Real Cthulhu Running Game

Liu Xing remembered that there was a family raising pigeons in his hometown. Every day they would fly in a large flock, which looked quite spectacular to Liu Xing who was still young at the time.

However, Liu Xing also heard that these pigeons would go out to fly every day. As a result, when counting the numbers at the end of the month, he would find that one or two pigeons were missing. You must know that there are no raptors near Liu Xing’s hometown, and these pigeons are generally Hovering near the pigeon cage, so these disappearing pigeons can only be considered to be lost, or they accidentally hit the wall while flying around, and then fell into some grass with their lives. You must know that Liu Xing's hometown is still very natural in terms of greening.

Therefore, the homing pigeons in the martial arts module are generally sold in units of "cages". Each cage contains mostly ten pigeons, eight of which are professionally trained by animal taming sects. They will rely on the terrain to avoid raptors. chasing; and the remaining two are fully armed guard pigeons. Their claws have been replaced with fine iron, they also wear a light anti-armor, and a single horn is added to their heads, and the guard pigeons They have also been cultivated and trained by the beast-taming sects such as the Hundred Beast Sect. Not only are they larger than ordinary pigeons, but their combat effectiveness has increased exponentially because they have learned how to use their own weapons.

Therefore, when faced with some small and medium-sized raptors, the accompanying guard pigeons can basically drive them away effectively, and can even complete a single kill. Therefore, this cage of professionally trained pigeons is not cheap, and you want to buy it. Gotta line up.

Of course, for the sake of insurance, the team of players responsible for purchasing the carrier pigeons also bought a cage of ordinary carrier pigeons. Under normal circumstances, these carrier pigeons are not much different from those that have been professionally trained, but when the latter begins to accelerate, the former will begin to appear powerless, and the former will be far behind the latter in terms of flexibility. . . So this cage of ordinary homing pigeons is, to put it bluntly, a decoy bomb. Those professional homing pigeons will start to accelerate when encountering inevitable threats. While getting rid of the raptors, they will also leave those ordinary homing pigeons behind.

Just like the classic joke, you don't need to run too fast when encountering a beast, as long as you can run faster than your companions, because 99.9% of the beasts are unlikely to give up the feast in front of you. A, and continues to chase the faster meal B in front.

Looking at the homing pigeons going away, Liu Xing couldn't help but sigh: "It's amazing that homing pigeons can automatically find their way. I remember this is related to the magnetic field?"

The player who was responsible for taking care of the carrier pigeons smiled, shook his head and said, "Leader, are you from that year? Some scientists conducted experiments in the past few years and removed the part of the pigeons that are used to sense the magnetic field. The result Those pigeons were still able to recognize the way, even if it was a new route; so scientists now believe that pigeons may have very good memories and can remember some iconic locations and even some special smells. In short, magnetic fields may be able to assist in recognizing the way. , but it shouldn’t be the main reason why pigeons know their way around.”

Liu Xing raised his eyebrows, he didn't expect such a thing to happen.

"Actually, it's normal for you, Alliance Leader, not to know this, because I also learned about these trivial things when I liked raising homing pigeons in the real world."

The player looked at the professional pigeons in the cage, his eyes full of yearning, "To be honest, if I have enough achievement points in the future, I should redeem a few pigeons and bring them back to the real world, because these have been professionally trained The carrier pigeons are so spiritual that they can definitely dominate the carrier pigeon competitions around the world if they are brought back. Therefore, animal taming sects like the Hundred Beasts Sect are the real treasure sects, because the art of animal taming is not only used in the real world, but also in many You can use the effects in the module to let some small animals do things for you, and sometimes they may work wonders.”

Liu Xing nodded and felt that these professionally trained homing pigeons have indeed been improved in all aspects, so it is also a good choice for players to join a sect that can train animals, especially those who are afraid of pain.

For example, Liu Xing himself was afraid of pain, so when he was learning acupuncture in the past, he didn’t dare to prick himself. Every time he mustered up the courage, he could not help but withdraw the needle as soon as the skin was pricked.

There is a saying that acupuncture is not too painful, at least not as painful as Liu Xing's big toe now.

I don’t know why, but Liu Xing only felt that his big toe would have a sting every few minutes, but the sting still came and went quickly. Liu Xing just took a breath and it disappeared. .

This is quite uncomfortable, but there is nothing you can do about it, because Liu Xing checked it carefully and found nothing unusual.

Liu Xing shook his head. Just when he was about to leave, he saw a casserole cooking something not far away. It smelled a bit like pigeon soup.

As for why Liu Xing knew it was pigeon soup as soon as he smelled it, the main reason was that when Liu Xing was interning in the hospital, many family members would bring pigeon soup to visit patients, and many restaurants near the hospital would sell pigeon soup, so Liu Xing was very interested in it. This taste can be said to be fresh in my memory.

Looking at Liu Xing's puzzled expression, the player smiled and said: "The weather is a bit hot, so a pigeon suffered from heatstroke when it was transferred here. I treated it for two days but it still couldn't come back to life. So now I can only turn it into a casserole soup to take care of me, so leader, do you want to sit here with me for a while, drink the soup and then go back? I see that your feet are wrapped with gauze, it looks like it should You kicked all your toenails off, so I drank some pigeon soup to replenish them. Maybe new nails will grow out tomorrow?"

Liu Xing shook his head and said: "I came here in a hurry because I wanted to reply to the letter, so I still have some things to deal with over there, so I won't stay here for a long time. But don't do it just for this sip of soup. And let more pigeons suffer from heat stroke, because this is not a bamboo rat!"

After leaving the carrier pigeon, Liu Xing returned to his room again and picked up the note.

Just over ten minutes ago, a carrier pigeon flew into Liu Xing's room, and the message it brought came from Zhang Jingxu.

Zhang Jingxu made a long story short. He only mentioned that the mysterious organization might have re-entered Boyang City after changing his identity, and had already contacted one of his uncles, so Zhang Jingxu wanted to ask Liu Xing what he thought, so that he could Use chicken feathers as arrows.

After all, in today's Boyang City, the main person in charge of the alliance is not Zhang Jingxu. In other words, all players who have joined the sect cannot be this person in charge. After all, they spend most of their time in the sect learning martial arts.

So if Zhang Jingxu wants to do things on his own now, he can only ask Liu Xing to give him a secret order.

Therefore, Liu Xing gave Zhang Jingxu a reply that could "act cheaply".

However, Liu Xing is still worried about Zhang Jingxu's safety, because Liu Xing also knew Zhang Jingxu's uncle when he was staying in Zhangjiamen. Therefore, if Zhang Jingxu is not careful, or is unlucky and fails to pass the judgment, then Zhang Jingxu may It’s time to leave the module early.

But Liu Xing also believed that Zhang Jingxu had his own sense of measure, because Zhang Jingxu was not the kind of person who liked taking risks, so he was unlikely to put himself in danger.

Thinking of this, Liu Xing saw a familiar figure passing by his door.

Yin En is back?

Liu Xing was a little surprised and chased after him, and found that Yin En was really back.

Liu Xing stopped Yin En and said with some confusion: "You didn't plan to stay in Heshan County for two days before coming back. Why did you come back so soon?"

Yin En shrugged, pointed to the entrance of Tianshui Town and said: "That's not because your family chose to leave with dozens of people early this morning, so the neighbors now can be described as panicked. Everyone wanted to leave Heshan County as soon as possible, but my family simply packed their luggage and urged me to come back quickly and build a new home so that I could get married."

Liu Xing smiled and said, "So that's it. How many people did you come over this time?"

"Not counting me, there are twenty-eight people. They are all neighbors you know. Apart from mine, there is only one person worth mentioning, and that is Blacksmith Gong."

As soon as Yin En finished speaking, Liu Xing said in surprise: "What, Blacksmith Gong is here too. That is indeed good news. He is the best blacksmith in Heshan County after all, and his The blacksmith shop is also very particular, and its various facilities and tools are comparable to those of the blacksmith shops in big cities."

"Yeah, I didn't expect him to join us, because doesn't Tiejiang Gong have a very reliable son-in-law in Far West City? So I always thought that Tiejiang Gong would go to Far West City to join his son-in-law. After all, Far West City has many people from all over the world. It completely destroyed our Sweetwater Town, which had just started to be rebuilt, and as a result, Blacksmith Gong brought his apprentices with me, but the rest of his family went to Far West City."

Yin En continued: "I asked Blacksmith Gong why he didn't go to Far West City. He said that he still has a sharp sword. If he goes to Far West City, he will probably have to live in his old age, because a qualified blacksmith shop cannot be filled casually. People go in. After all, the blacksmith shop is a carrot and a pit, or according to us modern people, it is an assembly line operation, and it is an assembly line that has reached a relatively optimal solution. If you add people and machines to it, it will not be too much. No matter how much production capacity we produce, we may even be unable to make ends meet.”

After Liu Xing thought for a moment, he found that what Yin En said made sense. The blacksmith shop in ancient times was an assembly line, with people responsible for controlling the furnace fire and those responsible for shaping the shapes. Therefore, a normally functioning blacksmith shop Except for some apprentices who do odd jobs, they generally don't recruit people randomly.

So Gong Tiejiang's current situation is like a restaurant that already has a team of chefs who work well together, but if you suddenly add a chef to it, the restaurant's food delivery efficiency will not increase but decrease, and it may even decrease. Conflicts will arise.

Therefore, if Blacksmith Gong goes to seek refuge with his son-in-law at this time, it means that he can take care of himself at home, because the blacksmith shop owned by his son-in-law will not let him interfere casually. Of course, he usually goes there for a walk if he has nothing to do. It’s okay to knock twice; as for waiting until the storm subsides before returning to Sweetwater Town, it’s unclear to Blacksmith Gong what happened. After all, he is just an NPC, unlike players who can be sure that the storm will not last long. , so he could only calculate the time longer.

"And we are very familiar with Blacksmith Gong. We all know that he treats his apprentices very well, so he can enjoy the happiness of his family when he goes to Far West City and no longer has to work hard to forge every day, but his apprentices can He will immediately lose his job, so he chose to come to us to open a new blacksmith shop."

Yin En said seriously: "Blacksmith Gong brought some ore here, but it is not enough for us in Tianshui Town, so Liu Xing, you have to find a way to get more ore."

Yin En's words gave Liu Xing a headache, because ore is really hard to buy now, let alone buy it in large quantities, and the price of ore has also risen recently. . . There is also the fact that the current alliance has not yet formed a qualified transportation team, so buying a large amount of ore may not necessarily be able to send it back.

So Liu Xing thought of the abandoned mine in Tieshan Village mentioned by Huo Zijun.

According to Huo Zijun, there are actually a lot of ores buried in the abandoned mine, but they were not discovered due to the backward mining technology of this module. Therefore, as long as Huo Zijun conducts prospecting while exploring the source of the signal, it is really possible to find out. A new ore.

And if Liu Xing remembers correctly, the main component of magnetite is also iron, right?

So Liu Xing told Yin En his thoughts.

"Yes, if that signal is really related to magnetite, then more ore can definitely be dug out of this abandoned mine! Although the amount of this ore may not be enough, it is enough for our alliance ”

At this point, Yin En said with a pity on his face: "Well, if I hadn't been getting married in the next two days, I would have followed him over to take a look. Wouldn't I have made a profit if I picked up some unique skills?"

"How could someone who knows peerless skills be trapped in an abandoned mine?"

Liu Xing shook his head and said: "I guess there is at most one unlucky guy in there, and the mission reward may be a new piece of ore. In short, as long as we can find the ore... So I have nothing to do these two days, just Follow us and take a look, Yin En, please take charge of the alliance for me."

Yin En thought for a while, then reluctantly nodded and said: "That's okay, anyway, I have something to do during this period and I can't leave casually, but don't miss my wedding, because my family has designated you to come. Be the witness."