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【To put it simply, I, the poster, just woke up from the convalescent center.】
【While my memory is still clear, I will write down everything about this overseas Instance to give everyone a bit of an advantage in clearing it.】
【First, let me report the death toll. This was an extremely unusual overseas Instance. Our batch of veteran players was teleported directly into the Instance without any preparation. People died right at the start...】
【This is the largest known Instance so far, with a total of 150 participants allowed. Ultimately, only 25 survived to clear it, resulting in a mortality rate as high as 83%.】
【I can only say that compared to overseas Instances, the difficulty of domestic Instances is actually quite manageable.】
【Our domestic team had a total of seven people go in. Now, two non-Class players are heavily injured, and one newly advanced Class player is dead.】
【Our captain is currently still undergoing psychological therapy. It can be said that not a single person came out completely unscathed.】
【My hands are shaking as I type this, and my wounds are hurting too.】
【But I feel like if I don't talk to someone, I'll go crazy.】
【I have never seen so many dead people in my life.】
【An entire train, with dead people in every single carriage.】
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The thread refreshed at lightning speed.
Currently, official players were scarce, and those with a Class were even rarer.
Thus, right from the very first comment, people had already dug up the identity behind this post:
【A seven-member domestic player team, with Class players in it—as far as I know, there's only one team that fits this headcount.】
【Feels like the Jiangcheng University team (This comment has been deleted and is no longer viewable due to violating community guidelines.)】
【Holy crap, deleted so fast? Were they that afraid I'd see it?】
【No way, I saw that captain during training. Although young, they have a Class and are pretty strong—is this Instance really that difficult?】
【Does that mean we might enter this Instance next time too?】
【Only twenty-five out of a hundred and fifty survived? That's terrifying. Didn't only thirty people enter that Wenshan Village Instance?】
【No, in that village, you could at least hide. According to the official guides and deductions, you could survive if you did the quests properly.】
【The poster's implying that all one hundred and fifty people were thrown into a subway for a battle royale? There's really nowhere to run then.】
【Am I the only one who cares about whether there are Instances overseas too?】
【Of course there are. Haven't you seen the leaders over in Japan running to America every day, wanting them to fire a missile at Tokyo? The people over there are almost all dead.】
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Ignoring these comments, the poster shared his experiences in one go:
【The specific rules of this Instance are not yet clear, but here is what we know so far:
1. The train runs continuously. Abnormal events occur every night, and the only temporary safe zones are in the 4th, 8th, and 12th dining cars.
2. The anomalies on the train are different every night and extremely chaotic. The anomalies we have encountered so far include 【The Invisible Train Conductor】, 【British Brownie】, and 【Hollow Man】 (the Special Investigation Bureau will explain the details of this later).
It is certain that the train has at least twelve carriages, and the only way to leave is to get off at the 【Terminal Station】.
The carriage doors will not open; only on the night before stopping at the terminal station will the broadcast announce which carriage doors will open.
We were very lucky. We spent the first two nights safely and, after entering the fourth dining car, the broadcast announced that the doors of the fifth, seventh, and thirteenth carriages would open.
3. The doors seem to open randomly, which means players who spawn in different carriages must make their way to the designated carriages.
4. There are doors between carriages, and the pattern of their opening is currently unknown. Our captain verified that on the first night, the door from the first to the second carriage was closed, but it could be opened during the day, allowing direct entry to the third carriage, though we couldn't enter the fourth.
The opening of the doors is completely random, and there is no pattern to the opening of the carriage doors.
5. Finally, a tip for everyone: do not lie in this Instance! Even if it is just a casual remark, even if it is a white lie, you must absolutely not lie!!
I'm not joking. It seems that as long as what a player says does not match the facts, it will trigger the Instance's instant-kill mechanism!
Your head will explode directly, and you will die on the spot, with absolutely no chance of rescue!!】
【I, the poster, was extremely unlucky! Right at the start of the Instance, three white thugs in the subway carriage immediately surrounded me to rob my things.
I resisted and got stabbed, and my protective item was stolen too. I almost died right there in the third carriage.
In the end, it was my girlfriend who found me in the dining car safe zone!
We waited in the safe zone for two days before we finally heard the terminal station broadcast announcement!
Seriously, absolutely do not lie!!
There was a Korean couple. When the guy encountered an anomaly, he almost strangled his girlfriend. The girl had a mental breakdown and asked the guy if he really loved her. The guy said "I love you," and his head exploded!!
Exploded!!
There was also an old lady who looked quite kind. When she encountered a 【Hollow Man】, she used someone next to her as a human shield, which caused our captain to get injured... Anyway, that wicked old lady died.
In short, overseas players are incredibly wild, truly having no bottom line!
Stealing items, stabbing people in the back, pushing others to block monsters.
They will really do anything. Teaming up with them is more dangerous than facing the monsters!
These are all the core landmines I can think of for now. I'll add more later if I remember anything else.
If you guys ever get drafted into a transnational Instance in the future, be extremely careful!
The rules of overseas Instances are much harsher than domestic ones. Don't harbor any illusions.】
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Less than half an hour after the thread was posted, the comments had already surpassed fifty thousand, and the entire forum was discussing it.
【Holy crap, an A-Tier Instance? Our domestic 《Wenshan Village》 was only classified by the officials as a B-Tier difficulty, right? The overseas difficulty is this ridiculous?】
【Head exploding if you lie? That's too impossible to solve.】
【Thank you, boss, for your selfless sharing! Seriously, this kind of A-Tier guide could be sold for a lot of money, but you just made it public. That's some great character!】
【Only 25 out of 150 survived, meaning eighty percent couldn't make it. It truly deserves the name Death Subway.】
【Those white thugs are that arrogant? They just rob and kill as soon as they go in? Nobody does anything about it?】
【Are you really a sheltered baby? They already robbed people even when there were no Instances. Now that there are Instances, of course they're going to rob you to death!】
【These rules are practically a death sentence. Only carriages five, seven, and thirteen allow you to get off. What if I enter and get locked in carriage eight, nine, or ten with no way to leave? Wouldn't I just be waiting to die?】
【There should be a way to get to the next carriage.】
【Just curious, does thinking a lie count? Will your head explode?】
【Suddenly, I feel like domestic Instances are so gentle. At least they don't have rules where your head explodes over a disagreement.】
【Wait, if I had to choose between Chinese-style horror and bloody head explosions, I would definitely choose the subway.】
【Does any expert know if domestic Instances will also reach this A-Tier difficulty in the future? I'm a bit panicked.】
【Definitely. The spiritual energy recovery will only get faster and faster. Look at how many Instances have appeared in the less than half a year since they first started.】
【I feel like Instance difficulties will only get higher and higher. Everyone, hurry up and train, otherwise, we really won't survive in the future...】
There were hundreds of pages of replies after that.
Some were shocked, some were terrified, some analyzed the loopholes in the rules, and others worried that domestic Instances would also upgrade in difficulty.
In short, the clamor was deafening.
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Song Mo closed the thread and turned to open the Instance rewards for 《Great Britain's London Death Subway》.
—Previously at the Special Investigation Bureau, she had refrained from claiming the rewards for fear of someone noticing anything unusual.
The reward prompt had simply been hanging in the upper right corner of her vision all this time.
As for the poster's identity?
Having witnessed all the prophecies from the Screenwriter's perspective, Song Mo could only smile and say nothing.
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【First clearance of the Instance 《Great Britain's London Death Subway》 completed. Currently calculating all rewards for this script...】
【Calculation complete. A massive amount of rewards has been distributed to the system inventory. Screenwriter, please check!】
【Script Comprehensive Rating: A (Excellent)】
【This Instance Coverage Area: All of Great Britain】
【Player Participation: High】
【Rule Writing Completion: 86%】
【Base Rewards:
1. Celtic Gold Coins: 30,000 coins
(Common currency in Celtic mythology. Can be exchanged for basic spiritual materials, used to construct scene templates, and create low-grade NPCs.)
2. Real-world Currency: 100,000 GBP
(Automatically converted to 860,000 RMB and deposited into the bound bank card. The source of funds is legal and verifiable, with zero tax risk.)
3. Items:
- Scottish Manor Haunted House × 1
An independent folded space. A Victorian-style abandoned manor covering three thousand square meters, complete with a wine cellar, attic, and servants' quarters. Comes with 3 spirit bodies (lacking independent consciousness, obeying the creator's commands).
(Can be used as private territory to store Materials, raise spirits, and move/place according to the creator's will. Does not occupy real-world space when folded.)
- Vintage Guillotine × 1
A high-grade punishment-type item. An antique from the French Revolution, stained with the resentment and yin energy of hundreds of condemned prisoners. Can slay mid-grade and lower spirits.
(50% damage bonus against Western supernatural monsters; effect halved against Eastern spirits.)
- Bloody Mary's Gown × 1
An illusion-type defensive item made of red velvet, stained with the aura of a century-old vengeful spirit.
When worn, it completely conceals one's yin energy and spiritual fluctuations, alters appearance and body shape, and grants immunity to low-grade mental attacks and curses.
(Side effect: If worn for more than 1 hour, the wearer will occasionally hear female whispers, affecting sanity.)
- Fairy Ring Recipe × 1
A teleportation item from the Celtic mythological system. Placing any variety of mushrooms in a circle allows cross-regional teleportation.
- Witch's Fingers × 10,000 stalks
A Western herb resembling dried human fingers. It is a core material for brewing potions in the 【Witch】 class.
(Can lift various Western curses, brew mind-soothing and calming potions, and has a good healing effect on spiritual trauma and mental pollution.)
- Greensleeves × 10,000 blossoms
Cloud-like, translucent flowers originating from the elven territories, soft to the touch like cotton.
(Consuming one restores 50% of the mana bar within five minutes. Can be eaten repeatedly, but has no effect once the mana bar limit is exceeded.)
- Celtic Fairy Fruits × 20,000
Exclusive food of elves in Celtic mythology. (Consuming one continuously restores health and grants the 【Healthy】 Buff. Duration: 20 minutes.)
4. Universal Material Pool:
- Mid-Grade Spirit Material × 300
- High-Grade Gnome Existence × 2】
【Script Rating Rewards:
1. Screenwriter Points: 13,200 points
2. Lifespan: 0 (Remaining Lifespan: 563 days, 27 minutes, and 16 seconds)】
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“Why didn't my lifespan increase? Is it because of the Instance time rollback this time, or because the Instance almost descended directly into reality?”
Song Mo bypassed the special player rewards, planning to draw them next time.
“At least the Screenwriter Points are back, and I even made a tidy profit. As for the items, I can consider putting them in the 【Clay Sculpture Ghost Shop】 for players to exchange with points—”
Song Mo absentmindedly stroked her chin, her gaze drifting.
Although she didn't gain any lifespan from this Instance, it at least confirmed one thing:
There was a massive correlation between the Instance's output and its background.
Therefore, she needed to increase the number of domestic Instances as quickly as possible.
With this in mind, Song Mo sifted through her inventory and pulled out a dense, nearly finalized block of text:
Script: 《Underworld Messengers Borrowing Longevity》.
As for the background... Song Mo looked at the news notifications pushed to her phone:
《Lu Group's Heir Perishes in Instance!》
《Lu Bingkun Returns to the Capital Overnight; Multiple Experts Convene, Suspected to Be on the Verge of Death?》
《Who Will Ultimately Take Control of the Lu Group?》
《Lu Group's Stock Price Fluctuates; the Reason Behind It Is Actually—》
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