Creating a zombie in a mountain village terrifies players worldwide.

Chapter 9 New Content: Ju-on

After quickly watching several live streamers and then watching several video clips, Lin Shu came to a conclusion.

That is.
"The players in this world have a very low fear threshold."

Lin Shu couldn't help but complain and turned off the live stream.

The so-called terror threshold is a person's level of acceptance and tolerance for horror works.

If it's too low, even Thomas the Tank Engine might scare him.

If they are too tall, then horror movies or horror games will be like Teletubbies to them, and they might even be able to enjoy them with food.

Lin Shu clearly belongs to the latter category.

As a child, he had a very low threshold for fear; watching "The Shining" would scare him so much that he was afraid to sleep alone.

As he grew up, he watched countless films.

He can handle anything from "The Conjuring," "Final Destination," "Silent Hill," "Annabelle," and "Insidious" to the like.

Over time, the terror threshold increases.

Now, he can enjoy watching dark and supernatural movies like "Coming Soon," "The Haunted Cop Shop," and "Satan's Slave" while munching on duck necks at midnight.

As for horror games? Those are a piece of cake.

Scenes in "The Face" that make your sanity drop like crazy.

The eerie Thai horror in "Sweet Home".

The sudden jump scar in "The Haunted House".

The suffocating sense of oppression in "Outlast".

None of this affected him; in fact, he found it rather boring.

He just randomly clicked on a few live streams, and the streamers were all terrified by Chu Renmei, screaming and howling like ghosts.

The comments section was filled with messages like "I'm scared" and "I dare not watch".

Lin Shu shook her head, thinking that this generation of players was no good.

According to the original owner's memories, the horror works currently on the market, whether they are horror movies, horror novels, or even horror games, are all outdated and cannot scare people at all on Earth.

If we had to make a comparison, the level of terror on Earth would be roughly equivalent to that of Earth in the 1980s or 1990s.

In other words, horror movies from Earth in the 1980s and 90s, such as classic old movies like "The Shining," "The Ring," and "The Thing," could terrify people on Earth in 2055, including those who call themselves horror enthusiasts.

Lin Shu touched her chin, and the corners of her mouth turned up slightly.

The horror genre on Earth is so niche, doesn't that mean there's no one competing with him?

Others need manpower and money to make a decent horror game, but he doesn't.

With the system in place, you can create a virtual reality game with just a little time. Even if you only sell one copy, you'll still make a profit!
What a business opportunity this is!
Take those classic horror movies and games from Earth, repackage them using Blue Star's SkyNet technology, and turn them into virtual reality games.

That would scare these hothouse flowers to death... cough cough, help them raise their terror threshold!
"Making money while promoting Earth art, what a great deal!"

As she spoke, Lin Shu connected to the system and looked at her fright level.

There are currently 221034 fright points!
Good heavens, my shock value increased by 22 overnight?
Then we can consider continuing to make games.

Lin Shu's lips curled into a smile.

The game is currently in early access, and streamers and regular players are all playing it.

With such a huge buzz, it's only natural to strike while the iron is hot and release follow-up content quickly, otherwise it would be a waste of this massive amount of traffic.

Timely updates can also maintain discussion and popularity, bringing fame to oneself.

"but……"

Lin Shu frowned slightly.

"Now that we've built up some popularity, the updates can't be free anymore. We need to make a living too. We'll starve if we keep doing this for love."

After thinking for a moment, he made up his mind.

"The subsequent content will be charged per chapter."

"One videotape is one chapter, and 'The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village' is the appetizer, which can be considered the first chapter."

"As for Chapter Two..."

A classic horror movie flashed through Lin Shu's mind—"Ju-on."

This is a Japanese supernatural horror film released in 2000. Upon its release, it was labeled as the 'most terrifying horror film'.

It was even banned in some regions because the little boy's expression on the cover poster was too creepy.

The plot of the movie is not complicated.

It's about a woman named Kayako who ran into her first love at her son's school and then became obsessed with him.

Then she went home and dug out her student diary, which was full of yandere and crazy remarks, saying how much she loved her first love, how much she loved him to the point of obsession, and that she wanted to have his child.

Now that I've seen my first love, I've started writing my diary entries on it again.

Kayako's husband had been wanting a second child, but he couldn't conceive because he suffered from oligospermia.

One day, when she came home and saw Kayako's diary, she immediately concluded that she had been cheated on and suspected that her son was the child of Kayako's first love. After all, she had oligospermia, and her son's name was Toshio, while her first love's name was Shunsuke, both of which contained the character "Shun".

How could one not have doubts?

As a result, Kayako, who did nothing, was brutally abused by her husband for four hours.

First, he kicked her down the stairs, causing her to break her leg.

Then he grabbed her by the hair and tied her up, then used a utility knife to cut her body repeatedly until she bled out and her skin turned deathly pale. Finally, he was strangled to death.

As a result, the throat and vocal cords are unable to produce sound, and can only emit eerie 'clucking' growls.

No matter how she explained, it was no use; her son was also beaten to death by him.

The bodies of the mother and child were left on top of the closet, and the closet door was sealed shut with tape.

And so, their resentment soared to the heavens, turning into a curse, and began a life of indiscriminate killing where anyone who entered their house would die.

So, the plot is that whoever moves into Kayako's house will die, only the manner of death will differ.

The dead become new curses, spreading endlessly and causing rampant killing.

Many people, including Lin Shu, don't think "Ju-on" is scary.

But that's because times have changed.

Those who say these older films aren't scary are often those who have been bombarded with horror films since 2010, raising their threshold for fear, which is why they find these older films unscaring.

Why don't you let him see it when he was a child? I guarantee he'd be completely silent.

The same goes for "The Shining." Many people online say it's not scary, but if these people lived in 1980, when supernatural horror films were relatively scarce and the average person's threshold for horror was extremely low, it would still be a source of fear for them.

"Let Kayako play the second videotape."

"This mother and daughter should be able to bring players the pleasure of releasing dopamine."

Lin Shu laughed as she spoke.

He could almost picture the players being terrified and screaming in terror.

Moreover, Ju-on itself is a chapter-based plot, with each character representing a chapter, and the next chapter only begins after the character dies.

So he only needs to randomly select a character's story and make it into a videotape.

This would be perfect for adapting into a game.

Just then, Lin Shu noticed two comments.

"By the way, who was that guy who played the videotape at the beginning of the game? It felt so abrupt. What was he doing?"

"Exactly, why not just control the person in the videotape directly? Why go through the trouble of controlling him to play it?"

Lin Shu simply smiled in response.

From the very beginning, he decided to make a horror game that consisted of three videotapes linked together.

Each videotape is an Earth horror movie, such as "The Haunted Village" or the currently planned "Ju-on," so there is a fixed movie protagonist for the player to control.

The character initially controlled was the fourth protagonist, who was responsible for connecting the videotapes, and was also the protagonist of "The Weird Videotapes".

His role is to watch the three videotapes, then begin his storyline, and finally uncover a shocking secret truth.

As for what this secret is, Lin Shu has already designed it, and all that's left is for players to experience it.

(End of this chapter)