Horror Game Designer

Chapter 282: Truth and Madness

The middle-aged woman moved slowly forward. Her steps were heavy. She believed that she understood her child, but slowly, she discovered that was not the case. Following behind Situ An’s mother, Xuan Wen and Gao Ming finally managed to enter the zone that they couldn’t before. At this place, only Situ An’s mother could move freely.

The apartment complex was a part of the home. The home was only complete when the apartment complex combined with Li San Hospital across the street. All the beauty and ugliness were cut off by a road that led to the future. Warmth and cruelty were placed side by side.

The middle-aged woman walked in front. In her heart, Situ An was her pride. He was hardworking, studious, honest, kind and was loved by everyone.

“I watched the kid grow up. He has never lied to me…”

The sunlight in the yard appeared to grow blood capillaries. They were like arms trying to hold the middle-aged woman back. However, the home’s real owner was dead. The sunlight of the past extended the woman’s shadow but couldn’t drag her back to the apartment.

“It is as I’ve guessed.” Xuan Wen sensed the anomaly. “In this seemingly normal world, the mother is the only patient. However, in reality, everything is transformed from ghosts and cursed objects. The mother is the only normal person because she possesses Situ An’s last humanity, and she is his most precious treasure.”

When the mother was corrupted, then home was no different from the outside. The sun dimmed. Its ray no longer delivered warmth but chill. More blood mixed into the sun. The disgusting intestine walls appeared to float at the end of the sky.

“Situ An trusts no one but his dead mother. Therefore, his mother is the real guardian.” The home was where one’s mother was. After his mother became insane, the world would take on the colours of madness.

“We appear to be experiencing Situ An’s past.” Gao Ming and Xuan Wen followed the woman to the middle of the road. The woman slowed down. She saw the scenes inside the hospital and noticed the horror that was anomalous to the warmth of the apartment.

“Auntie, you’re the only one who can help Situ An now. If you refuse to help him and watch him fall into the abyss, then he’ll lose the last bit of hope.” Xuan Wen’s hand landed on the woman’s shoulder lightly.

Perhaps it was Xuan Wen’s words or her motherly love. She didn’t stop. With each step closer to the hospital, the normal things started to crack. The four buildings at the apartment complex started to morph into morgues. The blue sky began to shatter.

“Is this also an illusion?” The middle-aged woman looked through the hospital’s glass window. She couldn’t believe what she was seeing.

“Are you going to let Situ An face these alone?” Xuan Wen stood before the middle-aged woman, “The truth is right there. The real Situ An is there.”

Due to love, there was a loophole. Situ An’s mother eventually reached the other side of the road. She paused at the hospital entrance.

Xuan Wen wanted to say something, but she noticed that Gao Ming didn’t follow them. “Are you waiting for someone?”

Gao Ming shook his head and raised his left arm. Five dried fingers were revealed. When he used the pocket mirror to look behind him, he could see the blind man’s body being almost torn apart. Two strange divine figurines bit into his body, but he didn’t let go of Gao Ming’s left arm. Situ An’s home was extremely unstable. The blind man’s hand really reached Gao Ming.

“He managed to reach his hand into the home?! How did he do that?” Xuan Wen was shocked. “But your close relationship does make me feel extra.” She might say that, but her actions say otherwise. “The home’s murder method is simple. Our consciousness is trapped in the house, and our physical bodies will be eaten by the divine figurines in the outside world. Your body is unharmed now because he is protecting you. If he dies, you’ll be next.”

“There are many flaws in this home. Perhaps we can try to force a gap.”

“There are many broken ghost Gods sleeping in the intestines. Lu Zang and Situ An collected them over the years. They are very hard to deal with.” Xuan Wen stared at Gao Ming’s heart. “What other things do you have in your heart? Try to communicate with them and see if you can summon them out here.”

“Will it work?”

“Why don’t you try it?” Xuan Wen returned to console Situ An’s mother. Gao Ming grabbed the fingers covered in wounds and callouses. The blind man couldn’t see, and his ear had been cut off. His hands were his way to communicate with the world. However, the world was vicious to him.

“Thank you.”

Gao Ming called after the God of Flesh and Blood. Earlier, when he was limited by the rules of home, the God of Flesh and Blood didn’t answer him. At that moment, he could hear him.

The chains tingled. Gao Ming placed his left arm on his heart. “We have to save him no matter what. He won’t be abandoned again.”

The blood dripped on his fingers. Gao Ming triggered the God of Flesh and Blood. All the torture devices trembled. The face that belonged to Gong Xi was the first to respond to Gao Ming. He dragged the heavy chains, and his hand slowly moved towards Gao Ming’s chest wound. Under the pale sunlight, the blood turned into mist, but Gao Ming and the God of Flesh and Blood didn’t care about this small price.

“Auntie, don’t you want to see your son’s true appearance?” Xuan Wen picked up a patient’s list from the ground. There were horrifying lab records on it. Sometimes, Situ An would handle some seedy things at home. There was where his darkest secret was hidden.

Situ An’s mother’s breathing became unsteady. Her brain was distracted by different voices. She saw the blood on the window and the indescribable, scary scenes behind the window. She couldn’t believe Situ An was behind these. She would rather believe this was her illusion, and she had gone mad.

The middle-aged woman walked up the steps and paused at the last moment. Her tears fell involuntarily.

She had experienced this very moment many years ago. Time seemed to go back. She had never left once she entered the hospital. That was when the tragedy started.

The whole home expanded and shrunk following the woman’s breathing. She shook her head. Suddenly, she knelt down before the entrance. She pounded her head. “My son is not doing these things. He will never. I must have lost my mind!”