Ghost Story Game Designer

Chapter 706 Flower of Life
The life flower is a plant unique to this city. It has a strong hallucinogenic effect and can convey the emotions of the dead. Long-term use will change a person psychologically and physiologically.

Where poisonous snakes appear, there may be medicine to cure snake venom. The flower of life takes root in the darkness and feeds on the flesh and blood of living people. Its growth process is full of blood, but the flowers it blooms can suppress the malice in the hearts of living people.

"Takekawa Society uses the Life Flower to preserve the remaining kindness in the hearts of the deceased and makes it into medicine to suppress malice. The petals you gave me can also suppress malice, but they use pain instead of kindness. You use the ever-falling death and endless despair to forcibly suppress malice." Black Crow regretted eating the petal. The petal contained pain that ordinary people could hardly bear. His thinking paused for a moment and he was completely affected by the emotions in the petal.

After swallowing it, the blood color in the petals did not disappear, but merged into his body, affecting him at all times.

"The Life Flower has brought a little hope to this city shrouded in darkness, but an extremely brutal fight has broken out among the various gangs surrounding the Life Flower. It is like the devil's tears, carrying pity, sadness and malicious disasters." Gao Ming climbed out of the pit with the seeds he had collected in his pocket. He had a good harvest this time.

"I already know the general pharmaceutical process. Now I need a hidden pharmaceutical site." Black Crow saw burning ambition in Gao Ming's eyes. The other party's goal was not just to make money or replace a certain gang, but to subvert the entire city.

"Aren't there ready-made ones in the restricted area?" Gao Ming was counting the seeds of the Life Flower with joy on his face, without noticing that Hei Ya's expression had changed.

"I'm afraid that won't work there."

"What's the reason?"

"The reason why the restricted area is called the restricted area is because anyone who enters it will almost certainly die." Black Crow patiently explained: "If a single citizen loses control maliciously, he will be isolated and controlled as a patient. Different treatments will be taken according to the risk rating. Those with low risk ratings can pay for treatment, while those with high risk ratings will be directly executed. For anyone living in this city, losing control maliciously is a very dangerous thing, and the restricted area happens to have things that can induce malicious loss of control, which may be a photo, a painting, or a sound. If the source of pollution in the restricted area is not found, whoever goes there will be doomed."

"Before we clear the restricted area, we can build a small pharmaceutical factory in the slums. After the Night Police take action against Zhuchuan Society, we can find a way to occupy Zhuchuan Society's new drug research institute." Black Crow looked at the life flowers all over the ground: "The smell of the new drug is very similar to that of the life flower, but it is more effective than the old drug. It seems that they added other things to it. In order to cover it up, they further amplified the fragrance of the life flower."

"Their medicine uses pleasure as a disguise to make people addicted. We are different. We suppress it with pain and despair in order to cure malice." Gao Ming handed some seeds and a small bottle of his own blood to Black Crow: "The pharmacy in the slum is now in your hands."

"Leave it to me?" Hei Ya was very surprised. Although everyone came from outside the city, they did not know each other's identities. Gao Ming would so easily hand over such an important thing to him?

"I believe you." Gao Ming showed a sunny smile, but this smile combined with Li Sansi's face looked wretched no matter how he looked at it: "Lend me the Night Guard Rules of the Shiki, and you can just focus on being in charge of the pharmacy in the slums. Try to expand your influence in the Night Guard as much as possible and gain more power."

After handing over the night watch rules, Hei Ya vaguely saw a familiar shadow in Li Sansi, but he was not sure.

"Go ahead and do your work. Be safe and don't reveal that we are outsiders."

Gao Ming took a detour back to the old site of Zhuchuan Pharmaceutical alone and found Wu Wei hiding in the outer area.

"Director Li, you're still alive!" Wu Wei is usually quite well behaved, and only swears when she's really surprised: "Where's the camera? Did you record anything?"

"The things in the restricted area may spread evil thoughts and cause collective malice to get out of control. It's too dangerous to shoot a banned film." Gao Ming grabbed Wu Wei's arm and walked out of the alley: "I have another way now."

Wu Wei's willingness to follow Gao Ming here had already earned her some of Gao Ming's trust. The fact that she had stayed here all the time and the worry and joy she inadvertently revealed further deepened this trust.

"But...where is the camera?" The two men came to the roadside and stopped a shabby taxi. The driver was a clean-looking middle-aged man wearing the uniform of a taxi company.

"You are so generous to come here in this remote place. If you are willing to pay me three times the fare, I will take you home safely." The driver was very talkative and didn't look like a bad person. Compared with the maliciousness of this city, his request was not excessive.

"Go to the Second Street, Sacred Heart Chapel."

"Looking for Councillor Ci Mei?" The driver immediately reacted as soon as he heard the place name.

“Are there many people looking for her?”

"Our Councillor Cimei is the spiritual sustenance of all the poor people. She is a temporary god living in the human world. She is helpful and hates evil. If there is a clean place in this city, it must be the road that Councillor Cimei has walked." The driver wiped his glasses and said, "But then again, it's a long way to the second block. I need five times the fare."

"No problem." Gao Ming and Wu Wei got in the car.

The car door was closed and the driver seemed to be in a good mood. He played soothing music and fiddled with the sachets in the car.

After driving a few hundred meters, Wu Wei felt sleepy and her hands and feet became weak. She leaned against the car door, and her eyelids became heavier and heavier.

After passing another fork in the road, the driver tapped the steering wheel lightly and drove towards an even more desolate road.

"Master, this doesn't seem to be the way to the second block." Gao Ming leaned forward and saw torn women's clothes under the driver's seat, and there were scars on his neck caused by fingernails.

"I'm taking a shortcut."

"Don't play tricks. Just take your place and I won't let you get less for the ride." Gao Ming pushed Wu Wei, who was half asleep and half awake, and seemed a little confused.

"The drug took effect very quickly. There's a big difference in your physical fitness." The driver raised his lips and said, "You said that this wilderness is a good place to kill people and dump bodies. There's a lot of silt in the river bay over there. There's no need to deal with it too much. Just throw the body in there and it will sink by itself."

Gao Ming narrowed his eyes and said, "I repeat, send me to my destination. I don't want to get involved."

"Do you feel your body going limp? Hahaha! Don't force yourself. This is Takekawasha's new hallucinogen. It can knock down a cow in three minutes. Unfortunately, the effect comes and goes quickly. I can only enjoy it for about half an hour." Black threads appeared in the corners of the driver's eyes. He grabbed the torn clothes on the seat and took a deep breath as if he was addicted to it. "You are the second batch of guests tonight. I will treat you well."

Gao Ming took out a black gun with the serial number removed and pointed it at the driver's head from behind: "I am too kind. People like you are not worth giving a chance."

(End of this chapter)