The day I was forced to be a detective pendant

Xiao Hei's dark face turned red, he held the broken half of the ladder in his hand, and smiled honestly: "Hey, I'm sorry."

Jack said helplessly, "You might as well not come down."

Realizing that it's impossible to retrace our steps from this place, we can only bite the bullet and observe the scene in the sewer.Jack turned on the flashlight of the mobile phone and said, "Save some electricity, just turn on a flashlight every time, and change it. I don't know how long I'm going to stay here."

I looked down at my feet. The sewage flowed through the hollow in the middle of the sewer, and the air was filled with the smell of something rotting.The arch wall of the sewer is made of bricks and cement. There is no sewage on both sides. There are a lot of rubbish that can no longer be seen. It can be walked on by a cat's waist, and there are many forks in front of it - the roads of big cities. The sewer network is a labyrinth, especially the kind that is continuously expanded and rebuilt on the original site, whether it is New York, Paris, or this humble state.

"Where is this going?"

"Let me observe." Zhao Yingjun said.

KP: "94/40, no pass."

Zhao Yingjun patted his chest: "Hey, it's almost a big failure."

In the setting of this group, under the premise that the dice face value is 100, if a value between "1-5" is rolled, it is a "big success", and KP needs to reward additional information or props.On the contrary, if it is a value between "95-100", it will be considered a "big failure" and will be punished.

Xiao Hei said: "I have passed one too. I have a high basic detection value, 70."

KP: "55/70, you follow the dim light of your phone, check around repeatedly, and find a footprint very close to you."

Me: "Nice!"

We all got together to look at the footprint, and I compared it—it was about the same size as my shoe print.

"Pass the tracking dice." Jack reminded in a low voice.

Xiao Hei said honestly: "I will follow up."

KP: "47/50, you can follow this footprint and follow his traces all the way."

Xiao Hei said: "Oh! Awesome, now this footprint is shining in my eyes, comrades, follow me."

"Awesome." Jack clapped his hands exaggeratedly.

We followed our footprints into the sewer not many meters away, and the light from the top of the manhole cover was completely invisible, and we only relied on Jack's mobile phone flashlight to barely maintain the lighting.The air flow here is very slow, and the stale smell can't be blocked by covering the mouth and nose with clothes. The surrounding is dirty, dark, cold and wet, and you often accidentally step into the sewage, and the vaults of the sewers often Dirty water dripped on top of head and neck.

That's not all, but if someone accidentally kicks the garbage or makes a movement, the echo in the sewer is permeating enough.What's more, there are mice and cockroaches coming out from time to time, crawling across your insteps and rubbing against your ankles unavoidably... It makes your scalp tingle uncontrollably.

In this way, Xiao Hei walked cautiously ahead, and everyone followed in fear, until Jack's cell phone was about to run out of power, and they replaced it with Xiao Hei's own cell phone.

I don’t know how long we’ve been walking, but the body feels at least two or three hours. I thought this process would be like going to Xiaowu’s class or driving in an instant, but it didn’t... I realized the exhaustion of physical strength and the exhaustion of spirit. Torture should also be part of the game.

"Ouch!" Jack suddenly called out in a low voice, he touched his nose that hit Xiao Hei Kuanshuo's back and asked, "What's wrong?"

Xiao Hei waved the flashlight around, and said: "There seems to be an open field ahead, and there are some ladders and so on. It seems that construction is still going on."

I stretched my neck to look around—it seemed to be the place where several sewers meet. Some steel pipe scaffolding supported by the arched wall stretched out thin black shadows under the limited light search, but most of the area was still in darkness. middle.

Xiaohong said, "I'll just listen."

After pricking up her ears and listening for a while, she shook her head to indicate that she hadn't heard anything.

Xiao Hei walked a few steps forward without fear of death, and said, "Let's do an investigation."

He was reminded by KP to come to a scaffolding where the wires were complicated and there was a diesel generator at one end. Xiao Hei reached out and touched it, and then turned on the light bulb hanging above the small square.

The sudden light made it difficult for everyone to get used to it. While I was still rubbing my eyes, there was already the sound of Tie Zhu gasping beside me.I thought I was being attacked, so I opened my eyes quickly, only to see such an unexpected scene.

On the wall of this open area is a very conspicuous mural, about two meters high and one and a half meters wide, which seems to have been drawn with a school blackboard tool such as chalk or markers.It’s just that the content of the mural is completely incomprehensible—the center of the picture is similar to some kind of insect with wings, without eyes, but it seems to be watching me. The wings are painted with countless blunt triangles, and the ten thin legs are covered with spikes. The fluff-like fluff makes me think of the flying southern big cockroach.The insect is lying on a radioactive web drawn by trembling and frantic curves, and at the bottom there is a crowd of monkeys who don't know whether they are carnival or howling in pain.The entire picture is covered with countless complex geometric patterns, arranged densely and disorderly, with Latin characters I don't know written on the side.

I raised my head to make out what the steeple at the top of the screen was, when KP's more uncomfortable voice than usual sounded in the space: "You feel chaos, shock and unparalleled oppression. A gaze from the abyss, a call from the void. Sancheck (Sanity Check, Sanity Check), success minus 0, failure minus 1D4."

1D4 means let us cast a dice with a total face value of 4 - we conducted the San value test respectively, and four people passed without hindrance, only Zhao Yingjun and I failed.

I rolled another tetrahedron dice - 2 o'clock, I was deducted 2 points of San value.

The moment the dice came out, a suffocating darkness enveloped me in an instant. I have never experienced such a feeling in my life. It seemed that all the blood was drained and all the sanity was gone.At that moment, I can no longer think of any happy memories and happy past events, and there is only darkness and biting cold around me.

This feeling lasted for a long ten seconds, and then I gasped, as if I had revived from drowning.Jack immediately walked up to me and asked, "What's wrong with you? Why are you sweating so much?"

I put my hands on my knees, panting heavily, sweat dripping from my chin and temples.I swallowed my thirsty throat, shook my head with difficulty, and said, "It's okay, I probably... encountered a dementor."

Zhao Yingjun on the other end also recovered - he was deducted three points of San value, and it will only be worse.Jack thought for a while and said, "Well, if you get deducted 3 points at once, there should be some signs of madness."

"I don't know what it is yet," Tie Zhu looked worried, "What should I do about this painting, uh, I'll take a picture with my mobile phone first."

While he was taking pictures, Xiaohong also noticed the text on the mural and said, "I speak a foreign language."

"It's over," Xiaohong said, "it's written here, uh... Yog-Sothoth."

"Oh……"

"Ow..."

"Depend on."

"hiss--"

As soon as she uttered the name, everyone present except Xiao Hei and Xiao Hong reacted to varying degrees——Yog-Sothoth is famous, but anyone who has understood the Cthulhu Mythos system is not familiar with it. will be unfamiliar.Its image is a gathering of billions of brilliant spheres. It is one of the three original gods, the ruler of time and space, and the supreme outer god who is even more powerful than "Cthulhu" Benke.

Except for Brother Yue and Zhai Qi, two complete novices, everyone present showed complicated expressions. Yog-Sothoth is the evil god that the majority of players affectionately call "Bubble", but no one compares these two When I said a word, I just thought I saw an evil and mysterious mural.After all, as a game character who doesn't know what Cthulhu is, any remarks beyond the game's cognition will be severely warned or punished by KP.

Then... I carefully observed the bug on the totem again—the round wings, triangular scales, black tentacles, and it was depicted in the dark underground.I thought about the things that crawled over my instep when I walked down the sewer just now, and it only made me feel more uncomfortable.

"I practice occultism." Zhao Yingjun finally breathed out and said.

"It's over," he stood in front of the mural with his waist pierced, and relayed the information KP told him: "This mural seems to be related to the legend of the Tower of Babel, and the composition of the mural is similar to the Kabbalah tree of life."

Jack thought about it for a while: "The path of Kabbalah is the so-called 'path of human beings to God'. It seems that the trapezoid is the most central path of Kabbalah, and the circles at the top are the omniscient and omnipotent 'God' or 'God'."

"Uh...what god, that one?" Tie Zhu asked with a worried face, "so someone drew this here, wanting to summon it, uh...I don't want to say its name again."

"Probably so." Jack said, "Is there anything else that can be analyzed about this mural."

Zhao Yingjun thought for a while, and said, "Try another Cthulhu Mythos?"

I admired: "Your head is really iron."

A humble smile appeared on Zhao Yingjun's wrinkled face: "Serving the people... um, but I failed, failed."

"Forget it, let's go, we've stayed here long enough." Xiao Hei said, "The footprints I followed are not over yet, we can continue walking along."

"Okay," Xiaohong said, "wait a minute, KP reminded me to listen."

She was a little listless at first, and I could even see Brother Yue behind her, knocking on the table with his legs crossed in boredom, but the next moment, Xiaohong suddenly jumped up and said: "There is movement, someone is coming!"

After her timely warning, two people staggered out of the passage at the other end—no, are they people?

As the thing got closer, I gradually saw its whole picture. The creature slowly approaching us was at most "human-like", its limbs were damaged to varying degrees, and it slowly moved in a strange way. He dragged his body towards us, and at the same time, the smell of corruption suddenly became stronger.Saying that this is a zombie... It seems inaccurate, the entire face of this undead-like monster is sunken, and there are white teeth showing under the worn-out skin.Their eyeballs fell out, or they didn't know where they rolled down.But this is not the most uncomfortable scene - through the monster's black eye sockets, it can be seen that its brain is empty, only a mobile phone with a broken screen, glued together with the remaining brain tissue of this body.

"Damn." Everyone present couldn't help cursing.

KP's voice was released from the top of his head to us again: "Since Xiaohong listened to escape the sneak attack, she now acts according to the basic value of agility. Turn-based, Xiaohei is the first to act."

Xiao Hei pulled out the stun gun from his waist and said, "I fight."

"Brawl or a stun gun?" KP asked.

"Fighting," Jack suggested, "Your fighting has increased the damage, strangle it to death."

"Okay," Xiao Hei tucked the stun gun into his waist, "I'll swing it with bare hands!"

KP: "Fighting judgment, 49/70, passed. Now you can roll the damage, and the total is 2D6 including the damage amplification."

Xiao Hei had two chances to roll the hexahedral dice—he first rolled a 4, and everyone gave a "hoo", and he rolled a 6 again. Jack clapped his hands exaggeratedly again, and shouted affectionately in a dramatic voice. Said: "Great! Bra'vo!"

KP: "The prototype mobile device moved slowly. It couldn't withstand your storm-like blow at all. It was directly blown to the head and lost its ability to move."

Following his explanation, the distorted monster was smashed to death by Xiao Hei, the lightning flashed and it stopped moving.

Jack and I immediately cheered, and the scene was very enthusiastic.

"Very good, it seems that this 'prototype mobile device' has low agility and dodge, and its blood volume is less than or equal to 10." Tie Zhu said, "There are so many of us, don't be afraid."

KP: "Next up, Jack Lee."

Jack said decisively: "Fight."

KP: "Brawl verdict, 98/50, big failure."

Jack's face stiffened.

Me: "Oh shit."

After a graceful dance move, Jack tripped over a stone on the ground and fell straight into the mud. Not only did he not touch the enemy's side, he also dropped a drop of his own blood.

Next, several of us scratched and scratched the ground and wounded the monster by 6 points of blood—this monster seemed to have no pain feeling, even though it was disabled, it continued to approach us regardless of the consequences.Finally it was the monster's turn to act, and he staggered forward, and the unlucky Jack Li suffered another blow.

KP: "Jack Lee, dodge."

KP: "89/65, dodge failed."

Jack was hugged head-on by the monster, and then hit the ground heavily. He shouted: "Strength confrontation! No, no, agility! Agility to escape!"

He somehow struggled out of the monster's shackles, his clothes were slumped to his shoulders, his hair was messed up, and the handsome boy became quite depressed.Xiao Hei waved him aside and said, "I'll come, I'll come."

"You come here." Jack said angrily.

Xiao Hei lived up to expectations and eliminated the monster with three strikes, five cuts and two cuts, leaving only some fragments lying at our feet.At this time, all of us were covered in smelly sweat, and we were so smoked that we didn't know whether it was the smell around us or ourselves.Jack had no temper and said, "Let's go quickly, I think the longer we stay here, the more monsters like this will keep appearing."

Tie Zhu said: "I don't know if those students were attacked by this kind of thing? For example, on the way home from work at night, these things crawled onto the road in the dark and attacked them?"

"It's hard to say, there should be traces of students' injuries, or corpses." Zhao Yingjun said, "But after we go out, we can try to hack the surveillance video of the nearby streets."

"Hack the surveillance video" was aimed at me as soon as I heard it. Before I could say yes, Xiaohong suddenly said, "Wait a minute, I'll do another investigation. I always feel that apart from this mural, there should be more Something special."

She turned around and said, "Xiao Hei, destroy this mural."

Tie Zhu was stunned: "Huh?"

Without any objection, Xiao Hei picked up a huge stone at his feet, carried it on his shoulder and pushed it vigorously, the stone directly smashed through the mural - it turned out that the mural was only a shallow layer, and the back was hollow.

Xiao Hei was the tallest, and he saw it first, and blew a loud whistle, and then we all saw it—after the rubble and ash fell, there was a wooden box with a gold border—it looked like a "treasure box" in an ordinary RPG game .

"Good job! I almost missed it!" Zhao Yingjun stepped forward to open the treasure chest, a circle of golden light permeated the treasure chest performance, and a string of joyful music sounded in coordination with the system, which seemed incompatible with this gloomy sewer.Each of us picked up a small translucent box, each containing a green pill.

At this moment, I suddenly thought, if there are less than six people on the scene when opening the treasure chest, wouldn't everyone be able to get more medicine?

The moment this idea crossed my mind, I knew that other people must have thought of it long ago, but no one spoke, and they all seemed very happy to get the treasure chest of the first chapter.Next, Xiao Hei continued to move forward along the footprints, and the others followed behind exhaustedly. Within half an hour, another maintenance well appeared before our eyes, as well as another climbing ladder.

"You go first." Xiao Hei said consciously.

"No, we can't push the manhole cover off even if we go up first." Zhao Yingjun said.

Xiao Hei climbed up helplessly, but fortunately this time the ladder was very strong, and all of us successfully climbed onto the road—it was already dark, the streets were bustling with people, and the lights were flickering, as if we had arrived in a downtown area.But I didn't feel safe because of these moving crowds. Instead, I felt that they were all ghosts.

"The footprints disappear here." Xiao Hei said.

I looked back and saw a huge brightly lit Apple flagship store standing in front of us.

Everything in front of us suddenly disappeared, and our group returned to the stone arc-shaped room, and the man in the top hat reappeared in front of us—compared to us who were in a mess, he was still spotless.

"Congratulations, everyone. The story of Chapter 1 is over, and you all got the green pill as you wished. Our second group meeting will be the day after tomorrow, which is 12:23 on the evening of the [-]th. See you soon."

After he delivered the concluding remarks on his own, without any warning, my eyes fell into darkness. It took me a long time to realize that the signal of the VR connection was cut off.I took off the VR glasses I had worn for too long, and there were deep marks on my face.After rubbing my eyes, I raised my head and saw that Bian Yao, Brother Yue and Zhai Qi were all quite tired.

"It's 03:30 in the morning, it's really interesting." Zhai Qi said.

During this period of time, the most energetic member of the family is Serval. Now he has transformed into a human, and he has put the VR glasses on his head continuously—but there is no signal inside, so he just scratches and meets blindly.

Bian Yao pinched the bridge of his nose and was about to say something when suddenly his cell phone and mine rang one after the other.I grabbed my phone and saw that it was a "homework assignment" sent through the SIP APP.

"Come on, I lost a drop of blood, and the silly dragon lost two points of San value, so we are all provided with a way to 'recover'." Bian Yao sneered while reading: "Sure enough, we guessed That's right."

I looked at this long "homework list", and my guess for a long time finally came to fruition - completing tasks such as "watching three R-rated movies in the list below" and "letting 200ml of blood on the arm" can restore 1 point of blood , and completing tasks such as "Don't talk to anyone for 24 hours", "Smash the glass of a car" or "Set fire in a public trash can" can restore a little San value (sanity value).The further down the list, the larger the scale of tasks that need to be completed, and the more rewards you can get—but I haven't been able to unlock those tasks yet.

Looking at this list, the scars on the arms of Xiaojie and those dead children emerged in front of my eyes—I knew that these exhaustions were not in vain, because we were one step closer to the truth of the SIP organization.

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Posting in a bit of a hurry, I will edit the QUQ later in these two chapters, if there is a big bug, please remind me!