Real Cthulhu Running Game

With the end of the Tokugawa shogunate movement, the Tokugawa shogunate finally fell like the previous two shogunates. However, the Tokugawa family did not fall apart like the previous Kamakura family or Ashikaga family. Instead, they lived a small life. good.

This is because the Tokugawa family realized that the situation was irreversible in the later stages of the overthrow movement, so the Tokugawa family chose to retreat bravely, directly disbanded the Tokugawa shogunate, and returned power to the royal family.

Because of this, the last shogun, Tokugawa Yoshiki, not only died a good death, but even retained a large number of fiefs and dukedoms, and his family members also held many important positions.

But the Chaya family was different at that time. Because they lost the support of the Tokugawa family, the Chaya family was completely reduced to an ordinary wealthy business family. Of course, more importantly, the Chaya family provided the Tokugawa family with support during the downfall movement. With a large amount of financial assistance, the Chaya family was no more than a fat sheep in the eyes of the winners of the overthrow movement. The Tokugawa family, who were still uncertain about their future at that time, was certainly unlikely to take action to save the Chaya family.

Therefore, the Chaya family has been in decline since then, and has no sense of existence in the island country. Therefore, the sudden rise of the Chaya family now makes Liu Xing feel a bit incredible.

"Judging from the information obtained so far, the young master of the Chaya family received the support of the Tokugawa family and was able to enter the high-level meeting of the public faction. Then he persuaded other forces to accept some suggestions during the meeting, so It has become one of the commanders for the final battle; by the way, our Wu family faction is also choosing a commander now, because the final battle that is about to begin will definitely be a chaotic dance of demons, and it is very likely that all communication methods will fail by then. situation, so regional commanders are selected in advance to prepare for emergencies.”

Alice couldn't help but smile, shook her head and said: "If nothing happens, our Zetian family will most likely set up a combat area on our own. At most, a few small forces will be arranged to attack us, so our area Our commander should be Yaon Sawada, but if Liu Xing wants to enter the war zone, I think our real commander is you, because everyone else needs to go to the battlefield, and you are the only one who needs to stay in the rear."

Liu Xing rolled his eyes and said with some depression: "Alice, please don't blame me here. I didn't intentionally break my leg. After all, you knew the situation at the time and I didn't have time to escape." .And you may not know that we triggered a very strange module at that time and were divided into three teams and entered three different time and space. A little carelessness will cause the module to be reset, and then we have to start from scratch. Come again."

Hearing what Liu Xing said, Alice suddenly became interested, "Oh, it looks like this module is very interesting. It sounds like the plot of a movie."

"This is indeed very similar to those movies about infinite loops, but as the protagonists of the movie, we don't find it very funny, because if we make a wrong step, we will lose everything and start over again; and we are unfamiliar with everything in that world. Yes, all the clues have to be found one by one, but more importantly, this module is a hodgepodge, with clues standing out and being disorganized."

Liu Xing shook his head and said with some depression: "Fortunately, this module still has the final conscience. It does not let our three teams of players complete the same task. Instead, as long as one team of players completes the current task, they can pass the level. Otherwise, we It is really possible to stay in that module for ten days and a half; but what really troubles me is that the module is full of all kinds of malice, and if you are not careful, you will be gone."

"Then it's really difficult for you, but for us NPCs, it's just a blink of an eye. Of course, this is normal, because we NPCs are often stopped."

Looking at Alice, who was also a little depressed, Liu Xing could only smile and comfort him: "Actually, sometimes the pause state is quite good. You only need to close your eyes and open them to continue the game, but we need to seize the time to discuss. At the same time, the number of times we can discuss is also limited, so sometimes if we find the wrong clue, or fail to analyze the truth hidden in this clue, then we may suffer a big loss next, for example, we are in Fisherman That module that we met in the village, we regarded you as an important member of the Deep Sea Gospel Society from the beginning."

"Oh, no wonder you were wary of me from the beginning. I was a little embarrassed at the time and wondered what was going on, because I felt that I had done a pretty good job of hiding my identity. You were unlikely to be right. At that time, I had doubts, which forced me to choose to reveal my identity, otherwise I would have been ostracized by you in Fisherman Village, and at that time, I had already discovered that something was wrong with Matsui Yui."

At this point, Alice touched her chin, "But then again, now that I think about it carefully, I found that my relationship with Yui Matsui at that time was actually not that great. At most, it was just an acquaintance. Even here, it is said that we knew each other. It's a bit false, because in my memory, I only have a one-time relationship with Matsui Yui, that is, we met once in that nightclub, but I have almost forgotten the specific details, but I have always been confused about my memory. Very confident, for example, I only met you once, Liu Xing, when I was a child."

Liu Xing raised his eyebrows and said: "In this case, Alice, the reason why you know Matsui Yui is actually the result of intentional arrangements in the Cthulhu Run Game Hall, so in order to ensure that you are at least the same as Matsui Yui, To my sister, I specially arranged such a memory for you, otherwise wouldn’t it be very embarrassing for you to attend Matsui Yui’s wedding ceremony soon?”

Liu Xing said this, but he thought of what Okuan Hai just said, and determined that Matsui Yui was probably a real NPC, not a former player like Alice.

To put it simply, Matsui Yui’s subjective initiative is not as strong as Alice’s. At the same time, the module related to Matsui Yui is also a typical linear plot, that is, it just pulls all the way down.

Of course, more importantly, Matsui Yui is a native deep diver. In the current Cthulhu Run game lobby, players cannot directly choose to become a mythical creature when creating a character card, so Liu Xing believes that Matsui Yui should be the NPC in the preset module in Okuan Haikou.

If this is the case, Liu Xing suddenly became worried about the new Fisherman Village module that is about to start in the future, because judging from the description of Ao Guanhai, the default module in these Cthulhu Run Team game halls is the same This is a dead end, which seems to point out a clear path for players, but in fact, it leads players to a dark road. In the end, there is only an endless abyss in front of them, and when the players want to turn back, they will find that they came from the same place. The road has disappeared.

All in all, Liu Xing now wants to be a pigeon and lead Zhang Jingxu and others to win over Yui Matsui.

"Oh, let's not talk about the past. Now when I think about the past, I always feel that something is wrong. I feel that the decisions I made back then were most likely influenced by the Cthulhu Run Game Hall... "

Alice shook her head, and then continued: "By the way, something happened last night. Although this incident may have nothing to do with our civil war, it even sounds a bit like an urban legend or a prank, but I I think this is very likely to be a new module, that is, many people claimed that when they took a boat to the Kyushu area, they saw a ghost ship passing by at a very fast speed, and even some Many people took photos of this scene.”

"But what about those videos? Due to the weather and the speed of the ship, the picture can be said to be quite blurry. You can only see a ship with a green light speeding in the distance, so many people say that this ship The ship may be a marketing tool of a certain cruise company to promote ghost ship sailing packages. After all, all walks of life these days are involved, especially industries like cruises that are so similar that there is almost no big gap. After all, a cruise ship is not that big after all, and the luxurious decoration is just one or two sets of templates."

Liu Xing can be said to fully agree with the involution mentioned by Alice, because after the rapid development period of the last century, human beings have now entered an all-round bottleneck period, and all walks of life have experienced rapid growth in a short period of time. There is no breakthrough progress, so it is rolled up naturally. After all, the cake is only so big, and the number of people entering and leaving the industry every year is not proportional.

As for the cruise industry, Liu Xing thinks it is quite interesting, because the threshold of this industry is not high. In a word, it is all about "money". You only need to spend a lot of money to buy a luxury cruise ship. A cruise company was set up to attract business.

At that time, although there were more and more cruise companies nowadays, there were only so many routes with tourism value, and most passengers might only take cruises on honeymoons or other important days in their lives, so for cruise companies, " "Passengers" is a gold mine that is likely to run dry if mined too much.

Therefore, some cruise ships today have gradually taken on the task of short-distance passenger transportation. For example, the Yueshi Cruise that Liu Xing took before has become a short-distance passenger ship between island countries and space countries. Therefore, in order to increase their exposure, cruise companies also In order to draw a clear distinction from other companies, they began to carry out special modifications to their own cruise ships, such as changing the decoration style, or making them look like theme parks.

However, this is the case, because large ships such as cruise ships are difficult to renovate, and the remodeling also takes a lot of time, so few cruise companies are willing to suspend their cruise ships for comprehensive remodeling. . . No, this is a good thing for ordinary passengers, because the involution of the industry means that they can enjoy more services with less money.

"As far as I know, there is already a cruise company in England that is building a ghost cruise modeled after the Titanic. Not only will the waiters on it be professionally made up, but the interior will also be replaced with a damaged and rusty style. Special activities will be carried out during the voyage, such as emergency evacuation drills, but I heard that this cruise company has also purchased several sets of the latest projection equipment that can create ghosts to scare passengers."

Hearing what Alice said, Liu Xing couldn't help complaining: "Then go so fast that it scares people, scares them to death. If a passenger drinks too much and is scared like this, something might really happen." . . ”

Before Liu Xing finished speaking, Alice interrupted directly: "Maybe this is the result that the cruise company wants to see, because behind this cruise company is our old acquaintance - the Corpse Eater Cult, so We have reason to suspect that they are preparing to take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble, but we have no way to stop them now. After all, there is a saying that even if there is no suspicion of guilt, some people think that there are also cruise companies in the island country that are planning to copy this idea, so they came up with this one. Brave green light ship to warm up.”

Speaking of plagiarism, Liu Xing couldn't help but smile, "There are a lot of articles plagiarized in the world. In the past few years, many big companies in China were said to have started their business by plagiarism. Then some people used the island country as an example to say that originality is the key." The truth is, it turns out that these people don’t know whether they really don’t understand or are pretending not to understand, and they didn’t even mention that the big companies in the island country decades ago also relied on the same way to get started, and they were also criticized for not being original.”

"Is this the so-called time machine theory?"

Alice also smiled and said: "The economic foundation determines the superstructure. The safest development direction for a newly established company is to benchmark against large foreign companies in the same industry, because large companies have proven with themselves that this path is feasible. At the same time, it also provides a lot of reference experience for future generations who want to take this path, so it is normal and inevitable for latecomers to imitate their predecessors; more importantly, the market If you don’t occupy it, it will be controlled by outsiders. Once these foreign companies gain a foothold, it will be difficult to be driven out.”

“For example, today’s European countries do not have a few large companies in various emerging industries, especially the Internet industry. This has led to foreign companies directly seizing share, suppressing the subsequent local companies and causing friction on the ground... I think Europa Countries will fall further and further behind in the future information age. Although there may be a few leading companies in niche areas, there will not be a truly competitive enterprise across the entire industry chain. Of course, this will also involve countries falling behind each other. It’s because of the legs, after all, that’s how the Galileo Project was destroyed.”

After hearing what Alice said about the Galileo Project, Liu Xing couldn't help but give a thumbs up to the Beidou Project in his heart.

PS: I will update (fake) tomorrow.