Liu Xing looked at the dim corridor in front of him, as well as Zhang Jingxu and others who were as confused as himself, and knew that his group should have left the spiritual space.
At this moment, Elizabeth came down with something that looked like a router, "Oh, are you all awake? I thought you would wake up after I destroyed this thing."
After coming back to his senses, Norton rubbed his nose and said, "This thing should be the spirit house, right?"
"Yes, this is a kind of spirit house, but it seems that someone has specially modified some programs, because when I discovered this thing, it also had an external device connected to it that might be a hard disk." Elizabeth continued: "More importantly,
Yes, this thing was hidden in a corner on the fifth floor, and the outside was painted with cement, and the cement has the effect of shielding detection, so it took me a long time to find it."
"I just said, why haven't you rescued us yet?"
Norton shook his head and said with a smile: "Fortunately, we came in with you this time, otherwise we might have been trapped in the mental space, and then scared ourselves like the Delta people on the ground.
died."
"Oh? What is going on?" Elizabeth asked curiously.
Norton told Elizabeth what happened in the mental space.
"This is the scary thing about psychological suggestion. It only provides a little guidance and can make you harm yourself. But as long as you can see through all this, then psychological suggestion will be a joke to you.
"
Elizabeth showed an expression recalling the past and said somewhat sadly: "Before I joined Miskatonic University, I traveled around the continent of Europa because at that time I still needed to learn how to be a human being. As a result, I
I met a very strange man in Venice. The flute he played had no magic power at all, but his eloquence was very good, so he was able to convince everyone to believe what he said, so he relied on this to teach the children
Implant psychological cues, and then use their herd mentality to take all these children away in the dark."
"Ah? Isn't this a fairy tale?" Li Mengyao said in surprise.
Liu Xing also looked at Elizabeth with a puzzled face, because the story she just told was indeed almost exactly the same as a fairy tale named "The Piper".
Of course, the fairy tales that most people have heard nowadays have been "improved" to make it easier for adults to tell them to children. After all, many original fairy tales have a dark core, and even adults may find them a bit uncomfortable after reading them.
Comfortable.
So this flute player is also a typical dark fairy tale. It tells the story of a man who is good at playing the flute and helps a village deal with the rat problem, that is, by playing the flute to take away the rats. However, after the incident was completed, the villagers chose to go back on their word and did not
The flute player was rewarded accordingly, so he played the flute again and took away all the children in the village.
As for what happened to the children who were taken away by the flute player, it is actually easy for everyone to guess. After all, the reward that the flute player wanted was money, so he would definitely be able to cash out the children he took away...
But having said that, there are many modules about fairy tales in the Cthulhu Running Game Hall, so it is normal for this piper to actually exist. However, what is a little abnormal is that this piper does not know magic, but
A master of psychology, this is not enough for Cthulhu.
"Stories come from reality. Many so-called fairy tales have real prototypes behind them, because as long as you study those fairy tales carefully, you will find that there are certain supernatural elements behind these fairy tales. Of course, the most important ones are Andersen and
The Brothers Grimm are actually magicians, but their talents are relatively limited, so they can only change careers as writers." Norton said with a smile: "If I remember correctly, Andersen is actually the hunter in Snow White, of course.
At that time, Andersen had not yet changed his profession to become a magician, because he only received the reward from the queen - the blessing of the magic mirror after pretending to kill Snow White for the queen."
Speaking of this, Norton showed a regretful expression, "It is said that the magic mirror may be the work of an ancient god, and the original power of that ancient god was poured into this magic mirror to make it possible.
The magic mirror can turn into a know-it-all, and any question in the world can be answered by it... Unfortunately, when Snow White won the final victory, the queen, who had already lost her mind, took the magic mirror and ran away.
When people found the queen again, the magic mirror had been smashed and it had lost its magical power."
"This matter is indeed a pity, because if we can still master this magic mirror now, we can directly ask about the weaknesses of those mythical creatures. Of course, the power of the magic mirror can only be regarded as half an ancient god, so if we want to learn from
It is still unrealistic to get answers about the Old Ones from the Magic Mirror."
Elizabeth thought for a while and continued: "There is actually a lot of controversy about the destruction of the magic mirror, because the broken magic mirror looks no different from an ordinary mirror, so some people think
This is just an ordinary mirror, and the real magic mirror has been stolen a long time ago. After all, the name of this magic mirror is known to everyone in the local area, so when the mad queen ran away with the magic mirror,
When the time comes, there will definitely be many people who are interested in trying to steal the magic mirror."
"Well, then I want to ask a question - since this magic mirror is so precious, how did it fall into the hands of the queen of a small country? Andersen lived in the nineteenth century, and there were already many famous secrets at that time
The church became active, so how come there were no secret churches or mythical creatures trying to rob it before?" Liu Xing asked curiously.
Elizabeth smiled and replied seriously: "Since the magic mirror is an artifact, no one can control it and make it answer questions honestly, so the magic mirror can only answer one question at a time.
People's problems, and if this person is unable to communicate with the magic mirror due to an accident or a sudden attack, then the magic mirror will turn into an elf and attach itself to other mirrors, so those secrets
Even if the church really wants to obtain the magic mirror, there is no way to snatch it away through forceful means. Of course, if the queen can personally admit that she wants to give up the ownership of the magic mirror, then she can successfully take away the magic mirror."
"I see."
Liu Xing touched his chin and suddenly felt that this magic mirror might also be a backdoor left in the Cthulhu Run game lobby, which was specially used for people to check data. Of course, in order to prevent players from gaining control of the magic mirror, so
The Sulu Running Group game hall arranged a plot to hide the magic mirror.
Well, this explanation is very reasonable.
"Okay, let's not continue chatting now. Now that we have determined why this hospital became like this, it's time to go to the next place and continue exploring." Norton said with a smile.
As a result, as soon as Norton finished speaking, Elizabeth shook her head and said, "It's not that simple. Although judging from the plot of the mental space, this mental room may have been placed in the hospital by the Darkworms, but that's not what I just said.
Is there an external hard drive in the Spirit House? Yes, this external hard drive is likely to have nothing to do with the Dak bugs, which means that the external hard drive may come from a third party; although this third party may be here to help Dak
It's a bug, but it's more likely that it's here to muddy the waters, or even fish in troubled waters."
As Elizabeth spoke, she removed what looked like an external hard drive. Then Liu Xing and others understood why Elizabeth thought that this external hard drive had nothing to do with the Dakworms, because the external hard drive looked like a piece of wood.
.
"Obviously, this external hard drive is not compatible with the technology of the Dak bug people. I think it should be the product of a certain plant-based civilization, such as the tree people civilization that exists to this day. They were in contact with other ancient civilizations.
It has also completed informatization and can use its own bioelectricity to convert it into corresponding signals to achieve the purpose of exchanging information. The hard drive used by the Shuren Civilization is similar to this, but the details are slightly different."
Elizabeth frowned and continued: "Although from our human perspective, insect civilization and plant civilization may be natural enemies, in fact, the two civilizations are not incompatible with each other, and there are even many
Civilizations have reached a symbiotic relationship, so it is normal for the Dak bug people to have a plant civilization as an ally... Strangely enough, the Dak bug people are famous for being loners, and they have never cooperated with other ancient civilizations, because they have never cooperated with other ancient civilizations.
In a sense, the Dak bug people themselves are a union of dozens of insect civilizations."
"In addition, this external hard drive seems to have forcibly cracked the spiritual house, so we must consider the possibility that a third-party force wants to take this opportunity to achieve a certain purpose, so it takes the opportunity to
Using this mental room that may belong to the Dak bugs to cause trouble... Judging from the current situation, I think the purpose of this may be to get the Dak bugs and the Delta people to fight as soon as possible so that they can sit down
It’s a profit, but more clues need to be found to determine the specific situation.”
"Then let's go take a look elsewhere. I think..."
Before Norton finished speaking, Liu Xing felt the earth suddenly tremble.
"There was an earthquake?" Yin En said subconsciously.
Elizabeth shook her head and said with great certainty: "This is not an earthquake, because I can feel the existence of seismic waves, so I am sure that the vibration just came from somewhere in this ruins, but because this vibration is real,
It was too sudden, so I can't be sure where the epicenter was."
"Is it a biological trap of the Delta people?" Liu Xing continued to guess.
"If it is a biological trap, then this is a big one." Zhang Jingxu frowned, "It seems that we have to be more careful now, because if we step on this biological trap, we may die without any chance of life.
.”
Hearing what Zhang Jingxu said, Norton said very relaxedly: "Don't worry, Elizabeth has built-in various life activity detection devices, such as infrared, thermal imaging and heart rate monitors, so Elizabeth can definitely detect those biological traps in advance, after all
As long as it's something alive..."
"No."
Elizabeth directly interrupted Norton, "I just listened carefully. Although I found several traces of life activities, these traces are not consistent with the vibration that just occurred, so I doubt this existence that can shake the earth.
It’s an inanimate thing.”
"Is it a robot?" Tian Qing asked subconsciously.
"Definitely not, because the body structure of the Delta people is not suitable for controlling robots at first glance. Of course, the more important reason is that from what we have seen and heard along the way, we can see that the Delta people are not following a technological route, so this
It shouldn’t be a robot, and to be honest, even if it’s the Dakworm war machine outside, it won’t make such a big noise if it jumps up.”
Norton said seriously: "So I think this should still be a biological trap, but this biological trap is more special because it has been transformed into a non-living body. After all, non-living bodies are like zombies in some movies. As long as
If you don't hit its vital point, it will persist in trying to kill you! Moreover, it may be an extremely large non-living body, and normal means will not be able to cause effective damage to it."
"If this is really the case, then we can only use thirty-six strategies and take the best strategy." Elizabeth shook her head and said: "We are not prepared to deal with such a terrifying existence at all, so we only need to sense that something is wrong.
We have to leave immediately and completely seal the ruins directly; fortunately, the last instruction given to this biological trap is to protect the ruins, so we don’t need to worry about it running out."
Just as Elizabeth finished speaking, kp Kongjing stood up again, "Congratulations to all the players for triggering the real mission of this module - the ghosts and gods in the dark. Please try to investigate this special biological trap. In the end, you got
The more relevant information you have, the more generous rewards you can get. Of course, because this biological trap is extremely powerful, I personally suggest that you don't think about confronting it head-on, let alone have the bold idea of killing this biological trap.
"
spirits?!
Liu Xing was very surprised at this time, because the title of this mission actually contained the word "Ghosts and Gods", and the title did not seem like a joke.