Horror Game Designer

A promise was the contract of the soul and verification of love. For Zhang Mingli, he had to reclaim this promise. It represented his personality.

Fu Shu easily surrendered. He closed his eyes. He had an apology on his face. Zhang Mingli placed his hand on Fu Shu's heart. As his hand reached into the man's body, Fu Shu's body trembled from pain. His face rapidly wrinkled, and his hair turned white. He aged decades in the blink of an eye. In comparison, Zhang Mingli's eyes burned brighter. His soul fire burned. His will shone like the stars. Several breaths later, Zhang Mingli pulled his hand back. He said nothing.

Fu Shu had his old face back. He looked ill and weak. He didn't look like a researcher but more like a mental patient.

"Using one's life to fulfil a promise." Zhang Mingli eventually opened his eyes. They burned with determination. "The thirteen modifications correspond to the thirteen ways one becomes an Unmentionable. I've always been worried that Dream will be reborn through me, so I resist them, but it seems like I don't have a choice anymore."

"If you are hesitant, I can take your place. I don't mind if Dream takes over my body," Gao Ming had learned Dream Release. He had the chance to aid the God of Flesh and Blood to become an Unmentionable.

"The young is always so brave." Zhang Mingli chided Gao Ming and opened the classroom door. This frightened Wan Min and Wan Yang, who were eavesdropping.

"Teacher, are you done?" Wan Min looked at Zhang Mingli nervously. She stole glances at Gao Ming as if trying to confirm if he had really obtained the Dream Release method.

"Yes. If you still want to learn Dream Release, ask him. I have something else to do." Zhang Mingli pointed at Gao Ming. Then, he walked out and crossed the yard to reach the back door. The moment Zhang Mingli left the school, the gardening tools in the yard turned into bloody weapons, the vegetation morphed into creepy ghosts and the bricks of the wall dissolved into curses. They fell onto Zhang Mingli's body like rain. As Zhang Mingli took another step away from the school, the mutation around the school worsened. When he reached the end of the alley, the night-watcher's voice came from the other side of Dream Break Town. "It is San Geng. Stay safe!"

Dream Break Town mutated further. Ghostly fires floated around. Unknown creatures lurked in the dark. There were more howlings and wailings. The figurines hidden in the houses opened their eyes.

"Dad's notes didn't mention any of these." Wan Min looked at Gao Ming with envy. "Congratulations on obtaining the Dream Release method."

"I can teach you, but you have to prepare your own altars." Gao Ming carried Fu Shu back on his back. He tied him to his waist. "Did your father's notes mention this man on my back? His name is Fu Shu."

"Yes. Dad told us to help me if we see him. He is supposedly the best person to inherit Immortal Pharma." Wan Min's heart went out to Fu Shu, who had his limbs chopped off, "They once worked together, but they handled different projects."

"Oh." Gao Ming paused, "What project did your father handle?"

"I only remember him answering a phone call one night, and he never came back home." Wan Yang said he didn't care about his adoptive father, but his memory of Wan Jie was deep.

"We tried our best to raise our confidentiality levels because we want to find our father." Wan Min signalled her brother to shut up. She looked at Gao Ming seriously, "Dad's notes contain many secrets about Immortal Pharma. This company is the true devil. If you work for them, they will eventually eat you and spit you out."

"It sounds like you have a strong opinion about Immortal Pharma." Gao Ming nodded. He prepared to save Bai Feng. When he was at the Xi Residence, Bai Feng helped him to escape. Now that he could protect himself, the first thing he wanted to do was to save Bai Feng.

"We wouldn't dare to." Wan Min shook her head. "You've used the empty altar. We'll seek other methods. Before we go, we'll leave you with a piece of advice. The better you get at mastering the modification methods, the more dangerous your situation will be."

"Why?"

"It's not easy to steal from Immortal Pharma. They have a list of all the testers who have reached level five in confidentiality. They are the company's most precious medicine. They are meant to be used to achieve immortality." Wan Jin's eyes flashed with melancholy.

Gao Ming carried Fu Shu out of the school with Wan Min's words on his mind. He still had many things to do.

"Hey. Stop playing dead. You designed this place. You must know what Xi God's weakness is." Gao Ming said. Fu Shu coughed weakly. "Xi God is the amalgamation of all the joy and happiness from all the nightmares. There are two ways to destroy him. The first is to swallow him with a lot of despair. The second is to help joy and happiness break through their limits to become destruction and madness."

"The upper limit of joy is destruction?!" Gao Ming mulled over Fu Shu's revelation. He targeted Xi God because the despair in his heart was too heavy. He wanted to borrow Xi God's joy to lighten his pain.

"Focus. Someone is coming." Fu Shu looked down the street. "It is now San Geng. I would advise you to stay still."

On the stone road, a large man with a black band wiggled down the path. He crawled with difficulty in the dark. His limbs were as slim as sticks but his stomach was abnormally large. HIs face was covered in cold sweat. His features twisted from fear.

"It was so hard to find the abnormal item required to store the organs. I mustn't die here!"

He continued to crawl. The friction cut his stomach open. Pieces of yellow carvings and hay fell out.

"No. You cannot leave me!"

The thin arms waved wildly. The tester shoved the broken pieces and hay back into the stomach but that only made his wound open wider.

The shadow behind the tester undulated like water. A yellowed human skin silently appeared. A mouth opened in its centre.

The tester sensed something. He turned his neck stiffly and saw the human skin behind him.

"Don't come any closer! I didn't steal your five organs! It was not me!"