Chapter 4: The First Running Group (Part II)
"The game will officially start in ten seconds."
Liu Xing realized that he seemed to be locked, although he was able to move his gaze, his body was not controlled by him at all, and he couldn't speak.
Ten seconds later.
"Game on!"
It was as if the soul had returned to his body, and Liu Xing had regained control of his body.
Silent.
The four people sitting around the table looked at each other, and none of them had any intention of speaking.
After all, when encountering this kind of unbelievable thing, there is no SAN value judgment (SAN value is the most important attribute of players in the Cthulhu Run game, which can be understood as sanity value, when the player encounters something unacceptable, such as broken corpses, mythical creatures, magic, etc., the SAN value will be determined, and the judgment will permanently reduce the character's SAN value, and when the SAN value reaches zero, the character will fall into permanent madness, which is equivalent to death, And when the SAN value is reduced by more than five points in a short period of time, it will be a temporary crazy state.,The specific situation can be Baidu by yourself.,Because the settings in this area can be enough for me to water a chapter) It's all good.,Now who is in the mood to chat with strangers.。
However, Liu Xing didn't want to sit still, because instead of waiting for the hour of game time to end in fear, it was better to take the initiative and find out what might be a fanatic among the other three players.
If you want to find out the fanatics, you have to talk first, although Liu Xing hasn't run Cthulhu's group once, but he hasn't played less board games such as Please Close Your Eyes When It's Dark, Werewolf Killing, etc., Liu Xin thinks that he has a good chance to find the language loopholes of the fanatics.
"I'm an old Chinese medicine doctor, and in reality I'm an ordinary office worker."
In the background of the story given before, it has been explained that the four of them are all netizens who met on the Internet, so Liu Xing directly said his game ID, and by the way, he also brought the identity arranged for himself in this game.
"I'm Shanhe, a college student." The man in the hat on the right continued.
"I'm rootless, the owner of a small company." The uncle on the left nodded at the three of them and said with a smile.
"My name is Million, and I am the initiator of this ancient mansion expedition, a student of the seventh middle school in the magic capital." The girl didn't look up, and there was a tremor in her tone.
Liu Xin looked at the girl with some doubts, because a screen name like "million" doesn't seem like a girl should get a name.
"Oh, million, as the initiator, you should know some news about this ancient mansion." Liu Xing looked at the girl and said, he had already decided that this girl should have the key clues, after all, in the Cthulhu Run game, each player will get different information at the beginning because of their different identities, such as now, as the initiator of this expedition, Million will definitely be able to get more information.
And Liu Xing's side this time is that as an ordinary office worker, he only knows the information in the background of this game, and the others don't know anything.
Of course, Liu Xin also began to suspect that this million was a fanatic believer, because she was the initiator of this expedition, so there was a more than eighty percent chance that this million would be a fanatical believer.
At this time, Rootless Grass suddenly interjected: "I should know more than her, because I have witnessed the destruction of this ancient mansion ten years ago."
Rootless Grass recalled for a while before sighing, "Ten years ago, I lived next door to this ancient house, one night, I suddenly heard a few screams from this ancient house, I immediately called the police, but it was too late, the family of three in this ancient house had been brutally killed. Later, the murderer was also caught, and he was a high school classmate of the youngest son of the family who was killed, and I heard that the motive for the murder was because of emotional disputes. ”
Liu Xin can now be sure that the middle-aged man with the online name of Rootless Grass should have participated in the Cthulhu Run game in reality, because the Cthulhu Run game pays attention to a sense of substitution, which requires players to describe the news they learned from a third party from a first-party perspective, and from the actions and narratives of Rootless Grass just now, it is very much in line with such requirements.
And after listening to the description of the rootless grass, the girl immediately nodded, and Liu Xing vaguely saw that there seemed to be a red necklace around her neck.
Million also said at this time: "Yes, the murderer and the victim are both the seniors of our Demon Capital No. 7 Middle School, and this matter has become a big strange talk in our school, but a few days ago I heard from my classmates that there are many strange places in this tragedy, and this ancient mansion is often haunted, so I launched this expedition on the Internet."
"Ding, the side quest is open, please find out the story behind the door killing case, after the side quest is completed, you can directly end the game, and get an evaluation bonus, and there is no penalty for failure."
Liu Xing didn't expect that a side quest would be triggered in just a few words, but fortunately, there was no punishment for failure, which made Liu Xing feel a lot more relieved.
"I also saw this news on the Internet, and I also found the so-called live pictures on the Internet, there are three in total, but I don't know if it's true or not." As he spoke, Shanhe took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and after some operation, handed the mobile phone to Liu Xing, and motioned for Liu Xing to take a look for himself.
Liu Xing took the phone, and there was a blurry picture on it, but it should be in the kitchen, a corpse was lying on its back in a pool of blood, but its face had been marked with a thick mosaic.
A large hole had been cut in the corpse's stomach, and the intestines of Bai Huahua could be faintly seen.
Liu Xin slid the touch screen of the mobile phone, and the scene of the second picture changed places, it was in a bedroom, a corpse fell on the bed, and a large blood stain appeared on the side of the head, and the white flowers could be vaguely seen, it seemed that the head was hit hard and died.
As for the last picture, it should be in the living room where Liu Xin and others are staying now, the corpse is sitting on a chair, and the neck is obviously torn, causing the head to shrug over the shoulder at an impossible angle, although there is a mosaic, Liu Xing still noticed that the corpse has long hair, the clothes on the body are somewhat similar to school uniforms, coupled with its slender body, it should be a young woman, and there are spray blood stains on the wall next to it, which also proves that the woman died because of a severed head.
In other words, the family of three who was wiped out ten years ago was two men and one woman.
Liu Xing handed the phone to Rootless Grass, and he had a little eyebrow in his heart about this tragedy.
"These pictures are indeed real." Rootless Grass only glanced at it, then let out a long sigh and said, "It's been ten years since this happened, but I'm sure it's them. ”
With that, Rootless stood up.
Liu Xing's heart moved, could it be that rootless grass is a fanatical believer? Want to blow out a candle?
However, Liu Xing quickly dispelled this idea, because it would take a full five seconds to blow out this candle, which was enough time for him to stop the behavior of the rootless grass, unless the rootless grass wanted to throw itself into the net, he would not choose to blow out the candle at this time.
"Come on, give your phone back." Rootless grass hunched over and handed the phone to Shanhe.
"It's fine." Shanhe also stood up and took the phone.
Everything is so natural.
Liu Xing stretched out his hand and pushed the glasses that didn't exist, stared at the candle, and fell into thought for a moment.
Liu Xing is a person who likes to challenge (die), and he also has a certain obsessive-compulsive disorder, since the task of the novice room this time also triggered the side quest, then he must be able to complete it, this is self-cultivation as an obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Therefore, Liu Xin 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 the mansion, but the ability to visually detect these mythical creatures is very limited, as a single candle can now restrict their movements.
Second, according to the requirements of the main quest, if you stick to this candle, there should be no difficulty, but since you can trigger the side quest so easily, the evaluation of the candle clearance should be very low, so the focus of this game is on this side quest, and Liu Xin wants to make the attributes of his first character card look better and live longer in the future Cthulhu Run group game, so he must complete this side quest.
Thirdly, the other three players all have clues about the side quests, so why didn't I have them, did I not 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 machine of the year, Nokia 5230, Liu Xing still remembers using it when he was in high school.
"It seems that I'm a bit down-and-out as an office worker, and I still use such an old-fashioned mobile phone, but it looks brand new, I really don't know where this person bought this old antique." Liu Xing laughed at himself in his heart.
Liu Xin opened the phone a little rusty, and found that there were only some apps that came with Nokia in the phone, and there was not even a QQ.
And according to the display of the mobile phone, there is no signal here, which dispelled Liu Xing's idea of looking up information on the Internet, so he could only open the address book.
The address book is full of some calls that he doesn't know at all, but in the call log, Liu Xing found that the last call record was made by Shanhe, an hour ago, and 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 anything. Liu Xing looked at his mobile phone and had a bold guess in his heart.
"Oh, I remember I asked you why you hadn't arrived yet, and you were ten minutes late, and I was at the door with Rootless Grass and Million." Shanhe said without thinking.
"Well, no wonder it's only 12 seconds." Liu Xing replied with a smile while continuing to collect clues on his phone.
In the text message, there are hundreds of text messages from more than a dozen contacts.
Liu Xin 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.
"My dear, the talisman I asked you for in Longhua Temple has been put in your wallet, don't lose it, I heard that this talisman is very spiritual, and it can prevent all evils."
Liu Xing opened his 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 Run has also appeared, hehe.