Dice In The Darkness: Cthulhu Calls
Chapter 567: Mirror World (1)

Chapter 567: Mirror World (1)

As a seasoned player of the Cthulhu RPG Game, Zhang Jingxu and Ling Ishikawa immediately realized that Liu Xing was referring to Ghatanothoa.

As for what Ghatanothoa represents, they certainly also know.

So, Zhang Jingxu was so lost in thought, because Zhang Jingxu never thought that Liu Xing would encounter Ghatanothoa at this time.

"Mr. Zhang Jingxu, do you know what the giant eyeball-like sphere that Ryuusei mentioned is?" Hashi Motojun asked curiously.

Of course, Hashi Motojun should also know that Liu Xing was referring to Ghatanothoa, and Hashi Motojun is now quite anxious, because Hashi Motojun deeply understands one truth - when the nest is destroyed, where can the complete egg be?

The appearance of Ghatanothoa means that the Great Old Ones who are sleeping on Earth and in the vicinity of Earth will wake up one by one, and then Earth will enter the final countdown, and they don’t know how they will die at that time...

So Hashi Motojun is now a little depressed and a little desperate, after all, he has just started his Cthulhu RPG Game career, and the result is that he has to be forcibly torn up before playing a few modules, how can Hashi Motojun not be depressed?

So Hashi Motojun can only ask Zhang Jingxu with a glimmer of hope, hoping that Zhang Jingxu can tell him that he is wrong, or that Liu Xing has misjudged...

"I’m not sure what that thing Ryuusei mentioned is either, because I’ve never heard of such an existence, but judging from Ryuusei’s recent experience, I can be sure that thing is a very terrifying existence," Zhang Jingxu said helplessly.

However, at this time, Ling Ishikawa raised his hand and said, "If nothing goes wrong, I think I actually know what Liu Xing is talking about, because I once heard my cheap teacher mention it - the Death Omen Star."

Liu Xing was taken aback, not expecting Ling Ishikawa to actually know Ghatanothoa, but thinking about it, it’s understandable, after all, Ling Ishikawa’s cheap teacher Serak is a well-known Wizard in the Cthulhu myth, so it’s normal for him to know Ghatanothoa.

At this point, Ling Ishikawa continued, "About the Death Omen Star, my cheap teacher only said that it is an existence even more powerful than the Great Old Ones, and for some reason it keeps moving in the universe, and it will bring destructive effects to all the planets it passes through, almost no planet can escape the fate of being destroyed, even those with powerful alien civilizations, so if Ryuusei you didn’t see it wrong, then we are really in big trouble now, after all, the Deep Diving Society is no different from ants in the face of the Death Omen Star."

Ling Ishikawa’s words plunged the people present into silence.

However, at this time, Liu Xing suddenly remembered the key word that KP Bamboo Rat mentioned in his previous words - the Lake in the Mirror!

Mirror World?!

Liu Xing now recalled that the second module he played after entering the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall was in the Mirror World, and it seems that he was targeted by Cthulhu at that time.

So, is he now branded with the label of the Mirror World? Is that why only he can see the Ghatanothoa of the Mirror World?

But now a very important question stands before Liu Xing, and that is what kind of world is the Mirror World?

Although in that module Liu Xing knew that many places in the real world would have projections in the Mirror World, such as the Fengzhou Shrine at the time, and possibly the city of R’lyeh, but apart from that, Liu Xing had no knowledge of the Mirror World.

And in the memories of "WatanabeRyuusei", there is also no news about the Mirror World.

So Liu Xing now realizes that he only knows the existence of the Mirror World, but as for the specific situation of the Mirror World, he is completely ignorant... except that the Mirror World is the opposite of the real world...

Liu Xing now feels a headache again.

If the Mirror World is like the Dreamrealm, although it is derived from the real world, but there is no substantial connection between the two, then this is good news for Liu Xing, because it means that the Ghatanothoa of the Mirror World should not affect the real world; but if the Mirror World has a certain substantive connection with the real world, then the Ghatanothoa of the Mirror World will more or less affect the real world, and then the Great Old Ones in the real world may start to Party.

In addition, Liu Xing also recalled a detail, that is, when he saw Ghatanothoa in the Mirror World, he did not hear the "celestial music", because the "celestial music" emitted by Ghatanothoa is still very distinctive, sounding like a sharp air raid siren.

Now Liu Xing can be sure that at that time he only heard the sound of the wind, and Liu Xing can also be sure that he will not mistake the sound of the wind for the sound of the air raid siren, so Liu Xing can now confirm that he did not hear the "celestial music" of Ghatanothoa in the Mirror World at that time.

This can’t help but make Liu Xing breathe a sigh of relief.

Because as a Cthulhu RPG Game player nicknamed the "Death Songstress" of Ghatanothoa, the "celestial music" is Ghatanothoa’s signature skill, or rather Ghatanothoa’s only skill, so a Ghatanothoa that does not emit "celestial music" will greatly reduce its threat.

So from an optimistic point of view, Liu Xing feels that he just accidentally wandered into the Mirror World, and then just happened to encounter the passing Ghatanothoa.

However, what makes Liu Xing a little surprised now is that Cross Lake seems to be connected to the Mirror World, it seems that their previous guesses about Cross Lake were wrong, such as the water in Cross Lake that can never be drained, it may not be caused by that mythical creature, but may be because the lake water of Cross Lake is connected to the Mirror World.

As for that mythical creature, it is also possible that it does not live in Cross Lake, but lives in the lake in the mirror.

And the students who "died without a complete body" in Cross Lake, they are very likely to have been transported to the Mirror World.

Now many things about Cross Lake can be explained.

But most importantly, there should be an unstable passage leading to the Mirror World on Cross Lake, so he was temporarily transported to the Mirror World, and then after seeing Ghatanothoa, he was transported back... thinking about it carefully, Liu Xing feels that his luck is really bad, being mysteriously sent to the Mirror World to take a glimpse of Ghatanothoa, and losing 4 sanity points because of it.

At this moment, Meng Mengzi and Mu Yao entered the club activity room.

"Eh, isn’t this senior Hashi Motojun? What are you doing in our China club? But classmate Ryuusei, what’s wrong with you, your face looks so bad?" Meng Mengzi said in surprise.

Unexpectedly, Meng Mengzi actually knows Hashi Motojun.

Hashi Motojun chuckled and shook his head, saying, "Oh, it’s sister Meng! I didn’t expect you and classmate Ryuusei to be in the same club? We are good friends with classmate Ryuusei, we were just chatting in the pavilion on Cross Lake, but classmate Ryuusei might have been a little sunstroke, so we just brought him over... Okay, we still need to go find Professor Hirao to get a document, so we’ll take our leave first, classmate Ryuusei, you rest well, sister Meng, we’ll chat again later."

After Hashi Motojun spoke, he took Yamada Tatsuo and the others and left the club activity room.

After seeing Hashi Motojun leave, Meng Mengzi said with some emotion, "This world is really small, I didn’t expect you, Zhang Jingxu classmate, to know senior Hashimoto. I was originally planning to find an opportunity to introduce you to senior Hashimoto today, after all, senior Hashimoto also participated in the Summoning Ritual held by Mizuta Saki."

At this point, Mu Yao added, "Meng Mengzi and senior Hashimoto are in the same department, and they also have a common teacher, that is, the Professor Hirao just mentioned by senior Hashimoto. But the most important thing is that Meng Mengzi and senior Hashimoto are both class representatives of Professor Hirao, so Meng Mengzi and senior Hashimoto have known each other for a long time, and Meng Mengzi seems to quite like senior Hashimoto."

"Oh~"

Liu Xing and the others said meaningfully.

Meng Mengzi looked at Mu Yao with a flushed face and said angrily, "Mu Yao, you damned girl, what are you talking about?! I won’t talk to you anymore in the future."

Seeing this, Liu Xing couldn’t help but sigh in his heart, beginning to mourn for Meng Mengzi’s romance that hadn’t even begun yet, after all, as a player, Hashi Motojun is destined never to be with Meng Mengzi, an NPC.

Mu Yao chuckled and said to Liu Xing, "classmate Ryuusei, how are you feeling now, do you want to go to the school clinic?"

Liu Xing shook his head and said, "Thank you for your concern, senior Mu, I’m almost fine now, I should be able to rest at home."

Because of the arrival of Mu Yao and Meng Mengzi, Liu Xing and the others definitely couldn’t discuss the problem in the club activity room anymore, so Liu Xing took the opportunity to leave the club activity room with the group.

After having a casual lunch outside Tokyo Comprehensive University, Liu Xing and the others went home.

After returning home, Ling Ishikawa asked, "Ryuusei, should we notify Zhang Wenbing and the others about this matter?"

Liu Xing nodded and said seriously, "We must contact Zhang Wenbing and Ming Hanxing, and have them meet in the club activity room tonight. After all, if that thing is really the Death Omen Star that Ling Ishikawa mentioned, then this matter is of grave importance!"

Ling Ishikawa nodded. The appearance of Ghatanothoa cannot be described in just four words as "of grave importance", because this involves the survival of this parallel world. They might not even know how they die, so it is necessary to use a Private Room session to discuss this.

Then, the still somewhat uncomfortable Liu Xing went back to his room to sleep... Of course, sleeping is just an excuse, Liu Xing’s real purpose is to see if the Yellow King will come and chat with him.

After all, if nothing goes wrong, the Yellow King should know that he saw Ghatanothoa in the Mirror World, and the Yellow King should also be very clear about Ghatanothoa’s ability.

So after returning to his room, Liu Xing started to keep his eyes open and wait for the Yellow King to appear.

But after half an hour, Liu Xing’s eyes became a little dry, so he decided to close them.

Then, five minutes later, Liu Xing really fell asleep...

At 6 p.m., Liu Xing was woken up by Ling Ishikawa to have dinner.

To be honest, Liu Xing felt a bit gloomy at the moment, because he didn’t know why the Yellow King didn’t show up to see him.

Could it be that after learning about Ghatanothoa’s appearance, the Yellow King has returned to his hometown to await the awakening of his main body?

Or maybe the Yellow King doesn’t know about his trip to the Mirror World?

Liu Xing shook his head, these questions can probably only be answered when he sees the Yellow King again.

After dinner, after making sure there was no one in the club activity room, Liu Xing and the others went to the club activity room first. As for Lu Tianya, she was sent by Zhang Jingxu to go shopping with Meng Mengzi and the others, on the pretext of "to avoid Meng Mengzi and the others suddenly coming to the club activity room to disturb the discussion of everyone".

Of course, Lu Tianya also expressed her own doubts, which was "Why are you guys having the discussion in the school’s club activity room instead of at Ryuusei’s house?"

Faced with Lu Tianya’s question, Zhang Jingxu, who didn’t know how to answer for a moment, hesitated and replied with a sentence "There are some things you don’t understand yet."

Of course, before leaving, Lu Tianya didn’t forget to give Zhang Jingxu a disdainful look, and then warned Zhang Jingxu not to try to do any big health maintenance business...

Soon, Ming Hanxing and Zhang Wenbing also arrived at the club activity room.

The Private Room session started.

"Liu Xing, are you really sure what you saw was Ghatanothoa?!" Ming Hanxing asked impatiently.

Liu Xing nodded and said seriously, "Yes, I can confirm that what I saw at the time was Ghatanothoa. After all, the distinctive features of Ghatanothoa are so obvious, how could I have mistaken it? However, it’s worth mentioning that I didn’t see Ghatanothoa in the real world, but in the Mirror World!"

Then, Liu Xing recounted everything he had encountered in the Mirror World, and also shared his conjectures.

As soon as Liu Xing finished speaking, Zhang Wenbing frowned and said, "Regarding the Mirror World, I actually have some understanding, because I have participated in two modules that occurred in the Mirror World, so I have deliberately investigated the Mirror World. But whether in the modules or on the forums, there is very little information about the Mirror World, and it’s almost just superficial knowledge."

"Please elaborate." Liu Xing and the others said in unison.

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