Ghost Story Game Designer

Chapter 516 The Terrifying White Phoenix
The information on the letter connected all the clues together, confirmed what the little girl said, and filled in the last missing piece of the puzzle.

The nightmare owner didn't listen to his grandfather and accidentally released the ghost behind the door. The ghost first exchanged bodies with his sister, and then killed other family members and tourists.

In order to prevent the ghost from continuing to kill people, the nightmare master chose to sacrifice himself and imprisoned the ghost in his own mind. He thus became a vegetable and was tortured by the ghost day and night.

The middle-level nightmare presents everything in a realistic yet absurd way, and every person and object that appears in the dream has its symbol.

"I think I understand, but there is one more thing I need to think about."

"The owner of the house controls the manor and has the key to the hidden room, but he did not destroy the envelope and clues. Instead, he sealed them up. Does he want to use them for something else?"

Normally, before the nightmare host dies physiologically, the ghost behind the door has no chance to escape. Unfortunately, the brain development department of Yongsheng Pharmaceuticals discovered the nightmare host, and every time they sent the tester into this nightmare, it was a chance for the ghost to escape.

"The ghost behind the door once exchanged souls with my sister. He is very likely to use the same method to try to escape from the nightmare."

At first, Gao Ming suspected that the person chosen by the owner of the house was Bai Huang. Bai Huang showed various abnormalities after returning last night, and now appeared in the hidden room wearing the clothes of the nightmare owner's mother. But later he thought that the abnormality of Bai Huang was too obvious, as if she was deliberately telling everyone that she had problems.

"Everyone stay away from her!" Zhi Ge seemed to understand something from the letter and pointed the axe at Bai Huang: "Tell me! Did you deliberately lead us to discover this letter? Don't try to hide it. Qian Jin had already noticed something wrong when he brought you food. The real Bai Huang would never touch anything in a nightmare, but you wolfed down the entire dinner! Who are you? What will happen if you complete the ritual again?"

"I am Bai Huang." The voice was flat and cold. Bai Huang seemed too lazy to explain, and she had no intention of gaining the trust of others.

"Sister Huang, I believe you have not been replaced." Gao Ming suddenly interrupted from the side, causing Bai Huang to look sideways.

"Only by staying skeptical in nightmares can you live longer. Don't be so sure about one thing." Bai Huang looked at Gao Ming with a gentle gaze. If Bai Xiao had not disappeared, he should be the same age as Gao Ming, and their personalities were somewhat similar.

"You are very similar to the Bai Xiao that I know. He is just like you in his nightmares. Except for his sister, nothing can make him compromise." Gao Ming mentioned Bai Xiao, but actually he was talking about Bai Huang. The only ones who could make Bai Huang compromise were Bai Xiao and Bai Qiao.

Bai Huang, who was too lazy to explain, thought for a long time after hearing her child's name, and chose to share the information she had obtained with Gao Ming: "After entering the middle-level nightmare many times, I have developed an intuition that can sense the hidden malice in emotions. At first, I couldn't determine the identity of the owner of the house. I didn't know if he was the owner of the nightmare, but I felt the deep hidden malice from him. Do you remember the first time he appeared? The melodious music echoed in the cold and lonely manor. The owner's eyes were melancholy and painful, just like the male owner in the photo, but if you look closely, you will find that his melancholy is more like imitation, an imitation of pain." "After having this most basic judgment, I began to investigate alone. I went to East Lake last night."

"Among all the middle-level nightmares I've experienced, no place is as weird as East Lake. I can say with certainty that East Lake hides a path to a deeper nightmare." Bai Huang's eyes were brighter than ever. She had always wanted to enter the nightmare and find her missing children. "I investigated along the lake and found that there were many 'big fish' about two meters long swimming under the ice. Looking at their strange bodies late at night, I had an indescribable strange feeling."

Others felt creepy just by listening, but Bai Huang became more and more excited as he spoke: "I tried to get closer to them. The closer I got to them, the less they looked like fish. When I walked onto the lake and looked at them through the ice, I realized they were people. Judging from their clothes and the way they died, they don't have much connection with Dongye Manor. They are most likely from other nightmares."

"The owner of the house said that when his mother fell ill, she had to eat fish from the East Lake to prolong her life. But what she actually ate were humans?" Gao Ming had vaguely seen the woman on the fourth floor, wearing a red dress and with a twisted body.

"In the room of the owner of room 3003, I found some information about his grandfather. The old man was still strong in his eighties and had no diseases. His death was very abrupt, and it can be said that he died suddenly. According to the owner's records, his grandfather liked to eat fish from East Lake. He would trap 'fish meat' and 'cook it carefully'. Every time after eating, his grandfather would be full of energy, as if he was ten years younger." Bai Huang spoke quickly. She touched the black ring-shaped communicator in her hand: "Before I came here, I investigated the life of the owner of the dream. There is indeed East Lake in reality, but in the nightmare, East Lake should be given other meanings. I suspect that the owner of the dream discovered the secret of his grandfather when he was a child, and asked the old man what he was eating. The old man lied to him and said that it was fish meat from East Lake."

Bai Huang did not give Gao Ming a direct answer, but the people present could understand him.

This nightmare is more complicated than they imagined. The grandfather of the owner of the dream mastered a special door. He used the things behind the door to ward off disasters for himself, and his daughter seemed to be able to stay young forever. Later, for some reason, the things behind the door ran out and the disaster broke out.

"To verify my guess, I tried to catch a 'fish' last night." Bai Huang took out a huge fish scale from his pocket: "They wanted to trick me into the ice cave, so I broke a piece of ice on the shore and tricked them to the shore. All the injuries on my body were caused by the process of catching fish."

"And the fish? Where did you hide it?"

"They were human beings in East Lake, but they turned into fish after being caught. This seems to be due to the influence of the rules of dreams." Bai Huang continued, "I brought the caught fish to the small house behind the woodshed, which is the brick house with an upside-down blessing on the door, and completed a transaction with the people in the house."

His voice turned cold, and Bai Huang glanced towards the dark corridor: "I helped him kill the owner of the house, and he helped me open the door to a deeper nightmare and help me complete the entire ritual."

Zhi Ge and Xu Deyi's faces changed, they finally understood why Bai Huang was unwilling to speak. The goals of both parties were fundamentally different, they only wanted to escape from the middle-level nightmare and go to Yongsheng Pharmaceutical to get the money, while Bai Huang wanted to pass through this middle-level nightmare and enter the deep nightmare.

(End of this chapter)