Let's give space a touch of Chinese horror!

Chapter 16 Submit the Game

The scene that Jiangyi wanted to create was, of course, the instance in the horror game where she was trapped inside, not knowing how long it would last...

The scenes in the dungeon were completely different from the scenes she had Luo Feng experience in the memories of the previous owner of the wedding dress—

The first thing to appear in the blank scene was a thick fog.

A dilapidated, deserted village gradually emerged from the thick fog.

The first thing to appear was a huge, crooked old locust tree at the entrance of the village. It was forever nailed to this land in a painfully twisted posture.

The trunk is very thick, requiring three or four adults to encircle it; the bark is rough and uneven, and in the dim light, the surface looks like distorted, squeezed-together painful human faces from a distance.

The dead branches, layer upon layer, stretched out like ghostly claws towards the gloomy gray sky; countless red strips of cloth hung from the branches.

Those strips of cloth had long lost their original texture, fading into dark red, dirty purple, or even brownish-black colors over time and with the elements.

At this moment, they are drifting gently in the still air, adding a strange "life force" to this long-dead tree.

Under the tree, a stone tablet stands crookedly.

The stele is made of rough bluestone, crooked and deeply embedded in the cold, damp mud. The words carved on it have long been blurred by wind, rain and moss, and only the last word "village" can be barely made out.

This is... the place where players in the old horror games used to wait for other players after entering the instance, until everyone had arrived.

In response, Jiangyi naturally chose to... directly copy and paste, setting this location as the login coordinates for players entering the holographic game.

She continued to build the scene—

Extending out from the shadow of the monument is an old dirt road.

The road surface was a dark black color. Although it hadn't rained, the road surface was in a semi-dry, semi-wet state. It looked dry, but when you stepped on it, the wet, sticky mud would stick firmly to the sole of your shoe and make a tooth-grinding "plop" sound.

If you walk along the road, you'll find the exact location of the village.

The houses are all built with rammed earth and look very similar from the outside: most of the blue tiles on the roof have fallen off, and the remaining tiles are covered with dark green moss; the earthen walls on all four sides have been softened by years of rain, and large pieces of the wall plaster have peeled off, revealing the mud bricks mixed with straw inside.

In the shadows at the base of the wall, a small pool of water could be seen, with a few withered leaves floating gently on the black surface, swirling slightly with the ripples.

Previously, Jiang Yi only felt that these identical houses, coupled with the unchanging, perpetually gloomy, and gray sky in the instance, made the whole village seem lifeless and utterly boring; now, however, she has noticed a slight advantage—

At least when she was building the village, all she had to do was copy and paste.

After the model of the house was fully constructed, Jiang Yi began to arrange the furniture.

She remembered that the houses in the village seemed to be crammed together haphazardly, but there was a pattern to it—all the houses were oriented differently than usual: the doors and windows were not directly facing the road, but were staggered from each other.

This often gives players a sense of unease in the entire village, a feeling that is clearly uncomfortable but in which specific discomfort is not apparent.

The village part... is mostly finished here.

All that's left is that old house, located deep in the village, at the very back... the most magnificent and largest in terms of area.

Even with her eyes closed, Jiang Yi could perfectly depict the appearance of this house and remember the location of every brick and tile.

Because—that's where her true form is located.

It's also the place where she lived while trapped in the horror game.

The house was nestled in a mountain hollow on the west side of the village, backed by a grove of dead trees. Instead of facing south as is traditional, the house unusually faced northwest—according to what Jiangyi had heard from the old players, this seemed to be the location of the "ghost gate" in feng shui.

If players can stand on the mountain and look down, they will see that the entire mansion looks like a huge black coffin lying at the foot of the mountain.

The architectural style of the house was somewhat similar to what Luo Feng remembered, but it was larger and more imposing.

It's more like a fusion of all the wedding scenes from the memories of the former owner of the crimson robe, layering all the most terrifying and bizarre elements into this old house, creating a dungeon that terrifies players in horror games.

Jiang Yi stood in front of the old house, in the heavy shadow cast by the gate. She looked up at the plaque hanging high above the lintel, and at the two festive red lanterns next to it, with their lampshades still covered with newly pasted red "囍" paper-cuts. She let out a long breath before continuing to refine the details.

She pushed open the heavy door, the hinges letting out a sharp, drawn-out shriek, revealing an empty interior that hadn't yet been filled in with details.

As Jiang Yi drifted into consciousness, preparing to fill in the details of the house as before, she suddenly felt the world she had just built tremble violently.

A red notification box then popped up:

Warning: The current map has reached its resource availability limit!

Warning: The current map has reached its resource availability limit!

……

Lines of red error logs flashed incessantly at the edge of his vision. Jiang Yi frowned: "System, what's going on?"

The system was urgently brought online: "Investigating the problem..."

"Please wait a moment, host..."

"The problem is under investigation..."

"The host is currently using a holographic gaming headset, model XT-09. This model is no longer available on the market and is an outdated version..."

At this point, Jiangyi had a general idea of ​​what was going on.

She frowned as she looked at the old house for a while, then turned to look at the village that had already been built behind her, and finally decided—

Let's just leave the house like this...

In the original instance, this house wouldn't appear until the mid-to-late game, after players had completed all the early quests. And most of the time, many players wouldn't even see the house appear before they were defeated in the earlier quests.

Even veteran horror game players are struggling with this, so Jiangyi thinks it will probably take even longer for players here to actually reach the old house. By then... she should be able to upgrade to better gaming equipment to continue making games.

Jiangyi set the model of the old house to be inaccessible, and then began to create the NPCs in the game—the villagers.

The villagers were very easy to create; one by one, villagers with different appearances and clothes appeared on the open ground. Jiangyi didn't even need to adjust their expressions or demeanor; simply keeping them in their stiff initial state was enough to recreate the appearance of the villagers in the instance.

Finally, she uploaded the gameplay of the dungeon exactly as it was, and after calling out the "idiot system" and letting it run several times to verify that there were no bugs, Jiangyi packaged the game and uploaded it in the background.

"Game uploaded successfully!"

A system prompt popped up: "Please enter the name of your entry—"

Jiang Yi looked at the chat box, tapped her fingertips lightly, and slowly typed in the game's name—

"囍".