Dice In The Darkness: Cthulhu Calls
Chapter 566: Ghatanothoa Appears for the First Time

Chapter 566: Ghatanothoa Appears for the First Time

To be honest, Liu Xing really couldn’t understand Thousand Face’s purpose for doing this.

After all, Thousand Face now occupies the body of Kamafera, not the body of Yis People, Ancient One, or Migo, which are high-tech mythical creatures, and Thousand Face was not a senior programmer or super hacker during its lifetime. So where did it get the confidence to play this hand?

What does Thousand Face want to do?

Now Liu Xing and others’ thoughts are surprisingly consistent.

Thinking of this, Liu Xing subconsciously wanted to take out his mobile phone to ask OkoHayato about the situation, but unexpectedly OkoHayato sent a text message at this moment.

Without surprise, the content of the text message sent by OkoHayato was asking Liu Xing if he knew that Thousand Face had just released a new mobile game. Now OkoHayato’s side has already begun to strategize and unpack the new game, wanting to find out Thousand Face’s whereabouts by following the clues.

Liu Xing thought about it and decided to truthfully answer OkoHayato’s question, telling OkoHayato that he did know about Thousand Face’s newly released mobile game, and he had started researching it now. However, Liu Xing also expressed his doubts about why Thousand Face did this, feeling that Thousand Face might want to divert everyone’s attention.

Soon, OkoHayato sent a text message back to Liu Xing, telling him that he also thought so. After all, Thousand Face’s operation this time is really incomprehensible, so OkoHayato just asked Liu Xing to pay attention to this game, and to inform him if there is any news. Of course, if OkoHayato has any new information, he will come to find Liu Xing.

After replying to the text message, Liu Xing is now even more puzzled about the purpose of Thousand Face’s next move.

If Thousand Face can accurately launch the new mobile game, bypassing those mobile phones already controlled by the Island Nation, then everything is understandable. Liu Xing can understand the purpose of Thousand Face’s doing this—to reassemble the old team to continue to serve it. But now Thousand Face is indiscriminately launching the new mobile game, so Thousand Face should be prepared for the Island Nation’s official intervention, and taking such a big risk must have a reason.

In that case, Thousand Face should want to find someone or some people through this new mobile game.

Who could that person or those people be?

Liu Xing thinks this may be another new module.

At this moment, the eyes of Zhang Jingxu and others are all attracted by the mobile phones of Hashi Motojun and others, after all, Zhang Jingxu and others are also looking forward to Hashi Motojun and others playing the "inner world" of this new mobile game.

Liu Xing sighed, leaned against the railing of the lake pavilion, looked around, and found that Cross Lake is still quite large in area, and the water surface is unusually calm, without even a ripple.

But most importantly, now Liu Xing can feel the wind blowing on his face, yet there is no change in the lake surface.

It seems that this should be because the mythical creature under the water is causing mischief, which leads to the lake surface of Cross Lake being calm, after all, the water of Cross Lake should fundamentally be released by the mythical creature under the water, and the rainwater injected into Cross Lake should also be absorbed by that mythical creature, therefore, the water level of Cross Lake has remained unchanged from the beginning until now without any accidents.

From this, it can be seen that the water-controlling ability of this mythical creature is still very powerful.

Liu Xing suddenly realized that the Deep Diving Society might be interested in this mythical creature’s water-controlling ability, and might intentionally want to control this mythical creature. By then, the Deep Diving Society might use this mythical creature to create a devastating flood, officially renaming Earth as the water world, and from then on, the entire water world would be the territory of the Deep One...

Hmm, Liu Xing felt that his imagination was getting bigger and bigger, after all, even Cthulhu, such a Great Old One, couldn’t turn Earth into a water world, let alone such an ordinary mythical creature.

However, if this mythical creature’s water-controlling ability is used properly, its effect is still very good, such as for extinguishing fires...

I don’t know how long it has passed, Liu Xing suddenly came back to his senses while looking at the lake surface, realizing that he seemed to have been staring at the lake surface of Cross Lake for a very long time.

"Why am I so fascinated?"

Liu Xing realized that something seemed to be wrong and couldn’t help muttering to himself.

At this moment, Liu Xing suddenly realized another problem, that is, he can only hear the sound of the wind now, as for the voices of Zhang Jingxu and others, they have disappeared.

"Damn it, something’s wrong," Liu Xing cursed inwardly.

Realizing that things were amiss, Liu Xing wanted to do something, but he quickly found that he couldn’t do anything at the moment. Not only could he not move any part of his body, but he couldn’t even move his line of sight.

Liu Xing frowned... well, now he couldn’t even furrow his brows.

Although Liu Xing could now feel that his mouth couldn’t move at all, he could still speak.

So Liu Xing could only whisper, "Zhang Jingxu, Ling Ishikawa, are you there?"

After waiting for a moment, Liu Xing received no response.

Liu Xing couldn’t help but sigh inwardly, it seemed that he had encountered a Plot Encounter.

After all, he had just not heard the sound of dice landing, and KP Bamboo Rat had not come to conduct Judgment, so this should be a Plot Encounter.

After confirming that he had encountered a Plot Encounter, Liu Xing felt relieved instead. After all, there was still the old saying—although the difficulty of the Cthulhu RPG Game’s modules was very high, it wouldn’t inexplicably kill the player directly. So in general, Plot Encounters were just meant to scare the player and wouldn’t cause any substantial harm to the player... Of course, there were still many Plot Encounters that might reduce the player’s sanity points.

For example, now Liu Xing felt that he was starting to lose sanity points. After all, the atmosphere around him was so eerie that it made Liu Xing feel as if he had encountered a ghost pressing down on him, causing an indescribable sense of powerlessness.

This feeling made Liu Xing very uncomfortable, feeling that if this continued, not only would his character card lose sanity points, but he himself would also start to lose sanity points.

Liu Xing still remembered seeing a post on the forum, which said that a player encountered some very strange things in a module. Because this player’s mental resilience was not good to begin with, it resulted in the player still being disturbed after returning to the real world, and eventually going crazy and committing suicide.

At that time, Liu Xing thought that the post was just a scare tactic, after all, the player described in the post had already advanced to the Shoggoth Region, so this player must have experienced all sorts of strange things in the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall during several modules. Therefore, this player was considered battle-hardened and should not be afraid of anything, so how could he be scared crazy in a module and then commit suicide after returning to the real world?

But now, Liu Xing believed in the authenticity of that post, because now Liu Xing also felt that his mental pressure was getting heavier and heavier. If this continued, Liu Xing was almost certain to have a mental breakdown...

Thinking of this, Liu Xing hurriedly tried to contact KP Bamboo Rat, after all, from the current situation, besides hearing the sound of the wind, he could only possibly hear KP Bamboo Rat’s voice.

So Liu Xing could only mentally contact KP Bamboo Rat: "kp, what’s going on now?"

A minute passed, and KP Bamboo Rat didn’t respond at all.

Liu Xing was really desperate this time, because logically, in most cases, the KP would respond to the player.

What’s going on?

Just then, Liu Xing felt that the originally gentle sound of the wind suddenly changed, sounding like a typhoon passing through.

Most importantly, Liu Xing could only hear the sound of the wind now, but couldn’t feel the presence of the wind.

Liu Xing felt that his mentality was really starting to collapse now...

But just then, Liu Xing suddenly felt that everything in front of him was dyed in a rusty brown color, like an old photograph, and the sound of the wind around him disappeared instantly.

Seeing this scene, four words instantly popped into Liu Xing’s mind—Ghatanothoa!

Ghatanothoa is one of the most powerful Outer Gods in the Cthulhu Mythos, known as the Star of Judgment or the Star of Revenge.

Yes, the appearance of Ghatanothoa is very different from that of other Outer Gods and Great Old Ones. Ghatanothoa has the appearance and size of a planet, and its body is composed of gas, ash, and molten iron, so Ghatanothoa usually appears in the form of a huge spherical entity in rusty brown color, with faults and rifts all over its shell, and it often forms a giant eye with its vast molten iron ocean.

As for Ghatanothoa’s ability, it is very simple. It constantly drifts through the universe and continuously chants a celestial music similar to an air raid siren.

celestial music, as Ghatanothoa’s only ability, can awaken all dormant Old Ones or Outer Gods within its range of effect, allowing them to directly enter an active state. The most common result of this is that the awakened Great Old Ones or Outer Gods come forth to destroy the world.

Therefore, in the Cthulhu Mythos, the Death Star can basically be said to refer to Ghatanothoa alone.

And in the Cthulhu RPG Game, most of Ghatanothoa’s attribute values are mostly written as "not applicable," and its health points are described as "incalculable," after all, Ghatanothoa’s true form is that of a huge planet, hanging high in the galaxy.

So although theoretically it is possible to reduce Ghatanothoa’s health points to zero with immeasurable damage, or find a way to reduce Ghatanothoa’s sanity points to zero in order to achieve the effect of expelling Ghatanothoa, this is basically impossible, unless it is an Outer God of the same level like Nyarlathotep or Yog-Sothoth taking action.

Therefore, in general, when Ghatanothoa appears in the module of the Cthulhu RPG Game, it means that there is a 99% chance of world destruction as the outcome of the module, and what the player can do is just to die in a more spectacular way...

As for when Ghatanothoa appears in the module of the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall, it really means that this parallel world is about to enter its end stage, and the ultimate result of this parallel world will be complete destruction!

Just then, Liu Xing suddenly saw a huge sphere reflected on the surface of the lake, and in the middle of this huge sphere appeared an eye, an eye full of evil!

Sure enough, it was Ghatanothoa!

"Player Liu Xing, because you have just seen an indescribable presence through the Mirror Lake, you will now undergo a sanity points check of 1d10," KP Bamboo Rat suddenly said.

And at this moment, KP Bamboo Rat’s voice sounded to Liu Xing like celestial music.

1d10 = 4.

The moment the sanity points check result came out, Liu Xing felt that everything around him returned to normal, and he also heard Ling Ishikawa’s voice speaking.

But because he had just lost 4 sanity points, Liu Xing suddenly felt a splitting headache and collapsed to the ground.

Liu Xing’s sudden fall startled Ling Ishikawa and the others, but seeing Liu Xing on the ground, curled up in pain, Ling Ishikawa and Zhang Jingxu instantly realized that something was wrong with Liu Xing.

So Zhang Jingxu took out a small bottle from his pocket, poured out a pill, and stuffed it into Liu Xing’s mouth.

The moment the pill entered his mouth, Liu Xing felt that the symptoms of his headache were alleviated a lot.

"There are outsiders here, let’s take Ryuusei back to the club activity room first," Zhang Jingxu said as he helped Liu Xing up.

So Zhang Jingxu and the others escorted Liu Xing back to the club activity room.

After drinking a cup of sugar-added hot water, Liu Xing finally felt like he had returned to normal, except that his head was still a bit dizzy.

"Ryuusei, what just happened to you? How did you suddenly collapse without any warning?" Ling Ishikawa asked seriously.

Liu Xing heard the hidden meaning in Ling Ishikawa’s words, knowing that only he had seen Ghatanothoa this time, and Ling Ishikawa and Zhang Jingxu probably didn’t know that he had just undergone a sanity points check.

But because "Watanabe Ryuusei" didn’t know about Ghatanothoa’s existence, after all, in the setting of the Cthulhu RPG Game, there were very few followers of Ghatanothoa on Earth, and there were very few records related to Ghatanothoa, so it was normal for "Watanabe Ryuusei" to not know about Ghatanothoa.

Therefore, Liu Xing could only say, "I don’t know what happened just now. I suddenly felt dizzy, unable to control my body, and couldn’t hear any sound except for the sound of the wind; I don’t know how long it lasted, the sound of the wind suddenly became sharp, and then it disappeared instantly. Everything in my eyes suddenly turned brownish-red, and then I saw a huge sphere with an eye reflected on the surface of the lake!"

As soon as Liu Xing finished speaking, the cup in Zhang Jingxu’s hand fell directly to the ground.

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