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Chapter 113 What is the real goal of the game?

"Summoning Hastur is almost like burning jade and stone. It prevents the blood sacrifice, but it also leads to the recovery of the old days. The cruise passengers all survived. It is not a good ending no matter how you look at it."

Zhou Ze muttered to himself.

But he always felt that Hastur could be used, for no reason, pure intuition.

It would be great if the god battle between Cthulhu and Hastur could be farther away. As long as the passengers on the cruise ship don’t die, at least he still has the hope of clearing the level... By the way, we can also see how long this god battle will last , who will win in the end?

If Cthulhu wins, it's okay to say, the game GG.

If Hastur's phantom wins, what will he do after victory?Should he leave directly or wreak havoc on the world?

According to the myth, the body of Hastur, the old ruler, was imprisoned at the bottom of Lake Harry in the star Pleiades.

Compared with Cthulhu, who is described in detail in the encyclopedia, Hastur, who has a higher personality and stronger strength, has no specific appearance description...or it has no specific appearance at all, and it is indescribable, but it is said to have countless incarnations.

Two of these incarnations are more common.

One famous incarnation is 'The King in Yellow, the Indescribable High Priest', appearing as a humanoid in yellow and a soft mask, similar to Cthulhu's form, and also has some octopus features.

The other is the 'Distant Reveler', which is a black, wrinkled, strange individual with tentacles on the top, can fly, has sharp claws, can penetrate human skulls, and suck out brains...

The incarnation of Hux who appeared in the scene just now is obviously the former, that is, the 'King in Yellow'.

Judging from the screen full of lightning strikes at the end of the game, the 'King in Yellow' seems to be beating Cthulhu's body, but since he is just an incarnation phantom, it doesn't matter whether he can win or not before the end of the battle. Sure.

Before loading the file, Zhou Ze exited the game and returned to the game introduction page of "Rite of Cthulhu", and carefully read the content and goals of the game word by word.

[This game is a strategy combat game. Players will sneak into a large cruise ship on a long voyage to protect the lives of thousands of tourists from the cult organization that believes in Cthulhu, destroy the plan of cult sacrifices, and delay the recovery of the old days... They attempted to use large-scale live sacrifices to awaken the old ruler Cthulhu who was dormant in the deep sea in advance. If the old evil gods wake up, human civilization is at stake. 】

Filter keywords.

Protect, destroy, delay.

"The game will fail if there is no mention of Cthulhu's recovery game. So far, the main reason for the game failure is that all the passengers on the cruise ship died and I died... Even in the first few times, it is impossible to determine the reason for the game failure. Is it the death of the tourists or the blood sacrifice?"

Zhou Ze found that he had entered into a misunderstanding in his thinking from the very beginning.

He didn't even know the goal of clearing the game and the reason for the failure, but he was just taking it for granted to prevent the blood sacrifice from launching.

He read the file resolutely and returned to the beginning of the game when he just stepped into the cruise ship.

In order to prove the way of judging the failure of the game, he used the Sumeru Stone to forcibly throw the dozen or so tourists he saw first into the Mysterious Sumeru Territory at the beginning of the game, so that even if the blood sacrifice started, the tourists would not die.

Because of his high-profile appearance to arrest people everywhere, the cult priests immediately launched a blood sacrifice.

The familiar blood mist enveloped the hull from bottom to top again.

Zhou Ze remained unmoved, and continued to arrest people and throw them into the secret realm. Ten seconds later, the blood mist almost covered the top floor, and then he transformed into a goblin and escaped with the Sumeru Stone containing dozens of passengers. cruise.

Seeing that the cruise ship below him was wrapped in a blood mist like a cocoon.

This time the game did not fail again and continued.

"Sure enough, the launch of the blood sacrifice will not cause the game to fail. Although the introduction of the game will destroy the plan of the cult, the main purpose is to protect the passengers... Successful launch of the blood sacrifice may greatly reduce the clearance score, but as long as some passengers are saved, even if Cthulhu Recovery will not cause the game to fail."

Zhou Ze sorted out his thoughts little by little.

He watched the ship covered in blood fog from mid-air.

Perhaps he was not engulfed by the blood mist, and it has reduced the effect of the blood sacrifice to some extent. According to the information he asked from the deep diver, his arrival is also part of the blood sacrifice planned by the cult, and he is the blood sacrifice. The most valuable sacrifice in the world.

Boom... boom...

The sound of the dull waves of the sea came from the earphones.

I saw a few giant green tentacles protruding from the surface of the sea surrounded by waves.

Each tentacle was almost as wide as the cruise ship, and slowly and steadily dragged the cruise ship wrapped in a blood-red cocoon into the deep sea. The whole process was deathly silent, and the oppression was breathless.

That tentacle is Cthulhu?
This is the second time that Zhou Ze has witnessed Cthulhu's body in the game.

The entire cruise ship was taken away by Cthulhu. The blood sacrifice should be a perfect end, right?
But the game is not over yet.

A green tentacle in the deep sea suddenly broke through the surface of the sea, rolling towards Zhou Ze's position with the whistling sea water.

Fortunately, Zhou Ze had quick eyesight and quick hands, and quickly avoided it by pressing the gallop accelerator button. The flying speed of the goblin was almost equivalent to that of a bullet, and its petite body was far more flexible than that kind of giant tentacles.

"Hey, Cthulhu is actively attacking me?"

The corner of Zhou Ze's mouth twitched, how could he be missed by an evil god?

Do you have to escape from Cthulhu's offensive even if you want to take away the remaining dozens of tourists?The difficulty of clearing the game is too crazy!Escaping from an Old One...isn't that embarrassing.

A wave of waves has risen again.

A few more tentacles ejected from the sea surface.

The size of these tentacles was not as huge as the ones that towed away the cruise ship before, but each was at least ten meters in diameter. Compared with Zhou Ze in goblin form, it was like bombarding mosquitoes with cannons.

Zhou Ze had no other choice but to press the accelerator button frantically, turn around and run away.

In any case, let's escape from this sea area and clear the game first, and see how many points you can get for saving dozens of passengers.

'@￥#@%&...'

There was a strong, headache-wrenching whisper coming from the earphones.

Zhou Ze is very clear that this is Cthulhu trying to communicate with him or simply influencing his mind. Anyway, there is no way to communicate. Judging from the literature records, Cthulhu's malice towards human beings is natural, and there is no negotiation at all. room for.

Through the earphones, he could easily resist the influence of these whispers, but in the game, his mental value plummeted at a rate of 5.00% per second.

The mental value will return to zero in less than half a minute.

"It's hard."

Zhou Ze stared at the spiritual value that was about to bottom out in the upper right corner of the screen.

Once the mental value is insufficient, you will fall into shock, coma or mental mania, and you will not be controlled, and you will undoubtedly die.

(End of this chapter)