my cthulhu game

Chapter 24 A Surprise From The Sky

"Oh..." Tu Lizhu started the car in a daze and drove towards the hotel.

"The game only gives us a few basic backgrounds," Qiu said. "What are we going to do? What is our mission? Investigating mysterious events in the hotel? Surviving until dawn? No, we don't know all of this." .”

"Secret Keeper, are you willing to answer this question? What is the goal of the game?" Bai Shaobao asked.

[When all investigators die or the SAN value reaches zero, the game will automatically fail. 】

"That's it?" Tu Lizhu looked very disappointed.

"In the beginning, there were only failure conditions but no victory conditions," Qiu said. "This kind of plot often happens in those Japanese-style horror games."

"It's completely unclear what kind of situation we are in and what challenges we will face." Bai Shaobao said gloomily.

"The first thing we have to do is of course find Shi Li, but at the same time, I think we should not deviate from the main line," Chen Qiang said, he was a little curious about how the system would unfold the story from that simple outline, "at least , The press conference should not be late."

"Do we have a mobile phone?" Tu Lizhu who was driving suddenly asked.

"Eh?" Sister Qiu was confused, "I think..."

She takes out a fruit 8 from her pocket.

"Yes. There is a signal, and the battery is still half."

"Really." "Mine is also here." Chen Qiang and Bai Shaobao also took out their mobile phones.

"Have you saved Alison Smith's number?" Tu Lizhu asked.

You have reached a blind spot in GET, Chen Qiang sincerely admired it.

The horror-style depressive feeling will not only put great pressure on the investigators, but also make people form a "communication cut off" mindset, forgetting that this is the modern age of scientific prosperity, not the middle ages where communication basically relies on shouting.

"Yes." Sister Qiu saw the name.

"I'm calling." Bai Shaobao was ready to dial.

The car turned a corner, and the main entrance of the Earl of Glamorgan Hotel was not far away.

【Keeper's dark dice】

[Listening skill test: Christina Tu 98/60 failed]

[Listening skill test: Alice Qiu 15/70 success]

[Listening skill test: Chen Qiang 1/70 big success]

[Listening skill test: Bai Shaobao succeeded 51/61]

"Did you hear anything?" Sister Qiu listened intently.

"Hush. It seems... a little..." Bai Shaobao's brows were all twisted together.

"Huh? What?" Tu Lizhu who was concentrating on driving didn't hear anything.

"Be careful!" Chen Qiang shouted suddenly, the first roll of the dice was a big success without cheating, and according to the law of character conservation, he doubted that his dice luck would not be better today, "On top!"

Boom!
Something fell from a height and hit the front of the car's windshield, making a dent in the front cover.

"...?"

It was a human...the corpse of a middle-aged man in a gray trench coat.

The man's chest was sunken and he had already stopped breathing.

His head hangs weakly towards the windshield, and Tu Lizhu can clearly see the bloodstained, unrecognizable face of the corpse, where there should be only two holes left in the eyes.

[Sanity Check, SC1/1D4+1]

【Christina Tu 70/70 Success】

[Alice·Autumn 98/40 Big Failure]

[Chen Qiang 28/80 success]

[Bai Shaobao 46/60 success]

[In the case of a big failure, it will be fully filled automatically, and 4+1=5SAN will be deducted]

[Alice Qiu intelligence check 1/45 big success]

"..."

So Sister Qiu understood...

Whether that person's disfigured face or his disappearing eyes.

It was some kind of creature with sharp claws, which was scratched and dug out from high altitude.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

Tu Lizhu was completely unprepared, her mind went blank, her only thought was how to park the car, but she couldn't see the road ahead at all, but sister Qiu who wanted to understand what happened, was so frightened that she sat in the passenger seat. The body kept waving her limbs like twitching, making it impossible for Tu Lizhu to concentrate on operating the car without being disturbed——

[Christina Tu failed the car driving test 70/40]

The road near the Earl of Glamorgan Hotel was already winding. The car rushed straight onto the sidewalk, passed a passerby, and crashed into a big tree in front of the hotel.

[Christina Tu’s lucky test was successful at 34/90]

Fortunately, the owner of the car is a person who attaches great importance to safety. The front airbags, head air curtains, knee airbags, side airbags... all the airbags that can be installed normally are deployed at the same time.

[Alice Qiu failed the lucky check 98/70]

[Bai Shaobao failed the lucky check 95/26]

Even so, apart from Miss Tu, who is truly auspicious, everyone else is staring at the stars...

[Alice Qiu, Bai Shaobao HP-1]

Tu Lizhu, who was completely fine, struggled to open the car door from the air bag - thank God, the door was intact - and was then dragged out of the car by a hotel security guard.

"Are you all right?"

"I'm fine." With the help of others, Chen Qiang also climbed out of the car. After listening to the big success, he had already put on the "shock-proof posture" astutely to avoid injury.

As for Bai Shaobao...he had a small problem with his knee airbag...

Not wanting to show his timidity, he endured the pain and got out of the car with his own strength.

Now there is only one problem left... Sister Qiu who is still stuck in the airbag and convulsing...

She can be said to be quite unlucky.

Good things always happen with big dice roll rolls, except for special Intelligence rolls made when the Sanity loss exceeds 5.

This type of test failure means that the investigator's mental self-protection mechanism has played a role, suppressing the panic caused by the shock of reason.But if the check succeeds...

The investigator then realizes what happened and enters a brief trance.

"Let's come." Chen Qiang and Bai Shaobao squeezed past the helpless security guards next to Sister Qiu, and began to rescue Sister Qiu from her seat.

Chen Qiang was thinking...

Except for yourself, others without the investigator talent "Investigator Eyes" cannot see the results of the dice.

Could it be that in the Cthulhu game operated by the "Cthulhu's Secret Keeper" system, the result of the dice is actually a reflection of the reality?

Or, sister Qiu's state is just the result of her bad luck?

Or, cause and effect, this is just a concept of human reason. When games and reality are intertwined, the essence of random dice and unshakable reality is the same for the system?
In the running game, the madness caused by a large loss of sanity can be resorted to by dice, or the keeper decides.

In the real world, the madness brought about by the loss of sanity still follows.Did it come from the system's hidden judgment, or...?
[Bai Shaobao agility check 29/90 success]

He finally managed to get sister Qiu out of the car.Sister Qiu lay on the ground with blank eyes, panting heavily.

"Are you okay? Do you want to exit urgently?" Bai Shaobao whispered.

"I'm... not bad." Sister Qiu said with difficulty.

This is mankind’s first fully immersive virtual reality game!

If you let the water friends know that you used to be an internal beta player back then, but you were scared to quit halfway, you will definitely lose a lot of fans!

　Sister Qiu’s dice luck (all real dice), how should I put it, um... PS: The "temporary madness" and "irregular madness" in this work can be regarded as the effect determined by KP (author), using crazy random Listed occasions may be listed in advance.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)