Real Cthulhu Running Game

   Chapter 1599 Start the experiment

   "So we continue to pretend that we don't know what to do, and follow the plot honestly. Anyway, this mod will be over in two days."

Yin En shrugged and said: "What's more, if all this is as we thought, then we have the opportunity to go to Thanglong City for a turn, but I don't know if Turner is ready for the modeling and modeling of Thanglong City. NPC."

"I am afraid that Shenglong City is a city that only exists in NPC conversations, and due to the ancient traffic conditions, it may take us ten days and a half months to be sent to Shenglong City, so we don't even think about traveling outside. already."

  Zhang Jingxu stretched, got up and said, "It looks like everyone has had enough to eat and drink, so should we go back to the yard to continue chatting? After all, people come and go here, so we have to be careful that the walls have ears."

Therefore, Liu Xing and others put down the tableware and returned to the small courtyard, and closed the door of the courtyard for the sake of safety. Ding Kun also prepared a few small organs to hide in the dark to ensure that if someone planned to secretly He can be found immediately by eavesdropping.

"By the way, according to the currently known world view, this is indeed a low-level martial arts world as we guessed before, but there are more sects, and it seems that these sects also have their own characteristics. The most important thing is that they The appearance and the court are very different, so we can refer to "Dragon Inn" to analyze this module; first of all, according to our findings in the real world, the Taoist temple may have really been applied with Luban, of course, the Luban in the module is considered A more powerful version, maybe it can deliver a substantial attack."

Zhang Jingxu took a sip of tea and continued: "As for the group of snakes and mice, it may not be as mysterious as Luo Yun said, that is, someone uses some means to guide these groups of snakes and mice, of course, like the myth of Guoshanfeng. Creatures also exist, but this mountain breeze has been wandering around in one place all the time. I suspect that it may have been controlled by the Luo family, or that all this was directed and acted by the Luo family, because the Luo family did not say Well, if we only talk about hard power, the Luo family may not be as good as other families in Heshan County."

Liu Xing thought for a while, nodded and said, "Zhang Jingxu, you mean that the Luo family chose to use the so-called curse of the Huang family to integrate the major families in Heshan County. After all, only the Luo family can act as a middleman. Come to unite these big families, so as long as the influence of the Huang family does not completely leave Heshan County, then the position of the Luo family will not be shaken one day... It's a bit like America's actions against certain organizations are emerging one after another, But it's not a cure for the symptoms, of course, it's not that America's strength is not enough, but because some people need these organizations to continue to exist, so they can ask for funds in a fair and honest way."

   "The cunning rabbit is dead, and the lackey is cooked."

Tian Qing shook his head and said: "From the current situation, it seems that the two generations of the Luo family do not have a single one who can fight, so they can only continue to control Heshan County in this way, lest other families stand up and replace them; Combining with Zhang Jingxu's guess, the Luo family made these mice and snakes themselves, and they also hyped them up. People in Heshan County were so frightened that they hid at home and didn't dare to go out. As for those who really wanted to see I am afraid that people who are lively will not have a good end; as for the so-called foreigners who died of poisoning, either they do not exist at all, or they are actors invited by the Luo family. Of course, I think it is possible that they were really killed by the Luo family. already."

   "I think it should have been silenced, because Luo Yun only informed that the person was dead after hearing about Liu Xing's medical skills, so I think Luo Yun may have changed his mouth temporarily because he was afraid that Liu Xing would see something strange."

   Having said this, Yin En shook his head again, "But all of this is based on our guesses being completely correct, so we can't guarantee that we haven't thought too much."

"Then let's wait and see, but there are only two days left, so we don't need to wait too long, but the problem now is that if we don't take the initiative, then we may not be able to go. There is a gymnasium, and this Taoist temple is definitely worth a lot of points, so we still need to go and take a look." Zhang Wenbing said seriously.

Regarding the Taoist Temple, Liu Xing's opinion is similar to Zhang Wenbing's. He also thinks that the Taoist Temple may be a very important location. Perhaps there is only one side quest that is not much related to the main storyline, but the side quests in some games are not shorter than the main line quest process. And the rewards are also very rich.

For example, the most famous single-player game in the world, Warcraft III, has a battle about the Beastmaster, but the number of maps in the Beastmaster battle seems to be much less than other battles. At that time, Liu Xing, who was still young, thought that the Beastmaster was the role of the Beastmaster. It's good for a neutral hero in a tavern to have a campaign, and it's okay to have less maps.

As a result, Liu Xing later learned that although there are not many maps in the Beastmaster battle, the time required to play all the processes is actually much more than other battles, because there are many branch plots in the Beastmaster battle, and these linear plots are not in the game. It is marked on the map, so players can only follow various prompts to a designated place, such as a cave that looks like a texture.

   Of course, even if you don’t complete these side stories, you can clear the main quests directly, but the rewards in the side stories can make it easier for you to clear the main quests.

   Therefore, Liu Xing suspected that Turner had referenced his memory when designing the plot of this mod, and prepared a side plot with rich rewards in Taoist Temple.

   When Liu Xing expressed his thoughts, he was approved by Zhang Jingxu and others.

   "This is indeed a very classic plot arrangement, with rich rewards to attract players to try these unnecessary side plots."

Yin En held his chin and said, "I suspect that this is what Turner wants to consume us, and let us lose one or two people outside the main quest, but the rewards here should be pretty good, I think it may be realgar or something. A medicinal herb that can drive away snakes, insects, rats and ants."

   "So that's the question again - should we lose manpower for some unclear rewards? Or are we making a profit or a loss?" Liu Xing asked.

   "I think this kind of side quest can be done, because after this kind of side quest, there is no shop in this village, and this Taoist temple should provide us with some good things to deal with snakes and rats."

Zhang Jingxu said affirmatively: "Don't forget that Taoism may be related to Luban art, and Luban art focuses on one word—thing. The reward we can get is this thing."

   "This is looking for something, but there may be a time limit."

   When Liu Xing was about to say something, there was a sudden crackling sound outside Luofu, it sounded like someone was setting off firecrackers.

   "This should be a firecracker, right? It's not a firecracker?" Liu Xing asked in surprise.

The teacher Zixuan on the side nodded and said: "It's firecrackers, because firecrackers don't sound so rhythmically, after all, when people throw bamboo into the fire, the temperature of each bamboo tube is different, and the bamboo tube bursts. The standard is an interval rather than a specific number, so it is impossible for these bamboo tubes to sound so rhythmically."

   "More importantly, we can all smell gunpowder now."

Yin En snorted, shook his head and said, "This is not good news for us, because it means that gunpowder already exists in this overhead world, and it has begun to be applied specifically, then we may have the possibility in the future. There will be muskets and even artillery attacks."

   "Then we're gone."

Liu Xing said depressedly: "Although the gunpowder in this overhead world is also used to make primary firearms such as arquebuses, but these firearms are just one shot for us, so if a sharpshooter comes to deal with us, then Basically, we can only fly separately when disaster strikes... But these firecrackers are usually set off during red and white events, so what happened today?"

   Shi Zixuan stood up directly and said with a smile, "Then I'll go out and see what happened."

   After saying that, Shi Zixuan went straight out the window.

   "Gunpowder is also a good thing. It may be used to drive away mice and snakes when made into firecrackers. After all, animals are quite afraid of firelight and loud noises, but the mice and snakes here are definitely different from their distant relatives."

   Liu Xing sighed, shook his head and said, "We thought it was a very monotonous mod at the beginning, but we didn't expect so many messy elements to appear today, which only made people feel overwhelmed."

   "Maybe this is the test that Turner wants to give us, let us pick out the more important ones from the complicated information, and those are the distractions."

  Tian Qing shook his head and said: "It seems that this Turner really wants to teach us something, and the priority of judging the authenticity of the information should be a required course for us players."

"That's right, for us players in the game hall of the Cthulhu running group, this information is our life, because wrong information is likely to lead us to a dead end." Liu Xing nodded and replied .

   At this moment, Shi Zixuan came back.

   "There is a family doing a happy event, and the custom of celebrating a wedding here in Heshan County is to ask the newlyweds to travel around the city together and accept the blessings of the residents along the way. As for the firecrackers, it is to remind the people in front to get ready."

   Shi Zixuan shrugged and continued: "So I don't think it's anything, because marriage customs like this exist in many places."

   Liu Xing just wanted to nod his head, and remembered that before entering the Cthulhu Running Group game hall, he saw some people in the real world doing white things, and those people were also setting off firecrackers.

Is this a coincidence?

   "Yeah, I think the firecrackers are a reminder that this is a world with firearms, lest we be caught off guard."

   When Zhang Jingxu wanted to say a few more words, the knock on the door suddenly rang.

  If nothing else, Luo Yun should have found a group of "experiments".

Sure enough, Luo Yun found ten very suitable experimental subjects, because these guys are the masters of the autumn queen, and they chose to join as soon as they heard that they could survive by playing the flute, so Luo Yun asked Liu Xing to let go. To do an experiment, you don't need to think too much.

   As for Luo Yun himself, because he had to take care of his third son who had just woken up, he was unable to arrive at the scene for the time being.

   Liu Xing gave the magic flute to experimenter No. 1 and asked him to play the magic flute by himself. As a result, although experimenter No. 1 was obviously playing it randomly, the magic flute still came out with a pleasant tune.

The most important thing is that more than ten mice appeared near Experimenter No. 1 before long, but Experimenter No. 1 was calm at this time. It seems that Luo Yun should have told them about the magic flute in advance. effect.

   It looks like everything is going well.

   Everything that went smoothly is a little unreal.

   Liu Xing thought for a while, and said to the No. 1 experimenter: "Go! You can walk wherever you want."

   Experimenter No. 1 nodded slightly, and then moved in the opposite direction. As a result, the mice were all behind him, and at the same time he directly ignored the surrounding bystanders.

   "This is too smooth."

  Li Hanxing said in a low voice, "Could this be the real Son of Heaven, so..."

   Before Li Hanxing finished speaking, experimenter No. 1's flute suddenly stopped for half a second. Although he continued to play it immediately, the mice were very unwilling and fled.

   After that, no matter how much experimenter No. 1 played the magic flute, those mice never appeared again.

   "Uh, I blew too fast at the beginning, so I just couldn't help but take a sigh of relief..."

   Experimenter 1 said very embarrassedly: "So what should I do now?"

   "You watch it first." Liu Xing shook his head and said, "Number two is yours."

   Experimenter No. 2 nodded, took the magic flute and began to play. He also absorbed the lessons of Experimenter No. 1 and kept his breath steady.

  After seeing the mouse appear, the second experimenter started walking without waiting for Liu Xing to speak, and the mouse followed suit.

   But it didn't take long for the second experimenter to make a mistake. . . When he was concentrating on playing the magic flute, he didn't pay attention to his feet, and as a result, he stepped on the gravel and fell.

   This mistake made Liu Xing feel pity for him.

   But there was no way, and the second experimenter who made a mistake was not able to summon those mice.

"It seems that the standard for playing the magic flute is not high, but as long as there is a little disturbance, all the efforts will be lost! Moreover, the reason why these mice did not attack the person playing the magic flute should be because they know that their number is too small, so they must not be able to beat them. There are so many of us, so we chose to run away directly."

   (end of this chapter)