Real Cthulhu Running Game

"Ahem, what? Although we have taken advantage of you, Ichiro, the task you gave us is a bit too difficult, right? You just said that although the northern witch is disabled, this task is too difficult. Casting spells on her does not have much impact, so her combat power is still directly maxed out, but she has no possibility of escaping after we get close. Therefore, if the three of us don't want to go back to Osaka, we will lose one or two. In other words, if none of them can return, then we have only one way left, which is to sneak attack the northern witches, the kind that only allows success and cannot fail." Zhang Jingxu said with a frown.

At this time, Yin En also stood up with a tacit understanding, and said with a smile: "Yes, it is definitely impossible for us to contain the Northern Witch, because no one wants to be a moving target, and of course the more important thing is the public faction. The other members of the team will not let the Northern Witch act alone, so there will definitely be bodyguards around the Northern Witch, so the success rate of our sneak attack is not high, and we may lose everything."

Before Liu Xing could stand up and say a few words, Ichiro took the lead and said: "You are all right. It is not easy to contain or sneak attack the northern witches, and the reward I gave you before seems to be true now. It’s not enough, because I didn’t expect that the public faction would send so many experts to capture the furbolg, so I thought at first that you only had to deal with some ordinary members.”

Having said this, Ichiro took out a small cloth bag from his pocket, which looked very much like an ancient wallet containing metal currency.

The sound of metal clashing in this small bag also made Liu Xing more certain that it should be a wallet, and it should contain a lot of coins.

"Oh, Ichiro, do you want to spend money to hire us? But even if the coins in your pocket are made of gold, they are not worth much. Besides, you should know that people like us are the most in need All that matters is money." Liu Xing said.

Ichiro nodded and replied seriously: "Yes, ordinary gold coins, even those ancient gold coins with collectible value, cannot be sold for a price that can hire you, so the coins in this bag are still There are other uses.”

As Ichiro spoke, he took out three coins from the bag. The materials seemed to be gold, silver and copper, and they seemed to be old.

But what Liu Xing couldn't understand was that there was a layer of water vapor on the surface of the three coins, which made the patterns on the coins look a little blurry. Liu Xing always felt that he would be sure in the next second. What is the pattern on this coin, but this next second will always be the next second.

But Liu Xing is certain that the patterns on these three coins should be different.

While Liu Xing was staring at the three coins carefully, Zhang Jingxu and Yin En both frowned and looked at each other with some confusion. Then after looking at each other, both sides nodded in unison.

"These three coins, as well as the remaining six coins in my pocket, were dug out from a long-abandoned underground base during a major operation carried out by the Kaidan Club a year ago. It was originally a refuge for a certain family, but this family failed because of a prodigal son. The family fell into decline decades ago, and the family members also went their separate ways. Therefore, this underground base suffered from lack of maintenance. It was directly scrapped, but later several mythical creatures regarded this place as their home and hid a lot of messy things in it."

"Our original goal was to kill those mythical creatures, because these mythical creatures have become urban legends in several nearby cities, very scary ones, so what we did is considered to be doing justice to God. As for them The things in our hands naturally belong to us, because we have no credit but hard work. As a result, when we were looking for usable things, we accidentally caused an explosion, and after the explosion we found these coins. , a total of thousands of coins were found, so after that, as long as someone becomes a formal member of the Monster Talk Club, they can get three gold, silver, and copper coins each. Of course, this is also because these coins are very useful."

"As you can see now, there will always be a kind of vague water vapor on these coins, which makes it impossible for us to see clearly what the patterns of these coins are, so we did not determine the use of these coins at the beginning. Methods and functions, so I simply took a few coins with me and quickly discovered the effects of these coins. To put it simply, these coins have many different effects, among which gold coins have the best effect, and copper coins have the best effect. The effect is the weakest, and the effects we know are warning, shield, teleportation and bartering. At the same time, these coins will turn into an ordinary wordless coin after use."

"As the name suggests, the warning means that before danger occurs, this coin will allow you to suddenly notice that something is wrong one to three seconds in advance. The shield generates a shield when you are attacked. As for the protection ability, you You can refer to civilian body armor, police body armor and military body armor respectively. As for teleportation, when you are attacked, you can teleport directly out of the attack range. However, the teleportation of copper coins is uncontrollable, and the maximum distance is also It’s only about five meters, and the gold coin allows you to teleport to any place within ten meters, and the final barter allows you to use this coin to unconditionally exchange what they own with anyone. Here It depends on how resistant traders are to this deal.”

After listening to Ichiro's explanation, Liu Xing couldn't help but his eyes lit up, because the four known effects of these coins are very useful, and there may be other effects.

"Is this the legendary coin of destiny?"

Zhang Jingxu suddenly said: "I have heard of this kind of coin before. It is said that it was cast by a civilization tens of thousands of years ago. Because the top combatants of this civilization are magicians, they carry it with them. Some common spells were attached to various coins to facilitate them to quickly use these spells when necessary. As a result, this civilization was eventually destroyed by those mythical creatures and the old rulers, so these coins became Cultural relics are sleeping underground all over the world; but if I remember correctly, although 90% of coins can have a positive effect, there are still 10% of coins that can harm the user. For example, a bolt of lightning appears, or the coin turns into a fireball, or simply petrifies the user's body that comes into contact with the coin."

Having said this, Zhang Jingxu squinted his eyes and said to Ichiro: "So, how lucky are you at the Monster Talk Club? The only possibility that you haven't encountered is this 10% so far?"

Ichiro nodded without hesitation, and said somewhat happily: "I see, it seems that our luck in the Monster Talk Club is really good. So far, we have spent nearly two hundred coins, and we have never encountered that hundred coins. There is a 10% probability, but there are still several official members of our Monster Talk Club who got into trouble or disappeared with those coins, so we do not rule out the 10% chance that these official members are very unlucky and encounter that 10% chance. "

"It seems that your luck in the Monster Talk Club is really good. Although this is a 10% probability, the number of these coins is too many. The number of coins I know alone has exceeded 100,000. , so these 10% are at least 10,000 coins with negative effects, so your ghost talk club will definitely be tricked, and you have used more than 200 coins with positive effects, which means These nine coins in your pocket will probably harm us." Zhang Jingxu said seriously.

Liu Xing always felt that something was wrong. He felt that Zhang Jingxu was planning to defraud some benefits from Yilang.

After Ichiro was stunned for a moment, he said with a smile: "My friend, you should also know that our Kaidan Club has academic requirements for formal members. Although some formal members only graduated from high school, most of the formal members have I have a full-time university degree, and I am one of them, so my math level should be pretty good, so the probability question you raised is sophistry, unless you can guarantee that 10% of the coins unearthed in every place will be With negative effects."

Zhang Jingxu shrugged, shook his head and said: "Of course I can't guarantee this, but the possibility is more than 70%, because according to the research of relevant personnel, although those coins with negative effects look the same as those The coins with positive effects are exactly the same, but after careful inspection, a problem can still be found, that is, those coins with negative effects were made at the same point in time, and those coins with positive effects were made at the same time. The production time spans two to three hundred years, and almost all of them were produced earlier than those coins with negative effects."

Hearing what Zhang Jingxu said, Ichiro's expression became serious again, "Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to issue additional currency without limit, especially when using metal currency, because metal currency is not easy to be damaged, so The number of currencies on the market will remain within a certain range, and in addition to self-defense, these coins should also have certain functions. Otherwise, magicians can use better materials to make more convenient magic props. Therefore, these coins There are only two possibilities for the appearance of coins with negative effects that appeared on a large scale in the last period of that civilization!"

At this time, Yin En couldn't help but continue: "The first possibility is that the civilized magician discovered that his enemies also realized the usefulness of these coins, so he began to treat others in his own way. Therefore, the magicians who suffered losses from their own coins came up with a good way, which was to use their tricks to make these coins with negative effects as sugar-coated bombs, forcing the enemy to either give up using these coins or risk their own misfortune. risk to continue using these coins."

"And the second possibility, which Zhang Jingxu thinks is that after the civilization was destroyed, its enemies or other passers-by, after getting these coins, came to 'pollute the card pool' when they had nothing to do, and watched others It’s quite interesting to think about suddenly giving him a wake-up call when he is complacent about getting something useful. Of course, like Zhang Jingxu, I personally tend to think that the second possibility is more reliable, because the first possibility Although it seems more reasonable, the civilization at that time should have been defeated, and these coins with negative effects could not turn defeat into victory."

Liu Xing nodded in agreement and said: "I think so too, because the effects of these coins are actually not too powerful, so these coins can be used to deal with some shrimp soldiers and crab generals. When encountering the level of patrolling Yaksha, When it comes to opponents, it can only be said to be better than nothing.”

Ichiro was stunned for a moment by what Liu Xing and the other three said, and after a while he said reluctantly: "Maybe what you said makes sense, but after all, there are more coins with positive effects, so it is also beneficial for you to take these coins." The disadvantages outweigh the disadvantages, not to mention that our Monster Talk Club is not as big and powerful as your Sawada family, so we can’t give you more good things, but I can give you something in my own name.”

Ichiro solemnly took off a necklace from his neck, but the color of the necklace turned out to be green and looked a bit plasticky.

If Liu Xing and others hadn't known that it was impossible for Ichiro to deceive him with a plastic toy, Liu Xing would have had to ask Ichiro what this meant.

"Don't look at this necklace, it looks like a plastic toy... Although when I bought it as a gift to my deskmate in elementary school, I thought it was just an ordinary plastic toy, but it turned out to be okay. I was rejected by my deskmate, otherwise I would not have been able to stand in front of you, because my brother and I were attacked by a human-faced rat during the commission to be promoted to full members. When the face rat's paws touched this necklace, it was instantly destroyed, because this necklace has the function of breaking the spell." Ichiro said with a serious face.

Liu Xing was stunned for a moment, and then asked with some confusion: "Well, I have two questions for you. The first question is, can this necklace only break the spells it comes into contact with? Or is there a way to break it? Scope? The second question is why do you keep the toy necklace you bought in elementary school and still wear it?"