Dice In The Darkness: Cthulhu Calls

Another invitation?

Liu Xing raised an eyebrow, surprised to find himself with yet another invitation. However, this one seemed promising.

Yet, Liu Xing couldn’t help but inwardly mock the generosity of the English officials. They actually considered such an unopenable invitation as a reward.

Suddenly, a stranger’s voice echoed, "Hello, players. I am the KP for this module, Chopsticks. I hope to have a pleasant cooperation with all of you during this module, allowing everyone to advance smoothly to the Hound of Tindalos area. But I won’t go easy on you... Well then, let’s get ready to start the game officially. However, in this module, each player only has one opportunity to start their Private Room time, which lasts for ten minutes each time. So, players need to schedule their Private Room time wisely."

As Chopsticks finished speaking, Liu Xing felt himself swaying, with the sound of waves in his ears.

Seems like the yacht has set sail.

When Liu Xing’s vision returned to normal, he found himself basking on the deck.

The weather was sunny, with perfect temperature.

Liu Xing stretched lazily, planning to soak up more sun, knowing that once they arrived at Zekiel Island, the weather would definitely take a drastic turn, with fierce winds and heavy rain, causing the yacht to run aground, and themselves "forced" to be stranded on a deserted island.

After all, the name of this module is "Survival on a Deserted Island", so what Liu Xing had just thought was part of the standard plot.

So, Liu Xing lay in the sun, while recalling what had happened between the end of the last module and now.

First of all, what left the deepest impression on "WatanabeRyuusei" was the "Dividing the Spoils" event, because "WatanabeRyuusei" felt he had the worst luck, ending up with an invitation that seemed impossible to open, while others received decent rewards.

For example, "Zhang Jingxu" received a reward from the Chinese Daoist Sect—a palm-sized inkstone. According to the introduction from the Chinese Daoist Sect, this inkstone was very spiritual. Regardless of what liquid, even just a drop, was poured into the inkstone, after ten minutes of standing still, pouring the liquid out would automatically return it to its source and leave ink marks on the ground that could last for five minutes. Even passing rivers or oceans would leave ink marks on the water surface.

Most importantly, the Chinese Daoist Sect had conducted an experiment where someone left a drop of blood and then flew around the earth in an airplane. The drop, enchanted by the inkstone, followed the person around the earth five times before melting into the water due to losing its enchantment.

So, although the effect of this inkstone seemed somewhat inexplicable at first glance, upon closer inspection, it was a valuable item, as it was a tool for finding people. With someone’s bodily fluid, you could find them anytime, even across mountains and rivers.

Therefore, after receiving the inkstone, "Zhang Jingxu" asked for a small tube of blood from "Lu Tianya" and "WatanabeRyuusei" and others, so "Zhang Jingxu" could find others anytime using the inkstone.

As for the reward "Ling Ishikawa" received, it made "WatanabeRyuusei" even more envious because it came from Baruka. After solving the Thick Fog problem, Baruka and its people were treated as guests by the English officials. So now, Baruka was living quite comfortably, and thus Baruka sent a gift to help "WatanabeRyuusei" and others, or rather, a big gift.

A living gift!

Yes, what Baruka gave to "Ling Ishikawa" was a Shoggoth!

However, due to Baruka’s long-term cultivation, the Shoggoths in Fisher’s Village had decreased in combat power, but their mimicry abilities had greatly improved. So now, "Ling Ishikawa" was riding his Shoggoth, surfing in the sea.

However, "Ling Ishikawa" was still a human after all, unable to use the methods that Deep Ones used to control Shoggoths, so "Ling Ishikawa" could only barely control the Shoggoth with his self-taught animal training skills. Therefore, many times, "Ling Ishikawa" couldn’t control the Shoggoth.

Of course, what Liu Xing cared most about now was what "Liu Xing" had received as a reward because the stronger Yis People were, the harder it would be for him to deal with them.

The reward Bain gave to "Liu Xing" was unexpected but not surprising.

A fragment of "The Secret Scripture of Xuanjun"!

Previously, when Liu Xing heard from Alice that Bain’s collection included "The Seven Chapters of Xuanjun," Liu Xing guessed that he and his group might get this "The Secret Scripture of Xuanjun." Unexpectedly, this became reality, and it was given to "Liu Xing." ṜâNＯ₿ĘŚ

Now Liu Xing felt that in the one-on-one confrontation module with Yis People later, he must be more careful because although the effects of "The Secret Scripture of Xuanjun" were tricky, it still had the potential to summon mythical creatures. So Liu Xing was worried that Yis People might use "The Secret Scripture of Xuanjun" to summon mythical creatures when the situation was unfavorable, and then make a desperate move.

By then, even if Liu Xing defeated Yis People, he might not be able to regain his "Liu Xing" character card.

Thinking of this, Liu Xing couldn’t help but sigh.

At this moment, Zhang Wenbing walked over from the side, smiling and saying, "Ryuusei, why are you sighing here?"

Liu Xing shook his head, making up a reason casually, "It’s nothing. I just suddenly thought that my university will start in a few days, but here I am, wandering around in the English seas. I don’t know how long it will take for me to go back to school, or if I will be expelled for innocently skipping classes."

Zhang Wenbing chuckled and said, "Ryuusei, don’t worry about that. We have arranged this matter for you. We, the Chinese Daoist Sect, have already established a relationship with your school and officially invited you to take a month’s leave for participating in an important competition. By then, we’ll get you a certificate and everything. You can just take it back to show the school."

Liu Xing nodded and smiled, saying, "That’s good then. Thank you, Zhang ge."

Because Zhang Wenbing was now thirty years old, Liu Xing and the others referred to him as "Zhang ge".

But what surprised Liu Xing the most now was that Zhang Wenbing was actually a player too! Because in "WatanabeRyuusei’s" memory, the "Zekiel Island Rescue Team" only had six members—Liu Xing, Ling Ishikawa, Zhang Jingxu, Zhang Wenbing, Miguel, and Buke.

The reason why the "Zekiel Island Rescue Team" had only a few members was because after England resumed maritime and air transport, Yis People took Nan Xiaoniao back to China because Nan Xiaoniao had to go to school. Then Juri Sonoda returned to Island Nation for work and waited for news from Liu Xing. As for Chen Fuping, Yuan Chen, and Wang Ming, they went to London to help Zhang Yihang, who had infiltrated the London Cult of the Cadaver.

As for Alice, Lu Tianya, and Hu Li, they were currently staying at Chris’s house in Manchester. Ryuzaki and Jack were responsible for protecting them.

The reason why Alice and the others couldn’t join the "Zekiel Island Rescue Team" was because besides being an uninhabited island, Zekiel Island was also a mysterious small island.

Zekiel Island was located in the northern waters of England and looked no different from ordinary uninhabited islands from a distance. The area was moderate, and it took just over twenty minutes for an ordinary boat to circle Zekiel Island.

However, according to the information provided by the current English officials and the Chinese Daoist Sect, all the discovered creatures on Zekiel Island were male, with no females found. Moreover, when females and female animals set foot on Zekiel Island, they would start to transform into males at the moment their feet touched the ground, and this transformation process was completely irreversible, taking only one day.

Of course, males remained unchanged on Zekiel Island.

So after discovering this, there were no female members in the exploration team that landed on Zekiel Island. Therefore, Alice and the others could only choose to stay in Manchester, as they had no intention of undergoing gender transformation.

In addition, all the animals on Zekiel Island were carnivores, including animals that were supposed to eat grass, such as rabbits, goats, cows, camels, and giraffes.

Yes, there were camels and giraffes on Zekiel Island, and even seals and pandas!

This was the second biggest mystery on Zekiel Island. Almost all mammalian animals in the world could be seen on Zekiel Island. It could be said that Zekiel Island only had mammalian animals because no birds or reptiles had ever been found on Zekiel Island.

But the most amazing thing was that when England officials discovered Zekiel Island in 1900, they also found a large number of endangered mammals on Zekiel Island. However, when endangered mammals living elsewhere in the world were declared extinct, the endangered mammals on Zekiel Island would suddenly disappear as well. So the English officials had planned to relocate the endangered mammals on Zekiel Island to England’s main island for protection (display). However, when the drugged endangered mammals were brought onto the ship by the English officials, they would naturally die, and their bodies would completely decay in a few minutes, even though the English officials immediately treated the bodies of these endangered mammals with preservatives.

Therefore, Zekiel Island got another nickname, "God’s Zoo".

However, soon after, this "God’s Zoo" became "Demon’s Laboratory".

That was in 1980 when Miskatonic University cooperated with the English officials and sent a team of a hundred people, including more than forty professors representing top-level expertise in their respective fields and more than fifty elite soldiers, to fully explore Zekiel Island.

For the first fifteen days after the exploration team landed on Zekiel Island, everything was normal. The exploration team captured various animals on Zekiel Island, drew their blood, and installed code tags on them, preparing to investigate the survival status of these animals when they returned to Zekiel Island next time.

However, on the evening of the sixteenth day after the exploration team landed on Zekiel Island, a professor, protected by two soldiers, was preparing to capture a panda when the panda suddenly ran towards the center of Zekiel Island, and the other animals around it did the same.

Realizing that something was wrong, the professor quickly ordered one soldier to return to the camp to report the situation, while he and the other soldier continued to pursue these animals.

As a result, when the soldier who went back to report returned with the rest of the exploration team to the central area of Zekiel Island—a Yamashita more than ten meters high, they found the professor’s body, which had been evenly split in half from top to bottom...

Obviously, this professor was not killed by any known animal.

Then, in order to avenge the professor and capture the unidentified creature, the exploration team began to search around the Myriad Beast Mountain, as it was named.

And then, there was no more information.

Three days after losing contact with the exploration team and the English officials, the English officials sent a rescue team to Zekiel Island to conduct a search. In the end, only three survivors were found, and these three survivors had already fallen into a state of madness. It was only after undergoing deep hypnosis that they recounted what they had experienced on Zekiel Island, up until they heard a crisp sound near Myriad Beast Mountain.

After that crisp sound, they lost their memory of what happened next.

As a professional in taking risks, Miskatonic University naturally guessed that there was something wrong with Zekiel Island. So they joined forces with the English officials to organize multiple exploration teams to go to Zekiel Island.

Finally, after paying the price of five or six hundred lives, it was confirmed that there was a prehistoric relic near Myriad Beast Mountain on Zekiel Island. This prehistoric relic would gather all the animals on Zekiel Island near Myriad Beast Mountain every month. After emitting a crisp sound, all the animals would start to kill each other. The winner would absorb a part of the loser’s body, and finally, a powerful synthetic beast would be formed. This synthetic beast would then start to hunt all the creatures on Zekiel Island until midnight the next day, when the synthetic beast would return to Myriad Beast Mountain and start to explode. After the sky was filled with flesh and blood, it would turn into various mammalian animals when it fell to the ground.

After discovering all this, Miskatonic University and the English officials planned to excavate the prehistoric relic, but in the end, it ended without any results due to various reasons.

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