Real Cthulhu Running Game

Chapter 2235 Reed Town

Liu Xing frowned slightly and said, "This is indeed a bit abnormal, because if I remember correctly, reeds usually grow in wetland shoals and the like, so reeds generally do not grow directly in rivers. Especially in areas like this where the water flow is fast and there are many fish, it is difficult for the reeds to stay together."

 “That’s right, I also think this reed shouldn’t appear here.”

After a moment of silence, Schiller continued: "I suddenly thought of something, that is, there may be an abandoned town similar to Sweetwater Town nearby, and the name of this town is Reed Town!"

"oh?"

 Although Liu Xing was a little confused, he did not look back.

 “That’s right, it’s Reed Town!”

At this time, Dong Qian's voice rang again, "But Luwei Town may have become history earlier than Tianshui Town, because the last record about Luwei Town was already before the prince of the previous dynasty was born. Something happened!"

"Ah? Has it been so many years?" Liu Xing said in surprise.

“That’s right, Luwei Town suddenly disappeared about a hundred years ago!”

Schiller took over and said: "Yes, it just disappeared! The whole town suddenly disappeared! The whole town may only have the foundations of the buildings and some scattered items left to prove that there was once a town here!"

More than ten minutes later, Liu Xing learned the history of this Reed Town from Schiller and Dong Qing.

Luwei Town lives up to its name. It is a small town surrounded by reeds. However, this town does not live an isolated life like Wangjiacun. Instead, it actively communicates with surrounding towns, because reeds can be used with treasures all over the body. Description: In addition to being used as medicine, it can also be used to make reed mats and even paper. Therefore, Luwei Town has made a lot of money from these reeds. It is also the richest town in Shili and Baxiang, so the surrounding towns People are willing to marry their daughters to Luwei Town, even if they are young.

But, logically speaking, based on the average family size in Luwei Town, there should be no shortage of children in the town. But what surprises everyone is that every household in Luwei Town only has one or two children. , if that family can have three children at the same time, then the whole town will come to give a generous gift in order to add some happiness.

However, this situation may only occur once every ten years.

But, just like the animals at the top of their respective food chains in nature, they only reproduce two or three offspring at a time, and large animals like elephants and giraffes only give birth to one at a time. The probability of twins is simply lower than the players in the Cthulhu Run game lobby making a real big success!

And there is another piece of trivia about elephants, that is, the average lifespan of an elephant is about sixty or seventy years old, and it can start to reproduce when it is more than ten years old, but it will only have four to four offspring in its lifetime. With six children, elephants seem to have no rivals in the wild, but as a result, it is difficult for the population to expand.

Yes, although the number of children in Luwei Town is not comparable to other surrounding towns, the quality is much higher. In short, there is no mention of the death of children in Luwei Town in the relevant records. , and each of these children is in good health, has a smart mind, and is better than ordinary children in all aspects.

 This makes Luwei Town even more unique.

As the saying goes, there must be a monster when something goes wrong, so the people around felt that something was wrong in Luwei Town, so they ran to ask the people in Luwei Town what was going on, but ordinary people in Luwei Town also knew about it. However, they don’t know why. They only know that this is a legacy left by their ancestors. Only the three elders in the town know the specific situation.

In ancient times, many villages and towns were composed of one or two surnames. This still exists in some areas in the real world, because small human settlements like this are usually established by one or more families. , and although some outsiders will be accepted in the future, these outsiders will be assimilated in the face of the absolute numerical advantage, and then they will become people with the same surname before long.

The situation in Luwei Town is also the same. There were three families who first came here, or three families with less than ten people each - the Liu family, the Jia family and the He family.

The main reason why these three families came together to Luwei Town, which was still a reed marsh at that time, was that all three families had a father-in-law, and this father-in-law not only had a lot of wealth, but also happened to have no heirs, so the three sons-in-law After receiving the same task, that is to follow the father-in-law to open up wasteland and farm somewhere; when the father-in-law's time is running out, or when the time comes ten years later, the father-in-law will divide his wealth into three parts, two of which are It's only 10%, which can be regarded as the hard-earned money given by the father-in-law to the two families.

As for the last 80% of the family property, of course it belongs to the family that has performed best in these years!

Although this father-in-law is not a wealthy businessman, his family property is enough for the three families to stay in the wilderness for ten years. What's more, the newly opened fields are also worth some money, so this seems to outsiders The somewhat outrageous plan came true.

But this is not important. What is important is that these three families have disappeared intermittently for several years in the eyes of relatives and friends. Occasionally they will appear once during the holidays, but they always come and go in a hurry. In short, they pass like this. Nine years later, Luwei Village suddenly appeared, and the father-in-law became the first monument near the village.

At the beginning, Luwei Village only had the original three families, but these three families were very generous and soon used various methods to make their relatives become villagers of Luwei Village. And if they were friends, then You can join Luwei Village as long as you are willing to change your surname.

In this way, Luwei Village soon became Luwei Town, and each of the three families arranged for one person to be the elder of Luwei Town. All matters were decided by these three elders. Interestingly, these three elders are not necessarily the most virtuous and respected in their family, but they must be the eldest one in their family, so as long as you live a long life, you can become one of the three elders. One of the elders.

Therefore, at some point, an unreliable person will appear among the three elders. So that year, a guy who was ignorant, drunk and gambling became an elder, and he also knew about Luwei Town. secret.

As a result, the elder lost all his belongings after getting drunk, and also owed a sum of money. Although he had become one of the three people with the highest status in Luwei Town, it did not mean that He can do whatever he wants, so according to the annual salary he can get, it may not be enough until he leaves Hexi.

So the elder half-assedly told some secrets about Luwei Village. The first one was that the father-in-law might not be human!

Yes, this father-in-law may be a god, so when the three families followed him to Luwei Town, they were frightened by his true strength, and then they followed him honestly in Luwei Town. The town stayed.

If this is the case, then from the perspective of Liu Xing and the others, it can explain why the children in Luwei Town value quality over quantity, because they all have the blood of gods, and even just a trace of it can make them surpass most of their peers. .

But just like Yog-Sothoth's son will be killed by a watchdog online, so the children of Reed Town don't have much special features other than their relatively high basic attributes.

In the ninth year, the father-in-law, or the self-proclaimed "mysterious being hidden in the reeds", disappeared after bidding farewell to his daughter and sons-in-law, but he also left behind A wordless stone tablet was placed to protect Luwei Town. . . As for whether this is protection or not, that is unknown.

However, visible to the naked eye, this **** left an inexhaustible wealth to Reed Town, that is, this patch of reeds that will never disappear, as well as various uses of reeds, so Reed Town can be like this Make a name for yourself quickly.

 Among the various uses of these reeds, the one that is least known and is only used in Reed Town is for making longevity materials.

 Shou coffin is a coffin that has been prepared before a person is alive.

Although the elder did not say it explicitly, some information gleaned from other people can still confirm that these longevity materials can save a person's last breath, but this is only his last breath.

So some people speculate that although this Reed Town has existed for hundreds of years, it may not even have a single ancestor. But can the person with the last breath still be considered a human being?

After returning to Luwei Town, this elder began to stay at home. During the holidays at the end of the year, he would stand up and walk around, reluctantly say a few words, and then drive away to the west within a few years. But he was not left in Luwei Town like others, but was sent back to his hometown and buried. Although this process cost a lot of money and created many big scenes, it always gave people a sense of The feeling of being hidden.

 Hence, there were endless rumors about Luwei Town, and some people with ulterior motives began to want to sneak into Luwei Town. As a result, some people disappeared or died on the roadside near Luwei Town.

 As a result, Luwei Town disappeared without a trace after one winter.

Because Luwei Town is located in a reed marsh, it will become isolated during the winter. At this time, all outsiders have to leave Luwei Town, and the pontoon bridge originally built will also be blocked, so at this time I would like to When entering Reed Town, it is easy to get lost in the reed swamps, or even fall into an ice hole and be unable to climb out.

So before this, Luwei Town would "disappear" for more than three months every year, and in the year before it disappeared completely, winter came slightly earlier and left later than before, so this One winter lasts four months.

However, in the first one or two months of spring, because Luwei Town had no product output, Luwei Town would also send some people to nearby towns to replenish some food. Therefore, in the year when Luwei Town disappeared, the surrounding towns Everyone in the town thought Luwei Town was going to other places to buy supplies, so they didn't think about going to Luwei Town to deliver goods door-to-door.

In this way, Luwei Town "disappeared" for almost half a year before outsiders came to Luwei Town and found that Luwei Town was completely empty at this time. Both people and buildings were missing. If it weren't for such a large open space, There is no existence in Reed Marsh, and those people can’t believe that Reed Town is gone!

It is worth mentioning that the wordless stone tablet left by the **** has also disappeared, and although other stone tablets surrounding it still exist, nothing can be found after digging.

But not long after, a word spread among the distant relatives of the three families in Luwei Town that we would come back.

  “Why do I feel that this story has a strong sense of déjà vu?”

Dong Qing touched his chin and said: "Yes, I am talking about the classic scenes in the Cthulhu Mythology - the fishing village and the deep divers! In the Cthulhu Mythology, most stories about fishing villages will mention deep divers. divers, and these deep divers and the villagers of the fishing village will also have a cooperative relationship. In short, the deep divers provide some benefits to the fishing village, and the fishing village has to do things for the deep divers, such as providing the deep diver hybrids with a place close to humans. living environment.”

"Yeah, I also thought about the story of the deep divers and the fishing village, but I just changed the leather case in this martial arts module! For example, the **** is a deep diver, and he wants to let his tribe To develop and grow, that’s why I will marry off my daughter and make Luwei Town the most prosperous place in the ten miles and eight towns, so I don’t need to worry about my descendants becoming singles.”

Liu Xing said with a smile: "I have encountered a module before. In the module, there is a group of deep divers who coexist peacefully with humans, and they also established a fishing village with limited contact with the outside world. Of course, this fishing village is in the end. It was also abandoned because other deep divers were looking for trouble for them; however, the reason why Reed Town disappeared suddenly was probably because the elder leaked the secret of Reed Town, so the gods hiding in the dark felt that if Reed Town continued If it continues to exist, it will definitely do more harm than good, so we simply took away everything in Reed Town to prevent future generations from inferring anything based on what was left."

Liu Xing paused and continued: "So this so-called **** should not be a real god. At most, it is a mythical creature that our players know, and its strength may not be too strong. After all, it may be discovering its own secrets. When he was discovered, his first thought was to run away... But there should have been hundreds of residents in Reed Town at that time, so it was a bit strange that they were willing to follow the **** and leave, and there has been no news about these people who left."

 (End of this chapter)