《Let There be Darkness》中的设定的收集(2)(21)
2024-06-14克苏鲁神话《让这里陷入黑暗吧》 来源:百合文库
"They're gone, too."
"Washington D.C.?"
"Gone."
"San Francisco? Los Angeles? Phoenix?"
"Gone -- all gone. On all the earth I doubt there's a city left with a population over ten thousand. And this is only the beginning. We'll destroy the survivors, too. And then --"
"Yes -- what then?" cried Taggart, trying to rise. "What will we do then, you crazy fool? What will we do -- just you and me and maybe a half-dozen other favored, pet specimens of the Zarr? Yes, you've finally achieved what you always dreamed of -- the destruction of the human race -- but what do we have to live for now -- ?"
"I told you this was only the beginning." Pitts's face was hard and grim. "The Zarr are learning the secrets of time as well as of space, and will soon be extending their conquests along that dimension, also. Yes, the human race has just about reached its end -- but there are still many thousands of years of human history to attend to!"
Taggart felt the chill return, stronger than before. "You can't be serious --"
"Washington D.C.?"
"Gone."
"San Francisco? Los Angeles? Phoenix?"
"Gone -- all gone. On all the earth I doubt there's a city left with a population over ten thousand. And this is only the beginning. We'll destroy the survivors, too. And then --"
"Yes -- what then?" cried Taggart, trying to rise. "What will we do then, you crazy fool? What will we do -- just you and me and maybe a half-dozen other favored, pet specimens of the Zarr? Yes, you've finally achieved what you always dreamed of -- the destruction of the human race -- but what do we have to live for now -- ?"
"I told you this was only the beginning." Pitts's face was hard and grim. "The Zarr are learning the secrets of time as well as of space, and will soon be extending their conquests along that dimension, also. Yes, the human race has just about reached its end -- but there are still many thousands of years of human history to attend to!"
Taggart felt the chill return, stronger than before. "You can't be serious --"