Real Cthulhu Running Game

"You may not know if you are an outsider, but those in the Tanegashima family really like to play mahjong, because as that person said, the first generation members of the Tanegashima family are a group of craftsmen, and in a sense To put it bluntly, they were trapped on Tanegashima. They rarely had the opportunity to leave Tanegashima throughout their lives, so even though they received a lot of salary, they had nothing to spend their money on, so they naturally got involved in gambling. Bad habits, or this can be called the family tradition of the Tanegashima family, and more than a hundred years ago, when mahjong was introduced to the island country, it was quickly welcomed by the Tanegashima family."

"Compared to the more traditional dice throwing and points comparison, or Pai Gow poker, mahjong retains a certain element of luck and also allows players to have a certain degree of maneuverability in their own victory or defeat, which makes players more confident. Therefore, mahjong has quickly become the signature sport of the Tanegashima family. In recent years, there have been many mahjong competitions. If I were not worried that people from the Ii family might find me, I am afraid that all the mahjong champions in recent years would be It's mine." Ii Naole said confidently.

Liu Xing raised his eyebrows and couldn't help but said: "Oh, then if we have a chance, we have to discuss it, because I am the mahjong brother known as the Zetian family... Uh, wait, by the way, Mr. Jing Yi, can you tell me about this place? Is there anything in the storage room of the supermarket? I heard that you usually don’t allow anyone to enter the storage room?”

Ii Naole was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said: "There are indeed some things that are very important to me in the storage room, because the storage room in the supermarket is literally my bedroom. After all, my wife has left me a lot. 2019, and so have the children, so I haven’t lived back home for many years; living in a supermarket is actually not bad now. You can open the door as soon as you wake up every day, and you can get whatever you want to eat, but the storage room is a bit crowded. After all, my small supermarket also has a lot of inventory."

So this is ah.

After listening to Ii Naole's words, Liu Xing suddenly felt a little lonely for no reason, because Liu Xing originally thought there might be something shameful in the storage room, but it turned out that there was nothing.

According to Liu Xing's previous thoughts, the plot of Kudo Ichiro's three-person module may be that when he and Ii Naoraku entered the house to talk, a restless person ran to open the storage room and wanted to see the usual Ii Naoraku. What was in the storage room that no one was allowed to enter, and then something indescribable was released, and then the whole supermarket was about to become a mess.

At this moment, Liu Xing heard that the rain outside the supermarket suddenly became much heavier.

"It rained a lot today. I have been on Tanegashima for so many years, and I have only encountered such heavy rain a few times." Ii Naoraku said with some sigh: "Although it often rains on Tanegashima, But basically it’s the kind of drizzle that makes people feel comfortable, so I’ve been able to stay on Tanegashima all these years.”

"Yes, this heavy rain did come very suddenly, it will..."

Before Liu Xing finished speaking, he suddenly felt that the scene at this moment seemed a bit familiar?

"Mist"!

Liu Xing frowned, and then realized that at this moment, he seemed to be on the set of "The Fog", because the main plot of "The Fog" is about a group of people who were trapped in a supermarket by heavy fog, and then because of the extremely poor visibility, He is too low to see his surroundings clearly, so when an unlucky guy has to leave the supermarket, a monster will snatch him away and then do some indescribable things.

Although there is no fog but heavy rain outside the supermarket at this time, anyone who has experienced heavy rain knows that the visibility is actually not high on rainy days, and more importantly, the sound of rain will cover up some sounds.

In addition, it was still night at this time, and the street lights outside had long been damaged by the earthquake, so if you looked outside from the supermarket, you could hardly see anything.

Therefore, if there is a mythical creature wandering outside the supermarket now, anyone who dares to leave the supermarket at this time will become its meal.

Thinking of this, Liu Xing stood up and said: "Mr. Jing Yi, it's already late now. Let's go to bed early. However, there are many forces on Tanegashima nowadays, including many secret churches, so to be on the safe side I still suggest you lock the doors and windows of the supermarket to prevent anyone from doing anything bad to us."

Ii Naole nodded, then picked up the keys and prepared to lock the door and windows.

As for Liu Xing, he went back to find Ichiro Kudo and the others and asked directly: "Is there any latest news now?"

Ichiro Kudo quickly started the secret room time, shook his head and said, "No, when Brother Ryusei and Father Edo went in to chat, kp didn't say anything."

Liu Xing looked at the heavy rain outside the supermarket, nodded and said, "Have you seen "The Mist"? It is a very classic thriller movie, and there are a lot of Cthulhu elements in it."

"Well, a large part of the reason why we entered the Cthulhu Run Game Hall is that we watched this movie, because one of our classmates liked the movie very much and thought its reversal plot was simply amazing. , so he often recommended us to watch this movie, and we ended up seeing it right away." Kudo Ichiro said with a wry smile.

Liu Xing raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Yes, this is indeed a very classic reverse movie. It gives you hope when you are at your most desperate, but in the end you will be disappointed because of the choices you made when you were desperate. And became desperate again, even more desperate; but I think the final reversal of "The Mist" may be fake, that is to say, those so-called rescue teams are false existences, some mythical creatures or more The illusion imposed on the protagonist by a powerful existence makes the protagonist more desperate and regretful."

"Huh? Is there such an operation?" Itoga said in surprise.

Liu Xing shrugged and continued: "It's not like you don't know that America's rescue efficiency is outstanding in one word - low, and she is also famous for looking at the dishes and choosing what to do. Take the power outage that occurred in America this winter. Let’s take the accident as an example. It took several days for ordinary people’s electricity to be restored, and the electricity bills during this period were also ridiculously high. As for the wealthy areas, the lights were bright; so judging from the beginning of “The Fog”, the small town where the protagonist lives is The town is very ordinary, so even if we lose contact for three days and three nights, there may not be a rescue team."

"Well, isn't this our Tanegashima? If it weren't for the Tanegashima Space Center, no one would notice even if Tanegashima lost contact for a week." Itoga complained.

"Yes, after an ordinary small town loses contact, it depends on when the relatives and friends of the residents in the town call and send text messages to them, and then wait until these relatives and friends realize that something is wrong, and then they may notify them. pipeline, and then we have to wait for the official to investigate. Let’s count this period of time as one day, right? After the official discovers that the fog has enveloped the town and caused the town to lose contact with the outside world, nine times out of ten they will choose to wait for the fog to dissipate, because Under normal circumstances, a heavy fog will not last long, so it will take another day for officials to realize that something is wrong with the fog."

"Then the official may send people into the fog to investigate. As we can imagine, the people who go in will most likely lose contact. If they are lucky, people outside can also find that the people in the fog are attacked by monsters. In this way There is definitely no way for ordinary officials to solve these things, and then it will take another day or two to wait for the reports to be reported. It has already taken three or four days just to get here. In this way, it is already related to the plot of "The Mist" Sorry."

"And as I said before, America's rescue team highlights a different treatment. I think that for America, a town with no value like this will be gone, but the monsters inside must be caught. Live, so the first thing they did was to build an encirclement to ensure that the monsters inside would not escape, and then they started to test it. Moreover, the first wave of attacks would most likely be aerial bombing or dropping pharmaceuticals, which was really not possible. Ground troops will be arranged to enter the scene, so the protagonist’s final experience is not realistic.”

At this point, Liu Xing took a deep breath before continuing: "Of course, the most important thing is that "The Mist" is a movie with Cthulhu elements, so we have to analyze how an ordinary small town can A heavy fog suddenly appeared, and why were there a group of mythical creatures in the fog? Although there are many spells to summon mythical creatures in the Cthulhu Mythos, we can see that the goddess character in "The Fog" is an ordinary person That’s it, so we can basically rule out that the fog and mythical creatures were summoned by someone in the town.”

"After eliminating one wrong option, our only answer may be Nyarlathotep, an important god in the Cthulhu mythology. The most outstanding characteristic of this god is that he likes to watch the fun. Legend has it that nuclear weapons are Nyarlathotep. In order to see humans killing each other, Arlathotep specifically taught the manufacturing method to Oppenheimer. From this, we can infer that the hidden plot of "The Mist" is that Nyarlathotep was bored and just Let a burst of fog cover a small town, and then let the mythical creatures in the fog attack humans, and at the same time set restrictions for these mythical creatures, that is, they cannot attack humans staying indoors.”

"Then, Nyarlathotep can sit down and watch the show of all living beings, especially in the supermarket where the protagonist is. It can be said that there are all kinds of people - witches who pretend to be gods, self-righteous ones, etc. The lawyer, the brainless reckless man, the protagonist who is the representative of personal heroism, and a group of outsiders who only blindly follow each other. These people all showed their characteristics to the fullest because of this fog, and they also died in various ways. In short, this This group portrait drama fully shows what different people look like when they face difficulties, even desperate situations."

As soon as Liu Xing finished speaking, Fujiwarayama said: "I understand. The reason why the protagonist was able to rush into the car instead of being caught by the mythical creature as soon as he left the room like others was actually Nyarlatoti. Pu wanted to further play with his emotions, so he created a scene where he seemed to be able to drive out of the fog, but suddenly found out that he was out of gas. In the end, the protagonist made the most desperate choice and wanted to die. . But Nyarlathotep still didn’t let him go, and used this move to kill people and kill him!”

"That's right, I have always felt that murder is the most vicious method, because it really makes people feel that life is worse than death." Kudo Ichiro shook his head and suddenly realized something, "Wait a minute, what we are doing now Isn't the situation similar to "The Fog"? A group of people were helplessly trapped in the supermarket, and the heavy rain outside also had the same effect as the fog, so if someone wanted to leave the supermarket later, they would be If we are killed by mythical creatures, then we..."

Before Kudo Ichiro finished speaking, someone suddenly said loudly: "What's wrong, I left my phone in the security room!"

"Let me go, this is really the case, then should we stop this person from leaving?" Fujiwarayama asked anxiously.

Liu Xing shook his head and asked directly: "Then what reason do we use to stop him? Is it raining too much outside? Or is there maybe a monster outside? If he really wants to get his phone back, then we can't stop him of."

Fujiwarayama nodded helplessly and could only wait and see what happened.

"Let's wait until the rain stops tomorrow to get it. It will be quite troublesome to run back in the rain to get it in the dark, and dad has already locked the door." Another person advised.

The man sighed and said seriously: "No, there is a very important document stored in my mobile phone. I have to ensure that when Tanegashima regains contact with the outside world, I can send that document out as soon as possible. So I have to take a trip now; Dad, do you have a raincoat and a flashlight here? Lend them to me."

Without saying anything else, Ii Naoraku took a raincoat and a flashlight and handed them to the man, then unlocked the supermarket door.

As for Liu Xing and others, they were concentrating on observing the situation here, especially when the man rushed out of the supermarket.

The result did not disappoint Liu Xing. A few seconds after the man disappeared into the rain, a shrill scream came out.

Sure enough, something happened.

At this moment, the whole supermarket was boiling, because although they didn't know what happened in the heavy rain, judging from the sound made by the man, something bad must have happened to him.

More importantly, this person only left the supermarket for a few seconds, so as long as he still retains the ability to move after screaming, he should be able to return to the supermarket, or at least appear in everyone's sight.