Real Cthulhu Running Game

Will you go to the rooftop?

Liu Xing did not hesitate for long and chose to go to the rooftop to find out what was going on, because if the "person" who left this message really wanted to harm him, he would have already done it, so he should not do anything to him. Bar?

Maybe?

Liu Xing thought as he walked directly onto the rooftop.

got windy.

As soon as Liu Xing stepped onto the rooftop, he felt a breeze blowing against his face, but there was an obvious fishy smell in the wind.

What's happening here?

Chengcheng is a city located in the mountains of southwest China. Except for the fishy smell where fish is sold, it is difficult to smell this smell in other places. So that weirdo is actually a deep diver hybrid?

As a result, the next second, Liu Xing saw dozens of salted fish being dried hanging on the clothesline on the rooftop, and felt a little embarrassed for a moment.

However, Liu Xing was not embarrassed for long before he saw Aoguanhai not far away.

That’s right, it’s Aoguanhai.

Although Ao Guanhai was carrying Liu Xing on his back at this time, the clothes on his body were still the same suit that had remained unchanged for thousands of years. Coupled with the encounter in the stairwell, Liu Xing knew that he was standing next to him at that time. Behind him is Ao Guanhai. Because Ao Guanhai's skin color can hide him in the darkness, he can't see him at all, and Ao Guanhai is also capable of doing all that quietly.

It's just that Liu Xing really didn't expect Ao Guanhai to appear in the real world.

When Liu Xing approached Ao Guanhai, Ao Guanhai stopped Liu Xing and said, "Liu Xing, just stand where you are, because I can't face you face to face."

Liu Xing raised his eyebrows and said subconsciously: "Is this also the rule of the Cthulhu Run Game Hall? Just like if I just stepped into the core area of ​​that module, would I forcibly activate that module in advance?"

"Yes, this is also the rule of the Cthulhu Running Game Hall - if I meet a player in the real world, I will never be able to return to the Cthulhu Running Game Hall, because I am face to face with the player. In an instant, I will be assimilated into the real world by the Cthulhu Running Group Game Hall. In a sense, I am no different from ordinary people, except that I always have some incredible abilities; so we can be considered lucky if we can do this now. There is a loophole in the Cthulhu Run game lobby because we are not face to face.”

Ao Guanhai smiled, shook his head and said: "After all, today's Cthulhu Run Game Hall is a very old-fashioned program, so it must be in name rather than reality, so even if we know each other's identities, we can chat Some topics about the Cthulhu Running Game Hall, the Cthulhu Running Game Hall will not do anything to us because we are not face to face."

Liu Xing nodded and suddenly realized: "I see, no wonder you asked me to come to the rooftop, because you are still worried about meeting other people in the corridor, in case there is another player from the Cthulhu Running Team game hall here. , then you will be in trouble."

"One more thing, I cannot be seen by the NPC you discovered, because his identity in the real world is no different from that of the player." Ao Guanhai continued: "I know what you want to ask me, nothing more. It seems that this is why the NPCs in the module will appear in the real world in advance, and they have already begun to pave the way for the module; yes, this is paving the way, because this module takes place in a big city, and there are many people moving around. Area."

"If it takes place in some small villages or a certain designated area, such as a hospital or school module, their assimilation process will be carried out after the module ends, because the workload of doing so is relatively small and can be very convenient. Just complete the assimilation work; but for a module like this that involves a large number of ordinary people, you must make some preparations in advance, which can not only reduce the workload of later assimilation, but also reduce the possibility of bugs."

"Take this module as an example. The number of ordinary people who have heard of that NPC has exceeded four digits, and his area of ​​activity has included eight communities and more than ten streets, as well as the one next to it. Haining Leather City, but the most important thing is Liu Xing. Have you heard of geometric growth? Even if only one tenth of the four-digit insiders will tell this matter, then there will soon be tens of thousands People know about it, and then these people will spread the word about it.”

"So based on our assessment of this module, at the end of the event, there may be up to six figures of ordinary people who have heard about it, and of course 99% of them have just heard about it. , and they will just laugh it off and treat it as an urban legend, so we don’t need to deal with these people; but the problem lies in the remaining one percent."

"Even if it's only one percent, that's nearly a few thousand people, and these people basically live within the area where the module occurs, but not all of them will stay in this area honestly. Therefore, if we assimilate the real world according to the situation after the completion of the module, there may be some mistakes, which will cause a small number of ordinary people to find that their memories are deviated from other people's, which may cause problems. Problem."

"I understand. The reason why this module came out in advance is to synchronize the memories of all ordinary people to avoid gaps due to this module... So is this the Mandela Effect?" Liu Xing asked curiously.

The Mandela effect means that some people will have the memory that Mandela has died long ago. In China, "Mandela" can be replaced by "Wuma" because many people Everyone thought that Wu Ma also passed away a long time ago, and even saw relevant news and memorial services on TV.

In addition, some classic examples of the Mandela Effect are the lyrics in "Love My China" and the fact that there are only two horizontal lines before the words "True" and "Gu" in the "Xinhua Dictionary". Other than that, Some people remember maps of the North Pole with ice caps, but in fact there has never been a map of the North Pole with ice caps.

Of course, there are still very scientific explanations for the Mandela Effect, such as lyrics problems, word stroke problems and map problems. In fact, they are all problems that are easy to misremember, especially for children.

The first is the problem of lyrics, because many of the lyrics of "Love Me China" are relatively similar, and the melody of the arias is almost exactly the same, so it is normal for children to be confused. Then there is the problem of strokes. Children are prone to typos. Therefore, it is normal to remember the three horizontal lines of those two words as two horizontal lines; as for the final ice cap issue, the same is true. When children receive knowledge about the Arctic, they will hear the keyword "ice and snow", plus The Antarctic on the map has ice caps, so children will think that the North Pole also has ice caps. . . What's more, to be honest, Liu Xing has not seriously looked at the world map a few times so far, not even once.

So as generations of children grow up, they will regard these memories that were originally caused by mistakes as reality, so when talking about this matter with other people, they will feel that they are being unknowingly. People have modified their memories, or entered a parallel world; and as more and more people think so, and people of different generations have the same situation, the Mandela Effect naturally appears.

So when he thought of the Mandela Effect, Liu Xing also thought that many people would read "Cthulhu" as "Cthulhu" when they first came into contact with the Cthulhu mythology, and if this happens a few years later, In ten years, it may become another example of the Mandela Effect. . . Of course, this is basically impossible, because the Cthulhu mythology has a standard English version, so Cthulhu is Cthulhu.

However, in the face of the unscientific Cthulhu Running Group Game Hall, the scientific explanation of the Mandela Effect may not be very scientific.

"Yes, some examples of the Mandela Effect are indeed related to our Cthulhu Run Game Hall, and this is one of the important reasons why the Cthulhu Run Game Hall will be visited in advance. For example, there was a module back then It was to let the players rescue the trapped Mandela, but those players planned to transport Mandela away by feigning death, and this is why some people heard about Mandela's death; but those players failed, so they failed. The Sulu Running Group Game Hall does not intend to assimilate this plot into the real world, because it is a waste of time and has no meaning at all. As a result, memory errors have occurred.”

Ao Guanhai sighed, shook his head and said: "This is why I think the Cthulhu Run Game Hall is a bit too rigid. If it knew how to be more flexible, it wouldn't cause so many messy little problems. Although these Small problems are nothing to us.”

Liu Xing nodded, and then asked again: "Actually, I also want to ask a question, that is, does the Cthulhu Running Group game hall have to assimilate to the real world? Is this matter already non-negotiable? And what's more? Why not do the assimilation in one go? Instead of assimilating once after completing a module?”

Liu Xing in cotton-padded clothes had so many questions, Ao Guanhai replied with a smile: "Liu Xing, this is not a question for you, but it's not that I can't tell you these questions, but you have to pay a certain price for these answers, such as You can’t tell other people these things, because if too many people know about these things, the Cthulhu Run game lobby will be in chaos.”

Liu Xing chose to agree without hesitation.

Ever since, Ao Guanhai continued: "The truth is, in order to avoid the pursuers sent by Yog-Sothoth and Shub-Nicholas, the Cthulhu Running Group Game Hall must assimilate with a certain world. Only in this way can you temporarily hide yourself, but once the assimilation is completed, the Cthulhu Running Game Hall will be discovered by the pursuers again, so the Cthulhu Running Game Hall will have to find the next world. At the same time, this is also the Cthulhu Running Game Hall. The reason why the hall is so slow is that it is assimilating to a certain world bit by bit."

"But this assimilation process is irreversible and cannot be stopped, so once it starts, it must be continuously assimilated. Of course, assimilation can also have a certain interval. This is why the Cthulhu Run Game Hall will give you players some rest. Due to time reasons, the current Cthulhu Run game lobby will still ensure that there is at least one module in progress at any time; as for some of the special modules you have conducted, or modules conducted in other parallel worlds, the results are actually It will not assimilate into the real world, because the Cthulhu Run Game Hall does not want to assimilate into the real world so quickly."

"Of course I also know what you are thinking, Liu Xing, so I can tell you clearly here that the real world we are in now will definitely be assimilated by the Cthulhu Running Team Game Hall; but if you help me become If I get the new Nyarlathotep, then after I control the Cthulhu Run game lobby, I will put this world in the idle area. At that time, ordinary people will still live exactly the same life as before. As for players, they can You can choose to continue being a player, or you can choose to give up this memory and become an ordinary person."

"But even so, our world has been put on the chariot of the Cthulhu Run Game Hall. If something happens to the Cthulhu Run Game Hall, then our world will also be wiped out together. ?" Liu Xing said a little frustrated.

Ao Guanhai shrugged and said with a smile: "That's true, but this is already the best situation. After all, in the first second when the Cthulhu Running Team Game Hall came to this world, the world had already changed. The Cthulhu Run game lobby is bound together, but Liu Xing, you have to believe me. As long as I become the new Nyarlathotep, then I will still be confident in solving those pursuers. As for Judah Gesothos and Shub Nicholas, I have a way to negotiate a peace with them, after all, we don’t need to make a mess."

Hearing this, Liu Xing finally got some comfort and knew that this should be the best ending as Ao Guanhai said.

"By the way Liu Xing, you'd better not come to this building in the future, and don't have face-to-face contact with that NPC, because you may trigger the module accidentally, and then there will be something that I can't solve." problem, but you just need to bring your phone with you, because you can return to the Cthulhu Run game lobby at any time; well, it’s time for me to go back now, because the real world is not where I should be. place."

After Ao Guanhai finished speaking, he disappeared directly, leaving Liu Xing alone on the rooftop thinking about life.