There's definitely something wrong with this murder mystery game Chapter 102: Chapter 98 Hong Rao

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 ssages. 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 cos 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 ga are roughly the sa.

However, Xu Shuo noticed a very important issue.

This is a four-player script, with playable ga 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.

Qiuzi? Experience more tales on m v|l e'-

Qiuzi's existence serves rely 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 beco 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 seed 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 ti, whether it's because all four players were extrely cautious, or because they have all been killed off in the script, no player has co forward to claim they were part of this incident at the theatre.

So everyone could only guess.

[It must have collapsed.]

[Yeah, that world should have collapsed long ago.]

[I've seen others play it; one ti, they accidentally released the Evil God, which directly killed three players, and only the dance instructor survived.]

[I've seen that script too, it's really tragic!]

[Such a dangerous script should have been upgraded to a higher level long ago, why is it still lingering at a low rank?!]

[Exactly! It's making anxious every day, worrying I might pick up this script.]

[It's not that bad... As long as the three players are aware, they won't really let the dancer be sacrificed.]

[But what if you're unlucky enough to et idiot teammates?]

[…]

That's hard to say.

The discussion in the thread was heated, and unlike the removal of "The Fifth Hospital" from the last ti, most lower-rank players cheered due to the danger posed by "Dancer in the Dark".

Whether it was a character awakening or the script collapsing, everyone was relieved it was taken down!

Players have levels, and naturally, the scripts do as well.

Xu Shuo checked his personal panel and saw that he was still a tiny level one newbie with only a tutorial script for newcors in his Perford Scripts.

That tutorial script, after all, said "no level" on it.

It was, after all, a newbie tutorial that would display system arrows and hold your hand through poisoning and murdering soone.

So, Xu Shuo used the forum's search function to check the level of "Dancer in the Dark".

A level two script.

Xu Shuo, "?" Are you sure there isn't sothing off here?

He then checked the level of "The Fifth Hospital".

A level two assessnt script.

My goodness, why treat him, who had just co out of the tutorial, like this?!

Scripts are categorized into assessnt scripts and normal scripts. Players encounter the corresponding assessnt script when they level up; for instance, when rising from level one, they receive a level two assessnt script—pass it, and you're promoted to a level two player.

Suddenly, Xu Shuo felt incredibly honored!

After a quick browse on the forum and learning that "running into the wrong body and crashing the script has been pulled from the entire network," he stopped paying attention and switched to the exchange mall.

He had amassed 10,000 points of interpretation value, enough to start buying things here.

Xu Shuo had already taken a fancy to a ga prop last ti, and now that he had enough money, he could finally afford to get that item.

But just at that mont, a system ssage 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 mont, then opened the box to see the details. [Player Hong Rao requests to add you as a friend.]

Hong Rao? He had so recollection of the na—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 ssages.

Is this what being friends ant?

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 ssage appeared, revealing information that caught him by surprise.

Visiting personal space must an—coming over here?

This just got interesting.

Xu Shuo quietly stared at this system prompt for quite so ti, a smile with an indistinct aning 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 doorfra about one person tall.

The doorfra 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 llow.

"I'm Xu Shuo, 'Shuo' as in Shuo Yue," Xu Shuo returned with a smile.

Hong Rao stared at him, dark purple eyes shimring, their aning unclear, her face wearing an enigmatic smile.

After a mont, she parted her lips slightly, "To directly ss up two scripts like that, you're quite sothing~"