How many character cards do you have?

The No. [-] Mental Hospital of xx City, now is the entertainment time in the afternoon.

Because it is an open hospital and does not implement closed management, even this special group of patients can carry out normal entertainment activities, including watching TV or using mobile phones and computers to surf the Internet.

Karasawa Taki worked quietly in front of the computer without saying a word. A man passed by him and sat down on his right.

"Yo, you failed to leave the hospital again?"

Karasawa Taki didn't even look at him, and responded in a muffled voice.

"Which issue did you fall on this time?"

"What would you do if there was a door in front of you and you didn't have the key?"

"And then, how do you answer?"

"Use a homemade grenade to blow open the door." Karasawa Taki said seriously, "This is the best solution I have confirmed with netizens. What's wrong with it, why the doctor still won't let me out of the hospital."

The patient next to him said: "...This is not right."

"Then what do you say the answer is?"

"If I knew, I wouldn't be here."

Karasawa Taki looked back at the computer screen and sighed deeply, none of them were useful.

There was a chat panel hanging on the computer screen. Karasawa Taki and his teammates had just completed a round of running and ended in failure. Then Karasawa Taki took advantage of the opportunity to talk to them about this issue. Of course, in order to conceal his identity as a patient, he put the doctor The identities of the game host (kp) were swapped.

Re-becoming a man (Taki Karasawa): I followed your method to the doctor... kp told me, but he said no.

Teammate a: Of course I was waiting for the troublemakers to blow open the door. The materials were brought in advance, and the chemistry was ordered. Why don’t you let me blow the door (dog head

Teammate b: The necessary conditions are all in place. You also know the formula of the homemade grenade. This should not be the case.

Teammate c: Troublesome people will be sanctioned by kp (finger pointing.jpg)

The patient next to him raised his head and took a look: "What kind of game is this?"

"Tabletop role-playing game," Karasawa Taki said casually, "it's similar to script killing, but it's based on the Cthulhu mythology, and being able to communicate with many strange normal people online is good for us to integrate into the normal society. , The doctor also encouraged me to communicate more with people.”

Coincidentally, at this time, the group had already ended the topic just now, and began to chat about the principles and training of blasting, the simple synthesis method of powerful poisons, and some basic gunpowder formulas. It's not easy."

"Well, I originally thought that the outside world would be a place completely unfamiliar with this place, but I didn't expect it to be unexpectedly familiar. It reminded me of the time I was in the critically ill area." Karasawa Taki's face was full of nostalgia, "The people there also It’s as nice to talk as online, and I miss it a lot.”

"Then why do you want to go out?"

"Because I made an appointment with someone." Karasawa Taki said indifferently, but he was a little discouraged in the next second, "I have obviously performed well and cooperated with the treatment. I have come here, why can't I be discharged from the hospital?"

"It's easy to escape with your ability. Didn't you escape when you closed the hospital before?"

"No," Karasawa Taki shook his head, "I want to go out through the normal way, and be discharged from the hospital dignifiedly, and become a normal natural person."

"The ambition is great." The patient praised him.

[In this case, I have chosen you. 】

Ok?

Karasawa Taki tilted his head to look at the patient: "You were talking to me just now?"

"Yeah, didn't I praise you for your ambition?"

"Not this sentence."

[In order to make it easier for you carbon-based humans to understand, you can call me the system, I need you to assist me...um] the voice said slowly, [In a world without the Cthulhu mythology, the horror of the Cthulhu mythology Bringing to all living beings, while ensuring the survival of most people, revealing the truth of the world to them, in the words of coc, is to enhance their knowledge of Cthulhu mythology. 】

Karasawa Taki was a little stunned after hearing this: "Am I going to save the world?"

[Almost, we are going to participate in a battlefield to compete with the evil gods for the world. In order to prevent the evil gods from coming, we must train more investigators. The world of the department exercises new investigators. 】

"Wow, that's cool, my childhood dream is about to come true."

Listening to Karasawa Taki's monologue, the patient moved his body calmly, glanced at the nurse not far away, and seemed to be hesitating whether to call someone.

"Then what can I get?"

[I just heard that you want to become a normal person and have fallen into a bottleneck. I can help you. You can get as much sanity points (san value) as they drop. If you have enough sanity points, you can become a sanity point. Normal people... You have also played coc running groups, so you can understand me. 】

In the coc running group, san, that is, the sanity value, represents a person's mental state, and the san value goes to zero, which means permanent madness, but conversely, if the san value is high enough, can he become a normal person?

Karasawa Taki's eyes became brighter and brighter: "Is there such a good thing?!"

[And the extra san value can be exchanged for props or magic in the world of Cthulhu, or even money. 】

"Okok, I'm totally ok!" Karasawa Taki patted the table excitedly. Compared with not knowing when he could pass the hospital test, it seemed that the sanity value promised by this system that could be added directly and simply was more hopeful.

【...Don't ask about other key points at all, forget it, time is running out, and I don't have much energy, let's go. 】

At the moment when the nurses Qiqi walked towards him, Karasawa Taki's eyes dimmed and he lost consciousness.

……

【Alas, the energy is not enough. 】

[I don't know if I can do it this time...it's already the last time. 】

[The previous ones have failed, can they really succeed this time, but there is no extra energy to re-screen the host... Hey, is this landing place a mental hospital? It seems that luck is not on my side. 】

【...Fight it all, let the lunatic be the lunatic, it can't be worse. 】

Who is speaking?

Karasawa Taki felt as if his whole body was stuffed into a washing machine, and his soul seemed to be floating up in the dark, and he heard some sound in the dark, which seemed to come from the system, and this perspective was very strange, like looking down from the ceiling. He even saw the top of his skull sitting in front of the computer.

But this feeling was fleeting, and when he came back to his senses, he stood in a vast white space.

[Brief explanation, you do not enter a different world with your real body. The main body is usually placed with me, and then a shell similar to a character card will be used to carry out a series of activities. It does not matter if the character card dies, as long as one character card survives you activities can be continued. 】

[Don't worry, I made a program according to your usual personality and the prosthesis to maintain normal activities, and try not to make people in reality suspicious. 】

It doesn't matter to Karasawa Taki, anyway, he is mentally ill, how bad can it be, at worst, he will go back to the severe disease area to see his old friends.

[If all character cards die, the mission will fail, and your spirit and body will be sent back by me, but the mental state cannot be guaranteed, so please be careful of your sanity value. Resetting the sanity value of character cards to zero will cause indelible damage to your spirit. Although I can treat you mentally when you return to this space...but please don't underestimate the danger of san value being reset to zero. 】The system reminds again and again.

Karasawa Taki asked abruptly: "Your previous hosts all failed because their sanity value was cleared?"

[…] The system was stunned, and was silent for a moment, [It is, not the main reason, but it cannot be separated from it... Why do you ask so suddenly? 】

"Oh, it's okay, I'm just guessing randomly, let's continue." Karasawa Taki changed the subject casually.

[The necessary things that need to be explained are here for the time being. I will give you additional explanations for other encounters. Of course, you can also ask me, do you have any questions. 】

Karasawa Taki thought for a while: "My task is to bring the horror of restraint to the people here, and improve their knowledge of the Cthulhu myth, right? Is it just a verbal explanation?"

[Of course not, I will provide you with a certain degree of support, and gradually open up permissions for you according to the progress of your mission.There are four kinds of support that I can provide at present. The first is the character card and the mall that I told you before. The former can be used as a gold medal for death, and the latter is a store that can be exchanged with points. The second is the reduced version of the Monster Hammer. 】

After all, the blue light screen unfolded in front of Karasawa Taki, and all kinds of weird and strange creatures were revealed on it. It is difficult to accurately describe their appearance as 'ugly'. degree.

[Currently, most of the mythical creatures and high-ranking races included in the anti-type mythology are here. According to the progress of your task completion, I will open the permission to summon, manipulate and even act as them. 】

Karasawa Taki flipped through it with great interest, trying to match the monster in front of him with the knowledge in his mind. Looking at the illustrated book, there is only one monster that is currently lit.

shoggoth.

The appearance on the illustration book is like a black mud slime, an indeterminate individual, with phosphorescence shining all over its body, and several long, narrow, green eyes.

The characteristics of this creature are similar to slime, and it can transform into any form and infiltrate anywhere.

One can be summoned with a san value of 6, and then the value will be doubled later, that is, the second san value is 12 points, and the third san value is 24 points, which are superimposed in turn.

[The last is the dice, that is, the dice used for running groups. It can be used in conjunction with the skills of character cards. In fields that you don’t know at all, such as investigation and medicine, even if you don’t understand it at all, as long as the points on the dice pass will succeed. 】

'learn. '

[I don't have enough energy now, and I can only make one body for the character card, which means you only have one surrogate gold medal for the time being...] The system rambled, [It's a little less, that world is quite dangerous, after all There are other rules like powers and spells. 】

[But it doesn't matter, as long as you harvest some sanity points, I can also get some energy from it... You know, we share [-]-[-], and I also need energy to keep that world from being polluted by evil gods. 】

Karasawa Taki nodded very politely: "I understand, the platform is commissioned." '

[In short, you can complete the task first, as long as I increase those people's awareness of the Cthulhu mythology, I can get the corresponding energy. We can be more cautious, first find a good camp, start from the dream, and then we will stay in a safe place Wait for my energy and your san value to go up, and then exchange multiple character cards, more than 20 kinds of monsters...

Let them recognize it step by step, take your time, and when the evil gods descend on a large scale, there will be many investigators who are familiar with the weaknesses of various monsters and mythological knowledge waiting for them. You have heard of the Shilipo Sword God, right? I think this is a human being. good civilization. 】

Karasawa Taki tilted his head, listening to the long-winded words of the system in his brain, just like his attending doctor who treated him in the mental hospital.

[Okay, you choose a character card first, you only have one chance, it’s best to choose carefully at the beginning, I recommend you choose one with high wild survival skills, we estimate that you will have to survive in the wild for a long time, first protect your life Alright, then look for the ability to enter dreams...]

The system was still worried, when countless cards flashed in front of Karasawa Taki. They were all old friends who were very familiar with Karasawa Taki. He chose the third card without even thinking about it.

The card flashed with light for an instant, and then formed a figure on the spot.

Karasawa Taki's actions were too decisive, and the system hadn't had time to see his choice, but from his smile, the system unexpectedly had a bad premonition.

Following the faint omen in his heart, the system quickly clicked on the value of this character card. At first, everything was normal, and even compared with his previous hosts, superman cards or magicians, he was a model of good people.

Until the system sees the value of san.

San: 0

system:……

system:? ? ?