Dice In The Darkness: Cthulhu Calls

After a casual chat for a while, Liu Xing and the other two returned to their respective rooms to rest.

As soon as Liu Xing closed the door to his room, he felt someone was watching him.

Liu Xing frowned, knowing that there was someone else in his room.

So, what should he do now? Should he just open the door and run? Or should he go in and face him or it?

In a flash, Liu Xing made a decision and turned and entered the room.

In the room, a blond-haired man was sitting by the window, reading a book.

Dio.

Liu Xing took a deep breath and said, "Mr. Dio, you are under arrest."

At this moment, the KP Time also reminded Liu Xing that the second part of the Main quest for this module had been completed.

Liu Xing shook his head without hesitation and said, "I know I can't catch you, but as a police officer, I still have to do my best to arrest you, a criminal. However, there's one thing I want to know - why did you come to see me?"

Dio continued to smile and said, "Officer Chris, you should know very well why I came to see you, because we're on the same side, and this isn't the first time we've met, is it?"

Liu Xing raised an eyebrow. Indeed, in the dream that night, when he saw Dio, Dio had already seen him.

"Haha, how can we be on the same side? You are a wanted serial killer, and I am the police officer responsible for arresting you. You can say we are sworn enemies, but if you say we are on the same side, that's just too ridiculous," Liu Xing said as he sat on the bedside table, keeping a certain distance from Dio.

Although this distance might not be able to stop Dio from killing him in a second...

Dio had already guessed that Liu Xing would say that, so he decided to get straight to the point: "Officer Chris, I have to clarify one thing here - I didn't kill anyone, including your parents."

As soon as Dio finished speaking, Liu Xing couldn't help but draw his handgun and point it at Dio, angrily saying, "Dio, do you think I'm a three-year-old kid? How dare you say that!"

This was the subconscious of "Chris" controlling his body.

Liu Xing sighed inwardly, of course the temporary "Chris" character card was not easy to control, especially after the latest update, where the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall had published more than a hundred new details, including one at the end that the character cards would have a certain degree of autonomy.

According to the summary of those players on the forum, this so-called autonomy can be directly understood as the subconscious, or the hidden settings of this character card.

To put it simply, if a character card has an extreme dislike for garlic, but the player doesn't know this and eats a dish containing garlic, the autonomy of this character card will bypass the player's control and forcibly spit out that mouthful of garlic-containing food.

This means that the player cannot control the autonomy of their own character card, which is a way to increase the difficulty of the game.

Fortunately, the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall hasn't gone that crazy, so they've only set one type of autonomy for each character card, and the trigger conditions for the autonomy are relatively simple, so for most players, they won't be able to trigger the autonomy of their character card until they tear up the card.

Back to the topic, Liu Xing guessed that the autonomy of the "Chris" character card would be related to Dio - as long as Dio mentioned his parents, "Chris" would be provoked.

At this time, Dio shook his head and took a photo out of his pocket, saying, "Officer Chris, please calm down and take a look at this photo."

Liu Xing continued to point the handgun at Dio, then stepped forward and took the photo from Dio's hand.

This photo looked a bit old, and the image was a bit blurry, but Liu Xing immediately recognized his parents in the photo.

In the photo, "Chris's" parents were holding guns and entering a residential building with several other police officers, and on the fifth floor of that building, a Crimson Ghoul seemed to be about to jump out of the window.

According to the angle of the photo, Liu Xing knew that the person who took this photo must have been on the rooftop of the opposite building.

And the next scene in this photo should be that the Crimson Ghoul jumped down and then attacked "Chris's" parents and the other police officers from behind.

"This photo was taken by me. That Crimson Ghoul was actually my good friend Locke, who is also the one you police call the Blood Hand Print Killer. I learned the truth from him when we were drinking one day - he told me that he had been cursed and had to eat a few live human hearts every year, or he would be trapped as a Ghoul forever."

"At first, I didn't pay much attention to it, thinking he was just talking nonsense while drunk. But a few days later, I heard from my colleagues that there had been a murder case near his house, where a family of six was brutally killed and their hearts were taken. This made me start to suspect that Locke was really the killer, so I started to keep an eye on him, and after years of tracking, I finally confirmed that what Locke said was true, because I saw him turn into a Ghoul."

"Although I wanted to persuade Locke to turn himself in, his situation was really too special. After all, who would believe that an ordinary person could turn into a Ghoul and commit crimes? So I decided to try a special treatment for Locke, and also find out why he became a Ghoul. It turns out it was because of a man named Ithaqua, a Chinese!"

"That was in the first year of Locke's crimes. At the time, Locke was going to Chinatown to eat, and he happened to run into this man named Ithaqua, who he recognized even though they hadn't seen each other for years. Ithaqua then invited Locke to his restaurant to eat authentic Chinese food, and after Locke finished his breakfast, he passed out."

"When Locke woke up, he found himself lying in a cemetery, and the most important thing was that he had turned into a Ghoul. His first thought was to go find Ithaqua, but Ithaqua had disappeared without a trace. However, Ithaqua had left Locke a letter, saying that Locke had to eat a few hearts from living people every year, or he would be trapped as a Ghoul forever. And I'm sure you know what happened next, Officer Chris - Locke became the Blood Hand Print Killer every year."

"As Locke's good friend, of course I wanted to help Locke recover to normal, but although I had studied medicine for a few years in the past, unfortunately due to some of my own problems, I was not proficient in it, so I have never been able to cure Locke, which has also made our relationship worse and worse. In the end, Locke no longer believed that I could help him, so he directly cut off contact with me, and I could only go to the crime scene after each of Locke's crimes to check the situation and try to find clues about Locke."

"Later, through my investigation, I discovered Locke's murder pattern, so in that case where you police officers identified me as the Blood Hand Print Killer, I was the first to arrive at the scene after Locke committed the crime. Unfortunately, by the time I arrived at the crime scene, it was too late, so after a simple inspection of the scene, I left directly. As I was leaving, my sleeve got caught on a chair, and my sleeve button was left at the scene, becoming the decisive evidence that led you to identify me as the Blood Hand Print Killer."

"Because I have a subordinate whose boyfriend is a police officer, after I discovered that my sleeve button had fallen off, I discreetly asked that subordinate, and then found out that you police officers had indeed identified me as the Blood Hand Print Killer. So I had no choice but to flee, after all, even if I told you the truth, you police officers might not believe me, and Locke knew that if I was arrested, he would definitely choose to continue committing crimes abroad, letting me take the blame. Therefore, I planned to first find evidence of Locke's crimes to clear my name, and later I really did find Locke, and unexpectedly he was living in Tim's old house, so I moved into the opposite building to monitor Locke."

"After waiting for a year, Locke finally couldn't hold back and acted. But because Locke became a Ghoul after the transformation, his movement speed was extremely fast, and I was also a Wanted Criminal at the time, so I could only wait in the room for Locke to return from the crime scene, and then take a photo of Locke covered in blood. After Locke left the room, I went to his house to look for evidence. But what I didn't expect was that soon after Locke returned home, your parents, Officer Chris, tracked him down and called in several other police officers to try to arrest Locke."

"In the end, perhaps because Locke had set up lookouts outside, he discovered your parents and the other police officers, and then he chose to go all out, directly killing your parents and the other police officers, and then fled the scene. And I knew that I definitely couldn't take the blame for this, after all, the difference between killing someone and killing a police officer is something I'm very clear about, so I directly confronted Locke's parents and forced Locke to meet with me."

"Unfortunately, I was unable to threaten Locke to turn himself in, because the evidence I had was not complete. In the end, I found that I could only continue to take the blame, so I could only choose to let Locke help me escape England, or find me a hiding place, so that I could avoid being shot by you police officers. Katsuya agreed to my conditions and sent me to Floral Cemetery, because Floral Cemetery is the territory of the Ghouls."

"Over the years, I've been living in the manager's office of Floral Cemetery, until recently I learned that Locke had immigrated to France, so I was afraid that guy would betray me, so I found a way to illegally cross the border to France to find Locke, but in the end I was sent back to England by him, because I left too many clues during the illegal crossing, and you police officers would definitely be able to trace them. So Locke had me return to England through a completely safe smuggling route that you police officers definitely don't know about."

"I had already made the plan that I wouldn't go back to pay respects to my parents this year, so that you police officers might think I would never return to England, and I could completely escape your pursuit. But what I didn't expect was that I would actually run into you, Officer Chris, and at first it was even in that damned dream, so after thinking about it for a day, I finally decided to come and meet you to clarify these things, because I really don't want to take the blame anymore." Dio said calmly.

After listening to Dio's narration, Liu Xing's brow was now tightly furrowed, because Liu Xing really couldn't tell whether Dio was telling the truth or not.

First of all, everything Dio said was just his own account, because apart from that photograph, Dio could not provide any other evidence, and Dio also did not prove that the photograph was taken by him, so Dio's words could not prove that he was the one taking the blame.

As for the real culprit Locke mentioned by Dio, since he has already immigrated to France, and with Locke's family background, Liu Xing felt that there was no way to investigate this, and Dio might have just taken advantage of this to frame Locke as the real culprit.

However, Liu Xing also felt that what Dio said might be true, after all, based on the special circumstances of this module, it was not unexpected that Dio was not the Blood Hand Print Killer, because such plot twists are not uncommon in Cthulhu RPG games.

But again, Liu Xing knew that the reason Dio came to see him this time was most likely because he encountered danger in the dream, and was hoping that Liu Xing could go and save him.

This also means that Dio might have just fabricated this lie in order to use him.

In addition, Liu Xing felt that the probability of Locke returning to England to commit crimes again was almost zero, so the possibility of him meeting Crimson Ghoul was also zero, and the promise between him and Crimson Ghoul would be meaningless.

Therefore, Liu Xing now felt that the possibility of Dio being both the Blood Hand Print Killer and Crimson Ghoul was around 70%.

However, even so, Liu Xing can only choose to "believe" Dio now, because Dio is right in front of him, and he has no choice but to believe him, even if he doesn't want to.

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