"Peach Blossom Spring" describes an isolated village. The villagers in the village migrated here hundreds of years ago and have had no contact with the outside world for so many years.
If such a village is placed in the world view of the Cthulhu Run game, there will be a lot of room for the module author to play. Liu Xing alone has seen several "Peach Blossom Spring" modules in the real world.
indivual.
For example, this village was actually founded by a Taoist master (Taoist priest/mage/monk) who created a complete ecological system in a huge cave and also recorded the rise and fall of the sun, moon and stars.
They were all simulated, and then the master died for some reason (missing/leaving/retreating), leaving only a certain prop to maintain the existence of this paradise, and the arrival of the player and his party caused the prop to be damaged.
, so the players and their party need to find a way to repair this prop.
Another example is that this paradise is actually a huge illusion. The players and the group must realize this within a certain period of time and find a way to leave this illusion, otherwise they will be assimilated or killed by this illusion.
Both of these are relatively mild modules, and you only need to complete the decryption to pass the level.
However, how can an article like "The Story of Peach Blossom Spring", which makes people think deeply and fearfully after reading it, be able to calm down after being modified into a module for the Cthulhu Running Game?
From the perspective of conspiracy theory, in a village that has been isolated from the world for hundreds of years, according to the ancient standard of getting married and having children at the age of eleven or twelve, the villagers in it have reproduced for dozens of generations, and these dozens of generations
The first one or two bags were not inbreeding, so by the Taiyuan period of the Jin Dynasty, these villagers were supposedly troubled by various genetic diseases, and the deformity rate was absolutely frightening, but the fisherman did not mention this.
So what does this mean?
Those villagers in the village are definitely not human.
Now all kinds of mythical creatures can be added, and players can enjoy being chased by a group of mythical creatures.
Of course, in addition to this simple and crude module that exiles mythical creatures without a word, there are also some modules that take the "tiger" type, allowing the villagers in the paradise to become the minions of a certain mythical creature and be attracted to it.
Come more food.
But having said that, when Liu Xing saw the introduction in his character card, he knew that in this module, the villagers in Xanadu were likely to be hybrids of mythical creatures, and the new generation of villagers did not know their own
real identity.
It seems that this module is quite satisfactory, no wonder the difficulty is not high.
At this moment, a pleasant female voice suddenly sounded, "Hello players, I am kp Al of this special module. I am very happy to meet you in this special module, so please allow me to
Here I would like to introduce to you some of the requirements of this special module - First of all, because the official player of this special module is only Zhang Jingxu, there is no secret room time in this module, but Zhang Jingxu will have ten small cards in his hand.
Notes, so Zhang Jingxu, you can pass information to other assisting players through these small notes, but assisting players cannot transmit information in the reverse direction through small notes."
"And because assisting players are strictly speaking NPCs, assisting players will be affected by certain judgments. I hope you can help players be mentally prepared. Finally, and most importantly, given that players have different understandings of ancient daily language and
I don’t know much about their behavioral habits, so the NPCs in this special module have all been added to the modern template. Players don’t need to worry about saying the wrong thing and causing the super game to fall off; as for the main mission of this special module, it is very important.
It’s simple, as long as the player Zhang Jingxu can leave the paradise alive.”
After listening to kp Al's introduction, Liu Xing couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, this time the module did not need to pretend to be an ancient person.
Although Liu Xing also likes watching costume TV dramas and historical novels, Liu Xing is really not familiar with the communication methods of the ancients. After all, each dynasty has some unique colloquial terms. If Liu Xing is really allowed to play an ancient person,
I'm afraid the secret will be revealed within a few words.
However, this trouble has been solved, but there is another big trouble in front of me, that is, the secret room time has been canceled in this module.
For players in the Cthulhu Run game lobby, the importance of secret room time is self-evident. After all, players expect to exchange information with other players during the secret room time and reach a consensus on the next action, so that they can avoid
Some unnecessary conflicts occurred.
Fortunately, although Zhang Jingxu has ten small pieces of paper in his hand that can convey information, these small pieces of paper can only be transmitted unilaterally. This means that it is difficult for Zhang Jingxu to know the information he possesses, and he
It is also difficult for Zhang Jingxu to understand his thoughts.
In this case, Zhang Jingxu can only make his own decisions in everything.
But this is also reasonable, after all, this is Zhang Jingxu’s resurrection module.
As for the judgment issue, Liu Xing said that there was no problem. Anyway, he only had one farming skill to use, which made it almost unnecessary for him to make judgments in this module.
After Liu Xing finished thinking, he began to check the memory of his character card to understand the situation in Taoyuan Village.
According to the teachings of "Liu Xing"'s parents, the first generation of Taoyuan villagers fled here during the Qin Dynasty. At that time, this was still a wasteland in the valley. It took several generations of Taoyuan villagers' efforts to cultivate it, and it was able to
Be self-sufficient.
Over the years, Taoyuan Village has received some refugees from the outside world from time to time. Therefore, the current population of Taoyuan Village has reached nearly a thousand people, and the size is already equivalent to a town. However, Taoyuan Village has always been about governing by inaction, so
All affairs in Taoyuan Village are decided by the five clan elders, while the other villagers can be said to be tool men who only know how to cultivate the land.
But what worries Liu Xing the most is that there is a small ancestral hall in Taoyuan Village that only clan elders can enter. It is said that this small ancestral hall is dedicated to the first generation of villagers in Taoyuan Village, so the clan elders worship the first generation of villagers in Taoyuan Village every January 1st.
Everyone will enter this small ancestral hall to worship, and a live chicken will be brought in every time they worship.
Of course, the live chicken disappeared without a sound after entering the small ancestral hall, and the clan elders would not take anything out when they left the small ancestral hall after making offerings.
This means that there were at least hundreds of chicken carcasses in the small ancestral hall, but "Liu Xing" had never smelled the stench emanating from the small ancestral hall.
This is worth pondering.
In addition, Taoyuan Village has always had a rule, that is, people who leave Taoyuan Village are not allowed to return to Taoyuan Village. If anyone dares to do this, they will be beaten to death by other villagers in Taoyuan Village.
, and then the clan elders burned their corpses to ashes and sprinkled them into the southeast corner of Taoyuan Village, which is the cemetery of Taoyuan Village.
Because the land in Taoyuan Village is very limited, Taoyuan Village has always performed cremation and then buried it directly in the soil in a jar without erecting a monument.
When he saw these memories, Liu Xing deleted the ghoul from the pre-selected list of mythical creatures for this module.
Just when Liu Xing was about to finish recalling "the first half of his life," he heard a middle-aged female voice calling him from outside the room, "Liu Xing, come out quickly and take a look. A group of outsiders have entered the village."
Only then did Liu Xing notice that he had entered the module and was now lying on a dilapidated wooden bed. Everything around him could be described as bare walls.
After Liu Xing responded casually, he opened the door and walked out.
A middle-aged woman outside the door smiled and said: "No outsiders have come to the village for many years. Liu Xing, do you want to come with me to have a look?"
Liu Xing nodded and said nothing, because Liu Xing really couldn't call a stranger "Mom".
So let’s call this middle-aged woman Liu’s mother here.
Liu's mother didn't pay attention to Liu Xing, who looked a little satisfied at this time, and directly pulled Liu Xing towards the door.
By the way, "Liu Xing"'s father unfortunately passed away from illness some time ago, and Liu's father's death was also the beginning of "Liu Xing"'s suspicion of everything in Taoyuan Village, because the cause of Liu's father's death was somewhat suspicious.
However, before Liu Xing had time to think about it, he was pulled under a big tree by Liu's mother, and Zhang Jingxu and others appeared not far away.
What surprised Liu Xing was that the four Zhang Jingxu were dressed differently. Among them, Zhang Jingxu was wearing a gorgeous brocade dress with a jade pendant hanging around his waist.
As for Ding Kun and Zhang Wenbing, they were dressed as bodyguards, with a big knife hanging on their waists.
Behind Zhang Jingxu and the others, Yin En, dressed as a fisherman, was muttering something. It seemed that he was not satisfied with his identity.
Seeing this, Liu Xing knew that the time point for this module was already at the end of "The Story of Peach Blossom Spring", that is, "The prefect sent people to follow him to find his ambition, but he became lost and could no longer find his way. Nanyang Liu Ziji
"A noble scholar, upon hearing this, will happily go there." This paragraph.
Judging from Zhang Jingxu's dress, Liu Xing feels that Zhang Jingxu should be playing Liu Ziji now.
Thinking of this, Liu Xing couldn't help but frown, because according to the description at the end of "Peach Blossom Spring", Liu Ziji died of illness because he failed to find Taoyuan Village, but how did "Liu Ziji" played by Zhang Jingxu enter Taoyuan Village here?
Liu Xing couldn't help but think of a famous conspiracy theory about "Peach Blossom Spring", that is, Liu Ziji did find Taoyuan Village, but because the villagers of Taoyuan Village were worried that he would expose the location of Taoyuan Village, causing Taoyuan Village to be harassed by the outside world, so
The people in Taoyuan Village designed to poison Liu Ziji, making it look like Liu Ziji died of illness.
This means that the current situation of Zhang Jingxu and others may not be good.
Liu Xing subconsciously looked around and found that although the surrounding Taoyuan Village villagers looked at Zhang Jingxu and others with smiles, their eyes were very aggressive, as if they regarded Zhang Jingxu and others as their own.
At this moment, Liu Xing heard someone shouting from around him, "The royal family is coming, please make a way out."
Because the first generation of villagers in Taoyuan Village only had five surnames - Zhao, Liu, Sun, Li, and Wang, the elders of Taoyuan Village have always been served by elders with these five surnames.
Liu Xing took a look at the royal elder and found that he was an old man in his seventies or eighties. He didn't seem to have anything to worry about.
It stands to reason that under normal circumstances, hybrids of mythical creatures will completely transform from humans into mythical creatures in their thirties or forties, so Liu Xing began to suspect that the villagers in Taoyuan Village were not actually hybrids of mythical creatures.
The royal family elder came to Zhang Jingxu and others and said with a smile: "Yin En, why did you bring someone in again?"
again?
Liu Xing raised his eyebrows. If the royal family had not made a mistake, it meant that the fisherman "Yin En" had already led a group of people into Taoyuan Village, and this group of people was probably the subordinates of the local prefect.
This plot is somewhat interesting.
"Old royal family member, this is our local celebrity Zhang Jingxu, courtesy name Ziji. After he heard about our Taoyuan Village, he has always been fascinated by Taoyuan Village, so he has been pestering me to come to Taoyuan Village to take a look. I
I agreed to take him to Taoyuan Village because I really had no other choice, so please bear with me, Mr. Royal Family." Yin En replied with a smile.
Sure enough, Zhang Jingxu plays the identity of Liu Ziji.
At this time, Zhang Jingxu also took a step forward and said: "Hello, Mr. Wang, after I heard about your Taoyuan Village from Yin En, I dreamed of coming to Taoyuan Village every day, so I kept dragging Yin En to come to Taoyuan Village.
So please don’t blame Yin En, Mr. Royal Family, after all, this is all what I asked for."
The royal family member nodded, looked at Yin En and said: "I think Yin En is still greedy for money, so he is willing to bring Zhang Jingxu to Taoyuan Village, but this is not a big deal, as long as Zhang Jingxu and you promise that I will not stay in Taoyuan Village
If you make trouble and don't run around in Taoyuan Village, then I will welcome you to Taoyuan Village as a guest."
Zhang Jingxu immediately nodded and replied: "No problem, Yin En already told me the rules of Taoyuan Village when we came here, so we will definitely abide by the rules of Taoyuan Village and will never let you royal family members bother."
The royal family elder did not answer, but focused his attention on Ding Kun and Zhang Wenbing, or to be precise, on the sabers of Ding Kun and Zhang Wenbing.
Zhang Jingxu understood this and said, "Old Royal, these two are the bodyguards assigned to me by my father. I am not qualified to order them to put down their weapons, but I can assure you, Old Royal, that they will never hurt anyone without any reason."
As soon as Zhang Jingxu finished speaking, there was a sound of dice falling to the ground.
The royal family member sighed, shook his head and said: "Zhang Jingxu, you should know that the folk customs in our Taoyuan Village are simple and simple, and there has not been a murder case in hundreds of years, so we don't have a single weapon in Taoyuan Village, so you still let
Your men gave the weapons to us for safekeeping, and you can take them away when you leave Taoyuan Village."
