Ghost Story Game Designer

Chapter 489 Guess what’s behind the door?
As an actor working in a haunted house, Donggua actually felt scared on the stage. She no longer hesitated and climbed out of the classroom, desperately trying to save her life.

Just at the moment of leaving the classroom door, the voice of the central control came from Donggua's Bluetooth headset. The Bluetooth headset seemed to have lost its function just now, and Donggua did not hear the instructions of the central control at all.

"I have to climb farther away." Donggua held onto Gao Ming tightly. She noticed that Gao Ming kept looking back, as if he was still reluctant to leave the classroom. "Is it easy for me to make some money?"

After crawling out of the hidden corridor, Donggua felt a little relieved, and the pressure on his body was relieved: "You should go to the bathroom. Don't do anything unnecessary this time. Our current situation is very dangerous, do you understand?"

"Ah."

"You always agree to it." A battle royale had already started on the first floor among other tourists, and going down now would affect others. After asking the control center in a low voice, Donggua decided to take Gao Ming to the vacant bathroom on the second floor for the second test.

Donggua was not very familiar with the second floor, so for safety reasons, she accompanied Gao Ming for a long time before they found the bathroom prepared for medical staff in a corner of the second floor.

Taking down the "No Trespassing" sign, Donggua pointed to the dark restroom and said, "Questions will appear on the mirror. Just follow your heart and give your answer."

"What if my answer is not innocent enough?" Gao Ming still wanted to take the next step.

"Stop talking nonsense." Donggua pushed Gao Ming into the bathroom. She knew the plot. In fact, it didn't matter what Gao Ming answered. Just be scared. This was the normal process in a haunted house.

After closing the toilet door, Donggua stood up from the ground and whispered into his earphones, "He's in, in the bathroom on the second floor... What? The actor is getting ready in the bathroom on the first floor? Then get him over here!"

It seemed as if bugs were crawling on the sealed window frame, and the toilet floor was wet and filled with a musty smell.

The rusty faucet could not be tightened, and water droplets dripped along the rust, the color was turbid and had bloodshot eyes.

The bathroom on the second floor is unisex, with a total of four separate cubicles. Each toilet stall is separated by a moldy wooden board with all kinds of strange things drawn on the board, including open eyes, snarling devils, surgical experiences and vicious curses.

Just standing there without moving would feel eerie and scary, let alone walking up to the mirror to complete the task.

“It’s very realistic, as if it were really haunted.”

This bathroom with a "No Trespassing" sign on it gave Gao Ming a different feeling from the other rooms in the haunted house. His heartbeat began to quicken as soon as he entered here, as if he was being watched by something.

Unlike a human gaze, the pair of eyes staring at him were chilling to the bone, as if they were dragging him back into the nightmare step by step.

"There's something about the haunted house owner."

Coming to the first sink, Gao Ming wiped the mist off the mirror and silently waited for the problem to emerge, but he stood in the dark for a full minute and no prompt appeared in the mirror.

"Snapped!"

A subtle sound reached my ears, as if the hinge of a compartment's door had turned.

Gao Ming turned around, and when he focused his attention on the cubicle, he suddenly felt someone patting his shoulder.

"Who?" Gao Ming didn't hear any breathing or footsteps. He was sure that there was no one else in the bathroom except him. Looking at the mirror again, Gao Ming found that the person in the mirror was smiling at him. The expression was cold and terrifying, like a twisted murderer, which was completely different from Gao Ming's usual appearance.

"How did you do that?" Gao Ming stared at the face without panic. He reached out and touched the mirror. "Yes, in the nightmare, there seemed to be different me. There was a me like this. He kept killing people. He was crazy, sick, and destroyed everything. He was also me."

Before Gao Ming in the mirror could speak, Gao Ming had already convinced himself and he quickly accepted everything.

Seeing that Gao Ming did not show any fear, he was a little disappointed in the mirror, and said mysteriously: "I don't really exist, I am just a reflection of your heart, I..."

"You are real, and you are also me. There are countless me in this world, and each one is the real me." Gao Ming seriously refuted the voice in the mirror.

"Haha." He in the mirror laughed dryly: "I want to ask you three questions. If you answer all of them, I will give you a gift."

"Just ask."

"What is fear in your eyes? Are you willing to indulge in fear for the sake of others?"

"Yes." Gao Ming nodded without hesitation: "In my opinion, fear is a kind of nourishment. After biting it and swallowing it, the feeling is indescribable, more refreshing than joy and happiness."

Gao Ming, who was smiling in the mirror but not really smiling, was stunned. It seemed that the intelligent AI was searching for the answer: "Second question, are you willing to sacrifice yourself to save all the patients outside? In fact, all of you patients are orphans that the dean once adopted. The lives of all 30 of you children were planned in advance by the dean. The happiness, love, and despair you experienced were all scripts. The dean controlled your fate in order to cultivate the most desperate child and let him become the new owner of the black box when he grows up."

Gao Ming in the mirror had blood flowing from his eyes, and all kinds of scars appeared on his body. His voice was no longer fluent: "There is only one owner of the black box. Now tell me, are you willing to bear all the despair yourself and save the other children?"

"Thirty-one students whose fate is controlled?" Gao Ming muttered to himself. This was obviously just a haunted house plot, but he was really immersed in it.

"It's not right to bear the despair alone. There may be a better way, but I don't rule out saving innocent people." Gao Ming nodded again.

"Very good, third question." Gao Ming's face in the mirror began to change shape, becoming more and more unfamiliar: "The black box is filled with the despair of the entire city. In order to select the owner of the black box, the dean sacrificed a large number of innocent people and made them bear the despair that they should not have to bear. Sacrificing some people, including you, to save the entire city, do you agree?"

"I can only decide my own destiny. I have no right to drag others to die with me." Gao Ming did not answer the third question. He stared at his mouth in the mirror. The sound and the frequency of his lips did not match. He grabbed the mirror frame with both hands and suddenly removed the mirror from the wall.

If the control center of the haunted house saw this scene, they would definitely send someone to stop it. The strange thing is that no staff came to take care of him.

Staring at the line that had long been disconnected due to aging, Gao Ming's expression finally changed. The sound was indeed not coming from the mirror.

"The staff member who likes to crawl around said that questions will appear on the mirror. There is no voice Q&A at all! So who has been talking all the time?" Gao Ming waved towards the location of the surveillance camera. There was no response. He put down the mirror and his eyes were fixed on the four compartments behind him.

"Since you don't want to answer directly, I'll ask you another question." The voice echoed in the darkness: "There is a door in front of you. Guess what's behind it?"

It seemed that the questions just now were not arranged by the haunted house. They were more like a madman's ridicule. Gao Ming narrowed his eyes. He encountered an unexpected situation.

"He's not a staff member of the haunted house. Could it be that the target of the mission I'm looking for has appeared?"

(End of this chapter)