Dice In The Darkness: Cthulhu Calls

Chapter 271: The Cause of Wang Qis Death

Upon hearing Liu Xing's words, a middle-aged man appeared seasoned and remarked, "It's a good thing you didn't believe in that online friend of yours..."

Liu Xing had come across a recent post that mentioned the person who had committed throat-slitting suicide was none other than Wang Qi! What was even more significant was that the person who posted it happened to be Wang Qi's roommate. He mentioned that everything had seemed normal last night when Wang Qi returned to the dormitory. They were all chatting and laughing together, even playing a few rounds of League of Legends. But after one game, Wang Qi suddenly stood up expressionless and retrieved a dagger from his closet, an exceptionally ornate and seemingly valuable one.

At that moment, Wang Qi's roommates thought he was just showing off again. Lately, Wang Qi had experienced an unexplained surge in wealth and frequently flaunted it in the dormitory, treating his roommates to drinks and meals. Moreover, he seemed to have a new girlfriend every few days, which left his roommates both envious and puzzled. After all, Wang Qi had previously mentioned that his family was well-off but not excessively so.

One of Wang Qi's roommates became particularly curious and asked him what was going on, as Wang Qi wasn't the type to buy lottery tickets, and his overnight riches were raising eyebrows. Wang Qi explained that he had joined a club dedicated to the Cthulhu RPG Game, where he had made some wealthy friends who were taking care of him. He even wanted to persuade his roommates to join the Cthulhu RPG Game with him.

However, Wang Qi's roommates had never heard of the Cthulhu RPG Game and suspected that Wang Qi might have gotten involved in some kind of pyramid scheme. They advised him against participating further, but Wang Qi just smiled and shook his head, telling them there was no turning back now and asking them not to dissuade him. So, Wang Qi's roommates reluctantly abandoned their efforts to persuade him.

Thus, when Wang Qi's roommates saw him take out the dagger, they initially assumed he was going to show off his latest acquisition. However, to their shock, Wang Qi proceeded to slit his own throat without hesitation. As blood spurted out, his roommates were paralyzed with disbelief. It was only after Wang Qi collapsed due to excessive bleeding that they rushed to try and save him.

Unfortunately, Wang Qi had slit both his carotid artery and his windpipe, leading to excessive bleeding and choking on his own blood. What unnerved Wang Qi's roommates the most was his complete lack of reaction throughout the ordeal. Typically, someone suffocating or committing suicide would display intense struggling or resistance, as it's a normal physiological response. However, Wang Qi remained emotionless and unresponsive from start to finish.

Just as Liu Xing was about to turn the page, he realized that the post had already been deleted.

Nevertheless, Liu Xing had already obtained the information he sought.

Clearly, Wang Qi couldn't have committed suicide. However, Liu Xing wasn't entirely certain whether Wang Qi had been eradicated by the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall due to losing all his character cards and lacking enough points to buy a new white character card.

With this in mind, Liu Xing messaged Yin En to inquire about how players were eliminated in the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall.

Yin En's response was swift, and within a minute, he provided a lengthy explanation.

In essence, if a player lost all their character cards and didn't have enough points to purchase a new white character card, their remaining points would be converted at a ratio of ten to one into the number of days they could continue to exist in the real world. Once those days were depleted, the player would vanish from the real world and disappear into an uninhabited location.

Yin En was confident in this information because many players from the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall had attempted to save their friends. Some had tied their friends up, others had installed cameras and monitors on them, and some had even sealed their friends in a completely sealed compartment, with over a dozen people using various light sources to monitor their friends.

All these efforts had proven futile. Without exception, their friends had escaped their restraints and Private Rooms with inhuman speed and strength, vanishing into thin air within the blink of an eye.

No one could discern how those eliminated by the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall disappeared.

After reading Yin En's message, Liu Xing ruled out the possibility of Wang Qi being eliminated by the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall. After all, Wang Qi had committed suicide in front of his roommates, and his body was still awaiting autopsy at the police station to determine if he had ingested any hallucinogenic substances before his death.

With the elimination of the Cthulhu Role-Playing Game Hall's involvement, Liu Xing was now certain that Wang Qi had been killed by the society he had mentioned earlier.

As Liu Xing contemplated this, he couldn't resist opening his phone and searching for the society in question. Sure enough, he found a society called "Rongcheng Offline Exchange." The society's description mentioned that its members currently resided in Rongcheng's city center, frequently organizing offline gatherings to discuss their experiences with the Cthulhu RPG Game and trade items. Joining the society and attending an offline gathering even came with the bonus of receiving a white character card.

If everything went as expected, Wang Qi had joined this society.

As for how Wang Qi had been murdered by this society, Liu Xing already had a rough idea. In the Cthulhu RPG Game, controlling someone to commit suicide typically involved using spells or items. However, as previously mentioned, the spells in the Cthulhu RPG Game were notoriously complex, and controlling-type spells were particularly advanced. Even players from the Cthulhu region might struggle to learn them, ruling out the possibility of their use.

Therefore, Wang Qi had been killed using an item.

Unable to sleep, Liu Xing decided to catch up on what had happened the previous day. 

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