I, the screenwriter, have experienced a resurgence of inspiration.

A thin layer of mist had somehow enveloped the desolate mountains outside the window, and the dampness carried by the wind fell onto the wall, seeping out as tiny water droplets.

Song Mo sat on the peeling wooden chair, his fingers unconsciously tapping the table.

The live replay of the 404 Yin-Yang Bus scenario has ended.

This replay recorded 172 valid plot points and 6 hidden trigger events.

[First clear of "Taiping Cemetery" achieved, exploration progress: 3.7%, new rule modules added: materialization of obsession, autonomous NPC generation, dynamic difficulty adjustment of dungeons]

The ink-colored characters floated and sank, and Song Mo stopped typing, raising an eyebrow.

She watched the entire four-hour-long video frame by frame.

Every expression and every choice made by each participant in the instance was clearly imprinted in her mind.

Compared to the rehearsal script she had done in the system three days before Song Mo, the real-time instance was like a wild horse that had broken free of its reins—running along countless trajectories she had never imagined.

For example.

The script for the rehearsal was static; it was just an outline she wrote on paper.

She can freely change Lin Hao's ending so that he won't be killed by the little devil, or she can simply rewrite Wang Lei's fate so that he can pass the game safely.

Everything will be under her control, without any surprises.

The real-time instance is dynamic, and so are the players.

Suya was kind-hearted and encountered a gravedigger who needed help.

Feeling guilty, Old Zhang stumbled upon his father's ghost.

Wang Lei was greedy for money, and golden paper ingots grew all over his feet.

As for the umbilical cord growing on Lin Hao's neck, and the little devil who followed him out of the dungeon and kept calling him "Dad"—they should also be related to his life experiences.

……

"So, it wasn't me who wrote their fate; they chose their own script."

Song Mo spoke softly, dipping her finger into a drop of water seeping from the wall and gently tracing a circle:

"This is really interesting."

When she was writing the script for Route 404, she only set up a large map of the mass grave and the main quest of cleaning the tombstones.

All the remaining details—the identity of the tomb keeper, the origin of the infant spirit, the illusion of the gold ingot, and even the clue she deliberately left for survival…

All of these were automatically completed and perfected during the dungeon's operation.

After all, this is the first encounter between humans from a parallel world and a supernatural instance, so Song Mo intentionally lowered the difficulty to the minimum.

All participants in the instance will receive a notification before leaving bus 404:

Passengers who have not purchased tickets, please remain where you are.

In other words, as long as players stay on the bus and don't step into the mass grave, they can wake up like Lao Hei and find themselves in People's Park, 40 kilometers away.

Aside from being startled, you won't even get a scratch on your body.

Unfortunately, none of the participants noticed this.

Or rather, even if they heard it, they wouldn't believe it.

A group of people rushed off the bus, trying to escape the "eerie ghost bus," only to plunge headlong into a real life-or-death situation.

……

Song Mo flipped through the completed script, but did not feel any sympathy or mockery.

She was no savior; at best, she was merely an observer and recorder, a scriptwriter who set the rules.

At the end of the Song Dynasty, her own life was in the hands of the system. To her, the participants and storylines in these instances were merely bargaining chips to exchange for lifespan and materials.

She still doesn't know what she is.

As the emotions of the late Song Dynasty faded, she was forced to weigh everything equally and ruthlessly.

She always had a hazy, dreamlike quality when watching the participants in the dungeon try to survive.

It's as if, to her, a human life is no different from a flower, a blade of grass, or a tree.

If I had to use a metaphor, it would be like she turned on the creative mode of a game.

Do players feel sorry for NPCs who die while playing games?

will not.

……

The next moment, the ink-wash characters suddenly began to churn, bringing with them large plumes of smoke:

[The first clear of the Taiping Cemetery instance has been completed; all rewards for this scenario are being tallied...]

[Settlement complete! Massive rewards have been sent to your system inventory. Scriptwriters, please check your accounts!]

A huge golden spot of light suddenly exploded before Song Mo's eyes, and iridescent fragments flew out of the pop-up window, with text jumping one after another.

With each jump, the number of items in the system's inventory increases dramatically.

Basic Rewards:

1. 150 low-level spirit materials (shadows that roam the human world, which can generate low-level NPCs and set up level 1 illusions. Each piece is worth 0.5 script points).

2. High-grade spirit material - Painted Skin Ghost x1

3. 50 Qianli Wuji Pills (After taking them, you will not feel hungry or thirsty for seven days, you will have plenty of energy, and you will be immune to colds and mild fatigue).

4. Intermediate Paranormal Material: Red-Clad Twin Ghosts x1 (Conjoined twin vengeful ghosts with 97% obsession depth)

5. Professional Identity Card - Butcher (Gray) x1 (can be used to awaken a beginner Butcher profession for someone without professional talent), Professional Identity Card - Doctor (Green) x1 (can be used to awaken a beginner Doctor profession for someone without professional talent)

7. 50 Bone-Growing Flowers (Spiritual flowers that grow from the withered bones of the unjustly killed, and are the core material for refining Exorcism Pills and Bone-Growing Pills)

8. Incense and candles*50, gold ingots*50

……

[Script Rating Rewards:]

The quality of this script: C++ (Complete plot, self-consistent rules, self-improving trigger system, and the birth of the first official player)

300 Scriptwriting Points Gained (Current Remaining Scriptwriting Points: 330)

Lifespan gained: 100 days (Current remaining lifespan: 124 days five hours...)

Special Audience Rewards:

Special audience member Su Ya was detected to have obtained [Su Ningxiu's Burial Objects], successfully awakening the profession [Architect (Beginner)]. The scriptwriter randomly obtained one [Architect] talent skill.

1. Skill Name: Building a Skyscraper from Flat Ground (Beginner)

Skill effect: Creates a temporary shelter that can accommodate 12 people, adapting to the local conditions.

The shelter is immune to all low-level spirit attacks and yin energy corruption, and has a constant temperature effect that lasts for 24 hours.

(Upgrade Notes: Upgrade to Intermediate level by consuming 500 Script Points. The shelter's capacity increases to 50 people and it can withstand attacks from intermediate spirits.)

……

……

Upon seeing the last reward, Song Mo suddenly stood up, his eyes filled with surprise and delight:

"Is it because Suya awakened her class? So the special audience members are actually players who can awaken their classes?"

Her face, which had previously been rather indifferent, now revealed an overwhelming surge of emotion.

"Randomly acquire one player talent skill..."

Song Mo muttered to himself, his fingertips flying across the text prompt, repeatedly confirming the reward description:

"So, if a special viewer awakens a certain skill, I could potentially acquire the exact same skill?"

This time, the ink-wash style text, which usually doesn't provide feedback, hesitated for a moment before finally uttering a long prompt:

[Special audience members are unique individuals with extremely high talent. The scriptwriters have the right to extract and replicate the class skills that players awaken in dungeons.]

! !

To those who read these texts at the end of the Song Dynasty, they were as pleasing to the eye as a bank account balance skyrocketing.

A crazy and audacious idea instantly flashed into her mind.

"This means that I don't need to enter the dungeon in person to obtain skills, materials, and items."

Song Mo's voice trembled slightly, but not from fear, but from suppressed excitement:

She only writes about copying content, she never touches it!

When players complete a dungeon, she, as the scriptwriter, will also receive rewards.

This means that she only needs to write the script behind the scenes, push the dungeon to open, and let players enter and complete the game.

She can get the same rewards, or even more, as players fight monsters, complete quests, and collect materials in dungeons!

Players can also obtain awakening skills in the late Song Dynasty. What's even more amazing is that she is not limited to a single profession.

The more dungeons a player completes and the more exciting the quests they finish, the more script points and lifespan she will gain!

"This is just like... a farmer!"

Song Mo paced back and forth in his cramped rented room, his steps light and quick.

"The instance is like my farm, and the players are the leeks I grow."

Participants in regular dungeons are just ordinary韭菜 (a metaphor for easily exploited individuals), with average output, but their large numbers make up for it; you might reap a considerable harvest by simply harvesting a few.

Players like Su Ya and Chen Xi, who have professional skills, are like the thickest, strongest, and most productive "leeks" in the garden—one leek is worth ten ordinary players!

—Suya had only awakened the ability of a junior architect, yet she was given the extremely useful skill of "building skyscrapers from the ground up".

What about Chen Xi?

Her innate profession is that of a constable, a guardian of order, and she is naturally able to restrain spirits.

Once the other party enters the instance, becomes a formal player, and awakens the constable skill, what will you gain?

Song Mo grew increasingly excited, eager to immediately pick up a pen and start writing a new script, then drag Chen Xi into it to see what powerful skills she could contribute.

However, after the initial excitement, she quickly calmed down:

The incident involving bus route 404 has caused quite a stir.

Zhang Chao died, Lin Hao and Wang Lei were crippled, and several survivors said with certainty that they had entered a death game.

The pile of stone fragments bearing Zhang Chao's DNA in Taiping Cemetery, along with the unusual phenomena on Wang Lei and Lin Hao, are evidence of the existence of the duplicate.

The authorities cannot stand idly by.

There's still a month until the next Taiping Cemetery instance opens, but that's enough time for the developers to make some big moves.

No matter the world, the late Song Dynasty would never underestimate the power of a fully functioning state apparatus.

……

"Could there really be organizations like the Dragon Group or the Special Affairs Bureau in this parallel world?"

Song Mo frowned and unconsciously touched the back of his head:

"If they did, they would definitely notice the unusual behavior in Jiangcheng."

Her current strength is still too weak.

At present, Song Mo's only trump card is a bus ghost - which is a support-type spirit that can only drive around in dungeons and has no attack ability.

Once she's targeted by the authorities, she has absolutely no ability to resist.

"I must improve my strength as soon as possible, establish my own power, and stir up trouble in order to better conceal my special abilities."

Song Mo quickly made a decision: "I must have sufficient self-defense capabilities before the authorities react."

Thinking this, her gaze fell on the two professional identity cards that emitted a faint glow.

……

……

The two cards floated silently in mid-air, emitting halos of different colors.

The one on the left is gray, made of rough kraft paper, and has a butcher's knife drawn on it.

The one on the right is green, and the material looks like warm and smooth Hetian jade. In the center, a pestle and a mortar are engraved with silver lines, and there are also a few herbs on the side.

[No professional identity card detected. Would you like to view the professional level description?]

"Check."

Song Mo silently thought to herself, noticing that the system attached to her seemed to have become more intelligent:

The professional identity card levels, from lowest to highest, are: gray, blue, green, yellow, gold, red, black, and dazzling white.

- Gray: Beginner class, only basic skills are unlocked, no special talents.

- Blue: Intermediate profession, unlocks 1 exclusive skill, skill power increased by 50%.

- Green: Advanced profession, unlocks 2 exclusive skills.

- Yellow: Elite class, unlocks 3 exclusive skills.

- Gold: Legendary class.

- Red: Epic Class.

- Black: Mythical profession, touching the level of rules, capable of rewriting local reality.

- **Radiant White:** A pioneering profession, existing only in theory.

……

The class levels, which players had to figure out on their own, were thus opened up without reservation to the late Song Dynasty.

It's almost like turning on the creative mode of a game.

Song Mo stroked his chin and tried to use a professional skill card, but unsurprisingly failed.

Screenwriters cannot use professional identity cards.

[The Occupation Identity Card can only be used on ordinary humans who are not currently associated with any occupation. (Once used, the target will be permanently associated with the corresponding occupation, which cannot be changed.)]

It didn't work as expected.

The end of the Song Dynasty was not disheartening.

She sees herself as a behind-the-scenes operator, a screenwriter writing scripts in the shadows—she doesn't need to personally get involved in the fighting.

These two identity cards can then be used to cultivate one's own power.

But who should use it?