Ghost Story Game Designer

Chapter 498 Mid-Level Nightmare
"Sorry, I'm late."

After identity recognition, Gao Ming entered the Yongsheng Pharmaceutical Experimental Warehouse. In addition to him, there were already six people standing near the gathering point, including Xu Deyi and Jiang Miaomiao's idiot brother.

"You have no sense of time." The complaint was rang out from a woman wearing purple glasses frames. She was dressed like a secretary of some boss, with a small suit, a tight skirt, black stockings, and high heels. Although she had a good figure, her looks were average, and she could only rely on the glasses frames to cover up the disharmony of her facial features.

The woman with glasses stood with two other people. The three of them seemed to be a team and often worked together to perform testing tasks. These team combinations were very common in brain games.

"Three newcomers?" The sturdy man who was standing next to the woman with glasses frowned slightly. He barely concealed his disgust in his eyes. He looked down at Gao Ming and the fool with a condescending look: "It's not easy to make money this time."

"Once you three enter the game, don't run around. You must obey orders." Another tall and thin young man in the three-person team spoke up. His tone was unfriendly, but his attitude towards the newcomers was acceptable: "We are going to enter the middle level of nightmare this time. Compared with the shallow nightmare, there is a risk of never being able to return, so you must cheer up and be extremely careful!"

The elevator leading to the underground made a sound and Tang Qing, who was in uniform, walked out. He looked very sleepy, as if he had not slept well in the past few days.

"This way, follow me!"

After bringing everyone into the elevator, they watched the numbers on the display screen change from 1 to 18, and then slowly turned to 4.

"Your underground laboratory has a total of eighteen floors? Have you dug out the area under the warehouse?" Xu Deyi himself was very averse to participating in brain experiments, but he really needed money. It is not easy to get involved in gangs nowadays. People have a strong sense of the rule of law. Forget about collecting protection fees. It would be good if they were not blackmailed.

"That number is just a lie." The young man in the three-person team explained, "Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals doesn't want us to know which floor we are going to."

Tang Qing smiled and did not explain.

When the elevator door opened, the light outside was very dim. It was indeed different from the test site that Gao Ming had entered last time.

"What you are going to enter this time is the brain of a 'voluntary donor.' He suffered from a very strange brain disease during his lifetime. He cannot see doors and narrow unlit passages." Tang Qing led the way, explaining as he walked.

"Can't see the door?" Xu De came behind Gao Ming unknowingly. He knew very well that this person was the real big shot.

"Yes, the doors and passages can cause him to have pathological reactions. The doctors treating him haven't figured out the reason, but one thing is certain, the nightmares produced in that child's brain are definitely not shallow. He fantasizes about all kinds of doors. After research and speculation, we even suspect that one of them is a door leading to a deep nightmare." Tang Qing's words aroused Gao Ming's interest. Gao Ming was probably the only one present who wanted to enter the deep nightmare more than Tang Qing. He was eager to experience the horror of a deep nightmare.

The lights came on, and Tang Qing and his team came to area B11. It was dark and damp here, and was surrounded by thick blackout curtains. When no one came here, it was almost completely dark.

"Keep your voice down. The child's caretaker has a bad temper." After lifting the thick curtain, a bed was placed in the dark, and a skinny young man was lying on it. His head was stuck in the wall, and his body was outside the wall, which looked extremely weird. The brain game testers could only see the young man's body, and could not see what terrible things Yongsheng Pharmaceutical had done to the child's head. In order to eliminate the possibility of being seen, they directly separated the young man's head into another room.

Standing by the bed, Tang Qing said nothing. The indicator lights on the wall instrument changed several times. Until all the signals turned green, the tightly closed wall moved to the left, and an old man with a work ID card walked out from behind the wall.

He has sunken eye sockets and eagle eyes, and it feels very uncomfortable to be stared at by him.

"Uncle Zen, I've brought the testers here. We've applied for the qualification to enter B11's brain game." Tang Qing was very humble, just like when he met Director Li before.

When Zen Bo confirmed the qualifications of several people for the test, Tang Qing smiled and introduced them to Gao Ming and others: "This is the person in charge of Area B, Director Chan Yiqiu. He has a lot of experience in mid-level nightmare research."

After confirming that there was no problem, Director Chan waved his hand, and Tang Qing dared to lead a few people into the passage behind the wall.

The dark passage seemed to have no end. Xu De felt anxious as he walked. However, the three-member team that the woman with glasses was in did not react much.

"All of you have experienced entering a middle-level nightmare, but I still want to say a few more words. The biggest difference between a middle-level nightmare and a shallow nightmare is the difficulty of waking up. You must first figure out whose nightmare it is in the nightmare, and then find out why the nightmare occurs. The process of exploring the dream is also exploring the life of the dream owner." Tang Qing was worried that Gao Ming would cause more trouble, so he whispered a reminder: "Newcomers should never act alone. The more people there are, the safer it is."

"How much money can we get from this test?" Xu Deyi asked a more practical question.

"Because this is a brain area that no one has ever entered, if you can find the exit to leave the dream and leave smoothly, you can get a basic reward of 5,000 yuan. The more valuable the information you provide after you come out, the richer the reward you will get." Tang Qing admired Xu Deyi's character very much. People who are greedy for money are the easiest to be driven and controlled.

"That's not right! Before we entered the brain game, Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals would provide us with detailed information about the owner of the dream. Why didn't they give us any clues this time?" The woman with glasses was very careful, and she felt that something was not right.

"This donor's brain is quite special. It took us a long time to build the brain game channel, and we only succeeded recently. You are the first batch to enter, so there is very little information to provide. As for the donor's medical records and consultation records, we have entered them into your communicators." Pausing, Tang Qing touched the wall. A safety protection device similar to the last test was hung on the wall: "Everyone, please put on the protective equipment here, and then keep going forward."

Tang Qing went from being the leader of the team to the tail end. He also enthusiastically helped Gao Ming put on his helmet: "Jiang Miaomiao's idiot brother is in a very similar situation to you. He also woke up after being in a coma for a long time. After entering the nightmare, please take care of him. We will provide you with some extra rewards."

"You don't have to tell me. I will protect him." Gao Ming seemed to suddenly remember something: "By the way, do you have a researcher named Tang Ling here?"

"My sister's name is Tang Ling." Tang Qing was a little surprised: "She is in the Level 5 confidential laboratory. We haven't seen each other for several months."

(End of this chapter)