Chapter 24: A Surprise from the Sky
"Oh......" Tu Lizhu started the car in a daze and drove in the direction of the hotel.
"The game only gives us a few basic sentences," Qiu said, "what are we going to do?" What is our mission? Investigate the mysterious events inside the hotel? Will you survive until dawn? No, we don't know all this. ”
"Keeper of secrets, would you like to answer this question? What is the goal of the game? Bai Shaobao asked.
[When all investigators die or the SAN value reaches zero, the game automatically fails.] 】
"That's it?" Tu Lizhu looked disappointed.
"In the beginning, there were only defeat conditions and no victory conditions," Qiu said, "and this kind of plot often happens to those Japanese horror games." ”
"It's not clear exactly what kind of state we're in, what kind of challenges we're going to face." Bai Shaobao said gloomily.
"The first thing we had to do was, of course, find Shi Li, but at the same time, I don't think we should deviate from the main line," Mr. Chen said, who was a little curious about how the system was going to unfold the story from that simple synopsis, "at least, we shouldn't be late for the press conference." ”
"Do we have cell phones?" Tu Lizhu, who was driving, suddenly said.
"Huh?" Sister Qiu was confused, "I want to ......"
She pulled a fruit out of her pocket8.
"Yes. There is a signal, and the battery is still half as good. ”
"Really." "Mine too." Chen Qiang and Bai Shaobao also took out their mobile phones.
"Is there a save for Alison Smith's number?" Tu Lizhu asked.
YOU GOT TO THE BLIND SPOT, CHEN QIANG SINCERELY ADMIRED.
The oppressive feeling of the horror style not only puts a lot of pressure on the investigators, but also creates a mindset of "communication is cut off", forgetting that this is a modern age of scientific prosperity, not the Middle Ages, where communication is basically based on roaring.
"Yes." Sister Qiu saw the name.
"I'm calling." Bai Shaobao was already ready to dial.
The car turned a corner, and the main entrance of the Earl of Glamorgan Hotel was not far away.
【Secret Keeper's Dark Dice】
[Listening Skill Test: Christina Tu 98/60 Failed]
[Listening Skill Test: Alice Autumn 15/70 Success]
[Listening Skills Test: Chen Qiang's 1/70 Success]
[Listening Skills Test: Bai Shaobao 51/61 Success]
"Did you hear anything?" Sister Qiu listened intently.
"Shhhh Seem...... There is a little ......" Bai Shaobao's brows were twisted into a rope.
"Huh? What? Tu Lizhu, who was concentrating on driving, didn't hear anything.
"Beware!" Chen Qiang suddenly roared, the first dice without cheating was a big success, according to the law of conservation of character, he suspected that his dice luck would not be good today, "On it!" ”
Boom!
Something fell from a height and smashed right in front of the windshield of the car, smashing the front lid into a dent.
“……?”
It was a human ...... The corpse of a middle-aged man in a gray trench coat.
The man's chest was sunken and he had long since stopped breathing.
His head hung weakly in the direction of the windshield, and Tu Lizhu could clearly see the corpse's bloodstained, unrecognizable face, which should have only two hollows left in his eyes.
[Sanity test, SC1/1D4+1]
[Christina Tu 70/70 success]
[Alice Autumn 98/40 Big Failure]
【Chen Qiang 28/80 Success】
【Bai Shaobao 46/60 success】
[In the event of a big failure, it will be automatically filled, and 4+1=5SAN will be deducted]
[Alice Autumn Intelligence Test 1/45 Success]
“……”
So Sister Qiu understood......
The man's disfigured face or his vanished eyes.
It was some kind of creature with sharp claws, scratched and dug up from above.
"Ahh
Tu Lizhu was completely unprepared, her brain was blank, and her only thought was how to park the car, but she couldn't see the road in front of her at all, but Sister Qiu, who wanted to understand what was going on, was overly frightened and kept waving her limbs in the passenger seat like a convulsion, so that Tu Lizhu couldn't concentrate on operating the car without interference-
[Christina Tu car driving test 70/40 failed]
The road near the Earl of Gramorgan was already winding, and the car sprinted onto the sidewalk, speeding past a passer-by and crashing into a tree in front of the hotel.
[Christina Tu luck test 34/90 success]
Fortunately, the owner of the car is a person who attaches great importance to safety, front airbags, head air curtains, knee airbags, side airbags...... All airbags that can be installed properly are opened at the same time.
[Alice Autumn Lucky Test 98/70 Failed]
[Bai Shaobao's lucky test failed 95/26]
Even so, except for Miss Tu, who is really shining with a good star, everyone else is looking straight at Venus......
【Alice Qiu, Bai Shaobao HP-1】
Tu Lizhu, completely unharmed, struggled to open the door from the airbag encirclement — thankfully, the door was intact — and was dragged out of the car by a hotel security guard.
"Are you alright?"
"I'm fine." Chen Qiang also climbed out of the car with the help of others, and after listening to the great success, he had already cleverly assumed the "anti-impact posture" to avoid injury.
As for Bai Shaobao...... There was a slight problem with his knee airbag......
Not wanting to show his timidity, he endured the pain and got out of the car with his own strength.
Now there is only one question left...... Sister Qiu, who was still stuck in the airbag and twitched......
She can be said to be quite unlucky.
Good things always happen to the success of the general dice test, with the exception of the special intelligence test, which is performed when the loss of sanity is more than 5.
The failure of this test means that the investigator's mental self-protection mechanism has worked to suppress the panic caused by the impact of reason. But if the verification is successful......
The investigator then realizes what is happening and enters a brief state of absence.
"Let's do it." Chen Qiang and Bai Shaobao squeezed away the helpless security guards next to Sister Qiu and began to work hard to free Sister Qiu from her seat.
Chen Qiang thought to himself......
Anyone other than oneself who does not have the Investigator Eye talent cannot see the results of the dice.
Could it be that in the game of Cthulhu, where the "Cthulhu's Keeper" system operates, the dice results are actually a reflection of reality?
Or is Sister Qiu's state just the result of her bad luck?
Or is cause and effect just a concept of human reason, where the random dice and unshakable reality are essentially the same to the system when game and reality intersect?
In a running group game, the symptoms of madness caused by a large loss of sanity can be resorted to dice, or the secret keeper decides.
In the real world, the madness of the loss of sanity is still everywhere. Is that a judgment from the bottom of the system, or is it a ......?
【Bai Shaobao's agile verification 29/90 success】
He finally succeeded in getting Sister Qiu out of the car. Sister Qiu lay on the ground with blank eyes, panting heavily.
"Are you alright? Do you want to quit urgently? Bai Shaobao whispered.
"I ...... Not bad. Sister Qiu said with difficulty.
This is humanity's first fully immersive virtual reality game!
If you let sailors know that they used to be beta players, but they were scared to quit halfway, they will definitely lose a lot of fans!