Real Cthulhu Running Game

  Chapter 706 Internal Beta Players

   Liu Xing can now be sure that the masked man who just sat opposite him is definitely Wu Lei.

   But Liu Xing still can't understand why Wu Lei changed to "join" the Cthulhu Running Group game hall, you must know that Liu Xing has never heard that the Cthulhu Running Group game hall has openly recruited new employees.

   Of course, Liu Xing also heard that many players think that kp is also human, because many kp are still very human, and sometimes they will play some popular new memes on the Internet.

But judging from the current situation, Liu Xing feels that Wu Lei's level in the Cthulhu running group game hall may be a little higher than that of kp. After all, Wu Lei replaced the position of kp's time in the end, which means that Wu Lei is in Kethulhu. The Sulu Running Group game hall has a certain authority, so KP Time will honestly give way to Wu Lei.

  So, why did Wu Lei become what he is now?

   More importantly, why did Wu Lei find himself in the game at this time?

Looking back now, Liu Xing thinks that Wu Lei should have disappeared suddenly because of the reason of the Cthulhu running group game hall. At that time, Wu Lei should have guessed that he joined the Cthulhu running group game hall, so Wu Lei only He will come to find himself today, and he will deliberately reveal his flaws.

But what makes Liu Xing a little bit puzzled is that when he guessed Wu Lei's identity, Wu Lei sent himself directly back to the real world without saying a word, which made Liu Xing a little confused, could it be that Wu Lei Just want to see himself and imply that he will be his backer in the Cthulhu running group game hall?

   This should be unlikely, if Wu Lei can really be his backer in the Cthulhu running group game hall, then the character card "Liu Xing" will have been returned to him long ago.

etc.

   Liu Xing suddenly remembered one thing - a special reward.

   If it wasn't for Wu Lei suddenly running out and taking the place of kp time, Liu Xing can be sure that it is impossible for him to get this so-called special reward.

   Therefore, this special reward is definitely not ordinary.

Sure enough, Liu Xing saw an item in the item bar interface that looked like a spree, but what made Liu Xing even more surprised was that the name of this item turned out to be a series of question marks, and the conditions for opening this item were required. Advance to the Cthulhu area by yourself.

   In addition, there is a sentence in the introduction of this item - you should know where the key is.

key?

   Liu Xing immediately realized that the key here should refer to the key of the board game shop opened by Wu Lei.

  Thinking of this, Liu Xing hurriedly took a taxi to the supermarket next to Wu Lei's board game store, because the key to the board game store was in the hands of the owner of the supermarket.

I don't know if Wu Lei was born with the keys. In short, according to Wu Lei, he has lost more than a hundred keys since he was a child, so his parents have long deprived him of the right to go out with his own keys. After Wu Lei lost three bedroom keys in a week, his roommates also decisively announced that Wu Lei would no longer touch the bedroom keys, but in order to ensure that Wu Lei would not be locked outside the bedroom door by himself, Wu Lei's roommate specially found the classmates in the next dormitory and asked them to keep Wu Lei's dormitory key on their behalf.

And when Liu Xing and Wu Lei were eating hot pot, Wu Lei mentioned that the owner of the supermarket next door was his father's friend, so Wu Lei chose to open a board game shop here, and he also took the board game shop's The spare key was kept with the owner of the supermarket next door.

After explaining his relationship with Wu Lei, Liu Xing pretended that it was Wu Lei who asked him to check the situation of the board game shop. What surprised Liu Xing was that the owner of the supermarket directly took the key of the board game shop. to Liu Xing.

Liu Xing thought that he would have to work hard to convince the supermarket owner. After all, Wu Lei has been missing for a long time now, so the supermarket owner, as a friend and neighbor of Wu Lei's father, should also know the fact that Wu Lei has disappeared. Liu Xing felt that the supermarket owner should ask himself about Wu Lei's whereabouts, and even suspected that he had kidnapped Wu Lei.

   But since the supermarket owner didn't say anything, Liu Xing went directly to the board game shop with the key.

   After opening the board game store, Liu Xing saw a letter on the ground.

   Liu Xing hurriedly picked up and opened the envelope, and found that the letter was indeed written by Wu Lei to himself.

The content of Wu Lei's letter is very simple. It is to tell Liu Xing that when he saw this letter, he had lost all character cards because he did not clear an extremely difficult module, but he was not killed by Kesu. The Lu Pao Group game hall was obliterated because he was an internal beta player in the Cthulhu Run Group game hall!

   That's right, Wu Lei is an internal beta player in the game hall of the Cthulhu Running Group!

According to Wu Lei, the Cthulhu Running Group game hall should have appeared in the real world as early as ten years ago, but at that time the Cthulhu Running Group game hall was strictly an ordinary forum. Anyone can post posts related to Cthulhu Mythology and Cthulhu Run Games on that forum, including their own self-made mods.

Wu Lei joined the forum eight years ago. After all, the myth of Cthulhu was still very small in China at that time, and there were few forums dedicated to the exchange of Cthulhu mythology fans, let alone even smaller ones. There are many Cthulhu running group games, so many fans of Cthulhu running group games joined the forum at that time.

   Then five years ago, this forum popped up with a pinned thread by the creator of the forum, Nyarlathotep.

Nyarlathotep claimed in this post that he has developed a game hall that can play Cthulhu running group games, and now needs a group of players for internal testing, but only senior members of the forum and mod authors To qualify for the internal test.

  Wu Lei is one of them.

Through a web link built into the post, Wu Lei came to the registration interface of the Cthulhu Running Group game hall. After passing the registration, Wu Lei was asked to fill in his personal address and contact information, because the Cthulhu Running Group game hall would meet Send him a mobile phone, and the mobile phone has a built-in Cthulhu running group game hall internal test client.

Although Wu Lei thought this was a new type of fraud at the beginning, after all, Wu Lei had never heard of that game company giving out mobile phones to internal beta players, but Wu Lei thought about it, he was just a poor man anyway. There is nothing to be deceived, so Wu Lei honestly filled in his home address and contact information.

   One day later, Wu Lei got the phone that changed his life.

When Wu Lei turned on his mobile phone and clicked on the APP of the beta version of the Cthulhu Running Group game hall, Wu Lei was directly transferred to the Cthulhu Running Group game hall, where he and more than a thousand other closed beta players saw the legendary of Nyarlathotep.

Then, Nyarlathotep bluntly announced the internal test rules of the Cthulhu running group game hall - all internal test players have a total of five character cards, if the internal test player does not pass before all the character cards are consumed If there are five modules, then the internal beta player will be directly obliterated; if the internal beta player can pass the five modules, then the internal beta player will get a golden character card and one thousand points in the official version; If the closed beta player can pass the ten mods, then Nyarlathotep will give them a job offer based on their performance, which will take effect after disqualifying the player in the official version.

  Wu Lei was very lucky. He passed thirteen modules during the internal test and obtained a letter of appointment as an operator.

  According to Wu Lei's understanding, there are only three positions in the appointment letter issued by Nyarlathotep - kp, operator, and mod author.

As the name suggests, kp is kp, and the job content is to ensure that each module can run normally, but kp can only play the game according to the existing settings in the module, and under normal circumstances is not allowed to make any changes; It is responsible for patrolling in their respective areas to ensure that each module can be carried out normally. If a bug is found, it will be reported to the superior, and if necessary, it will become an NPC to enter the module or directly take over the work of kp; the author of the module The job is even simpler, they just need to make a variety of new mods to ensure that players can play different scripts.

   To put it simply, the internal beta players who performed well are equivalent to getting a gold medal for avoiding death, but they have to join the Cthulhu running group game hall to work.

Three years ago, the internal test of the Cthulhu Running Group game hall officially ended, and the official version soon began to "operate". The internal test players such as Wu Lei quickly opened the gap with ordinary players by virtue of the advantages of the internal test. It is said that 90% of the players in the Cthulhu area are closed beta players.

   On the day Wu Lei disappeared, he entered the promotion module from the Cthulhu area to the Azathoth area.

   Then Wu Lei failed.

   After reading Wu Lei's letter, Liu Xing was silent for a long time, because the amount of information in this letter was too large, and Liu Xing couldn't digest it for a while.

   Obviously, that Nyarlathotep is likely to be the real Nyarlathotep, because it is the only one that has the potential to become the manager of the Cthulhu Running Group game hall, or even the initiator.

   However, it may be that Nyarlathotep issued a gag order to the internal test players, so there was no content about the internal test in the forum of the Cthulhu Running Group game hall.

In addition, Liu Xing is also a little fortunate that Wu Lei's performance in the internal test was very good at that time, otherwise Wu Lei would have no way to find himself as a kp. After all, it can be seen from Wu Lei's letter that Kp's authority is almost zero. , you can only operate according to the settings of the module.

Of course, Liu Xing can now be sure that his netizens will lose out in all likelihood and are also an internal tester in the game hall of the Cthulhu Running Group. Now he has become a mod author, and his parallel world is about island countries. It is very likely that the Tokyo mod was created by him.

   This is good news for Liu Xing.

   But having said that, Wu Lei’s letter only talked about the process of his participation in the internal test of the Cthulhu running group game hall, so Liu Xing is still a little confused about what Wu Lei wants to do.

save him?

Liu Xing shook his head, knowing that the possibility that he could rescue Wu Lei was infinitely close to zero, because unless he could get in touch with Nyarlathotep, he would have no way to get Wu Lei out of the Cthulhu running group game hall, I believe Wu Lei is also very clear about this.

   So, what can I do?

   Liu Xing became more and more confused.

   But at this moment, Liu Xing's cell phone rang.

   Liu Xing took out his mobile phone and found that it was a text message from Yin En to himself, and the content of the text message was only four words - go online as soon as possible.

   Liu Xing frowned, took the letter and left the board game shop, then took a taxi home.

   Back home, Liu Xing directly landed in the Cthulhu Running Group game hall.

When    came to the hall, Liu Xing saw Yin En and others waving to him.

   "Liu Xing, where have you been these past few days? Why haven't we been able to contact you these two days, I thought you had an accident in the real world." Zhang Jingxu asked with a puzzled look.

   Liu Xing raised his brows, and then he remembered that because the last module happened suddenly, he entered the module directly without contacting Zhang Jingxu and the others.

   Liu Xing touched the back of his head, and after a few embarrassed laughs, he told the story of the previous module.

Yin En and others were all shocked, because they didn't expect Liu Xing to carry out a mod that happened in the past, and what happened in the past was actually the same as a series of mods that Liu Xing experienced in the Cthulhu Running Group game hall. have contact.

   As for Wu Lei, Liu Xing finally decided not to talk about it.

"By the way, Liu Xing, because you've been working on that mod these days, you've missed the discussion about the battle of Gongwu in that QQ group." Yin En, who had recovered, said, "But it's no big deal. Yes, because everyone was hiding there and refusing to disclose the information they knew to the public, that discussion had to be left alone in the end."

Liu Xing nodded and said with a smile: "This is also what we expected. After all, in the next battle of Gongwu, you will die or I will die. If it is replaced, I will not tell the important information I know, so We'll have to do our own thing by then."

   "But then again, next, Liu Xing, do you plan to use that kind of character card for modding?" Zhang Jingxu asked.

Liu Xing has thought about this question for a long time, so he answered without hesitation: "I plan to use the character card 'Liu Xing' for the modding first, because the next island country will definitely change greatly, so the island country-related The difficulty of the mod will definitely increase, and I also need to get familiar with the character card 'Liu Xing' again, and get in touch with your character card by the way, so that I can use 'Liu Xing' to participate in the battle of Gongwu. "

   Zhang Jingxu and others nodded, expressing their agreement with Liu Xing's idea.

  PS: Recommend a new book on the theme of Cthulhu - "Old Tides".

   (end of this chapter)