Chapter 648: Source Code!Ключевые словаDice In The DarknessПоделитьсяКомментарии

Chapter 648: Source Code!Ключевые словаDice In The DarknessПоделитьсяКомментарии

Thinking about this, Liu Xing immediately asked, "Dio, so what did Ithaqua do next?"

Dio quickly replied, "After those two assassins left, Ithaqua got into a car with a triad boss from the Green-Dragon Gang and went to a villa in the suburbs of London. Because the villa had such high security, I couldn’t infiltrate it, so I could only observe the situation around the villa. After Ithaqua entered the villa, he seemed to have disappeared, and he didn’t come out until tonight. The triad boss from the Green-Dragon Gang left with his subordinates, so I felt I wouldn’t gain anything more and decided to head back. According to my friend’s investigation, that villa doesn’t actually belong to the Green-Dragon Gang, but to Miss Wang’s family, your neighbor. However, the villa hasn’t been specifically assigned to any family member, and it’s the kind of villa where family members can stay for a few days when they have time."

Liu Xing raised an eyebrow, not expecting Ithaqua to have involved a mafia group, and on top of that, they were entangled with Miss Wang’s troublesome relatives. It seems Ithaqua has put in a lot of effort to deal with Miss Wang.

Liu Xing even felt it could be described as facing a formidable enemy.

Looking at it this way, Miss Wang is indeed not simple.

But then again, Liu Xing felt that Dio’s friend seems quite capable, to have uncovered so much information in such a short time.

So, Liu Xing asked curiously, "Dio, your friend seems to have very thorough knowledge of the situation in London, so you must have had him investigate Miss Wang’s background, right?"

Dio chuckled and said, "I knew Chris would guess that I had investigated Miss Wang. After all, Ithaqua went to such great lengths to deal with Miss Wang, and the most important thing is that Ithaqua hasn’t been able to settle her, which means this Miss Wang is no easy target. So I asked my detective friend, who has a bit of a reputation in the London area, to investigate Miss Wang. Besides the information everyone knows, he actually found some interesting intelligence."

"First, before successfully taking over the Wang family, Miss Wang had come to the building you’re currently living in, and she disappeared for about 10 minutes. Normally, it should only take a few minutes for her to just confirm the room she’ll be living in, but the bodyguards downstairs found that Miss Wang had been upstairs for 10 minutes. So the bodyguards hurried upstairs to her room and found the door open, but Miss Wang was nowhere to be found."

Hearing this, Liu Xing couldn’t help but furrow his brow, as he didn’t know there was a basement in this building. And upon careful thought, he couldn’t recall seeing any sign of a basement near the first-floor staircase. He decided he would go take a look tomorrow.

"The second thing is that in the second year after Miss Wang became the head of the Wang family, some Wang family members living in Wales, who had good relations with a local earl, decided to completely break away from the main Wang family in England. They established a new Wang family branch in Wales and took control of all the Wang family’s assets there. This made the other Wang family members responsible for business in Scotland and Northern Ireland also want to follow suit."

"Of course, Miss Wang wouldn’t just ignore this. If she didn’t act, she would not only lose the assets in Wales, but also gradually lose control of the other regions in England. So Miss Wang quickly used legal means to reclaim most of the assets in Wales. However, some assets were still ruled in favor of the so-called ’Wales Royal Family’ by the court. So Miss Wang had to resort to some abnormal means to get those assets back. A month after the court ruling, all the members of the Wales Royal Family gathered at the new family head’s manor for his birthday, and then they all died there in an orderly fashion."

"Now, in the Wales Police records, the members of the Wales Royal Family are still listed as missing, as their bodies were never found. But everyone knows they are definitely dead. At the time, some bodyguards and drivers were eating in the annex building, and they suddenly heard screams from the main building. The bodyguards rushed in to save their master, and the drivers and other staff followed with weapons and called the police. But before they could get there, they also heard the bodyguards’ screams, and then saw several huge black shadows with tentacles rampaging in the main building."

"The staff didn’t dare to go in, so it was only when the police arrived that they found all the members of the Wales Royal Family had disappeared without a trace, and the bodyguards were all dead in the hall, their ribs broken and internal organs severely damaged by a massive impact force. Large amounts of mysterious black slime were found on the floor of the hall. Further investigation found that a sewer entrance behind the manor had been opened, and some clothing fragments related to the Wales Royal Family members were found inside, but the police got nothing else. This unsolved ’missing persons’ case is known to be Miss Wang’s doing, and since then, the Wang family members may still be dissatisfied with Miss Wang, but they don’t dare to openly defy her."

As Dio finished his vivid account, Liu Xing’s brow was deeply furrowed, because if the information Dio provided was true, then this Miss Wang not only controlled some Ghouls, but also commanded several Formless Offspring!

Clearly, the attackers of the Wales Royal Family members were Formless Offspring, as they matched the survivors’ descriptions - huge creatures with several tentacles, capable of easily breaking ribs with their powerful strikes, and leaving behind black slime. Most importantly, the Formless Offspring could directly consume and make the Wales Royal Family members disappear without a trace.

...or leave no trace of their bodies behind.

However, an important question arises.

Compared to Ghoul, Formless Offspring can be described as unreasonable, because Formless Offspring is the typical type of mythical creature that just attacks on sight and absolutely won’t chat with you, so for humans to communicate with Formless Offspring is basically an impossible task, unless those humans can gain the recognition of Formless Offspring’s master - Tsathoggua!

So, Liu Xing can now guess that a huge toad might be living in the basement of this building...

At this time, the unanswered Dio shouted loudly, "Hello? Hello? Chris, are you still there?"

Liu Xing finally snapped out of it and quickly said, "Oh, I’m here, I just suddenly remembered that I’ve heard about this case before, and our police believe that the culprit behind this missing persons case is a group of non-human entities."

Dio chuckled and said seriously, "Of course, how could ordinary humans be capable of such a case? As for why Miss Wang was able to instruct mythical creatures to act, let me tell you about the last piece of information I obtained, which is exactly about the secrets behind the rise of the Wang family. It was revealed by an important member of the Wang family after getting drunk, and in my opinion, the authenticity is about fifty-fifty."

"Please elaborate." Liu Xing immediately said.

Dio didn’t hold back and directly said, "The story goes like this: Although the first-generation patriarch of the Wang family brought a lot of gold and silver to England, and relied on his status advantage to set up a shop specializing in Chinese products in downtown London, which was quite well-known at the time, due to the well-known reasons, England had a certain degree of exclusion towards Chinese people at the time, so the Wang family’s business was getting harder and harder, and the profits were getting lower and lower. Some members of the Wang family were even falsely accused of being spies and imprisoned. So the first-generation patriarch of the Wang family began to think about how to break the deadlock."

"In the end, the first-generation patriarch of the Wang family decided to sell a certain amount of family interests in exchange for the support of a certain English nobleman. The nobleman quickly agreed to the request of the first-generation patriarch of the Wang family and even said that he did not need any benefits to become the Wang family’s backer, but the first-generation patriarch of the Wang family must join the secret cult he belonged to. In the end, the first-generation patriarch of the Wang family unhesitatingly agreed to the nobleman’s request and left London with him for a week. During this period, the first-generation patriarch of the Wang family never revealed what had happened, only saying that he had followed the nobleman and seen a great deity, becoming the most loyal believer of that deity."

"Then, the Wang family’s business in England grew bigger and bigger, becoming a famous family in London, and no one dared to provoke the Wang family anymore. However, a strange thing happened during this time - the two underage sons of the first-generation patriarch of the Wang family suddenly went missing one day, but the first-generation patriarch of the Wang family demanded that the Wang family members not report to the police or go looking for those two children, as if they had never existed. Soon after, he also bought the land where Chris is now located. Before the first-generation patriarch of the Wang family passed away, he left a will stating that every generation of the Wang family patriarch must find the descendant of that nobleman and join the secret cult with him, which is what every subsequent Wang family patriarch has done."

Hearing this, Liu Xing became even more convinced that Miss Wang was a follower of Tsathoggua.

Although the information provided by Dio did not mention that the first-generation patriarch of the Wang family joined a specific secret cult, the sudden disappearance of the two underage children of the first-generation patriarch suggests that he may have joined a secret cult related to Tsathoggua.

Because compared to other Great Old Ones or mythical creatures, Tsathoggua’s tastes can be said to be a bit strange, as it prefers to eat the souls of minors.

So, combining the information previously mentioned by Dio, Liu Xing can now confirm that Miss Wang is a follower of Tsathoggua, and she should have also gained Tsathoggua’s recognition, otherwise Miss Wang would not be able to mobilize Formless Offspring to work for her.

However, it’s also worth noting that compared to other Great Old Ones, Tsathoggua can be said to be the most willing to communicate with humans and provide knowledge and abilities to the humans it recognizes, although it still enjoys eating humans.

The reason Tsathoggua is like this is due to its family background, as it has an uncle who does not eat humans, which may have given Tsathoggua a special affection for humans.

So for the players of the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall, Tsathoggua should be the Great Old One they are most willing to communicate with, because when encountering Tsathoggua, they have a high chance of surviving (relatively speaking compared to other Great Old Ones), and there is also a certain chance of gaining benefits from Tsathoggua, with a very low cost.

So, Tsathoggua is affectionately referred to as...

Since Dio still needs to prepare for Locke’s son’s wedding on Sunday, he proactively hung up the phone.

And the moment Liu Xing put down his mobile phone, he suddenly felt a strange voice ringing in his ear, as if someone was calling his name.

Liu Xing knew that this was most likely Tsathoggua calling him.

At this time, the KP smiled and said, "Congratulations, the player has triggered the ultimate Hidden Quest of this module - Tsathoggua’s Call!"

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