Real Cthulhu Running Game

As the best university in the world, it is also the front line against mythical creatures and the old rulers. Arkham City, where Miskatonic University is located, is a well-deserved international city, so the most famous restaurant in Arkham City is On the street, Liu Xing saw "dark delicacies" from all over the world, such as the star-gazing pie that almost made Liu Xing lose his sanity, and a seal frozen in ice with its belly filled with petrels. . . .

But what worries Liu Xing the most is that there is a restaurant called Mythical Creatures Gourmet Collection, and their signature dishes are braised deep divers and steamed ghouls. . . If Liu Xing had seen this store in other places, Liu Xing would 100% think that this store is in a celebrity restaurant that only does gimmicks, but this is Arkham City, so Liu Xing suspects that these two dishes may be real.

After all, in a sense, ghouls and deep divers can indeed be used as food, and there are a lot of ghouls and deep divers on the earth. It would not matter if an expert caught a few of them for tooth sacrifice. "People" will find out.

And Liu Xing once saw a post on the forum, that is, an ancient civilization once tried to tame ghouls to fight for them, so they tried every means to find more than ten ghoul cubs, and then raised them After they grow up, they are then instilled with wrong understandings. For example, they were originally a group of simple beasts and monsters, but they only awakened to wisdom after being trained by their trainers. Therefore, in order to repay their kindness to their trainers, they have to bravely rush to the front line. .

At the beginning, this ancient civilization's plan was very successful. It quickly formed a ghoul army of thousands of people, which was invincible on the battlefield. However, they were later discovered by the nearby ghoul tribe. As a result, this ancient civilization was destroyed by the angry ghouls.

Therefore, it stands to reason that humans can tame mythical creatures and even turn mythical creatures into food, but mythical creatures are not animals that are not intelligent enough after all. It is not easy to tame them, and these things If their kind heard about it, revenge would be inevitable.

In the end, Liu Xing and others did not try the taste of mythical creatures and chose a restaurant that specializes in Husky cuisine because Liu Xing heard that the barbecue in Husky Country was quite good.

What Liu Xing didn't expect was that he would meet Wang Qi again so soon. Fortunately, Wang Qi was ordering food at the time, so Liu Xing pretended to be passing by and did not have any contact with Wang Qi again.

For some reason, Liu Xing just felt that if he had too much contact with Wang Qi, something bad might happen.

So Liu Xing temporarily used his "money power" to ask the waiter for a private room.

"Although we are indeed not short of money, there is no need to open a private room, right? And I also want to sit by the floor-to-ceiling window to watch the night view." Tian Qing asked with some confusion.

Liu Xing sighed and said seriously: "I just met an old acquaintance in the shopping mall, and he was also a player. He participated in a module with me. That was when I entered the Cthulhu Running Group. The first module after the game lobby, but the most important thing is that I heard that he has passed away in the real world. Because he joined an offline society that specifically harmed newcomers, he was expelled after being squeezed out of the benefits. It’s been dealt with... So now I don’t know whether he is a player or an NPC?”

"Ghost player?" Shi Zixuan frowned and said: "I heard that if some players enter the Cthulhu Run game lobby when they are dying, then they will become a ghost player. To put it simply, that is They can only be active in the module. Of course, after becoming players in the Hounds of Tindalos area, they can also go to the lobby to find friends, and when they collect one million points, they can play again in the real world. Shape your body and live again, or simply choose to be reincarnated, the kind where you can choose your parents."

"Yes, I am very curious now whether he is a ghost player. If he is a ghost player, which area does he belong to now? And if he has become an NPC, or is simply a character card of that person I know, then Why did he suddenly appear here? And it happened to be at this time... In the Cthulhu Run Game Hall, I don't believe there is such a coincidence." Liu Xing said.

"I see, Liu Xing, are you worried that this old friend has a problem and will involve us in something?" Tian Qing said worriedly.

Liu Xing shook his head and said with a smile: "I don't think he has such ability yet, and the relationship between him and me in this parallel world is also very average. To put it bluntly, he is better than passers-by, so even if he is asking for help, Me, unless the kp forces me to accept it, I will not help him; but I always feel that something is wrong with this matter, so it is better not to meet him again, so I deliberately wanted to use this private room .”

At this moment, the waiter came in to deliver tea and waited for Liu Xing to order.

After casually ordering some special dishes and sending the waiter away, Liu Xing continued: "Arkham City, as the most famous place in the original work of Cthulhu Mythology, is also the area with the most accidents. Now it has arrived in the Cthulhu Run game. There are even hidden dragons and crouching tigers in the hall. For example, a restaurant we passed before actually dared to use mythical creatures as ingredients. I don’t know if their boss is very powerful or they don’t want to live anymore.”

"I actually heard a little about that store just now."

Shi Zixuan drank tea and said: "I have come to Arkham City to do business before. Of course I don't dare to steal things here. After all, just like Liu Xing said, this ghost place is really full of people. And each one is hidden deeper than the other, so on the surface you are stealing a young man’s figure, but in fact that young man has lived for tens of thousands of years, and that figure is its life core.”

Speaking of life core, Liu Xing thought of Sirius again, and didn't know how this guy was doing now.

"So the mission I took on in Arkham City was a very ordinary errand mission, to help someone pick up a dining queue ticket. But after I arrived, I discovered that there was a pitfall in this task, because the queue ticket was not for you. Go to the store to get it, but you have to grab the queue tickets when the restaurant releases them! And the tickets here are released for pigeons! Yes, the queue tickets are hung on the legs of the pigeons, and these pigeons can be seamlessly integrated into the square Among the thousands of pigeons on the queue! So it took me a lot of effort to grab a queuing ticket.”

Master Zixuan looked up to the sky and sighed: "From now on, I have never taken on this kind of task of helping to run errands, because it is a big trap... As for the restaurant I mentioned, it is the one you just mentioned, Liu Xing. That one, I heard that the ingredients they use are indeed taken from mythical creatures, but these mythical creatures are quite special and are all clones."

"Clones, can mythical creatures also be cloned? No, it's normal for mythical creatures to be cloned. After all, they are still flesh and blood creatures, but isn't the owner of this restaurant afraid of something happening?" Liu Xing asked curiously.

Shi Zixuan thought for a while, shook his head and said: "According to my understanding, the owner of this restaurant seems to be an alchemist, and he has lived for more than a thousand years, but the most important thing is that he once worked with a group of snake people. They worked together to try to create a poison specifically targeted at a certain ethnic group. As snakemen are a rare scientific race among mythical creatures, their process of making poison is like scientists doing experiments, so they need a special kind of poison. Pharmaceutical methods were used to develop their ideas, so alchemy became the first choice of these snake people. After all, alchemy is really unscientific. After some alchemical operations, a stone really turns into gold. .”

"Of course, learning will be mutually beneficial, so this alchemist also learned some advanced scientific knowledge from the snake people, the most important of which is cloning technology, because the snake people need a large number of experimental subjects, so the snake people The cloning technology of the human race is very advanced. I heard that they can not only make the clones grow into adults within three days, but also shrink or enlarge the clones proportionally. Of course, the most important thing is that although these clones are almost identical to the original body , but they won’t have any self-awareness, so there will be no psychological pressure in conducting experiments with these clones.”

"So it's like this. Those mythical creatures that are used as food ingredients are actually not fundamentally different from the artificial meat we know. It's just that they are more formed." Li Mengyao touched her chin and said, "But when I think of those mythical creatures, they are so hideous and terrifying. It seems like I still can’t speak.”

"I think so too, but I heard that it tastes pretty good, so the supply has always been in short supply. That's why this restaurant came up with such a weird queuing rule, but in Arkham City, there are weird queuing rules like this There are quite a few places, but because there are many strong men stationed there, there have been no accidents over the years; but in Arkham City, there is actually a very dangerous place, and that is the legendary Arkham Psycho. Hospital, both doctors and patients there have completely lost their minds!"

"Arkham Asylum? I didn't expect that the Cthulhu Run Game Hall would actually get it out." Liu Xing said with a smile: "As the saying goes, Arkham Asylum is full of talents. I didn't know that in Arkham Asylum, What kind of powerful person is there?"

Shi Zixuan said seriously: "Arkham Asylum is originally a very normal hospital, but it is also the hospital with the best business in Arkham City, because in a place like Arkham City, some people go crazy every once in a while. So decades ago, Miskatonic University took over the hospital as a training location for the corresponding specialty, and as a result, twenty years ago, a patient changed Arkham Asylum."

"Isn't it a clown?" Tian Qing asked curiously.

Shi Zixuan shook his head and said with a serious face: "If nothing else happens, this patient is likely to be the clone of a certain old ruler, because he quickly turned everyone into lunatics after entering the hospital. , a group of super powerful lunatics, so this hospital was occupied by that group of lunatics. Miskatonic University has tried to take back this hospital many times, or simply destroy the hospital and the lunatics inside, but the results have been two. One word - failure, because those madmen were too powerful, no matter in melee combat or spells, they were no less than the masters sent by Miskatonic University, so Miskatonic University could only die out in the end."

"But I don't know why, those lunatics never leave that hospital, so some people thought they were building a plank road openly and secretly visiting the warehouse. But later they found out that this was all unnecessary worries, and they lived in peace like this for twenty years. , everyone does not offend the river; but there are still many people who are investigating the identity and origin of Patient The suburbs of Arkham City, and although his identity could be found by the authorities, it was quickly proven that the information was false, but in the end it was found that he first appeared in Innsmouth Town!"

"Huh? Is he from Cthulhu? Cthulhu is good at dreaming and driving people crazy, so if this Patient Becoming him, no, it should be said to be Cthulhu's subordinate, but why did Cthulhu do this? Is there a problem with the location of the hospital?" Liu Xing said doubtfully: "But in the original work, this Isn’t there anything special about Arkham Town?”

Shi Zixuan smiled, nodded and said: "Indeed, if you put aside Miskatonic University, Arkham Town is a very ordinary place with nothing worth talking about, but with Miskatonic University, Everything is different; as a mental hospital, it must be set up in a sparsely populated suburb, but it cannot be too far away from the city. In the suburbs, there is a special public area called a cemetery, where a very special person was buried. Man—Wilbur Whateley!”

"Ah, so that's it!"

When he heard the name Wilbur Whateley, Liu Xing knew the cause and effect of all this, because this Whateley was the son of God who was bitten to death by the watchdog of Miskatonic University!

"The reason why Whateley was bitten to death by the watchdog of Miskatonic University was because he wanted to steal a magic book that was very important to him. This magic book recorded how to summon Yog. Sotos, his biological father!" Shi Zixuan continued: "After Patient X took control of the mental hospital, a theft was also reported in the cemetery next door."