Real Cthulhu Running Game

   Chapter 374 The Price of Resurrection

Zhang Jingxu, who had seen Ishikawa Ling's use of prophecy, said with a smile: "Ishikawa Ling, your prophecy is a bit... um, how can I put it, it's a bit unreliable, after all, you said it yourself, that prophecy. It's completely a secret cast, and the target of the prophecy is uncontrollable, so I think Ishikawa Ling, you should not use that prophecy."

Liu Xing nodded and said with a deep sympathy: "Zhang Jingxu is right, your prophecy technique, Ishikawa Ling, is unpleasant, it's just an entertainment skill, it's okay to use it for fun, but I want to count on it. It is basically impossible for this prophecy to provide any useful information."

Ishikawa Ling looked at Liu Xing with a depressed face, shrugged and said: "Okay, I also know that the effect of my prophecy is indeed a bit tricky, but in the previous module, my prophecy is still effective. , after all, it was predicted that Matsui Yui once made a small movie, but you didn't believe my prediction at that time, and now it's idle anyway, so it doesn't matter if I use the prediction technique once."

Seeing Ishikawa Ling so insistent, Liu Xing opened his mouth and said: "Well, Ishikawa Ling, you will do another prophecy, I hope this time your prophecy can be as successful as in the previous module, but it's not too early. Now, why don't you wait until tomorrow to perform the prophecy?"

  Ishikawa Ling thought for a while, and nodded in agreement. After all, the prophecy technique has a very long pre-casting swing, and it is almost midnight now, so he can't let Liu Xing and others wait for him for that long.

Liu Xing looked at his phone and said, "Okay, now it's almost time for the secret room, I'll just say a few last words, first of all, we'll go to Hu Cang tomorrow to determine the current time, and then we have to find a way. Let’s solve the big trouble of Hu Li first. After all, Hu Li at this point in time must have already known our existence, and like Hu Li at the previous point in time, she will think that we are the people Hu Cang brought to deal with her. , so from what we know about Hu Li's character, Hu Li will definitely choose to strike first."

"And Hu Li's methods are very concealed, so no matter how careful we are to guard against Hu Li, Hu Li has a very high possibility of killing us, so escaping is not the way to solve the problem, we must take the initiative Attack and deal with the big trouble of Hu Li head-on. Of course, if we confront Hu Li head-on, the success rate is indeed very high, but we will also pay a great price. Although we can come back to life, we are here There is no time to complete other tasks.”

"So, I personally think that the best way for us to deal with Hu Li is to be affectionate to Hu Li and understand her reasoning. After all, Hu Li should really like Hu Cang, so we just need to find a suitable entry point. If you click, you should be able to convince Hu Li to give up her hostility towards us. Of course, everyone will leave this task to me alone. After all, if we all go to see Hu Li together, Hu Li will definitely doubt our sincerity. , and I chatted with Hu Li a lot after leaving the illusion, and I think I have a certain understanding of Hu Li."

For Liu Xing's self-recommendation, everyone naturally nodded in agreement. After all, at the previous point in time, everyone was directly killed by Hu Li, so everyone knew that if the big trouble of Hu Li was not solved, in this model It can be said that everyone in the group is unable to move an inch, because every step needs to be careful when Hu Li will suddenly attack.

As for confrontation, everyone knows that this is unrealistic. After all, according to Hu Li, she regarded her group as an enemy from the very beginning, and every move of her group was under Hu Li's control, so she Before the group got to Hu Li's downstairs, Hu Li had probably already set up various traps. It would be easy to destroy her group again at that time, because she really didn't have a group. What is the way to deal with Hu Li's methods.

   Therefore, it is a more reliable method and a last resort for Liu Xing to negotiate with Hu Li alone.

Ishikawa Ling thought of this, and said, "Then Liu Xing, you should be careful, after all, I think Hu Li is... er, it should be said that she is a demon, she is a little neurotic, in order to retaliate against Hu Cang, she chose to choose She did such inhumane things to Xiao Mochen, and based on my personal experience, I suspect that Hu Li has a certain obsession with that indescribable part, so I think Hu Li may also do that to you. kind of thing."

After Ishikawa Ling said this, Liu Xing couldn't help but feel cold. After all, what Ishikawa Ling said was very reasonable, because according to the previous speculation, the attack methods of various mythical creatures in the fantasy world should be the same as in reality, so Hu It is indeed possible that Rei likes to attack an indescribable part.

   Therefore, thinking of the encounter between Xiao Mochen and Ishikawa Ling, Liu Xing began to regret his impulsiveness and decided to go to the meeting to convince Hu Li.

  So, Liu Xing said a little embarrassedly: "Well, I think it is possible that I can't deal with Hu Li alone..."

   Before Liu Xing finished speaking, Zhang Jingxu patted Liu Xing on the shoulder and said, "Liu Xing, you have to believe in yourself, you are the best."

  Ishikawa Ling and the others also nodded solemnly, but the smiles on their faces could no longer be restrained.

   Liu Xing sighed, maybe this is the so-called asking for trouble. . .

At this moment, kp Xuefeng said: "Okay, now the secret room time is over, all players, please prepare to continue to play your role, but here I need to add something that I haven't had time to say just now, Although players can come back from the dead this time, all players should be very clear that if you want to come back to life, you must pay a price, and there will be various restrictions."

"So, I will now explain to the players the resurrection rules of this mod. First of all, each player has three chances to be resurrected from the dead. When the player dies three times, the card will be torn, and each time he is resurrected from the dead. At the next time point, 15 'truth' points will be deducted from the player, and finally a certain skill of the player will be randomly selected to temporarily reduce the value of this skill by half."

   Hearing the words of kp Xuefeng, Liu Xing hurriedly began to check his character card, and found that the skill value column of his character card was not abnormal.

   Liu Xing raised his brows and immediately asked kp Xuefeng: "kp, why hasn't my skill value been reduced? Is this something we won't know until we make a judgment?"

Kp Xuefeng smiled and said, "Because your death this time, players, is the first time you triggered a plot kill in this mod, it was not officially counted in the number of deaths, so players will not I was punished for this death, but in the future, no matter what the cause of the death of the players, they will be punished, and I hope that players can act with caution."

Liu Xing nodded, it seems that this mod is quite humanized, but this also makes Liu Xing understand why the "truth" points of this mod are 650 points, because the player's two death points are added. "Truth" point penalty, 650 "truth" points is just enough.

In this case, Liu Xing feels that the "truth" points are still quite nervous. If the player dies twice, there will be nine out of ten players who cannot pass the module because the "truth" points are not enough. After all The places and "truth" points provided by each side quest are different, and it is difficult for every player to get exactly 100 "truth" points.

   Now, Liu Xing finally understands the sinister intentions of this mod.

Although this mod is an ordinary cooperative mod on the surface, this mod cleverly uses the rules of points, forcing players to play secret games when cooperating, trying to make their "truth" points more than others. It reaches 100 points quickly, especially when a side quest is declared to fail, or the total number of deaths of players is too large, so that the "truth" points do not support players to clear the level at the same time, the secret game is likely to rise to positive conflict.

   What's more troublesome is that Liu Xing noticed that when this unspoken rule was put on the surface, the atmosphere among the people at the scene began to become a little subtle.

   After all, plan ahead and be prepared.

   At this moment, footsteps came from downstairs, and it seemed that Hu Cang came up.

   Sure enough, Hu Cang looked at Liu Xing and others unsurprisingly, and said, "Sure enough, you can come back to life like me, but it seems that you can't stop Hu Li from doing it."

   Liu Xing frowned, how can he understand what Hu Cang said now, is there a bug in the game hall of Cthulhu Run Group?

  Thinking of this, Liu Xing said to Hu Cang tentatively: "Hu Cang, do you mean that it is inevitable that Hu Li will act at the wedding?"

  Hu Cang first nodded, then looked at Liu Xing with a look of surprise, and said with some doubts: "Wait, how can I understand the island language you speak, Mr. Meteor?"

   At this time, Zhang Jingxu also looked at Liu Xing in surprise, nodded and said, "Yes, Meteor, you do speak the island language."

With a flash of inspiration, Liu Xing said: "It seems that Hu Li did something to me, because after I woke up from the illusion, Hu Li seemed to have used some kind of magic on me, which made me get spiritual. The ability to communicate can ignore language barriers.”

Zhang Jingxu thought for a while, then said with a smile: "In my impression, there is indeed such a spell, but because of its poor practicability and complicated usage requirements, very few people know it now, but Hu Li This can be considered a good thing, allowing you to communicate with us freely, and you can also use this ability to inquire about information, classmate Meteor, after all, other people should think that you do not understand Chinese."

   Liu Xing smiled and said, "It's a good idea. After all, in front of a foreigner like me who can't speak Chinese, most people don't think about it so much, and may give some useful information."

   This time, Liu Xing consciously did not want to have a spiritual exchange with Hu Cang, and found that Hu Cang really didn't understand, while Zhang Jingxu and others responded.

   This made Liu Xing breathe a sigh of relief. It seems that this spiritual communication can be controlled by himself. After all, if he cannot control himself, then he really has to be cautious in his words and deeds.

Back to the topic, Hu Cang continued: "Actually, there are three possibilities for Hu Li and Xiao Mochen's wedding ceremony, the first possibility is that I didn't attend their wedding ceremony, then nothing would happen; second One possibility is that I went to their wedding ceremony and as you have experienced, after the whole wedding scene was stunned by Hu Li in some way, I was caught alone somewhere and locked up ; The third possibility is that I attended their wedding, but when I was alone, I was locked up by an unknown person, who should be Hu Li knocked out."

   Everyone looked at each other, this Hu Li really liked Hu Cang, otherwise she would not have been treated differently like this, killing her entire group, and Hu Cang was just imprisoned.

  Thinking of this, Liu Xing couldn't help but said to Hu Cang: "Mr. Hu Cang, I think you should also know that Hu Li likes you very much, so I want to ask why you broke up in the first place?"

  Hu Cang frowned, his eyes were a little flustered and said: "Why do you ask this question, this question should have nothing to do with us getting rid of the confusion of time and space, so I don't think I need to answer this question."

Liu Xing sighed and said seriously: "This is not necessarily true, I think Mr. Hu Cang, you must already know the true identity of Hu Li, in fact, it is a fox who has become refined, and according to the currently known information, Pan There may be many monsters and ghosts in Longzhen, and these monsters and ghosts are likely to be related to the time-space disorder in Panlong Town, so we have to find a way to solve these monsters and monsters one by one."

"But Mr. Hu Cang, you should also know, or guess how effective these monsters, monsters and monsters are. We, ordinary people alone, can't solve those monsters, monsters and monsters, so we must find some suitable allies to help us. As for this The suitable ally is naturally Hu Li, after all, learning from the barbarians can control the barbarians, so only Hu Li can help us deal with those monsters and monsters."

   Liu Xing's flickering made Hu Cang fall into contemplation.

At this time, Zhang Jingxu also hit the railway while it was hot: "Meteor classmate, he is right, these monsters and ghosts are very likely released by the mad believer who came to Panlong Town to preach, and that mad believer is closely related to the current time-space disorder in Panlong Town. Therefore, we now all think that the best way to solve the time-space disorder in Panlong Town is to get rid of these monsters and monsters one by one, so we need your support from Mr. Hu Cang, after all, Hu Li is the only person we can win over now. already."

Hu Cang sighed and said with a tangled face: "Actually, you have already guessed it. Hu Li and I had some differences on the details, which will lead to the current situation, but I have to explain one thing. Hu Li is not in a relationship, the reason why Hu Li likes me is that I once rescued her once before Hu Li was transformed into a human form."

   Then, Hu Cang began to tell the story of him and Hu Li, a very old-fashioned story about a fox repaying his kindness.

When Hu Cang was eight years old, when he was playing with his friends, he came to play hide-and-seek on a mountain opposite the Panlong River. Because of the strong wind two days ago, some small trees on the mountain were blown up and down, and even some were all uprooted.

Therefore, when Hu Cang was catching people, he found Hu Li who had not yet transformed into a human form. At this time, Hu Li was being crushed by a tree with the mouth of a bowl, so Hu Cang rescued Hu Li and He took Hu Li back to his home for treatment. When Hu Li's legs recovered, Hu Cang released Hu Li back to the forest.

Then, two years ago, after Hu Li transformed into a human figure, she came to Panlong Town to repay her kindness to Hu Cang. At first, Hu Cang did not recognize Hu Lilai. After all, in Hu Cang's eyes at that time, how could animals be transformed into What about the doll?

   But Hu Cang soon found out that Hu Li was really kind to herself, and it was a little abnormal, and although Hu Li was very smart, she was very naive at times and lacked a lot of common sense.

   So Hu Cang couldn't help asking why Hu Li was like this. Unexpectedly, Hu Li was also very upright and directly told Hu Cang her true identity, and then changed back to her real body.

Seeing this situation, Hu Cang, whose worldview was collapsed, chose to refuse when Hu Li proposed to be together, and then left Panlong Town on the grounds of going to Rongcheng to study medicine, so Hu Cang and Hu Li had a conflict, which eventually developed into It looks like this now.

   After listening to the story of Hu Cang and Hu Li, Liu Xing first complained about the blood of the plot, and then only felt that Hu Cang was still hiding something.

Therefore, Liu Xing asked again: "Mr. Hu Cang, then I want to ask you another question, that is, why did Hu Li find Xiao Mochen? What about Xiao Mochen, and why didn't you tell Xiao Mochen the truth?"

Perhaps Hu Cang was in a hurry to be questioned by Liu Xing, and said angrily: "You ask me who I'm going to ask, I'll take care of who Hu Li is looking for, and if I tell Xiao Mochen the truth, then Xiao Mochen will Mo Chen may be life-threatening!"

After    finished speaking, Hu Cang walked away.

   Liu Xing didn't expect Hu Cang's reaction to be so big, and he was speechless for a while.

Therefore, Liu Xing could only shrug his shoulders and said, "Forget it, since Hu Cang doesn't want to say anything now, it's up to us to find the answer to the question, but what we have to do now is to go back to our room to rest. It's getting late, after all."

   Everyone nodded, said good night to each other, and went back to their rooms to rest.

   (end of this chapter)