There's definitely something wrong with this murder mystery game-Chapter 674

Chapter 674: Chapter 575: The Bride Who Lives in the Castle Chapter 674: Chapter 575: The Bride Who Lives in the Castle Before the game ended, the village chief had hinted that after leaving the Script Space, the two could add each other as friends and team up for a script next time!

Although the village chief was quite skilled, Xu Shuo didn’t have the habit of teaming up with others for scripts.

So at that time, he responded vaguely and let it pass.

And now.

Looking at the village chief’s greeting message, Xu Shuo decisively blocked him to prevent further harassment.

Even though if he didn’t reply to the greeting, the other party wouldn’t be able to continue sending messages.

In any case, blocking was just to be on the safe side.

...

There was no other meaning.

After checking the script completion summary, Xu Shuo opened the message list to see the message left by Hong Rao.

When he had entered the script, Hong Rao had been in his personal space.

Moreover, she had said that she would wait for him here until he finished the script, but now she wasn’t here, suggesting something unexpected must have happened that caused her to leave.

After Xu Shuo returned, he found a red dot in the messages section of the Player’s Handbook.

Upon opening it, sure enough, it was a message from Hong Rao.

Hong Rao: “I had some urgent matters to attend to and needed to leave for a while.

After you finish your script, you should also rest for a while.

If you want to enter a script, choose from the ones I’ve prepared for you.”

Hong Rao: “Don’t mess around, and pay attention to your performance points, they are almost overflowing!

But you have too few Second Level Scripts in your category!”

Hong Rao: “Your upgrade this time is no joke, if you’re not careful, you might stumble into a Fourth Level assessment script, which has claimed the lives of countless players before—I don’t want you to fall halfway.”

Hong Rao: “Your last attempt at a Third Level assessment script didn’t succeed, so take this opportunity to clear it again.”

Hong Rao: “In any case, you must wait for my return, don’t act on your own!”

Hong Rao: “See the reply!”

Xu Shuo: “1”

…

Xu Shuo looked at his accumulated performance points.

It was almost a hundred thousand.

Third Level players require accumulating a hundred and fifty thousand performance points.

The Script Space controls the number of scripts players can play by setting an upper limit on the performance points that can be obtained at different stages.

First and Second Levels are one stage, while Third and Fourth Levels are another stage.

At a normal pace.

After playing a dozen or so First Level scripts, you could basically upgrade to Second Level.

Then, after playing about twenty Second Level scripts, you could reach the stage of upgrading to Third Level.

For Third Level, upon completing about thirty Third Level scripts, you could proceed to a Fourth Level assessment—that’s the real watershed for players!

But Xu Shuo had, as a Second Level player, played a few Third Level scripts.

Therefore, the performance points he obtained were far more than what he would have received from Second Level scripts, which meant that he was accumulating performance points much faster than a normal Second Level player.

Xu Shuo opened his own script list to take a look.

There weren’t many Third Level scripts either.

If you count “Green-skin Train,” there are only three Third Level scripts, Hong Rao was making a big deal out of nothing!

Xu Shuo estimated that he would still need to play a few more Third Level scripts to level up to Third Level.

But Hong Rao was right about one thing.

He had too few Second Level scripts.

The ‘script list’ was squeaky clean, looking like that of a newbie who had just entered the Second Level.

Hence the remaining fifty thousand performance points needed to level up.

He could completely acquire them by playing the normal Second Level scripts.

This way, he would not only fill the Second Level script void but also earn an equivalent amount of performance points, masquerading as a normal player without any bugs.

But…

Upgrading like this is so slow!!

And the rewards are all trash from the junkyard!

Xu Shuo: Ah…

Xu Shuo sighed melancholically and leaned back, sprawling onto the sofa.

Suddenly—

A strand of hair floated down.

There were also the gently swaying golden tassels, hanging just beneath the red head covering.

“What’s wrong?”

The woman’s concerned voice asked softly.

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Xu Shuo looked at the bride floating above his line of sight and was somewhat stunned, taking a good while to snap back to reality.

When he finally came to, he immediately sat up.

“How did you appear?” Xu Shuo asked.

“I suddenly heard you sigh and wanted to be by your side, so I came out,” the bride’s voice emanated from beneath the red veil.

“Where were you before?” Xu Shuo asked again.

“A castle.”

The bride answered honestly.

She waved her hand to the side, and a red mist flowed out from her body, morphing into a majestic and enormous gothic castle in the air.

Xu Shuo looked at the castle and his mouth twitched.

Isn’t that Cerys’s Prague Castle?

But why would the bride be inside there?

Thinking it over, Xu Shuo said, “You leave this place first, and let me see where you came from.”

The bride, though not understanding what he wanted to see, still nodded compliantly, her body dissolving into a puff of red mist and vanishing.

This time.

Xu Shuo’s thoughts were very focused, so he immediately perceived the issue.

He lifted his left hand and removed the black wrist guard on it, revealing a rose tattoo on his skin.

“Come out now,” Xu Shuo said.

As his words fell, the rose tattoo flashed with an imperceptible shimmer, and the bride’s figure silently appeared next to him, the fluctuation of energy barely noticeable.

However, it was already possible to conclude that it seemed the bride indeed resided there.

Then why didn’t the Traveling Poet stay there?

Curious, Xu Shuo asked, “Have you been staying in that castle since we left that world?”

The bride nodded and then shook her head.

She expressed, “I don’t know what happened, but while listening to you all talk, the scene before me suddenly changed, and there was darkness in all directions.

I don’t know how long I was in the darkness, and then I saw the castle and heard your voice.”

Xu Shuo listened quietly, thoughtfully nodding.

First, the bride must have been brought here by a Soul Contract.

But why could she come while the Traveling Poet could not?

Maybe it’s based on the difference between a player and an NPC?

Or perhaps it’s the difference between a living person and an Energy Body?

After mulling it over for a while, Xu Shuo could only come up with approximate guesses.

After all, he was just a player, not the creator of the Script Space; who knows how this Soul Contract skill was really set up.

“So, is this what you mean by the world you lived in?”

At this moment, the bride voiced her confusion.

She looked around, apparently quite baffled by this place that was a void in every direction, furnished only with a sofa.

How can one live in this place?

Xu Shuo chuckled and said, “Of course not, this is just a place for the mind to rest, you can think of it as my spiritual world.”

The bride nodded as if she half-understood, “Your spiritual world is so clean, there’s nothing in it.”

Xu Shuo: “Um…”

The reason it’s clean is that he hasn’t bought anything yet.

Hong Rao had complained more than once that his place, being so empty and white, looked unsettling.

She insisted he buy some furniture, and she even reluctantly gave away a little house as a token of friendship.

But when Hong Rao came over the next time,

she found it was still an empty expanse.

Yet Xu Shuo found it quite pleasing to the eye.

He continued, “I’m about to leave this place and go outside, so wait a bit and see if you can follow.

If you can’t, then go back to the castle.”

“Okay.”

The bride nodded, then suddenly grabbed him and said, “Wait, I have something for you.”

Xu Shuo was curious, “What is it?”

The bride took out a white paper man from her hand.

She explained, “This is what I found in the coffin when I first woke up, and later on, I relied on it to learn quite a few spells.

I was thinking maybe you could use it.”

Xu Shuo was momentarily stunned.

You wouldn’t take it out during the script.

But after the script, you remembered that there’s a setting where ‘giving a gift if the favorability is high’?

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