Horror Game Designer-Chapter 665: Whale Song
“Be careful! We might be in the inner world!” No. 2 warned loudly. Gao Ming felt anxious. He and God of Flesh and Blood were under an inexplicable pressure.
“It seems to come from above.” He raised his head and saw a giant shadow hidden in the mist. The faceless figurines grabbed the door. They also sensed something and raised their heads.
“Don’t care what it is. Just go for it!” This was the first time Gao Ming encountered the horror of soul decay. His eyeballs were about to leak out of his sockets. Even colours faded from his memory. Ever since the God of Flesh and Blood recovered his body, this was the first time Gao Ming couldn’t heal his wounds. Even God’s power could only delay the rot. The God of Flesh and Blood exited the torture room. Gong Xi’s face looked at Gao Ming nervously. His hands cradled Gao Ming like a baby. The other three faces glared viciously at the decay figurine. If Gong Xi’s humanity hadn’t been there to stop them, they would have already charged at it.
“Go high!”
The anxiety in his heart intensified. The God of Flesh and Blood was like a fish being caught in the sea of mist. Gao Ming couldn’t withstand the attack from three Unmentionables. However, the good news was that the figurines were too fragile to sustain the full power of an Unmentionable. Once the Unmentionable attacked without holding back, the figurine they occupied would crumble.
“I need someone to help me shoulder the pressure, even if just from one Unmentionable.” Gao Ming had considered throwing No. 2 out as bait, but No. 2 kept sending him signals that it wouldn’t work.
Gao Ming and the God of Flesh and Blood raced towards the source of their anxiety. They parted the last bit of black mist that blocked their vision. The scene they saw was shocking.
Deep in the endless sea of black mist floated an island of extreme loneliness and pain. Every stone was etched from the curse deep in one’s memory. The small sand contained deep hatred and death. This island continuously absorbed negative emotions from the black mist world, becoming more and more dangerous.
“Something is moving on the island!”
The island appeared to be a taboo. Once he got closer, Gao Ming saw many figurines of deformed children. The statues didn’t appear to be made by hands. Instead, they were formed by the erosion of wind and water. They seemed to be part of the island. The shadow under his feet spread. The black dog became abnormally excited. He howled at the island. He didn’t show fear. If anything, it felt like he had seen home. Memory flashed by his rotting brain. When he first encountered the black dog in the shadow world, he had seen this island. For people and ghosts with deformities, this island appeared to be their anchor. It enjoyed their respect and in return, the island presented them with some kind of power.
“Does this island represent the rules of all the disabilities in the human world?” Gao Ming reacted quickly, but No. 2’s expression was more accurate.
“It seems to represent regret and the power to master regret. It is like the missing moon of the inner world.”
As Gao Ming was about to reach the island, the figurine that controlled the power of falsehood made its move. The Blood City Tattoo appeared on the figurine and quickly disappeared. The next moment, Gao Ming’s Blood City Tattoo started to mutate. The ghost tattoo drilled into his skin. However, Gao Ming didn’t feel any discomfort.
“Be careful! The figurine that controls falsehood is attacking you! He will use illusions to trick you! If you don’t detect the fake, your life will move towards a fake future, and the fake will become real!” No. 2 shouted hurriedly, “That was how I was ambushed! Do not believe what happens next! The one who attacks you is the fake figurine…”
No. 2’s voice faded away. Gao Ming’s ears rotted away, and he couldn’t hear anything.
His consciousness was obscured by something. Even his Blood City Tattoo was being silently edited. He didn’t sense any danger other than the creeping corruption of rot!
His limbs dissolved into blood. Gao Ming’s eyes, ears and nose decayed. He wanted to say something, but he only coughed out his internal organs. He couldn’t even tell what they were. The island was so close but so far away.
His soul decayed fully. His heartbeat slowed down. He struggled to the surface of the sea but was knocked down by bigger waves. The smell of meat was replaced by the stench of rot. The scream of the God of Flesh and Blood came from his heart. Gao Ming could sense his pain through their connection.
“Have we reached our limits?”
Drown in the screams of the God of Flesh and Blood, Gao Ming saw for a moment the three Blood Cities that were above them. They exuded endless evil and crushed all the possibilities in the world. To make things worse, there were six more Blood Cities behind the existing three. They stared coldly at Gao Ming like the latter was a dead body.
“The killers who destroyed Han Hai Blood City will never allow new changes to come to Han Hai. We are doomed to be trapped in a cage to be studied forever. We’re destined to kill each other in the shadow…” 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮
The enemy’s strength was far beyond Gao Ming’s prediction. The nine Blood Cities turned Han Hai into a giant grave. Each Blood City contained at least one Unknowable, but Han Hai didn’t even have that many Dream Ghosts. This was a war they couldn’t win.
“I have failed, but I still have a chance!”
Gao Ming had one last trump card. He didn’t know if he would succeed. As the God of Flesh and Blood’s skull was about to be taken over by decay, Gao Ming and the God grabbed their hearts at the same time. After their hearts were crushed, they had a chance to return to where it all started!
They would return to the tunnel. Gao Ming would become another wandering soul!
“I will be the killer who hunts myself! I’ll stop all the Gao Mings who don’t have enough power from leaving Han Hai! I’ll do that until the next Gao Ming is powerful enough to break this cycle!”
Just as Gao Ming and the God of Flesh and Blood were about to kill themselves by demolishing their hearts, the black mist churned like the sea. A whale song came from the island.
