Horror Game Designer
Chapter 170: Memory

Gao Yun’s voice seemed to carry some special power. His every word stabbed into Gao Ming’s heart like daggers.

“Did I promise to come back to take over from you?”

Death memories collided in the torture room. Gao Ming’s endless deaths and returns to the bus seemed to be connected to a promise he hadn’t fulfilled. Gao Ming swayed as his head pounded. The whirlpool of fate was sucking him in.

“That night ten years ago at the spot where the two worlds overlapped, you needed a living person who existed in the intersection of everyone’s fate to stand in the living world and guide you out of the world of death.” Gao Yun’s eyes no longer shone. His eyes turned murky. “I treated all of you as friends, but I didn’t expect all of you to have turned into monsters in the world of death. I believed you and personally released a bus of polluted devils back into the human world.”

Gao Yun’s every sentence contained a lot of info. Gao Ming’s mind spun quickly. The world of death Gao Yun mentioned should be the shadow world discovered by the investigation centre. The world shrouded by shadow used various ways to corrupt reality. Every student in Class 13 seemed to be a seed planted by the shadow world in the real world.

“Gao Yun, I’ve forgotten many times. However, if I promised to take over from you, I’ll definitely find you after I finish my work!” Gao Ming had already confirmed that Gao Yun was the 51st student in Class 13. However, he still had no impression of Gao Yun. The kid appeared to be forgotten by everyone.

“Find me?” Gao Yun’s eyes numbed. The school uniform he wore started to fade in colour. Then, his body turned blurry as well. “You’ll only come to find me when you need me… like now.” In the corridor, the investigators checked the rooms one after another, but Gao Yun didn’t show any signs of hiding.

“Every student in Class 13 sent you a message. Some hoped you would come, but there were others who warned you to stay away. I don’t mean anything by that. I just want to tell you that humans are complicated, and you can’t treat them as one collection.” Gao Ming couldn’t remember what happened ten years ago at all. The feeling was very painful. Certain things had happened, but he couldn’t remember anything.

“None of you are humans. You are pollution sources sent by the shadow world into the real world. To stop the death world from infiltrating the real world, all of you have to be killed. Those who should die must die, and those who should live must live here alive.”

Gao Yun revealed the method to stop the cycle, but Gao Ming had a different perspective. “Why do we need to stop the world of death from infiltrating the real world?”

This question from Gao Ming gave Gao Yun pause. It made him forget what he wanted to say.

“I mean, think about it. What is the world supposed to be? Fate has paved the path for us, but is it the only path?” Gao Ming walked forward to hold Gao Yun’s shoulders. “I will try to change the current situation but not using the methods fate wants me to use.”

The feeling under Gao Ming’s touch was hard to describe. Gao Yun’s body was like a wax statue melting in the heat. The colours on his body came from the student ID.

“I didn’t expect you to think like that.” Gao Yun shook his head. “You have already been transformed into a monster. All of you are monsters that will pollute the real world!”

“No one wants to be a monster, but we can’t change it. We are forced to become monsters.” Gao Ming wanted to ask about the incident that happened ten years ago on the bus but Gao Yun’s body rapidly disintegrated.

The investigators seemed to sense something as they rushed to Classroom 13.

“It doesn’t matter if fate is right or wrong. I will use my way to survive. This time, I will not return to that abyss of a tunnel.” Gao Yun’s eyes seeped with ink. His pupils dilated, and his expression was scary.

“What do you plan to do?”

“You’ve given me a lesson in social practicals. I’m just returning the lessons back to you so that you can see your real selves. I’ll have you look at your polluted hearts and recall the forgotten, ugly past.” When Gao Yun spoke, the eyes of the other students in the classroom dulled. They crumbled like jigsaw pieces. Their blood morphed into a thick blood fog and rolled out of the rooms. Footsteps approached, and Gao Yun disappeared into the fog. Part of the memory fragments flowed into the student ID. Gao Ming picked up the ID. Gao Yun’s picture appeared on the ID, and his name too.

“I was not conversing with the real Gao Yun. That was just a part of his consciousness hiding in You Liang’s nightmare. Was he waiting for the students here?” Gao Yun could fight Situ An and even have the upper hand. He was not a simple person. Gao Ming suspected that the person’s real name was not Gao Yun but Gao Yuan. It was a strange feeling.

The classroom door was busted down. Two investigators rushed into the room. They looked at Gao Ming standing in the blood mist, “Raise your hands! Don’t move!”

Gao Ming ignored the investigators’ warning. He allowed the mist to soak his body. After it entered his heart, it was swallowed by the God of the Flesh and Blood.

“Gao Ming wanted to use the blood mist to have the students confront their real selves. He wants them to know that they are the pollution sources placed in the real world by the shadow world. However, my situation is special. Compared to a normal pollution source, I am a super pollution source with the God of Flesh and Blood and a heart filled with death memories.” Gao Ming absorbed the blood mist, but he couldn’t stop it from spreading.

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“I couldn’t tell when I lost control of myself.

“It’s a peculiar feeling. Whenever I see blades or even sharp objects, I imagine using them on flesh.

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“Do you know who was my first victim?” Wang Jie stood in blood mist and looked at You De at the corner. He used the end of the blade to tap You De’s forehead.

“It was that doctor. He tried to see the secrets in my heart and used them to threaten me. I was too young to know what to do. Eventually, the doctor told my dad everything. Later, my dad wanted me to personally kill the doctor.”

Wang Jie smiled, “I’m my dad’s son. He said I was his child that resembled him the most.”

A stench radiated from You De. He peed in his pants.

You De also didn’t expect this would happen during class.

Blood mist seeped into Wang Jie’s body. His breathing became heavier. Something in his heart was awakened. Horrible faces in moments of death flashed in his mind, “When did I become like this? I can’t remember. Can you help me remember?”

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