"Sheta."
An extremely ethereal voice floated through the air, and the spades standing on the boat turned his head in an instant. He pressed his lips and looked around the circle of people around him, trying to search for the figure of Bai Liu from the inside.
The crowds walking towards the festival dressed up and talked lively. There was no Bai Liu inside.
But that was indeed Bai Liu's voice just now.
Spades walked against the crowd, while gazing quickly exploring among the crowd, while simply opening his own system panel and threw an item out to check if there were other players besides him.
[System Tip: No other players' movement tracks nearby have been detected. 】
[System warning: you are currently in the league, the player spades, you have not moved in a map for three consecutive hours, you will be given a yellow card warning for negative games, please play actively, explore the map, contact npc, and complete the main task as soon as possible! 】
Immediately afterwards, the main task panel was automatically enlarged and popped up in front of the spades. The main task above was bolded and marked with red, and the panel almost jumped to the spades' eyelashes, as if they were afraid that the spades would not be visible.
Spades turned their face to the side with a blank expression, tucked, and gathered five fingers to zoom out the system panel, and glanced at the system panel perfunctorily:
[System reminder: The player's identity of Spades is set as the biggest sacrifice of this year's Cthulhu Festival (Servant)]
[Main task: find the biggest sacrifice, and sacrifice to make a wish to the evil god. 】
[Reminder: This year is the tenth anniversary of the Cthulhu Festival. The sacrifice you are looking for is the one that has been tortured in the chamber for the most years since the establishment of the Cthulhu Festival, and has accumulated the most pain on the body. This sacrifice has been hidden by everyone in Luming County. In a very secret place, all you have to do is to find this sacrifice and bring it to the shrine for sacrifice. 】
Spades reluctantly read the main mission again under the compulsion of the system, and the next second after retracting the panel, they continued to search for the shadow of Bai Liu in the crowd.
A few young girls in summer festival kimonos talked in a low voice, passing by the side of spades:
"I heard this year, is the Mifune family going to sacrifice that one?"
"Isn't it possible? The precious one of the Mifune family, who has hid for so many years and sacrificed him, how can our evil god sacrifice be carried out normally?"
"I heard that the Mifune family got instructions in their dreams, and the Cthulhu Sacrifice will not use this one in the future. The Cthulhu Lord will choose a new heir."
As a violent player who never collects information, Spades seems to have never heard it, and walks quickly past the NPC who is talking about it without squinting.
After a while, a few more adult men in bathrobes walked past the front of the spades with a laugh:
"Last year, my family caught a sacrifice at the Funamiya Night Festival and made a wish at the Sea Shrine. This year is going well, and this year I caught another one. It seems that next year should be okay."
"No matter how good your life is, it can't be better than Mifune's." A man sighed and touched his chin. "Since the fire five years ago, Kitahara's house was burnt down and defeated. The biggest After the sacrifices of "have also fallen into the hands of Mifune, I know that Luming County will be under Mifune’s rule for the next 20 years."
"Eh, didn't it mean that the Mifune family is going to sacrifice the biggest sacrifice this year?" A man next to him eagerly probed forward and asked, "It's really fake? Didn't it mean that this sacrifice is evil?" Wasn't the Beiyuan family doing that because it was backlashed by this sacrifice?"
"After a big fire, people died and went crazy, leaving only a few foolish juniors guarding two or three inferior sacrifices that could not be sacrificed at a glance."
"Hush." The man who said at the beginning that he had caught the sacrifice gave a solemn expression, his eyes rolled left and right, and his voice lowered. "
"Five years ago, almost half of the village was emptied by this sacrifice. A large number of people jumped into the sea and committed suicide. Everyone was terrified of the shrine."
The man's eyes warned solemnly: "Why do you think the shrine was moved to the sea? Isn't it because everyone didn't dare to be on the same land as the shrine?"
Several men fell silent for a moment, shucked their heads together, and walked silently toward the spades.
But Spades still didn't listen to what these people were saying, and still walked towards the end of his gaze:
The system jumped out of a panel almost intolerably:
[Please pay attention to the main task-related information given by the players in the surrounding npc conversations! You have missed mission-critical information twice! 】
Spades: "Why should I pay attention to what they say?"
The system panel shows: [Part of the key information of the game will be given to the player in the form of npc conversation, so please pay attention to the surrounding information. 】
"Is that so?" There was no emotion on the spades' face. "I thought it was the game designer who wanted me to follow the game path he designed, so he deliberately gave me information like this?"
"I don't like playing games this way."
The spades pulled out their whip, and their black eyes reflected the magnificent ship docked in the harbor, with a cold tone: "Playing games like this, what is the difference between me and these arranged NPCs?"
"This is not my game at all, but his game."
The system panel that jumped out squeaked and disappeared from the front of the spades. The spades held the whip on their faces without emotion, and walked straight toward the big ship docked in the seaside port.
He walked to the port—this was also the place where the voice of White Willow was heard before Spades, and he glanced around, looking around.
There is a huge wooden high platform on the side of the port. The high platform is a four-cornered eaves structure. Inside there is a wooden stage for performing sacrificial dances. A thick knotted rope is hung around the wooden frame. At a certain distance, there is a white paper of defensive guards that is used to escape evil spirits.
Under the high platform, there is a red lacquer on a wooden board that reads: [Dance performance of the god priest].
Opposite the high platform, down the port, there is a magnificent big ship docked, or it is not appropriate to describe it as a big ship. It is a stage for theatrical performances in the shape of a ship.
The stage was made into the shape of a boat, with a total of three floors. Many light bulbs were installed on both sides and on the top of each floor, which lit up at night like daytime, shining brightly in the middle stage.
All the curtains of the stage are hung on both sides by buckles, so on both sides are layers of thick dark red flannel curtains, and in the middle is the stage body composed of bright wooden floors after being wiped and lubricated.
At this moment, two wooden stools are placed opposite each other in the center of the stage. Between the wooden stools is a piece of water-like glass. Two actors in hunting clothes sit on these two stools and look at each other through the water-like glass. Standing next to him was a male actor wearing a quicksand flash coat. These three actors were performing indulgently on the stage.
A small display card was placed right in front of the stage, and the display card read-"The Cthulhu Sacrifice Repertoire · Act One".
The audience chairs are neatly arranged under the stage. On the chairs sit a group of audiences who are watching the show with relish. The chairs are not full, and new audiences come from afar and sit on these chairs to join in watching the show. In the audience.
A new audience asked the audience who had watched for a while:
"What does this play say?"
The old audience turned their heads to answer in a low voice to the new audience who had just sat down: "This play is a traditional repertoire of the Cthulhu Festival in our Luming County every year. It talks about the emergence, development and changes of the Cthulhu Festival. This is the first act. Woolen cloth."
Someone asked curiously: "What is this first act about?"
"This first act is a background introduction. It is about the process of the Cthulhu choosing the heir to the world and presiding over the Cthulhu offering." The old audience pointed to the three actors on the stage, "The one sitting on both sides of the water-patterned wall was chosen by the Cthulhu. Heir, the one wearing bright colored gauze next to him is our Lord Cthulhu."
The two actors sitting on the stools on the stage suddenly stood up suddenly, fought fiercely in the air across the water-textured wall, and insulted each other:
"I am the most appreciated by Cthulhu! I am the most excellent heir!"
"I am the logical heir to the evil god!"
The old viewers watched triumphantly, and shook their heads to explain: "Master Cthulhu created all living beings and selected his own heirs. In the end, there are two heirs who meet the requirements. So in order to choose the best heir from them, Lord Cthulhu will The two heirs gathered together, separated them from each other by a wall of water, and told them—"
The "Cthulhu" on the stage nodded with his back, and looked at the two "heirs" with satisfaction: "You two are excellent, but I have only one heir."
"I will erase all of your memories and put them into all the world lines I created to experience, and the two of you will get two different identities, that is [Sacrifice] and [Servant]."
"[Sacrifice] got my help during the experience, and [Servant] will be set up countless obstacles by me." The "Cthulhu" walked around the two heirs condescendingly, "But the identity is not It is not fixed, but can be interchanged anytime and anywhere. At any moment, the more painful person will become [sacrifice], and the less painful person will become [servant],"
"After the experience of all the world lines is over, after [Sacrifice] sacrifices pain and soul to me, he will become the next evil god."
"And [Servant] will lose everything he owns, friends, relatives, lovers, and soul."
At this moment, the old audience nodded in agreement: "Yes, that's right, this is the origin of the [sacrifice] [serving] system in Luming County."
With his back to the audience, the heir who sat across the water-printed wall suddenly said softly, "Xieta."
—This is Bai Liu's voice!
The spades who were looking for him in the audience suddenly raised his head, he barely hesitated and jumped up on the edge of the stage with one hand.
The moment he jumped up, the curtain behind him fell instantly, and the stage was shrouded in darkness. Spades heard the noisy audience discussion outside disappearing in an instant, and the footsteps of the three actors on the stage moved regularly. It sounded, and gradually overlapped into a person walking towards the spades.
Around him suddenly lit up, and the originally dazzling stage lights turned into circulating stars in the universe, and the streamer swirled in Spades' moodless eyes, reflecting the person who was walking towards him.
White Six raised the corners of his mouth: "Long time no see, spades."
The spades stared at him without answering.
Bai Liu's eyes dropped, he saw the black bone whip held in his palm by the spades, and the smile on his face deepened: "Is the whip I gave you still useful?"
[System prompt: Player spades trigger the plot point and enter "Cthulhu Sacrifice·The Second Act"]