anyone here?"

Gu Jun asked while looking around, his voice not loud, maybe because he didn't think there would be any response.

The houses on both sides of the street must have been very lively. Some were residential buildings, some were libraries, some were pubs... Even if they were not bustling, they were not so desolate and silent. The fountain that once sprayed clear spring water was clogged, and because no one took care of it, it just accumulated a pool of dirt; the flower bed that once was full of flowers accumulated another pool of dirt; the once beautiful river accumulated another pool of dirt... …

"Is there anyone? Is there anyone..."

Gu Jun walked past the collapsed arch bridge and arrived at a wide square. The statues that originally stood around the square were all reduced to piles of fragments.

He looked to the left, to the right, to the front, and to the back.

It’s no different than what you see from the terrace, just clearer.

Everything in sight is ruins.

I don't know if all the strength in his body was taken away by the journey or swallowed up by the loneliness. After Gu Jun let out a long sigh, he could hardly stand still.

He stretched his legs and feet and held his forehead, but all the old injuries on his body were reappearing. The mutilated skull, the scarred face, the mutilated little finger of his left hand, the right calf that had not healed for a long time... He couldn't tell whether it was pain or pain. Numb, or both, he was a little out of breath.

Has the City of the Sunset been destroyed?

Have organizations and forces like Sunset City been destroyed...

Keep your heart towards the light and never despair...

Who destroyed the City of Sunset? Organized by what? What power? when?

Gu Jun clenched his slightly trembling fist and punched his heart. If this is a nightmare, wake up!

But the loud bang did not let him leave. The vortex held him tightly.

Just as Gu Jun was about to sit down on a large piece of rubble lying next to him, suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he seemed to see a dark shadow next to a pile of statue rubble in front of him.

Flashing past, not caring whether it was an illusion or not, he mustered up the strength to run over, "Stand! Who is it!"

However, when he ran over and took a look, it was empty.

The black shadow just now might just be the reflection pulled out by some piece of gravel.

But Gu Jun discovered something else, a dividing cross symbol carved on the ground here.

The split cross symbol...the split cross symbol that has been missing for a long time but has never gone away...

He seems to have seen this one, in... the Arkham Miskatonic University Library in the world of "The King in Yellow"...

At that time, with the help of the three guard dogs, the dividing cross symbol, and the City of the Sunset, he broke away from Dr. Armitage's ritual and the shackles of Nyarlathotep, and arrived at the City of the Sunset for the first time. On the terrace, I returned to my home world.

Why, there is a dividing cross symbol on the ground here...

There are no symbols carved in other places in this square, next to other statues.

The more Gu Jun looked at that symbol, the more thoughts came to his mind. Could it be left to me?

However, how come they only left a mark on him when the Sunset City was destroyed? Besides, those people don’t know what happened in the end...

The more he looked at it, the more he felt that the symbol had a strange attraction.

"Perhaps, when different people come here, they will see different imprints? The imprint left by Sunset City for themselves?"

Gu Jun thought, "Maybe, I can try to contact it? Just like opening a letter...will there be some information or things buried for me?"

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