There's definitely something wrong with this murder mystery game-Chapter 453 - 393 I Suspect He’s a BUG!
The next day at noon, Xu Shuo’s additional payment was transferred from Luo Kai’s account.
Maybe because it was the first time the government encountered such a situation, they didn’t know how much exactly to give, so he received five million yuan.
This made Xu Shuo feel somewhat inflated, thinking he might try his hand at AAA games!
Of course, it was just a thought.
Their studio’s technology was nowhere capable of supporting such endeavors yet.
Apart from money, Luo Kai also mentioned another thing.
[The higher-ups plan to establish a special department and want us both to join it. Food, accommodation, entertainment provided, and a million yuan a month, will you come?]
[No.]
[Figured, so I already declined for you, but they will probably still try to contact you soon.]
[Did you join?]
[No, you know my career doesn’t allow me to just stay in one place.]
[Does the government have information on other people too?]
[Yes.]
Looking at the new message that just popped up from Luo Kai, Xu Shuo narrowed his eyes, closed the dialogue box with Luo Kai calmly.
Although the Script Space’s messaging feature is only for communication, it has a very good point: it can perfectly avoid the monitoring methods of the real world.
Xu Shuo didn’t want to join the government’s special department, not just because he disliked drawing attention and being restrained by others, but also because he didn’t plan on being involved with these matters often in the real world.
Even if involvement was necessary, couldn’t he work alone?
Only accept employment, not a position!
And besides, there are professionals dealing with this kind of thing!
Just in time, Themis, who had been missing for a while, finally replied to the messages today.
It’s just that the reply was somewhat unsatisfactory.
Shi: [Sorry, I had some issues on my side that I only managed to handle today.]
Shi: [About the thing you mentioned, I was also planning to investigate and resolve it, but Script Space hasn’t approved my entry application, so I can’t make it to your world now.]
Shi: [I’m really sorry, I might not be able to help for now, but I will report this matter as soon as possible.]
After reading it, Xu Shuo was somewhat surprised.
Last time, the other party seemed to say: other players need Script Space’s approval to cross worlds, but his particular nature meant that this restriction wasn’t strict for him.
Moreover, he had casually come over twice before.
Why can’t he come now?
Thinking this way, all these situations seemed to have started after the "Green-skin Train" incident, and since then, their world began an unstoppable, abnormal transformation.
From the train to the mountain village and then to the subway station, all these incidents happened within a mere month!
Although it could all be interpreted as Abyssal invasions, it was strange that Script Space was restricting Themis, who specifically deals with anomalies, from coming over.
Could it be that their world had become so fragile that it couldn’t support players crossing spatial barriers at all?
Xu Shuo frowned, feeling as if the world was secretly changing without anyone’s knowledge.
If that was the case, he couldn’t let his own strength fall behind.
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Script Space.
In a retro and luxurious courtyard, a few people gathered as usual to watch films, sipping tea and coffee leisurely while pointing out things about their own or other people’s students.
Hong Rao felt nostalgic, finally experiencing this exhilarating feeling again!
Having students to boast about felt great!
"Starting off by directing players to scatter, preventing six people from swapping information while investigating the Haunted House—your student’s thinking is indeed very agile," Merlin commented with appreciation.
She was Wei Ya’s tutor, and last time she even suggested that Wei Ya and Xu Shuo could exchange and learn from each other.
Hong Rao’s mouth curled up slightly: "This kid, no matter how well-behaved he seems on the surface, his mind is filled with too many tricks." Discover more stories at novelbuddy
"It shows, he really will go to any lengths to prevent others from figuring out he’s the murderer," Sikong Weiyan added with a strange tone in his voice. "He even went as far as angering that stalker, compressing the remaining gaming time to only half an hour. The other players were probably cursing him collectively in their hearts at that time."
"What’s with the sarcasm?" Hong Rao rolled her eyes at him.
"Me? Sarcasm? How could I? Would I dare?" Sikong Weiyan continued in a mocking tone.
Hong Rao snorted with a chuckle, taking a sip of her red tea.
It was just because the students had formed a group to do a dungeon run without him, and after he found out, he had been sulking for several days, speaking with an undertone of sarcasm that was just begging for a beating.
To this, Hong Rao declared that next time would be no different!
She would isolate him!
"Editing skills, so poor."
Suddenly, a deep voice came from the corner.
Hong Rao turned to look and saw a man lounging on a leather sofa, casually propping his chin and crossing his legs, his dark blue military uniform imposing a heavy and oppressive aura.
Hong Rao certainly didn’t invite this person. It was Sikong Weiyan who insisted on coming over when he heard they were having a small meeting to discuss student guidance methods. Helian Mian happened to be around, so he came along too.
To be honest, Hong Rao didn’t like dealing with this man very much.
"Editing? Are you talking about this play?" Upon hearing this, Merlin showed some curiosity.
"Considering his performance at the start, the focus of the storyline should have been on him, but instead, the play allocates the bulk of the scenes to other irrelevant characters," Helian Mian said, expressionless.
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As for Xu Shuo’s story, it added up to less than ten minutes.
He only had the opening scene, the Haunted House exploration scene, and the scene where he angered the mysterious person in the security room; each spot just snipped a little bit of the storyline.
In the end, the scene flashed to him and a female tourist discovering the sewer under the Haunted House, crawling out of the manhole cover, then it was over.
The focuses of the scenes were on the male security guard and the male tourist, yet the script’s ending was fixed on the ticket seller trying to use the roller coaster to jump out of the amusement park—then it exploded!
This ending was edited with a sense of drama, at least it was not as abrupt as "Free Night."
Upon hearing this, Sikong Weiyan laughed weirdly, "Maybe it’s just because he can’t act, the system managing to edit out ten minutes for him is already quite something."
Hong Rao silently took a sip of her red tea, not saying a word.
"I think it’s quite a good edit, anyway, our students don’t follow the idol route; whether their parts are big or small doesn’t matter, as long as they complete the mission well," Merlin shrugged.
"But, there are many places in the script that are crucial to the plot, yet those parts weren’t edited at all."
"If we isolate his scenes alone, we’ll find many parts aren’t coherent, as if some plot points were deliberately hidden," Helian Mian remarked indifferently, propping up his head.
Hong Rao lifted her teacup and mumbled a complaint, "But there’s no need for the Script Space to specifically hide anything. It’s probably just that those plot points are irrelevant, so to save time, the system just streamlined them. You always have to be so suspicious. Is it necessary? You’re making a fuss over nothing..."
At that, Helian Mian turned his head to look over, but Hong Rao was looking down at her tea, avoiding his gaze.
The others exchanged glances and silently communicated with their eyes.
Clearly, they had become accustomed to his way of speaking.
"I previously watched ’Free Night,’ and despite his storyline having many key points, his screen time was still sparse. I find it quite unreasonable," Helian Mian insisted, staring at her seriously.
"Oh? So what are you suspecting?" Hong Rao put down her teacup and met his gaze.
"I think there might be a BUG in the Script Space related to him," Helian Mian said in his usual calm and cold tone, unfazed.
"..." Hong Rao’s gaze flickered.
Just then, Hong Rao suddenly received a notification from the system.
She quickly recovered from her surprise, her eyes darting to the upper right corner, and then, after a brief pause, she was completely stunned!
The shock was plainly written all over Hong Rao’s face!
Merlin was instantly curious, "What happened?"
Hearing his voice, Hong Rao snapped back to reality and quickly stood up, waving her hands, "Wait, wait a moment, I’ll be back shortly."
She didn’t even bother with the overly suspicious guy and immediately left the dining courtyard, moving quickly to the quiet hall of the villa.
After closing the door and blocking the view of the others, Hong Rao, gritting her teeth, opened the teacher-student communication channel.
[Have you entered a script? And a random one at that?! Which script are you in now?]
Just moments ago, her student had rejected the script she had arranged for him!
Hong Rao was very clear about Xu Shuo’s BUG nature of randomly running into scripts. If he chose a random script without any care, he could very likely end up in a Level 3 Abyss script!
Ah! Why does this kid have such a death wish?!
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