Horror Game Designer Chapter 518: Trick

“You can go first,” Zhi Ge pushed Xu Deyi from the back.

“Why?” Xu Deyi looked at the broken iron bars and the fish meat. He was nauseated.

“Stop wasting time!” Zhi Ge waved the axe. “I need to look after Yao Yao. Silly is carrying the manor owner. Only you have nothing to do.”

Picking up the oil lamp unwillingly, Xu Deyi crossed the iron bars and officially entered the fourth floor. Similar to what the manor owner said, none of the rooms on the fourth floor had doors installed. The rooms looked like caves.

“Don’t stay too far away from me.” Xu Deyi moved along the wall. He soon screamed.

“What now?”

“I… I touched something sticky.” Xu Deyi moved the oil lamp to the side. He sucked in a cold breath when he saw what was inside the rooms. Soft and thin hair grew out of the beds, walls and floors. Cracks crawled through the sealed-up windows. Liquid oozed out of them. He continued to walk forward. Every room on the fourth floor exuded an uncomfortable strangeness. Some of the rooms had scales, and others were filled with fish bones. There were also beds that had water weeds on them.

“I don’t dare to walk any further! Who wants to go first?” Xu Deyi was only there for the money. However, he suddenly realised money was not that important. “Every room is crazy. What place is this?”

As if hearing him, there was a cold breeze, and all the hair started to grow towards him.

They kept moving until they reached Room 4009. The rotten fish bones grew into the ground. The characters of regret covered the wall.

“I’ve seen similar characters in Room 3009. They seem to be the mother’s handwriting.” Zhi Ge urged Xu Deyi to enter the room to study the words.

No! No! No!

I need to eat fish to stay sane, but the fish is the source of my illness.

I know what kind of meat Dad has been eating. He has been lying to me. The fish doesn’t come from the east lake. They were meat torn off the ghosts! Every piece is laden with malice and curses!

Yes! Mom disappeared just like this. Dad knew everything but still chose the same path. The sad thing is my children, and I will keep this going. Is this the sad fate of those chosen by the door?

Why does the door exist? Where does the door lead? Why is the world behind the door covered in blood and ghosts? Why is it taking away my family?
It’s too late to escape now!

The door is an untouchable taboo. Human beings are too small compared to it.

The moment you open the door, you are submerged in the legendary East Lake. You fall into the darkness and will suffocate from despair!

I tried my best, but my husband still entered the door. He said the answer could only be found behind the door! Only by entering the door could we kill it!

I waited for a long time, but my husband didn’t return. There is not enough fish. Even my children look delicious to me. No! I can’t leave the fourth floor!

I can’t leave. This place is so dark. If this world has no door, does this mean the world has no despair?

I can’t do it anymore! Eat! Eat! Eat!

The testers were horrified by the words. They could see a mad woman scratching her nails on the walls, ignoring her broken nails and fingers.

“What is the door?” Xu Deyi silently recorded everything to share with Gao Ming later. The room was not big. There was nowhere to hide. Zhi Ge and Xu Deyi looked around, “Where is the fourth room?”

The two looked at each other before turning to the curtain. Xu Deyi removed the dirty and stinky curtain uncertainly. The windows of the other rooms were bricked up. However, there was a normal wooden door behind the curtain in Room 4009. It looked so normal that Xu Deyi didn’t feel any danger from it. “Is this door the source of all the tragedies? This is different from what I anticipated. I thought his grandfather would appear to stop us!”

Hearing that, Zhi Ge was certain Xu Deyi hadn’t been swapped. “Shut your mouth. Do you really want that to happen?”

He took out the Key of Hatred. The colour was deeper than the others. Xu Deyi took a lot of time before he managed to slip the key into the hole.

He turned the key, and the door opened. The wind and snow fell on Xu Deyi’s face. He looked at the winter outside the door, and he was stumped.

“Where is the fourth floor?”
“Outside?” Xu Deyi shivered. “What am I supposed to tell Gao Ming?”

“No. Something must be wrong.” Zhi Ge scratched his head.

Yao Yao stared at the snowflakes that fell on her palms. The crystal-clear flakes had turned murky. The snow looked a bit red. “Look at the east lake!”

This door faced the east lake. When the door opened, all the hairy rooms on the fourth floor opened. The hair and scales weaved together. Fish with human faces swam through the walls. They tried to escape from the manor and return through the open door to the lake.

Xu Deyi couldn’t even tell if the things on the wall were humans or fish. At the key moment, ZHi Fe saw the words behind the door, “You need to prepare enough sacrifice after opening the door. The sacrifice includes lives, memories and obsessions. Miss out and they will target you.”

“The earlier three rooms correspond to the owner’s life, memory and obsession. We have already started the ritual!” Zhi Ge smacked his leg. “Fuck! All the clues have been telling us. The fish they ate came from the east lake. In this middle-level nightmare, the east lake is the last door! The fish in the lake is the ghost they ate!”

The snow fell into the manor. Room 4009 started to change.

Zhi Fe gripped the doorframe and looked out. Bai Feng and the red woman ran towards the east lake. In the forest, Gao Ming sat on the shoulder of a giant doll. Qian Jin carried the hunting rifle as he carried a headless corpse on his back. A bulging bag swung from his waist.

“Qian Jin has the rifle?! The owner hasn’t left the manor. He has possessed Qian Jin’s body. He used Qian Jin to trick those hikers!” Zhi Ge gritted his teeth. “So we are the ones…”

“What are we?” Xu Deyi couldn’t see clearly.

“How am I at the same level as you?” Zhi Ge didn’t even untie Yao Yao. He picked up the axe and ran out. “Quick! I know where the exit is!”