Real Cthulhu Running Game

Liu Xing was basically sure that this circular space should be a sacrificial site built by a secret church. After all, only the secret church would take such time and effort to build such a circular space underground, or under the sea.

Therefore, if this circular space is a sacrificial place, then there should be an altar or a magic circle in the central area of ​​the circular space.

Thinking of this, Liu Xing went straight to the central area of ​​the circular space.

Sure enough, Liu Xing saw a huge magic circle in the central area of ​​the circular space, and the drawing material of the magic circle exuded a familiar smell—the smell of blood.

"It seems that I guessed it right. This is indeed a venue for a secret church to hold sacrificial ceremonies, but judging from this magic circle, the secret church built here does not seem to be the Ocean True God Sect or the Deep Sea Evangelical Church." Liu Xing said to himself.

Except for some more common magic circles, the magic circles used for this kind of sacrifice are generally more distinctive. For example, there are abstract deep diver symbols around the magic circle of the Deep Sea Gospel Church, and some wave patterns representing the ocean.

But now the magic circle under Liu Xing's feet does not have these similar patterns and symbols. Instead, Liu Xing also saw some symbols that look like ancient tribal totems.

Liu Xing frowned. If these unique symbols are really the totems of some ancient tribes, then could the builder of this circular space be some ancient tribe?

But here is an isolated island, under normal circumstances it is impossible to reproduce a tribe, not to mention that this tribe can complete such an extremely difficult underground project.

Liu Xing thought for a while, then decided to contact KP Green Light and said: "KP, I want to pass a occult judgment now to study this magic circle."

The kp green light chuckled, and immediately replied: "Liu Xing, have you thought about it? If you want to make a mystical judgment on this magic circle, you not only need to pass a difficult judgment, but also need to spend an hour, because it is too dark here."

Liu Xing frowned, and continued to ask: "Then if I can completely illuminate the magic circle, can I judge faster?"

"Of course, if you, Liu Xing, can completely illuminate the magic circle, the time it takes will be reduced to forty minutes, and you only need to reduce the success rate by 20 when making mystic judgments." KP Green Light said with a smile.

Liu Xing nodded and decided to leave this circular space for the time being. After all, he can only stay in this underground world for 50 minutes, and he can't waste all his time here. Besides, even if he can pass the mystical judgment, Liu Xing feels that he will not get much useful information. At most, he will involve a new force.

Therefore, Liu Xing decided to walk around in the circular space again, and then went to explore other places.

Just when Liu Xing returned to the wall of the circular space, Liu Xing suddenly saw a bunch of bamboo slips appearing in the urn in front of him.

Seeing this situation, Liu Xing immediately reached out and took out a bamboo slip, then opened it and read it. . . Then Liu Xing found that he couldn't understand the contents of the bamboo slips at all.

And most importantly, Liu Xing can be sure that the characters on the bamboo slips are neither Chinese characters, nor island characters, nor English or other languages ​​that Liu Xing knows.

If he had to say it, Liu Xing felt that the characters on the bamboo slips were a bit like hieroglyphs, because many of the characters were like pictures, and Liu Xing still vaguely remembered that many of the characters on the bamboo slips appeared in the magic circle just now.

Liu Xing understood that the magic circle and the bamboo slip in his hand should have the same source.

Moreover, this bamboo slip also proves in disguise that the underground world of Fisherman's Village should have been built by an ancient tribe. After all, pictographs are also an important feature of ancient tribes.

But in this case, the question arises, how could an ancient tribe appear on the small island of Fisherman's Village?

Liu Xing sighed, took out his mobile phone and took a picture of each of these bamboo slips, then put the bamboo slips back to their original places, and continued to walk along the edge of the circular space.

After walking a few more steps, Liu Xing found that there was a bronze gate facing the entrance of the circular space. Because the color of this bronze gate was somewhat similar to the surrounding walls, Liu Xing hadn't noticed this bronze gate at first.

On this bronze gate, Liu Xing saw a lock, which was a bit small, which made Liu Xing think of the key that Panda Pig found before.

Ever since, Liu Xing took a photo of the lock of the bronze gate so that he could compare it after he went up.

But now Liu Xing is very curious, what will be behind this bronze gate,

Moving on, this time Liu Xing walked directly to the entrance of the circular space, and found nothing else.

Ever since, Liu Xing left the circular space and returned to the three-way intersection.

This time, Liu Xing decided to take the road in the middle, because if there is no accident, the road in the middle should lead to the thatched house where Dogo Eiger is.

All the way forward, this time Liu Xing felt that he had walked a long distance, but the road ahead was always invisible.

Walked for a while, still the same.

Liu Xing realized that something was wrong. According to his walking speed, he had walked at least a thousand meters since he entered the middle road. Logically speaking, he had not only passed the thatched cottage where Dogo Eiger was, but now he should be under the sea again.

This made Liu Xing couldn't help wondering whether he had encountered a ghost hitting the wall.

To put it simply, ghosts hit the wall because people lack proper reference objects in a relatively dark environment, so there is a problem with self-perception, which leads to disorientation and loss of the way.

If we explain it in a scientific way, we have to mention the biological instinct. Most of the creatures in the world, including human beings, move when they lose their vision. When they reach a certain distance, they will find that the moving track of the creature is a circle. This is because the feet or wings of the creature are not completely consistent, so there will inevitably be some inconsistencies.

Of course, Liu Xing's current situation may also be that the road in the middle is not straight, but has a certain range, and may eventually form a relatively closed circular road.

Therefore, Liu Xing decided to contact kp Green Light, "kp, I want to go through an inspiration test now to determine whether I have encountered a ghost hitting the wall, or there is a problem with this path."

KP Green Light thought for a while, and said: "Yes, it is possible, but in order not to waste everyone's time going through the process, I can tell you clearly now that you have not encountered a ghost hitting the wall, and there is no problem on this road. After all, you have always been walking forward with a flashlight. If there is a problem, you should have realized it by now."

Liu Xing raised his brows, he didn't expect that this kp green light was also an upright kp, and he told himself the result directly.

However, what kp green light said was right. Liu Xing thought about it carefully and found that there was no problem with this road, and he was always advancing along the edge of the road. If this road has a certain range, then Liu Xing felt that he should be able to realize it.

As for the ghost hitting the wall, Liu Xing felt that it was unscientific, and it was not Cthulhu, so he just ignored it.

Therefore, Liu Xing now only thinks of two possibilities.

The first possibility is that this road is indeed that long and, like the road on the right, extends directly into the ocean floor.

The second possibility is that he has already entered a certain magic circle, or was simply enchanted, so he fell into a hallucination. After all, this is the world in the Cthulhu running game. Liu Xing felt that it was necessary for him to consider magic factors and supernatural factors.

Thinking of this, Liu Xing couldn't help pinching himself. . . A little painful, it seems that the second possibility can be ruled out. . .

Of course, Liu Xing is actually more inclined to the first possibility. After all, now that there is a lesson learned from the road on the right, Liu Xing feels that it is not impossible for the road in the middle to go deep into the sea.

Therefore, Liu Xing picked up his phone and checked the time, and found that he had been underground for 20 minutes, so to be on the safe side, Liu Xing decided to go forward for another five minutes, and if there was no result, he would just turn around and return the same way.

As a result, Liu Xing had only walked a few steps before he made a new discovery—a large number of murals appeared on the walls on both sides of the road, and these murals were all drawn with some kind of white powder.

The content of the mural depicts a group of human beings performing activities such as hunting, planting, and cooking. As Liu Xing continued to advance, scenes of war and sacrifice appeared in the content of the mural.

In the scene depicting the war, the faction of the mural painter actually held some strange weapons, fought against the enemy who was also holding a spear and club, and then easily defeated the enemy.

But what shocked Liu Xing even more was that Liu Xing found that the sacrificial scene depicted in the mural was not the blood sacrifice that Liu Xing thought at first, because those people on the magic circle seemed to be bound, but the venue for the sacrifice was probably the circular space on the right.

Then in the next few murals, a person dressed as a priest may have come to the door of the bronze gate after chanting the sacrificial oration, opened the bronze gate with a key, and then a group of terrifying monsters poured out from the bronze gate, dragging those people on the magic circle into the bronze gate.

These monsters have a pale body like an eyeless giant frog, with a wide mouth and clawed hands. Where the nose should be, there is a group of short tentacles.

Liu Xing recognized at a glance that these monsters were moon beasts!

The moon beast is a mythical creature with extremely high intelligence. In addition to the image shown on the murals, the moon beast also has the ability to change the shape of its body at will.

The place where the moon beast lives is in the dark side of the moon in the dreamland, and here we must first mention the dreamland.

In the setting of Love Craftsman, the dreamland is a parallel space composed of subconsciousness and imagination, where the laws of physics are greatly different from reality, and there are a large number of mythical creatures living in the dreamland, and the moon beast is just one of them.

If human beings want to enter the dreamland, the most convenient way is to dream, or firmly believe in the existence of the dreamland, and become a "dream maker" to enter the dreamland. Of course, they can also enter the dreamland through the gaps that may exist in the ghoul cave. There are rumors that a certain tree sea in the real world is actually connected to the enchanted forest in the dreamland, and a certain mountain in Central Asia is connected to the cold plateau in the dreamland.

In addition, there are some gates leading to different dimensions that may be connected to the dreamland.

Therefore, many of the modules of the Cthulhu running team game took place in the dreamland, such as the blood soup module that Liu Xing experienced with Zhang Jingxu before.

Speaking of the blood soup module, Liu Xing was still curious about what happened to the remaining teammates after he was "killed" by his teammates.

Back to the topic, unlike the moon in the real world, the moon in the dreamland has a large area of ​​forests and oceans, and the moon beasts living here only feed on living things, and can absorb a special substance from the body and soul of their prey as food.

Because moon beasts are able to adapt to various climates and environments, they are extremely adaptable, and can use a lot of technical knowledge to expand their territories, so colonies of moon beasts can be found almost anywhere, whether in the real world or in fantasy lands. For example, according to the photos taken by the Apollo 11 spacecraft, there is a high possibility of a colony of moon beasts on the dark side of the moon in reality.

In addition to the colony, the moon beasts also traded slaves at the Port of De Las-Leen (an important city in the Dreamland). The moon beasts would exchange rubies for slaves and gold. Because of the unique characteristics of the dreamland, the moon beasts' slaves came from all parts of the universe and various races, but most moon beasts still prefer to choose humans as slaves.

Because the moon beasts will spend a lot of time on torture and torture as a pastime, seeking cruel joy from the pain of their slaves. The most important thing is that the moon beasts will use spiritual spells to control their slaves, so that their slaves cannot resist. Therefore, the creatures that become the slaves of the moon beasts will have a very miserable end and no way out.

In the next mural, the moon beasts took out some strange things and put them on the magic circle, and then returned to the bronze gate under the kneeling of the priest.

Seeing this, Liu Xing finally understood something.

First of all, the underground world of the Fisherman's Village was indeed built by an ancient tribe. This ancient tribe also reached a certain cooperative relationship with the moon beast, and the bronze gate is the passage leading to the dreamland.

PS: On the first day back to work, I was exhausted.