Ghost Story Game Designer

Chapter 496: Imperfect reality, but so beautiful

Gao Ming didn't know whether the helper the female clerk was referring to was the toilet doctor or himself. He just thought that the female clerk looked in a good mood.

"I have completed your interview task. Now can I meet the boss?" Gao Ming talked with the toilet doctor for a long time in his dream. He felt that the mysterious boss might know something.

"The boss is still out of town handling some matters and can't come back for the time being." The female clerk held her chin and looked at Gao Ming again.

The owner of a haunted house always goes out of town to handle things. In an era when information transmission is so convenient, he can't even tell Gao Ming a complete sentence. Is the boss really just "out of town"?

Gao Ming did not continue to ask. In a situation where the strength was not equal, if the other party did not want to speak, it would be impolite to keep asking.

"Before the boss comes back, you will work with me first. Fill out these forms when you are free. We need to know your psychological limit." The female clerk and Gao Ming added each other's contact information and stuffed the bloodstained newspapers back into Gao Ming's hands: "No matter where you go in the future, you'd better take these newspapers with you."

"why?"

"It doesn't take up any space anyway." The female clerk had not revealed her own information until now, nor did she invite Gao Ming to enter the Ninth Sensory Experience Hall: "Okay, I'll tell you the specific working hours and work content next time. Go home and wait for notification."

"Is this the end? Does that mean I've successfully joined the company?" Gao Ming didn't expect that the female clerk would just let him go home.

"You need to undergo professional training to join the company, but don't worry. The boss will definitely not let you go if you are such an excellent employee. Just wait patiently. He will come to you in person sooner or later." The female clerk had a strange expression when she said this, with a hint of excitement and anticipation, and a feeling of watching the fun and not minding the trouble. "If you really don't want to go home, I don't mind giving you a private lesson. There's no one in the store anyway."

Gao Ming could clearly hear the screams in the experience hall, but the clerk said that there was no one in the store. He frowned and shook his head: "I'll wait for your notification."

Turning and entering the elevator, Gao Ming stood facing the Ninth Experience Hall. At the last moment before the elevator door closed, he saw the female clerk seemed to have torn open the sutures on her neck and fiddled with her head.

"Contact person...contact person?"

The numbers on the elevator display kept changing, and Gao Ming's mind was filled with various thoughts: "The world I saw while I was unconscious is definitely related to Yongsheng Pharmaceutical. After all, I used their latest technology. As long as I continue to participate in their brain game tests and gradually increase my authority, I should have a chance to figure everything out."

After leaving the hospital and living with Liu Yi, Gao Ming gradually returned to reality. The scenes in the nightmare were constantly forgotten. This was an irreversible process, but he did not expect to recover some memory fragments in the Magic City Mental Hospital. Now he was entangled with the nightmare again. As soon as he closed his eyes, he seemed to be able to see himself dying tragically.

"Death? Rebirth? Loading? Loop?" Gao Ming couldn't understand and couldn't figure it out.

Gao Ming arrived at the station in a daze and sat silently in the waiting room, missing several intercity trains. When it was almost dark, he stopped thinking and took the express train leaving the smart city.

"The new Shanghai smart city was built a long time ago, but people have not seen the technological explosion they imagined. It seems that some force is interfering with everything, and everyone seems to be restricted."

The scenery outside the window changed rapidly, from tall buildings to dilapidated old apartments in just an hour's drive.

Like Gao Ming, many people working in the smart city take the bus back to the old city after get off work. They look tired and numb, as if they are trapped in their own cage.

Gao Ming quietly pressed the intercom that he kept close to his body, and took out the bloodstained newspapers and started reading: "All of them are murders that happened decades ago. Most of the victims were related to toilets. Some were flushed into toilets with their bodies cut into pieces, and some were strangled in the bathroom bathtub. Why is that toilet doctor so obsessed with toilets?" The express train was about to arrive at the station, and Gao Ming put away the newspapers so that Liu Yi would not worry: "I got several things when I went out today, but I always feel like something is missing?"

Gao Ming subconsciously reached behind him and suddenly stood up from his seat: "My cat!"

Before playing in the haunted house, Gao Ming deposited the cat bag at the payment office of the Magic City Lunatic Asylum and forgot to retrieve it when he left.

The arrival signal sounded and Gao Ming was pushed out of the station by the crowd. He stood between the dilapidated buildings in the old city with a wry smile on his face.

Gao Ming kept thinking about things related to nightmares in his mind and ignored the reality. It seemed as if there was a voice telling him that he was surrounded by love and care, so why did he turn back and run into the darkness?
If you don't cherish the happiness you have, it will be too late to regret when it is destroyed.

I quickly called the Magic City Lunatic Asylum. The staff was very nice. They were very impressed with Gao Ming and said that an employee had already delivered the cat to Gao Ming.

His heart dropped back into his stomach. Gao Ming rode a shared bike to the flower shop and the vegetable market before heading home.

Gao Ming walked through the low-rise apartment buildings and smelled the fragrance of food as soon as he entered the corridor. His tense nerves relaxed at this moment. This shabby and crowded corridor gave him a special sense of security.

After opening the door, the fatigue in Gao Ming's eyes was melted by the warm light. But the next moment, he took back the step he had taken.

There was a strange woman standing in the living room. She looked less than 20 years old, with a childish and shy expression, but a tall and slender figure. Her face was slightly allergic, as if due to long-term use of low-quality cosmetics.

Seeing Gao Ming coming back, the woman felt even more uneasy and accidentally kicked the empty cat bag next to her.

"Who are you?"

"I'm the ghost in charge of your single line. I'm here to deliver the cat. You can just call me Winter Melon." Seeing that Gao Ming hadn't remembered yet, the woman crossed her hands behind her back and made a very twisted posture.

Just at this moment, the kitchen curtain was lifted. Liu Yi heard the door open and looked out with a spatula in hand. She saw Donggua with a twisted and deformed posture and Gao Ming with blood on his hair and cheeks standing opposite each other.

Donggua's face turned red immediately. It was too embarrassing to pose without makeup outside the haunted house.

"You still remember to go home? You've had too much fun, right? You even don't want the cat I gave you." Liu Yi had a busy day, but when she got off work she found Gao Ming was not at home. She bought some vegetables and prepared to make something delicious for Gao Ming, but halfway through, a strange woman came to her door with a fortune in her hand.

"I went to an interview for a job." Gao Ming showed Liu Yi the form that the female clerk asked him to fill out. While Liu Yi was looking through it, Gao Ming took out the flowers he bought from the flower shop and put them in the empty vase on the dining table. "When I came back, I stopped by the supermarket and bought your favorite food. You can take a rest for a while. I'll cook."

Looking at the densely packed terms and conditions and the haunted house recruitment form on the phone, Liu Yi looked at the blood stains on Gao Ming's hair and cheeks. In her eyes, Gao Ming seemed to have been running around for an entire afternoon and had suffered a lot of injustice.

Yeah, how could you get yourself into such a mess by going to a haunted house to play games?

(End of this chapter)