my cthulhu game

Chapter 34 Fake, It's All Illusion
[You have made an action that is completely inconsistent with the logic of the role setting and character behavior, and additional sanity will be deducted]

【SC1/1D4】

[Chen Qiang succeeded in sanity test 10/79]

【SC-1】

【Current Remaining Sanity 78】

[The next time there is a similar behavior, SC1D6/1D20 will be replaced]

...as expected.

Although Shi Li and Bai Shaobao also had hyper-travel phenomena, they did not start actual destruction, and the system did not punish them for hyper-travel.

And I made an unreasonable behavior that I couldn't immediately find an excuse for the behavior of the character, and I was punished immediately.

I am both a secret keeper and an investigator.

As the Keeper, I will continue to exploit the sanity of the players.

And as an investigator, he should make the most of the rules, and regard his own virtual sanity as a resource invested in the sanity pool.

"Hey……"

Sister Qiu staggered, slipped the handle, and made an operation error. The drunk guard in the picture dodged Camilla's attack, and then counterattacked. The big knife in his hand pierced Camilla's chest.

The screen was blood red.

GAME OVER.

The audience: "???"

Chen Qiang: "I'm sorry, my hand slipped."

He was expressionless.

Hideki Yoshikawa on the side was puzzled: "You..."

Chen Qiang waved his hand.

"Sorry, I'm going to the bathroom."

After confirming that the performance of "The King in Yellow Clothes" had been temporarily interrupted, Chen Qiang walked towards the corridor outside the banquet hall as if no one was watching.

Can't stay in the room with The King in Yellow until the final climax.

"Oh……"

Facing Chen Qiang who left resolutely, Yoshikawa Hideki opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but seeing that Qiu Jie, who had re-loaded the file, had already loaded the file, and started the game again with full concentration, and all his attention returned to the game itself.

It wasn't until Sister Qiu easily executed the guard in the second game that Hideki Yoshikawa realized...

"Where's Little Yeko?"

……

Underground Parking Lot.

Bai Shaobao and Shi Lichu.

"Shili, calm down, calm down!"

Bai Shaobao patted Shi Li on the shoulder to calm her down.

"My hand!" Shi Li raised her right hand, and after touching the doorknob full of fungus, the sticky fungal moss grew on her hand, especially the densely packed small mushrooms made her Feeling cold all over, "My hand, it..."

"What happened to your hand?" Bai Shaobao looked suspicious, "Does it hurt?"

In his eyes, Shi Li's hands were white and smooth like jade, and they were normal girls' hands.

"Can't you see?" Shi Li shuddered, took two steps back, and pointed to the mouse skins all over the small room, "What about these?"

"Where?" Bai Shaobao was even more confused. He couldn't see any of the horrible things Shili saw. "There was only a concrete floor with nothing there, Xiao Shi. Oh, what's on these dirty A4 papers?" ?"

He squatted down and picked up a piece of paper on the ground.

"There's nothing here?" Bai Shaobao asked, looking around in the room.

[Bai Shaobao's detection check was successful 32/75]

"Reconnaissance" is not only effective when there are clues; after searching for a long time, it is found that there is no hair here, which is also a successful search.

But Shi Li's perspective is different: she saw Bai Shaobao walk into the mouse skin as if nothing had happened, and then grope among the half-rotten things, getting blood on his hands and splashing on his face...

【SC0/1】

[Alison Smith failed sanity check 88/36]

【SAN-1】

【Current sanity 35】

Shi Li squatted on the ground and retched.

And Bai Shaobao was on the side, with an innocent face, not knowing what happened.

But he suddenly figured it out.

"Wait, Xiao Shi," he said, "do we see something different? I think your hands are normal hands, and this room is just an ordinary, empty storage room."

"My hand..." Shi Li squeezed out a few words from her throat with difficulty, "There are growths on it... vomit. And that room...the door will close by itself...and...they are all dead ...uh...rat..."

She barely held her throat so that she wouldn't really vomit.

"What we see is different," Bai Shaobao said calmly, "I don't see any abnormality at all here."

"You mean...the game...what we saw...the scene...was not the same...vomit..." Shi Li's brain was still stuck.

"I don't play horror games very often, but this kind of game is also very common," Bai Shaobao said. "One way is to go to a normal room alone, and the room becomes different in a blink of an eye, and it becomes very scary..."

"That's right..."

"There is also a situation where two people go to the same place, but the scenes they see are completely different. One person sees a normal world, while the other person feels as if he has entered a different space. The situation we encountered should be The latter kind."

"Is...is that so?" Shi Li leaned her back against the wall and stood up slowly.

I understand this truth, but why was I the one who got tricked?
"This is a virtual reality game, and it shouldn't be too easy to realize 'let two people in the same position see different things'," Bai Shaobao comforted, "so don't put too much pressure on yourself, Xiao Shi. This is a game."

"Don't call me Xiaoshi!" Shi Li finally got angry, "I'm older than you!"

"Okay, okay, okay," Bai Shaobao said. Shili's ability to fight back on this issue meant that she had restored her basic thinking ability. "Then, Sister Shi, that's all."

"Oh," Shi Li nodded, took out the handkerchief from her bag, and began to wipe her right hand vigorously, trying to wipe off the fungus parasitic on her hand.

But no matter how many times she wiped it off, the moss and mushrooms would tenaciously grow back,
"No, I can't wipe it off. Although it doesn't hurt or itch, it's so scary."

"It's quite disgusting," Bai Shaobao agreed, and decided not to think about what Shi Li saw. "It must be some kind of illusion."

"Then why did I suffer from the illusion?" Shi Li pondered, "I didn't do anything?"

"When we parted," Bai Shaobao said calmly, "Did you really not do anything?"

"I... read that man's invitation to the press conference."

"No, don't show it to me!" Bai Shaobao hurriedly stopped Shi Li from moving, "What's on it?"

"Just a few short sentences, and a strange pattern in yellow."

"It is very likely that the pattern caused the hallucination," Bai Shaobao said in a low voice, "maybe the villain added some kind of illusion medium to the invitation letter. In this way, quite a few of the guests will see the disgusting scene, while the other part will perceive But it is normal for this cognitive gap to cause confusion and mutual suspicion among guests."

"Then what do we do now?"

"Who do you think the villain is?"

"Hideki Yoshikawa." Shi Li said without hesitation.

"Yes," Bai Shaobao agreed, "he was the one who sent the invitation letter. I'm afraid quite a few of the guests have been infected with the illusion. I think Xiao Tu may have been tricked. I wonder if Sister Qiu can figure it out and wake her up." .”

"We must stop the press conference!"

"Well said," Bai Shaobao said, "then let's do it. Now that I've seen the existence of illusions, this isn't a hypergame."

"What are you going to do?"

"I don't know what this illusion has to do with the game he is going to release," Bai Shaobao snorted, "but I know that if the entire building is powered off, he won't be able to do anything."

(End of this chapter)