Soul Painter

Miskatonic University in the night looks pleasant.

The university is located in the outstanding town of Arkham. The school motto is dedicated to spreading cutting-edge knowledge in archaeology, history, mysticism, etc. Brings a wealth of useful knowledge about how humanity can survive in this apocalypse.

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

This late night.

Candles are still burning in the library.

A young librarian from the East is sorting bookshelves. He has a broad forehead and eyes full of wisdom, and has his own opinions on the occult. Unfortunately, he speaks English with a strong local accent, which makes many professors and students not. would like to communicate with him.

The newly recruited librarian, whose name is Ren Erba, is abbreviated by the students as te, or ren.

Ren Erba took the famous 'Zaha' cruise ship, drifted at sea for three months, and arrived in the beautiful country a year ago. His ship was provided by the revolutionary party in Shanghai at that time, and his direct sponsor It is the youth army commander Lin Senhao.

That's right, Ren Erba has another position. He is a messenger, and his task 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 on the way.

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

Therefore, in the past few years, Commander Lin first served as the revolutionary army, and then as the northeastern army, and sent numerous messengers to the beautiful country, which probably caused some financial burden on the revolutionary army or the northeastern army. When Eight set off, there was no one accompanying him.

After arriving in Beautiful Country, Ren Erba went through various twists and turns according to the clues given by Commander Lin, and finally found Gao Fan's whereabouts at Miskatonic University, or rather, the traces that once existed.

on the library wall.

Hanging images of some of the University's well-known professors and scholars.

The first old gentleman with a delicate 'w' beard, the name is Henry Armitage, the former librarian, the famous 'dog tamer' and 'the second generation of God's strangler', also the necromancer The overseer of the book is currently missing.

The second was a brown-haired, serious middle-aged man named Albert N. Wilmars, who had faced a man who was still able to get out of the old days, the founder of the Wilmars Foundation The keeper of the seeds of human civilization, whose whereabouts are currently unknown.

A third with a rocky jaw, Nathaniel Wingate Peasley, Ph.D., a real psychopath, because his body was occupied by another mysterious race, which offered to His vast occult knowledge is currently missing.

The fourth looked more like a butcher, but he was actually a living corpse, named Ellen Halsey, a grumpy professor of medicine 'in life' who was turned into a corpse by his apprentice. Teaching and educating people, he still insists on staying in school to teach, and his whereabouts are currently unknown.

Further back, it is Francis Morgan, whose mental will is as strong as iron, and the mysterious little Pierce. Little Pierce is the son of the parasite above. It seems that he has the skills to restore the san value. Pierce's restoration of his humanity from being occupied by a mysterious race is a miracle worth celebrating.

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

Of course, all of these professors are currently missing.

Miskatonic University professors, with their adventurous spirit without fear of death, have provided the human world with a wealth of information and knowledge about great beings since 1860.

It's not so much a wall of professors of honor as it's 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 man whose name was annotated as 'fangao, professor of fine arts'.

'fangao' in turn is 'Gao Fan', and the name of another painter, Van Gogh, should be 'vangogh', so it is absolutely not to be confused.

The character Lin Dashuai is looking for should have taught art in this university and became a professor, but his whereabouts are currently unknown.

After seeing this portrait, Ren Erba applied for a position as a librarian at Miskatonic University. Since the previous administrator had just disappeared mysteriously, the person who took over was not easy to find-after all, everyone was afraid of death. So the school quickly accepted Ren Erba's job application.

This is the third week of Ren Erba's work in the library. During these three weeks, he tried hard to search and inquire about the whereabouts of Gao Fan, but the results were very few. The reason is first mentioned before, Ren Erba is full of oriental characteristics and accents. Chinese English made it difficult for him to complete the intelligence collection work.

The second and most important reason is that neither the school nor the students are secretive about the reasons for the disappearance of the professors, because each of them involves one or more great beings.

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

For this reason, Ren Erba can only seek answers by 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 the temptations to confuse the truth.

Ren Erba is reading Gao Fan's deeds. According to the records, Gao Fan brought his wife to teach at Miskatonic University five years ago, and was invited by the then school board of directors. It is the school board that recognizes Gao Fan's dual achievements in painting and esotericism, and believes that Gao Fan will be a pioneering talent in creating the discipline of 'mysterious aesthetics' at Miskatonic University.

"Mysterious aesthetics...?" According to Ren Erba's understanding, it seems that there is no such course in Miskatonic University at present. Did something happen in the process of establishing this course?

"Also, who is Gaofan's wife...?" Ren Erba continued to look for information, but he didn't see any more accounts about 'Mrs. Gaofan', only some 'mysterious oriental people' and 'soft women' , 'Retrograde Beauty', etc. Simple descriptions from other professors or students.

It took a while for Ren Erba to find her name. At that time, the woman was studying psychology at the School of Language, Literature and Art, so Ren Erba found her name on the student register:

Xin Wei.

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