Real Cthulhu Running Game

Because they were worried that goblins would ambush them halfway, Liu Xing and Yin En took more than ten minutes to return to the blacksmith village.

Then, Liu Xing and his two men naturally went back to the inn.

By the way, because he entered the inn at midnight yesterday, Liu Xing had not noticed that the inn where he and his party stayed was called Longmen Inn.

Well, Liu Xing doesn’t want to complain now.

In the inn, Zhang Jingxu and others were drinking tea and chatting in the lobby. It seemed that the investigation work they were responsible for went smoothly, at least they were not attacked by goblins like Liu Xing and Liu Xing.

Looking at Liu Xing and Yin En with solemn expressions, Zhang Jingxu and others stood up directly with a tacit understanding. After all, the hall was not suitable for discussing certain things.

Choosing a room at random, Liu Xing and others rushed in.

"Liu Xing, what's the situation over there? And if I'm not mistaken, is there blood on your body, Yin En?" Zhang Jingxu said with a frown.

Liu Xing nodded and said, "We were just attacked by three goblins in a wasteland outside the Blacksmith Village, and that wasteland is the entrance to the tunnel."

"Liu Xing, do you mean that there is indeed a tunnel dug by goblins in the warehouse with a blacksmith shop?" Ding Kun asked quickly.

At this time, Yin En suddenly said: "If there is a blacksmith shop, there is indeed a tunnel in the warehouse, and it seems to have been dug by goblins, but I think there is something wrong with that tunnel."

Liu Xing thought for a while, and there was indeed something wrong with that tunnel.

There was no smell at all in that tunnel.

Because the Goblins live in a harsh environment all year round and do not pay much attention to personal hygiene, the body odor of the Goblins is very famous on this continent and can be directly linked to body odor in the real world.

In that tunnel, apart from the earthy smell that was definitely there, Liu Xing really didn't smell anything at all.

This is very unscientific.

After all, the tunnel is a relatively closed environment, and a group of goblins packed in it will definitely leave a smell, even if it has been ventilated for several hours.

Liu Xing expressed his thoughts, and Yin En nodded immediately and said: "Yes, I noticed that there was no smell of goblins in the tunnel. This is obviously very abnormal, especially when Liu Xing and I After Xing killed the three goblins, I smelled the smell on their bodies and found that the goblins were really smelly, so I am now sure that there is something wrong with that tunnel. At least that tunnel didn't just happen today. Got through.”

Zhang Jingxu thought for a while and said, "By the way, Yin En, do you know why you were attacked by those goblins?"

After Yin En was silent for a moment, he sighed and said: "I think there are basically only two possibilities why Liu Xing and I were attacked by goblins. The first possibility is that the goblins were trying to cover up We came from the entrance of the tunnel, or came to attack the people who came to check the entrance of the tunnel. In short, it was just a coincidence that we were attacked. The second possibility is a bit of a conspiracy theory, that is, someone wanted to kill someone with a borrowed knife, so in my case After Xing left the blacksmith village, that person started arranging goblins to attack Liu Xing and me."

"Yin En, who do you think that person will be?" Zhang Jingxu frowned.

Yin En sighed again and said seriously: "I'm not sure who ordered the goblins to attack me and Liu Xing, but my first suspect right now is the person in charge of Youjian Blacksmith. , Shen Aotian’s eldest brother Shen Dazhuang, because it was he who recommended us to check the entrance of the tunnel, and it was he who also mentioned the strangeness of the goblins outside the city."

Then, Yin En told everything he saw and heard in Youjian's blacksmith shop.

"I see, but it seems that the mastermind behind the scenes arranged for the goblins to attack you. It is very likely that he just wanted to take this opportunity to warn us not to interfere in this matter. After all, he could have arranged for more goblins to come. Attack you instead of just sending three goblins with wooden sticks to cause trouble." Ding Kun put forward his own opinion.

Liu Xing agreed very much with this, because the three goblins were too tough and obviously no match for him and Yin En, so now that he thought about it, the attack that just happened should be just a warning.

But what worried Liu Xing was that the three goblins were willing to be cannon fodder.

As mentioned many times before, goblins are weak creatures that are timid and fearful of trouble. Therefore, under normal circumstances, goblins do not dare to attack humans unless they have an absolute numerical advantage.

Based on the newly refreshed memory, Liu Xing knew that in most cases, when Goblins face adult men in good condition, they will never take the initiative to attack unless they have a numerical advantage of five to ten times. .

Therefore, it is very rare for three goblins to dare to attack two adult men like today. It can even be said that it has never happened in human records of the goblin family.

"Just now, Zhang Wenbing and I went to find out the situation from the guard captain of the Blacksmith Village, especially about the situation of the goblins outside the city; first of all, those goblins were already living in that cave before the Blacksmith Village was established. Moreover, there were battles with the earliest blacksmiths in the Blacksmith Village, but those Goblins became much more honest after suffering a loss. They basically hid in their own one-third of an acre and did not dare to come out, especially in The development of Blacksmith Village is getting better and better, and the empire began to station troops here."

"As for why this group of goblins was not completely eliminated, the reason the guard captain told us is that the terrain of the cave where the group of goblins are located is too complicated. With the force that the blacksmith village can muster, they want to annihilate them in the cave. It was too difficult for the busy goblins, not to mention that the number of goblins in the group had exceeded 500, so after seeing that the goblins had calmed down, the guard captain and Shen Kuanglong discussed it, We decided not to take action against those goblins for the time being, unless those goblins take the initiative to cause trouble."

"As for the recent strange behavior of the goblins, the guard captain has also heard about it, because he often leads the team to inspect the situation around the blacksmith village to prevent some short-sighted robbers and bandits from having ideas about the blacksmith village. After all, the blacksmith village The mineral resources in the village are quite valuable, and the total number of coins in each blacksmith shop is not a small amount. Therefore, there has been a precedent of bandits attacking the blacksmith village before. As a result, the guard captain was patrolling a few months ago. , I found a group of goblins cutting down trees on a large scale, so the guard captain who became interested led his men to follow the goblins."

"After spending some time, the guard captain discovered that the goblins were not cutting down trees to make weapons, but had built many simple wooden houses outside the cave where they lived, and there were already many goblins. They lived in those wooden houses, but the most important thing is that there are some pens next to those wooden houses. There are many cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks in the pens. It is obvious that these goblins have also learned how to herd livestock, but it may be because of the blacksmith village. There are no farmers, so those goblins who don’t have suitable seeds haven’t started farming.”

"The captain of the guard realized that these goblins might be undergoing some earth-shaking changes, so he immediately reported the matter to his superior. As a result, his superior said it didn't matter. After all, only this group of goblins could rise up. What kind of storm is coming? Therefore, the captain of the guard no longer takes this matter to heart. In addition, the captain of the guard also said that the theft incident was his dereliction of duty, so the captain of the guard will fully cooperate with our actions. You can send troops to deal with those goblins with us at any time." Ding Kun said.

Zhang Jingxu nodded and said with some hesitation: "It seems that the guard captain is not a believer of Bahamut, and there must be some believers of Bahamut standing behind those goblins to help them. , even those goblins have become followers of Bahamut, because I have heard that those damn lunatics will preach to any intelligent creature!"

Liu Xing raised his eyebrows. He didn't expect that Bahamut's followers would be so wild and would preach to all intelligent creatures.

You must know that the main reason why the secret church is called the secret church is that the secret church has relatively high requirements for its believers. Basically, it only preaches to specific groups, such as the Corpse Eater Cult, which Liu Xing has the most contact with. , they basically only preach to middle- and high-level people in European countries, and have no interest in preaching to those civilians.

Another example is that although the Deep Diving Society, which is already considered a non-mainstream in the secret church, has actually converted most of the people in the entire universe into its followers, to put it bluntly, they are still "backdoor listing". It preaches in the name of another serious church, so those ordinary people cannot be regarded as true believers of the Deep Diving Society. Therefore, the Deep Diving Society actually only recruits a group of high-level people from the Universe Kingdom as its followers.

Therefore, for most secret churches, their missionary route is an elite route, and they will only recruit those who are good for them to become believers. After all, secret churches value quality rather than quantity.

If those goblins really became Bahamut's followers, then the secret church organized by these Bahamut believers was really a non-mainstream secret church, because they dared to accept any kind of believers.

This reminded Liu Xing of the Yellow Turban Sect in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. . . But having said that, Liu Xing remembered that in the context of the Cthulhu Mythos, Zhang Jiao, the leader of the Yellow Turban Uprising, seemed to be a believer of the Lord in Yellow, or even a clone of the Lord in Yellow.

Thinking of this, Liu Xing felt that it would be better for him not to teach the Black and Yellow Turbans.

"By the way, I once led a team to hunt down a group of Bahamut believers, and found that those Bahamut believers were not only humans, but also elves, dwarves and other races. It seems that these Bahamut believers The followers of Te really come from all over the world, and there are all kinds of creatures." Yin En sighed.

At this time, Ding Kun said with some embarrassment: "To be honest, I have had some contact with Bahamut believers. That night I was planning how to encourage the villagers in the village to join me, and a group of uninvited guests came. They broke into my home and blindfolded me as soon as they arrived. Then they told me that they were followers of Bahamut, and the purpose of their trip was to win me over to join the secret church they organized— —The True Dragon Society, and their True Dragon Society’s goal is to make the entire continent believe in Bahamut, so they need my joining.”

"Of course, I decisively rejected them at that time. After all, Bahamut's viciousness is well known to everyone. How could I have colluded with this group of Bahamut believers? The result was just when I thought they would kill me. At that time, those Bahamut believers just said I will regret it, and then they left directly. After I realized that they had left, I immediately checked some small mechanisms I had installed near my home. , but those small mechanisms are just a thin layer of flour, but this flour allows me to collect the footprints of those uninvited guests."

"Then after careful comparison, I found that the footprints of those Bahamut believers were very confusing. I not only found human footprints, but also orc footprints. After all, the orc footprints are pretty easy to distinguish. Other than that, I even found the footprints of murlocs. You must know that murlocs usually live by the sea. In our inland human empire, there are basically no murloc activities, let alone those murlocs and us humans. The relationship is not good either.”

Murloc?

Liu Xing quickly checked his memory and found that the settings of the murlocs and deep divers in this world were almost the same, with more than 90% similarity in appearance, and there was no reproductive isolation between these murlocs and humans. Murloc hybrids will eventually become murlocs, but the relationship between murlocs and humans is very poor, because murlocs often plunder human fishing villages, so humans have been fighting murlocs for thousands of years.

Therefore, for humans, the fishmen are the mortal enemies of their own clan, and there is no possibility of reconciliation.

But if Ding Kun was not lying, then Liu Xing would have to raise the threat level of the True Dragon Society to a higher level, because this True Dragon Society can actually allow humans and fishmen to work together.

It seems that the brainwashing ability of this True Dragon Society is quite powerful.

"By the way, I just went to investigate the situation of the Shen family and found that Shen Aotian's generation can be said to be a feud between brothers." Zhang Jingxu suddenly said: "Shen Kuanglong has three sons in total. The eldest son Shen Dazhuang is the head of a blacksmith shop. Man, the younger son Shen Aotian is the chef of Yuelai Restaurant, and the second son Shen Dafu is dead now."

died?