Real Cthulhu Running Game

   Chapter 522 Cross Lake

Liu Xing raised his brows, looked at Alice in surprise and said: "This branch has special tasks? It shouldn't be, after all, this branch is located in a school, and this school is not under the control of the Deep Dive Club. , then what special tasks can this branch have?"

  Alice nodded and said, "Yes, I think so too. Anyway, I don't know what special missions this branch will have, because I haven't heard any relevant information about this branch."

   It seems that the difficulty of the module in the Hound of Tindalos area has indeed been raised by a notch, and the difficulty of obtaining information has been reduced so much.

In the previous modules in the Shoggoth area, Liu Xing and his party were able to collect a lot of information from the very beginning, but in this module, now Liu Xing and his party can be said to have no information at all. not collected.

   After all, the information about the occult society was revealed by the kp bamboo rat.

   It seems that the information this time has to be found from scratch.

"Okay, I'll take the first step now. After all, the deep diving club should know that I have returned to the island country soon, so I can't stay here for a long time, and I will contact you when I have decided to open a bar there." Ellie Si got up and said.

Liu Xing nodded and said, "Well, then we will contact by phone when the time comes, but then again, doesn't the Deep Dive Society know Alice's true identity? After all, the Corpse Eater Sect also discovered it when you were in England. you."

Alice smiled and said confidently: "That's true, but when we were in England, we also found out that there is a discord between the corpse eating sect and the deep diving society, and the corpse eating sect has never let the deep dive. The people of the dive club were active in England, and they did not provide us with information to the deep dive club, so before I came back, I contacted an undercover agent who had become a middle-level cadre in the deep dive club, and he told me that the deep dive club did not know yet. My situation, that's why I dare to go back to the island country now."

   After saying that, Alice left.

   It seems that the secret churches are also inseparable from each other.

   But this is normal. After all, everyone's goal is to dominate the world, so how could they cooperate sincerely.

   This is a good thing.

   After breakfast, Liu Xing and others decided to go to Tokyo University for a spin, and see if they could find a chance to inquire about some news.

  Because the semester will start in two days, Tokyo University is already full of people, and many freshmen are planning to move into the dormitory early with big bags and small bags.

  Because Alice asked someone to find a relationship, Liu Xing and others who were supposed to live in the dormitory became day students, and they didn't need to go to the dormitory to live with a group of strangers, which made it much easier for Liu Xing and others to move.

According to the freshman handbook issued at the time of registration, Tokyo University can basically be divided into two areas. The east campus belongs to the study area, the west campus is the living area, and the main goal of Liu Xing and others is the community activity area. is located on the East Campus.

   Therefore, Liu Xing and others came directly to the East Campus.

  East Campus has a total of three teaching buildings and one laboratory building.

   One of the teaching buildings is a bit old, so it has been arranged by the school for special club activities, so those clubs that carry out activities indoors are arranged in this old teaching building.

   Came to the downstairs of the old teaching building, Liu Xing and others saw that various clubs had put up posters for recruiting new students.

   Liu Xing looked around and found no posters of the occult society.

But this is also normal. After all, mysticism is not a popular major. To be precise, even in this parallel world with the background of Cthulhu mythology, there are very few universities that specialize in mysticism (in the real world Among them, it seems that only Harvard University has opened a special occult major, and other universities have at most opened religion, philosophy and other majors), the most famous of which is of course Miskatonic University.

Therefore, although the specific situation of the occult society is still uncertain, Liu Xing can be sure that the occult society of Tokyo University should be just a small society. In addition to the people from the deep diving club, it will attract a few ordinary students at most. Just as a cover.

  Because the community building has not officially opened yet, so Liu Xing and others can only go to other places.

   But before taking a few steps, Liu Xing and others came to a man-made lake.

This man-made lake is estimated to be the size of more than ten standard football fields, and a lake pavilion is also set up, and this lake pavilion is not like an ordinary lake pavilion, which has only one-way streets, but directly connects the south, south, north and west four direction.

   "The design of this Huxin Pavilion is a bit interesting." Liu Xing couldn't help saying.

Zhang Jingxu on the side of    nodded and said: "But this is also convenient for pedestrians, so that people don't have to go all the way, but this lake seems to be quite deep."

At this time, Ishikawa Ling, who was holding the freshman handbook, said: "This lake should be Cross Lake. Before the establishment of Tokyo University, Cross Lake was still flat. At that time, someone planned to build a department store here. Just after laying the foundation and repairing the underground parking lot, we encountered a typhoon. After the typhoon passed, the Cross Lake appeared. At that time, the steel bars and timber on the construction site were all floating on the Cross Lake. The most important thing was a cross. This is also the origin of the Cross Lake."

"However, the developer at that time of course chose to drain the lake water of the Cross Lake and continue the construction of the department store, but the pumping work continued for a day and a night. It is reasonable to say that the water pumped out can fill the two Cross Lakes, but The water level of the Cross Lake still has no downward trend, so some people think that the bottom of the Cross Lake may be connected to the underground river after the typhoon, so the groundwater that has skyrocketed after the typhoon has been replenishing the Cross Lake, so the pumping work has not progressed. "

"So the developer had to decide to temporarily suspend the construction of the Cross Lake, and prepare to deal with the Cross Lake after the water level of the underground river drops, so after a few days, it is reasonable to say that after the underground river can no longer supply the Cross Lake, the developer will The pumping work started again, and this time the developer prepared more pumps, as a result, another day and night passed, and the water level of Cross Lake remained unchanged."

"This is obviously abnormal, so the developer hired divers to investigate the situation. It was found that the water in the Cross Lake was extremely turbid, and it was impossible to detect the underwater situation, so it had to return without success. At this time, there was a nearby temple. The host of the company found the developer and told the developer that there is probably a sea eye under the Cross Lake, which is directly connected to the sea, so the water in the Cross Lake will never be drained."

"Of course the developers do not believe in evil, or they are reluctant to bear the land of Cross Lake. After all, buying the land and laying the foundation, building the underground parking lot, and the wages paid to the workers during this period add up to a huge sum of money, so How can they give up in vain, so the developer waited another half a month and then began to carry out a larger-scale pumping work, and the result, as we are seeing now, has no effect at all."

"So the developer had to give up, and after that, Tokyo University decided to build a new campus here, and then built the lake center pavilion on the basis of the underground parking lot in Cross Lake, and officially named it as Cross Lake, and the minimum depth of Cross Lake is about three meters, and the deepest point may be more than ten meters, so although there are no guardrails around Cross Lake, students are prohibited from walking around Cross Lake, and violators will be directly expelled from school.”

Liu Xing raised his brows and said with some doubts: "This regulation is a little too strange. Since students are worried about accidents while walking beside Cross Lake, then the school can install guardrails around Cross Lake, which is not much. money."

Ishikawa Ling shrugged, holding the freshman handbook and continued: "According to the freshman handbook, the reason why the school did not install guardrails around Cross Lake is because the school has installed guardrails around Cross Lake many times, and it still uses All kinds of materials were used for installation, but strange things happened. No matter what material the guardrail is, there will be problems within a month. Basically, the interior of the guardrail is severely corroded, and it will be damaged as long as it is touched lightly. Even if it is a stainless steel guardrail, as for the specific problem, the school has not come up with a reason."

"Because of this, the school can only give up the plan to continue installing guardrails. After all, if there is no fence, students will be more cautious, and the possibility of accidental falling into the water will be much lower. Students are likely to be paralyzed, lean or lie on the guardrail unprepared, and then fall into the water because the guardrail is damaged, and this has happened many times before."

   "So it should be the problem of water. Didn't Tokyo University study the water in Cross Lake?" Zhang Wenbing said while rubbing his chin.

Ishikawa Ling shook his head and said seriously: "According to Tokyo University, they have contacted many experts to study the situation of Cross Lake, but they still haven't found any problems with the water quality of Cross Lake, it can even be said that Cross Lake The water quality is better than that of many international brands of mineral water sources. Therefore, Tokyo University has ruled out the water quality problem and turned to study the geological conditions around Cross Lake, but found nothing, so in the end, Tokyo University can only make this decision. ."

Liu Xing nodded and said, "It seems that the reason why the Deep Diving Club will set up a branch in Tokyo University is because of this Cross Lake. As for the so-called secret mission of this branch, it should be to investigate this Cross Lake. All kinds of doubts have been raised, and then we should be able to find people in the deep diving club as long as we stay at the Cross Lake.”

   "Then should we go to Huxin Pavilion now?" Zhang Jingxu suggested.

"Of course."

   Everyone said in unison.

   After a while, Liu Xing and others arrived at Huxin Pavilion.

  Because there are not many people in Tokyo University today, and it is already eleven o'clock at noon, so Liu Xing and others can be regarded as "occupying" Huxin Pavilion.

   But the scenery of the Lake Heart Pavilion is the same. After all, the Cross Lake is a man-made lake in a strict sense, and the environment is naturally not as good as a natural lake. . . Simply put, there is no spirituality.

  So, Liu Xing and the others went back the same way after they looked around and found nothing.

Because it was noon now, and Liu Xing and others did not really come to Tokyo University to study, so Liu Xing and his group, who were not interested in their future study environment, left Tokyo University directly and found a random person nearby. place to eat.

  Because Liu Xing and his party are all Chinese (although both Liu Xing and Ishikawa Ling are only spiritual Chinese now), Liu Xing and his party chose a restaurant called authentic Shudi.

   After entering the restaurant, Zhang Wenbing, the oldest in the group, naturally shouldered the heavy responsibility of ordering food.

   In order to verify whether the restaurant is authentic or not, Zhang Wenbing deliberately said to the waiter in Chinese: "We first want a mapo tofu, boiled fish, double-cooked pork, and Kung Pao chicken."

   The waiter looked at Zhang Wenbing with some surprise, and said in Chinese: "Listen to your accent, you should be from the Devil City, fellow."

  Zhang Wenbing nodded and said with a smile: "Then it seems that your family's Shudi restaurant should not be very authentic. After all, we people in Magic City are not very good at spicy food."

The waiter smiled and shook his head, and said, "No, no, I'm a student of Tokyo University, and I just work part-time in this store. The owner of this store is a down-to-earth native of Shu, and there are a lot of materials. All of them were brought by the owner’s son by air from China, so I can guarantee that the Sichuan cuisine in this store is very authentic.”

   Zhang Jingxu nodded and said with a smile: "In that case, you are our senior. We are all freshmen at Tokyo University this year. You can take care of us as seniors in the future."

"No problem, my name is Zhang Shiwu. I am a junior in management at Tokyo University. If you have any questions in the future, feel free to come to me. We are in a foreign country now, and we must help each other. "Zhang Shiwu said, clapping his chest.

   Obviously, this Zhang Shishi is the NPC who provides basic information for his group in this mod.

   Therefore, after Zhang Jingxu waited for Zhang Shiwu to submit the order to the kitchen, he pulled Zhang Shiwu to sit down and chat.

   Soon, Zhang Jingxu naturally turned the topic to the clubs of Tokyo University.

"Because Tokyo University is a comprehensive university, it can be said that there are all kinds of strange clubs and everything, but in the last semester, because the number of clubs was too much, many clubs conflicted due to various reasons, so there were Many clubs have been disbanded." Zhang Shiwu said after taking a sip of water.

   (end of this chapter)