CHAPTER 574: COUNTDOWN TO DOOMSDAY

As is well known, the Island Nation has always been a country with frequent earthquakes, with basically a small quake every three days and a big quake every five days, so in this module alone Liu Xing has already experienced two noticeable earthquakes.

However, the magnitude of those two noticeable earthquakes was not high, and Liu Xing thought they were just his own illusions at the time, but "WatanabeRyuusei"’s subconscious gave him a clear answer - this was an earthquake.

Of course, although the Island Nation has frequent earthquakes, in most cases they are just minor tremors, and like the big earthquake that just happened, in "WatanabeRyuusei"’s view, it should be at least a magnitude 7 earthquake or above, but the epicenter should not be in Tokyo.

Of course, what Liu Xing wants to know most now is whether this earthquake was naturally produced or caused by Ghatanothoa.

If it is the former, then everything is still fine, at least it is just a certain region in trouble, but if it is the latter, then the whole Earth will be in trouble next.

But anyway, Liu Xing feels that he is now facing a very important problem, which is how to break the current awkward atmosphere.

After all, the Yellow King’s face is now terribly black... Although the Yellow King has always been black, but in Liu Xing’s eyes, the Yellow King’s face is now black and multicolored...

But Liu Xing really doesn’t know what to say now.

After a minute of awkwardness, the Yellow King suddenly disappeared.

Seeing this, Liu Xing couldn’t help but heave a sigh of relief.

But at this moment, Liu Xing suddenly remembered something, that is, Zhang Jingxu and the others are still lying on the ground.

If the earthquake just now knocked down the lighting fixtures or something, and they happened to hit their heads, it would be troublesome.

So Liu Xing immediately came to the living room and found that Zhang Jingxu and the others had regained consciousness and were not injured.

"Wow, the magnitude of that earthquake must have been over 7, I almost thought this building was going to collapse." Ling Ishikawa said with lingering fear.

Seeing this, Liu Xing heaved another sigh of relief, it seems that the Yellow King also did not forget to instill a false memory in Ling Ishikawa and the others when he left, making them think they were knocked down by the earthquake, so Liu Xing doesn’t need to make up an excuse to explain why Ling Ishikawa and the others were suddenly lying on the ground.

At this time, Zhang Jingxu, who was holding a mobile phone, nodded and said, "According to the latest news, the earthquake just now occurred in the Fukushima region of the Island Nation, with a magnitude of 7.5 so far, but the most important thing is that the communication facilities in the Fukushima area have been damaged, and Fukushima is now completely isolated, and several main transportation routes to Fukushima have been cut off due to secondary disasters such as landslides and ground subsidence caused by the earthquake, so Fukushima has now become an island."

Liu Xing raised his eyebrows, this plot seems a bit familiar, if nothing goes wrong, there will be several more modules appearing in the Fukushima area.

"Wait, there’s also a breaking news that the earthquake in Fukushima has caused severe damage to a nuclear power plant in the region, and if it’s not handled in time, there is a very likely chance of a nuclear leak, so the Island Nation authorities have issued a high-reward bounty to recruit a suicide squad to urgently go to the Fukushima nuclear power plant for repairs." Zhang Jingxu said with a frown.

Liu Xing looked somewhat surprised at Zhang Jingxu, not expecting the Fukushima nuclear power plant in this parallel world to be damaged just now.

Liu Xing checked his mobile phone and found that in the big earthquake that caused a tsunami several years ago, the Fukushima area was also affected by the tsunami and earthquake, but the nuclear power plant there did not have any problems. However, after the recent earthquake, the person in charge of the nuclear power plant used a satellite phone to notify the Island Nation authorities that several reactors in the nuclear power plant were showing abnormalities and that people needed to be urgently dispatched for repairs.

But what Liu Xing is most concerned about is that the news mentioned that the person in charge was suddenly silenced while reporting the situation, although the phone call was not hung up, it was not until a few minutes later that it was suddenly cut off.

Liu Xing knows that the Fukushima nuclear power plant is very likely to have been invaded by a mythical creature.

This makes the situation at the Fukushima nuclear power plant even more complicated.

At this time, KP Bamboo Rat suddenly said seriously, "Players, please note that due to the latest update completed by the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall, the parallel world you are currently in is about to open the final event - the end of the world. Now, after each module you experience ends, there will be an assessment, and the results of the assessment will determine how many points of destruction will be generated in this module. These points of destruction will be divided into two parts: national and global. When the points of destruction reach a certain value, various events will occur. For details, players can check through the character card interface after returning to the real world, but the points of destruction can now be viewed directly in the module, just by entering your character card interface."

Liu Xing frowned, not expecting the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall to update at this time, and just happened to update this so-called "final event" and "points of destruction".

It is obvious that the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall has made the destruction of the parallel world more data-oriented, because Liu Xing knew that in the past, most players in those parallel worlds only realized that their parallel world was about to be destroyed when they saw the Great Old One make a dazzling appearance, so these players felt very depressed about it, because it was like playing an online game, everything was going well, and then suddenly a notice popped up saying that the game was about to be shut down, and then the game was gone just like that.

Although those players understood that even if they knew their parallel world was about to be destroyed, they had no way to save the world, because only the big shot players in that parallel world would have the ability to do so, they still didn’t want to die suddenly and without any sense of participation.

So there was a post on the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall forum titled "If the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall had a suggestion box, what kind of suggestions would you make to it", and the most popular response was to have the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall optimize the game experience for ordinary players when their parallel world is destroyed, at least give them some preparation time to transfer all the items on their character cards.

So now it seems that the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall is willing to accept player feedback, and in this new version update, it has greatly increased the sense of participation for ordinary players in the end of the world.

Although ordinary players can’t save the world, they can also be said to have contributed their part to the destruction of the world... Although this sounds a bit strange.

But anyway, Liu Xing suddenly felt a bit worried, because while it’s good that the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall is willing to listen to player feedback, the most popular suggestion in that thread was to let the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall start a public test as soon as possible, so that everyone on Earth can play the Cthulhu RPG Game.

Although many players, like Liu Xing, certainly don’t want their family and friends to participate in the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall, there are also quite a few players who want to take revenge on society and don’t want just themselves to be on the brink of death, so they want everyone to enter the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall to fight for their lives.

So Liu Xing can only hope that the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall won’t accept this suggestion.

But anyway, now that this parallel world has opened the countdown to doomsday, if the various disasters that occur due to the accumulated points of destruction are also projected one by one into the real world, then the ordinary people in the real world will also "have no gaming experience" and die without knowing why.

Will the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall give those ordinary people in the real world an "optimized gaming experience"?

Liu Xing sighed, brought up his character card interface, and found that the points of destruction for both Island Nation and the whole world were still zero, after all, this destruction points system has just been activated.

Next to the points of destruction, there is an explanation - when the points of destruction of a country reach 1,000 points, the first nationwide major disaster will be triggered, and as for the first global major disaster, it requires 10,000 points of destruction.

As for how many points of destruction can destroy the world, that is still an unknown.

"By the way, do you think this Fukushima earthquake might have been caused by the influence of the Death Omen Star? Because my cheap master once told me that the arrival of the Death Omen Star not only can awaken the sleeping Great Old Ones, but can also cause various natural disasters on the planet." Ling Ishikawa suddenly said.

Although there is no conclusive evidence yet that it is because Ghatanothoa passing by the Mirror World’s Earth that has caused this parallel world to enter the countdown to doomsday, Liu Xing feels that this possibility is very high, and he can also be sure that when the points of destruction accumulate to a certain value, Ghatanothoa’s main body will be suspended in the sky.

So Liu Xing nodded and said, "I think this is very likely. After all, there are no such coincidences in this world. I just saw the Death Omen Star, and then the Fukushima earthquake happened, and this earthquake really didn’t have any precursor at all."

Zhang Jingxu, standing beside him, put down his mobile phone and shook his head, saying, "I’d rather believe this is just a coincidence. After all, Island Nation has earthquakes frequently, and if the earthquake was really caused by the Death Omen Star, then we should be able to witness the end of the world in our lifetime."

Zhang Jingxu’s words made everyone fall silent.

After a while, Liu Xing sighed and said, "Blessing or curse, you can’t escape your destiny. Since we can’t witness the origin of humanity, it’s also a kind of luck that we have the opportunity to witness the destruction of humanity. But anyway, if there is really a nuclear leak at the Fukushima nuclear power plant this time, we may encounter mutated mythical creatures in the future."

Although many mythical creatures are immortal and don’t get sick, nuclear radiation will still have a certain impact on them, and may even cause mutations. However, since the genes of mythical creatures are relatively strong, the mutations that occur on them are basically benign enhancements.

Therefore, the mutated mythical creatures will be even more troublesome.

This made Liu Xing silently mourn for the players currently in the Fukushima area for three seconds.

After all, judging from the current situation, the Fukushima nuclear power plant is now likely to be doomed, because if nothing happens at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, how will the module plot in the Fukushima area develop next?

In other words, it’s a Plot Encounter, and there’s really no room for maneuvering.

Thinking about this, Liu Xing also started to consider whether he should try to leave Island Nation after completing this module, so that he doesn’t find himself in the Fukushima area the next time he enters a module.

"By the way, Ryuusei, has OkoHayato given you any new information?" Zhang Jingxu changed the subject.

Liu Xing nodded and said, "The mirror point at Cross Lake has not been officially registered by the Island Nation authorities, so I think the mythical creature residing in or under the Mirror World’s Cross Lake may have the ability to control the mirror point, including the opening of the mirror point and the teleportation of specified humans. So we don’t need to worry about the Deep Diving Society being able to catch it. In addition, Inukai Abe will indeed come to Tokyo Comprehensive University for an inspection lecture, and OkoHayato and the others have already come to the school today to prepare for it, after all, Inukai Abe is also one of the Thousand Face’s targets of revenge. However, due to the recent Fukushima earthquake, Inukai Abe’s schedule may be greatly delayed or even cancelled."

As soon as Liu Xing finished speaking, there was a knock at the door.

Liu Xing opened the door to find Miguel standing there, holding a large box.

It seems that the big box should contain the bottle of wine that Liu Xing asked HonekawaSuneo for this morning.

After letting Miguel come in, Liu Xing noticed that HonekawaSuneo was following behind Miguel, but HonekawaSuneo looked a bit disheveled, with scratches all over his body.

"Suneo, are you okay?" Liu Xing asked with concern.

HonekawaSuneo shook his head and said with lingering fear, "Miguel and I were just about to get on the elevator, but the sudden earthquake caused the elevator to just plummet to the ground floor. Luckily Miguel was right next to me, otherwise I might have been crippled or even killed today."

Liu Xing raised an eyebrow, not expecting HonekawaSuneo’s luck to be this bad.

Liu Xing found some alcohol to disinfect HonekawaSuneo’s wounds, and at this time, Miguel, who had put down the big box, suddenly said, "Master, if everything goes as expected, this earthquake may not have been naturally formed, because I can feel the special waves generated by that machine."

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