This Time, I'll Really Act Crazy for You

the next day.

Lu Xiu woke up early and entered the Construction Space.

Within the Construction Space.

Lu Xiu was standing in the long corridor leading to the outside world on the first floor of the Mansion.

It's not that the whole process progressed to the end so quickly.

The main issue was that she had too many ideas about the ending last night—she jumped straight to the ending and planned to finalize a few of them first.

Lu Xiu still needs to familiarize himself with the combat dungeons, and he needs to die a hundred or so times to get used to the combat style and rhythm of the dungeons—while Lu Xiu could clear these kinds of dungeons with his eyes closed.

It's simply a matter of how high or low the pass rating is.

Therefore, during the construction process, Lu Xiu was relatively more casual.

At the end of the corridor is a heavy wooden door that emits a faint light. Pushing it open leads to the forest that marks the escape in the original game, the place where the Hunter father appeared.

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Lu Xiu raised her hand.

Three data orbs appeared in the corridor, then quickly intertwined and reshaped, beginning to take form.

The first thing to take shape is the vessel in which the player plays, a slightly thin country boy dressed in coarse linen clothes.

This is a very ordinary character.

No magic, no skills, and pitifully low stats.

In this instance, players will also be completely stripped of all their proud superhuman powers, and can only rely on pure human instincts to run, dodge, and fight back.

In terms of the storyline, he is the female protagonist's childhood friend.

"Next up are—those being escorted."

Lu Xiu murmured softly, and then the second ball of light began to take shape. A petite girl with dazzling blonde hair and wearing a pure white dress appeared in the spot. Her skin was snow-white, and her eyes were wet like those of a frightened fawn. Her hands were nervously clasped in front of her chest, as if even the slightest sound could make her tremble.

From visual and body language alone, this body embodies the labels of fragility, helplessness, and need for protection to the extreme.

But this is only the surface.

Inside this pure and flawless body resides the selfish, wicked Witch, Ellen, who would stop at nothing to obtain a healthy body.

The body swap is completed before the player enters the instance.

In terms of character design, she becomes extremely dependent on the player during the dungeon progression, and when startled, she will hide, tremble, and cling tightly to the player's clothes.

At the same time, it will also secretly guide players to break the seal on the Mansion.

Because Viola was unwilling to accept that her body had been taken away, she used the remaining magic power in her body to seal off the entire forest, forcing Ellen to return to the Witch's House.

Ellen wanted to leave the Witch's House immediately and return to her father with a healthy body.

After handling both roles.

Lu Xiu's self-illumination finally landed on the last interactive core.

The Witch in the story.

A girl with no legs, two horrifying bloody holes in her eye sockets, and purple hair lay sprawled on the cold floor of the corridor.

Because she has no legs, she cannot walk and can only drag herself forward with difficulty using her blood-stained hands.

With each step she crawled, her fingernails scraped against the rough carpet, leaving a long, shocking trail of blood.

Because her vocal cords were completely burned by the poison, the sound she made at this moment was not a clear human cry for help, but a whistling, shrill, and distorted roar like that of a wild beast.

Looking at the pitiful girl on the ground.

Lu Xiu let out a soft breath.

Actually, there was no need to ask Jian Li; seeing this scene was enough for her to make up her mind.

In the dungeon, once the characters are truly brought to life, the impact is far greater than in the original game.

Lu Xiu squatted down, looked at the pitiful real Viola, reached out and rubbed her head, and then began to determine the logic behind her behavior.

Viola will frantically chase after Ellen, who has taken over her body. She is protected by magic in the Witch's House and will not be harmed, but once she leaves the house and goes outside, she will lose the magical protection and both the player character and Ellen will be able to hurt her.

Her frantic pursuit was not only a chase after her own body, but also a desperate outstretched hand towards her unsuspecting childhood sweetheart, pleading with him to see through the Demon's disguise.

But clearly, she overestimated her childhood sweetheart.

Most of the time, she is simply perceived as a vicious and terrifying monster who is about to tear the player and the heroine to shreds.

That's about it.

Lu Xiu rubbed the real Viola's head again, then stood up and clapped her hands.

Childhood sweetheart, Viola, Witch.

----wrong.

Lu Xiu looked at the core interactive objective that the player was playing.

This isn't a combat instance like the one with the Sifu; players like Jiang Qiu might not feel fully immersed being called "brother."

I thought about it.

Lu Xiu generated another interactive core, this time a girl wearing a skirt and ankle boots, just as ordinary.

We'll assign one of the roles based on the player's gender.

Lu Xiu clapped her hands again.

Next, we need to embed the ending conditions we deduced last night into this scenario.

first.

Scattered Mansion are extremely well-hidden fragments of Witch's writings, which are one of the conditions for collecting them. Players must collect all the clues about the soul-swapping ritual and the Witch during the escort mission, under immense pressure.

Players are only allowed to damage the protected target in the Witch's House once the collection progress reaches 100%.

However, mortals cannot simply put a soul back into its place; there must be a medium that conforms to the rules.

The original game featured an item called "Ellen's Blade," which has been changed to "[Soul-Severing Blade]," requiring a 100% completion rate in the collection.

And to steal the knife without alerting the Witch.

That means all the prerequisites for reversing the ending have been met.

However, once you get your hands on the knife...

The danger level at the Witch's House increases dramatically in order to protect the Witch.

This will be a real test for the player.

But besides that----

"Collecting items shouldn't be the sole, rigid condition for triggering resistance—even after leaving the Witch's House, players can still be given the means to resist, even if the outcome is irreversible."

Lu Xiu murmured softly.

If, after everything is over, you still have to strictly adhere to a 100% collection rate to unlock the right to attack the Witch, that would be far too boring.

Under such high pressure, it's impossible for players in Nine Provinces to perfectly collect every single fragment on their first try.

It's perfectly normal for adults to be deceived by a seemingly weak and helpless appearance and to feel a protective instinct; this is a common human weakness.

But on the other hand...

Players will definitely feel angry when they discover they've been deceived.

When they realize they have been deceived, used, and even become accomplices in pushing innocent people into the Abyss.

Their anger deserves to be released.

Well, if the player has collected a certain number of Witch fragments in the early stages, even if the tragedy has already occurred and the player realizes that the angel they were protecting is actually a possessing Demon, at this point in time, the player can still choose to take action if they wish!

It would be better if he suddenly Gun Parry it against the fake Viola's head.

I'll pounce on her like a true desperado, grab that wicked Witch by the neck, and die with her.

Even resisting and being killed by one's father is one possible outcome.

Of course, doing nothing is also an option.

It all depends on the player's choice.

Did they unknowingly leave with the Demon?

Or should we use physical means to perish together with the Witch when the truth comes out?

Either way.

This is also the instance where Lu Xiu completed the most parts of the story.

Even if a reversal of the ending cannot be achieved, even if Viola is already dead and her soul cannot be brought back—

"But as long as they dare to resist, dare to use the most primal violence to shatter that shell full of lies, this can be considered a kind of ending for them."

Let's call this ending "Revenge"—"The Childhood Sweethearts' Revenge".

"But it's a bit troublesome."

Lu Xiu rubbed her long hair with a troubled expression.

This kind of multi-ending network-based decision-making and behavioral deduction is more mentally taxing than you might imagine.

However, she quickly gathered her scattered thoughts, straightened her body, and began to sort out the intricate threads of the ending.

As for the rewards for completing the level.

Lu Xiu thought for a moment, looking at the vastly different and divergent endings, and decided not to force it.

Following conventional thinking, she should have manually set different difficulty levels for each ending so that the rewards wouldn't vary too much.

But setting up this instance is really difficult right now.

The dungeons are completely different from the original game.

She could only roughly rank the endings according to difficulty; the rest was up to the system to decide.

soon.

She then threw herself into the construction.

At this moment, Lu Xiu, completely immersed in her passion for construction, failed to notice an extremely subtle fact.

The Witch's House replica she's now constructing has completely moved into another dimension.

The scenario she had previously constructed was truly exciting in its process, but the ending was almost predetermined.

Just like the Titanfall, no matter what the players do, they can't save BT.

With Sekiro, there's no way to give players true freedom of choice.

But the ending of this instance is different.

It features a high degree of freedom in moral and human choices, as well as a network of branching endings that change in real time based on the player's subtle actions.

This is a massive, meticulously crafted ending design, full of unpredictable twists and turns.

In a sense, it is infinitely close to those system instances that have just been shut down and can produce mythical or even origin-level skills.

At the same time.

Coordination Bureau.

Yan Fushou looked at Jian Li and Shen Nian standing in front of him and asked, "Is Lu Xiu currently—in the Construction Space?"

Shen Nian nodded and answered truthfully, "Yes, she went in this morning without even having breakfast—I don't know if she's hungry, but I guess she's got some inspiration. Judging from her posture, she probably doesn't plan to go out for a few days."

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"Is this the inspiration? I just talked to her about the dungeon last night, this is really—"

Yan Fushou paused slightly, then his tone revealed a hint of emotion and anticipation. "I wonder what kind of instance she'll be creating this time—"

However, he quickly shook his head and suppressed the thought.

That's really hard to guess.

And guessing won't help.

Now that she has begun construction, Coordination Bureau can do is patiently wait for the finished product to be born.

"I understand. Let her do it. I called you here to discuss something else."

Yan Fushou gathered his thoughts, then his expression turned serious again, and he changed the subject. "Currently, all system instances are closed, and we are extremely pressed for time."

"I've thought about this for a long time. Before the new Lu Xiu dungeon comes out, the Strategy Group can't just sit idle. Since the system dungeons are closed, we have to find a way to fully extract the value from the Lu Xiu dungeon, especially the [Sifu] dungeon, and maybe even—promote it to the front lines."

Upon hearing this, Shen Nian asked, "Extend it to the front lines? But—"

"I know that large-scale promotion is very difficult, but the returns are equally amazing."

Yan Fushou interrupted her, "You should know better than me just how useful the item in Sifu that can upgrade skills, as well as the reward skills and martial arts, really are. Now that the system dungeons are closed, they are one of the few channels we can use to improve our combat power."

"Therefore, I hope that you can continue to enter the [Sifu] instance and thoroughly understand everything that Lu Xiu put into that instance."

"----"

Shen Nian responded, and Jian Li beside her nodded very slightly.

"In addition."

Yan Fushou for a moment, then said, "I've already discussed it with the military representatives at the front. We plan to directly select a group of battle-hardened soldiers from the front to lead the charge and have them figure out a way to clear this dungeon. Even if we can't clear it on a large scale, it's good to train elite troops, so a strategy guide is also needed."

"Finally, the [Sifu] lower-tier alternative dungeon created by the Resource Management Department was successfully completed last night."

"Although it's touted as a lower-tier alternative, whether it can actually serve as such still needs to be tested in actual gameplay."

"I want you two to complete this alternative dungeon once."

"Then give me an objective opinion: are frontline soldiers allowed to practice in this instance?"

"----good."

Shen Nian responded again.

After explaining all the matters.

Watching Shen Nian and Jian Li leave.

Yan Fushou slowly stood up and walked to the window.

Although the complete closure of the system's dungeons came unexpectedly, thankfully there's a top-tier Architect, so Nine Provinces isn't completely without dungeons to explore.

There shouldn't be any problems, at least not in the short term.

Not only will there be no problem, but you might even be able to take advantage of this downtime to thoroughly understand Lu Xiu's dungeon—and then, just like cultivating internal strength, setting aside the dungeon's rewards and skill bonuses, players could experience a qualitative leap in pure combat skills and life-or-death intuition.

Yan Fushou high hopes for this.

And that's all we can do right now.

As for what comes next, we'll see what new content Lu Xiu can bring in these thirty days, and whether the other Architect in Nine Provinces can seize this opportunity to create something decent.

Yan Fushou raised an eyebrow slightly, thinking of this; there was actually another way—

He walked towards the door, intending to see Queenie again and see if he could extract any more information from her.

Time flies like an arrow.

Six days have passed since the system instance was completely shut down.

During these six days, the forum was very lively, but at the same time, it was also mired in a strange anxiety.

On the homepage, the number of discussion posts about the Sifu's Dungeon has increased exponentially, with the screen filled with posts analyzing the martial arts within.

Not only his Sifu, but also Lu Xiu's previous Sekiro, Titanfall, and even Resident Evil were rediscovered by countless players who had no new dungeons to play, and they began to re-examine and dissect their underlying logic.

Especially Sekiro.

And players have actually figured out quite a few things.

On the third day, the lower-level alternative dungeon for [Sifu], constructed by Sun Yi of the Dungeon Resource Management Division, was also launched after being tested in actual combat by Jian Li and Shen Nian.

Um----

This surprised many people.

This dungeon is much better than the lower-tier alternative dungeon from the Construction Club!

This instance not only simplifies the combat, but also seems to incorporate a martial arts system.

To quote a highly-rated player on the forum. "[Awesome! They actually managed to make it look quite decent! How did they suddenly get it? This dungeon looks even better than [Simple Sifu], which was made by some unknown Construction Club. The difficulty is also just right. Did they steal some techniques from Lu Xiu?]"

Sifu, this dungeon, along with the Simple Sifu dungeon, really makes the difficulty gradient upwards. Brothers, let's go! We can slowly work our way up using the two lower-level alternative dungeons; maybe everyone can even clear the Sifu eventually.

But that's all there is to the situation for now.

Besides Lu Xiu's already released instance, there's also Sun Yi's next-tier instance—oh, and there's Du Shu constantly digging deeper into his Sifu's instance's martial arts moves.

There's nothing more worth discussing.

The other Architect haven't presented any work in the past few days.

As the dungeon vacuum period continued, a sense of unease began to spread among the player community.

[Guys, it's been six days already, and apart from the Coordination Bureau releasing a lower-tier alternative dungeon, not a single Architect has released a new dungeon?!]

[What are the other Architect doing? There's not a single piece of trash to be found!]

[Worried? With Lu Xiu's instance currently running and the system instances closed, all new instances will be scrutinized with the strictest eye. Who would dare release something trash?]

[That seems true—but when will they release their confident copy?]

[I just want to know, will this relentless grinding of old dungeons continue for a full thirty days? After thirty days comes the Cross-Realm Arena! If the people on the other side, Prison Rock, are grinding dungeons every day right now, how are we supposed to compete?]

[----]

Players are expressing anxiety on forums due to the lack of new dungeon content.

Within the Construction Space.

"Call----"

Lu Xiu let out a long breath, then raised her fair arm and stretched lazily without any hesitation.

She was wearing a simple white T-shirt and light blue skinny jeans today.

As she stretched, the hem of her T-shirt rose slightly, revealing a small section of her fair and delicate waist. The taut fabric accentuated her previously concealed, breathtaking figure. Her fitted jeans also made her straight and slender legs look exceptionally beautiful, and her entire being exuded an eye-catching youthful vitality and aesthetic appeal.

That's right, this person is in a particularly eerie place right now.

Lu Xiu lowered her arms and looked around.

"Done."

"Next, it's time to verify your success!"

"That lousy system always gives me either a twisted sense of humor or calls me crazy when it gives out the rewards for clearing a dungeon!"

"Since that's the case—then I'll really show it my crazy side this time!"