The dramas he supplemented were all first-rate, and Xu Shuo was very relaxed.
If he were not worried that his frequent rewriting of scripts and frequent entry into the world of scripts might lead to mental overload and brain death, he could just complete sixteen scripts in one day!
But after thinking about it, I’d better go to bed early.
The next day is the weekend, and it is also the opening day of the "Huiyao·Maze" store located on Wanghong Street in Heiyu District.
Early in the morning, the bouquets and red damasks had been arranged and hung. As for the arrangements of gongs, drums and lion dances, there was no need. After a simple opening ribbon-cutting, the Lost City was officially open for business!
Although today was the weekend, Xu Xi, who was busy reviewing, still couldn't leave school and come to the scene. She could only ask Xu Shuo to take some opening videos for her and send them over.
Because they had distributed flyers and various advertisements for a week to warm up, the first batch of trial customers after the opening of Maze City were many. As for whether they can retain customer traffic after this, it depends on their subsequent business.
The waiter in the tea room on the first floor and the host of the script killing on the second floor have already taken up their posts. There are two people at the front desk. Ji Xiaoxia had only worked part-time to hand out flyers.
After the official opening, a new employee was hired to distribute flyers. After all, in an offline board game store like this in a remote location, the customer flow is completely different between when there are flyers and when there are no flyers.
Xu Shuo stayed in the store for the whole morning, and then left it to Li Ziwen to take care of it, while he returned to the studio to supervise the development of the online app.
The Script Killing: Mist City app has actually been developed and is now being submitted for review and internal testing.
In order to save money, we did not hire professional players for internal testing. We just had the employees in the studio play the game several times themselves. We plan to let players help them find bugs after the review is completed and the game is launched online.
Anyway, for this kind of game, as long as there are no bugs in the script, it will basically be fine.
Script killing has only become popular among small groups in recent years, and the overall number of scripts is not large, which also leads to a smaller number of high-quality scripts.
So Xu Shuo went to the script space and learned a lot.
There are a lot of people on the forum rushing to post guides. They want to be as detailed as possible when restoring the script. There are also videos you can watch. If you don’t borrow it, it will be in vain.
After all, it is necessary to ensure that there are enough and rich scripts for players to experience. There will be more online players, so new scripts will be updated more frequently.
As for offline game stores, just ensure that there is a new script every week.
In the entire script space, there are countless scripts for Xu Shuo to choose from.
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Three days after the opening of the new store on Internet Celebrity Street in Heiyu District, the popularity has completely subsided.
After the novelty of things wears off, those who remain are basically interested in board games or script killing, or simply use the tea room as a milk tea shop.
But even so, the three rooms upstairs are still fully booked every day. After all, a script killing session lasts at least two to three hours, and as long as five or six hours, which is very suitable for entertainment.
Fortunately, the hosts have been trained and can handle several shows in a row.
The two front desks work in shifts in the morning and evening, with an hour's overlap in the middle. They have four days off per month without food and accommodation.
"Your treatment is just enough to survive."
On the sofa in the rest area on the second floor, a fashionably dressed girl with short hair looked at the place curiously, and then said: "You are not just planning to do an internship here. What kind of professional title can you get like this?"
Ji Xiaoxia sat next to him, smiled shyly and said, "It's okay, I think it's good to be here."
"No, we are in the design field after all. When you graduate, you can get an internship experience at the front desk of a board game store and hand it over. Are you sure the teacher won't beat you to death?" the short-haired girl said in disgust.
"This is a script killing shop." Ji Xiaoxia emphasized.
"Is there any difference? You can only get three thousand a month at most. How much do you have left after paying the rent and food expenses?" The short-haired girl looked at her with hatred.
"Three thousand and five." Ji Xiaoxia lowered her head and emphasized again.
"Can you please stop changing the subject?"
"..."
The two were silent for a while, and the short-haired girl continued: "Besides, I heard that the people who come to this kind of board game store are young people from society, and their relationship is very messy. If word spreads about you working in a place like this, Not nice."
Ji Xiaoxia frowned slightly when he heard this and hesitated to speak, but after thinking about it, he held it back.
The girl with short hair kept chattering: "The owner who can open this kind of store may not be an ordinary person. What will you do if he wants to do something to you? You can't tell me!"
"Hello."
Ji Xiaoxia suddenly raised her head, stared at her in a low voice and said, "You don't know anything but you keep slandering my work. Do you want to show off your superiority, or do you want to take the opportunity to make me lose this job?"
"What do you mean, I'm here for——"
The short-haired girl looked back even more unhappily, but was startled the moment she looked at Ji Xiaoxia.
She couldn't describe this feeling, she just felt like she was being targeted by something terrible at that moment. The originally shy and reserved girl suddenly became very sharp and dangerous!
Being oppressed by the other party's powerful momentum, the girl suddenly felt guilty for no reason.
She said weakly: "You...why did you say that to me? I'm thinking about you too. We are roommates after all."
Ji Xiaoxia cast her eyes away angrily.
Fortunately, the store manager is not here today and there is no one around. Otherwise, if the boss hears what he said just now, his job will be ruined.
She drank water and said, "I know what I'm doing here, so just take care of yourself and don't make irresponsible remarks."
The short-haired girl was a little embarrassed at being humiliated and angry. After a few tough words, she angrily picked up her shoulder bag and hurried downstairs to leave.
She was scared just now, and now she is still a little scared.
After she left, Ji Xiaoxia put down her water glass and breathed a sigh of relief. Then she looked at the time and saw that it was only half past five.
I originally made an appointment with the short-haired girl for dinner and shopping, but she just made him angry and left.
That's right, you can take a rest now.
Ji Xiaoxia took the pillow from the sofa, leaned in the corner and closed her eyes.
…
【You have entered the theater. 】
"hiss……"
Dull pain in the brain, as if it is splitting!
Ji Xiaoxia opened her eyes with difficulty and saw herself wearing a floral skirt and holding a paintbrush, standing in front of a white wall.
Behind her are large tracts of fields, and next to them is the cement road that stretches to the village entrance archway, and this white wall also follows the cement road to the village entrance.
The difference is that many patterns have been painted on the front section of the wall, leaving only the small section at the end that has not yet been painted.
Ji Xiaoxia looked at the scene in front of her and rubbed her head again with a headache.
She didn't know why, but she had an inexplicable feeling.
It seems like I shouldn't be in this script.
When she just clicked to start the game, something seemed to be pulling hard on her consciousness for a moment, making her feel like she was being cruelly split in half, which was extremely painful!
Fortunately, the severe pain lasted only a moment.
At most, she feels a little uncomfortable in her brain now. She remembered that the forum said that entering the world of scripts is very mentally draining. She thought this was the reason.
Don't save money when you go out, buy a mental power item.
Ji Xiaoxia breathed out, opened the player's manual and looked at her identity and mission this time, but suddenly, she felt a little impressed by the name of the script.
"Green-faced fangs?"
Ji Xiaoxia's heart skipped a beat.
If she has an impression of this script name, it must be because she has read the strategies related to this script in the forum.
However, she played a trick. She only read scripts that had elements of declension!
If she had an impression of the title after entering the script, then there would definitely be a monster in this script!
Thinking of this, Ji Xiaoxia immediately opened her player's manual. After confirming that the prop could be taken out, she quickly took out a purifying jade pendant and put it on her neck.
Only in this way can a sense of security be restored.
"Draw a real green-faced fang? This green-faced fang should be a monster. Doesn't asking me to draw it mean that I have to know what it looks like..." Ji Xiaoxia whispered to herself.
If you want to know what a monster looks like, you must either face the monster directly or find out.
She definitely chose the latter approach.
But the mission was prefixed with the word "real", implying that there might be fakes that could confuse people's attention. Didn't this force her to find it herself?
Ji Xiaoxia sighed melancholy at the difficulty of the task. Suddenly, she felt her skirt being pulled.
When he lowered his head and looked down, he found a five or six-year-old little girl standing at his feet. The girl came over at some point, and Ji Xiaoxia was so frightened that she jumped a big step back!
"Huh?"
The little girl tilted her head in confusion. She was wearing a green jacket and a somewhat messy bun. Her big, watery eyes stared at her, making her look very cute.
After Ji Xiaoxia recovered her mood, she was struck by cuteness.
She looked at the little girl and found nothing wrong for the time being, so she lowered her guard.
"Little sister, why are you here?" Ji Xiaoxia squatted down and asked softly with a flattering smile on her face.
The little girl didn't speak, but suddenly came close to her, sticking her head as if she was smelling something.
Caught off guard by the cute little girl, Ji Xiaoxia looked at her chubby cheeks and smelled the milky fragrance unique to a child. She couldn't help but reach out and pinch her cheeks.
So soft and cute~
The little girl was stunned when her cheek was suddenly pinched.
When her big moist eyes stared at Ji Xiaoxia intently, she looked even more cute, and she couldn't help but stretch out her hands to hold him in her arms and rub him hard.
At this time, a car suddenly stopped next to them.
The window rolled down, and a slight cough came from inside.
Ji Xiaoxia's movements suddenly froze. After a while, she stiffly let go of the little girl. She stood up reservedly and looked at the car parked in front of her.
There was a man in a trench coat sitting in the driver's seat of the car. He looked at her with a smile and asked, "Excuse me, is this Qingliu Village?"
"Yeah." Ji Xiaoxia responded sheepishly.
"Did you draw it? It's very good." The man in the windbreaker pointed at the wall and said.
"Thank you." Ji Xiaoxia smiled.
She secretly looked at this person. The intersection of this concrete road was the archway of Qingliu Village. There was no need to ask her any more questions. The other person's purpose was revealed in the second sentence.
And this wall, from beginning to end, is full of stories about the Green-Faced Tusk.
The person asking for directions from the other side must have shown that it was his first time here and he was already interested in this kind of thing. Could it be that he was also a player?
Ji Xiaoxia silently gathered her thoughts, said a few words shyly, and did not start a conversation with him at all.
The man in the trench coat saw this, asked casually, and then drove towards the village.
The little girl still stayed next to Ji Xiaoxia, holding her skirt with her little hands. She didn't speak the whole time, but looked curiously at the car that drove in.
Ji Xiaoxia also breathed a sigh of relief at the back of the car, then squatted down and continued to rub the little girl's cheek, and asked: "Little sister, which family are you from? Can I take you back?"
The little girl stared at her and said, "Xiao Qing."
The crisp and crisp voice was particularly childish, as if it contained an innocent milky air, and Ji Xiaoxia was particularly happy to be ignored.
"Is that your name, Xiaoqing? It sounds so nice~"
"Sister?" Xiaoqing pulled her clothes.
"Uh..." Ji Xiaoxia suddenly frowned.
Her identity information is [Painter].
She has no name! !
So, Ji Xiaoxiapi said with a smile: "Well, just call me 'sister'."
Xiao Qing blinked and then opened his arms towards her.
Generally speaking, when a child makes this gesture, it means asking for a hug. Ji Xiaoxia's heart suddenly softened, and he put his hands through the little girl's armpits and picked her up.
The little girl is much lighter than expected.
Her whole body was soft, and after she was picked up, her head was buried in her neck. You could still feel the little girl's gentle breathing, and the other person seemed to take a deep breath.
While Ji Xiaoxia was sighing, she suddenly heard the little girl's voice saying faintly:
"Sister, you smell so good."
"..."
…
At that moment, Ji Xiaoxia almost threw the person out.
Fortunately, after she quickly let go of the little girl, she still only saw the innocent and curious eyes of the other party. She did not show any strange expression as if she was behind the scenes, nor did she make a sudden attack.
The jade pendant around her neck didn't respond either.
Although the gloomy value of the sentence just now is already full.
Xiaoqing tilted her head, as if wondering why she had such a big reaction.
Ji Xiaoxia calmed down and smiled awkwardly: "Yes...really, um, Xiaoqing smells so good too."
Oh my God, what is she talking about...
Ji Xiaoxia covered her face.
At this time, another person walked along the cement road from the entrance of the archway. The other person had a SLR in his hand and took pictures of the paintings on the wall from time to time.
"Hey, are you from this village?"
When the other party walked in, he patted Ji Xiaoxia on the shoulder.
Ji Xiaoxia reacted suddenly and turned to look at the person. She saw the woman carrying a backpack, wearing simple and smart clothes, and her face was expressionless.
"No." Ji Xiaoxia remembered her identity information and said, "I am the person invited by the village chief to help him paint."
"So you painted these?" the woman asked, pointing to the wall.
"Yeah." Ji Xiaoxia admitted again.
"Then you should be familiar with the story of 'Green Faced Tusk'. I am a reporter, and I came to Qingliu Village to interview this legend." The woman took out her ID from her work bag and showed it to her.
"oh……"
Ji Xiaoxia stared at her blankly, suddenly feeling an inexplicable sense of déjà vu.
She's not sure where this sense of déjà vu comes from, but it feels like she's seen a similar plot somewhere, and it doesn't look like a guide she saw on a forum...
A village with a monster legend, a painter who painted the monster, a reporter who came to investigate, and the man just now...
Could that man in the trench coat be a police detective?
Ji Xiaoxia was troubled by this paradoxical feeling, which made her frown subconsciously and her whole expression became a little serious.
"What's wrong?" The woman looked at her strangely.
"Sorry, I actually don't know much about it. I just heard it from the villagers."
Ji Xiaoxia mumbled and said: "Let's just say that the monster appeared a long time ago, and it specializes in eating boys and girls. It requires sacrifice to drive it away, and..."
She paused in her words.
The more I think about it, the stronger this sense of déjà vu becomes.
Ji Xiaoxia turned around and looked at the fields not far away. The fields were facing the river, with blue sky and white clouds, and the sunlight shone on the water and made sparkling waves.
Staring at the river, Ji Xiaoxia's eyes suddenly lit up!
She seems to have remembered it!
She had read this similar story not long ago!
I saw it in the shop where I work!
"Kappa", the city-limited version of Lost City, tells the story of a village that worshiped a river god a long time ago. In order to pray for good weather, the legend of the river god spreads in the village.
But as time passed, the legend gradually transformed the river god who originally blessed people into a man-eating monster, and it was necessary to sacrifice it to ensure peace.
In fact, because of the villagers' desires and evil deeds, the river god turned dark!
The blackened river god will turn into a monster at night and enter the village to kill people!
After some villagers saw the dead body at night, they took advantage of it and poured dirty water on another person to seek profit.
In the end, the whole village was in chaos!
The story begins here.
Players will play the roles of police detectives who enter the village to investigate the case, reporters who follow the investigation, and villagers in the village.
Finally, there is a female artist who comes to the village to find inspiration!
The artist accidentally saw something crawling out of the river one night, but no one believed her, and she herself didn't see clearly what it was, so she could only draw a specious monster.
After Ji Xiaoxia remembered this script, she felt like she was in a state of enlightenment!
She still remembers the ending of that book——
The murderer is the river god.
The initiator was the village chief.
This is the truth that players need to find out through clues.
But in addition, there is actually an Easter egg hidden in the script and clue cards-the river god turns into a monster at night.
What about during the day?
During the day she is a sweet little girl.
These two scripts are inexplicably similar.
Thinking of this, Ji Xiaoxia seemed to suddenly realize something. She felt the tug from her skirt and looked down suddenly.
He saw the little girl about five or six years old, wearing a green jacket and a somewhat messy bun, tilting her head cutely, blinking her big, watery eyes, and staring at her with a burning gaze.
But rather than looking at her, he seemed to be looking at something else.
Then, she remembered that she didn't notice the little girl approaching at all, and then she remembered the easter egg in the script she saw in the store.
These two usually unrelated thoughts kept jumping around in my mind, and finally gradually merged into one.
Weird, yet inexplicably fitting and reasonable.
Ji Xiaoxia: "..."
Ji Xiaoxia: "!!!"
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