Real Cthulhu Running Game

Zhang Wenbing nodded and said: "Then let me first talk about the two modules I have experienced. The first module is the first official module after I entered the Cthulhu Run game lobby. , at that time, I was a peripheral member who had just joined the Huaxia Dao Sect. I was arranged to go to a certain university in the Magic City for unified training. Then I and several other players were assigned to the same dormitory, and that dormitory was a place where everyone loved to hear and see The haunted dormitory. Several students disappeared inexplicably in that dormitory without leaving any traces, so it was closed by the school for a long time. Until the sudden arrival of our group of advanced students caused tension in the dormitory, so the dormitory was closed. Reopen that haunted dormitory and provide us with accommodation.”

"Of course, the main mission of our group of players at that time was to find out the truth about the haunted dormitory, so we began to investigate the situation of the haunted dormitory. Soon we collected a lot of information, including a piece of information about a certain person in that year. The missing student sent a text message to his girlfriend, saying that he got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet, and when he came out of the toilet, he was surprised to find that everyone else in the dormitory who was sleeping well had disappeared, and the person who was sleeping beside his bed had disappeared. The hanging guitar also ran to the opposite bedside, but at that time he was still a little dazed and thought he opened the door the wrong way, so he went back to the toilet and opened the door again, and then everything in the dormitory was restored. It was normal, so in the end the boy thought he was hallucinating without waking up... Then the boy mysteriously disappeared a month after he sent that text message, and because the boy had broken up with his girlfriend at the time , so no one in that boy’s ex-girlfriend told about that text message, and it wasn’t until I cast a lucky hit that I discovered the news.”

"Ever since, other players and I guessed that the key to unlocking the haunted dormitory was the toilet, so we entered the toilet in the middle of the night after making some preparations, and then when we left the toilet, we found ourselves We came to the mirror world, and the dormitory in this mirror world is exactly the same as our dormitory in the real world, but everything in the dormitory is upside down, and there is only a thick fog outside the window that cannot be resolved. Seeing this situation The other players and I knew that we seemed to have arrived at a terrible place, so we planned to leave the mirror world and return to the real world. Anyway, we now know the truth about the haunting of this dormitory, so as long as we return to the real world, we You can complete the main mission and clear the module."

"Unfortunately, things went against our wishes. For us players, the mirror world is easy to get in and difficult to get out. At first, we wanted to imitate the boy back then and re-entered the toilet and opened the door to come out. But we found that this trick didn't work at all, so we could only pass by After various judgments, we discovered a problem, that is, there was a very important thing missing from the dormitory in the Mirror World - the Bagua Mirror that was originally hung on the door frame of the dormitory. So we knew that if we wanted to leave the Mirror World, we had to To find the Bagua Mirror, we started looking in the dormitory first, and found a fragment of the Bagua Mirror. Judging from the size of the fragment of the Bagua Mirror, we still need to find two more fragments of the Bagua Mirror. Okay, so we had no choice but to leave our dormitory, and soon we found a fragment of the Bagua mirror at the stairwell of the same floor, and at the same time we heard footsteps coming from upstairs."

"Although we all knew that it would be dangerous to go upstairs, we also knew that the last fragment of the Bagua Mirror must be upstairs, so we had no choice but to go upstairs. As a result, we were upstairs. We found a man who was almost turning into a mummy. The reason why we called him a human was because he was still very conscious at the time, and he was the boy who sent the text message. He provided us with a lot of information. , for example, the last fragment of the Bagua Mirror is on the roof of the dormitory building, and there is a group of rats with human faces on the roof. This group of rats will attack everyone who comes to the roof, and will be killed by the group of rats. Dead people will eventually become companions of rats.”

"In addition, he also told us that people in the mirror world will get hungry very quickly. If they do not leave the mirror world within a short period of time, they will become like him, neither human nor ghost. And he will be in a state of hunger forever... But the only advantage of this is that he can live forever; and then there is the layer of fog outside the dormitory building. He has only seen people going in, but no one has ever come out, and as long as he touches it A little bit of fog, then no matter whether you want to enter that fog or not, you will involuntarily go in, even if there are five or six people pulling him together."

"After learning about the situation in the mirror world from that person, we knew we could only go up to meet the human-faced rats for a while, so we collected some things in various dormitories and then went up to meet those human-faced rats. We just went through a wave in the front, and finally got the last fragment of the Bagua Mirror without any danger, because the speed of the human-faced rats in the mirror world is the same as that of the slowest player among us, and those human-faced rats cannot leave the rooftop. So after we returned to the dormitory and pieced together the fragments of the Bagua Mirror, we were teleported back to the real world, except that the boy who had turned into a mummy was not teleported back."

After hearing this, Liu Xing felt that the dormitory module Zhang Wenbing experienced was basically the same as the Harvest Shrine module he experienced. Some settings were almost identical. For example, he had to collect some items before he could leave the mirror. In the middle world, for example, the speed of the mythical creatures in the module will be the same as that of the slowest player. For example, the module will use hunger to remind players in disguise to hurry up and complete the module.

Such as that layer of fog.

It seems that the module settings of the Mirror World series are all in the same vein.

At this time, Zhang Wenbing continued: "You should also remember that after clearing the module in the ghoul area, an MVP player will be selected, and the MVP player can ask some questions to the kp, so I asked after I became an MVP player. After understanding the relationship between kp’s mirror world and the real world, kp told me that the mirror world is actually a backup of the real world.”

Backup?

Everyone frowned, not understanding what this meant for a moment.

Zhang Wenbing shrugged and said seriously: "As for the word backup, I was kicked out of the module by the kp at the time without knowing it clearly. Then when I entered the module again, I found that I had been kicked out of the module by the Huaxia Daomen. I was transferred to an insider position, and then I was assigned to an internship in a company in the Yunnan-Guizhou region. Of course, this company is actually the most important branch of Huaxia Daomen in the Yunnan-Guizhou region, and I was ostensibly in charge of financial work. , is actually responsible for arranging the daily affairs of the Huaxia Dao Sect's activities in the Yunnan-Guizhou region. Occasionally, I will go out in person to deal with mythical creatures or secret churches. After all, I am a player, and the Cthulhu Running Group game hall is definitely not Maybe it allows me to stay at the rear with peace of mind, but it is precisely because of this that I have met many young heroes and big bosses in the Chinese Taoist sect, so I also asked them about the situation in the mirror world."

"First of all, my immediate boss, the main person in charge of the Huaxia Dao Sect in the Yunnan-Guizhou region, and the nominal boss of that company, Qin Yi. In my opinion, his strength should be comparable to that of the famous magicians in the Cthulhu Mythos. We opened on May 5th, and Qin Yi and my character card are both from Xiangxi, so our relationship is very good, so I once found an opportunity to ask Qin Yi in the module and asked him if he knew about me Qin Yi directly told me about the situation I encountered when I was studying in the magical city. The reason why I was assigned to the Yunnan-Guizhou area was precisely because Qin Yi heard about what happened to me when I was studying in the magical city, and he was also the one who told me directly. Officially told me the concept of the mirror world, but even the Chinese Taoists don’t know much about the mirror world. They only know that there are currently 450 known mirror points in China, and the mirror point here refers to It’s where you enter the mirror world.”

"But the most important thing is that even if the Huaxia Dao Sect knows the specific locations of these mirror points, the Hua Xia Dao Sect cannot actively open the location and enter the mirror world. Therefore, according to the observations of the Hua Xia Dao Sect, these mirror points are opened completely randomly. Sometimes A mirror point will be opened more than ten times a day, and sometimes it will not be opened once for more than ten years. But the most important thing is that these mirror points are located in areas with dense traffic, so Huaxia Dao Sect can only conduct inspections on these mirror points now. Surveillance... Of course, Huaxia Dao Sect also tried to close these mirror points, but the result was naturally useless."

"But having said that, when the Huaxia Taoist Sect had just confirmed the existence of the Mirror World, they specially sent people into the Mirror World to investigate the situation, hoping to establish a branch like in the dreamland. As a result, the people of the Huaxia Taoist Sect discovered The situation in the mirror world is completely different from the dream world. First of all, the scope of each mirror point in the mirror world is different. Among them, the largest scope of the known mirror spot is a small county town, and the smallest scope is a toilet, and There will be one and only one mythical creature in each mirror point. The speed of these mythical creatures is the same as the slowest person entering the mirror point. People who enter the mirror world must avoid the attacks of these mythical creatures. You can only leave the Mirror World after finding important props left everywhere in the Mirror World, and even if you enter the Mirror World from the same mirror point, the things you need to find and the locations where they are scattered are different each time.”

"Then there is the so-called hunger. Depending on the size of the mirror world, humans who enter it will faint from hunger after one minute to a day, and these fainted humans will turn into something similar to mummies. existence, they will be in a state of hunger forever, and then they will never be able to leave the mirror world, and they will not be able to enter the fog that exists in every mirror world. This is also one of the most important mechanisms of the mirror world, because I am in the forum I once encountered a player who fell off due to hunger in the Mirror World. After he passed the resurrection module, he still found that his character card was still unusable, and he also asked about Cthulhu Run I contacted the customer service of the Tuan Game Hall, and the answer I received was that everything about the character card was normal, and he would be able to use that character card one day.”

"Later, I also met another player through that player who was working on the Mirror World module with him. The other player entered the fog in that module because he did not believe in evil. As a result, that player did not know that he was in the fog. After walking for a long time, he was suddenly informed by the kp that the module had failed. But what surprised the player the most was that his character card did not fall off or be torn, but was marked as lost. I know that the markings on character cards in the Cthulhu Run game lobby have always been basically two: tearing the card and falling off. Occasionally the character card will be in an unusable state for some reasons, but the character card marked as lost state, As far as I know, there is only that character card.”

"So I took the time to ask Qin Yi in the next module whether any NPCs from the Chinese Taoist sect had entered the fog in the mirror world. Qin Yi told me that there were indeed many NPCs from the Chinese Taoist sect who had passed through various There are many ways to enter the fog of the mirror world, such as entering with a rope, entering with various photographic equipment, splitting oneself in two and then throwing half of the body in. As a result, these people may end up Forced or voluntarily entered the mirror world, never to return, but the Huaxia Dao Sect can find through various methods that the vital signs of those NPCs who entered the fog are still normal."

"So now I have a guess about the mirror world, that is, everything in the mirror world should be exactly the same as the real world. However, for some reason, there is a fog in the mirror world, which divides the mirror world into unrelated parts. areas, and the areas in the fog are unopened areas, but one day in the future these fogs will completely disappear, and the entire mirror world will become a whole, evolving into the same existence as the dreamland, but The origin of the Mirror World is still a mystery, but I think in the Cthulhu Running Game, the blame should be passed on to Nyarlathotep at this time. After all, only Nyarlathotep is possible. I will create a mirror world when I have nothing to do, and so far, except you, Liu Xing, no one else has discovered the existence of the Old Ones or Outer Gods in the mirror world."

Liu Xing nodded, feeling that what Zhang Wenbing said made some sense.

"By the way, Brother Zhang, what did you experience in the second module related to the Mirror World?" Zhang Jingxu asked.