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He didn't care if it was him or not, he just ran over and held the other person's hand.
Nodens' goosebumps suddenly came up, and he subconsciously wanted to pull his hand back, but Jiang Lu's grip was too tight, and he was too embarrassed to use force, which made him extremely embarrassed for a while.
And Jiang Lu also had his own plans for doing this.
He must show that he is very close to Nodens in front of the half-mermaid, so as to dispel his doubts, and at the same time make Nodens have to help out of affection.
"Brother! We were in a hurry and forgot to bring money. Now we have no money to pay the fare. He wants to beat us. Please help me find a way."
Nodens was stunned and looked around.
Brother? Who is he calling brother? Is he calling me? Oh my god, why are they so affectionate right from the start? Help me, I want to escape from here...
But his reason is still there, and his reason does not allow him to do this.
So he forced out an expression of indifference that was dignified yet graceful.
"I already know."
Nodens took a few steps forward and came to Zeus and the mermaid. During this process, Jiang Lu held his hand and followed them step by step.
This made Nodens' scalp numb. He didn't know what to do at all. He could only shout in his heart: Let's go! Don't drag me! Please come and take him away, please!
When his mentality exploded, he had arrived in front of the half-mermaid.
Nodens said calmly to the half-mermaid: "How much is the fare?"
After getting closer, the mermaid noticed Nodens's appearance. He was a little uncertain at first, but suddenly his face changed drastically: "You...you are, the Lord of the Great Abyss?"
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"No." Nodens smiled and shook his head: "I'm not."
"Eh?" The half-mermaid touched her head in surprise: "Did I admit my mistake?"
"You probably admitted your mistake."
"But your appearance is clearly..."
"You made a mistake." Nodens repeated again.
The half-mermaid was speechless.
"Now," said Nodens, "you just have to tell me how much the fare is."
"The fare is... Let me see." The mermaid looked at the meter on the seahorse's back and said, "A total of 912 gold shells."
"How much?" Nodens was stunned: "Why is it so expensive? Where did you come from?"
"It's in the nearby sea."
The half-mermaid explained:
“The starting price is 8 gold shells, and then there is an additional 2 gold shells per kilometer for more than three kilometers. In addition, there is a time fee of half a gold shell every fifteen minutes.
According to the standard, it should not be expensive. According to the normal route, a maximum of 1,213 is enough. However, they both insisted that I take them for more walks in the sea and deliberately asked me to take a long detour. As the journey gets longer, the price goes up.
"..."
Nodens looked doubtfully at Jiang Lu and Zeus, who were still motion sick.
Are there people who deliberately let people take a long way around?
"It's here." Jiang Lu said seriously.
"Forget it, that's it."
Nodens was not short of the money, mainly because the moment he saw the fare, he thought there was something serious wrong with his anchor point, and was a little surprised as to why Jiang Lu was teleported to such a remote place.
After paying, the half-mermaid drove away.
Zeus and Jiang Lu, who was holding Huang Xiu'e, sat on the rocks and looked at Nodens longingly.
"So may I ask, where is Nodens?"
Jiang Lu asked.
"I am," Nodens replied.
"Huh?" Jiang Lu was a little confused: "Didn't you just tell him that you were not Nodens?"
Naturally, Nodens would not tell Jiang Lu. He was afraid that it would be troublesome for the half-mermaid to have too many unnecessary social interactions after the half-mermaid recognized him, so he just answered lightly: "I have my own plans."
"So low-key?" Zeus muttered.
But Jiang Lu was a very defensive person and did not believe Nodens' words immediately.
Because according to his experience, people of their status would not bother to conceal their identity unless they did something bad.
So Jiang Lu deliberately asked about the communication between the two through consciousness to verify Nodens' identity.
"Do you remember what I said when we first met?"
Nodens stared at Jiang Lu and realized that Jiang Lu was probably doubting his identity, so he replied: "You said you wanted me to help you build a bridge between the two worlds, and you also said that many people believe in me, even if I Tell you that I need to face many terrible enemies, and you also said that you will help me."
"Yeah...that's right." Jiang Lu nodded: "So what bad things did you do?"
"?" Nodens was puzzled: "I didn't do anything wrong."
"It seems it's not a small matter..." Jiang Lu showed an ambiguous smile.
"..." Nordens found that he still couldn't cope with offline things.
If only dealing with people could be as easy as sealing the Old Ones...Nodens thought.
"All right."
Seeing that Nodens didn't want to talk in detail, Jiang Lu didn't ask any more questions, changed the subject, and said straight to the point:
"Let's stop hiding it. Tell me, what kind of trouble have you run into? Tell me and I'll help you solve it. But in exchange, you have to tell me why all the anchor points have disappeared and how to reset them." Ways to restore them.”
Nodens thought for a moment and said to Jiang Lu, "Follow me."
Jiang Lu and Zeus looked at each other and stood up.
But Nodens emphasized: "I'm talking about you, you come with me, not you."
"But we are a team."
Looking at Jiang Lu who seemed a little resistant, Nodens also wanted to say it here, but Zeus kept staring at him carefully with a strange look, which made him feel very awkward.
Talking to Jiang Lu under such circumstances was akin to the awkwardness of being interrupted by the other party's unsuspecting servant when he first had a communication with the Ghoul Queen.
That time he almost pretended to be Nyarlathotep.
"This matter is of great importance." Nodens said seriously.
"Then there's no way."
Jiang Lu had no choice but to nod and said to Zeus: "You stay here and don't move around."
"Okay." Zeus took Huang Xiu'e and sat back on the rock obediently.
Then Jiang Lu followed Nodens and began to take a walk in the reef forest, chatting while walking.
During this time, Nodens barely looked at Jiang Lu, let alone looked directly at him.
This made Jiang Lu feel that he was an rude person, but after all, he had just extorted a large sum of money from him, so Jiang Lu did not express his dissatisfaction too much.
"If you want to know why all the anchor points disappeared, you don't need to wait until you help me. I can tell you now."
Nodens, who lowered his head and just looked at the road, said:
"Because fundamentally, and that's one of the effects of what I call trouble, is that our goals are aligned."
"Oh? Please elaborate." Jiang Lu became interested.
Nodens thought about how to cut in, and then slowly said: "Since you said that many people believe in me, you must know Nyarlathotep?"
"You know... you know..." Jiang Lu said calmly, "But I don't really understand it. What's wrong?"
Nodens is just socially anxious, but he is not a social idiot, so he can naturally hear the guilt in Jiang Lu's tone.
He guessed that Jiang Lu had never heard of this name at all.
But Nyarlathotep is the fuse of a whole series of chain reactions, and it is impossible to ignore him, so Nodens had to introduce his biggest mortal enemy to Jiang Lu first:
"He is called the Chaos of the Walking, and he is the messenger representing the entire group of outer gods and old rulers. He often takes the form of a human and walks around, and is always keen to deceive and seduce humans, and to plunge humans into terror and despair. To the ultimate insanity is its highest joy.
And he has had many incarnations. To this day, he has never shown his original face in front of others, but I am extremely certain that his true form must be a twisted, ferocious monster with a hateful face.
He is also my biggest mortal enemy. I have struggled with him for countless years. In fact, this incident is not the most serious in the history of our struggle, but it is not the most ordinary either. "
"Chaos of the Haunting?" Jiang Lu finally understood why the ghouls called him this name when they misunderstood him and Zeus. It turned out that they regarded themselves as the incarnation of Nyarlathotep.
"you know?"
"Hearsay, hearsay, go on." Jiang Lu didn't want to mention the ghoul in front of Nodens, so he decisively changed the topic.
"This time, it's another conspiracy of Nyarlathotep."
Nodens sighed:
"To put it simply, he was no longer satisfied with playing with a small group of people to achieve his own goal of causing chaos. He was silent for a long time and then planned a big one.
I don't know what he did to prepare for this, I just know that by the time I noticed, it was already over.
He kidnapped all the gods scattered across the land you call the Unknown, imprisoned them, erased their anchors, and disappeared again. "
"Why did he do this?"
"Because he wants to destroy humanity's faith."
Nodens explained solemnly:
“By erasing the anchor point, he made it impossible for humans to reach the areas guarded by the gods, and by imprisoning the gods, he made it impossible for humans to see the gods they believed in.
Human lifespan is limited. Perhaps the first believers will always remember that they have seen the heroic appearance of gods with their own eyes. But as generations pass by, history will sooner or later turn into legends, and legends will gradually turn into myths.
At that time, humans who have not seen gods for a long time will no longer remember that they really existed, and will only regard them as the wild imagination of their predecessors. "
"its not right."
Jiang Lu was a little confused:
"I heard that Nyarlathotep is quite powerful. Although there are no gods in the unknown land who can be regarded as the main gods, he can kidnap them by means. He should not be an ordinary person. For such a big man Wan'er, you always have trouble with humans, isn't this too cheap?"