How many character cards do you have?

A brisk humming sound suddenly sounded in the dark sewer.

"Flame throwers, detonators, flashbangs, stun bombs, M1918 Browning automatic rifles... Wow, there are even desert eagles, a bumper harvest."

Acton counted his gains, and nodded with satisfaction from time to time: "Sure enough, the way to get rich is written in the criminal law."

[…] The system didn't recover a bit, but it actually made this guy succeed.

He robbed the mafia's arms warehouse by himself.

Good for you.

【Why are you robbing him? 】The system asked a little weakly, 【There are also arms sold in the shopping mall...】

'Buying large quantities of arms requires a lot of san value points, which is not cost-effective. ' Acton took stock of the gains this time, briefly.

He robbed Mafia and got a box of RPGs, all kinds of bulletproof equipment, pistols, rifles, sniper rifles of various models, as well as countless bombs and bullets.

It was enough to arm a small army to the teeth. Of course, it was more than enough for him alone, and he completely cured his fear of insufficient firepower.

There is also a shoggoth.

Shoggoth is a good thing, and it is the source of Acton's current hand that makes others drop San.And this tool monster is the best bodyguard, Xiaoqiang who can't be beaten to death, his recovery ability is very abnormal, if it is not for the targeted supernatural ability, it is almost difficult to defeat, and the price/performance ratio is super high.

The reason why Acton was able to take away so many weapons before the arrival of the people from Port Mafia was because of Shoggoth's handling. This kind of creature is really easy to use. No wonder the ancients like to enslave them so much, and so do other races. It's okay to summon Shoggoths as tool monsters.

In addition, in addition to the harvest, the negative impact of this action is the hatred value of mafia. Don't think that this vest must have been hated. The port mafia is a local snake in Yokohama. Walking outside will be surrounded sooner or later.

The system also mentioned this problem [this is too dangerous. 】

'It doesn't matter, my purpose is to get their attention on me. '

【what? 】

The system feels that it is not on the same channel as the host.

Acton felt the same way: 'Otherwise, how do you think I will complete the task? '

[Dream teaching? ] The system said stupidly.

'It was just a dream, but I was still very touched when I woke up, not bad. ' Acton nodded appreciatively, then turned to continue cleaning the weapon.

The system held back and held back, well, he thought about it, this host looked like a wild guy, he wouldn't listen to him at all qwq

【Then what are you going to...? 】

'Practical exercise, isn't it obvious. Acton smiled, "The way to defeat fear is to face him, let's have a real team running game!" '

There was unstoppable excitement in his words, which inexplicably kept the system silent for a long time.

'What's wrong? '

[Do you know something? 】

'? '

[Forget it, let me tell you from the beginning. First of all, the company behind our system and the evil gods are hostile camps. Our purpose is to prevent the world from being polluted by the evil gods, you know? 】

'Well, now I know. '

[In fact, generally speaking, evil gods do not have specific malice towards humans, but their existence may lead to the destruction of the world. Of course, in most cases, they are sealed or wandering outside the distant galaxy, and they will not What effect does the earth have.

But one day, an evil evil god came down to organize the game himself.

He declared that any force must abide by the rules of the game, and select agents to play a real team game. As long as the agents of the system defeat the evil god's agents, they will give up invading the planet, otherwise the planet will become the old one. The casino after the Japanese wake up. 】

To put it simply, it was originally unintentional, but now it has become intentional under the game.

"Oh, so I'm your agent," Acton blinked, and then realized something was wrong, "Since the rules of the game require me to defeat the agent on the opposite side, what does that have to do with cultivating new investigators?" '

[Because we gave up winning, the main system judged that there is no possibility of winning this game. 】

'Um? ’ Acton narrowed his eyes, ‘Could it be that there is something wrong with the rules? '

[Yes, although the general rules are like this, we only discovered after the game started that there is no unified agent on the opposite side...]

Acton vaguely had a bad premonition: "It can't be that every old day has it." '

The system is heavy and authentic [The old people who agreed to participate in the game work independently. Occasionally, mortals can hear their voices when they come into contact with the taboo knowledge of the restraint system. People who have not died become their agents and hold sacrifices to summon them. 】

It's similar to the running group, the investigators involved in the incident, and the lunatics who perform rituals to summon evil gods.

Acton understood this very well. There was only one agent of the system, but so many agents of the old days and other gods appeared one after another on the opposite side, and a pile of them could kill people.

【After we realized that the game was impossible to win, we changed the mission... At the same time, we also changed the way to play the game. The energy obtained by the original hosts will be converted into san points, and we can use the mall, character cards and monster hammers to strengthen ourselves

And now we also have to extract energy to make a barrier against the evil god's pollution, try to buy you time and delay the evil god's arrival, and your task as the host is to train local investigators before the evil god's agents appear on a large scale. 】

Acton understood: 'You want to train local investigators here to fight against the evil god's agents? '

[Yes. ] System Shen Sheng [Only one agent can't fight against so many fanatics, that's why we need to train local investigators here. 】

'Wait a minute, didn't you say barrier?Then if I can keep harvesting san points and hand them all over to you, then you can keep making barriers, can't you? '

[No, the only way for you to obtain san value is to improve the restraint knowledge of the people here... To put it bluntly, it is to scare them away from san, and in the process, as long as they suffer from spiritual pollution or come into contact with taboo knowledge, It is possible to become the agent of the evil god, and the agent will use all means to summon the evil god. As long as the channel is established, the barrier will be broken by itself. 】

Acton murmured: "The design of this game is interesting..."

Generally speaking, the risk of running a group is very high. If you encounter a ruthless kp, the character card will die after a run. After all, the game of running a group has been unfair confrontation from the beginning, and human beings simply cannot To defeat the evil god, you can only defeat the conspiracy of the fanatics through investigations before it arrives, otherwise it will be a failure.

But now in this game there are character cards, shopping malls, and monster hammers. These series of methods seem to deliberately strengthen investigators. The only strange thing is that they can only be redeemed by obtaining San value points.

Acton had been very concerned about this rule full of violations before, so it turned out that it was set by the evil god.

Very smart, as long as the investigator still wants to fight against the evil god, he must scare others to get the san value. In the process, some people may become the agent of the evil god, and thus continue to advance the game, forcing the investigator to continue to work hard.

Just like the ouroboros in alchemy, a closed loop has been achieved. The more the investigator resists, the more desperate he becomes. If he abandons this world, he will be invaded by evil gods. If he resists, it will at most delay the time of Doomsday.

Just thinking about it, the taste of despair is about to overflow.

Acton didn't speak for a long time, and the system felt a little uneasy. Not everyone has the awareness and courage to stay in a world that is destined to be destroyed by the evil god. Although he can take the host to retreat before the evil god fully descends, there are many big risk.

If the host wants to quit, then he... has nothing to do.

'By the way, system, do you have a magic circle similar to summoning the old days? Acton remembered something and asked with interest.

[If you want to give up the mission... um, what?The magic circle is in the magic book. 】

'It's not the kind of designation, I mean summoning a bunch of them at once. ' Acton made a circle.

The system suddenly raised its vigilance [What do you want to do?I'm not this world-destroying system. 】

Okay, good guy, could it be that he knew that this world was doomed to end, so he acted before the evil gods invaded? !

'?I didn't mean that either,' Acton felt that his personality had been insulted, and said sternly, 'I'm just a lunatic, not a villain. '

[...Thank you, it's really not a convincing rebuttal at all. 】

'Well, forget it if you don't have one. Karasawa Taki shook his head helplessly.

Suddenly there were bursts of strange 'tekeli-li...tekeli-li...' sounds around.

The visibility of Yokohama's sewers is several degrees lower than that of the ground. It is shrouded in eternal blackness, and there is always a lingering smell of decay and stench.

Among them, the dark mucus-like semi-solid perfectly blended into the surrounding environment. If it weren't for the strange phosphorescence on their bodies and the occasional calls, it would be difficult to tell that this was actually a living thing.

But if someone realizes this, there will be chills and fear from the bottom of their hearts.

A shoggoth, a nightmarish monster that shouldn't exist.

The size and strength are equivalent to three to four times that of human beings. They are almost immune to physical attacks. Fire and electricity can only take half of the damage. As long as there are a few fragments, they can be recovered infinitely. If the firepower or magician is there, basically you can run away when you encounter it.

Of course, after all, this is still a world where people with supernatural powers exist, and powerful people with supernatural powers should be able to deal with a Shoggoth... provided that they don't fall into a state of temporary madness at first glance.

Acton stared at the liquefied body of Shoggoth, suddenly became curious, and poked the eyes on it with his fingers.

The evil eyes were poked down by a finger, and turned out to be sunken like jelly. Although it didn't cause any damage, it felt like something had changed in Shoggoth's mentality. Can't believe I got poked.

puff-

Acton poked again.

【Is it fun】

'That's right, as expected of the monster known as the prototype of slime. '

Acton rubbed his fingers and nodded approvingly.

【…】

That is to say, can you show some respect to the nightmare monster Shoggoth on the black card?

System: want to speak but stop, stop talking but want to.

Is this really normal?

Previously, the system was only panicked about the impact of the sanity of the character card returning to zero on the spirit of the host body, but never thought about what would happen to a character card with 0 sanity.

For example, Acton had never seen a Shoggoth before, but now he ignored the mental pollution and 'played' so happily.

...After all, this card has no Sanity Points to deduct.

But if you think about it carefully, you will find that it is extremely terrifying. Will he lose his sanity when facing other monsters, and when he uses magic?What about when facing evil gods?

hiss - do you mean

【Have you...had you thought about this possibility a long time ago? 】

Karasawa Taki just responded with a smile, neither admitting nor denying it.

The system suddenly realized, no wonder he chose 0san's character card, so there was another reason [So, I blamed you wrongly. 】

He believed it.

He just believed it, and Karasawa Taki blinked.

If his attending doctor were here, he would never believe any of the words Karasawa Takiguchi said, because this guy is good at saying black is white, and labeling what he did crazy as a plan after careful consideration, even if The result was similar, but it had absolutely nothing to do with his original motivation.

He was simply out of control.

However, the system has not grasped this cruel truth, or it has not yet understood the essence of this host, so it should follow his deceitful words to continue thinking.

[I see... I see, is this the possibility of winning that you said?] The more I thought about it, the more I felt the door was open, and the voice became more and more excited. You can move freely even under the circumstances, maybe it is really possible to win, if you can't beat it, just join! 】

There is nothing to be afraid of anymore!

Because the investigator has gone mad! :)