Real Cthulhu Running Game

   Chapter 728 Organs

In addition to Bonaparte, many nobles came to chat with Zhang Jingxu, but these nobles were nothing more than chickens and dogs in front of Zhang Jingxu, so Zhang Jingxu just perfunctory these nobles and sent them away. .

   However, what surprised Zhang Jingxu was that he did not meet Cowens at the banquet.

   It stands to reason that if Cowens also attended this banquet, he would definitely come to have a good chat with Zhang Jingxu. After all, Cowens is now in a cooperative relationship with Liu Xing and others.

  So Liu Xing guessed that there might be some problems on Cowens' side, so he didn't come to this banquet.

   As for the problem, Liu Xing guessed that Cowens was banned from attending today's banquet by Louis because of his "unfavorable conscription", or even was directly grounded.

   No wonder the difficulty of the tasks of the Cowens forces at this stage is so high. To put it bluntly, Cowens' own strength is too poor, and will be arbitrarily manipulated by Louis, or even used to kill chickens and monkeys.

   In addition, Louis did not come to chat with Zhang Jingxu at the banquet, which surprised Liu Xing and others.

Liu Xing felt that no matter how stupid Louis was, as the King of Skaven, there should be a lot of staff around him to advise him, so as long as these staff were not a group of cadavers, they should suggest Louis to win over Zhang Jingxu, especially in the After seeing Bonaparte showing goodwill to Zhang Jingxu.

   But Louis did not do this, and even just used his eyes to influence the communication between Zhang Jingxu and Bonaparte.

   So, what exactly were Louis and his staff thinking?

   Liu Xing and others felt that they could not see through Louis's operation.

Just as Liu Xing and others were about to end the discussion and went back to their rooms to sleep, Cai Gouzi, who had been making soy sauce, suddenly said: "By the way, I found a very strange place at today's dinner party, it looks like An ordinary rockery pond, but I noticed that there is a place on the rockery that seems to be a twisting mechanism, so I suspect that there may be something hidden under the rockery pond."

  Secret room?

   Authentic?

   These two words popped up in Liu Xing's mind instantly.

  Because there was no computer to play with when he was a child, Liu Xing also developed a hobby of watching TV. At that time, there were many costume films adapted from martial arts novels on TV! Therefore, Liu Xing can often see various characters entering the tunnel or the bridge section of the secret room through the organ, and the rockery in the garden is also a relatively common setting for the organ.

   It seems that Zhang Jingxu should also be influenced by these TV series, otherwise, from the perspective of European medieval background, the location of these organs should be indoor bookshelves or lampstands.

However, if the organs are outdoors, this is good news for Liu Xing and others. After all, the indoor organs are much harder to open than the outdoor organs, because it is necessary to enter the rooms where the organs are hidden. A hard thing to do.

  Thinking of this, Liu Xing couldn't help but ask: "Cai Gouzi, is there someone stationed next to that agency? Are you sure you can approach that agency?"

   Of course, Liu Xing also wanted to see if Cai Gouzi would sneak and see if he was a real assassin.

Cai Gouzi thought for a while, nodded and said, "It shouldn't be a problem. I observed the surrounding situation at the time and found that the rockery pond is located in the north of the back garden. There are many trees and flowers around for cover, and there is no People specially guard this organ, but that organ should be a very classic twisting organ, so according to my understanding of this type of organ, as an organ that appears in the palace, it may have some upgraded versions of special Settings, such as having to twist in a certain direction, twisting a certain number of turns, and even the time required for twisting will have some requirements, so I dare not touch that mechanism rashly, because no one knows that this mechanism will There will be no fatal trap attached."

   This is a big problem.

Liu Xing and others are also very clear that what Cai Gouzi said is very true. Like this kind of agency that appears in the heart of the palace, it is probably related to the royal family, so the grade of these agencies is generally very high, so the opening of these agencies The requirements are not low, you can not open it with a few twists, and in all likelihood, anti-theft measures are attached, and poison needles and arrows must be standard.

   And more importantly, is this organ necessary for Liu Xing and others to open it?

   Curiosity killed the cat.

  The Cthulhu running group game lobby often uses the curiosity of players to set up some mysterious-looking secret rooms in the module, and then release news to let players know about it.

The first reaction of players seeing these secret rooms is often "how to open this secret room", not "whether this secret room should be opened", because the players in the Cthulhu running group game hall have formed a mindset, then It is the hidden things or clues in the secret rooms that will have a huge impact on the mod that they are currently in, so players mostly choose to open these secret rooms to find out.

However, players generally cannot collect more information about these secret rooms. They only know that these secret rooms are indeed hiding something, so players generally open these secret rooms on the basis of zero information. What to expect after the Chamber of Secrets.

Just like the first castle lord mod that Liu Xing experienced, at that time Liu Xing and other players encountered a deep underground secret room that seemed to be hidden, but at that time Liu Xing and other players only guessed this secret room It should be related to the main quest, I don't know that there is actually a ghoul in this secret room.

   If Liu Xing and other players at that time opened this secret room, then Liu Xing and others may be chased by ghouls.

Therefore, in the forum of the Cthulhu Running Group game lobby, players investigated and analyzed the possible existence of the secret room, and found that among the more than 200 players surveyed, one-third of the players opened the secret room and No danger was encountered, and some clues or props related to the main story were obtained; then another third of the players suffered various attacks after opening the secret room, but if these players solved the attack problem, they were also in the secret room Find all kinds of useful clues or props.

As for the last third, it was basically a miserable situation in the game hall of the Cthulhu running group, because these players did not get any useful clues and props after opening the secret room, but encountered various Dangerous, and even turned against some NPCs who had a good relationship, because there are those NPCs in these secret rooms that have a dark history. . .

Liu Xing thinks that the secret room under the rockery and pond is likely to belong to the last third, because Liu Xing feels that from the current situation, his group will stay in the palace for a few days, so the palace It's just a cutscene map, and the mod should not set any important clues in such a place.

What's more, Liu Xing is also very clear that his group is still being monitored by the people sent by Louis, so he wants to avoid people's eyes and ears and quietly go to the back garden to crack the mechanism. This is a very difficult thing, after all, here After all, it is the palace, not to mention the organs and secret rooms in the palace are not something you can open and enter if you want.

Of course, Liu Xing's intuition also told himself that the secret room under this organization is likely to be used to hide some things that have nothing to do with the main plot. To put it bluntly, this secret room is either a place for the king and some people to discuss things, Or it's a place where the king "talks about life" with some people.

   is nothing more than that.

  So Liu Xing felt that it would be better for his group to ignore the secret room like this, lest he see some things he shouldn't see, then Louis would not give his group a good look.

  Yin En and others thought the same thing as Liu Xing, so at the time of the vote, Liu Xing and others chose to give up continuing to investigate the situation in this secret room, and even Cai Gouzi who discovered this agency thought so.

After all, among the people present, Cai Gouzi is the only one who has the ability to crack the mechanism, and such a mechanism is not only extremely difficult to crack, but also very dangerous if it fails to crack. Dangerous, so Cai Gouzi didn't want to crack this mechanism.

   This matter will come to an end for the time being.

   So, Liu Xing and others went back to their rooms to sleep.

   I have to say that the living conditions in the palace are indeed very good, so Liu Xing rarely slept in and woke up after lunch.

   After lunch, Liu Xing and others went to the imperial mercenary camp under the protection (monitoring) of a team of guards after applying for it.

  Because the identity of the imperial mercenaries is quite special, Louis directly gave a part of the large camp of the capital defenders to the imperial mercenaries to garrison, instead of setting up a simple camp outside the mud city like the troops brought by other lords.

   Of course, in addition to showing the Skaven Kingdom's respect and gratitude to the Empire, there is also Louis who is worried that other forces will have too much contact with the Empire's mercenaries.

   Liu Xing and others soon met Rodriguez, and after a moment of greeting, Rodriguez took Liu Xing and others to see the leader of the imperial mercenary army - Chen Zixuan.

From the moment he saw Chen Zixuan, Liu Xing knew that this Chen Zixuan was not simple, because his appearance condition was much better than Bonaparte. You must know that in this face-seeing world, good-looking NPCs are generally strong. Not too bad.

Chen Zixuan, who was wearing a white robe, stood up and said with a smile, "It's a pleasure to meet all the brave men. His Majesty the Emperor said before arranging for me to come to the Skaven Kingdom. What accident happened to your lord in the war?"

Of course Zhang Jingxu knew that Chen Zixuan was just being polite to himself, so Zhang Jingxu quickly shook his head and said, "Where, General Chen is the future pillar of our empire, and it should be us to assist General Chen in battle, after all, our brave team Although our strength is quite good, in such a large-scale war, our brave team can play very little role, so we will have to rely on General Chen's help at that time, and don't call General Chen. We are brave adults, we are not qualified to let General Chen call us adults."

  Chen Zixuan nodded and said with a smile: "Then Zhang Jingxu, don't call me General Chen. Anyway, the age gap between us is not big, so it's better to talk about the same generation and call him by his first name."

After Chen Zixuan greeted Liu Xing and others to sit down, Chen Zixuan said seriously: "I believe everyone is very clear about the current situation. This time, the new king of Skaven, Louis, wants to suppress the rebellion in one fell swoop, and solve it by the way. In my opinion, the Skaven Kingdom has a more than 70% chance of winning this war, but even if the Skaven Kingdom can win, it will be a tragic victory..."

   Hearing this, Liu Xing thought that Chen Zixuan was going to tell his party about Wellington.

In the end, Chen Zixuan changed his words and said seriously: "So although we are called mercenaries, we are not really here to work for the Skaven Kingdom, so we can add icing on the cake, but we must not give help in the snow, we must protect ourselves. Troops are the highest priority, so we will be responsible for all kinds of defense work, I hope you can understand that.”

   Liu Xing and others nodded in agreement.

After all, the relationship between the Skaven Kingdom and the Empire is not very good. After all, among the countries bordering the Empire, the Skaven Kingdom has not become a vassal of the Empire, so this time the Empire can send troops to help the Skaven Kingdom. That's right, Louis didn't expect the imperial mercenaries to fight to the end for him.

   Of course, Chen Zixuan's remarks are the overtones that if Liu Xing and others are going to the front line, the imperial mercenaries will not support Liu Xing and others too much.

However, Liu Xing and others are also very clear that the main reason why Chen Zixuan would do this is that Chen Zixuan needs to retain his strength to support Wellington in the future, because Chen Zixuan's army entered Ska in the name of a mercenary. Wen Kingdom, so in the subsequent battle for the throne, Chen Zixuan's army can "justifiably" accept Wellington's employment and help Wellington seize the throne, and the empire will no longer send troops to this side, so that the mainland There is no way for the other nations to accuse the Empire at an official level, as the Empire is not "directly involved" in the battle for the throne of the Skaven Kingdom.

   This is Yang conspiracy.

"By the way, if you really need to go to the front line, I can still arrange a small army to protect you. After all, individual heroism is not popular on the battlefield... Of course, sometimes I also need your help. After completing some tasks, His Majesty the Emperor should have already conveyed this to you." Chen Zixuan said with a smile.

   (end of this chapter)