Real Cthulhu Running Game

   Chapter 1500 Arkham Asylum

As the best university in the world, it is also the front line against the mythical creatures and the old rulers. Arkham City, where Miskatonic University is located, is a well-deserved international city, so the most famous restaurant in Arkham City is one. On the street, Liu Xing has seen the "dark food" all over the world, such as the star-gazing pie that almost made Liu Xing lose his san value, and a seal that was frozen in ice, and its belly was full of Haiyan. . . .

   But what makes Liu Xing most concerned is that there is a restaurant called Mythical Creatures Food Daquan, and their signature dishes are braised deep diver and steamed ghoul. . . If Liu Xing saw this restaurant elsewhere, Liu Xing would 100% think that this restaurant is a gimmick restaurant, but this is Arkham City, so Liu Xing suspects that these two dishes may be real.

After all, in a sense, ghouls and deep divers can indeed be used as ingredients, and there are a lot of ghouls and deep divers on the earth. "People" will find out.

And Liu Xing once saw a post on the forum, that is, an ancient civilization once tried to tame ghouls to fight for them, so they tried every means to find more than ten ghoul cubs, and then raised them When they grow up, they are instilled with wrong understanding. For example, they were originally a group of simple beasts and monsters, but they awakened their wisdom after being trained by the trainer. Therefore, in order to repay the trainer, they have to bravely rush to the front line. .

At the beginning, the plan of this ancient civilization was very successful, and soon a ghoul army of thousands of people was formed, which was invincible on the battlefield. As a result, the nearby ghoul tribe discovered their What they did, this ancient civilization was destroyed by the angry ghouls.

Therefore, it stands to reason that humans can tame mythical creatures, and even turn mythical creatures into food, but mythical creatures are not animals that are not intelligent enough. It is not easy to tame them, and these things If they were heard by their kin, then a revenge would be inevitable.

   In the end, Liu Xing and others did not try the taste of the mythical creatures, and chose a restaurant specializing in Husky cuisine, because Liu Xing heard that the barbecue in Husky Country is quite good.

   As a result, what Liu Xing did not expect was that he met Wang Qi so soon, but fortunately, Wang Qi was ordering food at the time, so Liu Xing pretended to pass by and did not contact Wang Qi again.

  I don't know why, but Liu Xing felt that if he had too much contact with Wang Qi, something bad might happen.

   So Liu Xing temporarily used his "money ability" to ask the waiter for a private room.

   "Although we are not short of money, there is no need to open a private room, right? And I also want to sit at the floor window to see the night view." Tian Qing asked with some doubts.

Liu Xing sighed and said seriously: "I met an old acquaintance when I was in the shopping mall just now, and he was also a player. He participated in a module with me, and that was when I entered the Cthulhu running group. The first mod after the game lobby, but the most important thing is that I heard that he has passed away in the real world, because he joined an offline society that specializes in harassing newcomers, so after being squeezed out of benefits, he was killed. I've dealt with it... so I don't know if he is a player or an NPC now?"

"Ghost player?" Shi Zixuan frowned and said, "I heard that some players will become a ghost player if they enter the Cthulhu running group game hall when they are dying. It can only be active in the mod. Of course, after becoming a player in the Hound of Tindalos area, they can also go to the lobby to visit friends, and when they collect a million points, they can replay the game in the real world. Reshape your body to live again, or simply choose to be reincarnated, the kind you can choose from your parents."

"Yeah, I'm curious now if he is a ghost player, and if he is a ghost player, which area does he belong to now? And if he has become an NPC, or is just a character card of the person I know, then Why did he suddenly appear here? And it happened to be this time... In the Cthulhu running group game hall, I don't believe there is such a coincidence." Liu Xing said.

   "So it is, Liu Xing, are you worried that this old friend has a problem and will involve us in something?" Tian Qing said worriedly.

Liu Xing shook his head and said with a smile: "I don't think he has such ability yet, and the relationship between me and him in this parallel world is also very general. To put it bluntly, he is better than passers-by, so he even asks for something. Me, unless kp forces me to accept it, I won't help him; but I always feel that something is wrong with this, so it's better not to meet him again, so I deliberately want just such a private room ."

   Just then, the waiter came in to deliver tea and waited for Liu Xing to order.

After ordering some special dishes and sending the waiter away, Liu Xing continued: "This Arkham city, as the most famous in the original Cthulhu mythology, is also the area with the most accidents, and now it is in the Cthulhu running group game. There are even hidden dragons and crouching tigers in the hall. For example, a restaurant we passed by dared to use mythical creatures as ingredients, and I don’t know if their boss is very powerful, or they don’t want to live anymore.”

   "I actually heard a little about that store just now."

Shi Zixuan drank tea and said, "I used to come to Arkham City to do things before, of course I dare not steal things here. After all, as Liu Xing said, this ghost place really has everyone. And one is hidden deeper than the other, so on the surface you are stealing a figure from a young man, but in fact the young man has lived for tens of thousands of years, and that figure is its life core."

   Speaking of the life core, Liu Xing thought of Sirius again, and he didn't know what happened to this guy now.

"So the task I took in Arkham City that time was a very common errand task, helping people get a queue ticket for meals, but only after I arrived did I find that this task highlighted a hole, because this queue ticket is not you. Go to the store to pick it up, but you have to grab it when the restaurant puts out the queue rolls! And the ones here are for the pigeons! Yes, the queue rolls are hung on the legs of the pigeons, and the pigeons can be seamlessly integrated into the square Thousands of pigeons! So it took me a lot of work to get a queue ticket."

Shi Zixuan sighed in the sky and said, "Since then, I have never taken on this kind of task of helping errands again, because this is a big hole... As for the restaurant I mentioned, it is Liu Xing you just said. That family, I heard that the ingredients they use are indeed from mythical creatures, but these mythical creatures are special and belong to clones."

   "Can clones, mythical creatures also be cloned? No, it is normal for mythical creatures to be cloned. After all, they are still flesh and blood creatures, but is the owner of this restaurant not afraid of accidents?" Liu Xing asked curiously.

Shi Zixuan thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "According to my understanding, the owner of this restaurant seems to be an alchemist, and he has lived for more than a thousand years, but the most important thing is that he once had a relationship with a group of snake people. They have cooperated and tried to create a highly poisonous species specifically for a certain group. Because snake people are a rare scientific race among mythical creatures, the process of making poison is like a scientist doing an experiment, so they need a special kind of They use pharmaceutical methods to develop their ideas, so alchemy has become the first choice for these snake people. After all, alchemy is really unscientific. After a piece of alchemy is manipulated, a stone really turns into gold. ."

"Of course, learning will learn from each other, so this alchemist also learned some advanced scientific knowledge from the snake people, the most important of which is the cloning technology, because the snake people need a lot of experimental bodies, so the snake The cloning technology of the human family is very developed. I heard that they can not only make the clones develop into adults within three days, but also make the clones shrink or enlarge proportionally. Of course, the most important thing is that these clones are almost identical to the original body. , but they don't have a bit of self-awareness, so there's no psychological pressure to experiment with these clones."

"It turns out that the mythical creatures that are used as ingredients are actually not fundamentally different from the artificial meat we know, but they are more formed." Li Mengyao touched her chin and said, "But when I think of those mythical creatures, they are ferocious and terrifying. It looks like I'm still a little bit speechless."

"I thought so too, but I heard that it tasted pretty good, so it's always been in short supply, so this restaurant came up with such a weird queue rule, but in Arkham City, it's weird like this There are still a lot of places, but because there are many strong people in town, there have been no accidents over the years; but in Arkham City, there is actually a very dangerous place, that is the legendary Arkham mental illness In the hospital, both the doctor and the patient have completely lost their minds!"

"Arkham Mental Hospital? I didn't expect that the Cthulhu Running Group game hall actually got it out." Liu Xing said with a smile: "As the saying goes, talents come out of Arkham, I don't know that this Arkham Mental Hospital is in this hospital. What a great person."

Shi Zixuan said seriously: "Arkham Mental Hospital was originally a normal hospital, but it is also the hospital with the best business in Arkham City, because in places like Arkham City, a few people have to go crazy every once in a while. So, decades ago, Miskatonic University took over the hospital as an internship site for the corresponding specialty, and as a result, two decades ago, one patient transformed the Arkham Asylum."

   "Isn't it a clown?" Tian Qing asked curiously.

Shi Zixuan shook his head and said with a serious face: "If nothing else, this patient is likely to be a clone of an old ruler, because he soon turned everyone into a lunatic after entering the hospital. , a group of super-strength lunatics, so this hospital was occupied by that group of lunatics. Miskatonic University has tried many times to retake the hospital, or simply destroy the hospital and the lunatics in it, but the results are both. One word—failure, because those lunatics are too powerful, no matter whether it is melee or magic, they are no less than the masters sent by Miskatonic University, so Miskatonic University can only die in the end.”

"But I don't know why, those lunatics never leave that hospital, so some people thought they were on the plank road in the dark, and they were in the dark, but later they found out that it was all overthinking, and then they lived peacefully for 20 years. , everyone is not guilty of river water; but there are still many people investigating the identity and origin of the X patient who caused all this, and most of them found nothing, and the remaining lucky ones found that this X patient appeared suddenly in On the outskirts of Arkham City, and although his identity can be found in the official place, it was quickly proved that these information were false, but in the end, it was found out that he first appeared in Innsmouth Town!"

"Huh? He's from Cthulhu? Cthulhu is good at dreaming and driving people crazy, so if this patient X is related to Cthulhu, he can indeed kill the entire hospital overnight. Become him, no, it should be said to be Cthulhu's subordinate, but why did Cthulhu do this? Could it be that there is a problem with the location of that hospital?" Liu Xing said doubtfully: "But in the original book, this Is there anything special about Arkham Town?"

Shi Zixuan smiled, nodded and said: "Indeed, if you leave Miskatonic University aside, Arkham Town is a very ordinary place, there is nothing worth talking about, but with Miskatonic University, Everything is different; as a mental hospital, it must be set up in a sparsely populated area, but not too far from the outskirts of the city. In the outskirts, there is a special public area called the cemetery, where a very special one was once buried. Man - Wilbur Whateley!"

   "Ah, so that's how it is!"

   Hearing the name Wilbur Whatley, Liu Xing knew the cause and effect of all this, because this Whatley was the son of God who was bitten to death by the watchdog of Miskatonic University!

"Whaterley was killed by the watchdogs at Miskatonic University because he wanted to steal a magic book that was very important to him, and this magic book records how to summon Yog. Sotos, his biological father!" Shi Zixuan continued, "After Patient X took control of the mental hospital, a theft was also reported in the cemetery next door."

   (end of this chapter)