Horror Game Designer Chapter 74: Faces

The blood vessels pierced Gao Ming’s body. He felt the pain from his memory, and he screamed loudly. Then, his body collapsed behind the figurine. It felt like his blood was being drained by the figurine drop by drop. This scene scared the neighbours. Then, something else happened that shocked them even more. At this moment, a woman with four mouths opened. She opened the front door and sent Zhao Xi out of Building 2.

“One will be sacrificed, and the other will be let out of the building?!” Wang Kuishang was surprised by this. Without hesitation, he picked up An An and ran downstairs. “I want to sacrifice this child! Let me go!” Fear Illness pressed on his every nerve. The pressure weakened Wang Kuisheng’s knees. He tossed the weak An An at the figurine.

The bloody arms grabbed An An. The face that represented the Life Shape glared at him. Gong Xi’s sewn mouth slowly opened, “You. Should. Die.”

The other arms grabbed Wang Kuisheng. The flesh on his body started to wilt. His scream echoed in the building. The faces of all the neighbours paled. Gao Ming, on the ground, slowly opened one eye. He didn’t control Gong Xi. The God of Flesh and Blood did everything on its own.

The bones cracked. Wang Kuisheng’s twisted body fell to the ground. Auntie Busybody clapped her hands and closed the front door after letting An An out. She walked over with her four mouths smiling, “You’ve already conducted the sacrifice twice. We’ll have one extra rule now. Zhao Xi is escaping, but he hasn’t walked far. You can call him from the second-floor balcony. You can use any method. If any of you can make Zhao Xi come back, you can take his place and escape. After that, a new round of sacrifice can begin.”

Auntie Busybody loved the job Gao Ming gave him because everyone had to listen to her. “Zhao Xi might be killed after he came back. The person who called him back will be the killer. Therefore, you better think about this.”

After the new rule was revealed, Li Li was the first to rush to the second-floor balcony. She opened the window and shouted Zhao Xi’s name. The neighbours crowded around the window. They all united to trick Zhao Xi into coming back. They even united their lies and said that there were stronger ghosts outside the building. They said that the real exist was inside the building.

Zhao Xi, who was outside, heard Li Li’s voice. He stopped and looked back.

“Brother! Don’t go! What will happen to your mom and me after you leave?” Ever since Li Li married into this family, for the first time, she called Zhao Xi her big brother.

The other neighbours rushed out to the balcony and shouted nonstop.

“Come back! The ghosts are outside! You’ll die if you don’t come back!”

“Zhao Xi!”

Standing outside and looking up, Zhao Xi had never seen his neighbours being so ugly before. He was honest but not dumb. Something in his heart broke when he and Gao Ming were shoved down the stairs. The wound on his body could heal, but not the one on his heart. Zhao Xi saw An An being released from the building. He held An An’s hand and prepared to leave.

“Zhao Xi!” Li Li grabbed the balcony rails. Her voice was shrill, but she couldn’t change anything.

“If you don’t want your sister-in-law and mother to be sacrificed, come back now!” The quiet Fang Shuqi suddenly grabbed Li Li’s hair. He shouted, “They will have a fate worse than death!”

To get Zhao Xi to come back, the neighbours lost their minds. A few of them pushed Zhao Xi’s mother to the balcony. No one cared about Zhao Xi’s life. The only one with some humanity was Zhao Xi’s mother. She hadn’t said anything. Influenced by Fear Illness, the neighbours lost their minds. The ghosts didn’t hurt them, but they started to harm Zhao Xi’s mother and Li Li.

“Zhao Xi, come back!”

Auntie Busybody said that the sacrifice could only continue after Zhao Xi returned. The neighbours saw how Gao Ming and Wang Kuisheng died. They were also envious because Zhao Xi got to leave alive.

The blood dripped on the window net. Zhao Xi took a few steps and stopped. He smiled at An An. He took out the paper frog from his pocket and handed it to An An. Finally, he turned around.

“Stop!” Zhao Xi turned to Building 2, “I’m coming back.”

Hearing Zhao Xi’s voice outside the building, Gao Ming shook his head. This was the second chance he had given the neighbours. If they were willing to let Zhao Xi go, Gao Ming would give them the chance to live as well. Zhao Xi returned to the building. His neighbours’ eyes were bloodshot.

Room 2409’s Fang Shuqi grabbed the sharp glass shard and looked at others with alert. Room 2501’s Huang Mingming and Room 2607’s Jiaqi stood together. They had already formed a union. The Fear Illness became more serious. Illusions kept hounding them. They wanted to escape like crazy.

“It seems like the new round of sacrifice can only start once the person who survived the previous sacrifice comes back.” Fang Shuqi panted. “In that case, we can just select all the sacrifices in one go. We’ll save a lot of trouble.”

“In other words, half of the tenants will leave, and the other half will die.” The tenants with strong physiques started to gather. People like Zhao Xi’s mother and Li Li were abandoned. People were naturally unwilling to be the sacrifice. The verbal argument escalated into fights. Warm blood flowed on the stairs. The Life Shape of the God of Flesh and Blood became clearer. He and Gao Ming looked at the surreal scene inside the building. The people who once sacrificed Gao Ming to ghosts started to fight each other. They never thought about resisting the ghosts, just like in the past.

Dead people couldn’t be sacrificed, so the fight became a hide-and-seek. Humans were hunting humans. Gao Ming didn’t intervene. He wanted Zhao Xi to see these people’s true faces and hoped that Zhao Xi would only help those who deserved it in the future.

Naivete couldn’t save the world. Only those who crawled out of hell had the right to build their own heaven. The tenants fought each other to the top floor. The first person who was not affected by Fear Illness showed up, Room 2707’s Yao Yuan. The retired police academy teacher didn’t want to fight. He took up his club to help the weak and wounded, but he didn’t know that he was also one of their target sacrifices.

“It’s time to end this.”

The dead neighbours turned into shadows. Their life was sucked away by God. Gao Ming didn’t even do much. He saved Zhao Xi, Yao Yuan and Zhao Xi’s mother from the crazy mob. Gao Ming learned a lot from his first horror game. After the God of Flesh and Blood returned to his heart room, his physique improved. Gao Ming also figured out how the four faces worked. Life Shape could absorb people’s life force; Death Shape could become stronger through murder; Desire Shape could manifest people’s desires. Zhao Xi’s adopted mother was the only one who really trusted in the God of Blood and Flesh. She was old and had no one to rely on. She had to place her hope in God. Her body started to mutate, and she couldn’t leave the shadow world anymore; The last Sin Shape was still blurry. It was probably used to deal with ghosts.

After knowing all that, Gao Ming was more confident in dealing with Situ An.

“Everything is changing.”

Shadows surrounded him. Gao Ming could feel that the shadows didn’t reject him as much as before. In the past, he was standing between the shadow and reality. However, he had made a choice so the shadow world gave him the reward.

At the location where Teacher Yao disappeared, there was a new death portrait. The content was different from the one Gao Ming saw last time.