Volume 1: A sound on Wall Street, Xinxiang City is busy copying books Chapter 67: Love of Craftsmanship
Chapter subtitle: I'a I'a, Neo Yuan Fhatgn!
"Wait a moment, sir. Are you... the Yellow King?"
Yellow King, the King of Yellow... Such a childish name is naturally the pen name used by our Master Yuan. Of course, if it is slightly modified, it will become The King in Yellow.
Upon hearing this, Yuan Yan turned around and replied: "I am the Yellow King. You are..."
Oh, I didn’t feel it when I wrote it down, but it’s a bit embarrassing to be called by someone in person and have to say it out loud.
He looked at the other person again. He had a long face like a winter melon, small eyes, small mouth and big nose. He looked weird no matter how you looked at him. And our Master Yuan secretly felt ashamed. How could he not recognize such a distinctive appearance just now?
"Great! I finally meet you!" The man took off his hat and put it on his chest, saying respectfully, "I am..."
“Howard Phillips Lovecraft.”
Yuan Yanshu, who had finally matched his appearance with her memories, suddenly felt that her SAN value was showing signs of instability.
"Oh, you are Master Ai-Shou...Um, sir. Why are you here?"
Master Ai Shouyi said very naturally: "I responded to the Yellow King... it was your call!"
Summon, summon, summon...Summon?!
“Master Ball, quickly check if there are any signs of invasion by evil gods in this timeline?! Oh, by the way, could a time traveler like me be the incarnation of the Great Old One?! Could it be that I am… The King in Yellow?!”
"Host, rest assured. This system will notify you in advance of such a big change in style. In addition, host, you cannot be the incarnation of the Great Old One. Not to mention the Yellow King, you can't even be the Faceless One or the Deep One."
"And what about the investigators?"
"Okay, host, the style of this timeline won't be so strange, unless you can complete the mission and obtain the six-star item "Book of R'lyeh" or the seven-star item "Necronomican". The mission content is..."
"Stop, stop, I don't want to hear a word!"
Yuan Yan, relieved, asked curiously, "Mr. Ai Shouyi, I never summoned you. By the way, my name is Neo Yuan."
That Yellow King, that Yellow King is so shameful.
Mr. Ai Shouyi took out a stack of manuscripts from his bag and said excitedly, "It was this novel that led me to find you, Mr. Yuan."
That novel is, of course, Jerusalem Territory by Stephen King… um, Yellow King.
He continued excitedly: "I wanted to write to you right after I finished reading it. But I didn't know what to write when I spread out the letter paper, so I took the first train from Providence.The train came to New York."
"I've been waiting for you for quite some time. After asking your neighbors, I found out that Mr. Yuan is... um, Chinese. So I took the liberty to say hello to you."
Yuan Yan suddenly thought to herself, it was indeed summoned by me.
"Is that so... then..."
It was so late and there was nowhere to go, so I had to go back to my house.
"Then let's go to my humble abode and talk."
Our Master Yuan didn't know that his invitation had started the famous "Heartside Ghost... um, myth" in history. Now he accepted a temporary mission.
"Ding ding ding, this system issues a temporary task: Reshape your worldview."
"Mission: Host transforms Howard Phillips Lovecraft's ideology as much as possible."
"Mission Reward: Qualifier (to be determined)."
I see, the task is to lower this guy's SAN value, and then suck his brain... well, wash it. So how can I complete this task?
"My humble abode is so humble. I am so sorry."
"No, no, it's my sudden visit that was rude."
"Mr. Aiyi, please take a seat. Wait a moment while I light the fireplace."
Yuan Yanshu's apartment was so shabby that he had to let the guests sit on the sofa. However, his small apartment had a small fireplace. There was no other way. In the 1920s, global warming had not yet occurred, and this apartment did not provide heating. The temperature in New York at night in November was only 5 degrees.
Don't forget that our Master Yuan is a southerner. Even though he wore long-sleeved shirts and long trousers, he was still freezing cold, so he had to spend money to buy some firewood and keep it at home.
He clumsily lit the firewood in the fireplace and took out a bottle of... Acanthopanax sibiricum. There was no other way, the Cantonese people in Chinatown liked this, and since he couldn't buy Lao Gan Ma and Liuwei Dihuang Wan, he had to drink this to relieve his homesickness.
Unfortunately, Mr. Ai Shouyi couldn't get used to the smell and politely declined. Yuan Yan had to drink alone with a regretful look on her face.
As soon as he sat down, he heard the other party ask impatiently: "Excuse me, Mr. Yuan, how did you know me?"
Yuan Yan thought to herself, I don't necessarily want to tell you, old man, that later Western horror and fantasy literary works have been more or less influenced by you. Especially in the two major sub-cultures of tabletop games and electronic games, you have already become a god.
However, there is no movie with a huge influence like "The Lord of the Rings", nor is there the book "The Last God of Earth" by Jing Keshou, which made DND a popular online novel setting. Although the Japanese have used light novels and comics such as "Stealth! Nyaku" to make the indescribable Cthulhu cute. However, Cthulhu fans were originally a niche in China, just like "Warhammer 40K", it has become a hobby exclusively for otakus to improve their own status.
But Cthulhu has such a profound influence on Western otaku culture that even Yuan Hongjian, who has never run a Cthulhu group and has only played WOW, Silent Hill, and even the Eastern quasi-otaku who plays Contra on the Famicom, has heard of the name of Ai Shouyi..
By 2017, when Yuan Hongjian traveled through time, Cthulhu had gradually become a prominent school of thought in China's otaku culture circle.
The reason is that Cthulhu's worldview is really different!
