30: The first streamer to arrive at the haunted house

Seeing that the two seemed to have no particular dissatisfaction with the work, Li Zhou relaxed.

He looked at Goethe and suddenly said with a smile, "I found a good place for you."

"When you get there, you won't have to just scare people like yesterday; you can directly make a move."

The Devils Castle was not real to begin with; it was only due to system reasons that players could experience a 100% immersive feeling.

Li Zhou planned to replace the original BOSS in the castle with Goethe.

Hearing his words, Goethe fell silent.

He was a little unsure if the boss was testing him.

Before, he and the zombie had chatted a few words.

Although the zombie spoke slowly, he still got a lot of information.

After learning that Li Zhou had also warned the zombie not to harm players, he confirmed a fact.

It was obvious that his boss's biggest taboo was for his employees to attack players.

Li Zhou saw Goethe's silence and didn't think much of it.

He continued, "You don't have to go to Yellow Springs Road anymore; I've set up a new venue there."

"From now on, your main workplace will be in the new venue."

"There, I will project your consciousness into a castle."

"The players inside are also consciousness projections. Do you know what a consciousness projection is?"

"You don't know? Well, consciousness projection means that in the castle, even if you kill them, they won't really die."

"So that's why I just said you could make a move."

After Li Zhou finished speaking, the scarlet in Goethe's eyes flickered again.

Realizing that the boss was not testing him, he forcibly suppressed his inner excitement and said, "Boss, don't worry, I promise I will give those players a profound experience, making them never dare to come here again."

Never dare to come again?

How could that work!

Li Zhou immediately shook his head and added,

"I forgot to tell you, you can make a move, but there's one thing: your methods must be clean and swift!"

"Killing is fine, but you can't deliberately torment the players' minds, do you understand what I mean?"

The castle was already terrifying enough, more real and stimulating than almost ninety-nine percent of indoor escape games on the market.

If Goethe were to deliberately torment the players' minds, Li Zhou suspected that those players might not just be afraid to come again; it might be more serious than that.

Their mental state might even suffer problems.

Scaring people to death would, of course, not happen.

Besides adding a reminder that players could exit at any time, Li Zhou had also specifically added a monitoring effect in the castle.

Once a player reached their psychological limit, they would automatically be sent out of the castle.

The only concern now was that Goethe might intentionally torment the players' minds slowly, causing them not to reach their psychological limit immediately but instead to slowly break down.

That would be a bit tricky.

"Boss, I understand."

Hearing Li Zhou's words, Goethe said nothing, just nodded slightly.

He did indeed like to slowly torment the minds of his prey.

However, since Li Zhou said no, he wouldn't do it.

Being able to kill was enough.

Hearing their conversation, the zombie cast an envious glance at Goethe.

Others could happily interact with players in the castle.

Why could he only lie motionless in a cold coffin?

"Zombie, don't worry."

"Don't worry, it won't be long before I arrange a new venue for you too."

As if seeing the envy in the zombie's eyes, Li Zhou stood on tiptoe, patted his shoulder, and comforted him with a smile.

Hearing this, the zombie was overjoyed.

"Tha... thank you, Boss!"

"No need to thank me. As long as you work hard, I will notice it."

Li Zhou waved his hand and said no more.

He instructed the zombie to lie back in the coffin, then led Goethe outside the castle.

Using his authority, he swapped Goethe's consciousness with the previous vampire in the castle.

From then on, the Boss of the Devils Castle was officially Goethe.

"Mission accomplished!"

After everything was done, Li Zhou looked at Goethe's body and stroked his chin.

In the future, Goethe would most likely not need his true body for work.

He needed to find a place to hide his body.

If a player accidentally stumbled upon it in the future, that would be a problem... Just as Li Zhou was busy in the Haunted House, a group of people suddenly appeared outside the main gate.

It had to be said that netizens' ability to act was quite good.

After seeing many Streamers and bloggers announce that they would come to challenge the Tianfeng Haunted House, some netizens who were local to Jinling City couldn't sit still and were the first to arrive at the Haunted House.

However, at this time, the Haunted House's gate was tightly shut.

On a white sign, the large words "Under Renovation, Closed for One Day" were very conspicuous.

These people who arrived early saw the announcement and, instead of being disappointed, became even more excited about the Haunted House.

Some people went back when they saw the Haunted House wasn't open.

But some people actually decided to stay, preparing to wait in their cars until the next day.

"What the heck is going on?"

When Li Zhou finished everything and returned to the monitoring room, he happened to see this scene through the surveillance camera outside the gate.

Cars were parked across from the Haunted House, and many people were holding up their phones towards the Haunted House, as if filming or livestreaming.

"Has the popularity risen?"

Li Zhou raised an eyebrow, a slow smile forming on his lips.

He was not in a hurry to open the door; if he said it was closed for one day, then it was one day.

Turning around, he returned to his dormitory and immediately lay down to sleep.

He had spent too much effort in the Devils Castle before, and after finishing everything, he was already exhausted.

Those guys outside could wait if they wanted to; he just wanted to rest well now.

As Li Zhou slowly fell asleep, the true appearance of Tianfeng Haunted House also appeared on TikTok.

That's right, it was filmed and posted by the group of people currently outside the Haunted House.

Upon seeing that the Tianfeng Haunted House actually covered such a large area, many people became even more curious about what was inside this Haunted House.

Song Yang's previous livestream had been too anticlimactic; everyone only roughly knew that there were two very awesome NPCs in the Haunted House.

After seeing the full view of the Tianfeng Haunted House, everyone's anticipation and curiosity grew even stronger.

Such a large Haunted House couldn't possibly have only two NPCs.

Some Streamers also began to rush towards Jinling.

Among them, the first to arrive in Jinling was surprisingly Dai Xiaomei, who had previously said in her livestream room that she would absolutely not come!

She happened to be right next to Jinling City during this time, and after seeing how high the popularity of Tianfeng Haunted House was, she immediately rushed over without stopping.

Of course, she was scared.

But Song Yang's previous fan growth efficiency and popularity increase were undeniable.

What was most important for a Streamer?

Popularity!

No matter how many followers you had, without popularity, it was only a matter of time before you faded away.

"Brothers, haha, you didn't expect it, did you? The first person to arrive here is me!"

"Don't worry, the Streamer will go now and see if that Tianfeng Haunted House is as terrifying as you say it is!"