Real Cthulhu Running Game

   Chapter 718 The civet cat for the prince

Liu Xing looked at Shen Dazhuang's corpse and said, "If there is no accident, we should be sure that Shen Aotian is the mastermind behind all this. After all, only Shen Aotian is the only NPC related to these two incidents. Alive... Of course, Bell and Cai Gouzi are also suspected, after all, they were with Shen Aotian at the beginning, so the possibility that they are Shen Aotian's accomplices cannot be ruled out."

Yin En nodded, sighed and said, "But still, we still don't have any evidence to prove that Shen Aotian is behind all this, after all, Shen Dazhuang's death can't prove anything, Shen Aotian can completely say that he committed suicide in fear of sin. , or murdered by goblins."

evidence.

   Liu Xing raised his brows and suddenly thought of a possibility, "We might be able to find evidence in the cave, or we just have to go to the cave to find evidence now."

"That's right, if Shen Aotian wants to let Shen Dazhuang take the blame for himself, he can completely disguise Shen Dazhuang as committing suicide in a cave, so that we may not have any doubts, because all this seems reasonable, so I also think There will be the evidence we want in the cave." Ding Kun said seriously.

Yin En touched his chin and said with a smile, "It seems that this is the so-called one-stone-two-birds strategy. First, it throws all the pot on Shen Dazhuang, and secondly, it leads us away from the cave, but Shen Dazhuang's What should we do with the corpse, don't we just leave it here?"

Liu Xing thought for a while, nodded and said: "Yes, we don't need to care about Shen Dazhuang's body now, because if we bring Shen Dazhuang's body back, we will definitely meet with Shen Aotian, and Shen Aotian will definitely do everything possible to stop it. We went to the cave to look for evidence, so I think we should go straight to the cave now!"

  Yoon En and the others thought for a while, then nodded in agreement.

   So, Liu Xing and his party walked towards the direction of the cave.

   Soon Liu Xing and others came to the entrance of the cave.

Although Liu Xing and others did not prepare torches in advance, because the goblins could not move freely in the dark, torches were hung on both sides of the cave, and it was probably because those goblins were in a hurry to go. None of the torches were extinguished.

   After taking off a few torches, Liu Xing and the others set out in a long snake formation to the depths of the cave.

I have to say, hundreds of goblins eat and drink in a cave with poor ventilation, and the smell is stronger than that in the blacksmith village. If it wasn't for lunch, Liu Xing would definitely vomit now. one place.

At this time, Zhang Wenbing couldn't help but said: "When I was a child, my family opened a large-scale pig farm, and my family was also placed inside the pig farm, so I always thought that my resistance to odor was very good. Strong, but now I know I'm still too young..."

Liu Xing laughed and said, "It's actually pretty good now. After we solve the task of the Blacksmith Village, we will go to the Guangming Cathedral in the center of the continent. The Guangming Cathedral is located in Guangming City, the largest city in the continent. The background of our mod this time is calculated from the Middle World Europe, and the health situation of this Bright City may be very worrying.”

Ding Kun, who was in charge of the rear of the palace, also smiled and said seriously: "I used to have a very good relationship with a Frenchman, and he and I talked about a certain point of time-travel novels, and he told me that it was not popular in Europe. Through the novel, the reason is that the major European cities in the Middle Ages are basically stinky, there is no place to stay on the streets, and there will be a hill of excrement that may be higher than the city wall near the city, so in the Middle Ages. All kinds of plagues often occur in Europe because of this, and the protagonist of modern people will die on the spot, after all, all the doctors at that time were quacks.”

  The two things that are most worth complaining about in medieval Europe are hygiene and medical care, and Liu Xing certainly knows how crazy his colleagues in the Middle Ages are. . .

   Medieval European doctors basically had only one treatment process - bloodletting to cure all diseases, and amputation if bloodletting could not cure them.

   So in the famous strategy game "King of the Crusaders", there is a very famous meme - a well-trained doctor, a sick character will die 100%.

   All in all, the princes and nobles who died at the hands of doctors were no less than those who died in battle.

   Hygiene and medical care were the main reasons for various large-scale plagues in medieval Europe.

  Thinking of this, Liu Xing suddenly stopped, frowned and said: "In that case, I suspect that the tasks we need to complete when we are in Guangming City are likely to be related to the plague."

  Yin En and the others were stunned.

"Yes, I just found a piece of information in my memory, which mentioned that large-scale plagues often occur on this continent. There have been more than ten plagues of varying scales in Guangming City alone." Zhang Wenbing He opened his mouth and said: "If this is the case, then the difficulty of this task may exceed our phenomenon, because if we are also infected with the plague, it is very likely that there will be attrition, or even group destruction, because Liu Xing, your Holy Light Technique Although it can restore HP, there is no way to cure all diseases, otherwise the city of light, which is a training center for priests, will not be devastated by the plague."

Liu Xing nodded. Although his Holy Light skill can restore HP and heal some skin wounds as soon as possible, the therapeutic effect of various diseases can only be described by treating the symptoms and not curing them. With the profession of pastor, doctors can still get along well.

   But doctors on this continent still only bled and amputated limbs. . .

   Therefore, if his party is also infected with the plague, then it is really possible to reduce the number of people or even destroy the group. After all, Liu Xing's Holy Light skill has a limit on the number of times it can be used.

   Such speculation cast a shadow over the hearts of Liu Xing and others.

   But at this moment, Liu Xing and others have come to a fork in the road.

   "Should we split up?" Yoon Eun, who was walking at the front, asked.

At this time, Ding Kun stepped forward, squatted down and checked it out and said, "Judging from the distribution of footprints on the ground, the opening on the left should lead to the residence of the group of goblins, while the opening on the right may be A forbidden place?"

Liu Xing also looked at the ground and found that there were a lot of footprints at the left hole, and many of them looked very new; as for the right hole, there were very few footprints, and the size of those footprints seemed to be similar, and it seemed that there were only a few footprints. Goblins will often enter and exit the hole on the right.

   "In that case, let's go to the right first." Zhang Wenbing said.

   So, Liu Xing and others entered the hole on the right.

After walking for a minute, Liu Xing and others suddenly heard a faint shouting sound, but because the sound was so weak, Liu Xing and others could not hear what he was talking about, but Liu Xing et al. Both were sure it was the voice of a young man.

  For the sake of safety, Liu Xing and others slowly moved on after making preparations for battle.

   Then, Liu Xing and others saw a ragged, unkempt young man lying in a simple wooden prison.

   The moment the young man saw Liu Xing and others, he immediately climbed to the door of the wooden prison and said, "You have finally come to save me! Let me go out!"

   At this time, through the light of the torch, Liu Xing discovered that this young man looked exactly like Shen Aotian!

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   Liu Xing frowned and asked subconsciously, "Are you Shen Aotian?"

   The young man nodded quickly and said, "That's right, I am Shen Aotian, the next head of the Shen family in Blacksmith Village, who was caught here by those bandits a few years ago."

   Bandits from a few years ago?

   Liu Xing and the others looked at each other, and invariably thought of a possibility - a civet cat for a prince!

  If the young man in front of him was really Shen Aotian, then this series of events would make sense.

The fake Shen Aotian is very likely to be a believer of Bahamut, and the reason why he faked Shen Aotian is very likely to control the Shen family, and then control a blacksmith shop, and even control the blacksmith village, so that those Bahamut Special believers can quickly obtain a batch of high-quality weapons and equipment when necessary.

   But when Liu Xing and others came to the blacksmith village, the fake Shen Aotian planned to steal the precious materials in order to delay his group's crusade against Bahamut.

As for why the fake Shen Aotian poisoned Shen Kuanglong and others, and framed it for Shen Dazhuang, Liu Xing felt that he should take this opportunity to formally control the Shen family. After all, if Shen Kuanglong and Shen Dazhuang were not dead, then he would only Can continue to play a younger brother who dare not compete with his elder brother for power.

Therefore, the fake Shen Aotian first recruited the second housekeeper of the Shen family, and pretended to use the name of Shen Kuanglong to prevent all the idle people of the Shen family from going to the living room, and then took the opportunity to poison Shen Kuanglong and others in the living room, and he did The second housekeeper who may become a hidden danger was also dealt with.

Then the fake Shen Aotian looked for an opportunity to invite Shen Dazhuang out of the blacksmith village, but Shen Dazhuang was not worried that his cowardly younger brother would be bad for him, so he came to the blacksmith village alone to make an appointment, but he was ambushed long ago. The goblins were dealt with, and finally those goblins used their own and Shen Dazhuang's corpses as bait to lure Liu Xing and others away.

   As for why those goblins didn't deal with the real Shen Aotian before they left, it was most likely because this Shen Aotian still had a certain role.

  Thinking of this, Liu Xing stepped forward and asked: "Shen Aotian, do you know why you were caught here by those bandits?"

   Shen Aotian was stunned for a moment, and then said with a look of vigilance: "Are you guys accomplices of that group of bandits?!"

   Liu Xing shook his head and decided to tell Shen Aotian what happened in the past two days.

After listening to Liu Xing's narration, Shen Aotian in the wooden prison collapsed into the wooden prison.

   At this moment, Ding Kun whispered: "I think he should be the real Shen Aotian, because I noticed that his facial expressions and body language are very real, it doesn't look like he is acting."

  Yin En heard Ding Kun say this, so he cut off the iron lock of the wooden prison with the Fangtian halberd in his hand.

At this time, Shen Aotian also came back to his senses, and said in a sad tone: "So that's the case, I just said why those bandits kept me in custody for so long, it stands to reason that the reason why they would arrest me is for ransom, and my father is sure They will also pay the ransom to take me back as soon as possible, so the bandits who got the ransom either choose to put me back, or just tear up the ticket instead of keeping me here.”

   On the way out of the cave with Shen Aotian, Shen Aotian also told Liu Xing and others about his experiences in the past few years.

   After Shen Aotian was caught by the bandits, he was knocked unconscious by the bandits. When Shen Aotian woke up again, he found that he was locked in that wooden prison.

Then every day, a masked bandit would come to deliver food and water to Shen Aotian, and the masked bandit also gave Shen Aotian a small notebook, and asked Shen Aotian to write his various situations on this small notebook, in exchange for various changes. Good food, this is also the reason why the fake Shen Aotian was not discovered by Shen Kuanglong and others.

However, Shen Aotian never mentioned the last name of the Shen family's heirloom, "The List of Protagonists at a Certain Point", because this is a secret code that needs to be used when the new Shen family head is in power. If the head of the family doesn't know the name, there is no way for him to become the real head of the Shen family.

   As for the reason why Shen Aotian didn't say this name, it was because Shen Aotian thought that those bandits wanted to pretend to be themselves to seize the position of the head of the Shen family. After all, there were many ways on this continent to change a person's appearance and voice.

  Because of this, Shen Aotian has been imprisoned in that wooden prison.

   In addition, Shen Aotian also mentioned one thing, that is, once he heard the masked bandit talking to another person in the passage, and seemed to mention Bahamut.

   After listening to Shen Aotian's narration, Liu Xing and others were even more sure that the fake Shen Aotian was a follower of Bahamut.

   After fifteen minutes, Liu Xing and the others took a weak Shen Aotian to find Zhang Jingxu, Rodriguez and others, who were resting by a small stream.

   Zhang Jingxu watched Liu Xing and the others brought Shen Aotian over, and said with a look of surprise: "What's going on here, how did Shen Aotian become like this?!"

   Liu Xing discovered that the fake Shen Aotian had disappeared.

   It seemed that the fake Shen Aotian had noticed something was wrong, so he ran away.

   Liu Xing sighed and said, "This is the real Shen Aotian. The previous Shen Aotian was probably a believer of Bahamut disguised as a believer, so where is that Shen Aotian now?"

   (end of this chapter)