Chapter 1318 Another Big Tree

"So, will I still have a chance to be a KP in the future?" Liu Xing asked curiously.

The reason why Liu Xing asked this was to see if he would have such a retreat in the future. . . Rather than die because of tearing cards, it is better to live an ignoble existence as a kp in the Cthulhu Run Game Hall.

Better to die than live.

"Actually, Liu Xing, it's not impossible for you to want to be a KP, because starting from the Hounds of Tindalos area, players have a probability of being recruited as a KP before they are wiped out because they don't have character cards. But what is the probability here? It also depends on the player’s comments about the hidden points. I believe Liu Xing, you have also heard about the discussion of hidden points in the forum, right?”

kp Duanqiao said with a smile: "To put it simply, the Cthulhu Run Game Hall will score each player who passes the module. Because this score will not be directly disclosed to the player, it is called Hidden points; most of the time, hidden points are useless, or the only function of hidden points is to serve as your usual score to reach the admission line for higher-level areas, that is, to trigger the promotion module. This is also Some players only need to pass five modules to advance, while some players have passed more than ten modules but have not yet triggered the advancement module.”

"Of course, this is the reason why there are not many players in the Cthulhu area, because the admission score for the Cthulhu area is too high. At the same time, the Cthulhu area also has one more requirement than the previous area, that is, the previous In the area, the total hidden score only needs to meet the requirements to open the promotion module, but in the Cthulhu area, the player's average hidden score also needs to reach a certain value, which means that the player must ensure that most of the modules he experiences are Everyone in the group has maintained excellent performance... As for advancing to the Azathoth region, players must achieve three perfect scores in the Cthulhu region."

"Of course, it is actually not difficult to achieve full performance in the Cthulhu Zone, because the previous modules in the Cthulhu Zone only had a maximum of 150 hidden points, and of course players can only get 100 of them. points, the overflowed points are directly erased, but the modules in the Cthulhu area will have at least two hundred points of hidden points, so it is easier for players to get one hundred hidden points, but the modules in the Cthulhu area The modules are all very long versions, and now there are only a few players in our parallel world working on their second Cthulhu area module.”

"Going back to the previous topic, the calculation rules for hidden points are actually quite interesting. It's just like Liu Xing's Chinese language test in school. Some of the exercises are based on your basic knowledge. As long as you do it correctly, you can score. , such as asking an important NPC to get relevant information from him; and then there are reading comprehension questions, which are to analyze the information or plot. As long as the analysis is reasonable, you can get points, even if the analysis result is It’s OK to be wrong, but of course you’ll get more points if you analyze it correctly.”

"The last step is of course the composition. What the composition needs is to review the topic and write around the topic. This is reflected in the Cthulhu Run game lobby and is the entire process of the player's clearance, the intelligence collection at the beginning, the plot analysis in the mid-term, and the response in the later stage. Each process will have different scoring mechanisms. Here, the scores are directly given by a system in the Cthulhu Run Game Hall, which has nothing to do with our kp; but just like the Chinese test paper will be scored on the paper, the hands of our kp will also be scored. There are points, so the scores here are more subjective.”

"Each KP has its own personality. Of course, except for some KPs with more extreme thinking, most KPs will directly give full points, unless the player does something unreasonable in order to pass the level. Among them, the biggest deduction item It's just selling teammates. If it's a last resort, it's fine. But if it's just for yourself to pass better, or for other purposes, KP will basically not give points to such players; in short, hidden points This thing is important if you say it is important, and it is really not important if it is not important. The main thing is to see whether the player is motivated and whether he is ready to advance to a higher area."

Hearing what kp Duanqiao said, Liu Xing couldn't help but ask again: "So what is my current hidden score? Have I reached the standard?"

"For team players, there is another set of promotion criteria, which is to look at the average hidden score of all team members. Of course, large-scale events such as the Battle of Public Martial Arts will issue additional hidden points, so you can indeed prepare to advance to the model We have formed a group, but the prerequisite is to ensure that your own force wins in the public war, and to become the group of players with the highest contribution among the players in your own camp."

Kp Broken Bridge did not show off, and said directly: "So Liu Xing, are you not going to go to Nohara Village to take a look? I think if you stand outside for a long time, you may be mistaken for a bad person by the villagers?"

Liu Xing looked at the deserted village entrance, shook his head and said, "Is there anyone watching me now? I should be fine if I stay outside for dozens of minutes; but this is similar to my previous guess, and the same goes for this Nohara Village." A gathering place.”

Like other villages, Nohara Village also has dozens of families living together. However, looking from the periphery of the village, Liu Xing feels that Nohara Village seems to be surrounded by a circle, because there is a big tree in the middle of the circle. It is visually estimated to be more than ten meters high.

Sure enough, it's a tree again.

Liu Xing shook his head and entered Nohara Village.

As soon as he walked into Nohara Village, Liu Xing felt that something was wrong, because all the houses in sight had their doors open, but there was not a single villager, not even a sound.

At this moment, Nohara Village seems to Liu Xing to be an uninhabited village.

However, Liu Xing has not forgotten that in the previous world, he often saw the villagers of Nohara Village, so it is impossible for Nohara Village to be deserted.

Therefore, Liu Xing could only move forward cautiously in the direction of the big tree. After all, the core of this module is one word - tree, so you should be able to find something when you go to the big tree now.

As a result, Liu Xingzhen made a big discovery next to the big tree, because all the villagers in Nohara Village seemed to be here and holding some kind of ceremony.

Looking at the villagers of Nohara Village who were standing around the big tree and bowing their heads in prayer, Liu Xing decisively chose to retreat, because Liu Xing subconsciously felt that if he "disturbed" the villagers of Nohara Village at this time, he might cause them to "dissatisfaction", when the time comes, he may restart the world again.

So Liu Xing returned to the village entrance again, and secretly peeked inside, waiting until the villagers of Nohara Village dispersed before pretending to be here for the first time.

The sudden appearance of Liu Xing attracted the attention of the villagers, so an old man came over.

Before the old man could speak, Liu Xing raised his hand and said, "Old man, I am an exorcist from Sawada Shrine. Is this Kujing Village?"

"Exorcist?!"

The people around him who heard Liu Xing's words were in an uproar, and two people who responded quickly ran away quickly, as if they were going to inform someone.

Seeing this situation, Liu Xing suddenly panicked again, because Liu Xing didn't know whether the villagers of Nohara Village had regarded him as an enemy. After all, that big tree might also belong to the exorcist's business scope in their opinion?

Although she felt a little panicked, Liu Xing still showed a calm look on the surface.

After a while, a middle-aged man with a sinister face came to Liu Xing's side and said, "I am Nohara Yinmao, the head of Nohara Village. Do you have any business going to Kujing Village?"

Nohara Yinmao?

Yinmao?

This naming style is exactly the same as Yamashita Tatsumi.

Liu Xing thought about it and explained the reason he had prepared a long time ago, "It turns out that I went to the wrong place. Then please ask the head of Nohara Village to show me the way to Kujing Village. My master heard that There are often mysterious incidents happening around us, so I suspected that a monster was causing trouble, so I was specially ordered to go to Kujing Village to investigate. If a monster is really found, it is best to get rid of it as soon as possible, so as not to cause trouble."

Hearing what Liu Xing said, Nohara Yinmao couldn't help but his eyes lit up, "So that's it. It seems that Master is also a warm-hearted person. He even cares about a small place like ours."

"Oh, since you have said so, Chief Nohara, does it mean that there have indeed been many Shenyin incidents here?" Liu Xing asked pretending to be curious: "So can you tell me in detail what happened in this village? What happened?"

Nohara Yinmao nodded, then took Liu Xing to sit down in his house, and then began to talk, "The thing is like this, our village, no, it should be several villages in our area. In fact, it happened There have been Shenyin incidents, and the time span is also very large. As far as I know, the earliest one happened more than a hundred years ago. However, the specific circumstances at that time cannot be verified, or because some people continued to add fuel to the fire during the spread. , As a result, we no longer know how true or false the version of the story currently being circulated is."

"But in the past few decades, or since I started to remember, I have experienced several divine events, one of which happened in our Nohara Village; I still remember that it was ten years ago, when I brought When I came back with my children to celebrate the New Year, all the children in the village ran out to play, and we adults didn't pay much attention to it, because we were all our own people in these ten miles and eight villages. As a result, not long after, all the children came over, Said a child was missing."

"That kid is my nephew, so I immediately joined the searchers. As a result, when I was searching, I felt that something was wrong, because the kid disappeared while playing a war game. Simply To put it simply, the group of children is divided into two sides, one side chooses a place as a base, and then puts a wooden stick as a flag, and whoever on both sides grabs the flag first wins."

"The kid who disappeared at that time wanted to be a ninja and was planning to sneak into the past, so he hid under the ridge next to the field. At that time, there was no water in the field, so it was almost peaceful in reality; the result was More than ten minutes passed like this, and his teammates realized that he had not shown up for a long time, so they asked him to give up hiding and come back to help defend, but they found that he was missing."

"In the missing place, I found the child's footprints and some crushed soil lumps, but these traces suddenly stopped at one place. At the same time, I did not find similar traces around, which is of course more important. Unfortunately, none of the other children noticed anything unusual, so this incident was dubbed Shenyin. However, I still didn't take it seriously at the time. I felt that someone had done it deliberately, but we hadn't found any clues yet. "

"Later, because our Nohara Village is a clan-themed village, the leader of the Nohara clan is the village leader of Nohara Village. However, because the other candidates for the leader either withdrew or were unable to take up the position of village leader for various reasons, I even considered it I was forced to serve as the village chief at the same time. You must know that I still have a company to manage in Nagoya, so I only go back to the village a few times a year. For example, today is the tree god festival of our village, and the ceremony has just been completed."

"Well, back to the topic, after I became the village chief, I heard about a mysterious incident that happened in the Jinyu Village next door. The general outline of this incident was similar to that of our Nohara Village. The missing persons They were both children, and the direct witnesses around them were also children, and they all disappeared after the missing person left the sight of others, so I felt that something was wrong with this matter."

Having said this, Nohara Tonuma took out an amulet and said, "I asked for this in a temple in Nagoya. Of course, I have one child each, and the abbot of that temple also said that there may be a hidden one here. A monster that specializes in catching children, so I never take children with me when I come back these years, and this is also an important reason why there are not many children in the nearby villages."

To Liu Xing's surprise, Nohara Yinmao's amulet turned out to be an old seal.

Seeing that something was wrong with Liu Xing's look at his amulet, Nohara Yinmao handed the amulet to Liu Xing, "Brother, look at this amulet. Is it really useful? Although I did spend a lot of money to buy this amulet. Yes, but I always felt like the old monk was deceiving me, because, well, how should I put it, I don’t know how to describe the feeling at that time.”

Liu Xing took the old seal amulet and looked at it, but found nothing unusual, so he returned it to Nohara Yinmao, "This amulet is indeed useful, but the effect is very average, because different amulets have Each has different protection principles, some are active and some are passive, and your amulet is passive and can reduce the monster's desire to attack you."