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Shang Jingyan used his optical brain to project a model of the haunted house. "I built this with my mental power before I came here. The concept is actually very simple. You'll understand once I show it to you."
A small evil god's castle appeared in front of the two. Its appearance was exactly the same as in the movie, but when she clicked to enlarge it, mechanisms and details appeared inside.
A little man walked in following the guidance of her finger, and then, "pop", a long-haired female ghost fell from the mechanism at the door. The little man was startled and fell to the ground screaming.
Xue Jiang raised his eyebrows, his expression becoming more serious: "It's a bit like the holographic game or escape room you made, but not exactly the same. The main feature is to use a mechanism or staff to dress up as ghosts to scare people... This is very suitable for use as a project in an amusement park."
Of course, there are more ways to stimulate emotions than just the works of dream builders. The world's tourism and amusement park industries are also quite developed.
Xue Jiang was an expert in this field and understood it immediately. The castle she had originally renovated actually already had the prototype of a haunted house. The concept proposed by Shang Jingyan was like the most crucial piece of a puzzle, which completed her train of thought and made her suddenly understand.
"...Director Shang, I am very interested in your idea." Xue Jiang's eyes lit up and his tone became noticeably higher.
She seemed to be thinking about something, and then she drew inferences from one example. "It can also be divided into several themes, such as castles and Chinese styles. Or we can simply make the haunted house the core industry of Rose Heart, so that tourists can experience all kinds of journeys through horror movies when they come here!"
She had actually thought about building another Chinese-style house similar to the one in "Rouge Comb", but the wooden structure was very expensive, and in the eyes of tourists it would probably not be much different from the retro buildings in those film and television bases. The investment and return would hardly be proportional, so she gave up the idea.
But if it is built around a "haunted house", its appeal will be very different.
"And to achieve the best frightening effect, of course we have to adopt the appearance of your work, Director Shang, so that we can have a perfect sense of substitution..." Xue Jiang suddenly laughed and said to the assistant robot beside him, "Modify my schedule. My working hours tonight until bedtime belong to Director Shang."
She originally thought that the cooperation Shang Jingyan was talking about was merely to "restore the evil god's castle one-to-one" and create a theme park - this is the wish of all dream builders. Even though virtuality is king in this world, creators still expect their creations to become reality.
But for the industry, this is an unnecessary expense. Why pay for IP development when you can just build a castle in a similar style to attract tourists?
It's a bit shameless, but that's the truth.
Xue Jiang did think that Shang Jingyan was a dream builder with great potential, and when she became successful, he might even take the initiative to ask for cooperation. But that was a long time in the future.
However, Shang Jingyan's idea made her propose to pay the IP fee immediately. Not only that, she also reserved the development rights for other subsequent works.
Shang Jingyan and Xue Jiang had a detailed conversation and went straight to the topic of night lights. They even had dinner together.
Compared with Sister Cui, Xue Jiang is a top-tier wealthy man, and he generously promised an investment before leaving.
Shang Jingyan received the highest level VIP customer treatment from Xue Jiang. Not only was the cost of her trip waived, but all the tourism industries under Xue Jiang's name would be open to her free of charge for the rest of her life.
Xue Jiang was extremely efficient. She had even started contacting familiar construction teams during the negotiation process. Once their contract was signed, construction could begin soon.
X71 Spreading Flowers: [Congratulations, Yanyan! ]
Shang Jingyan thought that she could do more such trips in the future. She stretched and logged back into the console: "Let me see how the players are progressing... Lu Zibing has reached the BE ending... Huh? Not bad, Qing Se Xue has finally made some progress."
On this side, Lu Zibing was still fighting the rat people with a mop.
He couldn't stand being killed in the middle of the game, so he went offline and rested for three hours before coming back.
【Come on, host. This is the most exciting joke I have seen this year. 】
[Hahaha, I'm already desensitized to rat people and hair. It's kind of funny after watching them for a long time.]
[Do you think the host will be trapped here from now on? Others are following the plot, but he is fighting the rat man; others have finished the plot, but he is still fighting the rat man. How sad! ]
For the sake of experience, today's plot-based holographic games have a special setting: unless a player in the entire server reaches the [True Ending], others cannot go back and start over once they start the game.
In other words, if Lu Zibing wants to reload the game, he has to pray that the first player to complete the game will show up soon.
"You are my haters, right?! Why are you cursing me all the time!" Lu Zibing gritted his teeth and sweated profusely while playing in the chilly environment.
The barrage discussed the settings without paying attention to anyone else:
[What is the principle of the generation of rat monsters? Is there pollution in Building 18 that turns the rats into this monster? ]
[It's possible. I found that many of the anomalies in this game are related to small animals, such as mice and moths. This may be a clue.]
[What do you think? Is this monster based on a mouse or a human? It's a bit scary to think about it.]
Lu Zibing persisted and repeated it eight times before finally killing the rat man by stabbing him to death against the wall with a toilet plunger.
It fell to the ground and its body gradually shrank until it became a hairless mouse corpse only the size of a palm.
Blood was splattered all over the corridor, as if it were some perverted dismemberment scene, but at this moment Lu Zibing only felt the joy of having passed the test.
"Let me see what the rewards are for passing the level..." Lu Zibing rubbed his hands together and stepped over the partition tiles at the end of the corridor.
The air twisted imperceptibly.
This seems to be a dormitory. The layout of Building 18 is very strange, with both classrooms and accommodation.
The door closest to him was marked with the dormitory number, and Lu Zibing vaguely saw a "4".
But before he could get closer and see clearly, everything went dark before his eyes.
Lu Zibing: “?”
The words in the pop-up window slowly emerged.
[Bad Ending 1: Although you have successfully defeated the rat man, the truth in Building 18 is still beyond your reach. You are dead. Come on, cherish your life in the next life! ]
The shadow gradually disappeared. Lu Zibing felt dizzy and found herself back in the office. Lin Huailu was smiling at her like he did at the beginning: "Hello, Principal Lang."
[Aaaaaha ...
[BE is also E, no problem, it's so funny. 】
[Q: What did the anchor get from playing with his own death for five hours? A: He got the experience of defeating the rat man with a mop and a toilet plunger, and the useless experience increased!]
Lu Zibing: “…………”
He spat out a mouthful of blood: You dog planner, you have no heart! !
At the same time, Qingxue live broadcast room.
Ao Qingxue started school in the game two days earlier. The teaching staff in No. 2 Middle School was limited, and the heroine also had to teach mathematics to a class.
After playing for two days, her most prominent feeling was that the school spirit of No. 2 Middle School was very bad.
"The homework assigned by Wolf Spider is so difficult, old witch! I will borrow the homework from the next class tomorrow, and she will definitely not find out."
"Another small paper ball was intercepted." Ao Qingxue sighed beside the heroine and shrugged helplessly at the barrage of comments.
"Wolf Spider" is apparently the nickname given to Langzhu by the students.
When introducing herself on the first day of school, Ao Qingxue discovered that some students were sleeping in the audience. At that time, a pop-up window reminded her of the heroine's character: [You are determined to be a teacher known for being strict, how should you deal with it? ]
Since she was strict, Ao Qingxue asked the student to stand up for ten minutes. Who knew that because of this, she offended Class 3 (4), and these students started to make trouble for her in various ways.
Ao Qingxue handled it relatively well, as some players were so angry that they were about to fight with the students. But it was not possible not to punish the students, and some players who were too lazy to establish their authority at first were bullied even more recklessly.
The students whose little paper balls were confiscated were not afraid at all, and even made faces while laughing. Langzhu arranged the copying assignment expressionlessly, and Ao Qingxue controlled the character to enter the office.
[After playing this game, I no longer want to take the teacher qualification exam. It’s so tiring. ]
[Stupid planner, how can I push the plot forward? I don’t want to play Teacher Simulator anymore! ]
[I remember playing a crappy O-game before, where the key plot was triggered by accumulating days. Director Shang wouldn't do the same, would he? This is holographic! Days are not as easy to jump as in mobile games.]
"I don't think so. The clues must have been given, but they have not been discovered by the players yet, thus triggering the plot." Ao Qingxue analyzed in a low voice.
So what lies the problem?
She thought of a clue that she had overlooked - and it was a written clue, the principal's handbook and materials distributed at the beginning of the school year.
Few players read the pile of books seriously. Ao Qingxue put in the same enthusiasm as when he was preparing for the college entrance examination and was determined to read them all.
"Principal's Handbook", "Handbook of Common Psychological Problems of Teenagers", "Teenager Safety Education"...
The comments were not expecting this idea, and they were all shocked: [Shang planner wouldn’t be such a jerk, right? ? ]
Ao Qingxue watched it for three hours straight, and simply jokingly changed the name of the live broadcast room to "Immersive Learning in "Building 18"", which attracted many viewers to come in and watch.
[As expected of Qing Se Xue, she can calmly learn in a horror game. 】
[I'm really curious, will there be any clues? ]
[This is the first time I see a learning (?) blogger, and it’s actually in a horror game, hahaha. ]
After reading through four or five booklets, Ao Qingxue suddenly looked up and announced, "I think I know!"
She was slightly excited, because the only point that was repeated in these books was: preventing students from being bullied in schools.
I'm afraid the triggering point of the key plot is related to school bullying.
The clue was actually not hidden very deeply and could be found by just looking at the table of contents, but Ao Qingxue read the entire text just in case.
The barrage immediately asked her what she knew, but Ao Qingxue did not speak. She looked at the time and saw that the morning exercise time was almost up, so she said, "You guys come and try it with me."
The weather in this game always seems to be overcast, and today is no exception. Students in blue and white uniforms gathered together sparsely and ran to the sound of music.
Ao Qingxue focused his attention on a male student. He was holding his stomach and fell to the end of the class line while running. He raised his hand and said, "Teacher, I have a stomachache and want to ask for leave."
This boy always pretends to be sick and asks for leave during physical exercises, and is currently considered a problem student by players.
But now looking closely, he doesn't seem to be pretending to be sick, and the painful expression doesn't seem fake.
In the past, Ao Qingxue would always ask the heroine to give him some advice or suggest that he go to the infirmary, but he would always act like a dead pig that is not afraid of boiling water and ignore it.
But today, after she gave him advice, she added: "Mourinho, if someone bullies you, you can tell the teacher."
Mourinho paused slightly - obviously, the setting of this character was triggered!
[Damn, a new idea I've never seen before!! Is this the clue the host deduced from the manual? ]
[That's possible. I also saw players on the forum showing concern and trying to influence this student, and even wanted to take him to see a doctor, but he would always cancel. He was very uncooperative.]
[Even if there is school bullying, they won’t tell you directly, a teacher who suddenly appears... But how can I be sure? ]
Mourinho lowered his head in silence and said nothing.
"I'll try to get close to him first." Ao Qingxue thought about it and decided to take a roundabout route.
Ao Qingxue is a top student in real life. She was also very good at tutoring students when she worked part-time. The way she chose to get close to Mourinho was to tutor him on his homework. If it weren't for the follow mode that made it impossible to finely control the character, she could have said it even better.
At this moment, a large number of viewers have flocked to the live broadcast room. Ao Qingxue changed the title to: [What is it like to immerse yourself in tutoring students in "Building 18"? ]
She tutored the students for two consecutive days, and before leaving on the second day, Mourinho said with a chuckle, "Teacher... someone wants to 'play' with me after school tonight, can you watch over me?"
Shang Jingyan can see the changes in Xiao Shuai's favorability here. When the player's favorability of this student reaches 10 points by soloing, the plot of "the student takes the initiative to confide" will be triggered.
The favorability requirement is not high. It is enough to tutor him on his homework three or four times individually.
However, since Ao Qingxue had done very well before and had a basic level of favorability, it was successfully triggered in two times.
She watched Ao Qingxue follow Xiao Shuai to the grove in the playground, where a group of students were already waiting.
There were still some students smoking in the group. As soon as Mourinho approached, he was pushed by the leader, and several students made gestures as if asking for money.
Pop-up window: [You have discovered a hidden clue. It turns out that there is a group of students who bully people in No. 2 Middle School. Main story progress +5.]
It's really school bullying!
Ao Qingxue quickly pulled herself together. Although she knew she shouldn't feel happy seeing this kind of plot, she couldn't help but sigh when she saw the progress bar finally move.
【! The first one on the entire network! 】
[Oh my god, I'm excited too. ]
[But these students are so bad, I really want to send them all to juvenile detention center...]
The heroine stepped forward to stop the fight. Ao Qingxue looked around carefully and found Xiaomei among them!
Lin Xiaomei is very tall, with a blank expression on her face, and looks quite fierce. She said nothing when being scolded by the heroine.
[But, after helping the students solve their problems, they didn’t give them any options…]
[I didn't expect there was a Xiaomei. She looked quite innocent before.]
[The progress bar is moving, there must be something to gain. Use your imagination, could it be that the boy came to tell you the clue? ]
However, it turns out that the audience was too naive.
After a day of game time, it’s morning reading.
At this moment, Ao Qingxue has been doing this in reality for almost 48 hours straight and is about to exceed the holographic anti-addiction time limit.
Langzhu went to the bathroom halfway through the film. She sleepily followed the heroine and complained with a half-conscious mind: "Why do we have to make such a detailed plot? There has never been such a thing before."
Privacy settings, Ao Qingxue now sees a black screen.
It was not until her perspective suddenly opened and she found herself in a toilet cubicle that Langzhu was stunned when she tried to open the door but found that it would not open no matter what.
[You have triggered a key plot point, please act with caution. ]
"...My family, I never thought that one day I would be trapped in the toilet and unable to get out." Ao Qingxue said in shock.
The claustrophobic and narrow space can give people a sense of oppression, not to mention that the toilet in No. 2 Middle School is extremely gloomy and old.
Tick, tick, tick.
It was quiet outside, with only the sound of dripping water, which echoed quietly in the empty space.
Ao Qingxue couldn't help but get goose bumps and rubbed her arms. Perhaps because the water was not clean, the sound of the water sounded a bit sticky, reminiscent of blood.
Sizzle——
In the silence, there was a creepy sound of a sharp object scraping against the ground, as if a door in the corridor outside the toilet was opened.
[Ahhh, this is so scary, is this the revenge of the bullied students? ]
[Help! The limited vision is even more terrifying, what is outside? ]
[I thought of the monster that Lu Zibing encountered... This one wouldn't be the same, right? Don't come over here!!]
Ao Qingxue bravely asked: "Is there anyone there?"
Under normal circumstances, she would definitely not speak. Talking to "unknown things" always makes people feel that there will be no good results.
But since it was a key plot point, she asked anyway. The worst that could happen was that she would die and start over.
No one answered her, but the next moment, footsteps were heard in the corridor!
The barrage of "Ahhh" never stopped, and the footsteps were getting closer and closer, opening the tightly closed toilet door and entering the toilet.
Ao Qingxue didn't dare to breathe even through the partition, for fear that her voice would be caught, and her hands involuntarily tightly hugged the heroine's arm.
[Help! Is this a ghost or something else? Or is this just someone using the restroom?]
[Just ask again and you will know! Don’t be a coward, host! ! ]
[Ahhh, if I were the anchor, I wouldn’t dare to speak now! ]
The visitor seemed to be looking for something. Ao Qingxue didn't dare to breathe and lowered her head. She felt that the computer in her hand was her life-saving straw. Only the barrage on it reminded her that this was just a game and there was no real ghost.
Calm down, calm down!
Ao Qingxue hypnotized herself repeatedly, forcing herself to focus on the light screen to distract herself from the fear.
It wasn't until two rounds of barrages had passed that she realized it had been quiet for quite a while.
That person left…?
No, that's not right...
She seemed to hear another breathing sound!
Ao Qingxue suddenly raised her head and saw a pale face with disheveled hair looking down at her from the top of the cubicle door!
Ao Qingxue's pupils suddenly shrank, and a scream was on the tip of his throat, but he held it back. It's no exaggeration to say that his heart almost stopped beating at that moment!
"Teacher Lang?"
When the "ghost face" spoke, Ao Qingxue realized that it was not a ghost, but classmate Xiaomei.
"Lin, Lin Xiaomei?! It's you?" She breathed a sigh of relief, her hands and feet went limp, and she forced a smile, "Why are you here?"
[Fuck, I was shocked! ! ]
[It's definitely revenge, right?! These students are so mean! ]
[I'd like to say this: am I the only one who feels that Xiaomei doesn't know about this? Has she finally found her conscience...]
Xiaomei was silent for a moment, then said, "I came to the toilet, and then I saw that this cubicle was blocked by a mop, so I climbed up to take a look."
I saw it was blocked so I climbed up to take a look, what a lame excuse!!
Ao Qingxue shouted in her heart.
Xiaomei's head retracted. Ao Qingxue heard her fiddling outside for a while, and then the door opened. Lin Xiaomei was holding a mop in one hand and a high stool in the other - who would believe that it was not prepared in advance?
【Your choice:】
【A. Scold her for locking herself in. 】
【B. Thank her for helping me get out. 】
Ao Qingxue was so frightened that she subconsciously wanted to choose A, but her intuition told her not to do that.
Option B was triggered. Langzhu swallowed and tried to say, "Xiaomei, thank you very much."
Lin Xiaomei ignored him, put down the mop, carried the stool in one hand and put the other hand in her pocket and walked out.
Ao Qingxue just wanted to leave this horrible place as soon as possible, but when he reached the stairs, he found something on the ground.
"Huh? Did Xiaomei drop it?"
Ao Qingxue bent down to pick it up and found that it was a tattered rag doll. It looked extremely strange, its eyes were sewn with buttons, one of which had fallen out and only the thread was left, and its mouth was outlined in an arc with red line, as if it was neither crying nor laughing.
[You have obtained the item: Xiaomei's suspected cursed doll. ]
[Area "Building 18, Floors 1 to 4" is unlocked. ]
【Finally!! The fastest progress on the entire network, blue snow bull batch! 】
[Why does Xiaomei have this thing? ]
[Host, are you going to Building 18? Ah, Lu Zibing has been there, it's so scary.]
Ao Qingxue was now exhausted and said, "Let's go next time when we broadcast live. I have to go off the air and rest."
Tired and scared, even an iron man can't bear it!
Shang Jingyan stopped watching after Qing Sexue gained Xiao Shuai's favor. While the players were being frightened, she had a good sleep in the VIP room of the castle.
She was woken up by a phone call from Xiao Zhang: "Director Shang, are you considering joining the Dream Builders Association this year? Registration starts at nine this morning!"
Shang Jingyan was stunned: "Considering it, but I remember there are still three months left, right?"
Xiao Zhang: "Hey, that's the time you're looking at for the Universe Unified Dream Builder Qualification Certificate, right? They won't take us to the galaxy for fun, so our time is our own."
Shang Jingyan: “…”
She really doesn't know.
StarCraft has a complete grading system for dream builders. The most basic apprentice dream builders do not need to take an exam. They will automatically meet the qualifications after having completed a work and participated in a public event.
Shang Jingyan is now an apprentice dream builder.
After apprenticeship, dream builders can be divided into five star levels.
Participate in the Dream Builders Association membership examination and automatically become a "one-star dream builder" after joining.
The star ratings after that will be awarded by the association based on the overall situation of the work, and the last star rating is the so-called "Star-Resident Dream Builder", who will own a Dream Source Crystal Planet.
Although Shang Jingyan felt that the original owner's inexplicable mining rights debt did not necessarily have to be repaid, considering the original owner's age when he signed the agreement, it might not be legally binding.
But the star rating of Dream Builder itself is very attractive to her, and Director Shang has always loved climbing to the top.
"I'll get up and register for the exam now..." Shang Jingyan opened the light computer while dragging the tail of his dinosaur pajamas, his eyes half asleep.
"The teacher who will set the test this time will be a paratrooper from the main system. The well-informed candidates should have known and collected the test questions she has set in the past."
The voice on the other end of the phone became Chai Yuanlin.
Chai Yuanlin wisely swallowed the question "Do you have a collection of exam questions?" and said directly: "I have revised one here. Give me the address and I will send it to you."
Why does my heroine always have to take exams?
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