Real Cthulhu Running Game

After discussing the specific details of tomorrow's meeting, Shimazu Ueno chose to leave because he still needed to meet with several influential talkmakers to seek their support.

"Those forces are also short-sighted. Although launching an attack at this time can indeed gain some benefits for themselves, it also offends other forces in disguise. After all, the cake is only a little bigger. Now that they have taken an extra piece, so will the others People will have to eat less, so after the Gongwu War, these forces will definitely be retaliated." Yin En sighed.

Just as Liu Xing was about to say something, Alice on the side shook her head and said: "Didn't I develop several undercover agents in the island country branch of the Deep Diving Society? Although during this period, due to various reasons, I could only contact There are only two people, but they can still bring me some useful information, and what concerns me the most is that some families and secret churches are preparing to leave the island country with their families."

"Huh? What's going on?" Zhang Jingxu frowned and said, "A powerful dragon cannot overwhelm a local snake. Besides, unless these secret churches and families go to some small countries, they can't be considered as fierce dragons crossing the river. So how many do they have?" Is it difficult to think about it, so they decided to go abroad for development at this time, and they are all men, women, old and young? Do they already feel that their faction will lose the civil war, so they find a way out for themselves in advance? "

Alice shook her head and said seriously: "According to the investigation of the Deep Diving Society, there are currently more than a dozen forces preparing to leave the island country, and they are all medium-sized secret churches and families, and they do not belong to the same faction. And there seems to be no connection between them, so the Deep Diving Society is now trying to find ways to contact these forces and want to know why they do what they do."

"If it is some medium-sized families or secret churches, I think I can still understand their thinking, that is, the current environmental endurance of the island country is infinitely close to saturation. The occurrence of the public war is due to this, because for For those ambitious large and medium-sized secret churches, it is impossible to stop their development. After all, they have so many people to feed, but the island country only has such a large territory, so they have to annex other forces."

Sawada Yayin suddenly said: "Before the Gongwu War started, I noticed that the frequency of fights in the secret churches near Ziwu City was getting faster and faster, and more and more people were killing each other from the beginning, so I I went to conduct some investigations and determined that these secret churches often decided to annex at once, and the reason was that they suddenly found that they had taken in a lot of people, but the territory did not become larger, so in order to accommodate these new people, they We must expand, but we are surrounded by the territory of other forces.”

"Actually, this is already very obvious in big cities such as Tokyo, but because there are so many secret churches trying to make a living in big cities like Tokyo, the grievances and hatreds between each other can be said to be constantly cut and confused. , and the secret churches that can live in big cities are all somewhat powerful, so they dare not annex surrounding opponents at will; but it is different for the medium-sized secret churches in small places, because there are only so many secrets in a city The relationship between the church and the church is relatively easy to deal with, so it is much easier to initiate annexation."

"As for why those families have to leave, it is mainly because these medium-sized families are little sheep in the eyes of the secret churches of the same level. After all, the reason why these families are rated as medium-sized mainly comes from their economic capabilities and social influence. power, but these two points are not important to the secret church at all, because the secret church has only one scoring criterion-the size of a fist, so some secret churches have begun to take action against nearby families, or they have gone public through backdoor listings. It’s much easier for those families to recruit new people.”

"So I think there are some polarizations among the secret churches and families in the island country today. The powerful secret churches and families can still stand and confront each other, while the small secret churches and families can survive by eating scraps. It’s true, because in the small cities and even the towns where they have taken root, almost no one can compete with them; but the secret churches and families in the middle are a bit embarrassed, because they can’t succeed in high places and low places.”

After listening to Sawada Yaon's analysis, two words came to Liu Xing's mind - involution.

Sure enough, involution is everywhere.

Of course, Liu Xing also thought of a term - middle class trap.

Strictly speaking, the middle class is a false concept, because the middle class does not control the means of production, so the middle class is the proletariat who live a better life. As long as a serious accident occurs, the middle class will directly It has become invisible to everyone.

As for the middle class trap, these people who put up the "middle class" brand start to buy big houses, big cars and luxury goods in order to distinguish themselves from ordinary people. All their food and drink must be imported. It's golf, and the music is opera. In short, it's all about spending money to create a "middle class" persona for yourself.

However, sometimes the ability of the middle class to resist risks is very weak because they have invested their money in areas that cannot be regarded as assets, so when they encounter a crisis, they cannot spend money to tide over the difficulties.

This was the case in the island country back then. Because of the economic bubble, many people became the "middle class". They were willing to use loans to buy good houses and cars, and banks were very happy to lend to them, even asking for these. The "middle class" came to borrow money, because judging from the economic development speed of the island country at that time, these "middle class" could easily repay the loan, so this was a very cost-effective investment for the bank.

As for those "middle class" islanders, they also feel that they will have enough money to repay their loans in the future, so they spend ahead of time and buy all kinds of valuables. In short, they just want to eat and have fun, and they don't worry about the future at all.

This is also the reason why in works such as "Crayon Shin-chan" and "Doraemon", the protagonists can live in large single-family houses, and the father, as a small leader of an ordinary company, often goes to play golf. . . By the way, for a country as big as the island country, there are more than 2,600 golf courses, while China only has more than 200 golf courses, and these golf courses in the island country were basically built during the bubble economy period. .

As a result, when the economic bubble of the island country burst, many "middle class" people found that they were unable to repay their loans, and because the houses and cars they owned were all bought with loans, they were directly taken away by the bank. As for those Luxury goods are inherently high-premium items, but now even if you want to sell them at half the price, there is no guarantee that anyone will buy them. As a result, these "middle class" people are embarrassed to find that they actually own nothing and are saddled with a lot of debt. .

So at that time, the rooftops of high-rise buildings in major cities in the island country were full of people, because they simply could not afford to repay so much debt, and they had nothing at that time.

And today's medium-sized secret churches are actually somewhat similar to the "middle class" back then. They seem to have a lot of people and a large territory. However, if they are attacked by some large secret churches, , then these medium-sized secret churches will collapse, because most of their staff are just ordinary people who know nothing.

This is okay in normal times, because everyone knows that as long as they guard their own territory, they are unlikely to be attacked by those large secret churches. After all, these large secret churches also look down on their territory, or rather These territories were originally unwanted by the large secret churches.

But it is different now, because no matter what the outcome of the public war, it will have a great impact on the secret churches in the island country. For example, those secret churches that suffered serious losses had to leave the big cities, so those medium-sized secret churches Something is going to happen.

Therefore, any medium-sized secret church that can see the situation clearly knows that there are only two choices before them. The former is to speed up and turn into a large secret church, and the latter is to leave the island country and find another way out.

But as mentioned before, the middle class does not have the means of production, and for the secret church, the means of production are the help of mythical creatures, whether it is direct human assistance, or magic books and props, and these are difficult to achieve in a short time. It is obtained within, so the first choice will take a certain amount of time to produce results, and if you make a wrong step, you may lose everything.

So the second option is the best way out.

"Big fish eat small fish, and small fish eat shrimps. Now the results of the Gongwu War are about to come out, and there will definitely be a group of injured big fish. These big fish will eat in order to restore their strength as soon as possible. Those small fish, this is a disaster for those small fish, they will definitely be chased by the big fish and jump up and down, while those shrimps are just watching the show."

Zhang Jingxu smiled, shook his head and said: "But the difference between the secret church and the family is somewhat similar to herbivores and carnivores, so herbivores of the same level will most likely not be able to defeat carnivores, because the two The fighting power between them is not proportional; of course, large herbivores are much larger than large carnivores, so large carnivores will not hunt large herbivores under normal circumstances; therefore, the most unlucky ones are those Medium-sized herbivores, because they face the most enemies, will rely on migration to avoid attacks."

"Yes, in the future, the island nation will definitely accelerate its involution. By then, there will not be many medium-sized secret churches. The large-scale secret churches should give up crowding in big cities such as Tokyo and instead find one to return to their own country. A good city will be developed, so the island country will enter the Warring States Period again, and a group of famous people will compete in the world." Liu Xing said with some sigh: "It seems that the Gongwu War is not the end, but the beginning."

After everyone sighed, they went back to rest, because everyone had already played mahjong all afternoon and had no interest in continuing chess and card activities in the evening.

So just sleep.

But when it comes to sleeping, Liu Xing still feels a little uneasy, because Liu Xing doesn't know what type of dream he will trigger when he sleeps this time.

As a result, I dreamed about Raleye again.

Liu Xing, who had become a deep diver again, found himself leaning against the city wall, holding a piece of green food similar to a biscuit in his hand, and the spear he used before was placed next to him.

After looking around, I found that other deep divers were eating biscuits with great enjoyment, so I tried to take a bite of this "evil" looking biscuit, and found that the taste was quite good. A bit like those seaweed-flavored biscuits.

"Everyone, hurry up and rest for a while to recover your strength. Those ancient ones will probably attack us again."

A deep diver whom Liu Xing didn't know spoke up and said: "At present, King Dagon has arrived in Raleye and is discussing with the generals how to defend next. At the same time, reinforcements from the cities behind are also rushing towards us, so everyone just needs to Just hold on a little longer and we can fight off these damned Ancient Ones.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Xing felt the wall behind him suddenly tremble slightly, which made Liu Xing subconsciously look back outside the city, only to see the huge starfish heading towards Lalye City.

The next second, all kinds of shouts came one after another. The deep divers around Liu Xing ate the biscuits in three or two bites, then picked up their weapons and reorganized their formation. Liu Xing also finished the biscuits in the same manner.

Then, Liu Xing felt a strange energy emanating from his mouth to his limbs, and then he felt that his strength had increased a lot. It seemed that this biscuit was not only food, but also a strengthening potion.

However, facing the huge starfish, Liu Xing still felt that he was a little weak. After all, facing such a big starfish, even if he could break through the defense with his spear, it would still be scratching his itch at most.

At this time, those shoggoths also began to move forward, as if they were preparing to attract firepower to the sea star. At the same time, among these shoggoths, Liu Xing also saw many strange creatures. It seemed that these were also They were all defective products made by the ancients, so they were pulled out and used as cannon fodder.

Just as Liu Xing thought, when a shower of arrows fell on the starfish, the arrows of light that could pass through the body of the shoggoth immediately stopped and remained on the surface of the starfish. The next little mark counts as success.

This scene also made the deep divers on the city wall scream in surprise, and their morale was also declining at a speed visible to the naked eye.