There's definitely something wrong with this murder mystery game

Even though a mysterious incident had occurred at the renowned restaurant, people still needed to eat.

The waiter hadn't brought the compensation yet, so Pei Sheng ordered another serving of Jiangzhou Vinegar Fish. After all, this business trip was on the company's dime—why wouldn't he take the opportunity to splurge?

"I'm going to the restroom."

Xu Shuo announced as he got up from the cushioned seat and pushed through the folding screen to leave the private room.

The second floor was all private rooms, and Xu Shuo's was a small one. The incident had occurred at the end of the corridor in a large private room where two police officers were still standing guard.

Actually, the matter was mostly resolved by now, and there was only a forensic technician inside the room taking photographs.

Xu Shuo walked along the corridor, pretending to be curious as he glanced inside, then entered the restroom at the corner under the watchful eyes of the two police officers.

He really did need to use the bathroom.

Then, sitting on the toilet lid in the stall, he opened his Player's Handbook.

He hadn't had this idea before, but now that he had stumbled upon a case, he couldn't resist trying it out.

The "Director" profession.

It wouldn't hurt just to assume the title, right?n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Although related posts on the forum were scarce for this profession, he hadn't heard that script extraction was mandatory or that failure to extract on time would result in punishment—perhaps for them, not having enough scripts to extract meant they had to venture into someone else's Script Space, which was punishment in itself.

Even though he had received an invitation at level one, there was no way he could logically explain it...

But on the whole, it seemed there was no loss?

Xu Shuo ran several conspiracy theories about the system through his mind, but eventually, he tentatively clicked the "Accept" button. Information fragmented and dissipated quickly, and his personal panel opened automatically.

Below "Level," there was now a new section for profession.

Profession: Director.

Xu Shuo clicked into it and found the list empty. The page header read "Works," and there was a "+" symbol in the top right corner.

Clicking on the "+" brought up a panel resembling a radar screen, with a line continuously rotating and ripples spreading out as if searching for something.

The next moment, a small red dot on the right side of the panel flashed.

This direction—it appeared to be the neighboring private room.

Besides this, however, there were no other operations available. Whether he furiously tapped the small red dot or fiddled with the radar panel, nothing else happened.

Xu Shuo thought for a moment, then flushed the toilet and stood up to wash his hands at the sink.

As he moved, the little red dot on the radar gravitated slightly closer to the center.

Xu Shuo understood.

He probably had to stand shoulder to shoulder with the police officers at the door.

Therefore, as Xu Shuo emerged from around the corner, he approached with feigned curiosity and asked, "What happened here? A waiter just cleared the dishes from our private room. Could it be that the food here is unsanitary?"

As he unintentionally moved closer to the private room door, the radar panel suddenly displayed the system prompt, "Script outline detected. Would you like to extract it?"

Of course, Xu Shuo agreed to the extraction.

"Extracting…"

Subsequently, a progress bar zipped across the screen, but immediately after, a second progress bar overlaid it.

"Extraction complete, now crafting…"

This progress bar moved neither fast nor slow, without a hitch, but it did take some time.

The police officers at the door were about to shoo him away as he approached, but after hearing the latter part of his question, the words they initially intended to utter were swallowed back down.

The officers sized up the young man, noting the different accent, and asked, "Are you from out of town?"

Xu Shuo replied, "Yeah, I'm here on a business trip. I heard this place was famous locally, so I came to try the food."

"Oh."

The officer nodded before addressing his initial question, "No big deal. Just a couple going at it in a fight here, nothing to do with this restaurant. The food here is still delicious, especially their Vinegar Fish!"

"That makes sense," Xu Shuo agreed, smoothly changing the topic as well. "But the dishes here are really good, we've ordered the Jiangzhou Vinegar Fish twice."

"Exactly, young man, you should enjoy yourself here!" The police officer patted his shoulder amiably.

Xu Shuo echoed a few more sentences, saw the progress bar was complete, then waved his hand and left.

[Production complete.]

[Your new script "Perfume" is rated Level 1, with the genre classification "Orthodox."]

[Now on sale, current offensive players: 0.]]

[Payout extraction: 1000/points (credited).]

[Script settlement: 0/points.]

After the script production was complete, the title was assigned by the system, the grading and classification were automatically sorted, it was put on sale, and a bonus of a thousand points was added.

Xu Shuo was interested in that point reward.

Just extracting a normal Level 1 orthodox script netted a thousand-point reward, and all he had to do was stand still for a while without having to enter any instance to fight monsters.

How much would the rewards be for those higher-level scripts?

Thinking in this way, those "Directors" must all be quite rich. Indeed, he had asked for too little from Luo Kai last time.

That kid initially only planned to give him 400 points!

At this thought, a strange smile appeared on Xu Shuo's lips. Just then, Pei Sheng, who was eating fish in the private room, happened to look up and was caught off-guard by the look.

Fortunately, the vinegar fish had no bones.

"No one's fighting you for it," Xu Shuo said, closing the screen door and glancing at him upon hearing the sound.

"Cough cough..."

Pei Sheng took a sip of soup, looking guiltily at him, wondering if the guy had just come back from the restroom with urine on his hand.

Or was it because the fish they ordered was too expensive?

Worried that he might get beaten, Pei Sheng ate the vinegar fish with a sense of trepidation, but it was truly delicious.

If it wouldn't spoil, he would have wanted to take one home with him.

The incident at the restaurant had already concluded. After the rush hour, more customers came in to order food; the two of them had managed to get a small private room by coming at an off-peak time.

But this small scheduling blunder coincidentally caught them a break of good fortune.

After eating and going to the front desk to pay the bill, the cashier sincerely apologized to them after checking the check number: "Because of the incident that just occurred, we've caused you gentlemen a bad experience. Your order has been comped by our manager, and we hope we can have your understanding."

Pei Sheng, stared at by the bright eyes of the young lady, generously took charge and waved it off: "No problem at all!"

At the same time, he was relieved inside, thinking that now he probably wouldn't be beaten up over the excuse of the fish being too expensive, right? What's wrong with eating an extra fish!

But then he felt a bit of regret, realizing that he hadn't managed to treat this guy to a meal after all.

Not having to pay, Xu Shuo didn't make a fuss and left with the receipt in hand.

He opened the Player's Handbook and glanced at the "Works" section; after extracting the script, there wasn't any magical change in the real-world private room, everything remained normal.

However, once a script was extracted, even a Director had no right to modify it—it was like a heartless script collecting machine.

Your adventure continues at empire

Directors could certainly enter and experience a script, but there would be no settlement reward and they would only be observers, watching the entire script, which made for a poor experience.

But if players entered his script to do tasks, the Script Space would calculate the offensive rewards based on the players' performance and how long they stayed, with a points system.

Players get performance points, he gets points!

Director is truly a great occupation!

Xu Shuo was indeed tempted, but he still didn't plan to switch careers and become a "Director"; after all, he didn't have that much time to run around, and creating scripts was a bit of a hassle.

From now on, if he encountered one, he would consider it good luck— a relaxed approach to extracting scripts.

At the same time, he opened the Player's Handbook and sent Luo Kai a friendly greeting message.

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