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Bansy, formerly known as Binsy, is a famous Weather Museum on the Five Seas.
It is well-known that due to its geographical location in an area of intense climate change, this island often experiences earthquakes, storms, and heavy fogs. For this reason, many special customs and legends have emerged, including but not limited to the worship of the "God of Weather."
Bansy's two most unique customs are: first, "on nights of heavy fog and drastic weather changes, keep your doors shut, do not go out, and do not respond to knocking sounds"; and second, a preference for blood pudding, which seems to have been influenced by elves.
Of course, the above reasons are only explanations that ordinary people and ordinary Beyonders would believe. For Lin Ruo, who knows quite a bit of the inside story, he is basically certain that the appearance of the "God of Weather" was pushed by Medici's descendants.
Lin Ruo even has reason to believe that among Medici's descendants, there truly exists a Weather Warlock.
As for Bansy Harbor's custom of "on nights of heavy fog and drastic weather changes, keep your doors shut, do not go out, and do not respond to knocking sounds," according to the original novel, it can be inferred that it is related to the City of Calamity.
As for the love for "blood pudding"… Lin Ruo pondered, stroking his chin, feeling that this might truly just be an influence from elves.
After all, although Bansy is suspected to have once been the Demon City, Lin Ruo had never heard that people from the Demon City particularly loved eating blood pudding.
However, to be fair, this blood pudding really tastes good… Lin Ruo thought, scooping a piece of blood pudding, already seasoned in the bowl, into his mouth with one hand, while lazily propping his chin with the other.
Lin Ruo had naturally arrived at the Green Lemon Restaurant at this moment, but he wondered if the unknown existence that had been maintaining fate had finally given up. According to the original novel's timeline, the changes in Bansy Harbor were indeed supposed to happen tonight, and the Green Lemon Restaurant should have been one of the particularly eerie places, but based on the results of his actual reconnaissance, Lin Ruo did not find any problems.
Of course, considering that the White Agate's current route is even different from the original novel's, such a change is not incomprehensible.
So, after three minutes of thought, Lin Ruo decided to taste the Green Lemon Restaurant's specialty dishes, and then go to places like the church and post office later to check them out.
Speaking of which, that door in the post office in the original novel, if pushed open, should lead to a Demon City in the fog, right?
Lin Ruo pondered, savoring the food in his mouth, his gaze sweeping over the other diners in the restaurant who also seemed normal, then retracting it, finally resting on the two people at his table.
Danitz was naturally happily eating the delicious food. Although he had been a bit uneasy when disembarking not long ago, after successfully arriving at the Green Lemon Restaurant and encountering no other dangers on the way, the always carefree Danitz had thrown all his previous worries into the back of his mind. Now he was concentrating on enjoying the food, and even had the energy to explain to Lin Ruo and Klein various legends about Bansy that he had heard in between bites.
Compared to the carefree Danitz, although Klein was also eating the delicious food, most of his energy was clearly focused on being vigilant about his surroundings.
But what left Klein somewhat puzzled was that even though both the divination results and Lin Ruo's words told him that Bansy had problems, he truly hadn't found any problematic places along the way.
It was very peaceful here, seemingly no different from any other port they had visited before.
This peacefulness naturally would not lower Klein's vigilance. After all, those who cause trouble don't do so all the time. The current peacefulness only indicates that the abnormality here is very deeply hidden, and the divination results suggest that perhaps tonight, some of the danger here will erupt.
I wonder what Lin Ruo is ultimately looking for… Klein spooned a mouthful of blood pudding into his mouth, his gaze unconsciously glancing out the window. The sky outside had already darkened, and the dim street could only be barely seen ahead with the help of scattered streetlights.
Klein's gaze suddenly paused.
He saw a young girl wearing black and yellow silk clothes suddenly emerge from the corner at the end of the dim street. She was holding a black fan that covered most of her face, with only her forehead and eyes exposed. Yet, for no reason, it made one feel that the girl's appearance behind the fan must be extremely captivating.
Klein's pupils contracted, his gaze falling on the girl's clothes. The clothes had a very typical Eastern style, making Klein feel incredibly familiar, but they were definitely not from this world.
"Swish—"
The extreme shock made Klein involuntarily stand up, but before he could say anything to Lin Ruo beside him, the black-fanned girl who was slowly walking on the street suddenly disappeared, as if it had all been just an illusion he had produced.
But Klein knew, this could never be an illusion.
"What's wrong?" Lin Ruo, who had looked out the window the moment Klein stood up but saw nothing, immediately asked.
"I just saw a young girl covering her face with a black fan outside the window. She was wearing Eastern-style clothes…" Klein immediately recounted what he had seen, especially describing the girl's appearance in detail, and also didn't hide his strange feeling that her appearance was captivating.
"Huh?" This time it was Lin Ruo's turn to be stunned. Having a considerable understanding of Cthulhu mythos stories, he looked at Klein, then at the dark street outside the window, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
A beautiful young girl covering her face with a black fan—isn't this Bloated Woman?
Damn it! Does the Mystical World actually have such purely Cthulhu-esque existences?
Wait, Bansy is the Demon City, and it is well-known that the Bloated Woman is the biggest scapegoat in the Demon City cast of Cthulhu role-playing games, having perfectly inherited Nyarlathotep's tradition. Thinking this way, it seems quite reasonable for the Bloated Woman to appear in Bansy… What the hell!
Lin Ruo felt a little frantic at this moment.
This is a Cthulhu Outer God, an existence that can make you lose your sanity just by seeing its true form.
And who doesn't know that Nyarlathotep is a piece of trash? His malice towards humans has, in a sense, long been maxed out. What he likes most is observing the struggles of human nature, a complete god of fun.
No, I need to calm down!
Lin Ruo took a deep breath. Although his stomach still hurt, he quickly recalled the plot of the original novel.
Right, he remembered that when Amon teased Medici in the original novel, he said that if he didn't want to grow breasts or have his entire body swell up, he shouldn't go to Bansy after Sequence 1. So, that might not be the Bloated Woman, but just an existence with a similar appearance.
After all, Mystical World is also a Cthulhu-esque novel, just not purely Cthulhu-esque. It's understandable for something that looks like Bloated Woman to appear.
Having convinced himself internally, Lin Ruo took another breath, looked at the two people beside him, and decisively said, "I'll take you two out of here first."
[T/N: The Bloated Woman, referring to a specific form of Nyarlathotep in China. The Demon City is Shanghai. Took me a while to figure this one out]
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