I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 516 - 516 515. Mrs._1

Chapter 516: 515. Mrs._1 Chapter 516: 515. Mrs._1 Jiangcheng, outskirts.

In Abandoned Capital Town, the show was still going on. Over the past few months, several hundred people had experienced the adventure stories that took place in this small town, including some literary workers.

After experiencing the highly immersive exploration, they gained a lot of inspiration and even started to write novels about Abandoned Capital.

Because in the real-life game, if one could go to the bookstore or someone’s home to read the books, they could learn a lot of information about Abandoned Capital. At first, people thought this was just a simple setting, but as the participants interwove their information, everyone discovered that Abandoned Capital was like a real town, and the real-life game only scratched the surface.

As is well known, a complete and charming worldview is the foundation of creation. Moreover, Lu Ban did not prohibit fan works like some legal departments, but instead, he opened up some rights to creativity. Thus, fan works related to Abandoned Capital sprouted up like bamboo shoots after rain and eventually formed some creative circles with a good atmosphere.

However, with more people came varying levels of skill.

Following the original high-quality creations, the low-quality works also emerged.

The writer Liu Huajian was one of those troubled by this.

He had the fortune to enter Abandoned Capital Town in February and play the real-life game. Since then, Liu Huajian had been obsessed with that world. He frantically collected all available materials, watched all of Lu Ban’s previous works, and with a few like-minded partners, set up the Wasteland Literary Alliance, mainly to create literature related to Abandoned Capital.

In Liu Huajian’s view, every NPC in Abandoned Capital had a backstory. The world was decadent yet had a certain order; under the heavy pressure of prohibition, the upper class lived in drunken revelry while the lower class struggled desperately. Moreover, there were extraordinary powers, making it a perfect stage.

He took the detective Cui Siter as the protagonist and wrote several short detective pieces that received much praise.

Since most of the followers were young people, over time, Liu Huajian also came to be known as “Madam” by them.

Ordinarily mingling in the publishing circles, he didn’t understand how a grown man like himself could be called “Madam” but assumed it was just going along with the local customs.

But now, there were many newcomers, and the quality of their creations was poor.

For example, some friends liked to set an original protagonist who traveled to the world of Abandoned Capital, then obtained system cheats, punched monsters, kicked gods, and used martial arts to overpower everything. It looked cool, but it failed to reflect the literary texture of Abandoned Capital.

Other friends had unique tastes, focusing on portraying the romantic stories within Abandoned Capital, but the problem was it involved Detective Cui Siter and the madman Lu Ban. Liu Huajian didn’t understand it but was greatly shocked.

Yet others directly transported characters from Lu Ban’s past works into Abandoned Capital, deciding the characters’ next actions with dice and writing in a structured manner.

Liu Huajian felt that although these people’s creations were a bit out of character, they were still within acceptable limits. After all, the public enjoyed them, so he wasn’t one to judge.

However, some people didn’t even understand the story’s background, directly introducing things like star-destroyers and twelve-winged archangels into Abandoned Capital. They misunderstood character relationships, made up relatives at will, and some social media personalities rode the wave of popularity, forcibly relating any topic to Abandoned Capital, which annoyed Liu Huajian.

Like a recent analysis video he saw that dissected Abandoned Capital’s background, claiming that Detective Cui Siter was the real mastermind behind the scenes, citing references pretentiously. What’s more, the creator was a well-known movie UP, who became famous by commenting on other people’s films, with a massive fanbase. After watching the video, these fans went on to spam other people’s works with comments about the “mastermind behind the scenes,” which was very irksome.

Some went even further into flights of fancy, suggesting that an empty amusement park often appeared next to Abandoned Capital Town, and anyone who walked in would disappear, never to come out again, citing previous news reports as evidence.

Indeed, earlier in the year, there had been a rescue mission for a group of missing people in Lingjiang. These people came from all over, all claiming to have spent time in an amusement park and were unclear on how they had entered the country from abroad.

According to the investigation results afterward, there were indeed no signs that they had experienced several months of absence, as if they had just gone missing, and the investigators also failed to find the so-called amusement park. As the months passed, the incident gradually faded from public view, only to be enthusiastically discussed on some supernatural forums.

Liu Huajian certainly didn’t believe in all this, he thought it was just a hype.

Today, Liu Huajian came to the vicinity of Abandoned Capital Town again. Although he didn’t draw the chance to participate in the live-action game for the second time, it was still nice to simply watch from a distance, conducting field research and looking for inspiration.

However, perhaps because of spring, there was a significant amount of fog along the Lingjiang Riverside today.

While studying the layout of Abandoned Capital Town from a hillside and preparing to take a break, Liu Huajian suddenly caught sight of what seemed like an amusement park amidst the fog by the riverside.

“?”

Liu Huajian felt strange; there had never been an amusement park here before.

Curious, he walked down the hillside to the entrance of the amusement park at the Lingjiang Riverside.

At the entrance ticket booth of the amusement park, there was a staff member dressed in yellow clothing.

“When did this amusement park open here?” Liu Huajian asked. The ticket seller said a few words, which he didn’t quite understand. With the mindset of, “Since I’m here, why not?” Liu Huajian bought a ticket and entered. He also received an amusement park manual, which seemed to contain some rules, but Liu Huajian didn’t bother to look at them, as he had been to amusement parks before.

Soon, he saw that the amusement park was quite empty, with not a single tourist in sight.

However, there was a toy bear holding balloons standing nearby.

“Why is there no one around?”

Liu Huajian looked at the map and thought that the rides probably wouldn’t operate just for him alone, so, he chose the least troublesome Ecological Garden.

Arriving at the entrance of the Ecological Garden, Liu Huajian glanced inside.

There was the sweet sound of birds and the fragrance of flowers, a scene of serene tranquility, much like those typical natural animal and plant sanctuaries.

A barefoot girl in a white dress stood on the grass, feeding a deer.

Noticing Liu Huajian, the girl revealed a surprised and pleasant smile.

“Welcome to the Ecological Garden, I am your guide; you can call me Lin.”

Her smile was like sunshine, washing away much of the dampness from Liu Huajian’s soul on this moist day.

Finally seeing someone, and such a cute girl at that, Liu Huajian felt much more at ease. He walked into the Ecological Garden and, looking at the lush trees and various animals, felt completely rejuvenated.