Real Cthulhu Running Game

"It's time for us to go, uh, what are you guys doing pretending to be serious at the dinner table?"

Alice stood up and said: "There are no outsiders here, who are you showing off by pretending to be serious?"

Liu Xing shook his head with a smile and said, "It's okay, I just told them an interesting story. By the way, does Miss Zetian have any special arrangements today?"

"Yes, Shimadzu Nakano will arrange some people to pick us up later, so Miss Sawada needs you to find a few people to sneak into the convoy sent by Shimadzu Nakano. If you have a chance, ask the people in the same car. Their views on this matter, we must now investigate the attitude of ordinary members of the Shimadzu family towards us; in addition, after arriving at the hospital, we only need to adhere to one sentence - say more to make mistakes, and say less to make mistakes. It's wrong to say less, but it's better not to say anything." Alice said seriously.

Zhang Jingxu nodded and said: "That's true. We really don't have room to talk later, because other forces in the Wu family faction should have sent people to pay attention to this matter, and some forces will even end it personally. So we, the minions of the Sawada family, have no right to speak, and if we say the wrong thing, we may be chased and beaten by people from other forces and caught, so we just stay honest. You should really be a bodyguard, but having said that, did the Shimazu family send us a message about the forces that might come out to look for trouble today?"

Alice showed a mysterious smile and said word by word: "Rashomon."

Rashomon?

Listening to these three familiar words, Yin En couldn't help but complain: "Isn't this Rashomon the name of a movie? Why is there really a secret church? I couldn't think of what my name should be, so I just took the movie I watched yesterday. The name should be used as a sign."

Alice smiled and explained: "Yin En, you are actually right. There are indeed many secret churches in the island country calling themselves Rashomon. Some people have even made statistics on the number of secret churches with the same name in the island country. The name with the largest number is Rashomon. After all, the three words Rashomon are so famous in the island country not only because of the movie, but because the symbolic meaning of Rashomon in the ancient island country is equivalent to your ancient Chinese mass graves. , coupled with the fact that many mythical creatures did gather in Rashomon back then, that’s why there were so many secret churches called Rashomon.”

"But this time, the secret church called Rashomon is the most famous among all the Rashomons, because it may be the first secret church called Rashomon, and the founder of this secret church is said to be It is a powerful mythical creature, but there is no news about it after it created Rashomon. All this can only be said to be verified; however, the overall strength of this Rashomon is quite good, although there is no There should be no problem in entering the top ten forces of our martial arts faction, but there should be no problem in entering the top 100 forces, and even entering the Tiangang ranks is a piece of cake."

"If you put it this way, the strength of this Rashomon is actually not much worse than that of the Shimazu family?" Liu Xing said with a raised eyebrow.

Again, the overall strength of the Shimazu family, or all the families among the ten major forces, is far inferior to those of the secret churches. If the battle between public and military forces did not require these families to stand on the bright side, maybe the martial arts faction would The ten major forces will be controlled by the secret church.

Alice sighed, nodded and said: "Yes, the overall strength of this Rashomon is actually not much different from the Shimazu family, but because the Shimazu family now has many people who are taking orders from Shimazu Hiromichi, and Shimazu Hiromichi took these people to watch the show in Kagoshima, so Shimazu Nakano's manpower in Osaka alone would definitely not be able to defeat Rashomon, so some forces with ulterior motives planned to Rashomon is arranged to appear today to disrupt the situation. Of course, the reason why it is Rashomon is because there is a person named Shimazu Ke in Rashomon."

"Is this a member of the Shimazu family? That's really interesting." Ding Kun put down his bowl and chopsticks and said.

Alice took out her phone, shook it, and said, "It's a long story about this Shimazu car, so I've sent you all the news about this. You should be able to know this after you see it for yourself." The cause and effect of the matter; in short, if nothing unexpected happens, Rashomon will most likely arrange for Shimazu to take the lead in attacking."

After Alice finished speaking, she went back to change clothes with Sawada Yaon and others.

Liu Xing took out his mobile phone and clicked on the document Alice sent to him.

Strictly speaking, Shimazu is not a member of the Shimadzu family, because Shimazu's grandfather was expelled from the Shimadzu family before Shimazu's father was born. As for the reason for the expulsion, although the Shimadzu family has no It is not explained to the outside world, but anyone who knows the Shimazu family can guess that Shimazu's grandfather probably took something he shouldn't have taken.

There is a gold mine in the Hishikari Town area of ​​Kagoshima, and this gold mine is the largest gold mining area in the island country. It is said that more than half of the gold in the island country comes from here.

Therefore, as the real controller of Kagoshima, the Shimadzu family will naturally not give up this gold mine to others. Moreover, when the Shimadzu family was fighting openly and secretly with the Tokugawa shogunate, they relied on this gold mine. Maintaining the huge expenses of the Shimadzu family, it is also this gold mine that supports the Satsuma Domain where the Shimadzu family is located to become the main force in the downfall. Therefore, this gold mine has always been controlled by the Shimadzu family; incidentally By the way, the "roller coaster" that Zhang Jingxu and others took in Kagoshima was actually in a gold mine that had been mined.

Therefore, in order to control this gold mine, the Shimadzu family naturally arranged a direct lineage member to take charge of management, and Shimazu's grandfather was one of them. And before being expelled from the Shimadzu family, Shimazu's grandfather He has become the mine manager of this gold mine.

Although as a direct member of the Shimazu family, Shimazu's grandfather was not short of money with the allowance provided by the family and his own salary, but he accidentally fell into a game made by others, and ended up losing himself at the gambling table. He lost all his savings and ended up owing those people a large amount of money. Therefore, Shimazu's grandfather had no choice but to make a fuss about that gold mine. As a result, he was betrayed by other family members in the gold mine. Found.

As the foundation of the Shimadzu family, this gold mine is even more important than the Shimadzu mansion. Therefore, after Shimazu's grandfather was exposed, he was naturally expelled from the Shimadzu family. . . Of course, this is actually related to the fact that the direct line of Shimazu's grandfather has completely declined. Apart from Shimazu's grandfather, this line only has a cousin who is still in elementary school, so in When no one spoke for Shimazu's grandfather, Shimazu's grandfather could only watch helplessly as he was expelled from the family.

After all, for the other direct members of the Shimadzu family, it would be great to have one less direct line now, because many things in the Shimadzu family are equally divided among each direct line.

After being expelled from the Shimazu family, although Shimazu's grandfather still received a settlement allowance, the money was still too little for Shimazu's grandfather who was used to wealth. Therefore, Shimazu's grandfather The money was quickly spent. If his cousin hadn't been secretly helping him, Shimazu's grandfather might have been living on the streets.

After more than ten years like this, Shimazu's grandfather finally woke up from his dream, accepted his fate, began to live and work like an ordinary person, and later got married and had children.

Although Shimazu's grandfather went astray, the reason why Shimazu's grandfather had the opportunity to go astray was because Shimazu's grandfather was talented and intelligent. He was one of the smartest people among the direct members of the Shimadzu family of that generation. , so he was able to become the mine manager of that gold mine after completing his studies. Therefore, when Shimazu was born, his grandfather had already become the mine manager of a mining area on Sado Island.

If the gold mines on Sado Island had not been exhausted by mining and are now used as tourist attractions, Shimazu's grandfather might have been able to achieve another achievement - serving as the mine director of the largest gold mines under the shogunate and the shogunate respectively. .

But the most important thing is that Rashomon's headquarters as Alice said is on Sado Island.

During the Tokugawa Shogunate period, the Sado Island Gold Mine was the largest gold mine under the control of the Tokugawa Shogunate. It was also the gold mine with the largest mining volume in the island country at that time. It has always been an important weight for the Tokugawa Shogunate to stabilize its own finances, so on Sado Island There are many miners working in gold mines, and their working hours are very long. At the same time, the tools and protective measures they receive are not in place.

Therefore, the Sado Island gold mine will suffer a large number of miner casualties every day due to various reasons. At the same time, new miners will be sent to Sado Island by the Tokugawa Shogunate every day, so there will be new "people" in the "Rashomon" of Sado Island every day. "Check in."

As a result, Rashomon quickly took root on Sado Island and began to recruit miners to join them. Over time, Rashomon grew and became the only secret church on Sado Island. However, Rashomon's top brass were also very Smartly, they did not try to get into trouble with the Tokugawa Shogunate, because they knew that if they dared to touch the Sado Island gold mine, the Tokugawa Shogunate would definitely send an army to encircle and suppress them.

In this way, Rashomon endured the humiliation on Sado Island for hundreds of years, and finally became the actual controller of Sado Island after the fall, which can be regarded as taking the stage.

Although Rashomon is a secret church, Rashomon does not regard money as dirt like other secret churches. Instead, it relies on various minerals on Sado Island to accumulate capital, and then purchases large amounts of land throughout the island country. It soon took root in various parts of the island country. In a sense, Rashomon is also the largest secret church in the island country and one of the secret churches with the largest number of members.

But the most important thing is that there is a rumor circulating in the island country’s secret church circles that more than one-third of the Rashomon in the entire island country is actually a branch of the Sado Island Rashomon. However, the Rashomon on Sado Island They have never admitted that those Rashomons are related to themselves, but some secret churches have indeed found evidence that some Rashomons are indeed related to the Rashomons on Sado Island.

Back to the topic, Shimazu Ke did not know that he was actually a member of the Shimadzu family at the beginning, let alone that his grandfather was once a direct member of the Shimadzu family, but he has always had a question, that is Why is my last name Shimazu?

Although when the island country carried out national identity registration, it was not required that ordinary people should not be named Shimazu or Oda, but most ordinary people consciously avoided these family surnames that still exist today, so as long as they encounter them in the island country If someone has the surname Shimazu or Oda, you can be sure that this person is from the Shimazu family or the Oda family.

Therefore, when Shimazu was a child, he asked his grandfather whether he was a member of the Shimadzu family, because his friends always said that his family was "taking advantage of the popularity". The daimyo put a golden face on himself.

It turns out that Shimazu's grandfather is an upright man. Since he has been expelled from the Shimadzu family, he is naturally not a member of the Shimadzu family, so Shimazu's grandfather can only admit that he was born in Luer. Ordinary people on the island changed their surnames to Shimadzu because they envied the Shimadzu family.

This made Shimazu very depressed, and as a result, it gave Rashomon an opportunity. They found the right opportunity to tell Shimazu the "truth" about this matter, a truth that they had adapted and added. Simply put, In other words, the reason why Shimazu's grandfather was expelled from the family was changed to being framed by a fellow clan member, because this clan member originally wanted to be the director of the Kagoshima gold mine.

I don't know if this is a coincidence or because of the Rashomon game. The man who once competed with Shimazu Katsu's grandfather for the position of mine director was Shimazu Nakano's grandfather.

As a result, Shimazu started to hold grudges against Shimazu Nakano, a cousin he had never met before. He had also firmly established himself as the elder of Rashomon over the years and was expected to become the next leader.

"The plot of this story is interesting, but after so many years, Shimazu has never thought that he might be deceived? I think he should have the opportunity to learn the truth from his grandfather, right? For example, when his grandfather Before death?" Zhang Wenbing put down his cell phone and said.

Liu Xing shook his head and said seriously: "Obviously, Shimazu's grandfather was most likely controlled by Rashomon when he entered Sado Island, because today's Sado Island is controlled by Rashomon from beginning to end. People, so the people in charge of the mines on Sado Island must be people trusted by Rashomon. Therefore, Shimazu's grandfather was calculated by Rashomon from the beginning, and maybe he gave it to Shimazu back then. The person who set up the trap for Grandpa Ke is also from Rashomon."