Chapter 1234 Old Friend
The Nuuk Art Museum was brightly lit, but strangely there was no one in the exhibition hall.
Until there was a rush of footsteps at the door, and a figure stumbled in from the outside. He walked straight through the empty exhibition hall, turning a blind eye to the priceless oil paintings on the wall, and did not touch the goldware and ornaments on the counter. , just ran all the way to the wall hanging with Inuit handicrafts on the westernmost side of the exhibition hall.
He reached out and grabbed the top wood carving. The wood carving was a mask. It was exquisitely made and looked quite mysterious. However, the person who came here had no intention of cherishing it at all and stuffed it roughly into his handbag. He turned around and ran outside again.
But just as he turned around, a voice suddenly came from not far away, "It's rare to come back, are you so anxious to leave?"
The visitor stiffened when he heard this, but he did not stop and still ran towards the gate. His car was parked in the parking lot of the museum. He only had to go through the gate and run twenty meters away.
However, the next moment there was a gunshot in his ear, followed by a sharp pain in his leg. The person fell to the ground, and the handbag containing the wood carving also fell to the ground.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, we are old friends and I don't want to do this, but you took my things and left without saying a word. This is a bit rude." The voice continued.
The man who fell to the ground did not speak, but struggled to crawl to his handbag, took out the wooden mask from it, then put his finger into the mouth of the mask, pressed down, and the forehead of the wooden sculpture opened immediately. An oval-shaped pebble rolled out from inside.
There is a five-pointed star engraved on it, and in the center of the five-pointed star is an eye. The visitor raised the stone and pointed it at the person speaking on the second floor.
"Oh, old seal, is it true? You actually hid the old seal in my museum. I have to say that this trick is really powerful. I sent people to search your clinic and school office more than once before. , but I couldn't find it. I didn't expect this thing to be right under my nose." The speaker walked down the stairs step by step on crutches.
There was a look of despair in the intruder's eyes. He just held the stone called the old seal tightly in his hand, as if it was his life-saving straw.
However, he later heard the man on crutches jokingly say, "Don't be stupid, doctor, this thing may be useful against those deep divers and Kun Yang, and it can also guarantee you a good night's sleep, but I am just the same as you." As a normal person, this thing doesn’t do anything to me.”
The person who broke into the art museum was none other than Dr. Baker, whom Zhang Heng and Songjia had visited. After hearing this, he lowered his hand in frustration, but still held the old seal, and finally spoke.
"We have known each other for more than twenty years, not counting the Chinese couple. You are the bravest and determined person I have ever met. To this day, I still can't believe that you would choose to face that monster. Surrender.”
"What, are you going to rely on your eloquent mouth to influence me?" The man on crutches asked, "Don't think of me as one of those stupid fanatics. I have a clear mind and always have something to say. A sensible person will coordinate the overall situation. This is the agreement between me and that great being."
"Promise, or is it your own delusion? That monster doesn't seem to be the type to make promises with people, and you know your own situation well. If there is really no problem with your mind, why did you come back from that scientific research expedition? He began to come to my clinic frequently to seek psychological counseling from me." The doctor breathed heavily, and the severe pain in his leg made his forehead covered with sweat.
The man on crutches fell into silence after hearing this. After a moment, he spoke again, "Anyway, we will all fall into eternal joy in the end. It's just a matter of one day sooner or later. There is not much difference. I also just recently I want to understand this matter. Over the years, in order to prevent myself from falling into greater madness, I have been living in seclusion as you told me, cutting off the Internet, not reading newspapers, and not interacting with anyone outside. But we can hold on. How long will it take, I heard that its name has almost become a household name outside, that is, in an isolated place like Greenland, you and I can survive until now."
The man on crutches paused, then continued, "I regret participating in that scientific research expedition all the time. I think your situation is not very good. Although you have closed the clinic, you are still working part-time in school. You guys There are even international students from abroad in the school, so you must be having a hard time."
"Fortunately, when it really doesn't work, I will put cotton balls in my ears, and I no longer surf the Internet." Dr. Baker said, "In fact, we should all be lucky. We didn't read it before encountering that thing. I have never heard of its name in the relevant books, otherwise we would have gone crazy the first time we saw it and completely become irrational fanatical believers."
"The more you know, the closer you are to madness. The person who came up with this setting is really a genius," the man on crutches murmured, "so that sober people will never know the truth."
Probably because of sympathy for each other, after saying this, the two people in the hall fell into silence again.
But soon, the man on crutches spoke again, "Doctor, ask yourself, have I taken enough care of you over the years? Those fanatic believers wanted to absorb you, but I was the one who stopped them. You refused to hand over the old seal." , I let you go, even recently you have been very close to our enemies, the Inuit tribe shamans, and I have always turned a blind eye, so why do you keep testing me again and again? My bottom line?
"Yes, I can indeed restrain those fanatical believers to a certain extent, but if they know that you took the old seal from me, neither of us will be able to live with it. You and I have both seen those people go crazy. I don't want to end up like that, so I can only apologize to you." The man on crutches said while raising the shotgun in his hand.
"Wait," the doctor raised an arm in front of his face, "I didn't mean to steal the old seal from you while those fanatics weren't here. Although I admit that I did have this consideration, we have experienced it once before. Things like this, earthquakes, red aurora, along with these abnormal meteorological disasters, their activities will become more frequent. We may not be able to survive it in our current state, and this time is different from the last time. I did it just three days ago I had a very scary dream that it had escaped from the palace below and that the whole world would be destroyed and we needed to do something before it was too late."