Real Cthulhu Running Game

At this time, a female voice sounded, "Hello everyone, I am the kp of this module, my name is Xuefeng, I hope all players can successfully pass this promotion module."

Wait, Xuefeng? !

Liu Xing was shocked. He didn't expect that the kp of this module would be called such an auspicious name, and he wished himself that he could pass this module as soon as he came. From this point of view, if there is no accident, his promotion to the module this time will be cool.

"Uh, I know that some players may misunderstand my name, so please don't be too superstitious, this Xuefeng is not that Xuefeng, and it will definitely not be auspicious to everyone." kp Xuefeng said helplessly.

After a few seconds, kp Xuefeng continued: "Okay, let's get back to business, this module is actually a special module. Simply put, this module does not have a real main task, but is composed of multiple side tasks, so when the player completes a certain side task, he will get a certain amount of 'truth' points. When the 'truth' points reach 100 points, the player can clear the module and get 1500 points. of."

"As for the secret room time that players are most concerned about, this module is set in this way. Each player only has two chances to initiate the secret room time. Each secret room time can last for ten minutes. Of course, the player's conversations during the secret room time cannot be heard by NPCs or mythical creatures. Otherwise, super travel punishment will be imposed. I hope you can pay attention to these details."

"By the way, because this module took place near Rongcheng in Huaxia, all players should be very clear about the security situation in Huaxia. Therefore, some of the personal items of the players have been automatically removed. You can check them in the item interface after returning to the real world. All right, now, players, please get ready, we are going to officially start the game."

As soon as kp Xuefeng finished speaking, Liu Xing found himself sitting in a bus, Shi Chuanling was sitting next to him, and it was pouring rain outside the window, Liu Xing couldn't see the situation outside the bus at all.

Liu Xing looked around and found that he and Ishi Chuanling were sitting at the back of the bus, Zhang Jingxu was sitting in front of him, and a tourist was sitting in the middle and front of the bus, and the driver and female tour guide were standing next to the driver's seat.

According to the memory of "Watanabe Meteor", because no one had a driver's license, and there was no fixed bus to the mountainous area where the ancient man was, "Zhang Jingxu" proposed to take the bus of a certain tour group to the destination, and because it was currently the off-season of tourism, there were only two tourists on the bus besides the three of us.

Twenty minutes ago, at nine o'clock in the evening, the bus was driving normally on the expressway, but there was a sudden heavy rain, which caused a landslide ahead and completely blocked the expressway, so the driver immediately found an intersection and got off the expressway in order to ensure safety. After crossing a bridge, he came to the place where the bus was currently staying.

At this moment, the female tour guide said, "Everyone, since there are only two umbrellas on board, the driver and I will get out of the car first to seek help from the locals and arrange accommodation for you tonight. Therefore, please stay in the car for the time being to avoid accidents."

After speaking, the female tour guide and the driver left the bus holding umbrellas.

From this point of view, the remaining two tourists are players.

"Mr. Zhang Jingxu, I just said don't worry, we won't encounter these things when we leave the next day." Shi Chuanling said to Zhang Jingxu with a smile.

Originally, both "Watanabe Meteor" and "Ishikawa Ling" planned to leave early tomorrow morning, but because "Zhang Jingxu" insisted on visiting the ancient man as soon as possible, because the ancient man's whereabouts were erratic, maybe because he was so late for an hour or two, he would not see the ancient man, so "Zhang Jingxu" forcibly pulled "Watanabe Meteor" and "Ishikawa Ling" into the car.

Zhang Jingxu shook his head helplessly, then turned around and said, "What can I do? I'm also very desperate now. Who would have thought that there would be a sudden rainstorm and a landslide, but this time it's not because I want to help Meteor to visit that ancient man, otherwise we wouldn't have encountered these things."

Suddenly Zhang Jingxu dumped the pot, Liu Xing said with a speechless face: "Okay, okay, I can take the blame, but judging by the current rain, I'm afraid it won't stop until tomorrow morning."

At this time, the player sitting at the front also stood up, walked to the middle of the bus and chatted with another player, but at this moment Liu Xing realized that he could not understand what they were saying, although Liu Xing knew that they were communicating in Chinese.

Oops.

Only then did Liu Xing realize that after arriving in the Shoggoth area, players will start to experience "language barriers". If the character card used by the player does not have the corresponding language skills, they will not understand what the other party is saying at all.

Therefore, because the character card used by Liu Xing is an islander, and he has not learned the skill "Other Language: Chinese", Liu Xing must not be able to communicate with those two players now.

Fortunately, the character card used by Zhang Jingxu happened to be able to speak Chinese and Island Mandarin, so in this module, Zhang Jingxu had to act as a translator.

Of course, this is not good news for Liu Xing. After all, the main language in this module must be Huaxia, so "I" who don't understand Chinese can hardly do anything in this module, let alone search for information, and the information obtained is second-hand information, which requires Zhang Jingxu to translate. If Zhang Jingxu's translation is wrong, things will be even more troublesome.

Shi Chuanling was also aware of this problem, so he smiled and said to Zhang Jingxu: "Zhang Jingxu, it seems that we need you to be our interpreter later, after all, Meteor and I can't speak Chinese."

Zhang Jingxu sighed, shrugged and said, "No problem, I was already mentally prepared when I invited you to Huaxia, but you should not have too high expectations for my translation level, after all, my island language can only be said to be average, and some things may be translated strangely."

Liu Xing nodded. It seems that Zhang Jingxu's "Other Languages: Island Mandarin" skill value should be around 50. He can use the island language proficiently for conversations, but he can't do anything about some relatively uncommon or professional words.

It seems that the mod is in trouble this time.

The three of Liu Xing looked at each other.

At this time, the other two players also ended their conversation, walked over and said: "@♂▲..."

Both Liu Xing and Shi Chuanling were dumbfounded.

"These two came here to introduce themselves. The tall and thin one is called Li Dian, a local forensic doctor in Rongcheng; and the dark one is called Wan Zhongshan, a geologist from Xishan. I have already told them about your situation." Zhang Jingxu translated.

Liu Xing raised his eyebrows. The player configuration this time is quite interesting. There will be such "rare professions" as forensic medicine and geologist.

In the USB flash drive that Yin En gave him yesterday, the first message Liu Xing saw was "About the career ratings in the Cthulhu running game", in which forensic medicine is considered to be a mid-level profession that can be used once, while geologist is a low-level profession that "it is better to get a new card".

The reason for such a rating is that in the Cthulhu running game, the player’s skill points are divided into two categories—professional skill points and interest skill points. Generally speaking, the player’s professional skill points will be much higher than the interest skill points, but professional skill points can only be used for skills related to the profession.

Therefore, it can be said that occupation-related skills such as geologists cannot be used once in most modules, and even if they are used, they will not have any good results.

Therefore, the professional skill points of geologists can be said to be very cost-effective.

In the same way, the professional skills of forensic doctors can only be said to be relatively general. Although you can use your own skills in many occasions, the effects they can achieve are also very general, and some skills need to be used with related props.

Therefore, occupations such as forensic medicine and geologists can be regarded as "endangered occupations" in the Cthulhu running game. Firstly, almost no players will choose to create character cards of this type of occupation, and secondly, such character cards basically cannot survive a module. . .

Therefore, Liu Xing looked at Li Dian and Wan Chongshan with some surprise now. He didn't expect that he would encounter two "endangered occupations" at the same time in the promotion module. Liu Xing didn't know whether he was lucky or unlucky.

All in all, Liu Xing felt that he should be mentally prepared to be unfavorable.

Under Zhang Jingxu's translation, everyone chatted happily, but Liu Xing also noticed something strange at this time, that is, the female guide and driver have not returned yet.

Roughly speaking, it has been almost 20 minutes since the female guide and the driver left the bus. It stands to reason that no matter whether they have found help from the local villagers, they should come back and inform the news alone.

Although Liu Xing guessed at the beginning that the female guide and the driver were two cannon fodder NPCs who would be killed by the plot, but Liu Xing did not expect the plot to kill so quickly, and immediately solved the female guide and driver at the beginning.

Thinking of this, Liu Xing told Zhang Jingxu his guess, "Zhang Jingxu, why haven't the driver and tour guide returned yet? Could something happen to them?"

Zhang Jingxu frowned, first he habitually translated Liu Xing's words to Li Dian and Wan Zhongshan, and then expressed his opinion, "It seems that something may have happened to the driver and tour guide, after all, it is easy to cause problems due to such heavy rain."

At this time, the rain outside the car window suddenly became lighter, and Liu Xing could finally see the surrounding situation clearly.

The bus is parked in the middle of the street in the small town, and on both sides are rows of closely-connected single-family three-story buildings. The first floor is the store, and the second and third floors are housing.

At this time, lights suddenly appeared on the second floor of the building on the left side of the bus.

"Look, there are lights over there." Liu Xing said.

Zhang Jingxu nodded, and said with some confusion: "Then what should we do now, why don't we knock on the door of that resident, maybe the tour guide and the driver are there?"

Liu Xing and Ishi Chuan Ling naturally agreed with Zhang Jingxu's idea. After all, they have already cooperated in a module, and they still trust each other very much, so the cooperation was reached without further words.

After discussing with Zhang Jingxu for a while, Li Dian also agreed to act together with Zhang Jingxu. As for Wan Chongshan, he said that he would stay in the bus first, and then wait for the tour guide and driver.

Ever since, the four of Liu Xing braved the heavy rain and ran to the brightly lit building, and knocked on the rolling door on the first floor.

While waiting for the response from the owner of the building, Liu Xing involuntarily looked at the bridge where the bus passed by when he came.

According to a major law of the Cthulhu running game, an important channel like the bridge linking to the outside world will definitely break due to various reasons, so now Liu Xing is very curious about how the bridge will break.

However, Liu Xing already has some conjectures. Although the story background of this module is full of question marks, some clues can still be seen from the name of the module.

Old Town.

Liu Xing can be sure that the "Old Days" here does not refer to the Old Ones. After all, this module is only a module of the Shoggoth area, and it is impossible for the Old Ones to appear.

Therefore, Liu Xing believes that the "Old Days" in the module's name probably means "the past" or "ancient", because the building in front of Liu Xing now looks very old, and the shutter doors are already rusty.

Therefore, Liu Xing felt that the bridge should break under the heavy rain due to years of disrepair.

At this moment, the shutter door was pulled open, and a plain-looking man who looked about twenty years old looked at everyone suspiciously.

Because Zhang Jingxu was responsible for translating Liu Xing and Shi Chuanling, Li Dian volunteered to talk to the man.

"The man's name is Hu Cang, he is a local, and he is willing to provide us with board and lodging tonight." Zhang Jingxu translated concisely.

Liu Xing nodded and said, "Okay then, let's go back to the car and bring our luggage here, in case the car leaks, it will be bad."

According to another major law of the Cthulhu running group game, when trapped on an "isolated island", the vehicle will basically be damaged for various reasons, so it is best not to put important props in the vehicle.

Ever since, Li Dian was left to continue communicating with Hu Cang on the details, and the three of Liu Xing ran back to the bus to take away the luggage.

As for Wan Zhongshan, he said that he would wait in the bus for a while.

At this moment, kp Xuefeng said with a smile: "Okay, now, players, please conduct an inspiration judgment."

Inspiration judgment?

A trace of uneasiness surged in Liu Xing's heart.