Real Cthulhu Running Game

  Chapter 203 The Story of the Ghouls (Part 1)

By the way, today's ghoul elders don't know where to hear that the real names of mythical creatures like them cannot be known to others, especially those magicians, because they will be killed by magicians using their real names to curse, So Aoki only told Liu Xing the current pseudonym of the ghoul elder - Fujiwara Xuanyin, of course, this is also the reason why Aoki only told Liu Xing his surname.

Let’s get down to business, the ghoul elder Fujiwara Xuanyin, who was still the leader of the mercenaries at the time, was thinking about opening up the reputation of his mercenary group. Although he was a little frightened by the name of the Demon Race, he still chose to lead his own mercenary group. The Corps went to Ziwu City.

However, at that time, Aoki always felt that something was wrong. He felt that his mercenary group went to rescue Ziwu City. What the soldiers said was divine.

However, Fujiwara Xuanyin insisted on his own opinion, and finally sent Aoki away on the grounds of "seeking wealth and wealth at risk", so in the outskirts of Ziwu City, Fujiwara Xuanyin brought a mercenary team to see Sawada Tomohiko, who was out for help, and the next two Naturally, it was a hit and miss, and Fujiwara Xuanyin accepted the employment of Sawada Tomohiko and continued to go to Ziwu City for support.

In Aoki's eyes, Sawada Tomohiko at that time was a typical rich boy. He was white and chubby, with thin skin and tender meat. At first glance, he looked like the kind of person who couldn't lift a knife, but Aoki wondered if Sawada Tomohiko was How to escape from Ziwu City alone.

That's right, Sawada Tomohiko was alone at that time, he didn't even have a servant and guard by his side, and he didn't have any baggage or weapons on his body. He was completely bare-handed and walked out after dinner. The most important thing is Sawada Tomohiko At that time, the clothes were well-dressed, and the white clothes were fluttering, and there was no stain at all, which felt wrong no matter what.

   So, this made Aoki feel a little puzzled, did the demons not enforce martial law in Ziwu City at all, and just let Sawada Tomohiko walk out?

   However, Fujiwara Xuanyin, who was promised by Sawada Tomohiko at that time, was overwhelmed by the benefits, ignored these details, and continued to advance towards Ziwu City with the mercenary group in a hurry.

  As a result, when there was still more than ten miles away from Ziwu City at that time, it suddenly rained heavily, and the rain fell from the sky like a waterfall. The embarrassed Sawada Tomohiko asked to stop the march and temporarily took refuge in a dilapidated shrine nearby.

  Aoki did not expect that the **** society would become the beginning of his nightmare life.

At that time, Aoki was still complaining in his heart. Although the rain was quite heavy, it did not have much impact on the march. It only took one or two hours to reach Ziwu City, and this young master Tomohiko Sawada actually supported Ziwu. The city is not in a hurry at all, and now I am still in the mood to take shelter from the rain.

But no matter what, Sawada Tomohiko is also an employer. Since the mercenary group has accepted the employment of Sawada Tomohiko, it has to obey all orders of Sawada Tomohiko, and most of the mercenaries can't pay more attention to face those faces later. Abominable Demons.

As a result, under the guidance of Sawada Tomohiko, the mercenary group came to the dilapidated shrine. The atmosphere of this shrine made Aoki feel uncomfortable and a little strange, because the area of ​​this dilapidated shrine was very large. The building materials are very particular, and the decorative carvings are also very exquisite. However, this dilapidated shrine is actually built in a wilderness ridge with no village in front and no store in the back. No matter how you look at it, it doesn't feel right.

  The most important thing is that a shrine of this size should be known far and wide, but Aoki, who lives next to Ziwu City, has never heard of the existence of this shrine.

Aoki, who was a little uneasy in his heart, wanted to warn Fujiwara Xuanyin, but Sawada Tomohiko had already taken Fujiwara Xuanyin to drink, so Aoki could only choose to temporarily put down his anxiety. Anyway, his mercenary group has two There should be no problem with more than 100 people.

Hearing this, Liu Xing looked at Aoki in surprise, because when he was listening to Naoki Kuroba's story this afternoon, Liu Xing thought that the mercenary group was only about 100 people, but he didn't expect more than 100 people to appear here. difference.

"Liu Xing, I know what you're thinking, about the story of the great hero Sawada Tomohiko, I've heard quite a few versions over the years, and almost all versions mention that the number of our mercenary group is 100 people. Left and right, in fact, this is wrong, because our original number should be 210 people, but before reaching Ziwu City, that is, when sheltering from the rain in the dilapidated shrine, something happened, which caused us to directly We've cut our staff in half!"

   Speaking of this, Aoki's tone was full of anger and helplessness.

  The story continues.

   When it’s raining, hitting a child is idle.

   I don't know where Sawada Tomohiko took out a few bottles of good wine, and asked Fujiwara Genyin to drink and eat meat, and Aoki, as the second-in-command of the mercenary group, naturally went to accompany the wine.

After three rounds of drinking, Sawada Tomohiko began to be bitter towards Aoki and Fujiwara's Xuanyin Avenue. It turned out that Sawada Tomohiko took a team of guards out of Ziwu City. As a result, when they arrived at the shrine, those guards were afraid of being with him. The demons fought, and they all chose to escape, so there was only Sawada Tomohiko left alone.

In this wilderness, Tomohiko Sawada, who came from a big family, naturally dare not act casually. After all, the island country was rampant at this time, so Tomohiko Sawada finally chose to stay in this shrine, waiting for someone like Fujiwara Xuanyin who is willing to come. Rescue the mercenaries in Ziwu City.

   Then Sawada Tomohiko and Fujiwara Xuanyin and Aoki mentioned the demons in Ziwu City.

The demons of Ziwu City first appeared around the ruins of the Kingdom of Tindalos, and their images are somewhat similar to zombies. Although it cannot be said that they are invulnerable, the damage to the demons by the inferior weapons is minimal, and these demons are all He has good intelligence and can carry out tactics such as encircling and interspersing without command.

The most important thing is that the leaders of the demons are able to speak and use words to kill the fighting spirit of the defenders of Ziwu City, and even turn against an official of Ziwu City, so the defenders of Ziwu City They retreated steadily, and soon gave up half of the Ziwu City.

However, according to the leader of the demon race, they were originally criminals of the Kingdom of Tindalos, who were detained in the secret prison of the Kingdom of Tindalos and underwent reformation surgery and turned into this ghostly appearance. The door was opened, so they broke out of the cage, but they still felt that they belonged to human beings in their hearts, so they wanted to occupy a corner of Ziwu City, so they asked all the residents of Ziwu City to leave Ziwu City, and they would not. There will be massacres.

   Therefore, officials from Ziwu City took their troops and fled Ziwu City directly. After all, they were not in Ziwu City at all, and it would not hurt them to leave Ziwu City.

But Sawada Tomohiko and the others, as the natives of Ziwu City, are naturally reluctant to leave Ziwu City. After all, their industries are all in Ziwu City, even if the demons are willing to let the Zetian family take away everything that can be taken away, That Zetian family's capital will also shrink by more than half, not to mention the Zetian family's network resources can only be used in Ziwu City.

Moreover, the demons really planned to set up camp in Ziwu City. When a small family wanted to take some cloth from the shop in the occupied area, the demons categorically rejected them. After all, the demons have lost their hunger and taste. They don't plan to go to other places, so if they go to the middle of the two, the demons plan to enjoy "clothing" and "living".

  In the island country at that time, cloth was considered a hard currency and could be used for equivalent exchange. Therefore, the Zetian family stored a lot of cloth, and the total value accounted for one-third of the assets of the Zetian family.

   Therefore, there is no room for negotiation. The head of the Sawada family, the father of Sawada Tomohiko, decided to give it a go and called on the local families and civilians in Ziwu City to unite against the demons.

The other families thought the same thing as Sawada Tomohiko’s father. If they gave up the property in Ziwu City, the family would surely fall, and those commoners would also be reluctant to cultivate their own land, so the rest of Ziwu City decided to continue to resist the devil. clan.

   But although the idea is good, the gap between the two sides cannot be ignored.

According to the information that Sawada Tomohiko knew, the number of demons reached 500, and all the people were soldiers, one by one could fight, and some demons also held strange weapons from the period of the Kingdom of Tindalos. Although they were only the size of a palm, they could Murder with sound from 100 meters away.

   Hearing this, Liu Xing felt that the weapons of the Tindalos Kingdom period in the hands of the demons should be weapons such as pistols.

On the Ziwu City side, because the officials of Ziwu City left with their troops, only the guards of various families and some able-bodied farmers can fight, the number is about 800, but due to the lack of necessary military literacy With weapons and equipment, the defenders of Ziwu City would definitely not be able to defeat the Demon Race.

   Therefore, Sawada Tomohiko was sent out to find reinforcements.

   After listening to Sawada Tomohiko's introduction, Aoki also began to retreat. After all, Aoki was just an ordinary person at that time, and he was still a little guilty when facing the terrible creatures he had never seen before.

And the other mercenaries, after hearing that the demons they were about to face were so terrifying, also began to clamor for Fujiwara Xuanyin to give up this mission. .

   However, after Sawada Tomohiko raised his salary and guaranteed a high pension, Fujiwara Xuanyin finally persuaded other mercenaries to accept the mission.

Because there was no sign of the heavy rain stopping, Sawada Tomohiko asked the mercenaries to continue to rest in the shrine until the heavy rain stopped. As for Aoki, he asked Sawada Tomohiko why he waited until the rain stopped before starting. Sawada Tomohiko just hesitated. of perfunctory past.

   With more and more doubts in his heart, Aoki could only choose to follow the instructions of his employer, Sawada Tomohiko, and lead the mercenaries to set up camp in the shrine.

Although this shrine is a bit shabby, the space is large enough to accommodate more than 200 mercenaries after cleaning up. In the back row of wing rooms, other ordinary members crowded into the main hall of the shrine to lay the floor.

  Because he drank a lot of alcohol, Aoki came to his room, tidied up and fell asleep.

   The next morning, the heavy rain still did not stop.

When   Aoki came to the main hall of the shrine, he found that there was something wrong with the number of people in the main hall.

   After Aoki’s inventory, more than 20 mercenaries were missing, and after asking other mercenaries, I didn’t get any clues.

   But at this time, Aoki didn't care too much about it, because Aoki thought that these mercenaries were afraid of fighting the demons, so he chose to escape on the rainy night.

   As a result, after Aoki had taught other mercenaries to keep their word and not run away, he didn't take this matter to heart.

  The rain is still falling.

   Aoki, who had been bored for a day, went back to his room to rest after drinking with Sawada Tomohiko for a while.

   As a result, Aoki, who was in a rush to urinate in the middle of the night, suddenly heard a strange sound, as if someone was chanting a scripture, but Aoki, who was still a little drunk, chose to ignore it and went back to sleep.

   Then, when he woke up early the next morning, Aoki found that there were more than 30 mercenaries missing. Only then did Aoki realize that something was wrong, and recalled the strange voice last night.

  So, because of the heavy rain, he continued to stay at the shrine, and Aoki deliberately pretended to have a cold and went back to the room to rest early, and then paid attention to the movement in the shrine.

   In the middle of the night, Aoki heard the strange sound again. Although it was mixed with the sound of rain, Aoki was still sure that the sound came from Sawada Tomohiko's room.

   Therefore, when Aoki was preparing to go to Sawada Tomohiko's room with a weapon, his eyes suddenly went dark and he lost consciousness.

When Aoki woke up, it was already the morning of the fourth day. This time, more than 30 mercenaries were missing. However, at this time, Tomohiko Sawada suddenly took out a big sword and claimed that he had obtained this shrine to enshrine. The blessing of the great **** Sulu, he obtained divine power and artifacts.

   At this moment, the heavy rain stopped abruptly, and the rain passed the sky.

At this time, Aoki began to suspect that Sawada Tomohiko sacrificed the missing more than 100 mercenaries to the so-called Sulu God, but because there was no evidence, and Sawada at this time Tomohiko showed amazing strength, and Aoki could only choose not to mention it, and began to observe Sawada Tomohiko's every move secretly.

   Speaking of this, Aoki looked at Liu Xing and said, "Now I want to ask you a question, do you believe what I say?"

   Liu Xing nodded without hesitation and said seriously: "Of course I believe your words, because you don't have to lie to me at all, because you won't get any benefit from lying to me."

  Aoki laughed and said, "So good, then I'll continue to tell you the next story."

  PS: It is not easy to break the chapter, so the two are combined. These stories are mainly to enrich the characters of NPCs, and also to pave the way for the subsequent plots.

   (end of this chapter)