Chapter 50: Shrinking the Circle
Although at the beginning, some players were worried that Liu Xing would make a fuss about these clues, such as putting some misleading information or simply fake news, but they later found that all the clues in this mod were true and reliable.
In fact, Liu Xing also thought about adding some "material" to the clues, so that players could take a little more crooked paths, but after building the mod, he found that there was no need for this, because this mod is still based on combat after all, supplemented by decryption, even the three cats and dogs led by Hill did not think of collecting clues to decipher the collar code.
This was expected by Liu Xing.
The reason is simple - first of all, there are a lot of guns in this mod, and then the players in the Cthulhu Run game lobby are all Chinese.
As the country with the largest gun ban in the world, the number of guns owned by the Chinese people is extremely low, so the players in the current Cthulhu Run game hall (except for the broken bridge) have basically only touched the gun during military training in college.
Now, if there's a very realistic VR game that gives you a taste of gunplay, but only once a week, would you put the thrill of gunplay and play an escape room alone?
Playing with guns, of course!
So Liu Xing guessed that there should be few people who would take the route of deciphering the code to clear the customs in a short period of time, so Liu Xing rarely bothered to get some fake clues... However, Liu Xing did prepare a few traps, for example, in the safe that Han Yan and they opened, there was a rope trap - if the safe was opened too quickly, then a revolver in the safe would be triggered.
As a result, Han Yan and the three of them "successfully" triggered this trap.
Although this revolver bullet did not hit Han Yan and the others, it scared another team of players downstairs who had just entered the abandoned factory, and as a result, someone in this team accidentally misfired, and then this shot happened to hit the third team of players who were still outside the abandoned factory.
And so, a chaotic battle began.
Because the abandoned factory used to produce tractors, the interior was also very complicated, and all kinds of unassembled tractors became perfect cover, so the three teams wasted hundreds of rounds in the abandoned factory without hitting again.
However, this is also very normal, because in modern warfare, an average of tens of thousands of bullets can kill an enemy, so Liu Xing estimated that these three teams of players are likely to retreat because there are no bullets, of course, the three Han Yan on the second floor must wait until the two teams of players downstairs leave before leaving, but they don't have to worry about bullets, because in the opened safe, in addition to a few AK47s, which are the most common in Russia, there are dozens of boxes of neat 7.62 bullets.
Therefore, Han Yan and the three of them relied on their geographical advantages and firepower advantages, and began to wait for the rabbit on the second floor.
As a result, after the ceasefire of Han Yan and the three of them, the other two teams of players also stopped wasting ammunition one after another, and began to enter the strategic stalemate stage - neither leaving nor negotiating.
Obviously, all three teams felt that they still had a chance to win the melee, and none of them had any intention of reconciling with their opponents.
It looks like these three teams of players are going to have to stay here for a while.
So Liu Xing saw that they couldn't fight for the time being, so he left here to check the dynamics of other players, such as Broken Bridge.
In this mod, Liu Xing's most optimistic player is not Yin En, nor Mai Yuqiang, but this retired soldier who goes by the pseudonym Broken Bridge.
If Broken Bridge was just a retired soldier, Liu Xing wouldn't be so optimistic about him, because the Cthulhu Run game hall is still a place of luck after all, and no matter how strong your strength is, you may be tricked by the dice goddess.
But when Liu Xing just carefully checked the character cards of the third batch of players, he found that Broken Bridge became a train driver after retiring, and he is also a train driver in charge of cross-border routes in Heilongjiang, so he travels back and forth to major cities in Russia all year round, so this module is also half of his home field.
So when Liu Xing saw Broken Bridge again, he found that he had changed into a camouflage uniform, holding a Mosin Nagant with a scope in the hospital next to the factory area, and the room he was currently in happened to have a full view of the entire factory area.
Sure enough, he deserves to be a professional.
But at this moment, Liu Xing found that a hilichurl was entering the hospital with two human-faced rats.
Liu Xing looked at the time and found that half an hour had passed with this module, so it was time to "shrink the circle".
In order to prevent some players from hiding somewhere and delaying the end of the mod, the mod will start to "shrink" after half an hour - mythical creatures will start to "clean" buildings from the outermost part of the map, and if the player defeats these mythical creatures, they can still stay on the outermost part of the map, but more powerful mythical creatures will come to "clean up" over time.
And when the duration of the module exceeds two hours, the remaining mythical creatures in the module will be gathered to solve those nails one by one, of course, if the player is good enough, you can also solve these mythical creatures in turn, and then you can rest assured and bold to collect clues in the module... This is also a hidden way to clear the level.
At this time, Broken Bridge had already heard the movement, so he carefully hid behind the door, and at this time, Liu Xing noticed that Broken Bridge had set up several traps on the floor where he was, and these traps were still very hidden, if he hadn't noticed that Broken Bridge's eyes were a little wrong, otherwise he wouldn't have found the existence of these traps.
Looks like the hilichurl is going to be out of luck.
Sure enough, after entering the hospital, the hilichurl began to pretend to be an injured NPC and kept wailing for help in the lobby on the first floor, but Broken Bridge was unmoved, as he was sure that there were unlikely NPCs in the mod.
On the way to the hospital, Broken Bridge has been keeping an eye on the surrounding situation and has not found any signs of human activity, so Broken Bridge speculates that there should be no NPCs in this mod.
The most important thing is that Broken Bridge didn't see how this hilichurl entered the hospital, you must know that Broken Bridge checked all the entrances and exits of the hospital after entering the hospital, and found that only the main entrance can enter normally, so Broken Bridge will be in this room to observe the surrounding situation with peace of mind, because if someone wants to enter the hospital, Broken Bridge must be able to find out in advance... Unless the person smashed open the back door of the hospital.