Real Cthulhu Running Game

   Chapter 299 Moon Beast

  Liu Xing can basically be sure that this circular space should be a sacrificial venue built by a secret church. After all, only a secret church would take such time and effort to build such a circular space underground, or under the sea.

   Therefore, if this circular space is a sacrifice site, then there should be an altar or a magic circle in the center of the circular space.

  Thinking of this, Liu Xing went straight to the central area of ​​the circular space.

   Sure enough, Liu Xing saw a huge magic circle in the central area of ​​the circular space, and the drawing material of this magic circle exuded a familiar smell - the smell of blood.

"It seems that I guessed right. This is indeed a venue for a secret church to hold sacrificial ceremonies, but from the perspective of this magic circle, the secret church built here does not seem to be the Ocean True God Sect or the Deep Sea Gospel Society." Liu Xing said to himself muttered to himself.

In addition to some more general magic circles, magic circles like this one are generally more characteristic. For example, there are abstract deep diver symbols around the magic circle of the Deep Sea Gospel Association, and some wave patterns representing the ocean. .

   Now, the magic circle under Liu Xing's feet does not have these similar patterns and symbols. Instead, Liu Xing also sees some symbols that look like ancient tribal totems.

   Liu Xing frowned. If these unique symbols are really the totems of some ancient tribes, is the builder of this circular space an ancient tribe?

   But this is an isolated island. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to breed a tribe, not to mention that this tribe can complete such an extremely difficult underground project.

   Liu Xing thought for a while and decided to contact kp green light: "kp, I want to make a mysticism judgment now to study this magic circle."

Kp green light laughed and replied immediately: "Liu Xing, have you thought about it? If you want to make a mysticism judgment on this magic circle, then you not only need to pass a difficult judgment, but also need to spend an hour. It only takes time, because it's so dark here."

   Liu Xing raised his brows and continued to ask: "So if I can completely illuminate this magic circle, can I make a judgment faster?"

"Of course, if you can completely illuminate this magic circle, Liu Xing, the time you need to spend will be reduced to forty minutes, and you only need to reduce the success rate by 20 when making a occult judgment." Kp green light smiled. said.

Liu Xing nodded and decided to leave this circular space for the time being. After all, he can only stay in this underground world for fifty minutes, and he can't waste all of his time here, not to mention that even if he can pass the occult judgment, Liu Xing I feel that I can't get much useful information, and the most is to involve a new force.

  So, Liu Xing decided to walk around the circular space again, and then went to explore other places.

   Just when Liu Xing returned to the wall of the circular space, Liu Xing suddenly saw a pile of bamboo slips appearing in the divine urn in front of him.

   Seeing this, Liu Xing immediately reached out and took out a bamboo slip, then opened it and looked at it. . . Then Liu Xing found that he could not understand the content of bamboo slips at all.

   And most importantly, Liu Xing can be sure that the characters on the bamboo slips are neither Chinese characters, nor island characters, nor English or other languages ​​that Liu Xing knows.

If he insisted, Liu Xing felt that the words on the bamboo slips were a bit like hieroglyphics, because many of the words were like pictures, and Liu Xing still vaguely remembered that among the words on the bamboo slips, many words appeared in the magic circle just now. .

   Liu Xing understands that this magic circle and the bamboo slips in his hands should come from the same source.

   And this bamboo slip also proved in disguise that the underground world of the Fisherman's Village should have been built by an ancient tribe. After all, hieroglyphics are also an important feature of ancient tribes.

   But then the question arises, how could there be an ancient tribe on the small island of Fisherman's Village?

   Liu Xing sighed, took out his mobile phone and took a picture of each of these bamboo slips, then put the bamboo slips back in their original places, and continued to move along the edge of the circular space.

After walking a few more steps, Liu Xing found that there was a bronze gate directly opposite to the entrance of the circular space. Because the color of this bronze gate was somewhat similar to the surrounding walls, Liu Xing was still at the beginning. The bronze gate was not found.

   On this bronze gate, Liu Xing saw a lock, which was a little small, which made Liu Xing think of the key that Panda Pig had found earlier.

  So, Liu Xing took a photo of the lock of the bronze gate to facilitate comparison after he went up.

   But now Liu Xing is very curious, what will be behind this bronze gate,

   Moving on, this time Liu Xing walked directly to the entrance of the circular space and found nothing else.

   So, Liu Xing left the circular space and returned to the original road, back to the three-way intersection.

   This time, Liu Xing decided to take the road in the middle, because if nothing else, the road in the middle should lead to the thatched hut where Doge Aige is located.

   All the way forward, this time Liu Xing feels that he has walked a long distance, but the road ahead has never been seen.

   walked for a while, still the same.

Liu Xing realized that something was wrong. According to his own speed, he had walked at least a thousand meters since he entered the road in the middle. Logically speaking, he has not only walked through the grass where Dogo Aig was located. room, and now he should be under the sea again.

   This made Liu Xing unable to help but wonder if he had encountered a ghost hitting the wall.

   In simple terms, ghosts hit the wall because people lack proper reference in a relatively dark environment, so there is a problem with self-perception, so they lose their way and get lost.

If it is explained in a scientific way, it is necessary to mention the instinct of creatures. Most creatures in the world, including human beings, if they move without vision, they will find that when they reach a certain distance, the movement of creatures The trajectory is a circle. This is because the feet or wings of the creature are not completely consistent, so there will inevitably be some inconsistencies, which will lead to certain small deviations. Eventually, over time, these originally small deviations will accumulate into a huge error and form a closed circle.

   Of course, the situation that Liu Xing is encountering now may also be that the road in the middle is not straight, but has a certain range, which may eventually form a relatively closed circular road.

  So, Liu Xing decided to contact kp green light, "kp, I now want to make an inspiration judgment to determine whether I have encountered a ghost attacking the wall, or there is a problem with this road."

Kp Green Light thought for a while and said, "Yes, yes, but in order not to waste everyone's time going through the process, I can tell you now that you have not encountered ghosts hitting the wall, and there is no problem with this road. After all, you've been marching with a flashlight, and if there's a problem, you should be aware of it by now."

   Liu Xing raised his brows. He didn't expect that this kp Green Light was also an upright kp, and he told himself the result directly.

However, what kp Luguang said is quite right. After thinking about it carefully, Liu Xing found that there is no problem with this road, and he has always been relying on the edge of the road to move forward. If this road has a certain range, then Liu Xing feels that You should be able to realize it.

   As for the ghost hitting the wall, Liu Xing felt that it was unscientific and not Cthulhu, so he ignored it directly.

   Therefore, Liu Xing now only thinks of two possibilities.

  The first possibility is that this road is indeed so long, and like the road on the right, it extends directly into the seabed.

The second possibility is that he has already entered a magic circle, or is simply hit by magic, so he fell into a hallucination. After all, this is the world in the Cthulhu running game, and Liu Xing feels that he is very Magical and supernatural factors must be considered.

   Thinking of this, Liu Xing couldn't help pinching himself. . . It hurts a bit, it seems that the second possibility can be ruled out. . .

   Of course, Liu Xing is actually more inclined to the first possibility. After all, now that there is a lesson from the road on the right, Liu Xing feels that it is not impossible for the road in the middle to go deep into the seabed.

Therefore, Liu Xing took a look at the time on the phone and found that he had been underground for 20 minutes, so to be on the safe side, Liu Xing decided to walk forward for another five minutes. If there was no result, he would just turn around. return.

   As a result, Liu Xing took a few steps forward and made a new discovery—a large number of murals appeared on the walls on both sides of the road, and these murals were all painted with some kind of white powder.

   The content of the mural depicts a group of humans hunting, planting, cooking and other activities, and as Liu Xing continued to move forward, scenes of war and sacrifice appeared in the content of the mural.

   In the scene depicting the war, the camp of the mural depictor actually held some strange weapons, fought with the enemy who was also holding a spear and a stick, and then easily defeated the enemy.

But what shocked Liu Xing even more was that Liu Xing found that the sacrifice scene depicted in the mural was not the blood sacrifice that Liu Xing thought at first, because those people on the magic circle seemed to be bound, but this The venue for the sacrifice is likely to be the circular space on the right.

Then in the next few frescoes, a person dressed as a priest may come to the door of the bronze gate after reciting the sacrificial text. He opened the bronze gate with a key, and then a group of terrible people poured out from the bronze gate. The monsters dragged the people in the magic circle into the bronze gate.

  These monsters have a pale body like a giant frog without eyes, with wide mouths and clawed hands, and a group of short tentacles that should be the nose.

   Liu Xing recognized it at a glance, these monsters are moon beasts!

  The Moon Beast is a mythical creature with extremely high intelligence. In addition to the images displayed on the murals, the Moon Beast also has the ability to change the shape of its body at will.

The   moon beast's residence is on the dark side of the moon in the dreamland. Here we must first mention the dreamland.

   In the setting of the Great God of Love Craft, the fantasy world is a parallel space composed of the subconscious and the imagination, and the physical laws in it are far from reality. There are a large number of mythical creatures living in the fantasy world, and the moon beast is just one of them.

If human beings want to enter the fantasy world, the most convenient way is to dream, or believe in the existence of the fantasy world, and become a "dream maker" to enter the fantasy world. Of course, they can also enter the fantasy world through the possible gaps in the ghoul cave. And there are rumors that a certain sea of ​​trees in the real world is actually connected to the enchanting forest in the dreamland, and a mountain range in Central Asia is connected to the cold plateau in the dreamland.

   In addition, there are some gates to different dimensions that may be connected to the fantasy world.

   Therefore, many modules of the Cthulhu running group game happened in the dreamland, such as the blood soup module that Liu Xing experienced with Zhang Jingxu before.

   Speaking of the blood soup module, Liu Xing was still curious about what happened to the remaining teammates after he was "killed" by his teammates.

Back to the topic, different from the moon in the real world, the moon in the dreamland has a large area of ​​forests and oceans, and the moon beasts living here only feed on living things, and can draw a special kind of special food from the body and soul of the prey. substances as food.

Because moon beasts can adapt to a variety of climates and environments, they have strong adaptability, and can use a lot of technical knowledge to expand their territory, so moon beast colonies can be found almost anywhere, no matter in the real world. It's still a dreamland. For example, according to the photos taken by the Apollo 11 spacecraft, on the dark side of the moon in reality, it is very likely that there will be a colony of moon beasts.

In addition to the colonies, the moon beasts also conduct slave trade in the port of Delas-Leen (an important city in the dreamland). The moon beasts will exchange rubies for slaves and gold. Because of the unique characteristics of the dreamland, the slaves of the moon beasts come from In all parts of the universe and various races, but most moon beasts still prefer to choose humans as slaves.

Because the moon beast also spends a lot of time beating and tormenting as a pastime, seeking cruel joy from the pain of its own slaves, the most important thing is that the moon beast will use spiritual spells to control its own slaves and let their slaves There is no way to resist, so the creatures who become slaves of the moon beast are extremely miserable and have no way to survive.

   In the next mural, the moon beasts took out some strange things and placed them on the magic circle, and then returned to the bronze gate under the kneeling of the priest.

   Seeing this, Liu Xing finally understood something.

   First of all, the underground world of this fisherman's village was indeed built by an ancient tribe. This ancient tribe also reached some kind of cooperative relationship with the moon beast, and the bronze gate was the passage to the dreamland.

  PS: On the first day back to work, I was exhausted.

   (end of this chapter)