Real Cthulhu Running Game

Could it be that people from other forces are preparing to take action against Taketori?

Liu Xing thought about it carefully and felt that this possibility was really possible, and the reason was very simple, that is, Taketori would go to "rescue" Shimazu Nakano tomorrow.

If Taketori had an accident before then, then Shimadzu Nakano would naturally have to continue to pretend to be ill and continue to lie in the hospital thinking about life. This is not good news for Shimadzu Nakano. After all, Shimadzu Nakano is often in the hospital. If you stay here for a day, the Shimadzu family will be more likely to be ignored by other forces.

Therefore, Liu Xing believed that other forces were likely to speculate that Taketori would most likely become Shimazu Nakano's "attending physician" after learning that his group went to "visit" Shimazu Nakano overnight. Therefore, some forces that are dissatisfied with the Shimazu family, and even the Sawada family, will come forward to attack Taketori, because for them, if the attack plan succeeds, not only the Shimazu family will be affected, but also the Even the Sawada family will be kicked out of the top ten forces of the samurai faction. After all, the reason why the Sawada family is among the top ten forces of the samurai faction is because there is an ancient god named Taketori in the family. .

So as long as everything goes well, for those forces, it is equivalent to two more cakes at once.

Thinking of this, Liu Xing told Zhutori his thoughts.

"Although I am an ancient god in name, in fact I am not much different from you humans, so even ordinary firearms can cause effective damage to me, so if these guys want to ambush and attack me There really is no need to make too many special preparations, but do they really dare to attack me in Osaka Castle?" Taketori said with a frown.

Liu Xing thought for a while, nodded and said: "Logically speaking, the road from Sawada Manor to Shimazu Nakano's hospital is a key road controlled by the samurai faction, because there are basically no ordinary people living in the outer circle of Osaka. , so the public faction wants to sneak in here and launch an attack on us. This does not seem very reliable. A discerning person will know at a glance that someone is pretending to be a public faction and is detrimental to us. Therefore, if this attack is successful, then The forces that did not participate in the attack may choose to acquiesce, after all, it is also good for them, but if the attack fails, then the forces that organized the attack may be unlucky."

Taketori sighed, touched his chin and said: "I didn't expect that before the victory of the Gongwu War has been decided, some people started to want to share the cake in advance. You humans are really a little greedy, and you are really brave. He is old enough to dare to attack the legendary gods. You must know that hundreds of years ago, I have never heard of humans or even mythical creatures daring to attack the ancient gods."

Liu Xing shrugged and said with a smile: "It's actually very normal for people to be dissatisfied. What's more, there are several secret churches among the ten major forces of our Wu family, and behind these secret churches are various people. All kinds of mythical creatures, and these mythical creatures must know Zhutori and you ancient gods very well, so why don't they dare to order those secret churches to attack you? And I also suspect that they have other purposes."

Zhutori frowned and said: "Liu Xing, what you mean is that these mythical creatures think that I am still connected with other ancient gods, or that I am the spokesperson sent by other ancient gods to the real world to represent their relationship with Human beings communicate? So they want to take this opportunity to find out if there are other ancient gods hidden around me?"

Liu Xing nodded and answered affirmatively: "Yes, although the battle between public and military forces is very important to the secret churches of both sides, it is just like that to the mythical creatures behind these secret churches, because even if they support The secret church has become history, and it will not hurt them. At worst, they will support another secret church again, but you, Taketori, are different for them. After all, their masters, those who ruled in the past Those are all sealed by you ancient gods, so you and these mythical creatures are in a natural state of hostility, and I suspect that these mythical creatures will regard you as the key to unlocking the seals of the old rulers. .”

Having said this, Liu Xing paused and continued: "The main purpose, or the only purpose, of those mythical creatures that are active on the earth today is to lift the seals on certain old rulers, and they are busy There has been no progress for so many years, which will make them involuntarily set their sights on ancient gods like Zhutori, because there is an old saying in China - to untie the bell, you must tie the bell."

What Liu Xing didn't expect was that Zhutori frowned even more when he heard the words "To untie the bell, you must tie the bell."

This made Liu Xing frown subconsciously. Did he get to the point just by saying it casually?

This made Liu Xing afraid to say anything more, lest Taketori would feel that he "knew too much." . .

After a while, Zhutori sighed and said: "I have now regarded Liu Xing as one of my own, so I will tell you the truth. Ninety-nine percent of those sealed old rulers They can all break the seal with their own strength, but it will take a long time to recover their own strength, and when the strength of these old rulers recovers to a certain level, they can move freely within the scope of the sealed land. , or even contact one's own family through special means, or create one or more clones to leave the sealed land and move around freely, the most famous of which are Hastur and Glaki."

"However, every move of these old rulers is seen by our ancient gods, so when necessary, we will send people to perform a second seal on these old rulers. Of course, although this is called a second seal, in fact It only slows down the speed of those old rulers breaking the seal to a certain extent. It treats the symptoms but not the root cause. Sometimes we even add one or two ancient gods; in fact, Liu Xing, you should be able to find a problem here - since we The ancient gods can enter the sealed places of these old rulers, so this means that there is a 'secret door' in the sealed places of these old rulers."

Hearing this, Liu Xing couldn't help but said: "No way, am I really right in what I just casually said? Zhutori, can you really be used as a key to unlock the seal of a certain old ruler? "

"Liu Xing, you are right. In a sense, we ancient gods are the keys that can unlock the sealed place, because when we sealed those old rulers, we were aware of those things from the beginning. Sooner or later, the old rulers will regain their strength and regain freedom from those sealed places. Therefore, at this time, there are two choices before us. One is to leave a secret door in the sealed places for convenience. When we seal some of the old rulers twice, or even three or four times, it delays the progress of these old rulers in breaking the seal; the second is to strengthen the seal, and we invest more costs and costs to seal these Old Lords, it will take longer for those Old Lords to break the seal, but we can no longer seal these Old Lords. At the same time, every time we seal an Old Lord, there will be more An ancient god has entered a weak state."

When Taketori said this, he couldn't help but sigh again and said: "The weak state here will almost accompany these ancient gods for a lifetime without effective treatment, and these weak ancient gods will be greatly reduced in strength, even more powerful than me. The current state is even worse, but the most important thing is that their chance of getting effective treatment is only one in ten, so more than 90% of the ancient gods have chosen the first sealing method; but you guessed it Liu Xing, Although the first sealing method looks good, there is actually a major hidden danger, that is, when our ancient gods enter the sealed land through the secret door, the sealed land is in a semi-open state for a short period of time!"

"Therefore, when we carry out a second seal on some old rulers, we will basically dispatch two-digit ancient gods. Half of the ancient gods enter the sealing place to seal the old rulers for a second time, and the other half The ancient gods stay outside to prevent nearby mythical creatures from coming to the 'tribulation field', or the old rulers in the sealed land will calculate the right time to escape, so I just mentioned that sometimes During the second sealing, one or two ancient gods will be unable to return to the hidden place; however, although this secret door is easy to use, its safety factor is actually very low, as long as it is an ancient god, it can open this secret door."

"According to you humans, we ancient gods all come from the same origin and have the same DNA that is completely different from other creatures, so these DNAs are the signs of the ancient gods, and these DNAs are needed to open the secret door, so here It can be said that the secret door is an ordinary security door that can be opened with the correct key. Therefore, an ancient god can open the secret door of any sealed place. Therefore, there were mythical creatures many years ago. They started sneak attacks on us and wanted to catch us to open the secret doors of those sealed places. This is also an important reason why we established the hidden place, so as to prevent some ancient gods who live alone from becoming master keys."

Hearing what Zhutori said, Liu Xing suddenly realized a problem, that is, if what Zhutori said was true, then why didn't the King in Yellow take action against Zhutori?

Although the King in Yellow has been able to move freely for a long time, his true form, Hastako, is still sealed in the Pleiades star cluster. Therefore, after the King in Yellow knows about the existence of Taketori through himself, then the King in Yellow It was entirely possible to capture Taketori to break Hastur's seal, but the King in Yellow did not do so.

So the question is, why didn’t the King in Yellow do this?

Is it because Taketori hasn't recovered yet, so she can't break Hastur's seal?

No, Taketori has just said that the secret doors in the sealed land "recognize only the key but not the person." Even if the ancient god who comes to open the door is in a state of being held hostage, the secret door will still open when it should be opened. , so Taketori should still be able to open the secret door now.

Could it be that Taketori was lying to himself?

That's even more inappropriate, because Taketori has no reason to lie to himself in this regard, unless Taketori has discovered that he is connected to the King in Yellow. But judging from all aspects of the situation, Taketori even in his heyday It is also impossible to defeat the King in Yellow, so it is unlikely that Taketori will be aware of his connection with the King in Yellow, and if Taketori really finds out that he has a close relationship with the King in Yellow, then Taketori should do it no matter what He had run away a long time ago. After all, the ancient gods and the old rulers were at odds with each other.

After eliminating the two wrong options, Liu Xing found that the following possibilities were a bit scary to think about.

The first possibility is that Hastur has actually broken the seal and regained his freedom!

Taketori also mentioned before that although Hastur was also sealed by the ancient gods, because Hastur's sealing place is located in the Pleiades star cluster far away from the earth, the ancient gods did not monitor Hastur as much as others. The old ruler who was sealed on the earth, so Hastur is now able to hide from the ancient gods, and it is not impossible to break the seal quietly. Therefore, even if the King in Yellow discovered the existence of Taketori, he did not respond to it. Taketori had the idea to take action.

The second possibility-for some reason, Hastur has no intention of breaking the seal now, because Hastur may have heard such a sentence through the King in Yellow-shooting the first bird, so haha Star felt that if he was the first and only Old Dominator to break the seal, he would most likely be attacked by a group of ancient gods. At that time, he might be sealed again, and this time The sealed place may be chosen on the earth. After all, the only old ruler that the ancient gods need to seal this time is Hastur.

But what worries Liu Xing the most is the third possibility - the King in Yellow already has complete self-awareness!

According to Liu Xing's understanding, there are many clones of the Old Dominators that have appeared in the Cthulhu Running Group game hall. Although these clones have a certain degree of self-awareness, they are all under the absolute control of the main body. All actions are based on the orders of the ontology.

However, through many contacts with the King in Yellow, Liu Xing discovered that the King in Yellow is very humane and does not look like a "tool man" at all.

So Liu Xing suddenly began to suspect that the King in Yellow actually had complete self-awareness and was no longer under the full control of Hastur. . . Simply put, the King in Yellow may have become a new Great Old One!

Therefore, the King in Yellow has no intention of unlocking the seal of his own body, Hastur.