Real Cthulhu Running Game

   "Liu Xing, what do you mean, the reason why Liu Dazui didn't clean up the salt on these things was actually intentional?"

Zheng Fei frowned and said: "I remember that in a previous module, I encountered a very special original mythical creature-Ake's monster! This guy is an NPC named Ake who passed a mysterious book. Created by the magic book, of course, in my opinion, this magic book is likely to be related to Yoggsothoth, because the name given by the game hall of the Cthulhu running group is called "God's Eye Book"; this monster There is no vision or hearing, and it may not even have a sense of smell. In short, it can't actively locate the enemy, but if Ake smears a special liquid on a certain place, his monster will quickly reach that position. "

"And the way Ake smears is different, and the orders that can be given to the monster are also different. For example, a dot means standing by in place, a tick means that the object cannot be attacked, and a fork means that the object is directly launched. Offensive! There were a few different symbols, but I didn't have time to decipher them either, because the mod wasn't very difficult, so me and other players quickly realized how Ake was connected That monster, after all, this NPC carries a small bottle with him, it looks like the kind of bottle that girls use to apply nail polish."

"So the salt on these things may be used for marking, and the person receiving the marking may not be a person! Because salt has no smell, and as long as there is a distance of about half a meter, it is difficult for us to see it with the naked eye. The fine salt crystal particles, let alone at night; and since this Liu Dazui dared to move in Boyang City, it means that he still has some assurance that he can protect himself. After all, the risk of doing this kind of business is too great. , so the buyer and seller should be one-line contact, so if Liu Dazui is gone, it is not easy for Wang Quexin to contact the buyer to continue doing business, because the other side does not know if you are fishing."

   "Does it have something to do with salt?"

Meng Fugui thought for a while, and suddenly said: "Yes, when I opened a restaurant with this character card, I met a lot of people from east to west, all kinds of three religions and nine styles, one of them was from Yanjing City. The merchant mentioned a **** named Yan Wangye! Yanjing City is the city with the largest salt production in the Shenlong Empire. Even if the salt drying farms by the sea are full of firepower, they add up to the same output as Yanjing City, because Yanjing City produces the most salt. But there are several real salt mountains! So Yanjing City will mine these salts just like mining rocks, but the quality of the mountain salt on this salt mountain is not good, and there are a lot of impurities."

"So the salt well in Yanjing City is not the same as the salt well in our impression. It is a deep well specially used to filter mountain salt. To put it bluntly, it takes away the salt through groundwater, and then distills the brine at the outlet of the groundwater; This sounds outrageous to us, but the groundwater in Yanjing City is so outrageous, not only the flow is very large, but also the water flow at the outlet is relatively slow, so Yanjing City directly dispatched a few waterwheels to continuously extract salt water , sent to the subsequent distillation salt plant for purification."

"Here is the turn of the Salt Lord I just mentioned. This **** is much better than the Wenquxing we talked about before, because these salt mountains are made by the Salt Lord, and the original crisscrossing underground water channels are also made by The Lord of Salt has been integrated into a saltwater river that can be used by people today; as we all know, if you wanted to eat salt in ancient inland areas, you could basically only extract salt through salt lakes and salt wells, which is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also High-quality salt is not available, so cities that were inland in ancient times would have been difficult to develop without being near canals.”

"So Yanjing City was originally a very small and unremarkable city, and usually lived a self-sufficient ordinary life, but if it encounters a disaster year, it will be uncomfortable, so a newly appointed prefect wants to give Yanjing City. Looking for a way out, he met a man in a cloak in the mountains. The man was sitting on the edge of a cliff with his back to him; the prefect kindly advised him to be careful, if he fell, he would die. People would ask him what he was thinking in a very high-pitched voice, and the prefect would be a bit like an immortal, because he often listened to his parents telling stories when he was a child, and the immortals mentioned in the stories would stand there. From the edge of the cliff, you can see all directions, in short, it is a very handsome and handsome look.”

"You should be able to guess from here that the person wearing the cloak is not a human being, but an animal that has become a spirit. This time, it came to the prefect to ask for the seal! And the prefect's statement made him overjoyed. In short, the prefect who didn't know what it was, soared in place and turned into a fairy-like old Tao; this old Tao naturally would not treat the prefect badly, so he asked him what benefits he wanted, even if it was gold and silver. You can change it all for him! The prefect finally chose Yanshan, because the prefect knew that Yanjing City and the nearby towns had to buy salt from outside at a high price because they did not produce salt, so they spent a lot of money every year to buy salt. superior."

"So, this old man directly turned the mountain under his feet into a salt mountain, and then floated away in front of the prefect, and the prefect immediately sent someone to build a salt king temple after returning. He was called the Lord of Salt, so the Lord of Salt helped Yanjing City to modify the trend of the underground river as soon as he was happy; all in all, the Lord of Salt has never had any trouble with Yanjing City so far, so it doesn't look like Wenquxing and Wuquxing. A **** who can cause trouble, but I am a little worried that the underground river in Yanjing City will corrode the river faster due to the high salt content, and it may lead to subsidence! The population is quite large!"

   Hearing Meng Fugui say this, Liu Xing thought of a word - exchange.

  Wenquxing and Wuquxing can give a person knowledge and power that he does not have, so they will take something back from this person in exchange! And the Lord of Salt gave Yanjing City such a few salt mountains that are comparable to Jinshan, so it is "normal" to take everything in Yanjing City in exchange after the event.

"Equivalent exchange? No, this should be said to be unequal exchange! The old rulers in this mod may not shoot directly, but only reach contracts with NPCs and players through exchange, but this contract is definitely correct. They are more beneficial; of course, it is not ruled out that there are some existences similar to ancient gods, and they will have a better attitude towards us humans, such as this Lord Salt may be regarded as one."

Meng Fugui continued: "There is a very special mouse in the Yaowang Temple. According to the description, it looks a bit like a white hamster, but I haven't really seen it, so let's call it a salt mouse here. The salt king's pet; the salt rat is a good friend of the salt workers, because it can detect the location of high-quality salt. After all, the salt mountain is so big, there will definitely be dozens of different quality and different characteristics of salt, according to our The saying is that edible salt, industrial salt, rock salt, and even a little water can be directly transformed into etched salt of hydrochloric acid! So every salt worker wants to get a salt rat, because with the salt rat, they can directly change Captain."

"Although this salt rat also has eyes and ears, it looks very normal, but it is actually a decoration! Yes, the salt rat's vision and hearing are seriously retrogressed, but it can smell the subtle differences of salt, so as to give salt The salt trader I met mentioned that some salt workers trusted by the salt rat can pass some simple information to the salt rat through different salts and different placement of salt grains. The salt rat can also talk back and forth in the same way! If this is true, then we have reason to suspect that the Liu Dazui group is the private salt obtained from Yanjing City!"

"After all, the salt water flowing out of the underground river cannot be 100% taken away by the waterwheel at the outlet, so the salt water will continue to flow downstream, so the rivers near Yanjing City are all very high in salinity, so there are Some villagers make their own salt; Yanjing City also turns a blind eye to this. After all, the villagers can say that they just fetched a little water to go home, and then the water was dried before being used up, so they got With such a small amount of salt, there is no problem as long as it is not large-scale salt production, and large-scale salt production requires a large salt field to dry the salt, which is easy to detect."

   "Well, if Liu Dazui and the others bought salt directly from those villagers, then they can make up a boatload of salt, and the risk of doing so is not too big."

Liu Xing looked at the second-story building and continued: "If Liu Dazui and the others really purchased from Yanjing City, then it is possible to find a way to obtain a few salt rats to provide information for themselves, and those furniture and so on are salt rats. 's hiding place.

  Wait, if mice could be hidden in those furniture and bottles, how many mice would there be? ! "

   "Yes, I remember that a piece of furniture I opened had traces of being bitten by mice. I thought it was normal at the time. After all, there is no sense of disobedience for mice to eat wood!" Yin En said seriously.

   "That shouldn't be the case. The Salt Rat is a pet called the Salt Lord, so this Salt Rat can be said to be quite rare, so those salt workers who are trusted by the Salt Rat can directly upgrade from General Worker to Captain.

  Unless the forces behind Liu Dazui cracked the mystery of the salt rat's abilities, or directly imitated the low-profile version of the salt rat! "Zheng Fei said.

   Just as Liu Xing was about to say something, he immediately thought of those mice in the Heshan County module.

   In a sense, those mice are also low-profile salt mice, because they will also obey human orders, but as soon as the orders are over, they will go away in a hurry, or even backlash against their masters! However, the combat effectiveness of these mice is still quite strong. After all, it is difficult to deal with such a small individual and a large number of enemies.

However, there is no such group of mice in Heshan County in the martial arts module now, so Liu Xing can only temporarily adapt it, "Have you heard of a fairy tale called The Piper, just a Piper? Using the flute to attract the attention of the mice, and finally to the point of controlling these mice; so I suspect that Liu Dazui and his group have mastered similar techniques, and directly use more subtle salt to achieve the purpose of controlling the actions of the mice! Therefore This group of mice may be the life-saving means Liu Dazui prepared for him. You must know that even if a martial arts master encounters such a group of lifeless mice, he will have to be in a hurry, and this time is enough for Liu Dazui to escape. "

   As soon as Liu Xing finished speaking, Yin En couldn't help but say: "Then the question is, are there any mice in the second-story building? If so, will they attack us?"

  Yin En's words reminded Liu Xing that when he was a child, he often heard that a friend/relative of XX had a sudden pain while sleeping, and when he opened his eyes, he saw a mouse biting his ear.

   is kind of scary.

"Then you should rest in another place tonight. In the morning tomorrow, I will arrange for people to look inside and go to the second-floor building to conduct a detailed search to see if there are any more clues left." Meng Fugui said seriously. .

   So, the two of Liu Xing changed a room to rest.

   However, just as Liu Xing fell asleep, he saw a huge withered statue - Night Roar.

   Looking at the night roaring statue in front of him, Liu Xing knew that the task had finally come to him after a day.

   Liu Xing was not in a hurry to approach the statue, but first looked around to see the situation nearby, and found that this huge night roar was located in a forest, but these trees turned out to be pine trees.

   Does this say anything?

   Regarding pine trees, Liu Xing can only think of pine towers and squirrels, other than Christmas trees, and then some more abstract concepts, such as persistence, longevity and so on.

   But these should not be related to Night Roar, right?

  Unknown reason, Liu Xing could only take a few steps forward, went to the side of a pine tree and studied for a while, but found nothing special, because this is an ordinary pine tree.

   At this moment, Liu Xing heard some rustling sounds.

   looked up and saw Liu Xing and a squirrel holding a pine tower.

what's going on?

   Liu Xing never thought that he would meet such a normal animal in his dream.

   It’s just because it’s so normal that it doesn’t seem normal.

   Liu Xing frowned, for a while he couldn't understand what the dream was about.

   So Liu Xing could only turn his head to look at the night roaring statue, only to find that it disappeared without knowing when!

   Where did my Night Roar Statue go? Such a big one!