Real Cthulhu Running Game

   Chapter 569 The world in the mirror (middle)

Zhang Wenbing nodded and said: "Then let me talk about the two mods I have experienced first, the first mod is the first official mod after I entered the Cthulhu Running Group game hall. , at that time, I was a peripheral member who had just joined Huaxia Daomen. I was assigned to a certain university in Modu for unified training, and then I and several other players were assigned to the same dormitory, and that dormitory was a favorite. The haunted dormitory, several students disappeared inexplicably in that dormitory, and there was no trace left, so it was closed by the school for a long time, until the sudden arrival of our group of advanced students caused the dormitory to be tense. Reopen that haunted dorm and provide us with accommodation."

"Of course, the main mission of our group of players at that time was to find out the truth about the haunted dormitory, so we began to investigate the situation of the haunted dormitory, and soon we collected a lot of information, including a story about a certain haunted dormitory. The missing student sent a text message to his girlfriend, saying that he got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet, and after coming out of the toilet, he was surprised to find that other people in the dormitory who had slept well had disappeared, and they were at the head of his bed. The hanging guitar also ran to the opposite side of the bed, but he was still a little dazed at the time. He thought it was the wrong way to open the door, so he went back to the toilet and opened the door again, and then everything in the dormitory was restored. It's normal, so the boy thought he had hallucinations because he didn't wake up... Then the boy disappeared mysteriously a month after sending that text message, and because the boy and his girlfriend had broken up at the time , so the boy's ex-girlfriend didn't say anything about the text message, and it wasn't until I cast a lucky big success that I discovered the news."

"So, I and other players guessed that the key to decrypting the haunted dormitory is the toilet, so we entered the toilet in the middle of the night after making some preparations, and then when we left the toilet, we found ourselves I came to the mirror world, and the dormitory in this mirror world is exactly the same as our dormitory in the real world, but everything in the dormitory is turned upside down, and there is only a thick fog outside the window that cannot be opened. Seeing this situation Other players and I knew that we seemed to have come to an incredible place, so we planned to leave the mirror world and return to the real world. Anyway, we now know the truth about the haunted dormitory, so as long as we return to the real world, we will You can complete the main mission and clear the module.”

"Unfortunately, things backfired. This mirror world is easy for us players to get in and out of. At first, we wanted to imitate the boy back then to re-enter the toilet and open the door, but we found that this trick doesn't work at all, so we can only pass After various judgments, we found a problem, that is, there is one very important thing missing in the dormitory of the mirror world - the gossip mirror originally hung on the door frame of the dormitory, so we understand that if we want to leave the mirror world, we must To find the gossip mirror, we started to search in the dormitory first, and we found a fragment of the gossip mirror. Judging from the size of the fragment of the gossip mirror, we still need to find two more fragments of the gossip mirror. Okay, so we had to leave our dormitory, and soon we found a fragment of a gossip mirror at the entrance of the stairs on the same floor, and at the same time we heard footsteps from upstairs."

"Although we all know that going upstairs will definitely be dangerous, but we also know that the last piece of the gossip mirror must also be upstairs, so we had to bite the bullet and go upstairs, and we ended up upstairs. I found a man who was almost turned into a mummified corpse on the Internet, and the reason why he called him a man was because the man was still very conscious at the time, and he was the boy who sent the text message, and he provided us with a lot of information For example, the last piece of the gossip mirror is on the roof of the dormitory building, and there is a group of mice with human faces on the roof. This group of mice will attack everyone who comes to the roof and will be killed by the group of mice. The dead end up becoming the rat's companion."

"Besides, he also told us that people in the mirror world will be hungry very quickly, and if they don't leave the mirror world in a short time, they will become his inhuman and ghostly appearance. And will be forever hungry... But the only benefit of this is immortality; and then about the fog outside the dormitory building, he has only seen people go in, but never come out, and as long as he touches A little fog, then whether you want to enter the fog or not, you will walk in involuntarily, even if five or six people are pulling him together."

"After learning about the world in the mirror from that person, we knew that we could only go up for a while to meet the group of human-faced rats, so we collected some things in various dormitories and went up to meet those human-faced rats. There was just a wave from the front, and in the end, I got the last piece of the gossip mirror without any risk, because the speed of the human-faced mice in the mirror world is the same as the slowest player among our players, and those human-faced mice can't leave the rooftop, So after we went back to the dormitory to piece together the pieces of the gossip mirror, we were sent back to the real world, but the boy who had turned into a mummified corpse was not sent back."

Hearing this, Liu Xing felt that the dormitory module that Zhang Wenbing experienced was basically the same as that of the Harvest Shrine he experienced, and some settings were almost identical. For example, he had to collect some items before he could leave the mirror. In the middle world, for example, the speed of the mythical creatures in the mod will be the same as that of the slowest player. For example, the mod will use hunger to disguise to remind players to hurry up and complete the mod.

   Like that layer of fog.

   It seems that the module settings of the series in the mirror world are all in the same line.

At this time, Zhang Wenbing continued: "You should also remember that after the mod in the ghoul area is cleared, an MVP player will be selected, and the MVP player can ask some questions to the kp, so I asked after I became an MVP player. I learned about the relationship between kp's mirror world and the real world, and as a result, kp told me that the mirror world is actually a backup of the real world."

   Backup?

   Everyone frowned, and for a while they didn't understand what this meant.

Zhang Wenbing shrugged and said seriously: "As for the word backup, I was kicked out of the mod by the kp at that time without knowing it, and then when I entered the mod again, I found that I had been banned by Huaxia Daomen. I was transferred to an insider, and then sent me to a company in the Yunnan-Guizhou area for an internship. Of course, this company is actually the most important branch of Huaxia Daomen in the Yunnan-Guizhou area, and I was in charge of financial work on the surface. , In fact, it is responsible for arranging the daily affairs of Huaxia Daomen's activities in the Yungui area. Occasionally, I will personally go to the field to solve the mythical creature or the secret church. After all, I am a player. It may make me stay at the back with peace of mind, but it is precisely because of this that I have met many young heroes in the Huaxia Taoist Sect, and I have also asked them about the world in the mirror."

"First of all, my immediate boss, the main person in charge of Huaxia Daomen in the Yungui area, Qin Yi, the nominal boss of that company, in my opinion, his strength should be comparable to those of the famous magicians in the Cthulhu mythology. We opened every five or five, and Qin Yi and my ancestry of this character card are both in Xiangxi, so our relationship is very good, so I once found an opportunity to ask Qin Yi in the module, and asked him if he knew about me What happened when I was studying in the magic capital, Qin Yi told me directly that the reason why I was assigned to the Yungui area was because Qin Yi heard about what happened to me when I was studying in the magic capital, and he was also the Officially told me about the concept of the world in the mirror, but even Huaxia Daomen didn't know much about the world in the mirror. I only know that there are currently 450 known mirror points in China, and the mirror points here refer to It's the place to enter the world in the mirror."

"But the most important thing is that even if Huaxia Daomen knows the specific locations of these mirror points, Huaxia Daomen cannot actively open the location and enter the mirror world, so according to the observation of Huaxia Daomen, these mirror points are completely opened randomly, sometimes A mirror point will be opened more than ten times a day, and sometimes it will not be opened once for more than ten years, but the most important thing is that these mirror points are located in areas with dense traffic, so Huaxia Daomen can only perform operations on these mirror points now. Surveillance... Of course, Huaxia Daomen also tried to close up these mirror spots, but it turned out to be useless at all."

"But having said that, when Huaxia Daomen just confirmed the existence of the world in the mirror, they specially sent people to investigate the situation in the mirror world, wanting to establish a branch like in the dreamland, and the people of Huaxia Daomen found out The situation in the mirror world and the fantasy world are completely different. First of all, the scope of each mirror point in the mirror world is different. The largest scope of the known mirror points is a small county town, and the smallest scope is a toilet. There will be one and only one mythical creature in each mirror point. The speed of these mythical creatures is the same as the slowest person entering the mirror point. Those who enter the mirror world must avoid the attacks of these mythical creatures. You can only leave after you find the important props left in the mirror world, and even if you enter the mirror world from the same mirror point, the things you need to find each time are different from the places where they are scattered."

"Then there is the so-called hunger. Depending on the size of the mirror world, humans who enter it will faint from hunger after a minute to a day, and these fainted humans will become a kind of mummy-like corpse. existence, they will be forever hungry, and then never be able to leave the mirror world, and can't enter the fog that exists in every mirror world, which is also one of the most important mechanisms of the mirror world, because I am in the forum I once met a player who fell off because of starvation in the mirror world. When he passed the resurrection module, he still found that his character card was still unusable, and he also asked Cthulhu to run. The customer service of the group game hall, the answer was that the character card is normal, and he will be able to use that character card one day."

"Later, I also got to know another player through the player who was doing the mirror world mod with him. The other player entered the fog because of his unbelief in that mod. As a result, the player didn't know he was in the fog. After walking for a long time, I was suddenly informed by kp that this mod had failed, but what surprised the player the most was that his character card did not fall off or was torn, but was marked as a lost state. I know that the Cthulhu running group game hall has basically only two kinds of marks for character cards: tearing the card and falling off. Occasionally, the character card will be in an unusable state for some reason, but it is marked as a character card in a lost state. As far as I know, there is only that character card."

"So I took the time to ask Qin Yi in the next module if any NPCs from Huaxia Daomen had entered the fog in the mirrored world, but Qin Yi told me that there were indeed many NPCs from Huaxia Daomen who passed through various There are many ways to enter the fog of the mirrored world, such as those who are tied with ropes, those who enter with various photographic equipment, those who first divide themselves into two, and then throw half of their bodies in. As a result, these people end up either or Forced or voluntarily entered the mirror world and never returned, but Huaxia Daomen can find through various methods that the vital signs of those NPCs who enter the fog are still normal."

"So now I have such a guess about the world in the mirror, that is, everything in the world in the mirror should be exactly the same as the real world, but I don't know why there is fog in the world in the mirror, which divides the world in the mirror into different ones. The area in the fog is the unopened area, but in the future, these fog will disappear completely, and the whole world in the mirror will become a whole and evolve into the same existence as the dreamland, but The origin of the mirror world is still a mystery, but I think in the Cthulhu running group game, at this time, the blame should be thrown to Nyarlathotep, after all, only Nyarlathotep is possible I will create a mirror world when I have nothing to do, and so far, apart from Liu Xing, no one else has discovered the existence of the old rulers or the outer gods in the mirror world."

   Liu Xing nodded, feeling that what Zhang Wenbing said also made sense.

   "By the way, Brother Zhang, what did you experience in the second mod related to the world in the mirror?" Zhang Jingxu asked.

   (end of this chapter)