my cthulhu game

Chapter 6 The Last Secret Keeper on Earth

The next day.

It was five o'clock in the morning.

"Xiao Chen."

In the waiting room of the police station, Liu Dui sat down beside Chen Qiang.

"I'm sorry," Team Liu said, "for keeping you up all night."

"It's okay," Chen Qiang said with a smile, "I've been with my brother since I was a child, and I'm used to it."

Xiaoxue's rationality troubled him, but in front of Liu Dui, Chen Qiang cheered up and remained polite.

Chen Qiang's cousin, Chen Jian, is an excellent policeman.In the original time and space, Chen Jian died in a car accident before he graduated from the police academy.The reborn Chen Qiang saved his brother's fate, and Chen Jian lived up to expectations and became an excellent people's policeman.

Chen Qiang and Team Liu have known each other for a long time.Team Liu sighed several times, if only Chen Qiang could go to the police academy like his brother.

In Chen Qiang's eyes, Liu Dui is a man who is upright, public and private, yet generous and humane. His biggest shortcoming is that he is a bit heavy on cigarettes.

"Liu Dui," Chen Qiang couldn't help persuading seeing Liu Dui took out another cigarette and lighter from his pocket, "how many cigarettes have you smoked today?"

"All night long?" Captain Liu shook his head, "I'm getting older, and I can't compare to you youngsters in terms of energy."

As he said so, he still stubbed out the newly lit cigarette in the ashtray.

"Wei Yuanshan did not return to the dormitory last night," Captain Liu said. "He was seen with you at night."

"We had a quarrel." Chen Qiang said truthfully.

Team Liu nodded.He was not interrogating Chen Qiang, but Chen Qiang's answer still satisfied him.

"You called me before and said that a suspicious person was following you." Team Liu asked.

Chen Qiang usually turned over several pickpockets in the university town to the police station. Together with Xiaoxue, he provided clues to help the police follow the clues. They successfully took down a fraud company specializing in fooling college students. The police even awarded him and Xiaoxue a certificate of merit for this.

Team Liu has also been worried that Chen Qiang will be retaliated by criminals.

"I don't know if that is him." Chen Qiang said.

Team Liu nodded.There were many students who stayed out all night, but Wei Yuanshan couldn't be contacted no matter what, which still made him suspicious.

"Can you tell me, what did you quarrel with Wei Yuanshan?"

"Something related to the game." Chen Qiang said.

"I guess so." Team Liu nodded.He had already learned about the situation from several other students who heard the quarrel between Chen Qiang and Wei Yuanshan.

They just heard a few words from a distance, and they couldn't tell what the two were arguing about.One of them swears that the two were fighting over the allocation of equipment in World of Warcraft.

"I am also responsible. I spoke too lightly." Chen Qiang said regretfully.

"You don't know," Team Liu showed a relieved expression on the contrary, "Your classmates are talking for you. It is absolutely impossible for you to take the initiative to quarrel with others. It must be Wei Yuanshan who is sullen and looking for trouble. .”

"I'm not as good as they imagined." Chen Qiang shook his head.

"We respect the law in our affairs," Team Liu said, "Even if Wei Yuanshan really disappears, we'll still be with you... just wait for a while, I'll answer the phone."

Team Liu took out his mobile phone and stood up.

He left Chen Qiang at the police station for half the night, not because Chen Qiang was the last person who saw Wei Yuanshan who was "out of home" and "unable to contact" Wei Yuanshan; nor was it simply because Chen Qiang said that someone was following him, so he was left at the police station accept protection.

At around ten o'clock in the evening, a couple who sneaked back to school from outside the school in the middle of the night called the police and found a corpse in the artificial lake of the school.Although it was difficult to determine the exact time of death due to the water immersion, even a glance showed that the man had been dead for at least a week.

Team Liu suspected that Wei Yuanshan's sudden "disappearance" had something to do with this corpse.He immediately sent samples from the corpse to the laboratory for DNA testing, and compared it with the recent missing persons.

Thanks to the advancement of technology, it only takes two to three hours to collect DNA, but I don’t know how long it will take for comparison.

"Are you sure?" Dui Liu's voice suddenly became louder, and even Chen Qiang, who was separated by a wall, could hear him clearly, and then his voice dropped again, "Yes... yes. I know, that's right... ...that's right. Good."

Team Liu returned to the waiting room.His expression was unusually serious.

"Xiao Chen," he said, "the situation has changed. Let me ask again: are you sure that the person who quarreled with you last night is... Wei Yuanshan himself?"

"Uncle Liu, your way of asking is very strange," Chen Qiang said, "Who else could it be?"

"Then do you feel... that Wei Yuanshan last night was a little different from the past?"

"That's true," Chen Qiang replied, "I'm not familiar with Wei Yuanshan, but yesterday he not only looked nervous, but also looked unhappy."

"That's right," Team Liu said in a low voice, "Xiao Chen, calm down and listen to me. The 'Wei Yuanshan' who quarreled with you last night may not be the real him."

"What?" Chen Qiang was startled.

"I can't tell you the details of the investigation, but the public information will be released before noon," Team Liu said, "I'll tell you in advance. Last night, a body was found in the artificial lake of your school. It has been about half a month, and after DNA comparison, it is confirmed that it belongs to Wei Yuanshan."

"how is this possible?"

"I also find it unbelievable, but it's true. We were also lucky. We compared the DNA of the deceased's close relatives in the first place, so that the identity of the deceased was confirmed so quickly," Team Liu said, "The one who had a conflict with you yesterday The person is definitely not Wei Yuanshan, but someone pretending to be him."

Chen Qiang listened silently.

"Now we suspect that this person is a professional criminal who is good at disguise and has a similar appearance and body shape to Wei Yuanshan. He killed Wei Yuanshan, and then used Wei Yuanshan's withdrawn and unobtrusive characteristics to pretend to be him, trying to get in school. Committing a crime. The conflict with you yesterday made him feel that he might have been exposed, so he gave up his plan and chose to escape."

Chen Qiang smiled wryly: "So, I let him expose in advance, it's still a great achievement."

"Look at what you said," Team Liu was not in the mood to joke with Chen Qiang, thinking that there might be a dangerous criminal suspected of being mentally ill wandering nearby, he was worried, "Go back to school now. Remember, Qianqian Make sure your safety is the top priority!"

……

Leaving the police station, Chen Qiang shook his head helplessly.

After the "Contractor of Hastur" dies, they will automatically turn into a corpse that has been dead for more than half a month—their true colors.

From the moment Wei Yuanshan signed the contract with Hastur, he was "already" dead.

Chen Qiang trusted Team Liu, but even if he told him the truth, this decent old police officer would only think that Chen Qiang played too many games, and he must have hallucinated by staying up late.

"As expected of a script with the difficulty of 'Old Dominator'." Chen Qiang said in his heart.

If in the running game, the strategies of "close eyes and seal mythical items", "call for support with credit level before the incident" and "liquid nitrogen package" are already suspected of being super tour.

But in the real world, these are just barely enough.

Sighing from the bottom of his heart, Chen Qiang took out his cell phone.

In addition to [Sanity Pool], [Keeper's Eye] and [Invite Investigator], he has already browsed the other Secret Keeper functions just unlocked by "Cthulhu's Keeper of Secrets".

【Click to view the currently available modules】

【Modification】

【Keeper Toolbox】

【Manage the game lobby (locked)】

[Complete a game as a keeper to unlock the keeper game lobby]

"I can finally be called the last secret keeper on earth." Chen Qiang said to himself.

"Xiaoxue's unexpected sanity value is not just because she witnessed Wei Yuanshan's transformation into a monster."

"What is she hiding?"

"We must think of a way to make Xiaoxue open up," Chen Qiang thought silently, "The 'Secret Keeping Game Hall' must also be unlocked as soon as possible."

　Updated ahead of time.After a while, there may be a post about getting started with Cthulhu in the book review area.

　　In addition, there will be basic explanations in the part of this book about running groups. Don’t worry, you don’t need to know about Cthulhu or running groups to understand this book~
　　PS: Hastur is a very interesting god in the Cthulhu mythology system. It appeared in novels in the 19th century, and was later incorporated into the Cthulhu mythology system by Dreis. As a monster, "Hasta's Contractor" can be seen in Chambers' 1895 novel "The Yellow Seal", which can be said to have a very long history.

　　
　
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