Horror Game Designer Chapter 72: Building 2

Gao Ming gave Granny Shen a request he couldn’t reject. Once they killed Situ An, all the problems would be solved. Granny Shen took out a talisman and drew on it. Then, she tossed the talisman into the basin. The strange thing was once the talisman touched the water in the basin, it burned, and the ashes landed in the water.

“This is strange.” Granny Shen chanted and calmed down, “I can help you to a certain degree, but I can’t participate. If I get close to either of you, I will probably die without any chance of reincarnation.”

“You won’t have to kill anyone. I just need you to bring Situ An here when the time is right.” Gao Ming wanted to kill Situ An himself.

“It won’t work. Situ An trusts no one.” Granny Shen put the fragments of the God of Flesh and Blood into a wooden box. “The blood sacrifices have not succeeded before. He has started to lose faith in the God of Flesh and Blood. Compared to Si Sui Apartments, Situ An is more likely to go to other places. He has many bases in the east city. I have no idea what he is up to either.”

Since Gao Ming already had the complete God of Blood and Flesh, certain things had changed.

“This person is quite hard to kill.”

“I can’t directly intervene, but I can return you your things.” Granny Shen bowed at all the figurines and shattered three of them. She took out three red blood talismans. “These talismans might harm you. Take it.”

“Only three?”

“Too many, and it’ll be too much.” Granny Shen had some misgivings. She picked a ring of keys down from the wall. She left Gao Ming to Building A’s basement. Compared to before, the changes to Building A were huge. Previously, every tenant worshipped the God of Flesh and Blood and the basement was filled with restaurants. However, the basement was now a storage floor.

Granny Shen pushed away the trash in the road. She opened the old metallic door. The rust fell off, and a small ancestral hall appeared before them.

“The ancestral hall of the God of Flesh and Blood is hidden here. Over the past twenty years, Situ An has committed many crimes, but he still can’t invoke the real God of Blood and Flesh.” Granny Shen lit the candles, and the light shone on the figurine with four faces and eight arms. “But he has collected a lot of blood food.”

Granny Shen retreated to the side. Without her explanation, Gao Ming slowly approached the figurine. The shadow around appeared to be triggered. The blood vessels bloomed behind Gao Ming like giant flowers. Eight thick arms grabbed Gao Ming. Blood flowed from the figurine to his body. The God of Flesh and Blood in his heart changed. The face that represented the Sin Face became clear. During this process, the tiredness in Gao Ming’s eyes disappeared. He hadn’t slept in a long time, but he was very spirited.

“When the ghost absorbs these things, I will gain some benefits too. This is a good discovery.” Gao Ming’s current goal was to kill Situ An and deal with the East City Investigation Centre. However, he had a longer goal: to see the face of the stranger in the tunnel and try to end the endless cycle. Carrying all those death memories was something very painful. When Gao Ming closed his eyes, he saw himself dying. It was one of the reasons he couldn’t see. After the last blood was drained, the figurine shattered on the altar table. The shadow gathered there started to reject Gao Ming and wanted to chase him out. The shadows faded like the waves. After some time, only Gao Ming, Wan Qiu and the meowing Fa Cai were left inside the tiny hall. When the eight arms crawled out of Gao Ming’s heart earlier, Fa Cai found the best position and played dead until then.

“You were the one who wanted to follow me. Why do you regret it now?” Gao Ming touched Fa Cai’s head. The cat probably had lost weight from being scared. When the last shadow disappeared, there was a new death portrait on the altar table. In the picture, Granny Shen held a staff and stood before the apartment with a serious face. Through the windows, one could see Yuan Yuan and Xian Xian playing in the room, the sneaking Auntie Busybody, Zhou Ji, who carried the kids and a few other black shadows.

“Didn’t Granny Shen say she can’t help me?” Gao Ming turned over the picture. A child’s handwriting was similarly on the back-- Picture of Granny Shen: Granny said there was no one normal in the building, including her and me.

If someone cultivated Si Sui Apartments, it could easily become a Grade 4 Anomaly. Of course, Gao Ming wouldn’t do something so crazy.

“I should be able to make the easier horror games now.” Gao Ming had been meaning to try that after leaving the tunnel. He had never dragged normal people into a horror story before. He would avoid this, but after seeing his many deaths, he had no such reservations anymore.

“A tooth for a tooth.”

After leaving Si Sui Apartment, Gao Ming came to the underground ring again. He found the staff there and left his number. He hoped that he would help him find Yan Hua and his sister. Yan Hua might not exist anymore, but Gao Ming never forgot the promise he made Yan Hua. He would help him find his sister.

Gao Ming got into the taxi. He took out a pen and paper and gave them to Wan Qiu. “We only have one life. Write down everything you want to do, and I’ll help you do them.”

Wan Qiu looked at Gao Ming and picked up the pen. After a long time, he wrote a wish, “I want to eat ice cream.”

“Okay. We’ll go buy two ice creams now!” Gao Ming generously gave Wan Qiu 10 RMB. “Write down anything else you want to do! We’ll have a happy life!”

“I want to see the ocean!”

“We’ll go to see the ocean tomorrow! The south port is very close to us!” Gao Ming patted Wan Qiu’s shoulders. “Don’t hold back. Write everything! Then, we’ll work for them!”

“I don’t want to be bullied anymore!”

“No problem! I will fix Yan Hua’s exercise regime, and we can practise together!”

“I-I want to be in love.” Wan Qiu had a good time with Gao Ming. He stopped stuttering as much.

“You came to the right person. I got my start making dating sims. I’ll make you a romance game in a few days.”

Gao Ming wanted to help Wan Qiu as much as he could. In his memories, Wan Qiu had suffered so much.

They stopped to enjoy a barbeque dinner and then returned to Li Jing Apartments.

Gao Ming called Zhao Xi. He asked Zhao Xi to check on the tenants in Building 2.

Gao Ming sat on the balcony with his laptop. Gao Ming started to design a horror game for Xuan Wen. Based on his many deaths, Xuan Wen was no longer a side character. She was always the first one to come to the tunnel, like she was waiting for someone. Just as the sun was about to set, Gao Ming received Zhao Xi’s message. Everything was ready.

“The horror story meant for Situ An has to go perfectly. I’ll start the beta with you guys.”

Gao Ming closed his laptop. He looked at Building 2 outside his window. He had no pity in his eyes.

There was a broken body inside the tunnel. Gao Ming used the God of Blood and Flesh’s power to see his death memory.

On the fourth week after leaving the tunnel, the tragedy descended. Gao Ming rallied everyone and tried to help all the tenants. In the end, he was betrayed by the tenants of Li Jing Apartments Building 2. They sold Gao Ming to the ghosts.

“I also want to forget the pain of that body being torn apart, but I can’t forget it!”