Horror Game Designer

Chapter 210: Prices

The training room darkened. The newbies ran towards the only exit in the chaos. Zhang Lian gripped the bleeding knife and looked at her ‘colleagues’ with a grin.

“In the future, I won’t need to listen to your complaints anymore. You also don’t need to worry about me limiting your freedom. You can do anything you want to do. The only payment I ask is for me to murder you.

“You have to be in a heightened emotional state to ensure that the sacrifice is fresh. I want you to breathe but not too loudly. Hide your pain in your hearts. I need your hearts to tremble with my steps.

“Are you ready?”

The bleeding knife tapped against the wall. Zhang Lian whistled as she narrowed her eyes and walked between the shadow and the light. With each tick of the minute hand, darkness would take a giant step forward.

“That is not our teacher! He is not Fu San!”

“He is a ghost!”

Holding his wound, Xiao Yong felt foolish about his earlier actions, “No wonder Fu San told us an anomaly would happen inside the centre. He is the ghost!”

“The ghosts want to take on the east city investigation centre directly! Their goal is the investigation centre!” Wang Hu’s voice appeared in the crowd. Everyone was so busy escaping that no one realised what was wrong until Xiao Yong asked, “Wang Hu? Haven’t you left already?”

“Yes. But I realise I can’t leave.” Wang Hu sounded embarrassed as he pointed at his lower body, “My butt and legs have become part of the painting. I’m not a human anymore.” Waving the knife he had, Wang Hu’s upper body swung about. “Come and join me!”

Xiao Yong narrowly escaped the attacks as he pushed the people around him away. “Run! Wang Hu has been possessed too!”

“I’m still human. Xiao Yong, come into the painting and see for yourself! Haha!”

The newbies scattered about. When they were inside a real anomaly, they realised how scary ghosts were.

The whistling followed them closely. Zhang Lian held the knife in her left hand and touched the wall with her right. Blood oozed out of her fingers. The blood connected with the drawings on the wall. Portraits of the newbies appeared on the wall. Xia Yang drew these in the morning. After he ate the art teacher’s resentment room, he gained her power as well. Once he finished drawing someone, he could trigger the sin within that person’s heart and turn them into murderous puppets. The art teacher’s resentment room had other powers, but Xia Yang only found this interesting.

“Since Gao Ming has pushed everyone’s resentment room into the flood, I have to find a path for myself. If the rules I drew could become the real rules, what can threaten us at Han Hai? I’m doing this for us. Gao Ming, get more people to move into our heart.”

Explosions echoed inside the building. Portraits of the investigators appeared on the wall.

…

“Emergency! The east city investigation centre is under attack! The ghosts’ target is the centre flag!”

The messages from the black band shattered the silence. The reinforcement from the north city investigation centre wanted to give up Springs Apartment. However, as they tried to retreat, the apartment door opened, and two newbie investigators stumbled in with tears running down their faces.

“Please, help us!”

The beautiful female student with many limbs crawled on the ceiling, and the red eyes blinked behind the security camera. Li Chun slowly opened the curtain of his room. Instead of light, darkness seeped in.

“Why are you leaving so soon? So many scapegoats are my tenants. They need more beautiful clothes to wear.”

…

“Hi. We’ve received orders that the anomaly has appeared at the east city investigation centre.” Wei Dayou appeared in the centre uniform. A whole team followed him.

“You are…” The guards were confused, and then they were consumed by darkness.

“We’re here to take over your job.” Wei Dayou led his team to guard the main street leading to the east city investigation centre.

More and more people gathered at Queens 13th Street. Some of the adults with the student council badges shouted in the crowd. Each of them was a master manipulator. They knew how to make use of human weakness to release the animals into the human souls.

“Uncles, is Situ An that important?” Inside the transportation building at Queens Street, Wang Jie looked at his two well-equipped uncles. After knowing what happened to Wang Jie, his grandfather and uncles instantly mobilised their power. His two uncles led security members to enter the east city to detain Situ An.

“Situ An is the bridge between the two worlds. He is the key to the shadow world for some big shots at the headquarters. When Situ An is around, the infiltration of the shadow world can be controlled. We can slowly direct the shadow world to infiltrate the real world to understand its mechanism.” Wang Jie’s youngest uncle revealed a secret.

“Does the higher-up know about what Situ An is doing?”

“They do, but they didn’t expect Situ An to create such a gigantic loophole behind their back.” Standing inside the transportation building, they could still see the growing giant fleshy tree. The tree was standing on the ruins of Han De Private Academy, seemingly holding up the sky.

“Wang Jie, you and your classmates can stay here. Do not leave this building. The headquarters is looking crazily for you.” His other uncle took out a strange device and gave it to Wang Jie, “If you have news of your other students, send them to me. Now, the students of Class 13 are the key to sealing up this tragedy.”

“My classmates are the key? How?”

“You’ll soon see.” His two uncles left. Wang Jie looked out the window. There were people everywhere on Queens Street. It was the busiest part of Han Hai. An unimaginable tragedy might be born that night. There were many forces fighting behind the scenes. However, the headquarters had severely underestimated the horror of the shadow world.

…

“There are 51 students in Class 13. We’ve confirmed the location for 45 of them. Among them, Wang Jie is hiding inside the transportation building. The other troublesome one is Gao Ming. Based on the information we get from the other students, he and Wang Jie are the more special students in class. All the investigators sent by Li San Centre to capture him had disappeared. We now suspect he is hiding in the shadow world!”

The security member reported the file to Jing Tuoshen. The man with the sick beauty crossed his fingers as he stared at Chen Yuntian.

“These 51 people are the 51 seeds the shadow world has spread into the real world. Gao Ming might have already germinated and learned how to control the power of the shadow. Assign a special group and enter Li San. You have to terminate him no matter what!”

“We’re running low on staff. We still have to assign a special unit to deal with him?” The security member hesitated.

“It doesn’t matter how many normal people die in the east city. Our focus is to eradicate the sources of sin!”