Real Cthulhu Running Game

   Chapter 356 Lost Time

   Liu Xing took a deep breath and said, "Did you feel it just now that something seems to be staring at us in this bamboo forest?"

Ishikawa Ling nodded and said in surprise: "What, it turns out that I am not the only one who feels this way, just when I was looking at the depths of the bamboo forest, I suddenly felt that I was being targeted by something, and that kind of It was also very strange, I felt like a rabbit being targeted by a tiger."

At this time, after chatting with Wan Chongshan, Zhang Jingxu said, "Wan Chongshan and I have the same feeling as you, which means that there is indeed something peeping at us in the depths of this bamboo forest, but I am not sure about it. Is it some kind of beast or mythical creature, but it probably should have treated us as prey now, but in terms of the density of this bamboo forest, the thing deep in the bamboo forest will come out for a while."

   Of course, Zhang Jingxu's last sentence cannot be taken seriously.

  Because Liu Xing can be sure that the existence of peeping at his group in the depths of the bamboo forest should be some kind of mythical creature, and for mythical creatures, it must be easy to leave this bamboo forest.

   Therefore, Liu Xing guessed that the mythical creature in the depths of the bamboo forest should be trapped in the bamboo forest for some reason, but the only way to find a way to ask the locals in Panlong Town for the specific situation.

   "Let's go back the same way first to avoid accidents. After all, isn't there an old saying in Huaxia that a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall?" Liu Xing said seriously.

   So, Liu Xing and others went back the same way and came to the broken bridge.

   At this time, Liu Xing saw a young man in a trench coat leaning over the fence, as if he was looking at the scenery across the Panlong River.

   I have to say that this young man attracted the attention of Liu Xing and others.

   Liu Xing gave Zhang Jingxu a wink, Zhang Jingxu understood it, brought Wan Chongshan and went up to chat with the young man.

   Only then did Liu Xing see the true face of this young man. To describe it in one sentence, it is a little fresh meat, the kind that can be launched as a traffic star as long as it is packaged casually.

   But it is precisely because of this that Liu Xing felt that this young man was a little strange, because he did not match the overall atmosphere of Panlong Town.

   This is like in a sci-fi movie, a group of soldiers with laser guns were exchanging fire with each other, and suddenly a white-robed Taoist priest appeared with a sword and dropped a few yellow talismans to kill the soldiers. . .

   After a while, Zhang Jingxu came back and said, "This young man's name is Xiao Mochen, and he is a native of Panlong Town."

Liu Xing raised his brows and asked curiously, "Oh, this Xiao Mochen is actually a local. At first I thought he was a foreigner who was forced to stay in Panlong Town just like us. After all, his paintings Feng is different from others, and there is something special about the name."

Zhang Jingxu nodded with a smile, and continued: "Yes, I thought so at first, but Xiao Mochen mentioned that he and Hu Cang were good friends who grew up together, and he also told us about that Do you want to hear the legend of the Bamboo Forest?"

   "Mr. Zhang Jingxu, please don't give a shit, just talk about it." Ishikawa Ling said helplessly.

Zhang Jingxu smiled again and said: "It is said that long ago, when Panlong Town was still on the other side of the river, the area where the bamboo forest was located was still a field, and suddenly a monk came to Panlong Town and spent some money to buy it. I got off the land and asked someone to build a temple called Hualai Temple, and finally on the day Hualai Temple was built, the monk planted some bamboo around Hualai Temple."

"This monk is also very strange. Apart from coming to Panlong Town to buy some food and vegetables every ten days and a half months, he stays in Hualai Temple all day and never comes out, and he never accepts believers to enter Hualai Temple. The people in Panlong Town gradually felt that there might be a problem with this monk, but after all, the monk built Hualai Temple with his own money, and there was no trouble in Panlong Town, so there was nothing to say. "

"Ten years have passed in this way, the monk has been living a secluded life in Hualai Temple, but occasionally a Taoist priest will enter Hualai Temple early in the morning, stay there for a long time, and then leave Panlong Town in a hurry. And this Taoist came by himself in a boat, so this aroused the interest of a group of bear children in Panlong Town."

"I don't need to say more about what kind of creatures bear children are. They are not afraid of anything and they always like to do things everywhere, although their parents have repeatedly warned them not to go to Hualai. But in one afternoon, the bear children who were idle and had nothing to do, decided to go to Hualai Temple to play on a whim, so this group of bear children secretly entered Hualai Temple."

"As a result, shortly after the group of bear children entered Hualai Temple, a strange roar came from the Hualai Temple, and then there were the cries of the bear children, because there was no bridge at that time, I heard these sounds The family of the bear children could only make a detour through a low bridge behind Hu Cang's house, so when the bear children's family members came to Hualai Temple, they only saw blood all over the place, and those bear children. Mutilated corpses...or chunks of meat."

"The angry bear children's family members naturally regarded the monk as the culprit, but after those bear children's families searched Hualai Temple, they could not find the monk, and the bear children's family members who calmed down a little at this time, I also found that something was wrong. After all, although they delayed some time on the road, it took about ten minutes from the time the bear children called for help to when they arrived at Hualai Temple."

"According to the bear children found now, it is basically certain that these bear children have been dismembered, but the method of dismembering the corpses is very crude, as if torn with bare hands, and in some corpses They also found tooth marks that didn't look like humans, so the family members of the bear children realized that something was wrong, so they immediately chose to leave Hualai Temple and returned to Panlong Town to notify the mayor, who then asked everyone to come together. Bringing weapons back to Hualai Temple, and conducting a search on Hualai Temple."

"As a result, a basement was found in Hualai Temple, and a corpse torn in half was found in the basement, and this corpse was the monk's, and then another opened box was found in the basement. , This box is only the size of a rice cooker, but it is covered with weird patterns, so the well-informed mayor thinks that this box is likely to be used to seal some kind of monster."

"So, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, the mayor took everyone away from Hualai Temple and returned to Panlong Town, and arranged for people to go to nearby villages and towns for help, but the people sent out came back early the next morning. , but that person had been disemboweled, and all his internal organs were missing. Obviously, he was killed by the monster released from the box, and it can be inferred from this that the monster was wise. "

"Since it was impossible to ask for help, the mayor ordered all the residents of Panlong Town to stay home, and organized a group of able-bodied men to patrol Panlong Town. As a result, a bachelor who lived alone was attacked that night. The monster attacked, and by the time the patrol arrived, the bachelor had been killed, also disemboweled and gutted."

"Just when the residents of Panlong Town were panicking, the Taoist priest who often went to find monks came to Panlong Town, because when he was looking for monks, he found that something was wrong in Hualai Temple, and when he saw the monk's body Afterwards, he hurriedly came to Panlong Town. After learning the ins and outs of the matter, the Taoist priest told the mayor that a certain monster was indeed sealed in the box. The monk built it in Panlong Town to purify the monster. Hualai Temple lived in seclusion."

"In the beginning, things went quite smoothly. In theory, it would take another two years to completely super-purify the monster. As a result, because the group of bear children opened the box, it fell short, and the monster that was released was sealed for so many years. , and it was almost purified by someone, so you can imagine the monster's temper, so the monk and the bear children were killed by the monster."

"However, because the monster has been sealed for so many years, and now it has just escaped, its strength is not as strong as before, so it can only play guerrilla warfare with the residents of Panlong Town, but if the monster cannot be sealed again as soon as possible, wait until The complete recovery of this monster's strength will destroy the entire Panlong Town, because before that monster was sealed, it killed a person in the town overnight."

"Fortunately, the monk left behind when building Hualai Temple, so the Taoist priest used his body as bait and returned to Hualai Temple to attract the monster. When the monster was about to attack the Taoist priest, the Taoist priest started The backhand left by the monk, that is, the bamboos planted around Hualai Temple, and then I saw those bamboos grow wildly in an instant, and the entire Hualai Temple was surrounded by bamboos. Trapped in it, unable to move."

"As for the Taoist priest, he was naturally trapped in Hualai Temple, and of course he was killed by the monster, but the Taoist priest told the mayor that he was trapped there before he used his body as bait. After the monster, Panlong Town should be relocated to the Hualai Temple, to suppress the monster through popularity, so as to prevent the monster from getting out of trouble again, so Panlong Town moved here from the opposite bank, and was next to the bamboo forest. "

After listening to this story (in reality, there is an abandoned temple next to the author's hometown, because the two monks who originally lived there were killed overnight, and it looked like they were bitten to death by wild animals, so it was rumored that After going around, it turned into the two monks killed by a monster, and by the way, there were several dead people out of nowhere, and a zombie version) Afterwards, Liu Xing couldn't help but look back at the bamboo forest.

If it were in the real world, Liu Xing would definitely have laughed and ignored it when he heard such a story, but in this Cthulhu running group game world, Liu Xing can be sure that in that bamboo forest, it does exist of some kind of mythical creature.

   After all, the legends heard in the Cthulhu running game are all true.

At this time, Zhang Jingxu continued: "But I don't know why, when Wan Chongshan mentioned the black dragon, Xiao Mochen's expression changed obviously, but he still denied the existence of the black dragon, and now he He has said goodbye to us and invited us to play at his teahouse in the afternoon."

   As soon as Zhang Jingxu finished speaking, Xiao Mochen nodded to Liu Xing and others, then turned and left.

   Liu Xing sighed and said seriously: "So it seems that we were targeted by the monster just now. I didn't expect that the monster was trapped in the bamboo forest for so many years and is still alive now."

Zhang Jingxu smiled helplessly and said, "Of course, Liu Xing, you must know that most mythical creatures are basically immortal, so it makes sense that the monster deep in the bamboo forest is still alive. Alright, let's go back to Hu Cang's house now and call Li Dian out to talk about what happened just now."

   Liu Xing nodded, and everyone returned to Hu Cang's house together.

   At this time, Hu Cang and Li Dian were sitting and chatting.

  Li Dian said something when he saw Liu Xing and the others, causing Zhang Jingxu and Wan Zhongshan to be stagnant, and took out their mobile phones in shock.

   Liu Xing and Ishikawa Ling are puzzled, waiting for Zhang Jingxu's translation.

  The language barrier is really troublesome.

   Liu Xing has now made up his mind that he must buy a "textbook" in the mall after finishing this mod.

  There is a special kind of props in the mall, which are affectionately called "textbooks" by players. For example, the animal taming notes that Liu Xing once saw in Ishikawa Lingbao belonged to "textbooks".

To put it simply, "textbooks" are books that allow players to learn or improve skill values. However, players need to spend a certain amount of time in the module to read and comprehend, but "textbooks" will limit the number of times players can purchase, such as repairs. Players in the Gus area can only buy three "textbooks".

   At this time, Zhang Jingxu looked at Liu Xing with a solemn face, and said, "Meteor, Ishikawa Ling, look at the time displayed on your mobile phone now!"

   Liu Xing frowned, and quickly took out his mobile phone and found that the time displayed on the mobile phone turned out to be eleven o'clock!

   The current Liu Xing and Ishikawa Ling are just as shocked as Zhang Jingxu and Wan Zhongshan just now.

Liu Xing still remembers that the time when his group left Hu Cang's house was 8:30. Although he didn't take out his mobile phone to confirm the time, according to Liu Xing's own feeling, his group only stayed outside for half an hour at most. about.

   So, where did those two hours go?

   (end of this chapter)