Luo Fu
"Weekend, that will be here soon!" Lu Zibing rubbed his hands excitedly.
The usual broadcast time of "Infinite Heartbeat" is Saturday. This time Shang Jingyan did not keep the audience in suspense. As soon as midnight arrived, the new episode appeared on the homepage.
Lu Zibing had just watched the drama not long ago, and the plot of the previous unit was still fresh in his memory.
In the last episode before the suspension, Lan Qing, who had finished "Oil Painting Woman", returned to reality. She got the necklace that Malefia threw to her at the end, but because she had left the copy, she did not get the system's judgment.
Lying on her bed at home, she entered the copy again.
The new episode begins here. Lan Qing's closed eyes appear on the screen, and the fragmented golden sunlight shines on her eyelids through the mottled shadows of the trees.
A system voice could be heard vaguely in the background: "This trial field is called 'Forest Singer', difficulty level: B."
[Wow, now all four levels ABCD have been collected. ]
[I feel like this is the normal difficulty, but will the system be so kind? ]
"Infinite Heartbeat" has been serialized to date. Except for the first world "The Witch of the Blizzard" which looks a bit like a novice field, the other trials are all disgusting in their own way.
The previous match, "Oil Painting Woman", was even more of a novice match. Those novices were just used to increase the difficulty for Lan Qing and the other two, and the difficulty was also judged as "A-level".
"You finally woke up. I helped you kill the monster just now."
A childish voice woke Lan Qing up, and she opened her eyes and looked to her side.
There was a doll-like little girl with her chin in her hand, looking at her boredly. It was Malefia who lived in the jewel necklace.
This boss seems to prefer the appearance of a child, and the same is true for his spirit state. Wearing a cute little skirt, he looks very harmless.
Malefia's power is slightly weaker than that of the princess. She can only appear in the trial field. In reality, she is just an ordinary necklace.
[…Although I know she’s very cruel and has harmed many people, she’s really cute like this. ]
[The three protagonists are from a mixed era. Lan Qing's boss is also a mixed era 2333. An ancient Eastern princess, an ancient Western noble, what's next? A Western fantasy elf? 】
Based on the experience of the previous three copies, the name of the trial field points to the boss. Presumably, this time, "Forest Singer" is the monster that Lan Qing and the other two need to deal with, and this name reminds people of the elf at the end of the opening.
Lan Qing sat up and the camera swept across her brave suit. Not far away, behind Malefia there were a few bloody things.
After Malefia's explanation, Lan Qing learned that a small monster attacked them as soon as they arrived in the forest. She picked up the mass of flesh with a branch and saw that the monster looked like a hunting dog, but its head had many fleshy whiskers bursting out like a sea anemone.
The tentacles continue to wriggle and twitch after the body dies, a bit like the muscle reaction of a dissected frog after death.
[While eating, he slowly put down the bowl. 】
[How disgusting! I seem to have a premonition of the style of this dungeon...]
Lan Qing also looked disgusted. She looked around and found herself at the edge of a forest. She could see the outline of a small town's houses on the north slope and decided to head towards the town.
Lu Zibing said sadly: "Alas, now that Lan Qing has entered the trial field, she is so skilled that it makes people uncomfortable."
Lan Qing knew less information than the audience, and General Hua and Dr. Liang were not with her. But she looked calm and could make decisions independently.
In the trial field, worrying about your companions is useless. Only by staying calm can you save your companions as much as possible.
Lu Zibing’s motherly heart broke out, and thousands of words could be summed up in one sentence: Damn Director Shang!
The princess was too lazy to come out of Lan Qing's tattoo, but Malefia was circling behind Lan Qing with great interest, commenting on the surrounding environment from time to time.
"I once heard a rumor among the trial participants."
Seeing that Lan Qing ignored her, she suddenly said, "It is said that as long as you pass five trial worlds, you can pass the trial field permanently."
[Hmm? Really?]
[What? There are only five. This is already the fourth one. Is it going to end soon?! I was shocked!]
The comments were all blown up by this, not to mention Lan Qing. She subconsciously asked back with suspicion: "Really? Has anyone ever cleared it before?"
Malefia spread her hands: "I don't know about that."
The man and the ghost walked all the way to the foot of the slope. There was a small river running through the town, and the north slope was the lower reaches of the river.
The townspeople here seemed to have rarely seen travelers. When Lan Qing passed by, he received countless different looks and felt a little uncomfortable.
Lu Zibing pointed out the source of this discomfort: "This trial world is so weird... There are so many NPCs."
In the previous world, the only people the protagonists met besides the trial-takers were ghosts, and the world in the painting of "Oil Painting Woman" is essentially filled with only dummies.
But there are so many ordinary people in "The Forest Singer" that it is hard to tell what is real and what is fake.
There were housewives washing clothes and vegetables by the creek. Suddenly, Lan Qing's gaze paused, and the camera followed her line of sight. The barrage of comments instantly started shouting like a screaming chicken coop.
A housewife was cutting a fish by the river, but the fish in her hand clearly had two frog-like hind legs!
[What the hell is that?! It’s so disgusting!]
[It seems like a combination of fish and frog, ugh ugh! ]
The strangest thing was that the village woman didn’t find it strange at all, as if fish were supposed to look like this.
Lu Zibing couldn't help but ask, "Then in the next instance, do the protagonists have to eat these things too?"
A line of blood-red characters floated across the screen: […Please stop talking! ]
Lan Qing suppressed her expression and walked over as if nothing had happened, focusing her attention on observing the cowshed, pigpen and sheep pen in the town, but the animals inside were not as strange as the fish.
This village is dirty, backward, dilapidated and depressing, with an exceptionally authentic Western pastoral scenery of the last century. Seeing it will make people completely lose their illusions about the word "pastoral scenery".
Along the way, she passed by a butcher's shop. The butcher was chopping off and slaughtering pigs with a big knife. Various animal parts, such as heads, internal organs, legs, etc., were hung on iron hooks. There were flies flying around, but the townspeople who were buying meat were all happy.
Compared to the fresh meat section seen in supermarket freezers in modern society, this scene seems particularly primitive and bloody.
A comment suddenly appeared: [Emm, why do I feel that some of the organs inside are not like the common animal organs we see? ]
After a while, the audience member added: "But they are not human organs either."
Lu Zibing bared his teeth and said, "Don't breathe so hard when you talk! Maybe the townspeople came here to hunt. They don't often see wolves, tigers, or leopards."
[I can’t imagine how Director Shang collected his materials. Did he go to the frozen food section of the supermarket to observe? ]
[What a terrible dream builder.jpg]
The first episode seemed to be used only to show the new trial field map, and even the other two protagonists never appeared. Lan Qing thought about it and decided to go directly to the mayor or someone like him to ask him if he had seen a stranger who looked like her.
But when she asked a town resident, she got some bad news.
"Strangers?" The town kid tilted his head and said with a smile, "Yes! We caught two last night. They stole something and have been thrown into jail!"
[Oh my god, it can't be General Hua and Dr. Liang? ]
[Is it so miserable? He was sent to the police station right at the beginning! (Frightened face)]
Lan Qing also hurriedly asked, but at this moment, the clock of the whole world seemed to be paused. The child's movements froze, the village woman's washing clothes stopped in mid-air, and the voice of the system floated from the sky -
"Clearance condition: Kill the biggest executioner."
Lan Qing was stunned. If the conditions for passing the level were still a little confusing, then the next additional question would completely confuse people.
"Additional question—" the system's mechanical voice asked word by word, coldly, "Are you lambs?"
The tag #Infinite Heartbeat Return# directly dominated the main galaxy's hot search after the first episode was aired, and the ratings skyrocketed.
If there are any works that can match its popularity, it is only "Light Years Love Song" and "Illustrated Book of Mountains and Seas". Shang Jingyan alone occupies the top three positions, which can be said to be a great success.
Some media said: "This winter, it seems that the only one who can beat Director Shang is Director Shang."
Three worlds have passed in "Infinite Heartbeat", and the information revealed by Malefia has also made the audience feel a sense of crisis. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the atmosphere and rhythm of the entire world view have reached the point where a storm is about to come and is about to reach a climax.
[555 I really hope that "Infinite Heartbeat" will never end. It's already the second to last world. It's not enough! ]
[Director Shang! My dear Director Shang! Since it’s called Infinity, why not just serialize it indefinitely! (Thank you for your hard work, Lan Qing, cough cough…)]
After being dominated by "Light Years Love Song" for a while, the posts in the forum were once again dominated by "Infinite Heartbeat", and the most popular post was:
[Urgent, urgent, is there anyone who can analyze "Forest Singer"! What is the meaning of the two sentences in the system? 】
【It’s only one episode, what can be analyzed? “Don’t like to eat sugar” definitely doesn’t know, @Don’t like to eat sugar, do you think it’s right? 】
[The above person is so funny, you are bullying the boss because he is a tsundere, right? Then I will do it too, @不愛吃糖 it’s okay if you don’t know, after all, this is difficult (dog head). ]
Provoking the boss always worked. In less than an hour, she appeared with a long analysis.
[The system's clearance conditions actually contain two conditions. 】
[The first one is "find out who is the biggest executioner"; the second one is "kill him". It seems more confusing at first glance, right? But after analyzing it, I think it is very simple. ]
[The most difficult part here is actually the premise. How to define the "biggest executioner"? The oldest, the one who has killed the most people, or the one with the highest level of power?]
[Even now, it is still unclear what the "executioner" in the title means. Does it refer to a real executioner? Or an abstract concept? According to Shang Jingyan's bad taste, I prefer the latter. It is definitely not as simple as it seems. ]
[The protagonists are now in a small town. There are usually criminals in the town, and criminals need to serve their sentences. In other words, there is a high probability that there is a profession called executioner in the town. ]
[However, the population of the town is not very large, just the size of an ordinary medieval village in the last star calendar, so not many executioners are needed, one or two are enough. If the question is directed at them, it would be too easy. ]
【So, in summary, "executioner" must be a symbolic concept. What kind of person would be called an executioner? A cruel person who commits unjust killings. What the protagonists are really looking for is such a hidden character.】
【We know that this is a dungeon world, and the one who meets the "biggest" condition is the final boss, right? In this way, the conditions for clearing the level are very simple. 】
[Find the correct dungeon boss and kill him. That's all.]
[I think this condition is actually limited by Lan Qing's actions in the first two worlds. She directly turned the two bosses into her own spirits, which greatly increased her strength, so the system asked her to kill the boss this time. ]
[As for the second additional question, I have no idea at the moment. But this should be easy to figure out, right? The system is actually asking Lan Qing himself, "Are you willing to be just a lamb?" ]
[This is to make the protagonists admit defeat. 】
After the analysis, everyone in the post was stunned, and the poster shouted in worship.
[Oh my god, you are indeed a master, you can analyze so many things from just one question? ? ]
[And what she said makes a lot of sense. Her words made my mind clear. I can even swallow an egg with my mouth open now... Who is this person who doesn't like candy? @Shang Dao, why don't you contact her and ask her to join your studio? ]
[Speaking of which, how did the Big Brother IP become Purple Mist? Is it for "Light Years"? 】
[Have you met Director Shang? I’m curious. Recently, many people on the forum have posted autographs. I’m envious.]
[Why do I not believe this? How can an analyst be so powerful? ]
[The above person is awesome, why don't you analyze it? It's ok to point out the boss's mistakes, but don't just talk nonsense. The boss hasn't made any mistakes so far! ]
In the purple mist.
Shang Jingyan was also surprised when he saw the hot post after waking up. He exclaimed softly, "Ah!" and said, "It seems that there are so many talented people in the world. We can't underestimate the audience."
The analysis of "not liking sweets" almost completely hit the mark with her thinking. Although some details were a bit rough, the final answer was correct.
Shang Jingyan would occasionally check his own forum and had heard of the name of this great analyst a long time ago.
Just looking at the ID, she actually doubted whether the other party was the "Don't Eat Candy" she added in hide-and-seek.
People in the building jokingly told her not to miss out on such a talented person, but Shang Jingyan was really moved.
From her past life to the present, Shang Jingyan has been accustomed to taking on the jobs of both "chief director" and "chief screenwriter". She has a strong desire to control her works and likes that every aspect of the story comes from her ideas.
But this does not mean that she has no cooperating assistant directors and screenwriters. If the other party can perfectly understand her ideas, the polished work will be more perfect.
[Yanyan, do you want to recruit him?] X71 asked curiously, [She is also in the purple mist now.]
[Only if she is willing.] Shang Jingyan said conservatively.
The other party may seem to be someone in the same industry, but if the other party is in the same industry, her recruitment will be ineffective. An independent dream builder will not be able to be her assistant under her halo.
Thinking of this, Shang Jingyan tentatively sent an invitation letter to the other party's backstage.
The other party might be busy and didn't respond. Shang Jingyan brushed her teeth while brushing her laptop. Her fingertips paused for a moment and she saw that at midnight yesterday, the new person "Luo Fu" she added to the [Supernatural Space] forum sent her a private message.
Shang Jingyan had chatted with the other party before. After a brief contact, she felt that the person on the other side was a very old-fashioned person with a very old-fashioned speaking style and should be of a certain age.
The message from the other side is——
[Hello, is it convenient for you to meet offline? There are some things I don’t feel comfortable saying on Starnet, and I need to confirm with you in real life.]
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