late at night.

After sending Xiaoxue back to the dormitory, Chen Qiang hurried to the hospital and contacted the police station.

From the beginning to the end of the module, Du Yingfei and the thief who was "accidentally involved in the module" lasted for less than five minutes, and both fell into a coma due to excessive fright. Chen Qiang also received a prompt from [Unlocking the Secret Game Hall].

Well, it is indeed very dangerous for the investigator to be alone, and he has no one to take care of him if he is temporarily mentally ill.

Du Yingfei was simply frightened and did not suffer any serious injuries. The doctor said that he could recover completely after a few days of rest. With Tu Lizhu's continuous comfort, Chen Qiang saw that his SAN had recovered by 1 o'clock.

Although the loss of reason may cause a continuous psychological shadow, even in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s, the most classic background of the Cthulhu running group game, the investigators can slowly recover after the module is over. In a modern era where conditions are better, investigators have a chance to recover faster.

The thief's condition was slightly worse, and he had to continue to go to the detention center after being discharged from the hospital.

He ordered the medical fee to be calculated on his head, and Chen Qiang left the hospital.

...

Uncle Xu's van.

"Are you okay?"

Uncle Xu looked at Chen Qiang who was lying in the back seat of the car worriedly.

"It's okay," Chen Qiang shook his hand, "I'm not you, I'm fine if I stay up all night."

Staying up late with mythical creatures, unless he can't think it through...

After shaking his head to keep himself awake, Chen Qiang looked at his phone and clicked on the "Cthulhu's Secret Guardian" APP.

【Secret Game Hall】

[Unlock the secret game hall and you can receive a set of real-life devices for investigators using mythology technology. If you detect that you already have the device, do you choose to give up the reward and instead randomly obtain an investigator talent or a secret person talent?]

"I choose talent." Chen Qiang did not hesitate.

【Acquired the investigator talent: Burning Luck.】

[After you make a sanity or skill check, you can spend the lucky value to change the result, and the points are deducted from your lucky value. Warning! You do not have the talent to "reply lucky" and burning luck may cause your luck to be permanently reduced and affect outside the module!]

“…”

It's a good ability, but why can't you be happy?

"Burning Luck" can turn a failed check into success, but the price is a permanent deduction of his own luck. Chen Qiang's luck is only 50, and he cannot withstand several burns at all.

"It cannot be used until the critical moment of life and death." Chen Qiang made a decision immediately.

【Secret Hall Mission】

Hey, there are still tasks?

【Task name: a small goal

Difficulty: Lower race

Task description: Run a "State Fortress" company and earn a net profit of 100 million ($).

Reward: Increase credit rating by 1%】

"..." Something must have happened to the system's understanding of difficulty.

A US$100 million is extremely difficult for Chen Qiang - the system probably won't let him cheat - let alone what he wants is not net assets, but net profit.

Although Migo technology and Is technology are unparalleled on the earth, Chen Qiang dare not show it with great fanfare!

【Task Name: More Sacrifices...Okay, more investigators

Difficulty: Superior race

Task Description: With 20 investigators, 4/20 has been completed】

So how much does this task mean that it is more difficult than the previous one? And what about the rewards of this task?

[Task name: Pass the level!

Difficulty: The only existence

Task description: Including trials, as a secret guard or investigator, the exploration rate in any module reaches more than 75%.]

Chen Qiang breathed a sigh of relief.

These tasks are basically guiding him to use the secret guard function normally.

The standard for measuring difficulty of "the secret keeper of Cthulhu" is "lower race" - "higher race" - "only existence" (a powerful creature with nearly immortal life but not yet possessing true divinity) - "old dominator" - "outer god".

Fortunately, I have not yet gone to explore tasks such as haunted houses or mysterious caves.

Perhaps the system realized that even if such a task was issued, Chen Qiang, who had the right to trigger the module, would use his money ability to crush him...

As for the rewards not written in the next two tasks, Chen Qiang did not take it seriously.

Perhaps, the reward will be determined based on the style of the task being completed?

【Management Trial Devices (currently 5)】

【Through the Mythical Device, you can let the investigator enter the trial space and trigger some modules that cannot be triggered in the real world】

[The loss of rational value in the trial space will not be directly fed back to real rationality, but when the investigator finishes the trial, he will make a unified rational check based on his experience in the module]

[Warning! Once the investigator discovers the nature of the trial space, it may trigger larger-scale loss of real rationality!]

[Half of the virtual sanity lost in the trial space will enter the sanity pool]

[Taking an example, in the trial space, when a sensible investigator loses 90 points of reason and fails the trial, the sanity pool of the secret keeper will be included in 45 points.]

[Non-investors can also use the trial space, but they cannot accumulate a sanity pool]

"...If I had known, I would have called the company the main god company." Chen Qiang muttered.

"What?" Uncle Xu didn't understand.

"To be honest, Uncle Xu, you should read more online articles and animations, otherwise there will be a generation gap with Leilei in the future..."

"Oh..." Uncle Xu continued to feel unconscious.

"At least," Chen Qiang closed his eyes and rested. Uncle Xu couldn't understand anyway, "I won't be able to make ends meet now."

Returning the reason in the rational pool to the investigator is the ratio of two to one. If this continues, the total amount of rationality will inevitably decrease.

Now that there is room for trial, I can finally accumulate more rational value while protecting the investigators' roughly safe.

"If Xiaoxue still has to go to Arkham in the end, before that," Chen Qiang thought, "we must accumulate enough rational pool to try to restore Xiaoxue and my own rationality, as well as the number of times he uses the "God of Gods".

"I have the right to trigger the module, but even if the module is not triggered, the mythical creatures will not stay there. I just have the initiative."

"After this analysis, it is best to select a group of qualified investigators and teammates to assist me and Xiaoxue. After all, that's Arkham."

“Um…”

...

The next day. The first day of the Qingming Festival holiday.

In the board game club activity room.

Xiaoxue looked at the message sent by Chen Qiang, and was amused and crying.

[I've overslept... I heard that there are still a few people coming to run with you today for my "Summer Strange Talk" group? I can't get up anymore, today Gugu... I'll pass on the information to you later. Xiaoxue, you have learned the rules, why don't you be the secret keeper to open...]

Xiaoxue looked down and saw the following content of the module "Summer Strange Talk":

"The core puzzle of the story: The monster attacks the ice cream merchant and becomes what he looks like..."

Xiaoxue sighed.

"What's wrong?" Bai Shaobao, who was eager to run a group, asked. He built a hunter card that matched his ancestors' identity.

"The secret keeper has been staying for two consecutive nights, but he can't get up, so he's gurgling."

“…”

I really didn't expect that Chen Qiang was also a pigeon spirit.

"So if you don't mind," Xiaoxue quickly browsed the module, "Can you please let me take the role of this host?"
Chapter completed!