Chapter 728: Chapter 623: Turns out the Deputy is the Boss Behind the Scenes!

On the other side of Script Space.

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Xu Shuo had just released someone less than a minute ago, and he sent them back into the blacklist.

He had planned to send the bartender, Miss Champagne, and the bar owner in as well, but after checking the “Performed Scripts” list, he saw the script for “Lethal Beauty” was still being edited, so he couldn’t find out who the participating players were for the time being.

Well, as soon as the editing was done, he would send them all in.

Although…

When it comes to the strength of second-tier players, Mr. Lei was also among the best, but Xu Shuo’s pattern in playing scripts was completely unpredictable, jumping back and forth between second and third tiers, and he had many abilities that didn’t belong to a second-tier player—bug-levels of power, really.

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He was always a bit different from the ordinary players.

Whether they could trust each other if they cooperated was one thing; whether the other could keep up with the pace was another.

Therefore, it was destined to be hard for him to cooperate with other players.

Sitting in the spotless Script Space, Xu Shuo stared at the blank ceiling for a long while before opening the Player’s Handbook again and flipping to the last page.

He clicked to enter the game.

It would be a waste to play just a single script after finally freeing up some work time to rest.

Xu Shuo calculated the scripts he needed to make up the numbers, realizing there were quite a few he missed, and decided to push through all of them today— if his mental state allowed it.

Luckily, Hong Rao knew what he needed right now was not quality scripts but quantity, so most of the scripts she prepared were relatively ordinary.

There was also one script that was a personal favorite of Hong Rao.

After entering, Xu Shuo remembered this script seemed to be the Low Martial World that Hong Rao had been nagging him to study, but when they talked about the scripts previously, she did not seem to mention preparing this one.

He hadn’t expected her to sneak it in.

It wasn’t necessary…

He wouldn’t have refused if she had just asked.

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Meanwhile.

While Xu Shuo was focused on running through scripts, somewhere in a studio in a certain world.

Los, busy with real-world work, received a message from the First Palace and upon opening it, discovered several unassembled Subspaces.

Los: “…”

No wonder the boss didn’t come to the office today; he was obviously immersed in gaming.

Each time a new batch of players leaves the Script World, time and space within that Subspace are actually halted.

Next, the Tower of Judgment conducts a survey to ensure there are no anomalies and, once confirmed, the system automatically collects the trajectories that occurred within that space, editing them into videos for inclusion in the Player’s Handbook for viewing.

The above is the process unless there are special circumstances.

In special circumstances, the First Palace directly blocks the Tower of Judgment’s survey, temporarily isolating that Subspace world, and then doing whatever it wants with it.

Strictly speaking, in Script Space, the authority of the First Palace is higher than everything else.

Blocking the Tower of Judgment and isolating several small worlds is something the First Palace can easily do, while the Sixth Palace can only manage its own directly subordinate Subspaces.

Los looked at the Subspace materials sent by the First Palace and understood what he was being asked to do.

Edit, obviously…

The boss had cleared too many scripts at once, and the person from the First Palace obviously couldn’t be bothered to cut so many, so after the Sixth Palace joined the plan, he simply passed the task to him.

Los pushed his glasses up his nose with an expressionless face and then assigned a portion of the Subspace to the person beside him.

On the intern’s desk.

Luofu was diligently typing away at her code when suddenly, she received a message from her brother. After carefully reviewing it…

Her expression turned somewhat bewildered.

Was the workload for that person always so large?

Artificial video editing is out now?

She hadn’t learned how to edit videos yet, so she simply followed Los’s instructions, removing all the elements that didn’t fit an ordinary player, and then cut a typical beginning, middle, and end.

In the end…

She produced an utterly mediocre, terrible story.

But Luofu felt good about herself, so she pushed this edited Subspace out. After it passed the Script Space scan without issues, it was directly listed in the Player’s Handbook.

Her editing speed was incredibly fast, and while Los was still pondering how to set up the transitions and create the right atmosphere for the plot—trying not to make the script overly weird—Luofu had already finished all the work assigned to her.

When Los finished his own work and wanted to see if Luofu was struggling, he instead saw her usual obedient and relaxed smile.

Los was somewhat surprised, “You’re done?”

Luofu, “Done, yeah. I did as Brother instructed, I didn’t expose anything abnormal at all!”

Los said no more, well aware of how sensible yet hugely troublesome his sister could be. He opened Xu Shuo’s Player’s Handbook and looked at the Script World she edited.

Then… he fell utterly silent.

If the original plot was about the one hundred and eight heroes of Liangshan shedding blood and roaming the world freely, now it was like seven Calabash Brothers queuing up to fight centipedes on a hill.

Los: “…”

Looking at his sister’s innocent and bright smile, he really didn’t know what to say.

To say she did it wrong, well, she did follow the instructions, but to say she did it right, she indeed went too far…

Noticing the fluctuating emotions in Los, Luofu poked her head out from the internship seat and blinked at him, as if asking “What’s wrong?”

Los gave a speechless wave of his hand.

Forget it, let’s just leave it like this.

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Evening.

Xu Shuo, who had been furiously playing through several scripts, finally stopped. He massaged his somewhat tired brain, saw that those scripts were now online, and opened them to take a look.

The first was “Lethal Beauty.” When the introductory actor credits appeared at the start, Xu Shuo skillfully blacklisted them one by one.

Then he looked at the duration, a standard movie length of ninety minutes.

He watched it on six times speed.

Mainly because he had overplayed in this script, even though Character Cards were only used for an instant, they were used in abundance, and he wasn’t sure how the system would edit it.

However, after watching it, he was puzzled.

Xu Shuo suspected that he had played too many scripts and spent too much energy in Subspace, so he couldn’t catch up while watching at six times speed.

So, he dragged the progress bar back and rewatched the key points of the plot at double speed.

—How did the bartender get caught?

No idea, but the deputy from Luona Police Station took people over, and they found the unconscious bartender in the alley, bagging a killer for free.

—How was the bar owner brought back to the bar?

No idea, but the deputy from Luona Police Station took people over, and they ran into the distressed bar owner in the alley, then logically brought him and the android Jenny back.

—And how did Miss Champagne get caught?

No idea, but the moment the scene transitioned, the deputy had already tied up Miss Champagne tightly in the break room.

Xu Shuo: “…” What kind of ultimate BOSS is this deputy?

Who edited this masterpiece of a video?

This passing-the-buck skill is too strong!

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