my cthulhu game

Chapter 89 When You Stare at Fear, Fear Stares at You

The moon and stars are rare.

Just as the poor murloc captain took his last breath, on the deck.

Chen Qiang, holding a black cane, stood not far from the bow of the ship, quietly waiting for the arrival of the guests.

The time is three o'clock in the morning.

"Will he really come?" Sayoko who was beside Chen Qiang asked anxiously, "Only with an unclear letter..."

"He will." Chen Qiang said.

[Qiang En Chen listened to the test 22/70 success]

"I think he has arrived." Chen Qiang smiled.

The dead in Hiroyuki Imai's room died from the bite of some unknown monster.

Officer Masayoshi Takeda died in the shooting.

Uncle Xu died of being repeatedly cut his throat with a knife.

Gu Shiyin was killed by Shoggoth's attack.

At first glance, the causes of death of the deceased were varied and irregular.

Even Chen Qiang, who is proficient in the setting of Cthulhu, cannot assert the mythical truth behind this series of events based on these clues alone.

The universe is vast, and 55% of his mythological knowledge and skills are just a drop in the ocean.Who knows how many "obscure" powerful old rulers are hidden in the endless time and space that intelligent civilization can never recognize?
However, the system prompt [difficulty: variable (Unknown)] still pointed out a path to the truth for him.

……

On the balcony dozens of meters away, Qin Lingxue, who was wearing a night vision device, pointed her rifle at the quietly approaching shadow.

She boasted that her marksmanship was decent, but at this distance, she was not using a special sniper weapon. Even with the aid of aiming tools, it was difficult for her to guarantee a fatal shot.

……

The shadow stopped tens of meters away from Chen Qiang.

The weird hat, face with scars, and bloated body are none other than Hiroyuki Imai.

"It's you," he said hoarsely, "I knew it was you. You really wrote that letter. You said you knew my secret?"

Xiao Yezi behind Chen Qiang took two steps forward and clenched the pistol in her hand.She is Chen Qiang's "bodyguard". Once Qin Lingxue misses, she must face the enemy in front of her.

"When you stare into the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you. When you look at the fear in the mirror, the fear in the mirror will also come to you." Chen Qiang's voice was very calm, "Am I right? Mr. Imai ..."

"No, you should be called Police Officer Uesugi Kenhito."

"...!"

"Hiroyuki Imai" is awe-inspiring.He took off his hat, revealing the blond hair of an American-Japanese half-breed.

His appearance also began to change.The scar was gone, and he began to quickly return to the appearance of Uesugi Kenhito, the captain of the police.

"Is only the face part a magic spell..." Chen Qiang nodded.

"Excessive reliance on spells will make one's rationality fall into the bottomless abyss," Uesugi Kenhito sighed, "That's what the 'Black Dragon Group' taught me."

Switching to a simple "disguise", Chen Qiang will receive a "detection skill check" prompt from the dice when he observes his pretended "Hiroyuki Imai".

"You are already very dependent on spells." Chen Qiang said.

"It's nothing compared to your one step." Uesugi Kenhito said with a smile on his face.

"Aren't you curious about how I saw through you? Don't you want to know what kind of spell I used?"

Uesugi Kenhito's expression changed, as if hesitating.He was silent for about 30 seconds before finally speaking.

"Please. I'm really curious," he said.

The system check never sounded.Uesugi Kenhito's answer was fixed from the beginning, and Chen Qiang thought in his heart that he was just delaying time with himself.

Bosses always die because of talking too much—but if a boss with a normal IQ and a non-talkative personality suddenly starts talking nonsense, the answer must not be that he wants to let go, but that he wants to delay time.

"Xiao Yezi," Chen Qiang said, as if he didn't care about Kenhito Uesugi's conspiracy, "give him back the ring."

Holding a gun in one hand, Sayoko took out two identical dark gold rings from her pocket with the other hand, and threw them in the direction of Kenhito Uesugi.

Uesugi Kenhito walked towards the two dropped rings, bent down, and picked them up.Under the moonlight, Chen Qiang could barely see a similar ring on his left hand.

"I will always be with you, my beloved Yingzi."

"To be with you forever, my beloved Qianren."

Uesugi Kenhito muttered to himself.

"Let me guess. You and your wife exchanged rings. The ring you usually wear on your hand should be the ring with 'Qianren' written on it, and the ring left at the scene is written with 'Yingzi'..."

"...It belongs to Eiko. She doesn't need to wear the ring anymore," Uesugi Kenhito said melancholy. "As expected, you stole my ring. It's rare that I went to a jewelry store to buy one in order not to leave any flaws. Similar gold rings, and then deliberately appeared in front of you."

Uesugi Kenhito planned to throw his ring next to the headless corpse, creating the illusion that the deceased was himself.

He had calculated everything, but he didn't expect that "Sayako Haneda", a JK habitual thief, took the opportunity of striking up a conversation with him in the morning, and took the ring away from his hand.

He had to temporarily decide to throw his wife's ring at the scene-colleagues all knew Mrs. Uesugi's name, and they could also mislead everyone about the identity of the deceased.

When he met Uesugi Kenhito for the first time, he glanced at Sayoko with a strange look: he always felt that he had seen Sayoko somewhere.During the robbery, "Haneda Sayoko" used her disguise skills to dress up, but even a shrewd person like Kenhito Uesugi failed to recognize her at a glance.

This time, the story is already running before the player cuts in "the game starts".

"Your wife Izumi knows, and she won't agree with you to leave her ring at the scene, and use it to fake her own death." Xiao Yezi said.

Uesugi Kenren sneered: "It seems that you also have something you don't know. Who said that Eiko is dead? She just lost her hands and can no longer wear the ring."

"..."

The BOSS didn't play according to the routine, so Sayoko suppressed all her words.

"Ahem... Anyway, in the end, we have the rings of both your husband and wife in our hands at the same time," Chen Qiang said, "This confirms us that the murderer is misleading us about the identity of the deceased. The bitten corpse, Is it the real Hiroyuki Imai?"

"He deserved it," Uesugi said, "and so did Jon Chan...so did you."

He was secretly anxious.According to his experience, the two people in front of him must have been exposed to those disgusting mythical existences.Such a person, under the magic of the mirror, will soon fall into the bottomless abyss.

There must be a delay...

"It's as if I'm really guilty." Chen Qiang said.

"Who is the person who acquires stolen goods and then immediately resells them?" Kenhito Uesugi sneered, "It is true that you were not the one who unlocked the seal of the jade mirror, but if it weren't for your greed, the power of the mirror would not have gone out of control."

"Ah, that's right," Chen Qiang said persuasively, "So you are familiar with its power?"

"Don't talk to me," said Uesugi Kenhito, who wanted to prolong the conversation, "but it's okay to tell you. The jade mirror is a door, and the horror that crawls from the dark side of our souls waits on the other side. My wife That’s why it’s disabled.”

"I thought it was a magic weapon that could only kill people." Chen Qiang said.The system still doesn't have a prompt for speaking skills test, it seems that Uesugi Kenhito is really happy to accompany him to pull it off.

　Ask for tickets at the third watch.Big brothers in the book review area, you have already guessed 80% of the time... PS: The stalk of "Mirror of Fear" was adapted from a remote official model, designed to pit/mislead those experienced investigators.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)