Chapter 1498 VIP Member

“Most of the modules in the Cthulhu area will last for several years, but the time flow in the area where the module is located will be much faster than in other places. In this way, after players in the Cthulhu area complete a module, Although he feels that he has been in the module for several years, in fact, only about half a month has passed in the real world. This is similar to other players completing a module with a relatively long plot. After all, our Cthulhu running team The game lobby is very user-friendly, and players in the Cthulhu area will not be able to return to the real world to see their relatives and friends every few years."

kp Kongjing said with a smile: "So unless players in the Cthulhu area encounter activities such as public military battles, they will live in a special area arranged by the Cthulhu Running Group game lobby. In this special area There will be some special activities, and other players’ modules will not intersect with these special areas, so the time flow rate of this special area can be directly filled up.”

"I see, I'm telling you that these players in the Cthulhu area will spend several years on a mod, so I'm afraid they have to fake death in the real world, lest their relatives and friends worry about him disappearing every now and then for a few years. ." Yin En nodded and said, "Okay, now let's take action and try to find those four flower cards as soon as possible."

Just do it.

Liu Xing and others were directly divided into two groups. One group was Tian Qing and the three girls. They were responsible for searching the private rooms in the chess and card room, while Liu Xing and others in the other group investigated places such as the lobby, bathrooms, and tea rooms.

"By the way, in the process of looking for the four flower cards, you cannot use luck or detection. In other words, special tasks like this need to be completed by you personally. You cannot borrow the Cthulhu Running Team Game Hall. Mysterious power." kp Kongjing continued: "Logically speaking, this special task has no time limit, but this chess and card room is very famous at Miskatonic University, so there will be customers coming after business hours. You definitely can’t look around in the chess and card room, so this is a soft time limit.”

Liu Xing glanced at the price list and business hours hanging on the bar, and found that the chess and card room opened at two o'clock in the afternoon, and it was already two minutes past one, which meant that there were at most only one person in his group. One hour to complete a special task.

"Then we have to hurry up."

Although he said that, ten minutes passed, and Liu Xing and others still found nothing.

The total area of ​​​​this chess and card room is not too large. The hall is only about two to three hundred square meters, and the ten private rooms add up to less than 400 square meters. Plus the toilet, workshop, storage room and the like , the total area was only about 800 square meters, so Liu Xing and others only spent five minutes to roughly search the chess and card room, but found nothing.

"Are those four flower cards really in the chess and card room?" Yin En couldn't help but ask.

Liu Xing sat on a sofa, shook his head and said: "Since this is an exclusive special mission in the Cthulhu area, it is naturally difficult to find this thing. Besides, you must know that the flower cards are quite small to begin with, or rather That’s why local mahjong in Shu and other places have made the size of mahjong much larger. After all, if the size is not increased after there are fewer tiles, it will look too petty.”

Liu Xing still remembers that his family has an old pair of mahjong that is more than 20 years old. It was bought by his parents when they got married. After all, after the wedding banquet at noon, guests had to be entertained, and mahjong is the favorite entertainment method of Shu people. , so my parents specially bought a few pairs of mahjong.

At that time, mahjong was quite small, so one time when he took out the mahjong set to play at home when he had nothing to do, Liu Xing, who was used to playing mahjong, would always accidentally drop the tiles.

Of course, the purpose of making mahjong tiles bigger is not only to look good, but also to prevent cheating. Because the mahjong tiles in the past were really small, it was very easy for crooks to cheat at that time. After all, they only needed to use their hands lightly. With a simple cover, a few cards will be out of sight of other players. If you have faster hand speed, it will be easy to change cards and steal cards.

So today's Shudi Mahjong basically eliminates cheating methods such as changing cards and stealing cards, because the mahjong tiles are really too big, so no matter how fast your hand speed is, as long as someone pays attention to you, it will be difficult to touch the cards. Complete a successful cheat.

"Liu Xing is right. The four flower tiles left in the private room, or the main and secondary tiles, are very small. Compared with the mahjong we played in Shu, it is several rounds smaller, so this mahjong is quite easy to hide. ." Master Zixuan said: "As for the other private rooms, it seems that they are all playing Shu Mahjong, so the mahjong is obviously a bit bigger."

"It seems that the private room should be dedicated to playing other mahjong. Although this chess and card room is said to be a special venue for Shudi mahjong, there are always people who want to play something different, so it is normal to leave a private room for other purposes. .”

Liu Xing looked at the ceiling and continued: "If we continue to search aimlessly like this, the final result will definitely be nothing, because the people in this branch definitely did not hide those flower cards casually, which means we have to find out They hide the patterns of the flower cards so that they can find the hidden flower cards within an hour.”

"four Seasons."

Ding Kun suddenly said: "The hidden flower cards are spring, summer, autumn and winter, not bamboo, orchids, chrysanthemums and plums, or Zhongfabai and Four Winds cards. That means the pattern of hidden cards lies in the four words spring, summer, autumn and winter." superior!"

Hearing what Ding Kun said, Liu Xing suddenly had an idea and thought of a possibility, "Yes, have you ever heard of such a saying - spring gives birth to summer, autumn harvests and winter stores, so the winter cards here will be Doesn’t it mean hiding in winter?”

"Winter hiding? Aren't they all hidden in spring, summer, autumn and winter?" Li Hanxing said with some confusion.

Liu Xing smiled and said seriously: "The winter card here means that the winter card may be hidden in other cards, because the winter card is obviously smaller than the cards in other rooms, so this winter card It may be hidden in other mahjong, just like in some movie novels, the protagonist hides the key in a hollowed-out book."

Hearing what Liu Xing said, Master Zixuan and others each entered a private room. Soon Tian Qing came out holding a mahjong card, and Liu Xing, who had good eyesight, saw that the mahjong card was the winter tile.

"Liu Xing is right, this piece of mahjong is indeed hidden inside another piece of mahjong."

Tian Qing's words confirmed Liu Xing's guess, so Liu Xing and others started to think about the words "spring", "summer" and "autumn".

"If I were a card collector, I would definitely not use the same rules to hide all the cards. Therefore, spring growth and summer growth should have no reference value, and the word "growth" is not easy to explain, right? Autumn harvest is It can be understood as those tea cans in the tea room, because these tea cans collect all kinds of tea leaves."

Yin En shrugged and continued: "It's a pity that this is wrong, because I just went to the tea room to check all the tea cans, and I didn't find the Autumn Brand."

"It seems that this new trick of eating everything will not work here, so we have to think about other allusions related to spring, summer, autumn and winter... Wait, the door numbers of the private rooms are all named after poets Right?"

Zhang Jingxu said: "If we talk about poems related to the four seasons, then the first thing we think of is "Spring Dawn", because this poem can be said to be the enlightenment poem of our generation, and it is also catchy and very catchy. It is suitable for large-scale dissemination, so this spring sign may be in the private room of Meng Haoran, the author of "Spring Dawn"!"

Although Zhang Jingxu's words were clear and logical, Liu Xing and others soon discovered a very embarrassing thing, that is, the name "Meng Haoran" was not on the door number of the private room in the chess and card room, because the door number of the private room in the Shu chess and card room must be prominent. The characteristics of Shu, so the house names are all ancient celebrities from Shu. As a Xiangyang native, Meng Haoran is not far from Shu, but he is not from Shu after all.

"Uh, I miscalculated." Zhang Jingxu rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment, "But I think my idea is correct, so among these Shu celebrities, who has written famous poems related to the four seasons?"

"That's a lot, right? As long as you are a poet, who doesn't have a few poems related to the seasons?"

As soon as Yin En finished speaking, Tian Qing said seriously: "Li Bai! I remember Li Bai once wrote a poem called "Send Meng Haoran to Guangling", one of which is about fireworks falling in Yangzhou in March, and this March is also called Spring is in March, so this poem is also about spring; at the same time, Li Bai and Meng Haoran have a very good relationship. It can be said that Meng Haoran is both a teacher and a friend to Li Bai, so this can also be connected with the clues of "Spring Dawn" Together!"

At this time, Liu Xing, who was leaning under the door of "Li Bai", looked up and found that there was a slight gap between the door number and the door frame of "Li Bai", so Liu Xing quickly tried to pull the door number, but the door number fell directly to the ground. , revealing the spring card tied with tape on the back.

In the second ten minutes, Liu Xing and others found two flower cards in a row, which made everyone instantly feel downhearted and confident. . . Then two ten minutes passed, and Liu Xing and others, who tried a variety of problem-solving ideas, found nothing. . .

"We have guessed so many possibilities in summer and autumn, how come we are all wrong?"

Yin En closed the cold drink cabinet and said helplessly: "In summer, cold drinks and air conditioners undoubtedly save our lives, so this summer brand should have something to do with the cold drink cabinet and air conditioners, right? Why can't I find it?"

"That's true, but is it too obvious? There is only one cold drink cabinet in the entire chess and card room, and the hall uses central air conditioning. Individual air conditioners are only available in private rooms, so there are only a few This place is used to hide Xia brand, it really has no technical content, and I think there are only some drinks in the cold drink cabinet, and there is no ice cream and milk tea, so I don’t recognize its gold content." Zhang Wenbing said seriously.

However, the milk tea that Zhang Wenbing mentioned made Liu Xing think of a possibility, "Wait a minute, in addition to this chess and card room, the Huaxia Daomen branch at Miskatonic University actually has a milk tea called Honey City Bingxue." store, and the lemonade in this store is definitely a hot item in summer, so this summer card may be related to Honey City Ice and Snow!"

Li Mengyao on the side thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "No, I remember when we left Miskatonic University, the Honey City Ice and Snow store opposite had closed down, so it's impossible for us to break into the store now and look for Xia Brand. Bar?"

Liu Xing smiled very confidently, pointed to the "utility room" and said: "I just went in and took a look. There was a row of locked employee lockers in this utility room. At that time, I thought these were other people's lockers." It would definitely be bad for me to open it rashly, and it would be a bit unkind to hide things in this locked place; but I remember that there is a locker with the mascot of Honey City Ice and Snow on it, so this should be that one Brother’s locker, so I suspect that Dongpai is in there!”

Sure enough, when Liu Xing tried to unlock the locker, he discovered that the lock on the locker was actually made of foam, so he could break the lock with just a slight tug and then open the locker. There was only one uniform of Mixheng Bingxue in the cabinet, and then Liu Xing took out the summer card from the pocket of the uniform!

"All that's missing is Qiu Pai."

Yin En touched his chin and analyzed seriously: "Autumn is the season of harvest, and for the chess and card room, the harvest is the winner's pocket, but there will be at least one winner in every table. After all, after dozens of games, The possibility that everyone will win after a round of mahjong is really very small... But even in such an extreme situation, there will be a guaranteed winner in the chess and card room, and that is the owner of the chess and card room ! Because no matter whether the mahjong player loses or wins, they must pay the boss for the tiles!"

As Yin En spoke, he came to the counter of the chess and card room, "Before, like Liu Xing, I felt that it was a bit unethical to go through other people's cashiers, and the cashiers usually have passwords, so it's not like we were asked to You can find it anywhere; but the summer cards can be found in the employees’ lockers, which means the autumn cards can also be hidden in the cashier!”

Having said this, Yin En opened the cashier counter, and as expected, the last autumn card was lying in a pile of change.

At this moment, there was a burst of applause at the door of the chess and card room. Liu Xing looked back and saw the little brother from Micheng Bingxue standing at the door with a few people, looking at his group with a smile on his face.

"Congratulations to all my friends for passing our entrance exam. Now you are already VIP members of this chess and card room, and you are also friends of our Huaxia Daomen branch at Miskatonic University. You can exchange some sticks for our help in the future. "