Real Cthulhu Running Game

"In that case, this is just an ordinary earthquake."

Shimazu Hiromichi patted the ashes on his head and continued: "There is nothing to study in this basement, and there are no useful clues found on the corpses, so should we go to Tanegashima Space Center now? "

"Let's go, there is really nothing worth staying here."

Just as Gu Muming finished speaking, a mercenary suddenly ran out from the side of the factory, "Andre, just now when I was going to go to the grass nearby for a while, I saw a stone tablet that had been turned over by the earthquake."

"Stone tablet?"

Everyone looked at Tanegashima Terui, because they all thought that this stone tablet might be left by the Tanegashima family. After all, this factory area has been operated by the Tanegashima family for hundreds of years. Every tree and plant is known to the Tanegashima family, so this stone tablet should have been left behind by the Tanegashima family for some reason.

"Stone monument? Is this impossible? At that time, Tanegashima was still isolated overseas, so our Tanegashima family was also worried that hostile families or pirates would come to plunder, so we placed the most important arsenal at this place. , firstly because there is a river here that can provide sufficient water source, and secondly because this is the hinterland of Tanegashima. As long as they do not conduct a blanket search, outsiders basically cannot find this area."

"And to be on the safe side, we didn't leave any landmarks in this area back then to ensure that even if the enemy came here, they wouldn't realize at the first time that this was actually an arsenal, so over the years we There is no stone monument erected in this area. At most, a wooden plaque was hung after the Warring States Period. Moreover, the woods next to it were still a vegetable plot more than a hundred years ago, responsible for the people in the factory area. Provide fresh vegetables.”

"At that time, although the Shimazu family would provide us with a large amount of food on Tanegashima, we still had to be self-sufficient in fresh vegetables and meat. After all, Tanegashima had a lot of open space that could be used for extensive farming. Vegetables and livestock were raised, and the preservation technology at that time was not good enough. It was no longer possible to transport fresh vegetables and meat to Tanegashima. Therefore, more than a hundred years ago, the historical mission of our Tanegashima family was finally completed, and the factory began The work was semi-stopped, so the land was converted from farmland to forest."

"Oh, so that means this stone tablet has nothing to do with your Tanegashima family? And this stone tablet was either buried deep underground hundreds of years ago, or it was left underground within the last hundred years. ?”

Abe Qingning said: "I think the possibility of the former is relatively high, because in the past hundred years, your Tanegashima family has been quietly making a fortune, and basically has not been involved in any major events, so your seeds Basically, the residents of the island haven’t changed much, especially in a place like this. You Tanegashima family can’t let others come here to play, right?”

"Yes, although this area was already in a semi-abandoned state at the time, a lot of equipment and raw materials in it were still very valuable, so we also arranged for manpower to be stationed and prohibited ordinary residents nearby from coming to this area. , so that stone tablet should have been buried underground before our Tanegashima family appeared, and was turned to the ground with the earthquakes that continued to occur in the island country."

Just as Tanegashima Teruichi was speaking, two half-ghosts had already carried the stone tablet over.

This stone tablet is about one meter high and half a meter wide. The material seems to be ordinary marble, but it seems to have been specially treated, so the text on the stone tablet is still clear. Of course, the most important thing is that this stone tablet is made of Chinese marble. written in traditional Chinese.

"The words on this stone tablet are all in regular script, but some of the words look a bit awkward, so this stone tablet may have been carved by an ordinary stonemason in the island country, because it looks like the stonemason mechanically copied an article. When it comes to stone tablets, it seems a bit stiff and stiff; regular script has appeared since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, but the regular script at that time was not mature enough, so it seemed a bit like a hundred flowers blooming and there were many schools. However, it was perfected after the Tang Dynasty, and the island nation It was also during the Tang Dynasty that envoys were sent to communicate with China.”

Zhang Wenbing looked at the stone tablet and continued: "If the original work was placed in front of me, I might be able to judge the year it was written through the font style, but because this stone tablet is only a carving completed by craftsmen through copying, Therefore, there is no such thing as a so-called font, but it seems that it should be a work from the late Tang Dynasty, because at that time, the islanders had begun to fully study Chinese characters, and the upper class began to take pride in learning Chinese characters, and at the same time, they regarded Chinese characters as Characters are used to write books and compile history, so it is normal for stone tablets with Chinese characters to appear."

At this moment, Shimazu Hiromichi said awkwardly: "Well, does any of you know Chinese writing?"

In the ancient East Asian cultural circle, Huaxia was undoubtedly the real leader. The surrounding countries respected Huaxia in terms of culture. Therefore, the already well-established Chinese script soon became the official script of these countries. After all, their own The writing system is not mature enough to adapt to various contexts. . . Of course, the most important thing is that these countries basically need to communicate with China, and they are in an absolutely weak position to face China, which is also known as the Celestial Kingdom, so they have to learn Chinese writing.

However, any ambitious ruler is definitely not willing to let his country use foreign scripts completely, so both ancient Goryeo and the island countries have chosen to create their own scripts. Of course, these scripts are essentially Chinese scripts. Pinyin, after all, all their books before this were written in Chinese characters, so it was naturally impossible to create new characters completely out of thin air.

As a result, due to the declining fortunes of the Chinese family in the past hundred years or so, the surrounding countries have given up learning Chinese writing, which ultimately led to a very embarrassing situation, that is, they cannot understand what their own ancient writings say, and Since their writing is all pinyin in the final analysis, a large number of words have the same pronunciation. This means that the names of some people from the island country or the space country sound exactly the same, but the result is completely different names when written.

Of course, because a certain emperor who claimed to be an old man Shiquan compiled the "Sikuquanshu" in name, he actually burned books and harassed Confucians, which led to the disappearance of many ancient books and also caused the loss of ancient Chinese language. The accent is on the verge of being lost.

Yes, in fact, if a modern person can travel back to ancient times, then the first problem he will face is that he cannot understand what the ancients are saying. This is a bit similar to a person who can only understand Mandarin talking to a person who only understands Mandarin. Cantonese speakers basically only use gestures to communicate.

Therefore, in addition to reading ancient books in their own country, many linguists in China today also go to cosmic countries and island countries to search for ancient books, because some ancient books record the accent of ancient Chinese language. After all, there were already many professors at that time Books for Chinese people to learn Chinese are somewhat similar to some of the handbooks that can be used when traveling to foreign countries today. There are Chinese characters in them to mark the pronunciation of some sentences.

In addition, some people now think that "Journey to the West" is not a chapter, ah no, Wu Chengen's work. The reason is because there is an ancient Goryeo book that mentions some contents of "Journey to the West", and this book can be called It was the official book designated by the Korean people to study Chinese culture at that time, so some people used this as a reason to think that the author of "Journey to the West" was someone else, and Wu Cheng'en might just be a compiler.

Of course, "Journey to the West" actually took shape in the Yuan Dynasty. However, "Journey to the West" at that time was not yet complete. It can be said to be separate works, which is a bit Similar to the current "Cthulhu Mythos", it is also a mythological system created by multiple works of multiple authors.

"Li Hanxing, come and take a look at this stone tablet."

When Andre saw that his boss needed someone who could speak Chinese to see what was written on the stone tablet, he subconsciously called Li Hanxing because he knew that Li Hanxing was from China.

But what Andre doesn't know is that Li Hanxing now uses the name of an island country as his pseudonym because he wants to be affiliated with the Sawada family, and Liu Xing and others have always blurred their identities. In addition, the current Zetian family can be regarded as covering the sky with only one hand in Ziwu City, so even the Shimadzu family cannot find out the true identities of Liu Xing and others without alerting the Zetian family.

Therefore, at this time, Shimazu Hiromichi did not know that Liu Xing and others were from China.

So when Shimazu Hiromichi heard Andre say this, he already looked at Li Hanxing with a surprised expression.

Fortunately, Andre didn't directly say that Li Hanxing was from China, so Li Hanxing walked over without saying anything, and then inadvertently gave Andre a quick gesture.

As soon as Andre saw Li Hanxing's gesture, he knew that he seemed to have said something wrong, so he quickly made up for it: "I remember that Li Hanxing, you were planning to go to China for development, because the jobs in China are very safe and the wages are not high. It was low, so I went to learn Chinese on my own, but why did I end up running back to the island country?"

Li Hanxing shrugged, shook his head and said: "Because the security tasks in China were too easy, my life in China was too peaceful. In the end, I returned to the island country out of boredom."

Andre and the other mercenaries couldn't help laughing.

"That's true. Mercenaries like us really don't have much room to show off our skills in China. After all, China is a bit too safe. We used to be just like ordinary security guards. Perhaps our biggest use was to look after the homes of those rich people. hospital, or help traffic stars block those fake fans who paid for them." Andre said with a smile.

As Andre said, after many large international security companies entered China, they found that the situation in China was very different from that abroad. Originally, they used guns to fight with others in other countries. After Hua Xia, he can only be a real security guard.

You must know that after America suffered a big loss in the Monkey Country, every time she launched a war, she might only send 10,000 to 20,000 soldiers to participate in the war, but behind the scenes, she would receive help from various security companies. Hundreds of thousands of people were employed to fight under various guises.

It is worth mentioning that although Blackwater is very famous in the eyes of ordinary people, and it seems that they will think of it when mentioning security companies, in fact, Blackwater can barely make it into the top ten in this industry. The real top security company is really like a younger brother, and it is precisely because Blackwater likes to buy traffic for itself that if we want to rank the "Top Ten Failure Cases of Security Companies", Blackwater can at least grab it. More than half of the places.

After all, those truly top-notch security companies are, to put it bluntly, white gloves trained by countries such as Lao Maozi and America, so that they can participate in a certain battle when they are unable to take action directly. . . Of course the same goes for so-called "military observers".

As a result, Li Hanxing studied the stone tablet for a long time before he said: "The content on this stone tablet is a bit interesting. It tells that a group of people once lived on Tanegashima during the Heian period. They were originally from the Kyushu area. ordinary farmers who fled to Tanegashima for various reasons and successfully formed a new village; however, not long after their good days, they discovered that a group of monsters appeared on the island, causing the villagers to live in a They are in danger, but now they are like trapped animals on Tanegashima, with no way to escape."

"Monster? What kind of monster is mentioned on the stone tablet?" Shimazu Hiromichi asked quickly.

Li Hanxing shook his head and said seriously: "The stone tablet did not mention the appearance of the monster. It only said that if someone entered the forest, they would never return. At that time, there were forests everywhere on Tanegashima; Seeing that they could no longer survive on the island, these villagers planned to leave Tanegashima desperately. It was best that these villagers fled to the seaside after losing 30 people, and made many rafts using local materials. When they were about to leave Tanegashima on a raft, they found that they were imprisoned in Tanegashima and could not escape at all."

"Um?!"

Hearing what Li Hanxing said, everyone present was surprised, because the villagers Li Hanxing mentioned were just like his own group now, trapped on Tanegashima and unable to leave.

"Are you sure what is written on the stone tablet is really like this?!"