Real Cthulhu Running Game

"Liu Xing, you mean that the reason why Liu Dazui didn't remove the salt from these things was actually intentional?"

Zheng Fei frowned and said: "I remember that in a previous module, I encountered a very special original mythical creature - Aker's monster! This guy is an NPC named Aker who passed through a book It was created by a mysterious magic book. Of course, in my opinion, this magic book is very likely to be related to Yog-Sothoth, because the name given in the Cthulhu Run Game Hall is called "Book of Divine Eyes"; this one is The monster does not have vision or hearing, and may not even have a sense of smell. In short, it cannot actively locate the enemy. However, if Acker applies a special liquid to a certain place, then his monster will quickly reach that location. .”

"Furthermore, the way Acker paints is different, and the commands he can give to the monster are also different. For example, a dot means to stay put, a tick means that the object cannot be attacked, and a cross means that the object can be attacked directly. Attack! In addition, there were some different symbols, but I didn’t have time to decipher them at the time because the difficulty of this module was not high, so I and other players quickly realized how Acker was contacted. That monster, after all, this NPC carries a small bottle with him, it looks like the kind of bottle that girls use to apply nail polish."

"So the salt on these things may be used for marking, and the person receiving the mark may not be a human! Because salt has no smell, and as long as there is a distance of about half a meter, it is difficult for us to see it with the naked eye. Tiny salt crystal particles, let alone at night; and since Liu Dazui dares to move in Boyang City, it means that he is still somewhat sure of being able to protect himself. After all, the risks of doing this kind of business are too great. , so both the buyer and the seller should have a single line of contact, so if Liu Dazui disappears, it will be very difficult for Wang Quexin to contact the buyer again to continue doing business, because the other party does not know whether you are fishing."

"Is it something to do with salt?"

Meng Fugui thought for a while and suddenly said: "Yes, when I opened a restaurant with this character card, I met a lot of people from here and there, including people from all walks of life. One of them was from Yanjing City. The businessman mentioned a god named Prince Salt! Yanjing City is the city that produces the most salt in the Shenlong Empire. Even if the salt drying fields on the seaside are fully powered, the total output of Yanjing City is almost the same as that of Yanjing City, because Yanjing City But there are several real salt mountains! So Yanjing City will mine these salts like rocks, but the quality of the mountain salt in this salt mountain is not good, and there are many impurities. "

"So the salt well in Yanjing City is different from the salt well in our impression. It is a deep well specially used to filter mountain salt. To put it bluntly, it takes away the salt through groundwater, and then distills the salt water at the outlet of the groundwater; This sounds quite outrageous to us, but the groundwater in Yanjing City is so outrageous. Not only is the flow very large, but the water flow at the outlet is also relatively slow, so Yanjing City can directly send out a few water trucks to extract brine continuously. , sent to the distilled salt factory behind for purification.”

"Here is the turn of the Salt Prince I just mentioned. This god is much better than the Wenquxing we talked about before, because these salt mountains were created by the Salt Prince, and the original crisscrossing underground waterways were also created by the Salt Prince. The Salt King integrated it into the salt water river that can be used by people today; as we all know, if you wanted to eat salt in inland areas in ancient times, you basically had to refine salt through salt lakes and salt wells, which was not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also High-quality salt was not available, so in ancient times it was difficult for cities in inland areas to develop if they were not close to canals."

"So Yanjing City was originally a very inconspicuous small city. It usually lived a self-sufficient life, but if there was a disaster, it would be uncomfortable. Therefore, a newly appointed prefect wanted to give Yanjing City Looking for a way out, he met a man in a cloak in the mountains and fields. The man was sitting on the edge of a cliff with his back to him. The prefect kindly advised him to be careful, as he would be dead if he fell. The person asked him what he was thinking in a very high-pitched voice, and the prefect would say that this man was a bit like a Taoist immortal, because he often listened to his parents telling stories when he was a child, and the immortal mentioned in the story would stand on his side. On the edge of the cliff, you can look out in all directions, and you have a very cool and handsome look.”

"You should be able to guess here that the person in the cloak is not a person, but a spirit animal. This time it came to the prefect to ask for a title! And the prefect's statement made him even more happy. In short, this monster that the prefect didn't even know what it was soared up on the spot and turned into an old Taoist with a fairy spirit. Naturally, the old Taoist would not treat the prefect badly, so he asked him what kind of benefits he wanted, even if it was gold and silver. They can all be conjured up for him! The prefect naturally chose Salt Mountain in the end, because the prefect knew that Yanjing City and nearby towns did not produce salt, so they had to buy salt from outside at high prices, so they spent a lot of money every year to buy salt. superior."

"So, the old Taoist turned the mountain at his feet into a mountain of salt, and then disappeared in front of the prefect. After returning, the prefect immediately sent people to build a Salt King Temple, and the old Taoist He was called the Salt Prince, so when the Salt Prince was happy, he helped Yanjing City modify the trend of the underground river; in short, this Salt Prince has not caused any trouble to Yanjing City so far, so he does not look like Wenquxing and Wuquxing. Gods who can cause trouble, but I am a bit worried that the underground river in Yanjing City will corrode the river channel faster due to excessive salt content, which may lead to subsidence! Or even the emergence of sinkholes! Because Yanjing City is now The population is quite large!”

Hearing what Meng Fugui said, Liu Xing thought of a word - exchange.

Wenquxing and Wuquxing can give a person knowledge and power that he does not possess, so they will get something back from this person in exchange! And since the Salt King gave Yanjing City so many salt mountains that were comparable to gold mountains, it would be "normal" to take everything from Yanjing City in exchange afterwards.

"Equivalent exchange? No, this should be said to be unequal exchange! The old rulers in this module may not take action directly, but only reach contracts with NPCs and players through exchanges, but this contract is definitely for They are more advantageous; of course, it is not ruled out that there are some beings similar to the ancient gods who will have a better attitude towards us humans, for example, this Salt Prince may be one."

Meng Fugui continued: "There is a very special kind of rat in Yaowang Temple. According to the description, it looks a bit like a white hamster, but I have never really seen it, so I'll call it a salt rat here, or a salt rat. The pet of the Salt King; the salt rat is a good partner of the salt workers, because it can detect the location of high-quality salt. After all, a salt mountain is so big, there will definitely be dozens of salts of different qualities and characteristics. According to our It means edible salt, industrial salt and rock salt. Even adding a little water can directly turn into hydrochloric acid corrosion salt! So every salt worker wants to get a salt rat, because with a salt rat, they can directly turn into corrosive salt. Captain."

"Although this salt rat also has eyes and ears, it looks normal, but in fact it is just a decoration! Yes, the salt rat's vision and hearing have seriously deteriorated, but it can smell the subtle differences in salt, thus giving salt a The workers lead the way; the salt merchant I met mentioned that some salt workers who are trusted by the salt rats can pass some simple information to the salt rats through different ways of placing salt and salt grains. The salt rat can also reply in the same way! If this is true, then we have reason to suspect that Liu Dazui and his gang are private salt obtained from Yanjing City!"

"After all, the salt water flowing out of the underground river cannot be 100% taken away by the water tanker at the outlet, so the salt water will continue to flow down the river. Therefore, the rivers near Yanjing City have extremely high salt content, so there are Some villagers make their own salt; Yanjing City turns a blind eye to this. After all, the villagers can just say that they just fetched a little water and went home, and then the water was dried in the sun without being used up, so they got This is a small amount of salt, so as long as it is not a large-scale salt production, there will be no problem, and large-scale salt production requires a large salt field to dry the salt, which is easy to detect."

"Well, if Liu Dazui and the others purchase salt directly from the villagers, then they can put together a boatload of salt, and the risk of doing so is not too high."

Liu Xing looked at the two-story building and continued: "If Liu Dazui and the others really purchase goods from Yanjing City, then they may really find a way to get a few salt rats to provide themselves with information, and those furniture and other things are salt rats. A hiding place... Wait, if rats can be hidden in those furniture and bottles and jars, how many rats must there be?!"

"Yes, I remember that a piece of furniture I opened had traces of being gnawed by rats. I thought it was normal at the time. After all, there is nothing wrong with rats chewing on wood!" Yin En said seriously.

"This shouldn't be the case. The salt rat is called the pet of Lord Salt, so this salt rat can be said to be quite rare. Therefore, only those salt workers who gain the trust of the salt rat can be directly upgraded from ordinary workers to captains... Unless the force behind Liu Dazui cracks the mystery of the Salt Rat's abilities, or directly imitates a low-end version of the Salt Rat!" Zheng Fei said.

Just as Liu Xing wanted to say something, he immediately thought of the rats in the Heshan County module.

In a sense, those rats can be regarded as low-end versions of salt rats, because they will also obey human orders, but they will disperse as soon as the order is over, and even bite their owners! But the combat effectiveness of these rats is quite strong. After all, it is difficult to deal with such small and large enemies.

However, there is no such group of rats in Heshan County in the martial arts module, so Liu Xing can only make a temporary adaptation, "Have you heard of a fairy tale called the Piper? The attention of mice can be attracted through the sound of the flute, and finally brought to the point of controlling these mice; so I suspect that Liu Dazui and his group have mastered similar technology, and directly use more concealed salt to achieve the purpose of controlling the behavior of mice! Therefore, these rats may be Liu Dazui's life-saving means. You must know that even a martial arts master would have to scramble when he encounters such a group of desperate rats, and this time is enough for Liu Dazui to escape. .”

As soon as Liu Xing finished speaking, Yin En couldn't help but said: "Then the question is, are there any rats in the two-story building now? If so, will they attack us?"

Yin En's words reminded Liu Xing that when he was a child, he often heard that a certain friend/relative suddenly suffered from pain while sleeping, and when he opened his eyes, he saw a mouse biting his ear.

It's a bit scary.

"Then you should find another place to rest tonight. Tomorrow morning I will arrange for manpower to look inside and conduct a detailed search on the second floor building to see if there are any more clues left inside." Meng Fugui said seriously. .

Ever since, Liu Xing and he changed to a room to rest.

But just as Liu Xing fell asleep, he saw a huge statue - Yehou.

Looking at the Yehou statue in front of him, Liu Xing knew that the mission had finally come to him after a day.

Liu Xing was not in a hurry to get close to the statue, but first looked around to see the surrounding situation, and found that the huge Night Roar statue was located in a forest, but these trees turned out to be pine trees.

Is there any way to say this?

Regarding pine trees, Liu Xing can only think of pine cones and squirrels. Other than that, there are Christmas trees, and then some more abstract concepts, such as persistence, longevity and so on.

But these should have nothing to do with Yehou, right?

Liu Xing, who didn't know why, could only take a few steps forward, walked to a pine tree and studied it for a while. In the end, he didn't find anything special, because it was just an ordinary pine tree.

At this moment, Liu Xing heard some gurgling sounds.

When he looked up, Liu Xing met his eyes with a squirrel holding a pine cone.

What's happening here?

Liu Xing never thought that he would encounter such a normal little animal in his dream.

It's just because it's so normal that it seems abnormal.

Liu Xing frowned, and for a moment he couldn't figure out what this dream was about.

So Liu Xing could only turn around and look at the Yehou statue, only to find that it disappeared without knowing when!

Where is my Night Howl statue? Such a big one!