In Liu Xing's view, it was already quite good that Rundell could become a survivor of the Red Game, so Rundell becoming the winner of the Red Game was completely beyond Liu Xing's expectation, because although the strength of all the "players" in the Red Game was limited to the same level, the racial specialties of the "players" were still retained, so there was still a certain gap in combat power between the "players".
The Byakhee clan that Rundell belonged to naturally retained the racial specialty of flight, but although the flight skill could allow Rundell to better avoid attacks and conduct investigations, flight was not an offensive skill, and in the situation at the time, Rundell taking off would certainly attract the attention of the enemies.
So at the beginning, Liu Xing thought that Rundell survived to the end relying on his own flight ability, and never thought that Rundell could become the winner, and didn't even think that Rundell would have the opportunity to kill the enemy.
However, after listening to Rundell's narration, Liu Xing finally knew the main reason why Rundell could become the winner of the Red Game, which was that Rundell's luck was good enough, and he also encountered some good teammates.
In simple terms, Rundell was a professional stabber.
Because the six games provided by Nyarlathotep's toy box did not directly provide any clues to the participating "players", except for those players who had seen the relevant posts and knew the content of the game, other "players" could only speculate on the relevant content of the game based on the progress of the game, and the "players" generally did not think that this would be a game, let alone a game with rewards.
So for these "players", their only thought in the game was to find a way to survive or get out of this damn game.
This can also be seen as providing some benefits to those players who know the truth, after all, as human players, they are at a great disadvantage compared to those mythical creatures when playing these games, such as Bai Hecheng in this Red Game... Well, Bai Hecheng has now become a Ghoul, so he can no longer be used as an example, so let's take Ooyama as an example - as a human, Ooyama inherited the racial specialty of humans - no racial specialty.
That's right, maybe in Nyarlathotep's eyes, humans are a race without racial specialties, so in the Red Game, humans are almost unchanged, still the same as before, so although the strength of other mythical creatures has been lowered to the level of humans, because these mythical creatures still have their own racial specialties, humans are still much weaker than those mythical creatures.
Therefore, in order to achieve a balancing effect, those mythical creatures will most likely act according to their instincts when playing the game, while the players who know the truth can get ahead of the "people" and seek benefits according to the rules of the game.
After all, the games provided by Nyarlathotep's toy box are essentially a special module, and the protagonist of the module is naturally the player, so it is necessary to give the players some help, because it is impossible to let the players be wiped out right away, and they cannot let the players see no hope of winning.
So Bai Hecheng and the others, after retreating to the detached house, did not forget to constantly observe the surrounding situation, and also found opportunities to launch offensive attacks, because they knew how to play this Red Game.
As for Rundell and other mythical creatures, it was not until the game area began to shrink that they began to realize one thing - it's either you die or I die.
So a major battle suddenly broke out, triggered by a Ghoul suddenly attacking a nearby Deep One, and when the Deep Ones and the Ghoul army started fighting, other small groups also took the opportunity to attack the Deep Ones and Ghouls, as well as other enemies who were exposed.
And at this time, Rundell flying in the air could overlook the entire situation and specifically target the injured mythical creatures, especially those damn Deep Ones, for killing.
So in this first major chaos, the number of "players" in the game area was reduced by 30%, and at this time the progress bar was around 40%, but the number of player races in the game area remained unchanged.
Therefore, except for the players like Bai Hecheng who knew the truth, the mythical creatures at this time all thought that they still had to die another 45% before the progress bar could be filled, so after resting for a while, the various small groups started to attack each other and various small-scale conflicts occurred.
Of course, there would definitely be mythical creatures dying during this period.
And Rundell, due to his superb stabbing ability, the good cooperation of his two friends in attracting the enemy's attention, and the Earth-boring Demon Worm that only knocked down the enemy without killing them, Rundell collected a lot of kills, and also accidentally obtained a lot of "extermination" points.
Therefore, Rundell finally became the winner of the Red Game and obtained a prize from Nyarlathotep's toy box - a pair of red chopsticks.
It's true that stabbing is pleasurable for a moment, and stabbing continuously is pleasurable forever.
However, Rundell still doesn't know the use of these red chopsticks, so he plans to bring them back and show them to Liu Xing, or even give them to Liu Xing directly.
As for Liu Xing, he also doesn't know the function of these red chopsticks, because the forum mentioned that the prizes provided by Nyarlathotep's toy box are completely random, with all kinds of effect items, and the only thing that is certain is that the color of the prize will correspond to the color of the game.
And finally, the surviving players who have experienced the Red Game were randomly teleported to various parts of the world, such as the current Rundell, who was thrown onto a deserted island in the Atlantic Ocean and is now hurrying back to the Island Nation.
However, Rundell will not come to see Liu Xing within the next half month, because Rundell currently has a certain amount of nuclear radiation on him, after all, Rundell was inside the Fukushima nuclear power plant at the time, so the nuclear radiation on Rundell is quite serious, so Rundell plans to rest in the coastal areas of the Island Nation or some small islands nearby for a period of time, and wait until the nuclear radiation on his body has subsided to a certain extent before coming to see Liu Xing, so as not to have a certain impact on Liu Xing, and also to ensure that he can quickly reach Liu Xing's side when something dangerous happens.
As for Rundell's two friends, although their whereabouts are now unknown, Rundell can be sure that they are still alive, because Rundell can still feel the special sound waves they emit.
By the way, Bai Hecheng and Ooyama also became survivors of the Red Game this time, while the other believers of the Deep Diving Society died for various reasons, such as Bai Hecheng and Ooyama's final betrayal, killing the two Cosmic Country people who followed Bai Hecheng to Tokyo, to ensure that the progress bar reached full value and ultimately prevent the Deep Ones' just-launched attack.
At this point, Rundell hung up the phone, ready to find a temporary residence, preferably in an area without Deep One activity.
After all, Rundell is also affected by nuclear radiation at this time, and his attribute values and skill values have temporarily decreased a lot, but as a mythical creature, Rundell is also using the power of nuclear radiation to transform himself, and Rundell feels that his overall strength will increase by about 10% after clearing the nuclear radiation on his body in half a month.
This is the amazing ability of mythical creatures - their adaptability is generally very strong.
Of course, Liu Xing also feels that the main reason why Rundell was able to break through with the help of nuclear radiation this time is that the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall wants to trick him, making him temporarily unable to call for "air support" in this module, and they also don't plan to hand over those red chopsticks to him first.
It seems that the ability of those chopsticks is very likely to be very suitable for Liu Xing's group to use now.
Thinking about this, Liu Xing is still looking forward to his group also encountering Nyarlathotep's toy box, so that they will have the opportunity to obtain a "divine artifact", because according to the speculation of the major players on the forum, the rewards given to the winners should all be "toys" collected by Nyarlathotep himself, so these rewards should have gone through Nyarlathotep's hands, so it is not an exaggeration to call them "divine artifacts".
And now the most unfriendly Red Game for players is over, so Liu Xing's group will definitely not participate in the Red Game again.
As for the remaining five games, the one Liu Xing least wants to see is the green game, because the green game is really too brain-consuming, from the initial Private Room escape to the final zero-sum game, it will cost the players a lot of brain cells, and if there are high-intelligence mythical creatures like the Yis People and Ancient Ones among the "players", then the players can experience what it feels like to have their intelligence crushed.
Among the remaining four games, Liu Xing still feels that the black game is better, because the black game is the only one of the six games that allows all "players" to cooperate and live or die together, so even if they can't become the winner, his group still has a high chance of becoming a survivor.
Just then, Liu Xing suddenly heard Ling Ishikawa calling him, "Ryuusei, Zhang Jingxu, come over here, I've found a latest Shimbun that may be related to the Deep Diving Society!"
Liu Xing raised his eyebrows and quickly walked over to Ling Ishikawa, seeing a picture on Ling Ishikawa's mobile phone screen - several bodies lying on the ground below a detached house, with a few guns scattered around them.
And from the attire of these bodies, they should all be believers of the Deep Diving Society.
"I was just browsing Shimbun out of boredom, and then I saw this message released by the Island Nation government. Currently, in order to solve the problem of the No. 1 reactor of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the Island Nation government has organized a team of professionals to enter the Fukushima nuclear power plant. This time, they found the bodies of some unidentified suspicious persons left inside the Fukushima nuclear power plant. After preliminary investigation, some of the bodies died from gunshot wounds, some died from knife wounds, and the strangest thing is that some died from falling from a height. The Island Nation government is still investigating the specific identities and causes of death of these bodies, and the whereabouts of the employees inside the Fukushima nuclear power plant have not yet been found, but this team of professionals has taken control of the situation in the No. 1 reactor," Ling Ishikawa said.
Liu Xing nodded and said seriously, "If there's no accident, these bodies should all be believers of the Deep Diving Society, but their causes of death look a bit strange. The knife wounds should be from the attacks of mythical creatures with claws, and as for the gunshot wounds, there are two possibilities. One possibility is that Bai Hecheng and the two Deep Diving Society believers from Cosmic Country had conflicts with Ooyama and the local Deep Diving Society believers, and then a gunfight broke out; the other possibility is that in addition to the Deep Diving Society believers inside the Fukushima nuclear power plant, there were also believers of other secret cults, and they had a shootout when they encountered each other. But the problem now is, where did those mythical creatures go?"
Zhang Jingxu thought for a moment and shook his head, "I think the probability of the second possibility is very low, because if it was a battle between two secret cults and the mythical creatures behind them, there should be more bodies on the ground, after all, there were at least a dozen Deep Diving Society believers inside the Fukushima nuclear power plant at the time. And from the condition of those who died from gunshot wounds, they all seem to have been shot in the back of the head, which means they should have been killed by their own people, but why would they kill their own people?"
Although Liu Xing knew the truth, he still couldn't say it, so he also looked very puzzled along with Zhang Jingxu and the others.
"Forget it, this may be due to internal conflicts within the Deep Diving Society, but the life and death of these Deep Diving Society believers is not important to us. What's important is, where did the other believers of the Deep Diving Society and those Deep Ones go? From the current situation, they should have all left the Fukushima nuclear power plant, after all, they can't stand the close-range nuclear radiation, and the team of professionals sent by the Island Nation government has also explored the main areas inside the Fukushima nuclear power plant, but they didn't find any other traces, including the employees of the Fukushima nuclear power plant," Zhang Wenbing said, holding his mobile phone.
Ling Ishikawa sighed and said, "I think those guys are probably going underground to cause trouble for Migo, after all, Migo can be said to be the culprit of this incident. If it hadn't used the Earthquake Mining Machine, there wouldn't have been so much trouble. Moreover, in a short period of time, the Deep Ones and the believers of the Deep Diving Society couldn't have escaped the range of nuclear radiation."
Ling Ishikawa's words were recognized by Liu Xing and the others.