If you want to know what happened, just take a stroll through the forum.
Xu Shuo entered the Script Plaza, and he didn't even have to search for the keywords. The top trending post was about the "Dancer in the Dark" incident, still released by that familiar well-known blogger conducting the investigation.
He first checked out what the script's plot was.
The protagonist is a police officer in a small city engulfed in darkness, where the frequent disappearances of young girls occur alongside the eerie discovery of strange dog corpses and cryptic messages. Behind these events appears to be the dark turmoil from decades ago, prompting the officer to start investigating.
In plot one, a girl in the dance studio is suspected to have been murdered; the officer comes into contact with the "Swan Lake" ballet troupe.
In plot two, the police are attacked by an unknown force, leading the officer to encounter the church's power.
In plot three, the ultimate battle at the ruins' altar.
So far, there seems to be no problem; the plot and the direction in the game are roughly the same.
However, Xu Shuo noticed a very important issue.
This is a four-player script, with playable game characters being the police officer, priest, dancer, and dance instructor.
Fuck! He ran into the wrong body again!
The police officer represents humanity, tasked with uncovering the true reasons behind the girls' disappearances.
The priest embodies the church's power, clashes with the cultists in a battle of faith, and is tasked with preventing the descent of the Evil God.
The dance instructor's mission is opposed to the other two because she is a cultist, tasked with offering the most suitable sacrifice at the ritual of the Evil God.
The dancer is that sacrifice, her only mission is to fulfill her competitive spirit; it sounds simple, but she is actually the one most stuck in the mire, existing as the Vessel for the Evil God.
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Qiuzi's existence serves merely to increase the difficulty of the dance instructor's task. After all, if the wrong sacrifice is chosen, it would be all over.
Necrophages cannot become a sacrifice.
Without Xu Shuo, Qiuzi would just be an unusually appealing Necrophage in transformation.
Although, when that incomplete form of the Evil God first appeared, it seemed to want to devour Qiuzi even more than it did Xuena...
Xu Shuo stroked his chin and fell into deep thought.
He wondered why he had ended up in the wrong role.
Wasn't this system bug a bit too much?!
Xu Shuo pulled down the thread and continued reading. After the blogger had thoroughly explained the plot of "Dancer in the Dark", they began to speculate on the reason for its removal.
As everyone knows, there are only two reasons: either a character has Awakened, or the script has collapsed.
But this time, whether it's because all four players were extremely cautious, or because they have all been killed off in the script, no player has come forward to claim they were part of this incident at the theatre.
He had amassed 10,000 points of interpretation value, enough to start buying things here.
Xu Shuo had already taken a fancy to a game prop last time, and now that he had enough money, he could finally afford to get that item.
But just at that moment, a system message suddenly popped up in the corner of his eye.
[You have a new friend request.]
A friend request?
But there isn't even a friend list in the Player's Handbook!
Xu Shuo was startled for a moment, then opened the box to see the details. [Player Hong Rao requests to add you as a friend.]
Hong Rao? He had some recollection of the name—it was the first to lie down in his list of followers.
After pondering for a bit, Xu Shuo accepted the friend request.
Soon, another person was added to his attention list. When he clicked on the attention list, it displayed "[Mutually following]" with Hong Rao and also showed an icon of a dialogue box for sending messages.
Is this what being friends meant?
The system was quite sparing with its interface.
[Your friend "Hong Rao" has requested to visit your personal space.]
Xu Shuo was in the middle of complaining when a new system message appeared, revealing information that caught him by surprise.
Visiting personal space must mean—coming over here?
This just got interesting.
Xu Shuo quietly stared at this system prompt for quite some time, a smile with an indistinct meaning curling on his lips before he clicked to accept.
In an instant, the semi-transparent system box disintegrated into light particles that fell to the ground, gradually forming a doorframe about one person tall.
The doorframe was surrounded by intense light, making it impossible to see what was on the other side.
But soon, a woman dressed in a black tight-fitting cheongsam stepped out from the Light Gate.
There was nothing particularly special about the woman except for a lazy and mysterious aura around her; her curly, wavy, long hair pinned up on her shoulder, and her face, seductive and flamboyant, wore a faint smile.
She casually surveyed the space and then focused her gaze on Xu Shuo, the smile on her face growing deeper.
"Hello, I'm Hong Rao, 'Rao' as in enchanting," she said softly, her voice low and mellow.
"I'm Xu Shuo, 'Shuo' as in Shuo Yue," Xu Shuo returned with a smile.
Hong Rao stared at him, dark purple eyes shimmering, their meaning unclear, her face wearing an enigmatic smile.
After a moment, she parted her lips slightly, "To directly mess up two scripts like that, you're quite something~"