150 Inside of the Scalp

R’lyeh—Gu Jun’s instinct had gleaned that as the name of a location. Currently, that mysterious cult, currently dubbed the ‘R’lyeh Cult’ by Phecda, was led by an old male, the Deep Mountain Shaman. The cult worshipped the stone statue and believed a strong and ancient presence was slumbering somewhere. Gu Jun believed that somewhere was R’lyeh. A few centuries ago, the cult kidnapped many toddlers and babies from Guang Ting City. It was unknown whether they had carried out the same crime at any other locations, and their purpose was still mostly unknown.

Based on known information, one of their purposes was to make use of the children’s ESP to ‘listen to the voice from their dreams’. Over the past two days, the people at Eastern State and the headquarters, the members of the Investigation Department, and Elder Tong had brief discussions about this, coming up with various hypotheses. Could the ‘voice from their dreams’ refer to the calling from R’yleh? Was it some kind of electronic signal? A signal that could only be received by people with ESP and high spirituality in their dreams? Elder Tong was leaning toward this hypothesis because, in the information that was forced into his mind by those children, he swore he could see images of the deep ocean. Assuming R’yleh existed somewhere on Earth and the talk of Great Old Ones was not some cultish mumblings, then…

“R’yleh could be spreading the signals subconsciously,” Elder Tong offered his opinion. “And the signals thus have no purpose.”

If the signals had clear content like scripts for a strong spell or the exact location of R’yleh, then the cult would not have done research on it for so many years. But due to their relentless research, it also meant that the cult had indeed found something that they could work on from the signals that they had ‘heard’.

The R’yleh Cult eventually crossed paths with Lai Sheng Company because the children still failed to satisfy the cult’s requirements, and the cult needed a new breakthrough. And thus, Gu Jun was born from this union, a Spirit Child who was cultivated specifically for this purpose before he was even born. A Spirit Child like Gu Jun was expected to satisfy both Lai Sheng Company’s intention and the R’yleh Cult’s desire to tune into more voices.

“For all we know, they’d already come up with something back then,” Prof Shen said. “There are still too many mysteries surrounding Ah Jun’s childhood. He said that his parents might have hidden some results and taken some documents away with them, and their last voyage was probably to search for this R’yleh.”

But R’yleh was probably not at Longkan Seabelt. Many strange reports had been received about Longkan Seabelt early this year. Passing boats had seen strange lights and so on. Even though the place was in international waters, when Phecda received this news, they could have hurried over to inspect it, but there had been too many such reports all over the world in this past year. It was hard to tell which was real and which was fake. Longkan Seabelt was too far from China and thus was not given much focus by Phecda.

That was how the news travelled to Lee Yuerui’s ears. Looking back, if Lee Yuerui and his friends did not run into Gu Jun, nothing might ever have happened to them. No one knew how the abnormal energy at Longkan Seabelt was triggered, but they guessed it had plenty to do with Gu Jun’s presence. Since then, no reports of anything strange had come from Longkan Seabelt. Phecda had sent a Special Mobile Force unit to investigate, but they had come up with nothing.

“Just focus and don’t think too much of it,” Gu Jun told her, but he knew that this was a sign that they were close to a discovery. This feeling would only occur when they were close to a breakthrough. After who knew how long, they successfully completed the dissection of the zombie’s face. Then they continued to the cranium. Gu Jun was still the one overseeing the operation. He decided their first step would be to saw off the scalp. After the galea aponeurotica and periosteum, the bone saw buzzed again. This was the first time Gu Jun had done a craniotomy, but he showed no sign of hesitation. If anything, this was much easier than the lobotomies that required a much steadier hand. Finally, with a pop, the mutated scalp popped off like a bottle cap!

“Hold this.” Gu Jun handed the scalp over to Cai Zixuan. “Just put it aside for now.”

“Hmm?” Cai Zixuan glanced at the scalp as it was passed over to him, and he gasped in shock. “The inside of this scalp…”

Cai Zixuan showed it to the rest of the group. Gu Jun’s brows creased with a heavy frown, and his eyes squinted in focus.

In the headquarters’ conference room, people like Xiao Huiwen jumped up from their seats. Even Elder Tong, Prof Shen, and the members of the Investigation Team rushed over to witness this strange discovery.