Chapter 2 Panel
Name: Chen Lun
Race: Human (Eastern Continent)
Template: NPC (countdown to version 1.0 public beta: 407 days, 5 hours, 18 minutes and 07 seconds)
Level: 3
Experience: 0/120
Life: 26/40 (starvation, hindbrain damage)
Physical strength: 40/60
Sanity: 4/5 (recovering slowly)
Main occupation: None
Sub-occupation: [Fisherman LV3]
Attributes: Strength 4, Dexterity 6, Endurance 5, Intelligence 3, Faith 3
Special attributes: Charm 7 (+2), Will 5, Insight 3, Luck 3
Skills: Quick eyesight LV1 (passive), Sea balance LV1 (passive)
Combat strength: 4
[Evaluation: A somewhat handsome young fisherman, but otherwise useless, a piece of trash. 】
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"——Uhhhhh!!"
A shrill scream woke up Chen Lun.
He quickly climbed up from the ground, looked up from his knees, and saw that the woman in the prison opposite was wailing in pain, half of her body hidden in the darkness, and moving eyes kept popping up on her legs exposed to the firelight. son.
Densely packed and terrifying.
"Go back! I'll break your bones again!"
With a scolding, Chen Lun's sight was blocked by a tall and thin black figure.
Looking up, he found a guard standing in front of him across the prison cell, looking down. The cold and malicious eyes of the other party under the backlight made Chen Lun very uncomfortable. However, the situation was stronger than others, so he had to lower his head and sit down in the corner of the prison without saying a word.
"Ignorant idiot! Poor guy! Don't be so curious about everything..."
The guard looked around at the other people in the prison, his mustache slightly raised.
"Don't even look outside! Just take one look and chop off one of your fingers!"
He held the dagger at his waist, and the guard and scabbard rubbed slightly, making a crisp sound.
Everyone in the prison backed away in fear and turned their heads away from the scene outside.
The guard snorted coldly, then turned around with satisfaction, but he was still cursing. Chen Lun vaguely heard his complaints about Brother Will.
"Quick! Move quickly!"
"The sacrifice of Group 4 is distorted, take her away and deal with it quickly!"
Crowds of footsteps sounded in the corridor outside. Chen Lun kept his head down and raised his gaze to observe with his peripheral vision. Three or four guards in fur coats and brimmed hats picked up the woman in the prison opposite and threw her into a sack. Gone.
They moved very quickly, without wasting any time. It seemed that if they were slower, something terrible would happen.
Chen Lun slowly exhaled the turbid air in his chest. He had actually secretly guessed the truth.
According to his many years of game experience, the woman was probably contaminated by a mysterious thing and her body was deformed. When her sanity dropped to 0, she would completely lose control and turn into a monster.
The person must be dead by then, and all that will be moved is her body, a ball of rotten flesh containing a crazy will...
"What to do..."
Chen Lun began to think.
Because he was in the dungeon at the moment, he had no idea what time it was in the outside world, but the evening sacrifice was definitely getting closer.
Sacrifice!
This word is not difficult to understand, but in the magical world of "The Age of Secrets" that includes Cthulhu and New Weird Tales, it is just a general term, not a sacrifice to God in a simple sense.
Chen Lun knew very clearly that the objects sacrificed by the Red Apple Church were the "weird objects" they had spent a lot of manpower and material resources to collect, and the sacrifices were various living creatures, including living people.
But in a sense, this so-called sacrifice is more like a kind of research.
The Red Apple Church has been secretly studying the "weird objects" in an attempt to fully grasp the mysterious power contained in the "weird objects".
Chen Lun's identity at this time was the "sacrifice" of the "strange object" that Brother Will's group was responsible for in the guard's mouth!
[Weird objects] can be understood as spiritual treasures and magic weapons in fantasy works of immortals in "The Age of Secrets", but unlike spiritual treasures and magic weapons, these [weird objects] are more bizarre and uncontrollable. Its birth method is unknown, its effective mechanism is unknown, its characteristics and usage methods are all unknown...
Even the form of existence is unknown.
There are small objects everywhere, a pen, a coffee cup or a gun...a slightly larger table, chair or even a house or car. Of course, it could also be a living animal, such as a bug, a kitten or a puppy, flying in the sky and swimming in the sea... it could even be a human being.
And no one would dare to use these [weird things] unless a lot of human life is spent on research and trial and error, because it is very likely that you will die inexplicably before you start using it.
Seeing the abnormal performance of the woman just now, Chen Lun thought of a famous [weird object]. The characteristic of the person polluted by it is that the whole body is covered with eyeballs, and that [weird object] also comes from Red Apple church.
"If it's really that thing..."
Chen Lun wiped away the cold sweat and had a bad feeling in his heart.
In his previous life, he was not a powerful player. Unlike most people, he was not keen on the pursuit of strength. He was only in the middle echelon. Instead, he was more fascinated by the background story and world view in the game.
His favorite thing, apart from digging out side stories in the game and traveling around to experience the local customs, is reading through various interesting posts about the world of "Secret Age" on the forum.
Chen Lun remembered that he had read a detailed introduction about the Red Apple Church, which contained information about the [weird object].
[Grade A magic potted plant with back sun]
The transformation of a saint who abandoned his belief in the sun after his death has a strong repelling power, especially for extraordinary beings in the solar system.
According to legend, the Tourmaline King City of the Trisur Empire underwent a reconstruction, and it was the culprit.
This [Trick] belongs to Sister Floy, one of the bosses of the Red Apple Church.
"The blood rains on me, and I watch the sunflowers bow their heads after the rain, and the sunflowers watch the sun burn and die."——Floyd
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"I hope [Back Sun Potted Plant] won't be here..."
Chen Lun felt that he was sweating more and more, his back was soaked, and he felt a bit cold.
“I don’t want to be unlucky enough to be buried with these people!”
"We have to find a way to escape quickly!"
According to the timeline, the [Back Sun Potted Plant] at this time has not yet been fully mastered by the Red Apple Church. They will definitely continue to frantically invest in living people for trial and error, but the problem lies in the danger of this [A-level monster] It's too high, like a nuclear bomb that could explode at any time.
It's okay for these damn lunatics to keep testing on the verge of destruction, but they can't become a fish in the pond.
Chen Lun controlled himself to calm down, took a few deep breaths, and thought seriously.
He remembered that he was in a coma due to the loss of SAN value after witnessing the woman's distortion, and it seemed that he had activated his panel at the last moment.
"Yes, panel!"
Chen Lun quickly called out his character panel, intending to find a way to save himself.
After spending a few minutes browsing it carefully, he frowned tightly.
The first thing that caught his attention was his NPC template and the countdown to the open beta.
The original surprise due to the appearance of the panel faded a lot in an instant, because he seemed to have lost his identity as a player and the resurrection ability that he relied on as the fourth natural disaster.
This also means that he only has one life.
The countdown reminds Chen Lun that the current time point is before the game begins, that is, one year before the 1.0 version of the Red Apple Church wreaks havoc on the empire.
This means that the Red Apple Church is still dormant, and its strength is far less than it was when it was at its peak.
On the other hand, because the Red Apple Church is headquartered in the Royal City, they do not dare to so unscrupulously invest a large number of human lives in trial and error [strange things] under the eyes of the royal family, so Chen Lun guessed that the prison he was in was probably in a church branch in a remote area. department.
"This also means there is a shortage of staff here, which is good news."
But Chen Lun did not relax his vigilance, because he did not have any extraordinary abilities yet, he was just an ordinary person.
As for the [Fisherman LV3] that comes with him, forget it. Do you want him to perform high-end fishing skills for the vicious church guards?
"The key lies in the charm value..."
What the charm value affects is the natural favorability of the NPC towards the players. Together with the willpower, insight, luck value, it is divided into special attributes. The special thing about these four attributes is that they cannot be improved by adding points, so they are quite valuable.
But the key point Chen Lun said was not that he wanted to use his own charm to influence the guards to let him out, but the 2 points in parentheses after the charm value.
"This is the charm value attached to the equipment!"
Of course Chen Lun was no stranger to this. On the contrary, he was too familiar with it, so he saw the key at a glance.
He quickly stood up and groped around himself.
But like other people arrested in the prison, Chen Lun only had a tattered linen coat and a simple cloth belt tied around his waist.
"What on earth is it?"
Chen Lun frowned and suddenly looked down——
Hanging around his neck is a handmade shell necklace.
[B-level magic object (damaged) Siren's Song] (End of this chapter)