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But there are more dangerous things than the cold and lonely dreams.

An Ge asked cautiously: "You mean us? That is me and my companions? Why aren't we together? 094 Also, if he wakes up from the dream, what will happen to us?"

"Du Xiaoguang" sighed with annoyance on his face: "You have so many questions. First of all, yes, I don't know where you came into the master's dream, but which layer of dream each person enters is out of control. Second, if he wakes up, you will be thrown into reality. At this moment, it is November 2030, 11, reality is full of flames that cannot be extinguished beyond human power. If you are thrown out, you will naturally fall into In the fire, become one of the many sacrifices."

He finished speaking in one breath, and nodded solemnly with Zhang Zhengtai's face: "Friendly reminder: For safety's sake, don't provoke him."

An Ge thought for a while, "Then, why...we came here?"

"Du Xiaoguang" spread his hands: "I don't know either. In the master's dream, no outsiders came at all. You are the first batch of visitors. I think maybe he wants to get help, the kind of help that only you can provide. "

An Ge continued to ask: "Then are you real?"

"Du Xiaoguang" laughed, "Of course I am real, at least in self-cognition, there is no concept of me being unreal. You can't confirm whether you are real, right?"

This is about to rise to the philosophical level, An Ge decided to stop, "Then, the last question, how can we help him? Can we leave safely after helping him?"

"Du Xiaoguang": "These are two questions... Don't you know how to count? Forget it... Yes, if you help him realize his unfulfilled wish, he should be able to safely evacuate the dreamland."

An Ge nodded, noticing the words used by the AI: "An unfulfilled wish?"

This is the only word used when discussing the dead.

The AI ​​continued to smile: "Yes, isn't this a matter of course? Human beings are engulfed in flames, will there be other results?"

An Ge: "Yes, become Du Yiyu."

AI: ...

AI: "In short, this is a dream of a dead child. Actually, I was sent to take him away, but for some reason, he just stayed here and refused to leave, so it must be because there is something unfinished wish."

An Ge: "What is the wish? Is there a clue?"

AI: "That's up to you to find out by yourself."

With the prompt, the system released the task again.

[Main task: Find and fulfill Du Xiaoguang's unfulfilled wish, and help him get out of the current predicament]

Although he guessed it somewhat, An Ge couldn't help but asked, "Where are you taking him?"

AI said: "I will take him to a place where there will be no more sorrow, tears and loneliness."

...is this a fairy tale about the little match girl?

Over there, Du Xiaoguang had already washed it, and changed into pajamas full of little penguins by himself. He obediently climbed onto the bed with only his head exposed, glanced at the screen, then at An Ge, and whispered, "I can't sleep...you can Read me a storybook?"

An Ge felt that the position of his heart was soft and sore, and he was one step faster than AI. He walked over and picked up the storybook beside the bed, "Big brother will read it to you today, okay?"

Du Xiaoguang nodded again and again, An Ge opened the storybook, suddenly dumbfounded.

The cover of this book still looks familiar to him, the thin little boy in the attic is smiling at a fat boy flying in mid-air outside the window.

The chubby boy has a propeller growing out of his back, which is the reason why he can fly. An Ge happened to read this book when he was a child. It is called "Little Flying Man Carlson", which is considered a very famous children's novel.

However, Du Xiaoguang's book is in French.

An Ge has learned English, Japanese, German and even a little bit of Spanish, but has never been exposed to French.

The little boy was still waiting for him to start reading the story, An Ge closed the book and smiled dryly: "Well, let me tell you something different? Have you ever heard the adventure story of the Hobbit?"

Du Xiaoguang shook his head slightly, and An Ge began to tell him stories according to his memories.

On the far side of the mountains and beyond the sea, there lived a group of hobbits. They were happy, kind, hardworking and intelligent.They live in a comfortable cave, work at sunrise and rest at sunset, they are a group of good people who keep their own laws...

Until one day, the arrival of a gray-robed mage and a group of dwarves broke the tranquility of the valley.

Bilbo the Hobbit embarked on an adventure and was forced to leave his cozy little home. The outside world was vast, dangerous, yet beautiful and splendid, which made people excited.

Smaug the dragon breathed fire and burned all things, and his treasures piled up like mountains, shining with gold and precious stones of all colors.Bilbo and his friends support each other, protect each other, fight and escape side by side, and swear to die together...

It was clearly a good night story, but as a result of the two people, one became more excited as he told it, and the other became more fascinated as he listened to it, and almost forgot the passage of time.

Until the AI ​​interrupted and reminded: "It's very late, Xiaoguang still has class tomorrow."

An Ge had to stop, seeing Du Xiaoguang rubbing his eyes and trying not to sleep, he patted his head, "Sleep, we will continue tomorrow."

Du Xiaoguang nodded. An Ge was thinking about where to sleep when he saw a set of quilts automatically appear on the floor next to Du Xiaoguang's bed.

He was wondering whether to wash up, when he heard Du Xiaoguang ask: "Big Brother, is it really...better outside than at home?"

An Ge's heart moved, and he said: "Each has its own advantages. The home is comfortable and comfortable, but it will always be like this, without change. After a long time, it will be boring, numb, and boring, and you will not feel the joy of living. Although the outside world has no It's so comfortable, even dangerous, but it will let you experience many stories and make your life rich and interesting. After decades, you will be like Bilbo sitting in a rocking chair and smoking a pipe, and you will have many more stories than you. The book also contains wonderful experiences, which can be recalled with relish."

Du Xiaoguang giggled: "I don't smoke, good kids don't smoke."

An Ge also laughed: "In a few decades, you will be a little old man, and it doesn't matter if you smoke."

Du Xiaoguang didn't know what he thought of, he smiled and his voice gradually became a steady breathing.

The surrounding light has been dimmed automatically, and the AI ​​said quietly in the dark: "You should know, he has no chance to grow old."

An Ge said, "I know, but telling the truth all the time will be annoying."

Sitting cross-legged on the quilt on the floor, he took out his phone again and found that all the messages he had sent to other people had been sent.

They can communicate with each other again.

Most importantly, he saw a prompt in the game assistant: Yizi invited you to join the group chat, do you accept it?

An Ge's eyes widened, and he nodded hastily.

A "dream communication" was added to the friend list, and it was flickering frequently at this time.

Yizai: Brother Clay!Are you OK?

Clay: I'm fine, what's up with this group chat?

Xianxian: I have to ask Yizai about this, I just came in too.

Yizi: I asked Du Xiaoguang on the screen, if I want to chat in a group?He said yes, and that's it.

Clay: That's okay too ==

Xianxian: Is that okay? ?

An Ge raised his head and asked the AI ​​in a low voice: "Can you help us get in touch? Even provide a group chat function? Why didn't you say it? Okay, I understand, because I didn't ask."

AI: ...Can you give me a chance to speak?

Little Xingxing couldn't get in touch, it should be because he hasn't repaired the AI ​​in his dream.

An Ge exchanged information with Yizai and Xianxian, and the experience was similar. The elevator stopped, and he was left alone, surrounded by white light.

After more or less effort, I met Du Xiaoguang and followed him to help repair AI.

But the places where they live are different. Xianxian is in the kindergarten, and his brain hurts from being quarreled by a group of children; while Yizai goes to a small attic. Du Xiaoguang lives in the attic, and there are always suspicious things flying outside the window. Flying around, occasionally hitting windows.

In addition, they all received the same mission as An Ge.

Clay: We have two missions right now.One is to find a way to reunite, and the other is to find out what his wish is.The first one takes precedence.

Xianxian: But, the AI ​​said that there are multiple dreams, how can they be combined?

Yi Zai: You are lucky, in kindergarten, you will meet Brother Clay when you get home from school.I don't know what's going on in the attic yet, the Shiba Inu with drooping ears.jpg

Clay: That fairy, try to let Xiao Guang go home after school.Yizi, the scene you are in is probably his bedside storybook called "Little Flying Man Carlson".

Xianxian: Well, let me try...

Yizi: That's it!I'll look it up in the database.

Clay: Database?

Yizi: That obelisk, inputting keywords can provide a lot of information.

An Ge got up lightly, walked to the obelisk, lightly touched the keyboard made of white light, and the head of "Du Xiaoguang" moved aside, making room for the search engine dialog box.

He first tried to input: Du Xiaoguang's wish.

Naturally, there was no feedback at all.

He thought for a while, and then input: isosceles triangle + white light + door + time + space + believer + sphere

There are so many keywords that the search result has only one single entry.

An Ge suddenly became nervous.

He only had time to glance at the bloody entry - Yogg Sothoth.

[Reading this entry requires a sanity check (sancheck), sc=50, if you pass it, it will not be affected, if you fail, your sanity value will be -1d6]

[d20=16, pass]

An Ge finally belatedly realized that something was wrong.

Up to now, even Yugo Sotos, one of the famous three foreign gods, has appeared. This is of course a module of Cthulhu's background and rules.

The most significant difference between Cthulhu (coc) and other trpgs is that it has its own unique san value system, or the sanity value system, or it can also be directly called the loss value system.

Encountering horrible and weird visions will result in loss (sanity points will be deducted), knowledge related to Cthulhu will be lost, and if you lose too much, you will go crazy.

The characters in other modules usually end with death, but most of the characters in the coc module end up going crazy and never return to a normal life.

These are all digressions, the point is that most of the identification of the coc module needs to roll a percentage dice, and the value range is 1-100. For example, the sancheck=50 prompted this time, this number is the will attribute of the character of An Ge value (.

If the value he just rolled was greater than 50, it means that the appraisal failed, and the sanity value needs to be deducted.If he was unfortunately deducted more than 4 sanity points, he would have gone crazy on the spot just now...

However!An Ge was surprised to find that when he was making a sancheck appraisal, the system did not use percent dice, but twenty-sided dice—the maximum value was 20, not one hundred.

Needless to say...it must be the artifact DND Player's Handbook.

He searched, and sure enough, he found the hint.

[The artifact effect activates.The God of Dice is protecting you LV.MAX: With the artifact in hand, there is no worry about identification. 】

[Artifact effect "The God of Dice is protecting you LV.MAX" reminds you: Due to the binding of the DND system, in the modules that are not compatible with DND, the DND system is used first for judgment. 】

Regardless of the other systems, at least in the COC rules, An Ge took advantage of what could be called cheating.

Because DND also has rules for skill appraisal, casting 1 is considered a big success in COC, and a big failure in DND, it will be judged as a failure according to the DND rules first.

But DND does not have a judgment like sancheck, so this means that as long as you don’t hand out a character with a will value less than 20, then he will never be frightened, never lose his mind, and naturally he will never be frightened in the coc module. Never go crazy.

One's own psychological endurance is one thing, but at least the system will never mess with him.If you just play games normally, this will completely lose the fun of coc, but for players of ultra-real board games, this is simply a life-saving talisman that is as beautiful as a godsend.

After confirming this matter, even the pressure brought by the entire game system was reduced, and An Ge suddenly felt much more relaxed.

He began to read the entry on Yogg Sothoth without any pressure.

Yugo Sotos, Azathoth, and Cthulhu are collectively known as the three supreme outer gods in the Cthulhu mythology system, and the titles are "the ruler of time and space" and "the guardian of the gate".

It is said that it "is a thing composed of infinite being and self, everything is in it, and it is in everything", An Ge translated it in his own easy-to-understand words, that is, this outer god is "the present It was there, it was everywhere."

There are several theories about its image, one of which says that it is "composed of billions of brilliant spheres".

The flying crystal balls that like to steal time from windproof candles, plus the players constantly shuttle in time and space, all of this fits the description.

Therefore, the evil god that Du Yiyu worshiped was Yugo Sotos, which could not be wrong, or it could be said to be its incarnation projected on the earth.

What kind of chance does it provide Du Yiyu to save?resurrection?

An Ge was deep in thought.

Judging from the ability controlled by this foreign god, it shouldn't be a direct resurrection, but a reversal of time to before Du Yiyu made an irreversible mistake.

This is understandable why Du Yiyu releases crystal balls in every dungeon to steal the players' time.

It should be to collect enough time or energy in this way to turn back time.After all, 32 players have entered the module this time, and a very considerable amount of time can be collected.

And...what is the purpose of the female ghost who prevented him from doing this, that is, He Jiao?

Don't want to go back in time?

why?

Then what role did Xiaoguang play in it?

An Ge's head got dizzy.

It's better to discuss it with your teammates.

As he thought about it, he looked at his phone again, and his scalp felt numb.