Plague Doctor

"You can try."

Hannah said that from the look of her, Gu Jun seemed to have tried many times, but only got weird results.

"Okay, then I'll give it a try." Gu Jun asked her to get out of the car, and he also got out of the car. However, the car did not turn off. He moved a stone from the roadside and pressed it on the accelerator. The Chevrolet suddenly seemed to drive automatically. Driving forward, out of the town of Arkham, into the hazy and erratic night.

Just when the car drove about twenty meters away, the car suddenly disappeared. It just disappeared so suddenly.

Gu Jun didn't know if he had blinked his eyes. He couldn't see or remember how the car disappeared. "Special space?"

"I don't know." Hannah's face turned cold. "Just watch. If you wait a little longer, you will find out more."

Gu Jun stood silently, paying attention to his surroundings, paying attention to the red-haired woman who was suspected to be a witch. The night wind was very cold, and everything around and far away, such as ancient buildings, roads, vegetation, etc., were floating like rippling waves. water surface.

"It's almost time, it's almost time." Hannah said softly.

Less than half a minute after she finished speaking, Gu Jun suddenly heard some sounds, a chaotic buzzing sound. When he heard clearly that this was the background sound of many people talking softly, the scene in front of him was also different.

He wasn't even standing, he was sitting, sitting in a chair at one side of the dining table, with Hannah sitting across from him.

There were diners at other tables around. This was a somewhat high-end restaurant. Well-dressed waiters walked by holding serving plates. Through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows of the restaurant, you could see the night view of the street outside, and Among the vehicles parked on the roadside, the white Chevrolet was among them.

"Eat." Hannah was cutting a piece of tender steak with a knife and fork. She cut a small piece and put it in her mouth. "We came out for dinner, didn't we?"

Gu Jun found that he was holding a knife and fork in both hands, and there was a plate of steak in front of him.

His heart suddenly pounded. He had almost no strange feelings before and after the change just now. By the time he noticed it, it had already happened.

If you want to stop it, you can't stop it at all.

"What's going on?" Gu Jun could only ask first. It didn't seem like a hallucination or a dream... but this kind of space transformation...

Is it the handiwork of the witch in front of me... She doesn't even need spells, rituals, graphics, etc., does she have such power? Because she serves Nyarlathotep?

"I'm waiting for you to tell me." Hannah said, "That day, you went crazy and I read "The King in Yellow". When I realized that I had never left Arkham, I drove out. But I drove less than a hundred yards and found out that I worked in a newspaper office, and others said I had been working overtime there."

She shrugged, "Is there something wrong with my mind? I tried it a second time, in various ways, but... Jem, look, this is something you haven't tried before."

Hannah stood up suddenly. Before Gu Jun knew what she was going to do, she raised the knife in her hand and stabbed it into the neck of the passing male waiter. Blood spurted out immediately. The waiter screamed and the knife in his hand was The dinner plate fell to the ground with a bang, and other diners around him screamed in surprise.

What the hell... Gu Jun was also startled and reflexively shouted: "Call an ambulance! Hold her down! Stop the bleeding. Do you have a first aid kit? I'm a doctor!"

He stood up and rushed over, panic and anger welling up in his heart. He wanted to hold Hannah down and rescue the waiter.

"Don't be nervous." Hannah smiled self-deprecatingly. "Actually, when I found out about this situation, I entered my boss's office in the newspaper office as soon as possible and stabbed him through several times. Then, I stabbed him again. It’s quite refreshing.”

Gu Junzheng was surprised when he heard that something suddenly seemed to flash...

He found that he was still sitting at the dining table, and Hannah was sitting across from him, eating steak. The male waiter passed by holding a dinner plate, and what happened just now did not happen.

Roll back? Time and space chaos?

"See?" Hannah put another sliced ​​steak into her mouth, "Jem, you tried a lot of things, but you went crazy when you found that nothing worked. You should try this, or go hug me It's not bad to kiss a beautiful woman." She raised her head and gestured to a young blond woman sitting at another table not far away, "That's it."

Gu Jun naturally didn't listen and looked around the restaurant, which was still peaceful and peaceful.

He noticed that the clock on the wall kept running, and the steak on Hannah's plate was also decreasing. The situation was different from what he encountered in the Nuckett City Library.

At that time, it seemed like a setback, but now, it seems like no matter what they do, they can't change a fixed development.

To leave Arkham, kill people, sit still, and end up in a situation that's suddenly...fixed.

He suddenly found himself chewing on a small piece of steak, which he had cut himself.

"What do you think "The King in Yellow" is?" Hannah suddenly asked, "I mean, the book "The King in Yellow" mentioned in the book "The King in Yellow"."

Gu Jun pondered, in fact, it was clearly written in the book that it was a banned script, and the characters in different chapters were reading the same script.

As for the specific content of this script, there are only the "Song of Cassida" in Act 1, Scene 2 written at the beginning of the book, and a few dialogues in the chapter "Mask", which seemed to take place at a gathering, party or the like. Situational dialogue:

[Camilla: As for you, sir, you need to take off your mask.

Stranger: Seriously?

Cassida: Really, it's time. We have all lost our pretense except you.

Stranger: I didn’t

wear a mask.

CAMILLA (whispering to Cassida, frightened): No mask? No mask! 】

"Jem, you have studied this passage a lot, and I have a new understanding." Hannah said while eating steak, "What if the 'stranger' really didn't wear a mask? He would have taken off the mask long ago. It’s off, but it’s written in the script that he’s wearing a mask, so what?”

Gu Jun felt a chill in his heart after hearing this.

If a character in a script discovers that he is actually in a script and wants to do something else instead of following the story development of the script.

So, can this character achieve his wish? It's still the same as before, nothing will change...

In the script, it was written that Jem and Hannah had a dinner, did not leave Arkham, and did not kill anyone.

Or in the script, it says that they tried it and found that it didn't work.

"You mean..." Gu Jun understood what Hannah meant by doing this, "We are characters from a chapter in "The King in Yellow"?"

[Jem Mazelvich went crazy because he read a book called "The King in Yellow" and thought he was a character in the chapter "The Plague Doctor". 】

This story is a chapter of "The King in Yellow".

The book "The King in Yellow" he read in Arkham Asylum was the "King in Yellow" in "The King in Yellow".

But he couldn't see the book "The King in Yellow" that Jem was written in, just like the characters in "The Man Who Repaired His Reputation", "The Mask", "The Yellow Secret Talisman" and other chapters couldn't see the book in which they were written in "The King in Yellow". king".

Who is reading the real "The King in Yellow"?

Love the Plague Doctor.