Ghost Story Game Designer

Chapter 399 The First Answer
"Gao Ming, I used to admire you very much. I saw myself in you." The corpse puppet's mouth opened and closed, which was very strange. "But after knowing all your secrets, I found that I overestimated you too much. I died so many times and started over so many times before you came to me and imprisoned me in an unsafe way."

Gao Ming stared at the corpse doll calmly without interrupting, letting the other party continue to talk. At this moment, he was trying to determine one thing - was the one controlling the corpse doll the future god? Or was it the real Situ An!
"In every aspect, you are too ordinary. Do you know why Lu Zang chose you in the end?" The corpse puppet forced a smile: "Because he thinks you are easier to control, and he can steal everything from you more easily."

"There are thirteen candidates in the Blood City portrait under the Black Lake. Each of them has a reason to become the new owner of the Blood City. You are the only one who is an exception."

"Your appearance is only to better avoid the investigation of fate. You are just a poor creature who doesn't even know your own name."

"It's really pitiful. Even now, you still use this strange name as your own. Aren't you worried that one day you will be forgotten, and people will only know the code name Gao Ming, but will not remember you at all?"

The words coming out of the corpse puppet's mouth became more and more outrageous. It was not known whether it was because Situ An had been locked up for too long and had a lot of resentment, or if the Future God was controlling him a little too much. Anyway, Gao Ming obtained a lot of information from the other party.

Not all of this information may be true, but as long as some of it is close to the truth, it is worth thinking about for Gao Ming.

"It doesn't matter whether Gao Ming is my name or not. It's enough that I am still myself." As early as when he was in Lishan Hospital, Gao Ming vaguely knew some things through conversations with Lu Zang, but what did it matter?

"Is it not important? How about playing a game with your parents as the stakes?" The corpse's voice was very provocative.

"Do you want to know what your parents are doing? Who are they? Where are they now?" The corpse doll laughed happily, as if a prisoner who had been trapped in a prison for a long time finally escaped and was ready to launch the most hysterical revenge: "Lu Zang must have told you that the vast sea is a huge prison, ghosts are people, and people are ghosts. All your memories of the world outside the vast sea are false, and are what fate wants you to see. In this case, do the parents in your memory really exist?"

Gao Ming narrowed his eyes. He had to admit that what the corpse doll said aroused his emotions.

Even though he died so many times and lost so many things, the only thing he did not give up was the emotions related to his parents.

"I started investigating when Lu Zang chose you, and I discovered something very strange about you. Your parents seemed to have completely disappeared since a certain period of time. I used all the resources in the East District but couldn't find any trace of them in the vast sea. Even the surveillance cameras couldn't capture them. The memories of people related to them also began to blur, as if they were suddenly erased by fate."

"As the investigation continued, I later discovered some more secret things, which Lu Zang would never tell you even if he died."

The corpse puppet's voice sounded very happy, but his face was almost broken.

"You met my parents? They should be just ordinary people, nothing special."

"No!" The corpse puppet said firmly: "Your father and mother are trapped in a place. They can't get out. They can only stop it again and again, and then fail and start all over again."

Gao Ming's face turned gloomy. This was the first time his expression changed significantly since he entered this worst future. "It's not easy to cheat fate. In order to let you deceive fate, Lu Zang set up one loop after another. They are linked together and hide each other, but as long as one link is broken, everything will be destroyed."

The corpse puppet's voice became frantic: "You are a cycle, Gao Yun is a cycle, and the will of the shadow world is a cycle. But all cycles must have a beginning. Where do you think the start button is?"

Gao Ming recalled all his memories, and the beginning of all the loops seemed to be that bus: "A bus on a rainy night?"

"If it were that simple, fate would have discovered it long ago. The real beginning must be secret. The fewer people know about it, the better. Their existence is like a key that will bring you the first change." The voice of the corpse puppet made people feel uncomfortable: "Don't you remember? Every time you have a new beginning, they will appear at a fixed time."

The corpse doll's words made Gao Ming's mind seem to be struck by lightning. After he walked out of the tunnel, he only saw his parents in one place, and that was the first night he returned home!
The weird father and mother would come to bring cakes to me one after another, say some extremely strange words, and show an extremely terrifying and abnormal feeling.

Gao Ming didn’t think there was anything wrong before, but it was not until he gained some of the abilities of the past gods and integrated the memories of all the dead Gao Ming that he truly discovered the problem.

In the first few memories of death, there were not that many fathers and mothers. It seemed that every time I started over, there would be another pair of parents who would stubbornly knock on the door to give me birthday presents.

"In the beginning, there was only one pair of parents. Later, I was still me, but the number of parents kept increasing... Could it be that the me in the past was dead, but each of my fathers and mothers was pursuing something, mistakenly entered the shadow world, and gathered on the same timeline?"

The bodies of every Gao Ming in the past were embedded in the wall, stuck in a tunnel where time had frozen. And every Gao Ming’s father and mother in the past seemed to have never given up on him, always looking for him, until they entered the shadow world, and found him in his home in the shadow world.

Time is in a constant cycle, and behind every death and disappearance of a life, there is a couple trapped in a shadow world of pain and despair.

They weren't stuck somewhere frozen in time, so where had they gone?
As if he had thought of something, Gao Ming's mind emerged with the gift he received at Xiangshengyong Apartment.

In the past, God’s gifts were the most important things in a person’s life, memories that even God could hardly digest.

Gao Ming’s gift was very simple. It was the birthday photo he had received at the beginning. All of his fathers and mothers were by his side, and the black and white figures surrounded the colorful him.

Have they always been by my side?

These thoughts were too crazy. From the time I walked out of the tunnel a few months ago until now, everything was connected by a certain thread. It seemed that there would finally be an answer to Gao Ming's various arrangements.

(End of this chapter)