Real Cthulhu Running Game

   Chapter 1637 Ancient Humans

Liu Xing frowned, and said with some doubts: "No, it stands to reason that kp should not answer the question like this, because this has already involved the most critical part of this module, that is, does the auto repair shop have any? problem."

"Yes, when I think about it now, I also think that there seems to be a problem here, but I don't know exactly what is going on, because although I can recall the content of the conversation in the secret room now, it may be because kp is directly with the Because of the player's dialogue, I don't know what Liu Qindong and kp said, in short, at this time, Liu Qindong and others began to suspect that this auto repair shop may have become a supernatural scene for some reason!"

Speaking of supernatural scenes, Liu Xing thought of Panlong Town, because Panlong Town is a supernatural scene in a sense, or the Panlong Town module can also be regarded as a half-ruled module, because In the first half of the Panlong Town mod, that is, before the avatar against Glaaki, players can use the mod's time retrospective rules to obtain various information, and can also use the time difference and information difference to deal with those mythical creatures , of course, you can also cooperate with mythical creatures in the neutral camp, and finally achieve the achievement of clearing the level without injury.

   It’s just that Liu Xing and his party at that time chose to go straight and solve various mythical creatures on their own. . . Of course, this is just Liu Xing's wishful thinking, because Liu Xing doesn't know that there is a big guy in the Panlong Town module who is deliberately releasing water, otherwise Liu Xing and others don't know how many times to reopen.

Thinking of this, Liu Xing said: "I have also encountered a mod that seems to be a rule type before, that is, after certain conditions are met, the time in the mod can be reset, so that players can use this to Different ways to deal with various mythical creatures, but your mod kids are a little different, so if I guess correctly, there may not be any real enemies in that mod?"

"Yes, after Liu Qindong and other players either fell off or directly tore the cards, I escaped from the auto repair shop with several other character cards that fell off, but the process of escaping was simply messing around with my head covered. Run, so I don't know how I escaped; but after I escaped, I heard about the concept of supernatural scenes on the forum. It's shrouded in power, and then there are some special rules... so some people think it's the masterpiece of some old master."

   "Is there? Why don't I remember such an old ruler?"

Liu Xing thought for a while, shook his head and said, "But now the Cthulhu running group game hall is already creating a new Dominator of the Old Day, so it's normal to have such a Dominator of the Old Day who pays attention to the rules; but, This kind of old one seems to be much more difficult to deal with than the ordinary old one, because I have mentioned or some in the forum, uh, the player forum in the game hall of the forum person Cthulhu running group game hall. Similar rule-based mods, most of these mods are players entering a certain place at the beginning, such as a factory, a scenic spot, etc., and then they find that something is wrong here, and then they collect clues to determine what is going on in this scene. The ultimate move, and how to properly leave this scene."

"However, this mod really tests the players' reasoning ability in a short period of time, and in this mod you can't get useful information through inspiration judgment. It can even be said that in this mod the players are not You need to make any judgment to clear the level, or in other words, no matter what judgment the player makes, it cannot affect the progress of the mod... Of course, there are exceptions to everything. There used to be a rule-based mod that asked players to leave a western-style manor, and this manor It can be roughly divided into two parts: indoor and outdoor, but overall it is a two-layer maze, and as a result, one player is a blaster who directly ignores the rules and explodes all the way."

   "Hahaha, this is a good idea to solve the problem. If Liu Qindong and others also carried explosives at that time, they should also be able to blow up a way directly."

Mobius said with a smile: "If everything is normal, the auto repair shop should only have an area of ​​two or three hundred square meters, but when Liu Qindong and others walked in, they found that there was another car repair shop behind it. There are a lot of abandoned vehicles in the huge space, but the models and license plate numbers of these vehicles prove that these vehicles are the vehicles of the missing persons, but those vehicles are not so old, so I suspect The rules of this garage are about time."

"acceleration time?"

Liu Xing thought for a while, patted his thigh and said: "So it is, no wonder Liu Qindong chose to let his character card fall off, because he also thought that the auto repair shop would start to accelerate the passage of time after triggering certain conditions, so those vehicles It will age like this. You must know that as long as the quality of the current car is good at the factory, even if it is left outside for a few years, it will be dusty at most. As long as it is cleaned, it will be no different from a normal vehicle. Therefore, these old-looking vehicles may have been accelerated for decades! So after Liu Qindong realized this, he began to worry that even if he could pass the customs, he would make the actual age of his character card backward. Push a few years or even decades!"

"In the rule book of the Cthulhu run game, it is mentioned that when the player's character card changes greatly in terms of age, to put it bluntly, after a certain age, the attribute values ​​in all aspects will decrease, and even some There will also be some special disease judgments, such as Alzheimer's or something, but this situation still rarely happens. After all, each parallel world in the Cthulhu Running Group game hall is not only a few players participating, so time Although the flow rate is a little faster than the real world, it can be maintained at about one to two, so it is difficult for the player's character card to trigger this aging judgment, but once it is triggered, it means that the character card is almost the same Abandoned."

"So Liu Xing, what you mean is that Liu Qindong is worried that if he continues to advance the process of the module, if something goes wrong, he may make himself receive the pension in advance. At that time, this character card will not be much different from tearing the card. , so why don't you just drop it off to avoid the big pit in front of you, and then go back and get this character card back through the resurrection module?" Mobius suddenly realized.

"If it were me, I would have made this choice too, because Mobius, you should have heard the story of the Lanke people, right? There was a woodcutter who saw two immortals when he was going up the mountain to chop wood. Playing chess, he found out that the wooden handle of his axe was broken after the chess game was over, and when he went down the mountain, he realized that hundreds of years had passed in this world; and this mod is even a reverse rotten. The story, Liu Qindong and others were still a group of young people when they entered the auto repair shop, but when they came out, they became a group of old men."

Liu Xing touched his chin and affirmed: "If I become such an old man one day, then I should give up this character card, firstly because this kind of character card will be in most mods. The role that is holding you back is, secondly..."

   Liu Xing had not finished speaking when he heard a sudden noise outside.

   "Huh? Did the conversation collapse?"

Mobius said suspiciously: "It shouldn't be, I reminded the mythical creatures in charge of the negotiation before that we only need to maintain the final bottom line-free activities in this film and television base, we can directly sign with you. Cooperation treaty, as for other things, you just need to try your best."

   "Then I'll go out and take a look. If you don't mind Mobius, then I'll speak on your behalf when necessary?" Liu Xing opened the door and said.

   "No problem, Liu Xing, just remember the bottom line I just said."

After obtaining the authorization of Mobius, Liu Xing left the RV directly. As soon as he came out, he saw that the tent was already arguing. Zhang Jingxu and others had already taken out their weapons and confronted the mythical creatures, but since they still From the point of view of having the energy to scold each other, the two sides should have no real intention to do it.

   And the three of Lu Tianya hadn't left the tent yet.

   So what exactly is this situation?

At this time, Mette came over and explained: "Another mythical creature came over just now. It should have come here after seeing the information about our circus. After all, you also know that our circus is already in Rongcheng. It is one of the Internet celebrity attractions, so as long as the mythical creatures near Rongcheng have access to information, they can find that we are a gathering place for mythical creatures, so they will come to us in all likelihood; in fact, it is true, About one-third of the mythical creatures we have here are specially found recently, and we even rejected a few problematic mythical creatures."

   After Mette said this, Liu Xing noticed that there was a new face in those mythical creatures, but this new face looked a little bit. . . How to say, like a person?

   "Hey, why do I suddenly feel cold behind my back? This guy looks a bit oozing?"

   Liu Xing frowned, and a word suddenly came to mind - the uncanny valley effect.

That's right, this new mythical creature looks like a human being, but it is precisely because of this eight-point resemblance that Liu Xing, a serious human being, feels a little uncomfortable seeing it. That pain from the heart.

   "Yeah, so Liu Xing, your friends couldn't help but want to do it when they saw it."

Mette said with a smile: "But this is also normal. If I see a creature that looks like a ghoul, but I can be sure that it is not a ghoul, I will subconsciously want to stay away from it, but If there are some similar people around me, I will work with them to solve this strange guy, because this is not my own; this is also true in nature, for example, many kinds of monkeys are similar in the eyes of you humans , is nothing more than the difference in color and size, but in the eyes of these monkeys, they are not all monkeys, so if they are not of our race, their hearts must be different, and these monkeys will fight without hesitation."

   Liu Xing was stunned for a moment, then carefully observed the mythical creature that looked very much like a human, and a thought suddenly flashed in his mind.

   "Uh, isn't this some mythical creature, but another human being from ancient times?"

Mette looked at Liu Xing, smiled and nodded, "Sure enough, Liu Xing, you know everything, but it is indeed a mythical creature, but it seems to belong to the kind of artificial semi-mythical creature, that is, ordinary human beings in Taking a special potion, or undergoing special transformation, it became like this, and its current appearance is somewhat similar to an ancient human in my impression."

   Sure enough.

   In the long evolutionary process, there have been several branches under the Homo genus, but in the end, only Homo sapiens are left, that is, us modern humans.

However, in the study of human DNA, traces of other humans have been found, so some people think that our ancestors once used other humans as their food source, and that humans are susceptible to prions is also one of the evidences, because Only cannibalistic animals get prions. . .

   So some people think that the uncanny valley effect appears because we Homo sapiens once "loved and killed" other humans, so the fear and unease of these people who are similar to ourselves are engraved deep in our genes.

"Liu Xing, don't forget, our mythical creatures are immortal, so I have seen your old ancestors of Homo sapiens on earth before, and of course I have seen other kinds of human beings, they are actually similar to you. , that is, there are differences in some details; but at that time you humans were still too weak in general, so your Homo sapiens ancestors often competed with other humans for territory, and finally won by intellectual superiority."

Mette said with some sigh: "But some humans are not willing to be defeated by you Homo sapiens, so they began to rely on various mythical creatures to obtain some strange powers, and as a result, they began to become a little different. Like humans; in the end, these humans either became history or other mythical creatures, but their genes were left by some mythical creatures, such as snake people, so this new mythical creature should be It was the atavism experiment carried out by the snake people, and it finally became like this."

   (end of this chapter)