Real Cthulhu Running Game

Liu Xing frowned and said with some doubts: "That's not right. Logically speaking, kp shouldn't answer the question like this, because this already involves the most critical part of this module, which is whether the car repair shop has question."

"Yes, now that I think about it, I feel that there seems to be a problem here, but I don't know what it is, because although I can now recall the content of the conversation in the secret room, it may be because kp is directly communicating with Because of the player dialogue, I don’t know what Liu Qindong and KP said. Anyway, at this time Liu Qindong and others began to suspect that this car repair shop might have become a supernatural scene for some reason!”

Speaking of supernatural scenes, Liu Xing thought of Panlong Town, because Panlong Town is a supernatural scene in a sense, or the Panlong Town module can also be regarded as a half-rules module. The reason is In the first half of the Panlong Town module, that is, before facing off against Glaaki's clone, players can use the module's time retrieval rules to obtain various intelligence, and can also use the time difference and information difference to deal with those mythical creatures. , of course, you can also cooperate with mythical creatures in the neutral camp, and finally achieve the achievement of clearing the level without injury.

It's just that Liu Xing and his party chose to go directly and solved various mythical creatures on their own. . . Of course, this is just Liu Xing's wishful thinking, because Liu Xing doesn't know that there is a big boss in the Panlong Town module who is deliberately letting things slip. Otherwise, Liu Xing and others will not know how many times they will have to reopen.

Thinking of this, Liu Xing said: "I have encountered a rule-based module before, which means that after certain conditions are met, the time in the module can be reset, so that players can use this to There are different ways to deal with various mythical creatures, but your module is still a little different, so if I am not wrong, there may not be real enemies in that module?"

"That's right, after Liu Qindong and other players either fell off or tore the cards directly, I escaped from the car repair shop with several other character cards that had fallen off, but the process of escaping was simply to run around with my head covered. I ran away, so I don’t know how I escaped; but after escaping, I heard about the concept of supernatural scenes on the forum. To put it simply, for some reason, an area was transformed by a mysterious It was shrouded in power, and then some special rules emerged... So some people think that this is the work of an old ruler."

"Really? Why don't I remember there was such an Old One?"

Liu Xing thought for a while, shook his head and said: "But now the Cthulhu Game Hall is creating new Old One rulers, so it is normal to have such a new Old One ruler who pays attention to rules; but, This kind of Old One seems to be much more difficult to deal with than the ordinary Old One, because I have mentioned some in the forum, uh, the forum I am talking about is the player forum of the Cthulhu Run Game Hall. Similar rule-based modules, most of these modules are for players to enter a certain place at the beginning, such as a factory, a scenic spot, etc., and then find something wrong here, and then collect clues to determine what exists in this scene. The killer move, and how to leave the scene correctly."

"However, this module really tests the players' reasoning ability in a short period of time, and in this module you cannot obtain useful information through inspiration judgment. It can even be said that in this module the players are not You can pass the level if you need to make any judgment, or in other words, no matter what judgment the player makes, he cannot affect the progress of the module... Of course, there are exceptions to everything. There was once a rule-based module that asked players to leave a Western-style manor, and this manor It can be roughly divided into two parts: indoor and outdoor, but overall it is a two-story maze. As a result, one player was a blasting genius and ignored the rules and blew up all the way."

"Hahaha, this is a good idea to solve the problem. If Liu Qindong and others had brought explosives at that time, they should have been able to blast a way directly."

Mobius said with a smile: "If everything is normal in that car repair shop, it should only have an area of ​​two to three hundred square meters. However, when Liu Qindong and others walked in, they found that there was another car repair shop behind the car repair shop. There are a lot of abandoned vehicles in the huge space, but the models and license plates of these vehicles prove that these vehicles are the cars of the missing persons, but logically those cars are not that old, so I doubt it. The rules of this car repair shop are all about time.”

"acceleration time?"

Liu Xing thought for a while, slapped his thigh and said: "I see, no wonder Liu Qindong chose to let his character card fall off, because he also thought that this car repair shop would start to accelerate the passage of time after triggering certain conditions, so those vehicles It has aged like this. You must know that as long as the quality of the current car is passed when it leaves the factory, even if it is left outside in the wind and rain for a few years, it will only be dusty on the outside. As long as it is cleaned, it will be no different from a normal vehicle. Therefore, these old-looking vehicles may have been accelerated for decades! So after Liu Qindong realized this, he began to worry that even if he could pass the level, the actual age of his character card would be backward. Guess how old it is or even how old it is!"

"In the rule book of the Cthulhu Running Game, it is mentioned that when the player's character card changes significantly in terms of age, to put it bluntly, after reaching a certain age, the attribute values ​​​​in all aspects will decrease, and even some Sometimes, some more special diseases will be diagnosed, such as Alzheimer's disease, etc., but this situation rarely happens. After all, each parallel world in the Cthulhu Run Game Hall does not only have a few players participating, so time Although the flow rate is a little faster than the real world, it can still be maintained at about one to two. Therefore, it is difficult for the player's character card to trigger this aging judgment. However, once it is triggered, it means that the character card is almost the same. It’s useless.”

"So Liu Xing, what you are saying is that Liu Qindong is worried that if he continues to advance the module process, if something goes wrong, he may receive his pension early. By then, this character card will be no different from tearing it up. , so why not simply drop it off to avoid the big pit in front of you, and then use the resurrection module to get this character card back?" Mobius suddenly realized.

"If it were me, I would probably make such a choice, because Mobius, you should have heard the story of the Lanke people, right? There was a woodcutter who saw two immortals when he went up the mountain to chop wood. Playing chess, he found out that the wooden handle of his ax was broken after the chess game was over. When he came down the mountain, he discovered that hundreds of years had passed in this world; and this module is a reverse bad guy The story is that Liu Qindong and others were still a group of young people when they entered the car repair shop, but they turned into a group of old men when they came out."

Liu Xing touched his chin and said with certainty: "If I become such an old man one day, then I will probably give up this character card. Firstly, because this kind of character card will be used in most modules. The role of a hindrance is second to..."

Before Liu Xing finished speaking, he heard a sudden noise outside.

"Huh? Did the deal break down?"

Mobius said doubtfully: "This shouldn't be the case. I have reminded the mythical creatures responsible for the negotiations before that we only need to maintain the final bottom line - to move freely in this film and television base, we can directly sign a contract with you. The cooperation treaty, as for other things, we just need to try our best to fight for it.”

"Then let me go out and take a look. If you don't mind, Mobius, then I can speak on your behalf when necessary?" Liu Xing opened the door and said.

"No problem, Liu Xing, just remember the bottom line I just said."

After getting the authorization from Mobius, Liu Xing left the RV directly. As soon as he came out, he saw that the tent was already tense. Zhang Jingxu and others had already taken out weapons to confront the mythical creatures, but from the moment they returned Judging from the fact that they have the energy to scold each other, both sides probably have no real plans to take action.

Moreover, Lu Tianya and the three of them have not left the tent yet.

So what exactly is going on?

At this time, Mate came over and explained: "Another mythical creature just came over. It probably came here after seeing the information about our circus. After all, you also know that our circus is already from Chengdu. It is one of the popular tourist attractions on the Internet, so as long as the mythical creatures near Chengdu have access to information, they will find that our place is a gathering place for mythical creatures, and then they will most likely come to seek refuge with us; in fact, this is indeed the case. About one-third of the mythical creatures we have here were specially found in recent times, and we have even rejected a few mythical creatures with problems."

After what Mate said, Liu Xing noticed that there was a new face among those mythical creatures, but this new face looked a bit different. . . How should I say, like a person?

"Hey, why do I suddenly feel cold on my back? Does this guy look a little perceptive?"

Liu Xing frowned, and a word suddenly came to his mind - the uncanny valley effect.

Yes, this new mythical creature looks 80% similar to humans, but it is precisely because of this 80% resemblance that Liu Xing, a serious human being, feels a little uncomfortable seeing it. That kind of discomfort that comes from the heart.

"Yes, so Liu Xing, your friends couldn't help but want to take action when they saw it."

Matt said with a smile: "But this is normal. If I see a creature that looks like a ghoul, but I am sure that it is not a ghoul, I will subconsciously want to stay away from it, but If there are some of the same kind around me, I will work with them to deal with this strange guy, because it looks like he is not one of us; this is also true in nature, for example, many types of monkeys are similar in the eyes of you humans , is nothing more than a difference in color and size, but in the eyes of these monkeys, they are not monkeys, so if they are not from our species, their minds must be different, and these monkeys will fight without hesitation."

Liu Xing was stunned for a moment, then carefully observed the mythical creature that looked very much like a human being, and another thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

"Uh, isn't this a mythical creature, but another group of humans from ancient times?"

Met looked at Liu Xing, smiled and nodded, "Sure enough, Liu Xing, you know everything about it, but it is indeed a mythical creature, but it seems to be one of those artificial semi-mythical creatures, which is what ordinary humans do. It became like this after taking a special potion or undergoing special transformation, and its current appearance is somewhat similar to an ancient human being in my impression."

Sure enough.

In the long process of evolution, several branches appeared under the genus Homo, but in the end only Homo sapiens, that is, we modern humans, remained.

However, in the study of human DNA, traces of other humans have been found, so some people believe that our ancestors once used other humans as their food source, and the fact that humans are susceptible to prions is also one of the evidences, because Only cannibalistic animals can get prions. . .

Therefore, some people believe that the uncanny valley effect occurs because we, Homo sapiens, once "fell in love and killed each other" with other humans, so the fear and uneasiness of these similar people who look similar to ourselves are engraved deep in our genes.

"Liu Xing, don't forget, we mythical creatures are immortal, so I have seen your Homo sapiens ancestors on the earth before, and of course I have seen other types of human beings. They actually look similar to you. , that is, there are differences in some details; but at that time, you humans were generally too weak, so your Homo sapiens ancestors often competed with other humans for territory, and finally won with their intellectual superiority."

Matt said with some sigh: "However, some humans are not willing to be defeated by you Homo sapiens, so they began to seek refuge in various mythical creatures to obtain some strange powers. As a result, they began to become a little uncomfortable. Like humans; in the end, these humans either became history or became other mythical creatures, but their genes were left behind by some mythical creatures, such as snakemen, so this new mythical creature should It was the atavistic experiment carried out by the snake people, and it ended up like this."