Only then did Liu Xing realize that he seemed to be locked. Although he could move his eyes, his body was not under his control at all, and he could not speak.
Ten seconds later.
"Games start!"
It was like the soul returned to the body, and Liu Xing regained control of his body.
silence.
The four people sitting around the table looked at each other, and no one had any intention of speaking.
After all, when encountering such an incredible thing, there is no SAN value judgment (SAN value is the most important attribute of the player in the Cthulhu team game, which can be understood as the sanity value. When the player encounters something unacceptable, such as
When there are broken corpses, mythical creatures, magic, etc., the SAN value will be determined. Failure to determine will permanently reduce the character's SAN value. When the SAN value returns to zero, the character will fall into permanent madness, which is equivalent to death.
Reducing the SAN value by more than five points within a short period of time will result in a temporarily crazy state. You can check Baidu for the specific situation, because the settings in this area are enough for me to complete.
Woolen cloth.
However, Liu Xing did not want to sit still and wait for death, because instead of waiting in fear for the end of the one-hour game time, it would be better to take the initiative and find out the possible fanatic believers among the other three players.
If you want to find a fanatic, you have to strike up a conversation first. Although Liu Xing has never run into a group of Cthulhu, he has played board games such as Close Your Eyes After Dark and Werewolf on the Internet.
Liu Xing thought he had a good chance of finding the loopholes in the language of fanatics.
"I am an old Chinese medicine practitioner, but in reality I am an ordinary office worker."
In the background of the story given before, it has been stated that the four of them are netizens who met on the Internet, so Liu Xing directly told his game ID, and by the way also brought the identity assigned to him in this game.
Already.
"I am Shanhe, a college student." The man in the hat on the right continued.
"I am Wugencao, the owner of a small company." The uncle on the left nodded towards the three of them and said with a smile.
"My name is Wanwan, and I am the initiator of this ancient house adventure and a student from No. 7 Middle School in Magic City." The girl did not raise her head, and there was a hint of trembling in her tone.
Liu Xing looked at the girl with some confusion, because an online name like "Million" didn't seem like a name that a girl should have.
"Oh, Million, as the sponsor, you should know some information about this ancient house." Liu Xing looked at the girl and said, already determined in his heart that this girl should have the key clues, after all, in the Cthulhu Running Game
, each player will get different information at the beginning due to their different identities. For example, now, as the initiator of this expedition, Wanwan will definitely be able to get more information.
Liu Xing was working with an ordinary office worker this time, so he only knew the information about the background of the game, and knew nothing about the rest.
Of course, Liu Xing also began to suspect that this millionaire was a fanatic. Because she was the initiator of this expedition, there was more than an 80% chance that this millionaire would be a fanatic.
At this time, Wugencao suddenly interjected: "I should know more than her, because I witnessed the massacre of the family in this ancient house ten years ago with my own eyes."
Wugencao recalled for a while and then sighed, "Ten years ago, I lived next door to this ancient house. One night, I suddenly heard several screams coming from this ancient house. At that time, I immediately
The police were called, but it was too late. A family of three in this ancient house had been brutally killed. Later, the murderer was also caught. He was a high school classmate of the youngest son of the murdered family. I heard that the motive for the murder was
Because of emotional disputes."
Liu Xing is now certain that this middle-aged man whose online name is Wugencao should have participated in the Cthulhu Run game in reality, because the Cthulhu Run game is all about a sense of substitution, which requires
The news that players will learn from a third party is described from a first-party perspective. The actions and narrative of Wugencao just now meet this requirement.
The girl nodded immediately after listening to Wugencao's narration, and Liu Xing vaguely saw what seemed to be a red necklace around her neck.
Baiwan also spoke at this time: "Yes, the murderer and the victim are both seniors of our No. 7 Middle School in the Demon City. This incident has become a big weird story in our school, but I heard it from my classmates a few days ago.
There are many strange things about this massacre, and this ancient house is often haunted, so I launched this adventure online."
"Ding, the side mission is open. Please find out the story behind the case of massacre. After completing the side mission, you can directly end the game 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. Fortunately, there was no penalty for failure, which made Liu Xing feel relieved.
"I also saw this news on the Internet, and I also found the so-called scene pictures on the Internet. There are three pictures in total, but I don't know whether they are true or false." Shanhe said as he took out his mobile phone from his pocket and looked at
After some operations, he handed the phone to Liu Xing and motioned Liu Xing to take a look for himself.
Liu Xing took the phone, and there was a large, somewhat fuzzy picture on it, but it looked like the display was in the kitchen. A body was lying on its back in a pool of blood, but its face was already covered in a thick mosaic.
A big hole was opened in the belly of this corpse, and the white intestines could be vaguely seen.
Liu Xing swiped the touch screen of his phone. The scene in the second picture changed. It was in a bedroom. A corpse fell on the bed. There was a large blood stain next to the head, and white things could be vaguely seen.
, apparently he died from a heavy blow to the head.
As for the last picture, it should be in the living room where Liu Xing and others are staying. The body is sitting on a chair. The neck is obviously torn, causing the head to be at an impossible angle.
The body was hanging on the shoulder. Although there was a mosaic, Liu Xing still noticed that the body had long hair and the clothes on it were somewhat similar to school uniforms. Coupled with its slender figure, it should be a young woman, and the person next to it was
There were spurts of blood on the wall, which also proved that the woman died due to decapitation.
In other words, the three members of the family who were exterminated ten years ago were two men and one woman.
Liu Xing handed the cell phone to Wugencao, and he had some idea about this tragedy.
"These photos are indeed real." Rootless Grass only glanced at them, then sighed and said, "Although it has been ten years since this happened, I am still sure that these are them."
After saying that, Rootless Grass stood up.
Liu Xing's mind was moved. Could it be that Rootless Grass is a fanatical believer? Want to blow out the candles?
However, Liu Xing quickly gave up this idea, because it would take five seconds to blow out the candle, which was enough time for him to stop the rootless grass. Unless the rootless grass wanted to throw himself into a trap, otherwise he would
I wouldn't choose this time to blow out the candles.
"Here, I'll give you the phone back." Wugencao bent over 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 up his non-existent glasses, stared at the candle, and fell into thinking for a moment.
Liu Xing is a person who likes challenges (seeking death), and he also has a certain degree of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Since the task of the novice house this time also triggered a side task, he will definitely complete it. This is because of himself as an obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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 candle can restrict their movements.
Second, according to the requirements of the main mission, if you stick to this candle, it should not be difficult. However, since you can trigger the side mission so easily, the evaluation of completing the level by sticking to the candle should be very low, so the focus of this game is
, just on this side mission, and Liu Xing wants to make the attributes of his first character card look better and survive longer in future Cthulhu Running games, then he must complete this side mission.
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Third, the other three players all have clues about the 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 fumble in his pockets and only found a wallet and a mobile phone.
This mobile phone was the Nokia 5230, a five-star phone from back then. Liu Xing still remembers using it when he was in high school.
"It seems that I am a bit depressed as an 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 such an antique." Liu Xing laughed at himself in his heart.
Liu Xing turned on the phone a little unfamiliar and found that there were only some apps that came with Nokia, not even QQ.
Moreover, according to the display of the mobile phone, there was no signal here, which gave up Liu Xing's idea of looking for information online, so he could only open the address book.
The address book was full of phone calls that he didn't recognize at all, but in the call records, Liu Xing found that the last call record was from Shanhe. An hour ago, the call duration was 12 seconds.
"Shanhe, we talked on the phone an hour ago. What did we say at that time? I can't remember it." Liu Xing looked at his mobile phone and made a bold guess in his mind.
"Oh, I remember I asked you why you haven't arrived yet. At that time, you were already ten minutes late, and Wugencao, I, and Millions were already at the door." Shanhe said without thinking.
"Yeah, no wonder it's only 12 seconds." Liu Xing replied with a smile while continuing to collect clues on his 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 sent by his "girlfriend" two days ago.
"My dear, the amulet I prayed for you at Longhua Temple has been put in your wallet. Don't lose it. I heard that this amulet is very effective and can protect you from all evil."
Liu Xing opened his wallet, and there was indeed a talisman inside, and there was a familiar pattern on the talisman - an old seal!
PS: Thank you for your recommendation. Now the old seal among the three major artifacts in the Cthulhu running group has also appeared, hehe.
