Real Cthulhu Running Game

"The game will officially start in ten seconds."

It was only then that Liu Xing realized that he seemed to be locked. Although he could move his gaze, his body was out of his control at all, and he couldn't speak.

Ten seconds later.

"Games start!"

As if the soul returned to the body, Liu Xing regained control of his body.

silence.

The four people sitting around the table looked at each other, and none of them planned to speak.

After all, when encountering such unimaginable things, no SAN value judgment was made (SAN value is the most important attribute of players in the Cthulhu running game, which can be understood as sanity value. When players encounter some unacceptable things, such as When there are terrible corpses, mythical creatures, magic, etc., the SAN value judgment will be carried out. If the judgment fails, the character’s SAN value will be permanently reduced. When the SAN value reaches zero, the character will fall into permanent madness, which is equivalent to death. If the SAN value is lowered by more than five points within a certain period of time, it will be temporarily insane. For the specific situation, you can Baidu yourself, because the settings in this area are enough for me. chatting.

But Liu Xing didn't want to sit still, because instead of waiting in fear for the end of the one-hour game time, he might as well take the initiative to find out the possible fanatics among the other three players.

If you want to find fanatics, you have to talk to them first. Although Liu Xing has not run Cthulhu's regiment once, he has never played board games such as "Please close your eyes when it is dark" and "Werewolf Killer" online. Liu Xing thinks that there is a good chance to find the language loopholes of fanatics.

"I am an old Chinese doctor, and in reality I am an ordinary office worker."

In the background of the story given earlier, it has been explained that the four of them are all netizens who met on the Internet, so Liu Xing directly stated his game ID, and by the way, also brought the identity arranged for him in this game up.

"I'm Shanhe, a college student." The man in the hat on the right continued.

"I am Rootless Grass, the owner of a small company." The uncle on the left nodded to the three of them and said with a smile.

"My name is Wan Wan. I am the initiator of this ancient house expedition. I am a student of Shanghai No. 7 Middle School." The girl did not look up, and there was a tremor in her tone.

Liu Xing looked at the girl with some doubts, because a screen name like "Million" didn't seem like a girl should get a name.

"Oh, million, as the initiator, you should know some news about this ancient house." Liu Xing looked at the girl and said, already convinced that the girl should hold the key clues, after all, in the Cthulhu running game , each player will get different information at the beginning because of their different identities. For example, now, as the initiator of this expedition, Wanwan will definitely be able to get more information.

As for Liu Xing this time, as an ordinary office worker, he only knows the information in the background of the game, and knows nothing about the rest.

Of course, Liu Xing also began to doubt the identity of this millionaire as a fanatic, because millionaire is the initiator of this expedition, so there is a probability of more than 80% that this millionaire will be a fanatic.

At this time, Rootless Grass suddenly interjected: "I should know more than her, because I have personally witnessed the tragedy that happened in this ancient house ten years ago."

Rootless Grass recalled for a while before sighing, "Ten years ago, I lived next door to this old house. One night, I suddenly heard a few screams coming from this old house. I called the police, but it was too late. The family of three in this ancient house had been brutally murdered. The criminal was caught later. He was a high school classmate of the youngest son of the family. As for the motive of committing the crime, it seems to be because of emotional dispute .”

Liu Xing can now be sure that this middle-aged man named Rootless Grass on the Internet should have participated in the Cthulhu running game in reality, because the Cthulhu running game pays attention to a sense of substitution, which requires Players will describe the information they have learned from a third party from the perspective of the first party. From the actions and narration of Rootless Grass just now, it is very in line with this requirement.

And the girl nodded immediately after listening to Rootless Grass' narration, and Liu Xing vaguely saw a red necklace around her neck.

Wanwan also said at this time: "Yes, the suspect and the victim are both seniors of our Modu No. 7 Middle School, so this matter has become a big strange talk in our school, but I heard from my classmates a few days ago. There are a lot of strange things about this tragedy, and the old house is often haunted, so I launched this expedition online."

"Ding, the side quest is open. Please find out the story behind this tragedy. After completing the side quest, you can end the game directly and get an evaluation bonus. If you fail, there will be no penalty."

Liu Xing did not expect that a side mission would be triggered in just a few words, but fortunately, there is no penalty for failure, which made Liu Xing feel relieved a lot.

"I also saw this news on the Internet, and I also found the so-called pictures of the scene on the Internet. There are three pictures in total, but I don't know if they are real or not." After doing some operations, he handed the phone to Liu Xing and motioned Liu Xing to take a look for himself.

Liu Xing took the mobile phone, on it was a big blurry picture, but judging from the display, it should be in the kitchen, a dead body fell on the ground on its back, but the face had already been covered with thick mosaics.

There was also a big hole in the stomach of the corpse, this time a shadow was directly applied by PS.

Liu Xing swipe the touch screen of the mobile phone, the scene in the second picture is changed, it is in a bedroom, a dead body is lying on the bed, there is a large amount of blood on the side of the head, it seems that the head was hit hard and die.

As for the last picture, it should be in the living room where Liu Xing and others are staying now. The corpse is sitting on a chair. The neck is obviously torn, causing the head to be at an impossible angle. Shrugged at the shoulders.

Despite the interference of the mosaic, Liu Xing still noticed that the corpse had long hair, and the clothes on his body were somewhat similar to school uniforms. Coupled with its slender figure, it looked like a young woman.

That is to say, the family of three who was wiped out ten years ago were two men and one woman?

Liu Xing handed the mobile phone to Rootless Grass, and he had some clues about this tragedy in his heart.

"These photos are indeed real." Rootless Grass only took a look, then sighed, and said, "Although it has been ten years since this incident, I am still sure that this is them."

After speaking, Rootless Grass stood up.

Liu Xing's heart moved, is the rootless grass a fanatic? Want to blow out the candles?

But Liu Xing quickly dismissed this idea, because it takes five seconds to blow out the candle, which is enough to stop the rootless grass by himself. Would not choose this time to blow out the candles.

"Come on, return your phone." Rootless Grass bowed and handed the phone to Shanhe.

"It's okay." Shanhe also stood up and took the phone.

Everything is so natural.

Liu Xing reached out and pushed the non-existent glasses, stared at the candle, and fell into thinking for a while.

Liu Xing is a person who likes to challenge (death), and also has a certain degree of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Since the task in the novice room also triggered a side task, he will definitely complete it. training.

Therefore, Liu Xing deduced a lot of information based on the background of the game and the information provided by the other three people.

First, there may be three mythical creatures in this ancient house, but the ability to visually detect these mythical creatures is very limited, because now a single candle can restrict their movements.

Second, according to the requirements of the main task, if you stick to this candle, it should not be difficult. However, since you can trigger the side task so easily, the evaluation of clearing the level by sticking to the candle should be very low, so the focus of this game , on this side mission, and Liu Xing wants to make the attributes of his first character card look better, so that he can live longer in the future Cthulhu running game, so he must complete this side mission .

Third, that is, the other three players all have clues about side missions, so why don't I have them? Could it be that I didn't find them?

Thinking of the third point, Liu Xing began to grope for his pockets, only to find a wallet and a mobile phone.

This mobile phone is still the five-star magic phone of the year, Nokia 5230. Liu Xing still remembers using it when he was in high school.

"It seems that I am a bit of a down-and-out office worker. I still use such an old-fashioned mobile phone, but it still looks brand new. I really don't know where this person bought this old antique." Liu Xing laughed in his heart.

Liu Xing turned on the phone a little rusty, and found that there were only some applications built by Nokia in the phone, not even a QQ.

And according to the display of the mobile phone, there is no signal here, which dispels Liu Xing's idea of ​​looking up information online, so he can only open the address book.

The address book contains some completely unknown phone calls, but in the call log, Liu Xing found that the last call record was from Shanhe. An hour ago, the call time was 12 seconds.

"Shanhe, we talked on the phone an hour ago. What did we say at that time? I can't remember." Liu Xing looked at his mobile phone and had a bold guess in his heart.

"Oh, I remember I was asking why you haven't arrived yet. You were already ten minutes late at that time, and Rootless Grass and I were already at the door." Shanhe said without thinking.

"Well, no wonder it's only 12 seconds." Liu Xing replied with a smile while continuing to collect clues on the phone.

In the text messages, there are hundreds of text messages sent by more than ten contacts.

Liu Xing felt that there should be a lot of important information here, so Liu Xing read it word by word.

Sure enough, Liu Xing found a text message from his "girlfriend" two days ago.

"Honey, the amulet I asked for you in Longhua Temple has been put in your wallet, don't lose it, I heard that this amulet is very powerful, it can prevent evil from attacking."

Liu Xing opened the wallet, and there was indeed a talisman inside, and there was a familiar pattern on this talisman - the old seal!

PS: Thank you for your recommendation, now the old seal of the three major artifacts in the Cthulhu running group has also appeared, hehe.