Soul Painter

Miskatonic University at night looks pleasant.

The university is located in the outstanding town of Arkham. The school motto is dedicated to spreading cutting-edge knowledge of archaeology, history, and occultism to mankind. Therefore, the university has sponsored a large number of explorations and searches and discovered many relics related to great existence. Bringing a lot of useful knowledge to how humans survive in this apocalypse.

The most fascinating thing about Miskatonic University is the library of the university, except for the roving hound that once killed the second generation of gods. It is said that almost all the languages ​​​​that communicate with demons in the world are hidden here, which means a lot of people. The Book of Demons is hidden in various corners of the library, just waiting for the unfortunate to open them.

this night.

Candles are still burning in the library.

A young librarian from the East is tidying up the bookshelves. He has a broad forehead and eyes full of wisdom, and has his own insights into occultism. Unfortunately, he speaks English with a strong local accent, which makes many professors and students feel uncomfortable. Would like to communicate with him.

The newly recruited librarian, named Ren Erba, was abbreviated as TE, or REN by the students.

Ren Erba took the famous "Zhaha" cruise ship, drifted at sea for three months, and arrived in the beautiful country a year ago. His boat money was provided by the Shanghai Revolutionary Party at that time, and his direct sponsor was It was Lin Senhao, the commander of the Youth Army.

That's right, Ren Erba has another job. He is a messenger, and his mission is to deliver a letter to a friend of the youth army commander in the beautiful country.

This friend's name is 'Gao Fan'. Marshal Lin doesn't know where he is in the beautiful country. He only knows that Gao Fan also traveled to the beautiful country on the Zaha about seven years ago.

But the strange thing is that there is no record of Gao Fan's arrival in the beautiful country on the Zaha, only the departure record. According to some legends, it seems that this magical Gao Fan disappeared halfway.

In this case, it seems meaningless to come to the beautiful country to find his whereabouts, but Marshal Lin is sure that his friend will definitely reach his desired goal.

Therefore, in the past few years, Marshal Lin first sent a large number of messengers to the beautiful country as the Revolutionary Army, and then as the Northeast Army. This probably caused some financial burdens on the Revolutionary Army or the Northeast Army. When Ba set off, there was no one with him.

After arriving in the beautiful country, following the clues given by Marshal Lin, Ren Erba went through various twists and turns, and finally found Gao Fan's whereabouts at Miskatonic University, or in other words, the traces that once existed.

on the wall of the library.

There are pictures of some well-known professors and scholars in the university.

The first old gentleman with an exquisite 'W'-shaped beard, his name is Henry Armitage, the former librarian, the famous 'dog trainer' and 'the second-generation strangler of the gods', and also one of the necromancers. The overseer of the book, whose whereabouts are currently unknown.

The second is a brown-haired, serious-looking middle-aged man named Albert N. Wilmas, who was able to retreat from the old man. The establishment of the Wilmas Foundation The keeper, the keeper of the seeds of human civilization, is currently missing.

The third has a rock-like jaw, Nathaniel Wingate Peasley, a doctor of political science and law, a real psychopath, because his body is occupied by another mysterious race, which provides His vast amount of occult knowledge is currently missing.

The fourth one looks more like a butcher, but in fact he is a living corpse named Ellen Halsey. 'Before he died' he was a grumpy professor of medicine who was made into a living corpse by his apprentices, but Teaching and educating people, he still insists on staying in school to teach, and his whereabouts are currently unknown.

Afterwards, there are Francis Morgan, whose spiritual will is as firm as iron, and the mysterious little Pierce, who is the son of the parasite above, and seems to have the ability to restore the SAN value. Under his treatment, The restoration of Pierce's humanity from being possessed by a mysterious race is a miracle worth celebrating.

There are also Professor Atwood, a professor of physics and a part-time weather expert mascot, Professor Frank H. Paporti, a professor of engineering and a death expert, and other human elites who constitute the extraordinary "academic atmosphere" of this university.

Of course, all of these professors are currently missing.

The professors of Miskatonic University, with their fearless spirit of exploration, have provided the human world with a lot of information and knowledge about the great existence since 1860.

It is not so much a wall of honorary professors as it is a wall of missing persons.

What attracted Ren Erba was the portrait that was currently ranked last. In the portrait was a thin but handsome oriental male, whose name was annotated as 'Fan Gao, Professor of Fine Arts'.

'Fan Gao' in turn is 'Gao Fan', and the name of another painter, Van Gogh, should be 'Van Gogh', so there is no confusion.

The person Lin Dashuai is after should have taught art in this university and became a professor, but his current whereabouts are unknown.

After Ren Erba saw this portrait, he applied to be the librarian of Miskatonic University. Since the previous librarian had just disappeared mysteriously, it was not easy to find someone to take over—after all, everyone was afraid of death. So the school quickly accepted Ren Erba's job application.

This is Ren Erba's third week working in the library. During these three weeks, he tried his best to search and find out Gao Fan's whereabouts, but with few results. Firstly, the reason mentioned above is that Ren Erba is full of oriental characteristics and accent. Chinglish made it difficult for him to complete intelligence collection.

The second and most important reason is that neither the school nor the students have kept secrets about the disappearance of the professors, because each of the professors involved one or more great beings.

In this world, there are many ways to seek death, and spying on God is undoubtedly the most dangerous one.

For this reason, Ren Erba can only seek answers through reading, and the library of Miskatonic University hides all the knowledge and answers in this world. As long as you search patiently, you will gain something. The only The problem is, you need to find what you really want amid all kinds of temptations to confuse the truth.

Ren Erba was reading about Gao Fan's deeds. According to the records, Gao Fan and his wife came to Miskatonic University to teach five years ago. He was invited by the school board at that time. The reason in the file was that the school board agreed with Gao Fan. Fan's dual achievements in painting and mysticism, he believed that Gao Fan would be the pioneering talent who created the discipline of "mysterious aesthetics" at Miskatonic University.

"Mysterious Aesthetics...?" According to Ren Erba's understanding, it seems that Miskatonic University does not have this course at present. Did something happen during the establishment of this course?

"In addition, Gao Fan's wife is...?" Ren Erba continued to search for information, but he didn't see any more descriptions about 'Mrs. Gao Fan', only some 'mysterious oriental people' and 'feminine women' , 'Retrograde beauty' and other simple descriptions from other professors or students.

After searching for a while, Ren Erba finally found her name. At that time, this woman was studying in the "College of Languages, Letters and Arts", choosing a psychology major, so Ren Erba found her name in the student register:

Xin Wei.

This article is about four or five chapters, and the whole book is over when it is finished.