Real Cthulhu Running Game

"Oh, so Ii Naomasa is dead? This is not good news. After all, as long as there are still people in the public faction who can return to the real world alive, then he will tell the Ii family to identify us for revenge, because the Ii family We definitely can’t defeat the Shimazu family, so we can only resort to the next best thing to deal with our Sawada family, not to mention that the final blow was completed by you, Master Zixuan.”

Shi Zixuan shook his head, looked at Yin En and said: "Actually, Ii Naomasa is not dead, because my last blow did not directly kill Ii Naomasa, it just made him seriously injured and switched from offense to defense, so we We waited until the results were announced in another arena, and the remaining number of people reached the promotion line mentioned by Night Demon, so we actually had a tie."

"Oh, then the finals should be next, right? I don't think Night Demon will recruit thousands of subordinates at once, and the strength of these subordinates is also average." Liu Xing asked.

Shi Zixuan smiled and nodded: "Yes, the Night Demon said the same thing. Its selection criteria for its subordinates are to be lacking rather than excessive. They all must have certain specialties to serve it better. So after the knockout round, we After resting for a while, he began to accept questions from the Night Demon's clone one-on-one. To put it bluntly, it was an interview; of course, if the Night Demon is not interested in you and does not take the initiative to let you accept the interview, then you don't have to attend the interview. "

"So naturally I won't go for the interview, because the Night Devil's interview method is actually to create a fantasy world, and the interviewers will be selected based on their performance in the fantasy world, and the content of the fantasy world is related to the interviewer's own past. This means that the Night Demon will read the interviewer's memory in advance, so I don't dare to let it know that I am from the Sawada family, because the Night Demon will most likely think that I deceived it and disobeyed its orders. After all, The Night Demon asked everyone in the Sawada family to leave together."

"You have all seen the result now. Most of the people who passed the elimination round have returned to the real world because they were not selected by the Night Demon. However, these people, including me of course, have gained some benefits, that is, some aspects of their physical health. My quality has been improved to a certain extent. For example, I feel that my physical strength is much better now. If it were me in the past walking down Mount Fuji, I would definitely be out of breath. I would have talked so much with you as soon as I came back. "

It seems that the Night Demon is still very "reasonable", knowing that the so-called knockout competition it is conducting is also a task, so since it can complete the task, it must give certain rewards, because this is the Cthulhu running team The rules of the game hall cannot be avoided even if the Night Demon is the clone of Nyarlathotep.

After all, the Cthulhu Running Game Hall is such a place where "rules are followed".

"In the end, the Night Demon left behind a total of thirty people, including the four Shimazu brothers and Naomasa Ii, as well as Oda Nobunaga and Takeda Shingen. But what is interesting is that the Night Demon left the body of Honda Tadakatsu behind. , and was not burned like other corpses, so I suspect that the Night Demon may resurrect Honda Tadakatsu, or make a puppet of Honda Tadakatsu; speaking of it, this Honda Tadakatsu is quite unlucky, so it stands to reason It is said that he should be able to pass the knockout round, after all, his fighting ability is there, let alone ten against ten, even if ten against him, Honda Tadakatsu is not false at all."

"However, it is difficult to guard against domestic thieves today. Unexpectedly, Honda Tadakatsu was backstabbed by his teammates, and the person who backstabbed Honda Tadakatsu was a secret church named Edogawa. This secret The church only appeared after the Tokugawa shogunate was established. It has been entrenched in Edo, which is now Tokyo, for so many years. Therefore, this secret church can be regarded as the earliest local snake in Tokyo. However, it has always had a low reputation. Although their strength It’s no less than the Shadow Society; but after they took action against Honda Tadakatsu, someone guessed who the founder of Edogawa was.”

"At that time, Honda Tadakatsu was the most powerful general under Tokugawa Ieyasu. He must have made a lot of great contributions to Tokugawa Ieyasu. It can be said that he was one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's most trusted generals. However, in this process, Honda Tadakatsu It also offended many people, including a small secret church called the Wild Samurai. To put it bluntly, this secret church was formed by a group of samurai who had lost their lord, so many of them were related to Honda Tadakatsu. Therefore, Honda Tadakatsu specially asked Tokugawa Ieyasu for an army to go and exterminate them."

"Although the wild samurai have been wiped out in name, many members actually escaped. After all, wild samurai were not uncommon in the island country at that time, so they could easily pretend to be ordinary people and escape; and this Edogawa was in When it was established, many wild samurai were recruited as its peripheral members, so Edogawa was considered a mercenary organization at the beginning. They usually lived on both sides of the Edogawa River, and would be dispatched in full force whenever there was a mission. "

"But after the Tokugawa shogunate also started to implement the sword hunting order, the samurai in Edogawa also lost their weapons. Over time, they turned into a group of Yakuza, which is what we call little gangsters. But after all, they were all before The combat power of samurai must be far superior to ordinary people, so Edogawa is still doing well; of course, thank you is just superficial news, Shimazu Nakano told me a lot of gossip about Edogawa, then It was the wild samurai at the beginning, which was related to Edogawa and Tokugawa Ieyasu later.”

"Although when Oda Nobunaga was still alive, Tokugawa Ieyasu always regarded himself as Oda Nobunaga's younger brother, and he obeyed Oda Nobunaga in everything. Even when Oda Nobunaga asked him to kill his own son, he would do it. Yes, but a generation of tycoons like Tokugawa Ieyasu certainly did not become the new shogun of the island country just by relying on forbearance and longevity, so he has been secretly accumulating strength after he obtained the territory of the Imagawa family. This wild samurai is One of the trump cards he prepared for himself, after all, these wild warriors are not only very powerful, but also have low daily maintenance costs."

"As a result, Oda Nobunaga discovered the anomaly of Tokugawa Ieyasu, so he forced Tokugawa Ieyasu to kill his son Tokugawa Nobuyasu in the name of rebellion, and this Tokugawa Nobuyasu was the person in charge of the wild samurai, so Tokugawa Ieyasu was under arrest In desperation, he not only killed Tokugawa Nobuyasu, but also asked Honda Tadakatsu to find an opportunity to exterminate the wild samurai; during the Tokugawa shogunate period, Tokugawa Ieyasu also knew that the large number of wild samurai at that time would become a time bomb, which could happen at any time It posed a serious threat to society, so Tokugawa Ieyasu rebuilt Edogawa to control some of the wild samurai."

"At this time, we can also see that neither the Nobushi nor Edogawa actually had any conflicts with Honda Tadakatsu, but at this time Honda Tadakatsu had some gaps with Tokugawa Ieyasu. The reason It’s nothing more than a cunning rabbit’s death and lackey’s cooking; Honda Tadakatsu is a typical fierce general. If you let him go into battle to kill the enemy, he will definitely be a first-class master, but when he reaches the court, he will be a rough man who knows nothing. Well, plus the island country is surrounded by the sea, there is no need to arrange for generals to be stationed."

"Learn from the past and learn from others. In order to solve the same problem, Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent people to attack North Korea. The main purpose was to consume the excessive number of samurai. After all, apart from going into battle to kill the enemy, they did nothing else. The samurai who didn't know how to do it were a liability in peacetime, because they couldn't even farm well; but the failure of Toyotomi Hideyoshi made Tokugawa Ieyasu dare not attack North Korea. In addition, one time and another, today's Tokugawa The shogunate’s control over the island country is much higher than during the Toyotomi Hideyoshi period, so there is no need to send samurai to die just to consume them.”

"So Tokugawa Ieyasu's idea was to integrate these samurai to change careers, and Edogawa was such an intermediary. So Tokugawa Ieyasu originally wanted Honda Tadakatsu, the most powerful general of the island country, to be in charge of Edogawa. After all, with Ben Isn’t it easy for Tadakatsu’s name to suppress ordinary samurai? What’s more, after the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Tokugawa Ieyasu began to reuse the cultural people under his command. Unless a general like Honda Tadakatsu has some culture, , otherwise we will only be marginalized.”

"As a result, Honda Tadakatsu and Tokugawa Ieyasu had a conflict. In the end, he had to report his illness and return to his hometown. After returning to his hometown, he passed everything he owned to his son to show that he had not made a comeback. However, what is interesting is that Honda Tadakatsu resigned due to poor eyesight. As a result, after returning to his hometown, he took wood carving as his retirement hobby, and wood carving requires a lot of eyesight, so Honda Tadakatsu A few years later, Katsu cut his hand with a carving knife and died of infection."

Hearing this, Yin En showed an "I understand" expression and said: "On the surface, Honda Tadakatsu may have accidentally cut his hand with a carving knife because of his bad eyesight, but Although an accident like this may happen, it is a bit too coincidental, not to mention that wooden carving knives like this generally do not carry magical damage such as tetanus; so I think this may be just an excuse, maybe Honda Tadakatsu died in depression because he was abandoned by Tokugawa Ieyasu. After all, Honda Tadakatsu was the number one general who conquered the world for Tokugawa Ieyasu, but when it came time to reward him for his merits, he had to retire and return home. .”

"Of course this is a relatively good result, because in the end Honda Tadakatsu did not break up with Tokugawa Ieyasu, so I think the most conspiracy theory is that Tokugawa Ieyasu sent someone to assassinate Honda Tadakatsu. , and the reason why he did this was because Honda Tadakatsu became more and more angry after returning home, so he planned to go to Tokugawa Ieyasu again to ask for an explanation, so Tokugawa Ieyasu had to kill people and silence him. After all, the island country is so The many samurai have not all subsided yet. If Honda Tadakatsu stands up and calls out, and these samurai are lucky enough to respond, the Tokugawa shogunate may die like the Toyotomi family."

"Yes, this is the rumor that the Shimazu family has learned. So if all this is true, then Honda Tadakatsu may directly seek revenge from the Tokugawa family after his resurrection. By then, the Tokugawa family may be in decline. It's going to be bad luck, after all, the enhanced version of Honda Tadakatsu can really be called Honda Gundam."

Master Zixuan drank another bottle of water and continued: "But now if you look carefully, the Tokugawa family has many enemies. After all, the reason why the Tokugawa family was able to establish the shogunate was not based on their own strength, but luck. Standing on Tokugawa Ieyasu's side, that's why the Tokugawa family became the master of the island country inexplicably; and when the Tokugawa family established the shogunate, they actually controlled part of Honshu, so after that, in order to control Throughout the island nation, the Tokugawa family also used many ruthless tactics to deal with families like the Shimazu family."

Hearing what Master Zixuan said, Liu Xing couldn't help but shook his head, "In this way, when I learned that our ancestors could have a chance to be resurrected, I thought the most depressing one would be the Tokugawa family. After all, our ancestors If they are not resurrected, the Tokugawa family will not have old scores brought up; but if it is really the Tokugawa family who instructs Edogawa to assassinate Honda Tadakatsu this time, I think the Tokugawa family will become a crossroads in the island country. It’s a rat.”

"That's not necessarily true." Shi Zixuan said with a smile: "You must know that Tokugawa Ieyasu was also selected by the Night Demon, so the forces behind these people selected by the Night Demon should form a temporary alliance, so The Tokugawa family is considered much safer; in addition to historical figures such as Tokugawa Ieyasu, the Shadow Sword was also attacked by the Night Demon."

"What about Shimazu Nakano?" Zhang Jingxu asked curiously.

The reason why Zhang Jingxu mentioned Shimadzu Nakano was mainly because of Shimadzu Hiromichi.

"Shimadzu Nakano was also selected by Night Devil, but I really don't understand why Night Devil selected Shimazu Nakano. You must know that Shimadzu Nakano won all the way through the knockout rounds... Of course, this may be Night Devil. With the special skills mentioned by the demon, I think Shimazu Nakano may become the dog-headed strategist among the Night Demon’s followers.”

Shi Zixuan looked at the direction of Mount Fuji and continued: "If nothing unexpected happens, when Shimazu Nakano and others have listened to the Night Demon's lecture, or it can be said to be a simple on-the-job training, then the Gongwu War will be officially over. , I really didn’t expect that the Battle of Gongwu would evolve into what it is now, nor did I expect that the decisive battle between the Gongjia faction and the Wujia faction would be, to put it bluntly, a good show that Night Demon wants to watch.”

A good show. . .

Liu Xing and others couldn't help but sigh, because so many people had been fighting for a long time, but they suddenly found that they were just a funny clown. This psychological gap was not ordinary.

It's like you have been a goddess's licker for four years, only to realize when you graduate that you are not even a spare tire in the eyes of the goddess.