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

The official response was swift, and efficiency was also high in the late Song Dynasty.

After all, there's still the carrot of "resurrection" hanging in front of her.

In the late Song Dynasty: for no other reason than a strong addiction, a love of writing, and a penchant for writing a lot.

Knowing he hadn't done anything wrong yet was inexplicably in debt for millions, the screenwriter's order for Song Mo was: Write, write, write, write, write! If you can't write them to death, write them to death! Send all the living things into the dungeon!

—On the night of his arrival in Ontario, Song Mo took a bus and explored all the landmarks marked by the map ghost as potentially spawning dungeons:

[Liwan Square: In the past, it was an execution ground for criminals and a mass burial ground. Whenever it was rainy or stormy, nearby residents could always hear faint crying and the sound of iron chains dragging on the ground.]

(Creating a dungeon requires 500 scenario points. Dungeon difficulty: High.)

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[Friendship People's Hospital: Originally an overseas Chinese hospital donated by overseas Chinese before the founding of the People's Republic of China, a large number of unidentified coffins and skeletons were unearthed during renovation.]

Doctors often see white figures wearing old-fashioned white coats and without feet moving around the hospital in the middle of the night.

(Creating a dungeon requires 1000 scenario points. Dungeon difficulty: High.)

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[Abandoned Oceanarium: Originally a large-scale marine amusement park built with an investment of tens of millions of yuan, it is said that a coiled dragon stone pillar was unearthed when the foundation was laid, and the project was subsequently suspended indefinitely.]

(Creating a dungeon requires 1500 scenario points. Dungeon difficulty: Extremely high.)

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Wenshan Village: Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was called "Fenshan Village". It is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and evil energy gathers in the area. The death energy gathers and does not dissipate, and over time, many strange things have happened.

(Creating a dungeon requires 100 scenario points. Dungeon difficulty: High.)

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[Anju Jiayuan unfinished building: The owner and his family of a luxury villa in the community died mysteriously on a rainy night, and the cause of death is unknown.]

After that, no matter who moved in, they never stayed for more than a week, claiming that they experienced sleep paralysis in the middle of the night and saw a family sitting in the living room watching TV.

(Creating a dungeon requires 200 scenario points. Dungeon difficulty: Medium.)

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"This place is quite suitable."

Song Mo touched the map ghost with his fingertip, and the map ghost seemed to feel a little itchy and trembled all over.

The 404 bus was stopped in front of an abandoned village, with waist-high weeds almost completely covering the tires.

The mouse servant crouched low, its long, pointed snout twitching slightly, a strange unease creeping over it.

The vengeful ghost, Ah Yan, floated in the darkness, engrossed in looking at her newly acquired mobile phone—clearly, the allure of smartphones to ancient female ghosts was undeniably fatal.

……

The entire Wenshan Village was abandoned.

Dozens of brick and tile houses are scattered in the mountain valley, many of which have been uninhabited for years and have long since collapsed.

With peeling paint, the once-inhabited house now appears eerily sinister and terrifying.

The abandoned vegetable garden had become a den of weeds, the fence was rotten and only a few wooden stakes remained, and occasionally, a snake would slither by.

Of course, the villagers who lived here also left behind many "shadows":

Men carrying hoes to work in the fields, women carrying shoulder poles.

An old man sits under a locust tree sewing shoe soles, while children chase and play.

Men dressed in mourning clothes and women with sorrow reflected in their faces stood on either side, seemingly as guests offering condolences, their expressions indifferent.

Although there is no specific scene, one can still imagine the scene at the end of the Song Dynasty, and even seem to smell the burning of paper money.

These shadows overlapped and were everywhere—in the earthen walls, on the road, and even among the branches of the locust trees.

It's as if a drop of resin the size of a village suddenly fell from the sky, enveloping the entire village and preserving all traces of people's lives.

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"Once all these shadows are captured, it should be enough to support the operation of a medium-sized instance."

At the end of the Song Dynasty, the fingertip traced a shallow line along the map:

"This could be considered as the address for 'The Cat-Faced Granny'."

The reasons for choosing this location at the end of the Song Dynasty were also quite valid.

First of all, although the Cat-Faced Old Woman is a classic urban legend that has been circulating in Northeast China for nearly 30 years, it is also widely circulated in the Central Plains region.

Once the instance is completed, players will have a pre-existing sense of horror, maximizing immersion and suspense.

Secondly, Wenshan Village is located in a relatively remote area. Three years ago, the village was converted from farmland to forest, and the entire village moved out.

Although the people have moved, the buildings in the village are still there, making them a perfect background for the new dungeon blueprint.

Even if the authorities notice something amiss and investigate... it would take at least several days to mobilize personnel to search the mountains.

You're sealing off the instance, right? Preventing regular players from entering, right?

"Even if the authorities do find this place, they can't completely shut down the instance."

The eerie "hehehe" laugh emanating from the late Song Dynasty suggests the mastermind behind it all.

"I'm not that stupid. I'm not just going to create a dungeon entrance. You didn't expect that, did you? I'm going online this time."

—Scriptwriting points are very precious, so she must spend every single point wisely and squeeze every last drop of value from every location.

Why not use the existing dungeon map? Does she have to spend scriptwriting points to build a new scene herself?

She's a screenwriter, not a game designer.

Song Mo hadn't forgotten that she was now a debtor at a screenwriting studio with millions in debt, so she tried to save money wherever possible.

Didn't you see that even the rat servants and Ah Yan were sent out by her to find wild monsters and ghosts, to see if they could be caught and thrown into the dungeon as materials?

The screenwriter clutched his heart pitifully.

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Song Mo knew that the biggest bottleneck for her scriptwriting was the lack of a stable source of players.

Relying solely on randomly generated instances or scripts she writes makes the traffic completely uncontrollable.

So she plans to create an online portal for the game.

"Online... instance... entrance?"

Ah Yan's dark eyes were already starting to dart around; she really couldn't understand what Song Mo was saying.

The newly arrived large rat, however, brightened up and began squeaking incessantly.

"right."

Song Mo rubbed her hands excitedly, not caring whether A Yan understood or not; she simply wanted to express her excitement.

"The script 'Wishing Livestream' can serve as an online entrance to the Wenshan instance, guiding players into the Wenshan instance."

If the test proves successful, other instances can be linked later.

As she spoke, she walked west along the main road of the village, looking at each house like a product manager inspecting a site:

There is an ancestral hall in the village, but it is already dilapidated, and the offering table inside is broken all over the ground.

—This area could be designed as a safe house or a player spawn point. Neutral NPCs could also be created using clay to provide players with food or supplies.

There is no food or water in the instance.

If it's a short-term dungeon, it's fine, but if it's a long-term dungeon that lasts more than three days, her players will starve to death before they can even finish it.

The locust trees in the village could be used as a source of clues through shadow NPCs.

"Ah Yan, remember this."

Although he found no real-world ghosts, Song Mo was not discouraged; on the contrary, his inspiration flowed freely.

"The local environment provides the blueprint for the instance, while the supernatural legend of the 'Cat-Faced Old Lady' provides the horror core."

"Background of the instance: Huang, an old woman from Wenshan Village, was widowed young and raised her four sons on her own."

In her later years, she became paralyzed, and her four sons shirked their responsibility to support her, while also coveting her homestead and retirement money.

On the night of Huang's 80th birthday, a blizzard struck. The old woman was locked in a side room and died of cold and hunger on the kang (a heated brick bed). Half of her face was eaten by a black cat that broke in.

Fearing exposure, the sons lied and claimed that their grandmother had passed away peacefully at the age of eighty, a joyous occasion. Therefore, they held a grand funeral to cover their tracks. The villagers knew the truth but dared not offend the four brothers, and thus remained silent.

"As for the appearance of the dungeon boss, we can use the well-known cat face design, that is, half human face and half covered with black cat fur."

Ah Yan was confused as she listened, while the limbs of the little figure of Liu Laosan's soul in her hand were being torn apart and then sewn back together.

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Song Mo didn't actually expect her to remember these things; she was just helping herself to organize the logic of the script.

"The script's fun and playability must be the top priority, so the level of horror and the difficulty of the missions must be increased gradually."

"Ghosts must follow fixed patterns of behavior; they can't just keep chasing and killing players. Of course, players need to figure out these patterns themselves."

As she spoke, her pace quickened, and the ink-wash calligraphy in front of her appeared precisely at the right moment, long passages of text flowing from her fingertips at the end of the Song Dynasty, finally settling down:

[Draft 23: ...In the remote Wenshan Village, the mountains are blocked by heavy snow. The old lady of the Huang family has passed away. A film crew shooting a documentary comes here...]

But upon entering the village, they noticed something amiss… The entire village was brightly decorated, with red lanterns bearing the character for “death” hanging everywhere, and the villagers all wore smiles…

On their first day back in the village, the village chief, citing the "elder's last wishes," asked the film crew to prepare for the old woman's funeral in preparation for her birthday banquet seven days later... and then, strange things began to happen.

……

As the speed of text output increased at the end of the Song Dynasty, countless streams of light spread outwards from her body, and the power of the text flowed slowly.

It is a power powerful enough to penetrate the soul and alter everything.

Ah Yan and the rat servant trembled incessantly, not daring to lift their heads, their hearts filled with immense fear.

For a fleeting moment, the world seemed to fall silent, everything was black and white, except for one person from the late Song Dynasty who was alive.

But she was completely unaware.

……

[Note: The current maximum capacity for a single instance is 30 players. Instance mirroring is now enabled.]

[Function Description: Generates 3 parallel mirror spaces that share the world view, rules, and monster configuration.]

Players are randomly assigned, and the dungeon process does not interfere with each other. The total number of players allowed in a single dungeon session has been increased to 30.

[Cost: 100 Scriptwriting Points. Would you like to add materials?]

After some thought, Song Mo threw in the Night Crying Girl, Night Crying Boy, and Hanged Ghost that he had acquired in the previous dungeon.

In addition to the final mini-boss, you can also appropriately increase the number of ghosts and monsters roaming in the dungeon.

Normally it is in a neutral state, but once a player triggers the conditions, it will be hunted down by the ghost.

[Copy: "Grandma Huang's Birthday"]

[Core Materials: Old Photos of Wenshan Village + 200 Low-Level Spirit Materials + Legend of the Cat-Faced Old Woman]

[Instance Location: Former Site of Wenshan Village (Real-world counterpart)]

[Number of players: 30]

[100 Scriptwriting Points consumed, in progress... Creation successful, in real-world rehearsal. Rewards will be distributed after the first clear of the dungeon.]

The map slowly unfolded, and where there were originally only two points of light representing the open instance in Jiangcheng, there was now one more within the province.

The third instance has finally been successfully completed.

Song Mo's gaze fell on the trembling rat servant.

The next second, he grabbed the rat servant and instantly refined it... no, he immersed it in the script.

Having completed one instance scenario and one supernatural scenario within half a day, Song Mo almost wanted to praise himself.

—A hardworking screenwriter, working overtime online.

The instance "Grandpa Huang's Birthday Celebration" has been generated.

[Script: The preview of "The Wishing Livestream" was a success.]