Cthulhu Mythos + no System + desperate survival + one heroine
While sorting through the museum’s underground storeroom, Lin Mo accidentally triggers a mechanism and discovers a bronze key etched with twisted patterns and half of a bloodstained parchment scroll.
The ritual depicted on the fragment bears a striking resemblance to the remains of an ancient altar discovered in the city’s sewer system.
Meanwhile, the police take on a series of bizarre death cases. The victims match the description of the “sacrifices” recorded on the scroll, and the third bone of each victim’s left hand is marked with a hexagram.
The family crest on Lin Mo’s cuff link is also a hexagram, dragging him straight into the vortex.
During his investigation, he encounters a woman in black known as “Nightingale.” She appears and disappears without a trace and seems to know what’s going on, but never reveals her true motives.
Forced to work together to investigate a suspected cult hideout, Lin Mo notices bloodstains at the bottom of a cup she hands him, deepening his suspicions. Yet Nightingale’s clues repeatedly pull him back from the brink of deadly traps, leading him to a forgotten “ancient city” deep beneath London, unlike anything produced by any known civilization: the Shadow of R’lyeh.
Later, he discovers that he has somehow become the most important sacrifice. To survive, he fights with everything he has…
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