Real Cthulhu Running Game

Before Liu Xing returned to Tianshui Town, he had already sent a flying pigeon letter to Yin En and others, asking them to prepare a batch of wooden houses that could accommodate two to three hundred people in advance, so Yin En discussed with Meng Fugui After a while, these wooden houses were placed in the woods where the wine monkey once lived. Of course, this woods had long since become the wooden houses in Sweetwater Town.

As for the wine ape's lair, they were digging three feet into the ground one after another. It was determined that there were no props worth mentioning. However, they still found something that might be useful in the future, which is a pattern. Complex bronze dagger.

As we all know, when humans entered the Iron Age, the bronze products that could be seen everywhere began to gradually recede into the background, because bronze products are not as practical as iron products in many aspects, especially in the weapons made by the two. The gap is simply Don't be too big, so bronze swords became the mainstream for a period of time during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and then were gradually replaced by iron swords.

The same is true in this martial arts module. Whether it is in the related works of novelists or related records of other schools such as military strategists, bronze weapons were definitely the mainstream in ancient times, but they were quickly replaced by iron weapons. It completely occupied the ecological niche, so those bronze weapons and armors back then were used to melt and cast into small ornaments such as copper coins or copper lamps, but there are always some exceptions in everything.

Yes, the exception here refers to the bronze dagger.

Of course, the bronze dagger here can no longer be regarded as a weapon, especially if there are complicated patterns or words on the bronze dagger, it means that the bronze dagger is used for rituals. ritual utensils.

"The bronze dagger is not edged, and we can also see that this bronze dagger has been inlaid with several gems, so it is obviously a ritual instrument with a special function! In addition, this bronze dagger The dagger was hidden in the lair of the Liquor Ape together with the mysterious organization's token and the new Dragon Emperor's former sword, which means that this bronze dagger most likely belongs to that mysterious organization."

Yin En touched his chin and said: "But under normal circumstances, the bronze dagger used as a ritual tool must also be sharpened, because most of the rituals that use it require it to see blood, just like The same kind of ritual utensils we have seen in various movies, TV series and games! However, we can confirm that this bronze dagger is not edged, which is a bit strange, and the size of this bronze dagger looks like It’s also a bit small, so we suspect that this bronze dagger is a fake handle.”

Liu Xing gave a slap, nodded and said: "Yes, I also think that this bronze dagger is a pure ritual instrument, but it is not the protagonist, but a supporting role standing behind, or simply a There are spare ritual utensils in one hand... But this is not good news, because as Yin En said, there are nine out of ten situations where this style of ritual utensil can be used. It requires blood, and this thing is usually directed at the heart! So in my opinion, rituals like this are most likely related to gods, so in the martial arts module where this **** really may exist, Doesn’t this mean that there may be a **** behind that mysterious organization?”

"Ah? Didn't Li Gui meet Li Kui?"

Shi Zixuan said in surprise: "Liu Xing, I want to confirm again now, that is, did you make up the Donggong Canglong behind our alliance? Are we trying to scare people by pulling on the skin of a tiger?"

Although Liu Xing asked other players and NPCs to go to bed, he still called Yin En and Shi Zixuan to chat. After all, Yin En didn't know that Shi Zixuan was coming.

"Yes, Donggong Canglong is a **** I made up at random, so we can't call it pulling tiger skins, because we don't have tiger skins at all, only tabby cat skins that we pieced together ourselves."

Liu Xing said with some worry: "That mysterious organization is related to the prince of the previous dynasty. We don't know when the prince of the previous dynasty got involved with this god. So we can't be sure whether the prince of the previous dynasty is still alive because With the blessing of the gods, the former prince will have no problem even if he lives for another five hundred years; and we now have a guess that these so-called gods may be AI intelligent systems left over from the previous era. Of course, these AI intelligent systems They already have real minds, so our martial arts module may be a huge photo studio.”

As soon as Liu Xing finished speaking, Yin En looked at Liu Xing in confusion, saying nothing.

Seeing this situation, Liu Xing remembered that he had not told Yin En about the things related to the AI ​​intelligent system.

After listening to Liu Xing's story, Yin En nodded and said: "This sounds quite reasonable. I have always felt that there is something wrong with this martial arts module, but I couldn't tell it for a while. As a result, now It seems that it is because of the deus ex machina! But I still agree with Liu Xing’s idea, because with the prerequisite you gave Liu Xing, many speculations can become reasonable speculations, but this is not for us It’s not good news for us, because the existence of AI intelligent systems is a dimensionality reduction blow to us.”

Liu Xing took a sip of lemonade, nodded and said: "Yes, if this guess is true, then I can only think of one sentence - We are the swordsmen, and I am the fish! After all, at this time, we are like a group of people. The captive ants are kept in a transparent box that is priced at 9 yuan and 9 free shipping on a certain treasure. These AI intelligent systems can take a look when there is nothing wrong. Occasionally, if they are in a good mood, they will put some delicious food in. If they are in a bad mood or want to have fun, they will put them in. If so, just put a cockroach or beetle in the box and see how these ants fight monsters that are many times bigger than themselves, or in other words, they are using their arms as a cart in vain! That's why those monsters appear so suddenly, Because they just appear out of thin air!" Just as Yin En wanted to say something, Liu Xing continued: "But this is a good thing for us in a sense, just like this glass of lemonade, the content in it is Lemons probably shouldn't appear in this module, because although lemons may be our local species, this lemon looks like a later selected variety. The difference is almost like two species, just like the previous one. The watermelons are still white."

“Yeah, I think this setting of the AI ​​intelligent system is actually a universal patch prepared by the Cthulhu Run Game Hall!”

Shi Zixuan suddenly said: "Actually, we all have a feeling that there are too many loopholes in this martial arts module, because there are too many messy settings, and there are not even a thousand important NPCs who appear. Eight hundred, right? So as soon as so many important NPCs take action, various plot lines may be intertwined. If these plot lines are not designed well, they may become a mess at any time! It is precisely because In this way, the Cthulhu Run Game Hall chose to seal this martial arts module, and this time it may have been forced to release this module."

“I remember that in the first few months of the closed beta and public beta of the Cthulhu Run Game Hall, many modules had obvious bugs, so the players at that time began to doubt the Cthulhu Run Game Hall. The modules are actually written by real people. Of course, this is indeed the case. We all now know that there is a group of human beings in the Cthulhu Run game lobby as module authors, and the modules we usually participate in are also written by them. ;More importantly, I heard that the modules launched by the Cthulhu Run Game Hall during that period were all typical short-form modules with almost no connection with each other, so Cthulhu Run The Tuan Game Hall may have completed its first version update only after a year of public beta testing.”

"After the version update, the Cthulhu Run game lobby became what we see now. Plot lines that can last for several modules began to appear, and there was also a certain relationship between NPCs in different modules. At the same time, a very large module appeared. This module seems quite special nowadays. It is a large module composed of hundreds of small modules; the results of these small modules will affect the big picture. The plot of the module, and the plot direction of the big module will also affect the small modules that have not yet ended, so this kind of entangled module is too prone to bugs, and some players of the module originally wanted to I cleared the module smoothly, but the situation suddenly took a turn for the worse, and the game got stuck inexplicably."

Liu Xing, the module mentioned by Shi Zixuan, had also heard of it, but at that time, Liu Xing only regarded it as an unreliable gossip, because there were many posts about that period in the forum, but these posts were Nine times out of ten, the content is made up, and the reason why the poster does this is because he wants others to regard him as the first batch of players in the Cthulhu Run game lobby. Whether it is to satisfy himself Vanity, or to pave the way for subsequent deception, are both excellent.

But now that I think about it, Liu Xing feels that this seems quite normal, because the nominal open beta of the Cthulhu Running Game Hall was actually after Ao Guanhai and others took control of the Cthulhu Running Game Hall. It started later, so the Cthulhu Running Game Hall at that time was considered to be starting from scratch. Not only did it need to find enough KP, but it also had to find people to write modules for the Cthulhu Running Game Hall, so there were so many problems. It's also normal.

"So I suspect that this martial arts module is the first super large module that the Cthulhu Runner Game Hall is preparing to launch after the public beta, and there must be many writers involved in the design of this module, so they wrote it separately The plots all look pretty good, but after you put them together and start running, you will find that these plot lines are directly entangled together, and even directly create a deadlock of either you die or I live, so this martial arts module must not It’s not being shelved for the time being... but it’s like the garbage mountain of code in other games. Instead of trying to modify the code, you might as well just start over.”

Shi Zixuan shook his head and said: "Obviously, the Cthulhu Run Game Hall is planning to start over and completely abandon this martial arts module, but for a while it is reluctant to destroy this martial arts module. This is just like what we do in the real world. , more or less, I will save some things that seem useful but may not be used in my life. For example, I have dozens of pairs of plastic gloves at home, all of which were left over after I ordered fried chicken takeout; according to our It is speculated that the Cthulhu Run Game Hall is preparing to launch a real-world module, but because this real-world module may still have some shortcomings, it took out this martial arts module to delay time."

 “Hmm? That seems to make sense.”

Yin En nodded and said: "Because this martial arts module is temporarily taken out, the Cthulhu Run Game Hall should not be able to solve those bugs in a short time, so we can only choose to use the deus ex machina method to solve it. These problems! This is like what we players often say - when something happens, just let Nyarlathotep take the blame! So this time the martial arts module encounters problems that don’t make sense, then just let Nyarlathotep take the blame. Let the AI ​​intelligent system take the blame. After all, the AI ​​intelligent system is as good as a **** in this martial arts module, so no matter what the AI ​​intelligent system does, it makes sense!"

"What you said reminds me of a game. Because of a code problem, the screen has to be black for a long time every time it is started. Even the best computer is like this, but because the code is too complicated, and it is also complicated. It moves the whole body, so it has never been possible to modify it; as a result, a master directly wrote a code, which is equivalent to opening a portal at the starting point and end point of one hundred meters, so you don't need to run the nine in the middle. Nineteen meters."

Liu Xing shook his head with a smile and continued: "So the Cthulhu Run Game Hall's idea for modifying this martial arts module is to simply add a nearly universal cheat code. Whenever you encounter a problem, you can activate this code! For example, flying The reason why the player in Tiger City was lifted high may be that he triggered this code and was identified as a threat by the code, so he was eliminated directly; of course, there are also some NPCs in Flying Tiger City who triggered this code. In the end, it was treated as a threat and solved, so if we have time later, we can study it and see if there is any way to use this code to solve the enemy."

As soon as Liu Xing finished speaking, there was a sound of gongs beating outside.

 “Two o’clock in the morning!”

Liu Xing looked at Yin En with some doubts. Yin En shrugged and said, "This is the watchman arranged by Young Master Ying. He said that he would not sleep well if he didn't hear the sound of the watch every day."