I created the myth of the Great Old Ones.

Then, a soft murmur drifted out.

As the camera moved, Xu Duzhong caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a woman in red in the shaky lens.

"Holy crap, a wedding dress! Is this some kind of ghost bride?"

Xu Duzhong couldn't help but shake his leg to relieve his tension.

In such an immersive video, the sudden appearance of something like this is absolutely terrifying.

He also has to pay attention to whether there are any options that appear, so as not to miss any options and directly enter the next part of the plot.

He saw the camera move, then looked back at the mansion with two large red lanterns hanging in front of it, as if everything before had been an illusion.

"The two of you."

At that moment, a flat voice suddenly came from behind the stereo headphones, making Xu Duzhong shiver. Goosebumps rose from his lower back to his spine, and his whole body trembled slightly as if he had triggered PTSD.

"Holy crap, that scared me to death..."

He had just uttered the curse to ease his fear when he saw the pale-faced, red-lipped butler-like man behind them, and a chill ran down his spine.

Suddenly, the options appeared on the screen.

Follow the other party

Reject the other party

"Should we definitely follow them? No, that's not right. This person looks very strange. If we follow them, there might be problems. At this point, we should choose a safer option... Isn't this thinking in reverse? Precisely because the other party is strange, we should follow them even more?"

Xu Duzhong quickly made up his mind and prepared to choose to "follow the other party".

Just as he moved the mouse over it, he felt someone tap him on the shoulder.

Xu Duzhong subconsciously turned his head and saw a face right next to his shoulder.

"Grass!"

He hurriedly stepped back, falling off the chair with a thud, his whole body trembling violently, like an elderly person suffering from Parkinson's disease.

"Is it really that serious? Are you secretly doing something bad in the dorm all by yourself? Let me see if you're developing normally."

Xu Duzhong then realized that it was his three roommates who had just returned from the internet cafe and brought him some late-night snacks.

"Don't scare me... you almost scared me to death."

Xu Duzhong hurriedly stood up and turned to look at the computer screen.

Having been frightened, he had inadvertently chosen to "reject the other party," and now everything went black as he collapsed into a pool of blood.

A chilling laugh came from the screen, along with a line of small text.

The nights in Drywater Town are cold. You stayed outside, witnessed something strange, and lost your life. Next time, find a warm room.

[Bad end: 59]

Chapter 084: Three Sentences to Help You Pass the Game

The fifth day since the release of "[A Day of Great Joy]".

No one on the entire internet has yet reached the true ending.

Players were not content with just exchanging ideas on forums and websites; they created several groups to share strategies and methods, and some even created related entries on open wiki websites.

The streamer Li Baitu has been working on this video for the past two days.

The main problem is that Qin Tiantian in the group keeps saying that she got this ending or that ending, making everyone in the group who is following the video feel like they've been spoiled. So, as the "parent," Li Baitu naturally has to step up her game.

He's currently streaming live while also browsing the wiki for "Day of Joy".

"That's pretty impressive, they actually came up with so many possible endings."

Li Baitu clicked on the collapsed list of endings, and the slider on the entire page immediately shortened.

He scrolled down casually and saw at least two hundred different endings.

There were all sorts of ways to die: Lu Ban drove the carriage and fell to his death; he drove the carriage himself and got hit by a car; he starved to death because he didn't eat; he was poisoned after eating; he was scared to death after glancing into the fog; he was beaten to death because he didn't look into the fog; he choked to death after eating dinner at the Hai family's house; he was beaten to death because he didn't eat dinner at the Hai family's house. There were all sorts of ways to die, a dazzling array.

It seems absurd at first glance, giving off a "this is possible?" feeling, but after carefully reading the ending description and plot, it seems to make perfect sense.

Some players even managed to survive the game.

For example, someone inexplicably typed out an ending where they slept in a carriage until the third day, missed the wedding, and discovered that the town of Drywater had disappeared.

Another example is someone who ingratiated himself with the two elders of the Hai family and ended up as a son-in-law of the Hai family.

The ending most people consider closest to the true ending is the one where the bride attends the wedding and witnesses the bride merging with the black tower, and the groom and bride "uniting" in the scene. However, after that, both Trist and Lu Ban are buried in the black mud.

Finding a way to break free from this black mud is considered the core challenge in conquering the "Day of Great Joy".

Li Baitu glanced at the longer bullet comments.

[Is this video really that interesting? I only glanced at it briefly and then turned it off, but I didn't expect it to be so funny? So many streamers are broadcasting it?]

[Could it be that the uncle is behind this? Remember that dating reality show where so many content creators were watching live streams? It was all part of the uncle's plan!]

[What a coincidence! I've been promoting this video recently, and I keep waking up in my dreams of being in a carriage!]

This video is addictive; the creator must have a really strong sense of the wicked!

[This uploader is disgusting. First, they made scary videos about the underworld, and now they're making these kinds of videos to make people suffer. They've never done anything like what people in the living world would do!]

More like a game than a video, this "joyful day" is a game.

Everyone is searching for guides, watching live streams, and exchanging tips on how to complete the game.

Oh, no one has cleared the game yet. That's alright then.

Li Baitu continued reading the wiki and discovered that someone had compiled all the things that appeared in Lu Ban's previous videos, creating what appeared to be a "motionless universe".

For example, the fish that appeared in the previous episode about eating field mice has been linked by some people to the fish-headed man that appeared in this "Great Day" video, who believe that the huge fish floating in the air may be an evolution of the fish-headed man.

For example, the huge, living tower is also believed to be related to the meadow that turns living things into plants.

"...It's easy to find out that in this worldview, there exist some extraordinary deities. For example, the Black Queen Mother mentioned in the video may be a god, and those fish-headed people, big fish, rat people, etc., are all followers of the Black Queen Mother!"

Because of the appearance of the giant creature formed from the silt after the tower came to life, a streamer once referred to it as a "goat" during a live broadcast. Therefore, many viewers subsequently called the monster a black goat.

"...Although the videos appear to be completely unconnected, there are actually subtle clues hidden throughout, with underlying themes. Moreover, instead of forcibly instilling these clues into us through explanatory text, the video cleverly buries these details in the corners of the video, allowing the audience to piece them together from scratch. It's truly ingenious!"

Li Baitu saw some analysis videos on 【Dongleme】, and then he saw a column titled 【Three Sentences to Teach You How to Pass 【Day of Great Joy】】.

He clicked on it immediately.

"...My research revealed that the options in this video differ from those in traditional interactive videos. These options are time-limited; that is, time-based judgment statements were added to the jump points in the interactive video, causing different jumps based on the length of time the options appear. This is why the same options can produce different results!"

Underneath this description is a series of GIFs that vividly illustrate the different results of clicking an option immediately, clicking after a period of hesitation, and clicking after a long period of thought.

"It seems that's really the case."

Li Baitu glanced at the video, casually opened it, and tested it out.

"If that's the case, it's pretty much the same in reality. Sometimes it's a split-second decision, and there's not much time to think..."

He wholeheartedly agreed.

"Wait a minute, if that's the case, then as long as we figure out the pattern of time, passing the level will be just around the corner!"

Once you figure out the branching paths, going through them once is just a matter of physical effort, and you'll eventually get to the ending!

However, as he continued reading, he discovered that the columnist had made even more discoveries.

"In addition, this video has a pause mechanism. When the viewer pauses, it seems as if the video time has stopped, but it hasn't actually stopped. The video continues in some way, and this pause time will change the options!"

Seeing this, Li Baitu was somewhat surprised.

The progress shown in the video is even affected by real-world actions. If you pause the video and think about it more, the options will be different. That's incredibly detailed.

Rather than saying it's meticulous, it's more accurate to say that the creator is absolutely insane!

Normally, who would put so much design into such a small interactive video?

Wouldn't it be better to use that free time to make your own game and sell it?

Is this video really available for free?

Thinking of this, Li Baitu added another like to the video, which already had over 500,000 likes.

He also discovered that the video received a lot of coins; with 500,000 likes, it received over 300,000 coins, a very high ratio.

The number of views is also close to seven million, and this is only the fifth day!

He sighed, then went back to read the column, where the author wrote at the end.

"There's another feature that I believe most people haven't noticed: some branches of this video aren't flat; they're 360-degree panoramic videos! You can switch to another perspective simply by using your mouse or dragging on your phone!"

"???"

Li Baitu was completely dumbfounded.

He hurriedly picked up his phone and, following the previous guide, carefully moved to the position at the Hai family's main gate. Then, while he and Lu Ban were looking at the red lanterns, he turned the camera.

Immediately, Li Baitu saw a woman with a pale face, crimson lips, and bloodshot eyes, dressed in a wedding gown, standing behind her.

"Grass!"

He couldn't help but curse.

Chapter 085 She definitely has ulterior motives!

"Seven million, that's fast!"

Lu Ban looked at the playback data in the backend and was very satisfied.

With just over a week left until the deadline, reaching 10 million views should be a sure thing.

Before making the video, Lu Ban did some research on interactive videos.

Essentially, it's a video version of a text-based adventure game.

To get viewers to watch the video repeatedly, what's needed is the motivation of multiple endings and the exploration of various branching paths.

Of course, these alone are not enough.

If a game is so difficult to complete that almost no one has ever finished it, would a normal person want to try it?