The Game Show of Death: Demons of Reason

Follow the bloody footprints all the way to the threshold of the terrace, the glass door is wide open, and the cool evening breeze blows in, dispelling some of the residual heat from the dance.Outside is the back garden of the house. The bloody footprints disappeared on the mud, and only the surrounding dark landscaping and the artificial lake reflecting the moonlight in the distance can be seen.

Mick and Jin had already set off to find the library, while Marquis Jin walked out of the terrace first, groping in the direction of the artificial lake.

"Let's go, follow me closely." Wei Zixu said to Nian Weiyi, and walked out of the terrace with him.

After leaving the house, they realized that the back garden was much wider than what they had seen.They just walked into the back garden from the east side of the hall on the first floor, and this green space actually surrounded three sides of the house.A path extends from the terrace, surrounded by sparse bushes on both sides.The path meanders to connect many smaller spaces, surrounded by hedges and locust trees, with benches and stone tables, intimate spaces suitable for drinking tea.

There are many marble statues scattered in the garden, each of about the same size, about two stories high.At the end of the year, I passed the first marble sculpture and touched the base with my hand. It was cold to the touch, and it was a real marble sculpture.A brief introduction to the sculpture is engraved on the base: "Apollo, the sun god, the son of Zeus..."

Looking up at the end of the year, the statue is a handsome white male figure, wearing a Greek robe, with eyes protruding from the curly hair looking down. It is indeed the arrogant sun god in Greek mythology.

The end of the year: "This statue is a Greek god, are the other statues also Greek mythological themes?"

Chen Luyao then said: "It looks like it. The plants around the statue grow around the statue. These statues have been placed here for a long time. It seems that Carmichael's aesthetics was normal before he was deceived by that evil god in yellow clothes. "

"The king in yellow." Nian Weiji reminded him kindly.

"Who knows what's going on, Mick said it all by himself. I've never been exposed to this kind of game before." Chen Luyao said, putting his hands in his trouser pockets irritably.

At this time, Wei Zixu interjected silently: "Indeed, Cthulhu Mythos is a unique system. We, a group of novices, are suddenly allowed to come in and play, and there are too few reference materials. Mick should be the one who knows Cthulhu Run best here. It’s probably because board games are more popular abroad.”

At the end of the year, he thought about it and said: "It's a science fiction myth that has become popular recently. I've heard of it, but I don't have a deep understanding. I think Xiaodai also felt that we could not complete it smoothly, so he set the time in this game. It's over as soon as the time is up, unlike the first four days of games where there is a clear goal."

Wei Zixu: "No... not necessarily. The reason for setting the time may be that an event will happen when the time comes, and we will enter different endings depending on how we respond."

"Then we have to hurry up." Qin Guican glanced at the time: "There are only 50 minutes left... Eh, what is there, something is floating down."

She held on to her glasses, raised her right hand to pick them up, and a piece of floc in the air fell lightly on her palm.She held it in her hand, and then held it up in front of everyone's eyes. It turned out to be a colorful feather.

"Oh?" Chen Luyao looked closer, with a strange expression on his face.The color transition of the feathers is very natural, and it reflects metallic luster from different angles. If it is not as big as a palm, it will almost make people think it is the feathers of a certain species of parrot.

The feathers were falling from their heads. When they looked up, they saw a window on the third floor was wide open, and the curtain floated out of the glass window, and it swayed intermittently with the high tree crowns.The third floor was far away from the ground, and there was no light inside. They couldn't see what was going on inside. They could only vaguely see that the windows were broken, and there was a dark room among the broken glass.

"I'll go up and have a look." Chen Luyao said, walking towards the tallest tree next to the house.He climbed up the tree and watched the room for a while, and when he came down, his face was very ugly.

"Another person died, and the way of death...is very strange." Chen Luyao gestured: "I saw a woman nailed to the glass window, with a kind of horn—or teeth? Her skin was torn apart, It's full of claw marks. The window doesn't look like it was broken from the inside, but it looks like it was smashed from the outside, because there are many pieces of glass that are stuck in the opposite wall."

Chen Luyao stared at the feather and asked, "Maybe it's a dyed falcon? Will Mick know, can we ask him?"

"Unfortunately, there is no way to send messages between different teams." Qin Guican said, and suddenly looked around: "Where is Marquis Jin?"

The others also looked left and right when they heard the words, and the Marquis of Jin had indeed disappeared.

"We followed him out. I remember he walked towards the man-made lake. Did we walk too slowly and he left us behind? Let's continue walking." Nian Weiji said.The marble statue was hidden by the dark woods, and he always felt a slight slapping sound from the direction of the artificial lake.

They walked side by side through the winding courtyard.Marble statues followed one another, with cold, hollow smiles on their stone faces.At the end of the year, every time I passed a statue, I glanced at the words on the base.The characters were neat at first, but after staring at them for a long time, some characters trembled, gradually distorted and twisted into an unknown shape.Nian Wei had already stopped in front of this base, and found that he really didn't understand the words on it.The marble statue stood in front of him, and he looked up slowly. The Greek robe was replaced by countless rags, and a human figure was leaning on the throne. Its hood was a mass of blackness.

"The clouds shattered along the banks of the river, the twin suns sank on the edge of the lake, and long shadows descended on Carcosa."

"Who? Who's talking?" Nian Weiji turned his head abruptly, but the voice didn't come from behind him, but intermittently around the statue, like a song blown by the wind.

"A black star rises on a strange night, a strange moon hovers at the zenith, and even more strange than the strange is the lost Carcosa."

"Hyades sang loudly, the king's rags fluttered, and the song that no one heard faded in the dim Carcosa."

"My soul can still sing, my voice has long since died, and the tears of the dead and unsung have dried up in the lost Carcosa."

"I really hate this game." Chen Luyao walked beside Wei Zixu and complained, "Although yesterday's game was cruel, at least the sun was bright in broad daylight, and it wasn't as depressing as it is today. Fortunately, you are To be trapped in the 'maze' for a day, if you are trapped here for a day, it must be very uncomfortable."

Hearing what he said, Wei Zixu became vigilant and said, "You don't think the 'queen' can trap me twice, do you?"

"Of course not, to be honest, I didn't expect you to be trapped by the 'Queen' for the first time." Chen Luyao smiled, unable to tell whether it was a joke or seriousness, he immediately turned to Nian Weiji: "Trapped I can't help you, but what about him?"

In front of them, Nian Weiji was staring at a marble sculpture alone in a daze.

"Officer Chen, complaints are complaints, don't bring such a nervous joke." Wei Zixu smiled and said disapprovingly: "'Queen' is easy to use, but it's a pity that I know its limitations. I think it's better for Ms. Qin to keep it for self-protection, after all, no one can tell what will happen after the game, so don't make it so embarrassing like this morning."

When Chen Luyao heard this, he turned his gaze back from Nian Weiyi, and took the words naturally: "It seems that your jokes are more nerve-wracking."

The faintly smelly evening wind, and the yin-yang confrontation between the two big men around her were enough to make Qin Guican shudder. She interjected impatiently: "Talk well, Mick said that we will cooperate temporarily in this game. Don't make small moves in secret. And you, you will threaten the elders at a young age, and I knew that it was you who instigated Xiaonian this morning."

"Me? I'm the victim? If you eat and drink in an open-air cage all day, will you be a little angry?" Wei Zixu said "a little angry", but his expression was very innocent, as if he was being very sincere explained to Qin Guican.

While speaking, Wei Zixu shortened the distance between him and Qin Guican.The gold-rimmed glasses framed his straight nose, casting a light shadow. His facial features were almost the same as those of the marble sculptures around him. It is difficult for people to resent a good-looking person. Wei Zixu knows this well. That's the trick.

Fortunately, Qin Guican was much older than Wei Zixu, past the age when he would be bewitched by beauty.Moreover, the deaths of Ni Shang and Zeng Xu had something to do with Wei Zixu before, Qin Guican saw in his eyes, and was already wary of Wei Zixu's ability.

"Don't change the subject. Letting wolves come and kill us is not something ordinary people can do. You young man is kind on the surface, but actually says one thing and does another thing. The young man treats you with little thought, and being deceived by you to do evil, You still bully him all the time, and sooner or later you will reap the consequences."

"Did I bully him?" Wei Zixu didn't know, so, for Nian Weiji, who is naturally angry, it's really exciting that he can bully Nian Weiji.

Wei Zixu and Qin Guican and Chen Luyao were both poor-mouthed and didn't pay attention to the end of the year.Nian Weiji stood in front of the marble statue and listened to the ballad, only hissing whispers remained at the end of the ballad.

"What does Carcosa mean..." Nian Weiji squeezed his chin, thinking of Carcosa that appeared repeatedly in the ballad. This ballad seemed to be unpredictable like a prophecy, and only "Carcosa" was a very specific reminder. "The clouds shattered along the banks of the river, the twin suns sank to the edge of the lake, and a long and narrow shadow descended on Carcosa... Does it mean that Carcosa has something to do with water?" By this time they were not far from the man-made lake, At the end of the year, he heard the faint sound of water, so he turned around and walked directly to the man-made lake, leaving Wei Zixu and Chen Luyao's group behind.

The scale of the man-made lake is comparable to this mansion. It is hundreds of meters away at a glance. There is a stone bridge on the bank leading to the opposite bank. At the end of the year, he walked up the stone bridge with the handrails and watched the center of the lake intently.

Something rubbed against Nian Weiji's face, and Nian Weiji grabbed it subconsciously, with a white bandage in his hand.He looked up through the bandages, and the marble statue of Zeus stood behind him, holding a spear in its powerful arm, and a headless corpse was stuck vertically on the spear.The corpse was middle-aged and fat, with a rough section on the neck.

Nian Wei already recognized this attire. The only person dressed as a mummy at the dinner party today was Dr. Archer. Nian Wei already remembered how tight-lipped he was about his patients' privacy, and his drinking capacity was really good.

【调查员受到惊吓，损失0/1D3的理智损失。roll点结果为3，尼奥损失3点理智值。】

At the end of the year, he ignored the director's broadcast, and his mind was full of the section of Dr. Archer's neck and the chainsaw hidden under the stairs. He intuited that the package that Carmichael was dragging was Dr. Archer's body.

There was a flash of light, and a monitor lit up on Dr. Archer's wrist.At the end of the year, he seemed to see the news on it, so he hurriedly climbed onto the marble base, trying to see it more clearly.Nian Weiji grabbed Zeus's body and tried to observe on tiptoes. At this time, he felt that the statue of Zeus was tilted in balance. The bridge was higher than the lake, and there was nothing to support it. The statue was dragged into the lake.

The cold lake water submerged him all of a sudden, he closed his eyes, let go of his hands quickly, and stepped on the water with both feet to swim upwards.The lake was deeper than he had imagined, and he hadn't heard the sound of the statue of Zeus sinking to the bottom.

The sound of falling into the water startled the other three people, "Oh my God! A statue fell from the bridge! Xiaonian, where is Xiaonian?" Qin Guican shouted.

"I'm here, I'm fine!" Nian Weiji poked his head out of the lake and waved to the shore.

Seeing him, Qin Guican breathed a sigh of relief at first, but when she saw Nian Wei was behind her, her face was suddenly filled with fear: "Xiao Nian, come here quickly, come ashore quickly! Something is swimming towards you!"

Her terrified expression also frightened Nian Weiji. He turned his head and saw two ripples on the surface of the lake not far away, and a water mark approached him directly.At the end of the year, his whole body was cold, and it was very strenuous for him to step on the water, and his feet gradually became as heavy as lead.

"Pfft!"

There was another sound of entering the water, and a checkered suit was left on the bank. At the end of the year, his right hand was grabbed by a still warm hand, and he was immediately pulled towards the bank.

With a distance of nearly [-] meters, he approached the shore immediately at the end of the year.As soon as Wei Zixu got close to the shore, he threw Nian Wei onto the shore, and Nian Wei already fell to the ground in pain, but at least he was safe now, he easily teased Wei Zixu: "Didn't you say you can't swim, it's better than me …too much?"

Nian Weiji's tone changed because he saw that Wei Zixu was in a very bad state.Wei Zixu knelt on the ground, panting heavily as if he was on the verge of suffocation, his limbs shook uncontrollably, even so, he still knelt and moved tremblingly on the ground, as if he had completely forgotten how to control his body.

His face was pale, his mouth was open, and he cried out intermittently: "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..." Saliva kept pouring into the mud from the corner of his mouth.

Everyone else was stunned by this scene. There was no longer the outstanding young man Wei Zixu who had a duplicity in his appearance, only a distressed patient suffering from a panic attack.

At the end of the year, he remembered that on the third day, when he and Wei Zixu escaped from the secret room, Wei Zixu had the same pale complexion and dull behavior.It turned out that he was not hypoxic at that time, but a precursor to a panic attack.

Nian Wei hesitated for a long time, and finally asked cautiously: "Director Wei, are you... afraid of water?"