Horror Game Designer

Chapter 213: Glob

The inside layout of the east city investigation centre was complicated. Each room radiated a strange presence. The sound of mantra incantation, the singing of children’s lullabies, the breathing from the speakers and the occasional stomping footsteps… This place didn’t feel like the bastion against ghosts but the lair of ghosts. The eyes of the portraits on the wall moved. They watched everyone who passed.

“Is this a horror game?” Yan Lin didn’t believe this at first, but when he was inside the horror game himself, a strong sense of danger, fear, and helplessness bound his heart and soul. He felt like he couldn’t escape. He walked down the corridor carefully. Yan Lin detected the scent of blood in the air. He raised his hand at Su Mo behind him, telling him to stop.

Su Mo, who was inexperienced, couldn’t tell what Yan Lin was doing. He walked to Yan Lin’s side before he stopped, “What’s wrong?”

“There is the smell of fresh blood ahead. If I tell you to run later, run. Do not wander off on your own.” Yan Lin grabbed his gun. He stuck to the wall and slowly nudged forward. His nerves were pulled taut. Yan Lin had never felt so anxious. Everything inside the building made him nervous. Yan Lin turned the corner with his gun pointed ahead. The scary scene he imagined didn’t appear. Under the flicking lights lay a bloody female investigation. Yan Lin slowly approached her. He raised his gun because he realised the female investigator had her eyes fully open. When their eyes met, goosebumps broke out on his beck. He didn’t feel this way even when facing the worst criminal.

“There’s chaos inside the investigation centre. The chief has betrayed us. The ghosts he kept behind our backs are out hunting. Every living human is his toy and food.” The woman said weakly, “Leave. This is not where you should be.”

This proved that they were on the right way. Su Mo observed the investigator. He didn’t think she was a bad person. “What does the ghost look like?”

Yan Lin’s brows twisted together upon hearing that question. The university student asked such a direct question without knowing the person’s background. What if the woman was a ghost?

“The ghost is very good at drawing. The portraits on the wall are all humans. Once he drew you, you would be cursed.” The woman’s face paled. “Can you carry me up? I need to meet up with the rest to warn them!”

Su Mo lowered the rim of his cap to cover his face. Then, he went to pick up the woman, “How shall I call you?”

“Zhang Lian,” The bloody investigator touched her black band to survey the situation inside the building, “They are on the fourth floor!” Zhang Lian walked forward with Su Mo’s aid. Su Mo cooperated with her fully.

With a dry cough, Yan Lin pulled Su Mo to his side, “You suspected me so much earlier. We just met this suspicious woman, and you trusted her?!”

“I don’t trust anyone that easily. Zhang Lian said that her chief betrayed them, and his ghosts massacred everyone. That coincides with the information we have. That proves that she isn’t lying. Currently, the investigators are being chased by ghosts. We have the same enemy, so we can cooperate.” Su Mo tried to keep a calm head. It was hard to imagine that he was still studying trigonometry and solving equations last week.

“That makes me suspicious of you. Are you in the same team as her?” Yan Lin wanted to go off on his own, but he didn’t have the heart to send Su Mo to his death. Therefore, he followed them from a distance. They came to the fourth floor using the stairs.

“Slow down!” Yan Lin looked around carefully, “The walls are no longer covered in portraits but melted corpses. This is too much. The painter must have dissolved a lot of corpses before to be able to showcase the process so clearly.”

Seeing the extremely abstract human shapes, Su Mo couldn’t tell they were human beings at all. He was about to ask when he was reminded of something, “Wait. How are you so familiar with this process?”

Yan Lin wanted to show him his ID, but he forgot to bring it.

“Save me… Is someone there?” A weak plea for help came from down the corridor. Su Mo walked towards the door carefully.

“The voice came from Room 403.” Su Mo tried to push on the door. He looked through the gap in the door. There was an investigator lying not far from the door. Due to the angle, Su Mo could only see the man’s upper body. He didn’t look injured.

“Thank you for coming to save me…” The investigator suddenly whipped his head around. At the same time, brownish-red liquid dripped from the ceiling. ‘Balls’ of the investigators’ bodies fell down. The investigators in the room were melted together. Most of them hid behind the door like a bulbous monster or a sludge.

“I’m so hungry! Let me eat you!” The investigator who was used as bait only had a presentable upper body. His lower body was joined to the monster. He was like the monster’s tail.

Yan Lin shot at the monster, and shouted at Su Mo, “Move!”

The strange blob made from the corpses of the investigators moved quickly. It slid down the corridor.

“This way!” The three ran down the corridor. They bumped into another batch of investigators around the corner of the fourth and fifth floors. Xiao Yong’s friends were trapped inside Room 403. He and the other survivors wanted to go back to take a look. As they turned the corner, they saw Su Mo carrying Zhang Liang.

Xiao Yong thought he was brave, but when he saw Zhang Lian, his legs weakened.

Not only Xiao Yang but all the other newbies were also scared witless. They stopped moving.

“Ghost! The ghost is here!”

“Yes, it’s behind me.” Su Mo saw them and hurried over with Zhang Lian, “It’s a glob of dissolved bodies.”

“The fuck! Stay away!” Xiao Yong didn’t explain. He turned around and ran upstairs with the other newbies. They were already very tired. However, they were forced to cut through their limits. Fear triggered their potential. Since everyone started to run, Su Mo also ran. Yan Lin, who noticed the problem, called him to stop, but Su Mo didn’t listen.

They ran all the way from the fifth floor to the tenth floor. The security members with the red band stopped them. Everyone saw that a bloodred door had appeared on the previously-sealed floor. The door was crawling with blood vessels. A headless door guardian was stuck on it.