Chapter 814: Clan Elder

"The Peach Blossom Spring" depicts an isolated village where the villagers migrated hundreds of years ago and have had no contact with the outside world for so many years.

If such a village is put into the world view of the Cthulhu Run game, there is a lot of room for modders to play, and there are several mods of "Peach Blossom Spring" that Liu Xing has seen in the real world.

For example, this village was actually founded by a master of the Tao (Taoist/mage/monk), who made a complete ecosystem in a huge cave, and also simulated the rise and fall of the sun, moon and stars, and then the master died for some reason (missing/leaving/retreating), leaving only some kind of prop to maintain the existence of this paradise, and the arrival of the player and his party caused the item to be damaged, so the player and his party need to find a way to repair this item.

For example, this paradise is actually a huge illusion, and the player 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 mods, and you only need to complete the decryption to clear the level.

However, how can an article like "The Story of Peach Blossom Spring" that makes people think about it after reading it can be mild down after the magic is changed to a mod for the Cthulhu Run game?

From the perspective of conspiracy theories, a village that has been isolated from the world for hundreds of years, according to the ancient standard of marriage and childbirth at the age of eleven or twelve, the villagers in it have multiplied for dozens of generations, and these dozens of generations are not inbreeding in the first one or two bags, so in the first year of the Jin Dynasty, these villagers have been plagued by various genetic diseases, and the deformity rate is absolutely frighteningly high, but the fisherman did not mention this.

So what does this mean?

The villagers are definitely not human.

Now all kinds of mythical creatures can be added, and players can be hunted down by a group of mythical creatures.

Of course, in addition to this simple and brutal, non-relenting mythical creature mod, there are also mods that follow the "Fight for the Tiger" type, where the villagers of Xanadu become ghosts of a mythical creature and attract more food for it.

But then again, when Liu Xing saw the introduction in his character card, he knew that in this mod, the villagers of Xanadu were likely to be mythical creatures of mixed blood, and the new generation of villagers did not know their true identities.

It looks like this mod is still decent, no wonder it's not that difficult.

At this moment, a pleasant female voice suddenly sounded, "Hello players, I am the KP Al of this special mod, and I am very happy to meet you in this special mod, so please allow me to introduce to you here some of the requirements of this special mod - first of all, because the official player of this special mod is only Zhang Jingxu, so there is no secret room time in this mod, but Zhang Jingxu will have ten small notes in his hand, Therefore, Zhang Jingxu can use these small notes to transmit information to other assist players, and the assistant players cannot pass information backwards through small notes. ”

"And because assisting players is strictly an NPC, assisting players will be affected by certain judgments, and I hope you will be mentally prepared for assisting players; Last but not least, since you don't know much about ancient everyday words and habits, the NPCs in this special mod have all been added to the modern template, so you don't need to worry about falling off due to saying the wrong thing. As for the main quest of this special mod, it is very 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 breathe a sigh of relief, fortunately, this time the module does not need to pretend to be ancients.

Although Liu Xing also likes to watch costume TV series and history, Liu Xing is really not familiar with the way the ancients communicated, after all, each dynasty will have some unique colloquial titles, if you really want Liu Xing to play an ancient, I'm afraid it will be revealed without saying a few words.

However, this trouble is solved, but there is another big trouble in front of me, that is, this mod has canceled the secret room time.

For players in the Cthulhu Run lobby, the importance of the Chamber of Secrets is self-evident, after all, players are counting on the time to exchange information with other players and reach a consensus on the next actions in order to avoid unnecessary conflicts.

Now it's good, although Zhang Jingxu has ten small notes in his hand that can transmit information, but these small notes can only be transmitted unilaterally, which means that it is difficult for Zhang Jingxu to know the information he has, and it is difficult for Zhang Jingxu to understand his own ideas.

In this way, Zhang Jingxu can only make his own decisions on everything.

But this is also very reasonable, after all, this is Zhang Jingxu's resurrection mod.

As for the problem of judgment, Liu Xing said that there is no problem with this, anyway, he only has one farming skill to use, which makes it almost unnecessary for him to make a judgment in this mod.

After Liu Xing finished thinking about it, he began to check the memory of his character card and understand the situation in Taoyuan Village.

According to Liu Xing's parents, the first generation of Taoyuan villagers fled here during the Qin Dynasty, when it was still a wasteland in a valley, and it took several generations of Taoyuan villagers to complete the reclamation and become self-sufficient.

Over the years, Taoyuan Village has received some refugees from the outside world from time to time, so the current population of Taoyuan Village has reached nearly 1,000 people, and the scale is already equivalent to a town, but Taoyuan Village has always been concerned about inaction, so all affairs in Taoyuan Village are decided by the five clan elders, and other villagers can be said to be tools who can only cultivate land and farm.

However, what Liu Xing cares about the most is that there is a small ancestral hall in Taoyuan Village that only the clan elders can enter, and this small ancestral hall is said to be dedicated to the first generation of villagers in Taoyuan Village, so the clan elders will enter this small ancestral hall every January 1st to worship, and bring in a live chicken every time they worship.

Of course, the live chicken was silent after entering the small ancestral hall, and the clan elders did not bring anything out of the small ancestral hall after the worship was completed.

In other words, there were at least hundreds of chicken carcasses in that small ancestral hall, but "Liu Xing" had never smelled the stench emanating from the small ancestral hall.

That's a lot of fun.

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 their corpses will be burned to ashes by the clan elders and sprinkled in the southeast corner of Taoyuan Village, that is, the cemetery of Taoyuan Village.

Because the land in Taoyuan Village is very limited, Taoyuan Village has always performed cremation, and then buried directly in the soil with a jar, and no monument will be erected.

When he saw these memories, Liu Xing removed the ghoul from the pre-selection list of mythical creatures for this mod.

Just when Liu Xing was about to finish recalling "the first half of his life", he heard a middle-aged female voice outside the room calling him, "Liu Xing, come out and see, 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, and everything around him could be described as a house with four walls.

After Liu Xing answered casually, he pushed the door and walked out.

A middle-aged woman outside the door said with a smile: "No outsiders have come to the village for many years, Liu Xing, do you want to go with me to have a look?" ”

Liu Xing nodded and didn't speak, because Liu Xing really had no way to call someone he didn't know "Mom".

So here, let's call this middle-aged woman Liu's mother.

Mother Liu didn't care about Liu Xing, who had a somewhat wrong expression at this time, and directly pulled Liu Xing towards the door.

By the way, "Liu Xing"'s father unfortunately died of illness some time ago, and Liu's father's death was also the beginning of "Liu Xing" began to doubt 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 by Liu's mother under a big tree, while Zhang Jingxu and others appeared not far away.

What surprised Liu Xing was that Zhang Jingxu and the four of them were not dressed differently, among which Zhang Jingxu was wearing a gorgeous brocade dress and a jade pendant hanging from his waist.

As for Ding Kun and Zhang Wenbing, they were dressed as bodyguards, with a big knife hanging from their waists.

And behind Zhang Jingxu and the others, Yin Eun, who was dressed as a fisherman, was muttering something, and it seemed that he was not satisfied with his identity.

Seeing this situation, Liu Xing knew that the time point at which this module cut into was already the end of "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring", that is, "Taishou immediately sent people to follow it, looking for what he wanted, and he was lost, and he was no longer able to find his way." Nanyang Liu Ziji, a noble scholar, heard it, and happily went to it. 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 frowning, because according to the description at the end of "The Story of Peach Blossom Spring", Liu Ziji died of illness because he didn't 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 "The Story of the 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 of Taoyuan Village designed to poison Liu Ziji and make Liu Ziji look like he was sick and died.

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 villagers of Taoyuan Village around him were all looking at Zhang Jingxu and the others with smiles, their eyes were very aggressive, as if they regarded Zhang Jingxu and the others as their own.

At this moment, Liu Xing heard someone shouting around him, "The old man of the royal family is here, everyone let a way out." ”

Because the first generation of villagers in Taoyuan Village had only five surnames - Zhao, Liu, Sun, Li, and Wang, the patriarchs of Taoyuan Village have always been served by the elders of these five surnames.

Liu Xing glanced at the old man of the royal family and found that he was an old man of seventy or eighty years old, and he didn't seem to have anything to care about.

It stands to reason that under normal circumstances, a hybrid of mythical creatures will completely transform from a human being to a mythical creature at the age of thirty or forty, so Liu Xing began to suspect that the villagers of Taoyuan Village were not actually mythical creatures hybrids.

The elder of the royal family came to Zhang Jingxu and the others, and said with a smile: "Yin En, why did you bring people in again?" ”

Again?

Liu Xing raised his eyebrows, if the elder of 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 likely to be the subordinates of the local Taishou.

This plot is kind of interesting.

"The elder of the royal family, this is our local celebrity Zhang Jingxu, the word 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 have a look, I really have no way to agree to bring him to Taoyuan Village, so please take care of the royal family." Yoon replied with a smile.

Sure enough, Zhang Jingxu played the identity of Liu Ziji.

At this time, Zhang Jingxu also stepped forward and said: "Hello old royal family, after I heard about your Taoyuan Village from Yin En, I dreamed of coming to Taoyuan Village every day to have a look, so I kept twisting Yin En to come to Taoyuan Village, so don't blame Yin En, after all, this is what I requested." ”

The elder of the royal family 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 promises me not to make trouble in Taoyuan Village and not to run around in Taoyuan Village, then I will welcome you to come to Taoyuan Village as a guest." ”

Zhang Jingxu immediately nodded and replied: "No problem, Yin En has already told me the rules of Taoyuan Village when I came, so we will definitely abide by the rules of Taoyuan Village, and we will definitely not let the royal family bother." ”

The elder of the royal family did not answer, but just set his eyes on Ding Kun and Zhang Wenbing, to be precise, on the sabers of Ding Kun and Zhang Wenbing.

Zhang Jingxu comprehended and said: "Elder of the royal family, these two are the bodyguards sent to me by my father, and I am not qualified to order them to lay down their weapons, but I can assure you that they will never hurt people for no reason." ”

As soon as Zhang Jingxu finished speaking, a sound of dice falling to the ground sounded.

The elder of the royal family sighed, shook his head and said: "Zhang Jingxu, you should know, the people in our Taoyuan Village are simple, and there has not been a single murder in hundreds of years, so we don't have a single weapon in Taoyuan Village, so you still let your subordinates hand over the weapons to us for safekeeping, and then take them when you leave Taoyuan Village." ”