Ghost Story Game Designer

Chapter 545 Black Donkey
Gao Ming didn't believe the sound of the millstone, but he wouldn't believe a donkey either.

Rushing into the inner room, I was hit by a foul stench. The skins of pigs, dogs, cows and sheep had been peeled off completely and hung to dry by the window. Perhaps because of the years of drying these things, blood beads that slid down the fur had dripped into a small pit on the ground. This was another proof that water can wear away a stone.

"Live in a place like this?"

Covering his mouth and nose, Gao Ming was in tears due to the smoke. He blinked his eyes and saw ropes and leather straps used to tie up livestock on the stone bricks. They were of different sizes and could be adjusted.

After lifting up a sheepskin, Gao Ming heard the crying of a child. He listened several times before he was sure that the crying sound came from the sheepskin.

Looking at the relatively intact sheep's head, the little lamb's eyes had been gouged out, its nose was clamped, and water was constantly flowing out of its empty eye sockets.

There was a warning on the stone beam at the entrance of the town, warning outsiders not to speak to animals. Gao Ming did not open his mouth. He thought for a moment and took off the sheepskin.

Behind the sheepskin is a large and thick wooden table. I don’t know what wood it is made of. There are deep knife marks all over the table top, which seems to be where bones are chopped.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa..."

The sheep's head was hanging upside down and hit the wooden barrel under the table. It was full of bones and had been shaved cleanly without any meat visible.

Gao Ming gently touched the chopping board with his fingers and found some thread ends and half a broken needle in the knife marks.

"Why are there needles and thread on the butcher's chopping board? The butcher has to seal the sheepskin again?" Gao Ming shook the wooden barrel and felt something was wrong. The bones in the barrel didn't look like those of livestock. "This place may not be a slaughterhouse."

Picking up the sheep's head, Gao Ming slipped into the bedroom. Whips and saddles, muzzles and horseshoes were thrown on the ground. The bed was in a mess, with a pair of rusty scissors hidden inside. When he lifted the quilt, there was a large pool of black blood underneath.

"Where's the knife?"

The saddles and horseshoes on the ground are too small for adult horses. They seem to be for foals. Some parts seem to have been modified to make it easier to fit and tighten.

Gao Ming opened the wardrobe, and found mostly men's coarse linen clothes, with only a few torn women's skirts stuffed in the corner.

After knocking carefully, Gao Ming found that there was something wrong with the sound. He took a pair of scissors and pried open the wooden board, revealing a bill inside.

"On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, I will give Mr. Tang three sheep and fifteen copper coins."

"On the fifth day of the first lunar month, Madam Xi's cow was taken away. Now he finally obeyed."

"The beginning of spring is a good time for marriage, bed-setting, consecration, and sacrifice. It just so happens that Master Ma gave me a stubborn donkey. This donkey is a treasure in the town. It can be used for eating, riding, and pulling goods. Thirty copper coins are not expensive."

The account was written very hastily. Gao Ming stared at the entry for the fifth day of the first lunar month, where the owner wrote about Mrs. Xi's cow, using the word "he" which refers to a man, not "it" which refers to an animal.

There are many similar situations in the account book. Gao Ming slowly exerted force on his hand holding the account book. He suspected that all the animals in this room were humans, or in other words, they were all testers of the immortality medicine.

"The Level 5 confidentiality test of Yongsheng Pharmaceutical is very strict. Outsiders cannot get inside information at all. They can do anything here."

crunch...

The bedroom door was slowly pushed open. Hearing the noise, Gao Ming grabbed the scissors and turned his head to be alert, but what he saw was a donkey face.

The donkey pulling the mill outside walked into the house. What was even more absurd was that Gao Ming was forced into a corner of the house by the donkey.

The donkey's hooves gently dug the ground, and its eyes suddenly turned red. It stepped hard on the saddle on the ground and bit the whip with its teeth. "Were these things used on it before? But it's so big that the saddle can't fit on it at all?"

Gao Ming didn't dare to provoke the black donkey. He just thought in his heart. After the donkey completely crushed the saddle and calmed down, he waved his hand and said, "I am a tester of the Eternal Life Pharmaceutical. Can you understand me?"

Gao Ming not only violated the taboo by talking to the beast, but also directly revealed the identity of the tester of the immortality medicine. He had a guess in his mind that he wanted to verify.

Upon hearing about the immortality medicine, the black donkey seemed to be stimulated again. Hot air came out of its black nose. It seemed that it wanted to tear down the house, but it seemed to be considering something and did not dare to make too much noise.

After several minutes, Heilu stuck his head under the bed and dragged out a pried-open box. Heilu motioned Gao Ming to go and take a look.

Gao Ming walked up to the black donkey with some hesitation and opened the box, inside which was half a burnt picture album and two copper coins.

Flipping through the album, Gao Ming's pupils contracted at the contents inside, and the calmness in his eyes was broken.

"This is the nightmare of obtaining Level 5 confidentiality clearance. It is completely different from what I imagined. We have figured out various patterns. The thirteen transformation methods of Eternal Life Pharmaceutical should be hidden in the town. Different houses correspond to different methods. The owner Wang of this meat shop has a good relationship with the butcher Zhu Ren. Maybe he can find out some information. If something unexpected happens to me, the tester who obtains this information will flee immediately!"

"Where does the meat come from? Origami Town is connected to nightmares in all directions, but no one in the town has ever left. Where is the team that sent the meat?"

"I became the kitchen helper and servant of Shopkeeper Wang. I should be very close to obtaining the transformation method."

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"I took the opportunity to get Shopkeeper Wang drunk and found out about a man I had never seen in the town before - Master Ma. All the livestock in the town were delivered by him. What is the relationship between Master Ma, Zhu Ren, and Shopkeeper Wang?"

The last few pages were burned, and all that remained were fragments.

"Save me! Save me!"

"Those aren't beasts! They're the people who came in with me!"

"I want to live, no matter how much torture and humiliation I have to endure! I must escape and tell those who are still alive!"

"We were deceived. Everyone was deceived!"

After collecting the last piece of debris, Gao Ming looked at the donkey face again with a complicated expression. The other party used to be a tester like him, but now he has become like this.

The black donkey flicked Gao Ming with its tail, then turned its head outside and used its hooves to draw three crooked words on the sand in the yard - Reform Method.

"You became like this because of the transformation method? Is this also one of the thirteen transformation methods?" Gao Ming felt that Yongsheng Pharmaceutical was really crazy.

"Don't believe it, don't believe that cheap donkey." The man's voice continued to come out from the millstone: "The words in the box are written by me. I left them for you."

The black donkey did not react any further. It intelligently put on the rope itself and continued to pull the millstone, occasionally licking the blood flowing from the millstone. Its body grew taller and straighter, and its hair became darker and shinier.

There are many houses in the village, and the thirteen transformation methods obtained by Yongsheng Pharmaceutical from the deep nightmare are hidden in them, waiting for the testers to undergo the transformation in a way that is difficult to accept.

"No wonder the Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals had to be kept secret. The risk of this transformation is too great." Gao Ming suddenly remembered that the man in the millstone said that the knife for killing the donkey was still in the house. He was not going to kill the donkey, but he would feel more at ease having the knife with him.

(End of this chapter)