Chaotic Sword God
Apocalypse Gacha
Necromancer: I Am A Disaster
Martial Cultivator
Aspiring to the Immortal Path
Snow-Kissed Rose (GL)
Nightmare Assault
Horror Game Designer
The Demon King is Too Unfathomable!
Conquering OtherWorld Starts With a Game
The Hero Turned Into A Potato And The World Fell To Ruin
Reincarnation of the Strongest Sword God - Side Stories
Apocalypse Gacha
Chapter 1298- First mission
Apocalypse Gacha
Chapter 1297- Secret Realm exploration
Nightmare Assault
Chapter 313: Excuse
Horror Game Designer
Chapter 392: Sad Future
Aspiring to the Immortal Path
Chapter 999: One Versus Six
Zhan Yue
Chapter 688- Firestone Castle
Necromancer: I Am A Disaster
Chapter 371 - Dragonblood Lizard; The Detection Spell Is Never Wrong
Snow-Kissed Rose (GL)
Chapter 50.2
The Hero Turned Into A Potato And The World Fell To Ruin
Chapter 85: Paper Can Never Cover Fire
Martial Cultivator
Chapter 673: When the Rain Continues
Apocalypse Gacha
Chapter 1296- Secret Realm reopen
Nightmare Assault
Chapter 312: Night Guardian
Horror Game Designer
Chapter 391: Secret of the Underground Garage
Aspiring to the Immortal Path
Chapter 998: The Might of Blood River
Zhan Yue
Chapter 687- Silver Dragon Queen's rage
Apocalypse Gacha
Chapter 1295- Clone's ambition
Necromancer: I Am A Disaster
Chapter 370 - The Level 60 Area: Consuming Lands
Martial Cultivator
Chapter 672: Heart-to-Heart Talk
Ever since he moved to Li San Centre, this was the first time Ma Lian met someone who dared to speak to him like this. He removed his leather gloves and walked towards Gao Ming. Gao Ming didn’t say anything. He picked up the axe, leaning beside Zhu Suisui’s desk. Ma Lian’s lips twitched. He didn’t believe Gao Ming would dare to hurt him. However, his steps still slowed.
“Ol Ma, watch it!” Chen Bing stopped Ma Lian. At that moment, Ma Lian felt strangely relieved.
“Don’t stop me!” Ma Lian pointed at Gao Ming, “In the future, I’ll have to educate newbies like you!” Then, he turned and left.
Chen Bing was Chen Yuntian’s daughter. She knew how much her father valued Gao Ming, so she didn’t say anything else. “Team One has few people to take the patrol. Use this time to rest and depart at midnight.”
After everyone left, Zhu Suisui quickly put her axe away. “Brother, there’s no need for that. It’s nothing if we got scolded.”
“I didn’t do anything. I just wanted to admire your axe.” Gao Ming opened the breakroom and set up the bed for Wan Qiu. “Xiao Qiu, you can sleep here tonight. If you need anything, just tell me. This is my number.”
Gao Ming then left the room. He moved the chairs together to make a quick bed and rested.
“You sure are something else.” Zhu Suisui saw how fast Gao Ming fell asleep, and she smiled helplessly. She didn’t know how to assess Gao Ming. He wasn’t selfish because he’d always rush to the front to save everyone. He wasn’t approachable from the way he looked after the young man. He wasn’t careless because there were only two beds in the office. He gave one to Wan Qiu and silently took the chairs to make his own bed. He left the other bed for Zhu Suisui, who had had a rough day.
“He has many flaws, but he’s a good man.”
Zhu Suisui set the alarm and slept on the other bed.
At 11.30 pm, Gao Ming opened his eyes. He put on the jacket and left the centre. He rode the bike to Min Long Street Building Four. Normally, a few people would be on the patrol, but Gao Ming believed he could do this alone.
Gao Ming entered the building and found a damaged chair. He carried a bag of death portraits and sat in the middle of the fourth floor. If someone came and saw this, they would be scared witless.
“A haunted house, death portraits and me. I’ve gathered all three elements. Now, I need to mimic the victim before he dies.
“The boy in Room 405 looks alive, but his conditions are no different from a ghost.”
Gao Ming allowed pain and fear to grow within him as he tried to empathise with the boy. Gao Ming began to hear the sounds of arguing. The plates shattered, and the soup leaked into the bedroom through the gap in the door.
Suddenly, the doors of the closet slammed closed. Gao Ming’s eyes flew open. The shadow hadn't appeared, but he was already in an anomaly. He pushed open the door to Room 405. He entered the boy’s bedroom. “The sound came from this place.” Gao Ming pulled open the closet and saw an ugly doll. “This doll has been sent to the centre. Why is it back here?” Gao Ming took the doll out again. Scraps of food fell to the ground. He looked into the closet. Someone wrote on the back of the closet with crayons, I will not hurm anyone! Levee!
“Is this… a threat?” Gao Ming believed the boy was not a ghost. He hadn’t designed a ghost who had bad spelling.
Gao Ming picked up the crayon and thought for a while. Then, he wrote in a blank space, Min Long Street is my territory. If you have any snacks you want, I can place them in the dresser. Toys, games, textbooks. You can ask me for anything.
Eventually, Gao Ming crawled into the closet to write better, If you feel lonely, I can accompany you. I hope you won’t harm the adults trapped in the shadow…
The closet looked like it had been cursed.
Gao Ming put down the crayon and shook his left hand. To prevent others from recognising his handwriting, he wrote with his left hand. He put the doll back, and Gao Ming started the waiting game. At around 2 am, Gao Ming’s black band vibrated. The red and yellow signals alternated.
“Am I inside an anomaly? But why are the two lights blinking?”
Gao Ming frowned. He immediately left and ran back to the centre to investigate. After he exited the bedroom, the dirty doll picked up the crayon. As if possessed, it marked down the textbooks.
Gao Ming used the fastest speed to rush back to the centre. The other team members were highly alert.
Soon, Chen Yuntian appeared on the projection within the centre. His expression was very severe.
“Captain, everyone is here.” Ma Lian stood at the forefront. He spoke very softly.
“We just received the news. All the investigators from Team One sent to assist the investigation at East City have gone missing.” Everyone was shocked. Bai Xiao was Li San Centre’s ace. He had superhuman instinct and had survived 4 Level 3 Anomalies. Team One was Li San Centre’s most elite team. However, the team only had two people left. One just joined, and the other didn’t even have a band yet.
“Captain, what’s going on with that anomaly?” Ma Lian was shocked.
“I’m hurrying to the special hospital set up by the east city investigation centre. Since that anomaly started, only two investigators managed to escape. One of them lost their limbs and died. The other just woke up, but the doctor said that he was too scared to say anything.” Chen Yuntian’s eyes landed on Gao Ming for a while. “I’ll return before dawn. Keep on working like normal. The missions assigned to Team One will temporarily be taken over by other teams.”
The projection ended. The centre was so silent that breathing could be heard.
“How many people has this anomaly eaten? Qin Tian, Bai Xiao and other elites…” The more Gao Ming thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt. “The scarier the horror stories, the slower it’ll take to infiltrate real life. I can speed up the process by feeding it with emotions. Is someone purposely feeding the anomaly with the investigators’ lives?”
Gao Ming felt a chill run up his spine. “No! We can’t allow that anomaly to continue to grow! We have to take it down tomorrow night!”
Gao Ming called Yan Hua and hoped that he’d come to the Li San Centre tomorrow morning. Before dawn, Yan Hua showed up outside the centre. His large body and ghastly tattoos immediately grabbed everyone’s attention.
“Why are you so early? Didn’t you have a match last night?” Gao Ming led Yan Hua into Team One’s office.
“What do you need from me?” Yan Hua answered directly.
“Things have changed. I need to enter an anomaly tomorrow night…” Gao Ming told him everything that had happened at Han Hai.
“If you lied to me, I’ll be the first to kill you.” Yan Hua chose to believe Gao Ming. He pulled the silver badge off his sleeve and tossed it on the table. “My participating number in the underground ring is 17. Call me 17 when we’re outside.”
“Okay, 17.”
When Gao Ming was preparing for the mission, Chen Yuntian returned to the centre. He assigned the job to the other teams and then walked to the office of Team One.
He called Gao Ming over. Less than 48 hours had passed, and only two people were left of Team One.
With such a high disappearance rate, if he were Gao Ming, he would choose to leave. Chen Yuntian thought about it and had a headache.
Chen Yuntian entered the office and saw that Gao Ming was ready to leave. However, he then saw Yan Hua who was two metres tall.
“Who is this?”
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