Zong Qi stood in the toilet cubicle, turned on and off his mobile phone, and finally saw that the upper right corner jumped from no service to three bars.

But the problem is that there is a signal, and 4G is also displayed in the upper right corner, but there has been no network, and I can't connect to the live broadcast room.

He tried again and again several times, with the same result.

Faced with such a situation, Zong Qi was helpless.

"Ah...why is there no signal, obviously the internet speed was pretty good just now."

He squatted on the ground and scratched his hair irritably, trying to find out why he couldn't connect.

In desperation, Zong Qi pressed the system settings everywhere, but accidentally turned on the settings for receiving text messages and phone calls.

In the next second, a new text message was displayed.

It is the information that the operator prompts the mobile phone to owe the bill.

Zong Qi: "..."

He was silent for a while, and finally remembered this matter.

During the last live broadcast, Zong Qi accidentally used up the data of the data package. He originally wanted to pay the fee, but accidentally forgot. Most of the live broadcast today burned the balance of the phone bill. If the balance is burned out, you will be in arrears.

Not to mention anything else, there will be no mobile phone for a while, and Zong Qi will not be able to teach others to charge his phone bill. If you can't make up the phone bill, you won't be able to resume the live broadcast. Today's visit to the spirit can be regarded as a waste of time.

There isn't even a bus around here, and it takes a taxi across half of Jiangzhou to get here from the rental house, and the round trip costs nearly a hundred yuan.

"what-"

Zong Qi felt that his heart was bleeding, and he wished he could sleep here on the floor until the next spirit visit.

His head was buzzing from the shock of the bad news, and he couldn't recover for a while.

That's when Zong Qi suddenly discovered that there was a brand new icon on the homepage of his mobile phone.

This small program is located at the bottom of all the apps. The icon is Yin Yang Tai Chi Fish, with blood-red words floating on a dark black background, and the words "horror film director" are written squarely.

what is this?

Zong Qi is sure that he has not downloaded this application from the application store recently, and the school has not assigned similar tasks.

"Could it be the junk software that was accidentally packaged and downloaded when I downloaded some app?"

As he thought about it, he clicked on the program.

The program interface was empty, and it took about three seconds before the personal interface was displayed.

【Director Name】: Zong Qi

[Code Name]: Q

[Director level]: E-level director (failed to pass the novice task)

【Representation】：None

[Director Points]: 0

【Actors】：0

[Movie script]: None

Zong Qi stared at his personal interface for a long time.

How could a small program of unknown origin accurately display his real name and major?

Don't be a new type of fraud routine that focuses on college students. The dormitory next door got a killing trick before graduation. It's fine if the online dating partner becomes a man from a younger sister. In the end, he almost didn't pay for his underwear.

Zong Qi suddenly became vigilant, and immediately exited the app, opened the settings background to prepare to uninstall the software.

However, what happened next exceeded his expectations.

The "Horror Film Director" program is not displayed in the uninstall software column at all, and it cannot be uninstalled directly from the desktop.

"Phishing program, Trojan software?"

Zong Qi tossed the phone on and off three times, and found that the program had grown on his phone as if it had been rooted, and he couldn't uninstall it at all.

After doing this a few times, Zong Qi also got annoyed.

With a twist of his fingertips, he reopened the app.

Unexpectedly, after entering this time, a prompt box popped up on the screen, with blood-red text embedded in it.

【Mr. Zong Qi, welcome to enter】

[This is the horror film director system, where you can get money, fame, status, and even all the magical props that only exist in myths or legends]

Seeing this, Zong Qi suddenly remembered the advertising message that had been glimpsed just now.

"No way... Could it be that now that science and technology are so advanced, you can remotely install a Trojan horse program by receiving a text message?"

Just as he was muttering to himself, the words on the screen changed again.

[Unfortunately, the system has detected that you have not unlocked any horror movie scripts and cannot enter the normal movie shooting process]

[Since you are entering the program for the first time, the novice guide will be opened next]

[Newbie director task: Complete an impromptu short film shooting without an initial script]

[The number of impromptu short film shootings is increased by one, and the current remaining times: 1]

[Complete the novice director task, you will get a reward of random points and a random script]

Zong Qi's eyes paused for a moment on the words gaining money and fame, and he pressed the power off button very calmly.

"What the hell? This liar has found out that I am a director, so I don't have to think about it. If I have money to make movies, can I still come to Tanling live broadcast? Maybe I'm a little sick..."

He straightened up and was about to leave when the flashlight placed aside suddenly flashed twice, like the most commonly used plot in old-fashioned horror movies.

The next second, the flashlight suddenly went out.

In the darkness of the abandoned mental hospital, the screen became the only light source.

The phone that Zong Qi had just pressed to lock the screen was still emitting a faint light, and the words on the app were still clearly visible.

Not only that, but in the next second, these words floated up from the screen and floated in front of his eyes.

[A good horror film is of course inseparable from the horror scenes. The scream value makes the horror scenes can be measured numerically, so that the adrenaline of the movie audience soars]

[Novice mission goal 1: The scream value is higher than 100 points]

[A good horror film is of course also inseparable from a meticulous story line, and script exploration is to add depth to the movie story]

[Novice mission goal 2: The exploration progress of any small script is higher than 30%]

[If you are poor and white, you don't have extra points to recruit actors. Of course, in everyone's life, you are the best leading actor]

[Novice mission goal three: the number of surviving actors is greater than or equal to 1]

Along with the subtitles, a border appeared around Zong Qi's retina. It doesn't block the view, but it does make people realize that there are words here.

Three values ​​are indicated within the frame. The first is the scream value, the second is the exploration progress of the small script of "Mental Hospital", and the third is the current number of actors.

The scream value is 5, the script exploration progress is 2%, and the current number of actors is 1.

"Damn it...appeared in my eyes!"

Zong Qi raised his hand and rubbed it around his eye sockets in disbelief. The materialistic education he had received for more than ten years collapsed at this moment.

Ordinary people would never be able to keep calm if they encountered a supernatural event one day. Now Zong Qi's blood pressure and heart rate soared instantly, and his chest was pounding.

[It has been detected that you still have doubts about the "Horror Film Director" system. Since you are the only director and this is the first time you have come into contact with the system, the system will automatically give you additional answers】

【...is testing your wish】

【It has been detected that what you most want at present: money】

Zong Qi choked up.

What a simple and unpretentious wish, because his current possessions are only 60 yuan, and his desire for money is already written on his face.

However, in the next second, a handful of hundred-yuan bills appeared in his palm.

Zong Qi:! !

[Director points can be exchanged for money in equal proportions, and can be exchanged in the system at any time]

[After reading the agreement, you can confirm it on the phone screen]

"It turned out to be quite human."

He looked at the banknotes that disappeared from his hand and muttered to himself.

With just a few words, Zong Qi was full of affection for this supernatural system.

Other systems at the beginning of web texts have always been forced to bind, so where is there room for the host to choose? This movie-making system seems to have no self-awareness and is so polite, Zong Qi feels that he can consider opening up a new way of making money.

After detecting Zong Qi's 180-degree turn of mood, the subtitles on his eyes began to disappear one by one.

[The consent of the host has been obtained, and the horror film director system has been bound]

[It is detected that the surrounding environment has met the conditions, and it is loading...The small script "Mental Hospital" has been unlocked, the activation conditions have been met, and impromptu shooting has begun]

【Your remaining shooting time: 24 hours】

[Reminder, although the novice director task is not difficult, the mortality rate is still about 10%, please be careful with your every step]

I don't know if it was an illusion, but the moment the filming started, the surrounding temperature suddenly began to drop, and even the sunlight outside was a little dim.

"hiss......"

Seeing the death rate mark, Zong Qi's joyful mood just now also cooled down.

There is no such thing as a free pie in the world, and it is understandable that this supernatural system uses life and death as a bargaining chip.

"Since the system has been bound to the thief ship, and there is no turning back when you open the bow, let's start to prepare now. At worst, it will be regarded as another live broadcast of spirit exploration."

Zong Qi clenched his fist with one hand, cheering himself up.

"This novice guide didn't give me many useful clues except to catch me... How to increase the scream value and how to increase the progress of the script exploration, these are all blank."

He was now only wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt that couldn't be simpler, and his exposed arms were chilly and shivering.

At this moment, a strange sound suddenly sounded from the depths of the quiet toilet.

"Crunch-crunch-crunch-"

In a long-abandoned, deserted mental hospital where many appalling incidents had occurred, such a voice was undoubtedly quite eerie.

Zong Qi frowned and listened for a long time, unable to decide whether it was man-made or wind.

But he noticed that because of the appearance of this voice, the pitiful 5-point scream value in his field of vision slowly climbed up to 2 points.

His eyes lit up.

Is it possible to convert it into a scream value as long as it makes an abnormal sound?

Zong Qi turned on the flashlight again, turned around twice in the narrow toilet cubicle, turned back and pressed the flush button.

It stands to reason that it has been abandoned for so long, the water here should have been cut off long ago, but when Zong Qi pressed the button, the sudden sound of water still echoed in the dark bathroom.

"Huh huh huh huh..."

White water washes down the squat toilet's filthy perimeter, swirling into the pothole.

Scream value increased by 3 points.

So simple? ? ? Zong Qi couldn't believe it.

He felt that he seemed to have discovered the wealth code that could increase the scream value.

So in the next few minutes, Zong Qi worked very hard to make some noise in the cubicle. For example, double-press the flush button, stomp your feet and cough vigorously, or start hammering the door and squatting in place to perform the magic circle of love.

With his strenuous efforts, the scream value also rushed from the initial 10 points to 20 points.

Unfortunately, after the screaming value reached 20, Zong Qi found that no matter how loud he made in the toilet, the screaming value would not rise any further.

"It seems that 20 is a critical point. If you want to go up, you have to look for other clues."

Since there were no clues for the time being, Zong Qi stopped and continued to think.

He himself majored in directing. Although he was not very good at this major, he still had an advantage over laymen.

Since this system is called "horror film director", everything must follow the model of making movies. If you think of it as a live-action film mode, it is not difficult to understand.

Whether it is the scream value or the current surviving actors, these are the values ​​​​used to measure whether his movie is good or not.

"Although I couldn't find a job after I postponed my graduation, I still stumbled into this major by mistake in the end. It would be very gratifying if my supervisor knew about it..."

But Zong Qi also had something he didn't want to understand.

"Why is the script exploration progress 2% at the beginning?"

He thought for a while, but still couldn't come up with a clue, so he raised his head and held the doorknob, ready to go out from the compartment to see if there were any other clues.

At this moment, there was another strange sound that made one's hair stand on end again from the depths of the abandoned bathroom.

"Boom boom boom boom boom boom..."

Someone raised the hammer and began to smash it, one after another, hitting the nails, making a crisp and dull sound.

The sound lasted for about a few seconds, and the scream value soared to 30 smoothly.

Zong Qi's hand on the back of the door stopped immediately.

There are people in the toilet.

Accident is not surprising, after all, there are footprints outside, the door is closed again, and the other party has no intention of covering up his whereabouts.

But besides an anchor like him who has nothing to do to explore the spirit, who would come here?

"boom-"

Just when Zong Qi was hesitating whether to open the door to take a look, he suddenly heard the loud sound of the old door being pushed open deep in the toilet.

"Da da da."

Then came the sound of footsteps.

The owner of the sound walks unhurriedly, seemingly unaware that he is making noise in a hospital full of dusty cobwebs and charred bodies.

With every step taken, the scream value in Zong Qi's field of vision increased by 5 points.

By the time the footsteps stopped outside his bathroom door, the scream value in his field of vision had already passed the 50 mark.

Finally, the footsteps stopped. Just outside his cubicle.

The light of the flashlight stayed on the dirty floor tiles of the toilet.

Zong Qi could see the shadow on the ground through the short slit under the bathroom.

Across a door panel, the black-haired young man stared at the numerical values ​​on his eye sockets, silent in thought.

There are many types of filmmaking.

Obviously, he's making horror movies now. If it's a horror movie...

In the next second, there was a sudden knock on the door panel.

Someone bent his joints and knocked on the door hastily.

A hoarse and sinister voice sounded in the bathroom.

"Hello. Open the door and borrow some paper."

Zong Qi: "..."

He almost swallowed the breath back in his throat.

Borrowing paper in this kind of place is crazy! !

The man's voice was similar to the rubbing of sandpaper on the ground. It was hoarse and dry, and it was very reminiscent of a patient with severe pharyngitis. It was weird.

Perhaps because there was no response, after the first questioning, the person outside repeated in a cold voice, "Open the door."

Well, at least he can talk, and he is still a person. Even if they are bad people, they are better than non-human beings anyway, so they won't be a ghost.

In this flash, Zong Qi discovered that the scream value that had just rushed to 50 when the footsteps stopped had risen to 65 again.

The exponentially rising scream value made him very concerned.

This rise is too fast. Obviously, it only increased by 2 points by pressing the flush button just now, but it turned out to go from 20 to 65 in just a few seconds.

He made such a big commotion in the cubicle by himself just now. If the other party has been in the toilet, it is impossible not to hear, there is no need to do so much.

Mostly it was intentional, even if you think about it with your butt, you know it has bad intentions.

Zong Qi began to retreat.

It's a horror movie, and nothing is more important than life.

Well, life matters.

So Zong Qi coughed lightly in embarrassment, "Well, I'm still going to the toilet."

"I just heard you knock on the door."

"Tummy trouble, it's intermittent, it's impossible to fix it all at once, you have to stand up and do stretching exercises. People have three urgencies, please be considerate."

This sentence blocked all the problems at once, so the huge abandoned toilet fell into dead silence.

This conversation successfully made the scream value pass the 70 mark, and even the script exploration progress that has been silent has increased by 2%.

Is talking to bad guys in horror movies the new wealth code?

Zong Qi touched his chin and started to make jokes.

"Hey, brother. This place has been abandoned for so many years, and it is still haunted on weekdays. Why do you come here to use the toilet?"

The villain's tone was visibly harsh: "What's the matter with you?"

Zong Qi sighed pretendingly: "Why don't I come here for an outdoor live broadcast, so I turned off the live broadcast, and I have to continue broadcasting when I go out later."

As he spoke, he pricked up his ears to listen to the bad guys outside.

Sure enough, after hearing this, the man seemed to be in a worse mood, and the toe of his shoe rubbed against the ground to make a sharp stinging sound, as if possessed by mania.

Zong Qi can now almost conclude that there is a problem with the outsiders, and he dare not provoke the other party: "Brother, wait a moment, I just ate my stomach, there is nothing I can do. That...are you in a hurry? How about this Come on, I'll stuff it under the toilet door for you."

There is a step in the single compartment of the bathroom here, and there is a little gap under the door, which is not completely covered.

Zong Qi is very understanding, and understands the possibility that the other party really has no paper.

People, good or bad, have to go to the toilet. Of course, a kind person like him will not help him with this.

The black-haired young man squatted on the ground, took out a crumpled roll of paper from his pocket, and stuffed it through the door panel under the compartment.

"I don't have much paper left, brother, just make do with it and save some money."

He accidentally stretched out a part of his finger, and as a result, the scream value suddenly jumped by 5 points. Zong Qi's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly retracted, exposing the tissue package.

Obviously, such grinding conversations have exhausted all the patience of the bad guys.

"Boom!"

In the next second, there was a heavy kick from the compartment door, and there was even a violent vibration that grabbed the top of the door panel with bare hands, trying to force it open.

Zong Qi didn't care whether to be exposed or not, and immediately pressed the door panel.

The man outside snorted coldly, and was about to continue kicking the door, but was suddenly interrupted by a sudden ringing of the mobile phone.

"Jingle jingle—"

Taking advantage of this time, Zong Qi quietly turned on the camera of the mobile phone, held it up high, and tried to see the scene outside.

But it was difficult, because the abandoned toilet was too dark, so he couldn't get any useful information.

"Hello? Finished. Hmm... encountered a little bug that got in the way."

The man's hoarse voice was gloomy, with no intention of hiding it.

Good guy, I guess he bumped into another crime scene.

Zong Qi typed a few "..." in his heart, turned on the recording function of the phone, took out a small Swiss Army knife from his trouser pocket, and dialed 110 for an emergency call.

Thankfully, emergency calls don't cost airtime.

"Give me some time, I can fix... what?"

The voice stopped suddenly, and the tone changed sharply.

After a few seconds, I don't know what was said on the other side of the phone. The people outside suddenly gasped and burst into anger.

"Since the organization will be responsible for the aftermath, then I will leave."

Gritting his teeth, he hung up the phone abruptly.

After the endless exchange, the man left the toilet in a hurry. Before he left, he slammed a hammer on the back of the toilet door, and the old dust fell down.

"Hmph, you're lucky."

Hearing the footsteps of the other party leaving from his door, the surroundings returned to silence again, Zong Qi still stood patiently in the cubicle, paying close attention to the wind and grass around him.

After confirming that there was nothing unusual outside, he opened the phone camera and placed it on the bracket, slowly lifted it up against the wall, and carefully observed the door with a flashlight.

On Gou, Zong Qi said that he was number one, and absolutely no one dared to be number two.

It was still dark outside, and the light was so dim that the sink and the dirty wall behind it were connected together, like a towering black shadow, which inexplicably made people feel a little palpitating.

After scanning around and seeing that there was no one there, Zong Qi breathed a sigh of relief.

In order not to be bullied by gangsters when he was commuting to and from school in junior high school, he also went to the martial arts gym in the community to do a few tricks, but he was still a little scared to do it for real. Not to mention listening to the conversation just now, I always feel that it is on which way.

The scream value on his eye sockets is fixed at 75 points, the script exploration progress is set at 10%, and the surviving actors are still 1.

"What does this mean? It means that it is still being filmed? The task has not been completed yet?"

Zong Qi put away the phone with his backhand, held up the knife, and twisted the door lock a few times vigilantly, while paying close attention to the movement outside.

The toilet was eerily quiet. In addition, he did hear the other party's footsteps getting farther and farther before, and he didn't notice any signs of turning back.

The person who was suspected of being a gangster just answered the phone and left in a hurry. Not only did he not mind being exposed in front of him, but he also said that someone would help with the aftermath.

Zong Qi had an absurd guess. For some reason, he always felt that the other party knew that he had called the police from that phone call.

Although he broke through the crime scene several times in a row, the previous few times were not as evil as when a system appeared this time. In addition, the police uncle arrived in time, and the water friends in the live broadcast room also accompanied him to solve the case. People feel at ease.

Because the director system was still filming, Zong Qi always had an uneasy premonition lingering in his heart.

No, you have to get out of here quickly.

He pushed open the door, leaned out half of his body vigilantly, holding the mobile phone in his hand all the time, and the 110 call and recording were still going on.

"The location is Jiangzhou Zaohua Renxin Mental Hospital."

There was silence in the toilet, and the value seemed to freeze.

The scorched black wall remained unchanged, even the thick dust on the entire ground.

Zong Qi held up the flashlight, looked around the cat, and found nothing wrong.

But he noticed that as long as he took a step into the depths of the toilet, he could increase the stagnant scream value and script exploration progress by a little bit.

An obvious reminder.

Zong Qi paused, and chose to turn his head among the choices of leaving quickly and looking back, and walked to the last cubicle holding the mobile phone holder.

If it was in the past, he would of course leave immediately when he encountered danger, but he is still in the filming stage, and he doesn't want to experience the punishment for failing the mission.

It was dark here, and the door panels of the compartments were rusted and dark yellow. The dilapidated window on the other side has long been nailed with thick wooden boards, like a coffin sealed. At the very end, the scream value was just 10 points away.

Zong Qi took a deep breath, kicked open the door of the compartment without any hesitation.

"Crunch—"

An unpleasant and strong smell hit the face, mixed with a long-rotten stench inside.

Surprisingly, there was nothing inside.

"Did I make a mistake?"

While muttering to himself, he turned his head, but his eyes inadvertently glanced at the handle outside the white door of the compartment, and his pupils shrank suddenly.

There was blood on the handle, it was red, and the corners were hideous, solidified into an ominous black and red.

A little higher up, the black Ouroboros logo looms large.

Zong Qi's Adam's apple rolled.

With the flashlight in his hand facing down, he immediately turned over, and slowly pulled the door panel outward, exposing his back.

The moment the light beam illuminated the door panel, the screen of the mobile phone also faintly lit up at the same time that the script exploration progress suddenly rushed from 2% to 30%.

The pale white subtitles slowly appeared in Zong Qi's eyes.

[The novice director task has been completed]

[Obtain 100 random points, the big script "Desolate Village"]

[You have 23 hours remaining for the impromptu short movie shooting time, you can choose to stop at any time. Note: Subsequent settlement will be made according to the three major values ​​when the shooting is stopped, and the maximum can be 500 points]

[Congratulations on completing the novice director task and being promoted to D-level director. All director permissions will be open to you, and you can view them in detail by clicking on your personal homepage. Make reasonable use of the authority and shoot more excellent works! 】

On the back of the narrow and dark door panel, two human heads filled with white wax were being nailed to the top.

The corners of their mouths were cruelly cut upwards, painted scarlet with oil paint, and forcibly twisted into laughing arcs. It was weird and grotesque, and it made people feel chills down their spines.

Zong Qi never imagined that the person he met just now through a door panel... turned out to be a perverted murderer!