Dibang is a kind of chip that only appeared in modern times. Because mahjong was already very popular at that time, scenes of wealthy ladies playing mahjong often appeared in TV dramas that reflected that era.
Generally speaking, it only takes a few minutes to finish a mahjong game, so a mahjong game will involve dozens of wins and losses. If you have to pay in cash every time you win or lose, it would be a bit troublesome.
Therefore, the dot sticks came into being. When they were formed, there were four small sticks with different colors, representing different points... However, in modern times, the dot sticks were gradually eliminated in China, or were replaced by playing cards.
It was replaced because it would be more convenient to use playing cards to score points, and there would be no shortage of playing cards in the chess and card room.
"My name is Xie Tian, I am the director of the Huaxia Daomen branch at Miskatonic University, and I am also the owner of this chess and card room."
Xie Tian walked up and said with a smile: "I don't have any other hobbies, I just like to play mahjong, so I couldn't bear it after I heard that some of you are colleagues from the Huaxia Taoist Sect and you also like to play mahjong.
I have played such a little game with you so that I can decide whether to cooperate more deeply with you."
The young man from before also came over and said: "You should also know that most branches of Huaxia Daomen abroad are actually franchisees of Huaxia Daomen. For example, Brother Xie is a local of Arkham Town.
He is also an outstanding graduate of Miskatonic University, so after he came into contact with the exchange students of the Huaxia Taoism at school, he decided to dedicate this chess and card room to become a branch; of course, Brother Xie’s ancestors were actually also from the Huaxia Taoism.
The exchange students from the sect only stayed because they married local people."
After hearing what the younger brother said, Liu Xing noticed that Xie Tian was indeed a mixed race.
"Wait a minute, I heard that your branch has been established for more than fifty years, so?" Zhang Jingxu hesitated.
Xie Tian nodded and said: "Yes, although I look like I am only in my thirties, in fact I am almost seventy years old, because I once had a friend in my early years who liked to collect all kinds of things.
Weird and ancient prescription, so once I accidentally drank the elixir he had just brewed. Unexpectedly, it was really bad at the effect. However, my friend never reproduced it due to lack of materials.
The second bowl of elixir; it’s a pity that this guy made a big news more than ten years ago, so he made the medicine himself and drank himself to death.”
Elixir?
Liu Xing looked at Xie Tian with some surprise, not expecting that he had drunk the elixir.
The elixir is a very famous potion in the Cthulhu Game Hall, because various formulas labeled as "elixirs" are recorded in many magic books, so as long as players are willing to look for it, in a scene
After a while, you can get several formulas for elixirs. The most important thing is that these formulas all claim to have successful cases, and these formulas do have a success rate of about 30% to 50%.
Judging from the success rate alone, these elixirs look quite good. Although the effect is only to keep people young forever, this is not very attractive to players in the Cthulhu Game Hall. After all, it cannot improve the chance of success.
The attribute values are reached, and the values of your APP are permanently fixed. Unless you encounter extreme circumstances such as disfigurement and plastic surgery, your APP values will not change in any way.
Of course, this elixir is very attractive to NPCs. After all, many people have wanted immortality since ancient times. Of course, it is too difficult to be immortal, so many NPCs will settle for the second best.
It would be nice if I could stop aging and keep my appearance forever.
So as long as the player successfully makes an elixir and then gives the elixir to an NPC, then the NPC will most likely increase a lot of favorability towards you and sometimes get a lot of rewards.
However, the most special thing about the elixir is that all different formulas can only successfully make one to three copies. After that, no matter who uses this formula, they will not be able to make the elixir; and everyone, whether they are players or NPCs,
They can only use the same recipe once!
So Xie Tian's friend was somewhat unlucky. He finally made a successful elixir, but his friend drank it.
"Elixir, I remember there was a similar legend in my hometown. It said that a bottle of water was taken from each of the big rivers in our three eastern provinces, and then five immortals were captured and put in a big clay pot.
After pouring all the water in, light the fire and start boiling continuously. When the pottery pot is cracked and exploded, find the largest piece of pottery fragment, mash it into powder and drink it with water. You can stay young forever.
And as long as nothing unexpected happens, you can live to be a hundred years old, but you will definitely die after your one hundredth birthday, and your internal organs will disappear without a trace overnight." Ding Kun said seriously.
"Brother, you are also from the three eastern provinces, so we are fellow villagers."
The young man smiled and said: "My name is Zhang Yizi. I have been living in Bingcheng before coming here. After coming here, I haven't met anyone from the same country. It turns out that these guys are all from the spicy food province in the south."
, so I haven’t eaten specialties from the three northeastern provinces for a long time.”
Hearing what Zhang Yizi said, Ding Kun also smiled and said: "I have an old friend coming back later. He is also from the three northeastern provinces, so the three of us can find an opportunity to get together in the past two days and do something from the three northeastern provinces."
Let’s reminisce about my hometown with special dishes, but that friend of mine is an ordinary person, so don’t say the wrong thing when the time comes.”
Zhang Yizi nodded quickly in agreement.
After a brief acquaintance, Zhang Yizi handed some dot sticks to Liu Xing and others, "The dot sticks here are divided into three grades. The more red dots on the dot sticks, the higher the grade of the dot sticks."
Gao, the more help you can ask us to do, and don't think that this is just our branch doing nothing, because you may not know it when you first come here, but Arkham City is full of talents.
, there are all kinds of messy people, among them there is a weird thief who likes to steal things randomly. After stealing things, he will let a guy nicknamed the Riddler hide them, and what this Riddler is best at is taking things well.
Then I’ll give you a riddle to guess, so as long as you stay in Arkham City long enough, you’ll meet these two damn guys.”
Hearing what Zhang Yizi said, Liu Xing and others couldn't help laughing, because they didn't expect that the Cthulhu Run Game Hall was so good at matryoshka dolls that they would put characters from works that paid tribute to Arkham City.
Arkham City.
As for the three red dots on the stick Liu Xing received, it seems that he performed well in previous special tasks.
At this time, Ding Kun's friend Ning Hui also arrived. He should have arrived long ago, but Ding Kun randomly found a reason to ask him to wait until after two o'clock.
As a result, Liu Xing and others were randomly divided into groups and began to play mahjong leisurely and contentedly. For a moment, they forgot that they were still in the Cthulhu Running Group game hall.
However, happy time is always short-lived, and this afternoon passed quickly, so Liu Xing and others said goodbye to the chess and card room and prepared to wander around Arkham City in small groups.
Of course, Ding Kun and the other two were from the same country meeting their fellow countrymen, and they wanted to have a good drink at night, so the three of them walked away first. Although Liu Xing wanted to act together with Zhang Jingxu and others, in the end he still
Tian Qing, who was worried, was taken away to go shopping...
Liu Xing felt that if he were an ordinary person, he would think that Arkham City is a small but very prosperous city, because the streets near the city center are lined with various big-name stores.
You can just open a shopping app and all the brands in it can be found on this street.
But what worries Liu Xing the most is the clock tower in the city center. It is said that this clock tower was the center point of Arkham Town when it was built. Therefore, when Arkham Town was upgraded to a city, the new buildings were also carefully calculated.
, to ensure that the bell tower is still in the most central position; and this bell tower is also real. The bell tower has a huge copper bell hanging on it, so when the time is announced at 12 noon every day, a dedicated person climbs up with a specially made
The hammer struck.
Of course, this is only what ordinary people know, and the news that Liu Xing and others got is that this bell tower is actually a huge mythical creature, and the big bell is used to seal it. As long as it is struck every day, then
The unique frequency generated by the bell will affect the mythical creature, making it unable to move.
As we all know, props like this that are specially used to suppress mythical creatures will often cause various problems at a certain point in time, so Liu Xing estimates that the mythical creature under the bell tower may be unsealed at any time, but this is
Look, it was the lucky player who encountered it.
Liu Xing was thinking as she followed Tian Qing and the three girls into a clothing store. As expected, the most favorite thing for girls to do when shopping is to buy clothes.
But it's so boring.
In Liu Xing's opinion, clothes can be divided into good-looking and bad-looking clothes, so when Tian Qing asked Liu Xing what made this dress good-looking, Liu Xing couldn't explain it... so it didn't take long.
Liu Xing was left in the rest area of a shopping mall, while Tian Qing and the other three girls went to continue shopping.
"Hi, long time no see."
Liu Xing, who was concentrating on playing on his mobile phone, suddenly heard someone sitting next to him and saying hello to him with a familiar yet unfamiliar voice.
Liu Xing subconsciously raised his head and looked to the side, and found that the person coming was actually Wang Qi!
How could it be him?
Isn't he already dead?
Liu Xing has not forgotten that Wang Qi died in the real world because he chose the wrong club, so is the "Wang Qi" in front of him an NPC? After all, Wang Qi is already dead, so his character card can only be converted to
NPC can take this path...but why is he in Arkham City?
"Wang Qi, we haven't seen each other for a long time. It has been almost two or three years since we said goodbye in England." Liu Xing said with pretended enthusiasm.
Wang Qi nodded and said with some sigh: "Yes, it has been a long time. I didn't expect to meet you in this place today. It seems that we are quite destined."
"That's true. I never thought I'd see you again."
Liu Xing deliberately emphasized the pronunciation of the word "see" a little bit, just to see if Wang Qi was an NPC or a player at this time.
Liu Xing has heard of some extreme situations, that is, when a player encounters a fatal danger in the real world, and there are ordinary people around him, and they are still looking at him, if this player can open Cthulhu at the last moment
If he enters the Cthulhu Running Game Hall, his body will stay in the real world, and all body functions will stop directly, but his soul will enter the Cthulhu Running Game Hall and he can proceed with modding normally, but he will no longer be able to
They have left the Cthulhu Run game lobby, or they cannot even leave the parallel world where their character card is located. They can only stay in the lobby for a while after ascending to the Hounds of Tindalos area.
Unfortunately, Wang Qi did not react to Liu Xing's hint, and still said with a smile: "My mother won a grand prize for a seven-day trip to America some time ago, so our family of three came here to play.
My parents are still shopping there now because they need to bring some things back to my relatives."
Since Wang Qidu had already told how he came, Liu Xing could only make up a random one, "I also came here with a group to play this time, and now my girlfriend is also shopping there, and I think there is nothing wrong with shopping.
I mean, I’m just lazy here playing with my phone.”
Then, Liu Xing and Wang Qi started chatting. The content was all useless gossip. In short, it was just random chatting from all over the world.
Until a middle-aged couple came over.
"My parents have finally finished shopping, so Liu Xing and I will take the first step. If we are destined to meet again later, let's meet again." Wang Qi stood up and said.
Liu Xing nodded and glanced at Wang Qi's parents subconsciously. He found that Wang Qi's parents could not be said to be similar to Wang Qi. They could only be said to have nothing to do with each other and were not similar at all.
Could it be that Wang Qi was adopted?
That's unlikely, right?
Watching Wang Qi's family of three leave, Liu Xing couldn't help but frown.
If he met Wang Qi's family of three elsewhere, Liu Xing would at most be curious about why Wang Qi and his parents look completely different, but this is the place where most strange stories appear in the Cthulhu Mythos - Aka
Mu City, so Liu Xing's curiosity turned directly into suspicion.
Could it be that he was targeted by someone so quickly?
Fortunately, there were people coming and going around, so Liu Xing didn't run away.
At this time, Tian Qing and her three daughters also returned home with a full load.
Because he still didn't know the specific situation, Liu Xing didn't tell anything about Wang Qi.