Horror Game Designer Chapter 134: This is Out of My Expectations Too

The clear pool soon turned into a swamp. Plastic bags, branches and livestock carried away by the flood floated in the water. The stench replaced the smell of disinfectant. The water ghosts that gained freedom violated the school rules freely. They could infiltrate any spot the flood could reach.

The neighbours of Min Long Street looked guilty. The situation was worse was the girl who died in the pool. She was already angry, and this snapped her remaining rationality.

Gao Ming surfaced to exchange air. He noticed that the water had flooded the first-floor of the activity building.

“Jesus!” He swore he didn’t do it on purpose. He brought the supermarket portrait underwater as a back-up. He didn’t communicate well with Zhang Ding. Zhang Ding came out on his own because he pitied the girl. To be honest, everyone at the supermarket was kind. Everyone probably came out to help her. Of course, the method was a bit rash.

“On the positive side, the school rules’ hold on the activity building disappeared. Now, no ghost can execute the rules here.

“On the negative side…” Gao Ming looked around. His classmates and the school swim team were swept away by the flood. Screams were everywhere.

The ropes snapped. The pool’s limitation on the students unravelled. Everyone grabbed the things closest to them and tried to survive.

“Save the people first!”

The death portrait Gao Ming held seemed to replay the day Li Sui Dam burst. The water ghosts were like a flood. It was impossible to tell how many there were. The tragedy lasted for half an hour before Zhang Ding managed to seal the flood back up. About ⅓ of the water ghosts had escaped.

Zhang Ding left the portrait again with difficulty. He looked at the almost-destroyed activity building and said guiltily, “I didn’t mean to do it. We just wanted to help.”

“You don’t need to apologise to me. The issue now is that the water ghosts from the flood have spread to the rest of the building. This whole area has been polluted.” The crack on the flood portrait lightened. Gao Ming quickly put it away before someone spotted it.

“Then, what should we do now?” Zhang Ding grabbed Zhang Fendou, who was playing with the water. “It’s hard to capture all the escaped water ghosts. We need to apologise to the owner of the building and ask for his help.”

“Boss Zhang, how can you shirk from the responsibility.” Gao Ming finally swam to the edge. “Since you were the one who did this, you should become this place’s new owner and manage everything.”

“How is that logical? Your angle is rather special.” Zhang Ding pondered it. Gao Ming’s words made some sense.

“Who can control the flood other than you?” Gao Ming pointed down the pool. The girl in the red uniform was fighting the water ghosts. She had deep resentment and great power, but there were too many water ghosts. “Furthermore, this school’s former manager allowed the tragedy to happen to this girl. If we do nothing, won’t your conscience hurt? You should bring the girl to the supermarket and have her join our big, happy family so that she can feel warmth and love again.”

“You’re not wrong about that.” Zhang Ding was persuaded by Gao Ming. He placed Zhang Fendou on a ram that floated by. He melted into the water and swam downwards.

The girl in red was going crazy. The unluckiest person was the ‘understanding’ PE Teacher. He followed the school rules and wanted to stop the water ghosts that broke the rules. He was the first to have a conflict with the girl in red. Now that the pool had been destroyed, the girl couldn’t find Zhang Ding, so she vented her anger and resentment on the PE Teacher. She grabbed him and refused to let him go. She forced him to suffer the attack of the flood as she did.

“This is all a misunderstanding.” Zhang Ding and the neighbours saved the others first. Most of the students were tossed out of the pool before they knew what happened.

The water level had passed the knees. The students rushed up to the second floor with no regard for their clothes. Facing the terrifying flood, both humans and ghosts didn’t want to get involved.

“This swimming class has flooded the entire building.” Gao Ming didn’t move too far. He paid attention to the other students and saved whoever he could.

“Move! The people from the student council are here!” The front door opened from the outside. The strange thing was the flood didn’t flow out. It was as if it was forbidden by some kind of power. It could only affect the inside of the activity building and not the whole school.

The student council members with badges entered the building. They released all the students who didn’t violate the rules. From this perspective, the student council was merely doing their job. They seemed to be on justice’s side.

“Come out now!” The student council saved the students from Class 13 first. They seemed to have received some kind of order that Class 13 was different from the other classes. The student council even carried out the school uniform and phones Class 13 left in the changing room.

It was still raining outside. Everyone was cold and hungry. They were tired and so scared. They didn’t feel thankful for surviving a tragedy. They knew that it was their first day of school, and they needed to survive six more to graduate. Everyone was pessimistic except Gao Ming.

The sports class originally had a difficulty of one, but once he released the flood, it jumped up to 10.

The school immediately sent the student council over, afraid that Gao Ming would murder everyone.

Xi San hugged Du Bai as he cried and vomited out the dirty water. Wang Jie’s face was drained of blood. His eyes filled with despair. “We seem to have underestimated the 51st student’s desire to take revenge on us.”

Gao Ming rubbed his hair and whispered softly, “We should look on the bright side. Perhaps the next class won’t be as difficult.”

“You are too optimistic. This school wants to torture us to our death!” Du Bai was drenched. He was taken by the flood earlier, and his mouth was dirty with mud and sand. “Fuck! Why not just kill us? Why torture us like this?”

The student council sealed up the activity building. Teachers with teacher’s IDs rushed over. Both parties surrounded Class 13.

After doing a headcount, the student council returned the clothes to the students. Then, they had a stand-off with the teachers in the centre uniform. Neither party entered the activity building.

Neither the school nor Situ An knew who targeted the activity building. It was unclear who broke the rules first. Both parties placed great attention on Class 13.

“Huh?” Du Bai looked through his phone out of habit. “Look at your phones! When we kept our phones in the changing room, someone used our phones to send a message!”

Everyone checked their messages. Everyone had a new message on their phones that was sent to an unknown number. The content was different. Some said, “Come here. We’re waiting for you.” Others said, “Be careful! They’re lying to you. Don’t come!”

“We all sent a message to the same number. Are these messages the same message we sent to that student who didn’t get on the bus ten years ago?” Gao Ming didn’t let anyone see his message because the message represented their stances.

Some of the students encouraged the 51st student to be the scapegoat. Others warned him from coming to the accident site. The beauty, ugliness, greatness and dirtiness of humanity were displayed in the messages.

“All of the classes have their own meaning. The swimming class was for ‘something’ to get close to our phones.

“The school probably had other plans, but the activity building was flooded by me.”

In some school ghost stories, some students went to school and disappeared; in other school ghost stories, the student went to the school, and the school disappeared.