This script was adapted from the 1987 film, The Monster Squad, with some settings from the Devil's Castle series added. If there are similarities, it is not a coincidence.
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At midnight on November 13th, the fifth round of Tournament for the Best S2, the third last round of the competition, officially began.
Soon, the top eight would be decided …
"Feng Bujue, Level 50
"Wang Tanzhi, Level 50
"Rain Like Rain, Level 50
[Laughing Soul, Level 50]
"Flower on the Rock, Level 50
"Please select the game mode that you wish to join.
"You have selected Tournament for the Best S2 — Four Worlds Battle. Please confirm.
"Confirmed. Please select the spectator for this match.
[Confirmed. Your team has entered the queue. We are waiting for your opponent to be ready.]
"Matching complete. Coordinating nerve connection. Generating scenario …
"Downloading. Please wait a moment."
"The smoke of war has just been settled, and the blood is still fresh. The battle rises again, and the people do not wait. The stars gather in the four worlds, and the battle is over the nine heavens.
"Download complete. Welcome to Tournament for the Best S2 — Four Worlds Battle.
"This mode provides a scenario introduction, and there is a chance of triggering hidden side quests and special worldbuilding.
"Reward for winning the scenario: Advance to the semi finals.
"The scenario introduction will be played soon. The match will begin after that."
The system announcement when entering the scenario was not that different from the previous rounds. Other than the 'reward for winning the scenario', it was basically the same.
After the announcement, it was time for the introductory cinematic.
Hong long long …
Following a clap of thunder, the first cinematic appeared before the players.
In the middle of the screen was a stone tombstone in the shape of a cross. Next to the tombstone was a large, lifelike statue of Reaper. Even though the face of the statue was hidden in the shadows, every player and audience who were watching the cinematic could feel that he was staring at them.
After pausing for a few seconds, the camera began to slowly move to the side, and a depressing, eerie, and eerie background music began to play.
In the next ten seconds, the players followed the 'camera view' as they walked through a graveyard with broken fences and overgrown trees. Then, the focus of the image moved closer and closer to a castle on the cliff in the distance.
"One night one hundred years ago, the legendary exorcist Van Helsing led a group of warriors into the castle of the Demon King Dracula."
As the narrator said this, a series of fast and smooth action scenes were played on the screen.
They saw a handsome middle-aged man with a beard wearing a white shirt and a black vest, as well as three to five villagers holding torches and hunting guns … Together, they killed their way into the castle.
They used explosives to blast open the castle gate and used knives and guns to kill all the monsters that blocked their way. With the aid of the editor, they quickly arrived at an underground hall.
[At this moment, Dracula has obtained the legendary Holy Amulet and intends to destroy it on the Night of Resurrection.]
[Once the Holy Amulet is destroyed, the balance between good and evil in the world will be broken. The human world will fall into the hands of the dark forces.]
At this point, Van Helsing had already arrived in the middle of the auditorium and stood in front of a smooth bridge-shaped rock. On the cross-section of the rock, there was a palm-sized, crystal-like, circular amulet embedded in it.
Van Helsing stared at the amulet for a few seconds before turning back and shouting, "Yes, that's it. Bring the girl here."
As soon as he said that, one of his companions brought a girl in from outside the hall.
The girl looked to be about sixteen or seventeen years old. She had blonde hair and blue eyes, and she was dressed very simply. When she walked into the hall, her slightly immature face showed obvious uneasiness and fear, but there was a trace of determination and courage in her eyes.
"I hope we can still make it in time." Van Helsing saw the girl's appearance and wiped the blood that had stained his face as he worriedly muttered.
"In order to stop all this, Van Helsing came to the amulet and initiated a ritual."
The narration interjected, and the scene changed. At this time, the girl was holding a scroll in her hand. Facing the amulet, she was mumbling an incantation.
The amulet also reacted to the incantation, and light constantly burst out from the crystal.
"Faster! Faster! " Although this seemed a little harsh, Van Helsing kept urging the trembling girl to speak faster.
Bang!
At this moment, accompanied by a loud noise, the glass and door of the hall collapsed, and the ground under everyone's feet shook as though it was alive.
"Ah!"
"Help!"
Suddenly, a few villagers standing in the back screamed.
When everyone looked back, they found that they had been dragged down alive by the mummies that had emerged from the cracks in the ground …
"Read it quickly!" Seeing the girl stunned by the scene in front of her, Van Helsing shouted, "Otherwise, we will all die!"
After being yelled at by him, the young girl came back to her senses and continued to read nervously.
"On the night of resurrection, a virgin will recite the incantation in front of the amulet, and it will open the door to limbo, which will devour everything around it."
With that said, the Border Prison opened. Before the narration could finish, the light on the amulet suddenly disappeared. Then … a black hole the size of a human eye appeared on the amulet, and in a few seconds, it expanded to more than five meters in diameter.
"Oh! God! "
"Run!"
Van Helsing's teammates panicked and began to run because the sucking force of the black hole sucked the girl reciting the incantation in the first five seconds.
However, it was obviously in vain …
Soon, the limbo door expanded to an unimaginable size, and the entire hall and even the space of the castle was distorted because of it.
Nothing … could escape from its devouring.
"Van Helsing …" When Van Helsing made his final struggle outside the black hole, a voice came into his ears. "Is this your way? In order to stop me … you are willing to fall into limbo? "
"I just did what I had to do …" Van Helsing responded to the voice loudly. "… and what I can do."
"Don't pretend to be a saint!" the voice shouted. "You can't save everyone! You can't even save the people who came with you! "His words were filled with anger." My life is eternal! One day, I will return to this world, and you … will suffer forever in limbo! "
"Humph …" Van Helsing laughed bitterly. "I believe … when that day comes, there will be people who will stand up to stop you."
After saying that, he was swallowed by the black hole and disappeared without a trace.
Chi!
The next second, the screen went black, and the introductory cinematic stopped abruptly.
"Today … after ninety-nine years …" After the narration said that, the scenario officially started.
"Main quest triggered.
"Killed four members of Blade."
Once the players entered the scenario, the quest announcement came.
However, their attention was not on that. None of the viewers who were watching the livestream were paying attention to that as well.
"Hey, hey … what is this?" When Feng Bujue regained his mobility, he found himself lying on a small bed.
The size of the bed was obviously not meant for an adult, and neither was the bed sheet that was printed with cartoon characters … but at that moment, Feng Bujue did not look out of place lying on the bed because … he had turned into a child.
"In this scenario, your age has been set to ten years old.
Your appearance, physique, skills, items, sorcery weapons, title, and so on will undergo corresponding changes. "
Five seconds later, the same notification rang in the ears of every player.
"This sure knows how to play …" Feng Bujue pulled back the covers and stood on the ground. "Is it really a good idea to play with settings during a competition?"
Actually, there was nothing wrong with it. After all, both parties had been turned into children, so theoretically speaking, it was still fair.
"Phew … In any case, I'll take a look first." After Feng Bujue stood still, he first observed the room that he was in.
This was a very typical room for a child from a middle-class American family. However … it was definitely not in the twenty-first century. This was because there were no smartphones, tablets, desktops, or handhelds in the room. Feng Bujue looked around. Other than the light bulbs … the only electronic devices that could be found in the room were an alarm clock and an old-fashioned radio.
With regards to the other items … they were all things that could be found in a boy's room. There were dirty clothes that were littered everywhere, hats that were too ugly to wear, cheap basketballs, sneakers that did not need to be laced up, toys that were popular in the eighties and nineties, a bunch of baseball stars. Brother Jue looked through them and realized that he had not heard of any of the names and appearances of the stars. Therefore, he concluded that this was a planet in the main universe that was similar to Earth. Every inch of the carpet was stained with dried sauce and snacks. Just by looking at it, Chen Ge could tell that there were at least six different sources of food residue, and embarrassing monster figurines and posters.
Feng Bujue believed that if he looked carefully, perhaps he could find some porn that was not that heavy (for him) under the bed, but he did not do that …
"After my body shrank, my vision became lower …" After Feng Bujue scanned the room, he walked to the wardrobe. "I'm still not used to it."
As he said that, he opened the wardrobe door.
As expected, this floor-length wardrobe had a full-length mirror embedded in the inside of the door.
"Hmm …" Brother Jue looked at himself in the mirror and thought to himself, "As expected of Woody's program … Not only did it shrink the character's clothing and hairstyle, it also perfectly restored my appearance, body shape, and height when I was ten years old …"
Even though he did not have a strong reaction when he looked at himself in the mirror, at this moment, the audience watching the game was about to go crazy …
"Hahahaha … this … this …" Some people were incoherent.
"That dead fish eyes haven't changed at all! Hahahaha … "Some people were complaining.
"Hahaha … I can't take it anymore! I'm going to look through the video and use his face as an emoji! "Some people were full of malice.
"I really want to get my son a mini clown costume like this. He's so cute." Some people were focusing on the wrong thing.
In any case, compared to Brother Jue's tepid attitude, the audience's reaction was much stronger.
Other than that … you should have noticed by now that other than Feng Bujue, the other seven players in the scenario had been turned into children, and their changes were also very interesting to watch …
Therefore, in the next five to thirty minutes, the news about this match spread like a virus on the livestream platform, and it attracted a large number of viewers.
Once they heard that they could see the children versions of the players, most of the viewers … and even some of the intelligence teams from the gaming studios … could not help but come over to take a look.
"Side quest triggered."
Just as Feng Bujue finished his room search and prepared to leave, the system announcement came again.
He opened the game menu and glanced at the mission tab. It was — Try to meet up with your teammates.
"Oh? That counts as a mission? " Feng Bujue mumbled to himself. "In this kind of scenario where the teleportation points are separated, meeting up with teammates is the most basic thing to do …"
"Hmm?" With that in mind, he seemed to be reminded of something, and his eyes shifted. "Could it be … this mission is hinting that … meeting up with my teammates will trigger some kind of sequel?"
With that thought in mind, Feng Bujue walked out of the room. The room was at the end of the second floor. After Brother Jue walked down the corridor that was several meters long, he followed the stairs to the living room on the first floor.
"Hey, my little pumpkin, look at you … Why did you change your clothes so early in the morning?" A young mother in her thirties with wavy blonde hair greeted him with a warm smile.
"Ah … That's because I can't wait any longer …" Feng Bujue used a childish voice, coupled with his lethargic tone and an expression that said, "Are you kidding me?" to deliver this line.
When he was looking through the room upstairs, Feng Bujue noticed that the calendar on the wall said that it was Halloween. The system had used a very good way to make the fact that he was wearing a strange costume look more logical.
"Ha … My little baby, you are so cute." The 'mother' walked over to pinch Brother Jue's cheeks and planted a kiss on his forehead. "Alright, mommy is going to leave now. Breakfast is on the table, so remember to finish it before you leave."
"Okay." Feng Bujue replied with a face full of annoyance. After the woman went upstairs, he shook his head helplessly and walked to the kitchen.
Five minutes later, Brother Jue was wearing a safety helmet and knee pads. He was riding a small bicycle with an auxiliary wheel and appeared on the side of the road. In his mouth, there was a piece of toast that was slightly burnt.
"Should I take over the TV station or the radio station …" He was thinking about this question as he rode the bicycle.
However, a figure suddenly appeared in the middle of the road and interrupted his thoughts.
"Hmph … Feng Bujue!" A young man who was about 1.3 meters tall with a large dog stood in front of Brother Jue and said, "What a coincidence!"
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