Horror Game Designer Chapter 65: A Great Start

A loophole appeared in the endless cycle. This was a crack Gao Ming made using endless deaths. He held the dead body’s hand. A black character of Ming was carved into the man’s palm. The memory was returning. Gao Ming instantly turned to leave.

As he walked out, the footsteps suddenly appeared behind him. Gao Ming’s body felt like it was bitten by a beast. He remembered this voice!

“I’ve waited so long for you. You took a vehicle you shouldn’t.”

It was that man’s voice! Gao Ming’s pupils narrowed. Before he entered the tunnel, it was this voice’s owner who killed him! Again and again!

“You’ve combined with a certain thing. I temporarily can’t separate you two. You should die, but I’ll give you a chance to live.” Indescribable pressure knocked Gao Ming to the ground. He was powerless before that voice. At that moment, he didn’t even dare to lift his head because he was afraid of revealing a flaw, letting the other party know that he was different from his earlier variations.

“Everyone’s destiny has been written at birth. The cycle continues. Everything has its own place.

“However, everything is losing control. Ghosts walk the street, and monsters wander among humans. The evil in human hearts will turn the city upside-down. Soon, the games you made based on horror stories will become true. They will crawl out of your rotten memory. The way to weaken them is to have more people play your games. You can help them clear your games, or you can choose to feed them to the ghost stories. Different choices will have different sacrifices and rewards.

“This is fate’s present for you. Take good use of them. Do not let the ghost stories appear.”

The pressure slowly disappeared. A hand pressed down on Gao Ming’s head.

“From now on, your name is Gao Ming.”

Name? Was he the one who gave me my name?

The voice disappeared. Gao Ming knew they were lying!

“Everyone has their script written when they were born. Perhaps the world used to run that way, but is that right?”

The rainwater dripped on his face. The dead bodies retreated into the dark. Gao Ming held his chest and climbed up from the ground. He remembered all the deaths. It was not the games that came out of the rotten memory but his past experience. The nightmare didn’t appear because of him. It was already there.

Gao Ming ran faster towards the tunnel entrance. He had never felt clearer about his purpose. The shackles on his shoulders were broken. His emotions and senses flowed in his blood. Even if he fell many times in the tunnel, he ran like the wind. More wounds appeared on his body, but Gao Ming didn’t care. He was like a bird out of the cage. He flapped his wings. He would rectify all of his regrets.

Weak light appeared at the end of the tunnel. Gao Ming turned towards it. A familiar face appeared. With shoulder-length hair, Xuan Wen was slowly approaching in her black raincoat. The light hit Gao Ming. Xuan Wen stopped. They seemed to have met before. The familiarity was hard to explain.

I appeared because of you, and you came because of me. Even though the ending was set, we had to smile for our transient love.

“Found you.”

Even though this was their first meeting, they had implicit trust in each other. Xuan Wen couldn’t understand this feeling.

“You’re injured. I’ll carry you out.” Xuan Wen’s voice was chilly and scary. She didn’t go there for an encounter but to kill the person who manipulated her mind, the only bug on her. Gao Ming didn’t reject her. He lay on her back. This was his only physical contact with Xuan Wen. The tunnel was long but not never-ending.

The sound of the storm hitting the ground became clearer. Xuan Wen carried Gao Ming to the place where the tunnel met the night sky. She stood in the shadow and took out a knife from her raincoat. She would not hesitate to kill the person who had control over her. She had to kill no matter what.

“I know what you’re thinking.” Gao Ming sat on the ground and looked up at the sky. “You didn’t show up because of my design. You existed before me. Your past created you.”

“Impossible! I wouldn’t like someone I haven’t met!” Xuan Wen walked over with the knife. “I’m a monster born in the dark. I’m different from you.”

“When you opened your eyes, was there a black-and-white picture beside you. It should be a wedding picture of us, right?” Gao Ming took two steps forward until his chest was touching the tip of the knife. “I’ve wondered about this. Why was it a death portrait? Because we’ve died more than once in my past.”

“Died more than once?”

“I don’t know why the portrait would appear in the shadow world but I will find out the truth.”

After a mental struggle, Xuan Wen put away her knife. “I can help you escape this place and bring you home but you have to promise me one thing.”

“A promise?” Gao Ming remembered that he’d promised Xuan Wen one thing every time they left the tunnel, but he had never remembered what it was.

“I have love for you due to some reasons that I can’t control. I can’t shut it off. I can even sense your location at times but I don’t mean to.” Xuan Wen gave her raincoat to Gao Ming, “This twisted love might become worse with time. Therefore, I need you to promise me that no matter what I do, you cannot love me back. You cannot use this power to manipulate me.”

“Is that the promise?”

“If you promise me that, put on the raincoat and I’ll carry you home; If you don’t…” No one knew what Xuan Wen had experienced in the past. She didn’t want her fate to be controlled by others anymore. The storm blew into the tunnel. The icy night poured into the memory.

“I promise you but my brain is damaged so I will suffer from constant memory losses.” Gao Ming told the truth.

“Then I’ll remind you.” Xuan Wen carried Gao Ming.

“Thank you.”

“You’re welcome.”

“Thank you, Xuan Wen,” Gao Ming thanked her again for the choice she made at Si Sui Apartments.

“It’s fine.”

“Thank…”

“Are you done?!”