Real Cthulhu Running Game

Liu Xing was now certain that the masked man sitting opposite him just now was definitely Wu Lei.

However, Liu Xing still couldn't figure out why Wu Lei "joined" the Cthulhu Run Game Hall. You must know that Liu Xing had never heard of the Cthulhu Run Game Hall openly recruiting new employees.

Of course, Liu Xing also heard that many players believe that KPs are also human beings, because many KPs are quite humane, and sometimes they also play some new memes that are popular on the Internet.

But judging from the current situation, Liu Xing feels that Wu Lei's level in the Cthulhu Running Team game lobby may be a little higher than KP. After all, Wu Lei replaced KP Time's position in the end, which shows that Wu Lei is in Cthulhu. The Sulu Running Group game hall has certain permissions, so KP Time will honestly make way for Wu Lei.

So, why did Wu Lei become like this?

More importantly, why is Wu Lei looking for himself in the game at this time?

Looking back now, Liu Xing feels that Wu Lei suddenly disappeared because of the Cthulhu Running Game Hall. At that time, Wu Lei should have guessed that he had joined the Cthulhu Running Game Hall, so Wu Lei He will come to find me today and deliberately expose his flaws.

But what puzzled Liu Xing was that when he guessed Wu Lei's identity, Wu Lei sent him directly back to the real world without saying a word. This made Liu Xing a little confused. Could it be that Wu Lei Just wanted to see him, hinting that he would be his backer in the Cthulhu Game Hall?

This should be unlikely. If Wu Lei could really be his backer in the Cthulhu Run game lobby, then the "Liu Xing" character card would have been back in his hands long ago.

etc.

Liu Xing suddenly remembered something - a special reward.

If Wu Lei hadn't suddenly come out and replaced KP Time, Liu Xing was certain that he wouldn't have been able to get this so-called special reward.

Therefore, this special reward is definitely extraordinary.

Sure enough, Liu Xing saw a prop that looked like a big gift package in the prop bar interface. But what surprised Liu Xing even more was that the name of this prop turned out to be a series of question marks, and the conditions for opening this prop were: Advance to the Cthulhu area yourself.

In addition, there is this sentence in the introduction of this item - you should know where the key is.

key?

Liu Xing immediately realized that the key here should refer to the key to the board game store opened by Wu Lei.

Thinking of this, Liu Xing quickly took a taxi to the supermarket next to Wu Lei's board game store, because the key to the board game store was in the hands of the owner of this supermarket.

I don’t know if Wu Lei was born with a different key character. In short, according to Wu Lei, he has lost more than a hundred keys since he was a child, so his parents have long deprived him of the right to take his own keys out. After Wu Lei lost three dormitory keys in one week, his roommates decisively announced that Wu Lei would not have access to the dormitory keys from now on. However, in order to ensure that Wu Lei would not be locked out of the dormitory door alone, Wu Lei's roommate specially found the classmates in the next door dormitory and asked them to keep Wu Lei's dormitory key on their behalf.

When Liu Xing and Wu Lei were having hot pot that time, Wu Lei mentioned that the owner of the supermarket next door was his father's friend, so Wu Lei chose to open a board game store here, and he also made the board game store The spare key was left with the owner of the supermarket next door.

After explaining his relationship with Wu Lei, Liu Xing pretended that Wu Lei asked him to check the situation of the board game store. What surprised Liu Xing was that the owner of the supermarket directly gave him the key to the board game store. Passed it to Liu Xing.

Liu Xing originally thought that he would have to work hard to convince the supermarket owner. After all, Wu Lei had been missing for a long time. Therefore, as a friend and neighbor of Wu Lei's father, the supermarket owner should also know the fact that Wu Lei had disappeared. Therefore, Liu Xing felt that the supermarket owner would ask him about Wu Lei's whereabouts, and even suspected that he had kidnapped Wu Lei.

But since the supermarket owner didn't say anything, Liu Xing took the key and went directly to the board game store.

After opening the board game store, Liu Xing saw a letter falling on the ground.

Liu Xing quickly picked up and opened the envelope and found that the letter was indeed written by Wu Lei to himself.

The content of Wu Lei's letter is very simple, telling Liu Xing that when he saw this letter, he had lost all his character cards because he had not cleared an extremely difficult module, but he was not killed by Kesu. He was obliterated by the Cthulhu Running Team game lobby because he was a beta player in the Cthulhu Running Team game lobby!

That's right, Wu Lei is a closed beta player in the Cthulhu Run Game Hall!

According to Wu Lei, the Cthulhu Running Game Hall should have first appeared in the real world ten years ago, but at that time the Cthulhu Running Game Hall was strictly just an ordinary forum. Everyone can post posts related to the Cthulhu Mythos and Cthulhu Run games on that forum, including their own self-made modules.

Wu Lei joined the forum eight years ago. After all, the Cthulhu Mythology was still very niche in China at that time. It was so niche that there were almost no forums specifically for Cthulhu Mythology enthusiasts to communicate, let alone even smaller ones. There are many Cthulhu Run games, so many fans of Cthulhu Run games joined that forum at that time.

Then five years ago, a pinned post suddenly appeared on this forum. This post was posted by the forum’s creator, Nyarlathotep.

Nyarlathotep claimed in this post that he has developed a game lobby that can play Cthulhu group games. Now he needs a group of players to conduct internal testing, but only senior members of the forum and mod authors Only then can you get the qualification for internal testing.

Wu Lei is one of them.

Through a web link built into the post, Wu Lei came to the registration interface of the Cthulhu Running Game Hall. After passing the registration, Wu Lei was asked to fill in his personal address and contact information, because the Cthulhu Running Game Hall will Send him a mobile phone with a built-in beta client of the Cthulhu Run Game Hall.

Although Wu Lei thought this was some new type of fraud at the beginning. After all, Wu Lei had never heard of a game company that would issue mobile phones to beta testers. However, Wu Lei thought about it and realized that he was just a poor person anyway. He was just a student and there was nothing to be deceived, so Wu Lei honestly filled in his home address and contact information.

One day later, Wu Lei got the mobile phone that changed his life.

When Wu Lei turned on his phone and clicked on the beta version of the Cthulhu Running Game Hall APP, Wu Lei was directly transported to the Cthulhu Running Game Hall, where he and more than a thousand other beta players met the legendary of Nyarlathotep.

Then, Nyarlathotep bluntly announced the internal beta rules of the Cthulhu Run Game Hall - all internal beta players have a total of five character cards. If the internal beta player fails to pass before consuming all the character cards, If there are five modules, then the closed beta players will be directly eliminated; if the closed beta players can pass five modules, then the closed beta players will receive a golden character card and a thousand points in the official version; If the closed beta players can pass ten modules, Nyarlathotep will give them a letter of appointment based on their performance. This letter of appointment will take effect after they lose their player qualifications in the official version.

Wu Lei was very lucky. He passed 13 modules during the internal beta and received a letter of appointment as an operator.

According to Wu Lei's understanding, there are only three positions in the appointment letter issued by Nyarlathotep - kp, operator, and module author.

As the name suggests, kp is kp, and the job content is to ensure that each module can run normally. However, kp can only play the game based on the existing settings in the module, and under normal circumstances is not allowed to make any changes; the operator is They are responsible for patrolling their respective areas to ensure that each module can proceed normally. If bugs are found, they will report to superiors. If necessary, they will also transform into NPCs to enter the module or directly take over the work of the kp; the module author Their work is even simpler, they only need to create various new modules to ensure that players can play different scenarios.

To put it simply, internal beta players who perform well are equivalent to getting a death-free gold medal, but they must join the Cthulhu Runners game lobby to work.

Three years ago, the closed beta test of the Cthulhu Run Game Hall officially ended, and the official version soon began to be "operated". Wu Lei and other closed test players took advantage of the advantages of the closed test to quickly widen the gap with ordinary players. It is said that 90% of the players in the Cthulhu area are now beta players.

On the day Wu Lei disappeared, he entered the promotion module from the Cthulhu area to the Azathoth area.

Then Wu Lei failed.

After reading Wu Lei's letter, Liu Xing was silent for a long time, because the amount of information in this letter was so great that Liu Xing couldn't digest it for a while.

Obviously, that Nyarlathotep is very likely to be the real Nyarlathotep, because only it is possible to become the manager of the Cthulhu Running Group game hall, or even the initiator.

However, it may be that Nyarlathotep gave the closed beta players a gag order, so there is no content related to the closed beta in the forum of the Cthulhu Run Game Hall.

In addition, Liu Xing was also a little lucky that Wu Lei performed very well in the internal testing at that time. Otherwise, as a KP, Wu Lei would have no way to come to him. After all, it can be seen from Wu Lei's letter that the KP's authority is almost zero. , can only be operated according to the settings of the module.

Of course, Liu Xing can now be sure that his netizens will most likely also be internal testers in the Cthulhu Game Hall. Now he has become a mod author, and in his parallel world about the island country The Tokyo module was most likely created by him.

This is good news for Liu Xing.

But having said that, Wu Lei's letter only talked about his participation in the internal beta test of the Cthulhu Running Team game lobby, so Liu Xing is still a little confused about what Wu Lei wants him to do.

save him?

Liu Xing shook his head, knowing that the possibility of him being able to rescue Wu Lei was infinitely close to zero, because unless he could get in touch with Nyarlathotep, he would have no way to get Wu Lei out of the Cthulhu Run Game Hall. I believe Wu Lei also knows this very well.

So, what can I do?

Liu Xing became more and more confused.

But at this moment, Liu Xing's cell phone rang.

Liu Xing took out his phone and took a look and found that it was a text message sent to him by Yin En, and the content of the text message only had four words - get online as soon as possible.

Liu Xing frowned, took the letter and left the board game store, then took a taxi home.

After returning home, Liu Xing directly logged into the Cthulhu Run Game Hall.

When he came to the hall, Liu Xing saw Yin En and others waving to him.

"Liu Xing, where have you been these days? We haven't been able to contact you for the past two days. We thought something happened to you in the real world." Zhang Jingxu asked with a puzzled look on his face.

Liu Xing raised his eyebrows, and then he remembered that because the last module incident happened suddenly, he entered the module directly without contacting Zhang Jingxu and the others.

Liu Xing touched the back of his head, laughed a few times, and then told the story about the last module.

Yin En and others were all shocked, because they did not expect that Liu Xing would conduct a module that happened in the past, and what happened in the past was actually the same as a series of modules that Liu Xing experienced in the Cthulhu Run Game Hall. Have some contact.

As for Wu Lei's matter, Liu Xing finally decided not to talk about it.

"By the way Liu Xing, because you have been working on that module these days, you have missed the discussion about the Gongwu Battle in the QQ group." Yin En, who came back to his senses, said: "But it's not a big deal. Yes, because everyone was hiding there and unwilling to disclose the information they knew to the public, so the discussion had to end in nothing."

Liu Xing nodded and said with a smile: "This is also what we expected. After all, in the next Gongwu battle, you will die or I will die. If it were me, I would not tell the important information I know, so We’ll all have to do our own thing when the time comes.”

"But having said that, Liu Xing, what kind of character cards do you plan to use for modding next?" Zhang Jingxu asked.

Liu Xing had thought about this question for a long time, so he answered without hesitation: "I plan to use the character card 'Liu Xing' for modding first, because the island country will definitely undergo major changes in the future, so the island country-related The difficulty of the module will definitely increase, and I also need to get familiar with the character card 'Liu Xing' again, and get in touch with your character card by the way, so that I can use 'Liu Xing' to participate in public and military battles. "

Zhang Jingxu and others nodded, indicating that they agreed with Liu Xing's idea.

PS: I recommend a new book on the Cthulhu theme - "Tides of the Old Ones".