Strange Game Designer Chapter 45

Chapter 45 Fear, fear

 The glitz fades away and returns to the most real life.

 At the door of the low-key and compact rental house, children are chasing and playing with innocent smiles on their faces.

Neighbors greet each other cordially. They don't like to greet each other through mobile phone screens. They prefer to stroll in the old corridors.

Big red lanterns are hung high, and stalls made by apartment residents are placed next to the corridor. There are sellers of various handmade gadgets and cloth of various colors, as well as dentists, butchers and rice stalls.

 No one picks up lost things on the road, and they don't close their homes at night. It seems that a unique small society has been formed in the Surabaya apartment.

 It is isolated from the outside world, and the residents here are smiling and seem to have no worries.

 She asked Gongxi to join the Charity Federation. Later, Gongxi seemed to have heard news that she shouldn't have heard and disappeared in the building. She kept looking for her grandson in the building, but she never found him again.

“Thank you, I really appreciate you both today.” Congratulations was frightened, and he looked at the horrible digging marks on the door: “It seems that I have to change my house again.”

“Okay, do you have a floor you like?”

 One person and one ghost were sitting on the bed. Gao Ming did not expect to encounter such a scene in the building. He used to regard these strange stories in the shadow world as a game, but the truth seemed not to be the case.

There is no defective part of their body. They can open their mouths but cannot speak. They can only make strange noises like pigs and sheep.

But strangely, one day later, he suddenly found his lost grandma in the building, but her grandma seemed not to recognize him.

 Coming to the fourth floor, this floor is obviously much deserted compared to other floors. Congratulations took out a bunch of keys. Before he could introduce the room to Gao Ming, he suddenly saw a man wearing a mouse mask and dark green clothes lying on a certain door. His body pressed the door panel out of shape.

“My family and I are all vegetarians and are not interested in meat.” Congratulations spread his hands and said, “Oh, if you had told me earlier, I would have given it to you.”

"That's not necessary." Gao Ming shook his head and refused: "The human animals you are talking about are the people in the butcher shop who can't speak?"

 A living person living in the shadow world!

"Of course I'm afraid." Congratulations didn't let go: "I'm afraid that she'll worry about me not eating well or sleeping well. I'm afraid that she'll be worried about me all the time. I'm afraid that she thinks I'll be bullied. I'm afraid that one day she will Suddenly disappeared."

The old man held Gong Xi's photo frame. She said that she was sorry for Gong Xi and could not do anything to help Gong Xi. She even took Gong Xi to wander the vast sea, which resulted in ruining Gong Xi's life.

“Xiaoxi, are you back?”

“It's absolutely right to choose an apartment in Surabaya. Every room here has its own story. You need to understand it carefully. Don't look at it with your eyes. Only by immersing yourself in this place can you appreciate its specialness.”

“Would it be too wasteful to throw it away?” Gao Ming saw this detail in his eyes, and he felt that Congratulations was different from other ghosts.

Gong Xi opened the way in front, followed by Gao Ming and Zhu Miaomiao. One of them was carrying a body and the other was covered in blood, but the residents in the building did not feel anything unusual.

"That's it." Gao Ming thought thoughtfully, while Zhu Miaomiao next to him was almost vomiting.

"Yes, look at the house." Gao Ming tried his best to remain normal. He saw the red lantern scattering a **** light. In the eerie corridor, monsters smiled maliciously. They looked at each other as if they were looking at each other. Delicious food as well.

Helping the old man, Gao Ming made repeated confirmations and discovered a surprising fact—the old lady was alive!

Following the story told by the old lady, Gao Ming looked at Gong Xi's face again. Gong Xi's mouth was sewn shut and filled with money. From this point of view, what the old lady said may be the truth.

“You two are familiar, are you here to see the house?” A very comfortable voice sounded, and a young man wearing an old-fashioned suit stopped Gao Ming and Zhu Miaomiao.

 As an excellent service staff, he seems to be able to receive any kind of customer, even if Gao Ming is carrying a broken body on his back.

An old and tired voice sounded, and both Gao Ming and Zhu Miaomiao saw the old man in the house.

"Are you two sure you want to go to the fourth floor? In fact, the house on the eighth floor is not bad, there is no need to choose the fourth floor." Congratulations led the way and suggested in a low voice.

"Then why did the building manager come to find you? What is hidden in your house?" Gao Ming discovered the flaw in the congratulations: "If you have any difficulties, just tell me and I may be able to help you."

Congratulations on throwing the meat given by the butcher directly into the trash can when passing by the public toilet on the ninth floor.

"The fourth floor is not very clean..." Congratulations stopped: "I mean, the fourth floor is haunted."

 “She is a ghost???” Gao Ming opened his eyes and looked at Congratulations: “In your opinion, are you a human?”

“What? Can't people live on the fourth floor?”

"The words coming out of your mouth have an indescribable persuasiveness." Gao Ming didn't feel any malice from Congratulations. The young man seemed to be really just working hard and trying to sell the house.

Going down the stairs, they met many strange neighbors along the way. The residents in the building were all affected by the flesh fairy. They all looked strange and terrifying, and their inner desires were expressed in flesh and blood.

“Isn't it like this?” Gong Xi told the story of himself and his grandma. When he was very young, his parents came to Hanhai to work, but both of them disappeared. Grandma took him to Hanhai to find his father and mother. They were looking for people and living at the same time. Congratulations was brought up little by little by his grandma.

The butcher kicked the investigator. He seemed to have noticed something. He glanced sideways at Zhu Miaomiao and muttered in a low voice: "It's so fresh."

Looking at Congratulations, Gao Ming hesitated for a moment, then asked: "Congratulations, your family has turned into ghosts, aren't you afraid?"

The door lock was broken, and when he saw that the door was about to be forced open, Gao Ming grabbed a child with one hand and threw him aside. Then Zhu Miaomiao came over with a fire axe.

"Fourth floor?" Congratulations was a little surprised, but the customer's needs always come first: "You have really good vision. There are many empty houses on the fourth floor, and my family lives on that floor."

After a moment of confrontation, the building manager turned around and left. The children wearing mouse masks got under his clothes again and disappeared.

They lived in an apartment provided by the Charity Federation. In order to make grandma less tired, Gongxi was very sensible and diligent. He worked several jobs every day. He and his grandma depended on each other until her death.

There is no elegant art here, but there is the warmth of life. The most ordinary bits and pieces are the most memorable treasures.

Gao Ming immediately prepared for battle. When he was about to throw Brother Zhao out, he made congratulatory gestures with both hands: "Ghosts are very scary, and they are surrounded by disasters. It is easy to violate taboos if you come into contact with them."

 The rental house is not big and is very warmly decorated. There are not many belongings of the elderly in it, and there are congratulations and photos of the elderly everywhere.

"Who is that person?" Gao Ming felt that the masked man looked at him strangely. It seemed that it wanted to eat him, but it was also a little scared.

Gao Ming looked through the iron door into the butcher shop. There were several investigators locked up in a rental house that had been converted into a slaughterhouse. Their clothes had been stripped off, and they all looked horrified.

"Don't ask too many questions, don't be curious, and keep a normal mind." Gao Ming still remembered what the young man said in the corridor of Building B. Anyone who violated taboos would be hunted. He must find out what the taboos in the building were as soon as possible.

 Gong Xi, who was leading the way, greeted the neighbors on both sides. When passing by the butcher shop, the butcher threw a piece of meat to Gong Xi.

His hands covered his mouth, and his lively eyes seemed to be able to speak.

The old man seemed to be suffering from Alzheimer's disease and did not recognize Congratulations. Gao Ming seized the opportunity and said to the old man: "We are friends of Congratulations and want to come and see you."

  Sensing Gao Ming's approach, the building manager seemed to sense something. He stared at Gao Ming's heart, his red eyes under the mask blinking constantly.

"Can you take us downstairs for a walk?" Gao Ming couldn't stand listening anymore. He seemed to see a completely different world than Congratulations.

"My grandma became confused after she became a ghost." Congratulations sat next to the old man and held the old man's calloused hand: "She has forgotten a lot of things, and even I can't recognize them."

“This place is really weird.” Zhu Miaomiao touched Gao Ming lightly: “Why do you think this agent keeps covering his mouth?”

Stepping out of the Ninth Floor Ghost Market, Zhu Miaomiao and Gao Ming both felt a lot more relaxed, as if a huge boulder had been lifted off their backs.

“The people wearing mouse masks are the building management. They maintain order in the building and never speak.”

The old man in the house opened the door tremblingly and stared at everyone with doubts. The old man had white hair: "Who are you? What are you doing in my house? Are you looking for Xiao Xi?"

 This is a story told by Gong Xi from his own perspective, but Gao Ming heard a completely different story from the old lady.

"Then let's go to the fourth floor first." Gao Ming got the information from Bai Xiao's black ring. The morgue and the room with the white lantern on the fourth floor were safer. He wanted to determine a safe area first.

"I believe you have also discovered it." Congratulations closed the door and he looked at the photos all over the room: "My grandma is a ghost. She still followed me after she died. Maybe it's because I have always made her worried."

“Grandma, don't come out!” Congratulations looked gloomy. He seemed to be worried about what Gao Ming would do to the old man.

　　blocking the door, Congratulations, who had always had a good attitude, was unwilling to give in this time. After a long time, the door panel opened from the inside, and a wrinkled face appeared in the house.

"I'm not joking." Congratulations warned: "If you see a room with a white lantern on the fourth floor, you must run away quickly."

 After saying this, Congratulations put down his hand covering his mouth. His mouth was sewn shut and his mouth was filled with coins. He didn't know how he made the sound.

"My name is Congratulations. I am a volunteer of our Hanhai Charity Federation and a leasing agent for Surabaya Apartments. Do you want me to show you around?" With a smile on his face, the young man stepped out of the way and gently patted the dust on his shoulders. , looking towards the corridor. Traces of time remain on the walls, festive red lanterns reflect the faces of the neighbors, the smell of meat is fragrant, old neighbors are holding a banquet, and everyone is like a family.

The other person looks to be in his nineties and has no defects on his body.

"Yes, they are animals dedicated to the flesh and blood immortals. They look like humans, but they are actually different from us." Congratulations has a very good personality. He has the vigor and energy of young people, but also the maturity and responsibility far beyond his peers. In this way It is indeed easy for intermediaries to gain the trust of customers.

"Building manager? Why are you here?" Congratulations was a little anxious and ran over quickly. He wanted to stop the building manager from opening the door, but as soon as he ran over, several children came out from under the building manager's green clothes. Those children all wore mouse masks. Their eyes were red and they didn't speak. They directly dug the congratulations with their sharp nails.

Congratulations upon seeing this, I had no choice but to accept my fate: "Come in, everyone."

"Oh, well, come in quickly. My grandson is a very hard-working young man, very diligent and kind-hearted, but his life is not good." The old lady entered the house with a cane and a high life.

A certain string in his heart seemed to be touched. Gao Ming wanted to tell the old man the truth. He slowly squatted in front of the old man and gently held the old man's other hand: "Grandma, congratulations on coming back, but he became Ghost, are you afraid?"

"I'm afraid..." The old man nodded: "I'm afraid I won't recognize him."

 (End of this chapter)

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