Horror Game Designer

Chapter 177: Choice

Human bricks were the foundation of Han De Private School. Without the human bricks, the school would collapse. Then again, what was the purpose of existence for a school that turned its school into human bricks and absorbed the students life essence?

The school rules and Situ Ans rules fought but not to their bitter ends. Both parties wanted to consume the other, but they didnt want to destroy the dining table. Gao Ming was different. If he could only feast on human meat, hed flip the sacrificial table. If he started with nothing, what was he afraid of losing?

The blurry student IDs tumbled out of the death portrait. Gao Ming didnt need to do anything. The human bricks had already linked with the familiar presence from the IDs. The tattered IDs carried their memories, best thoughts and former selves.

Many students at this school were forced to murder their former selves before they were willing to be made into human bricks and encased underground. If there were no other choices, they would eventually surrender to fate. However, Gao Ming brought them a different path.

The roots actively created a path for Gao Ming. The human bricks saw their shining selves in the student IDs, like kids following the stars in the night sky. Back then, they had no idea why they were so enraptured. Now, they understood that they were looking at their pure and shimmering selves. Even if the death portrait didnt contain their Student IDs, the human bricks would move out of the way. This was the last kindness they could afford to give.

Most of the students were not bad people. Of course, they were not all good people either. They simply failed to be 100 percent good or 100 percent evil. It was why they werent eliminated by Situ An and the school rules due to their sharp justice or became big ghosts that could ignore the rules.

Found it! Gao Ming hung the first ID on its original order. The hunchbacked males skin started to regain the colour of blood. His dull eyes started to shine with light. He tried to lift his arms, but he failed.

The cracked lips slowly open. The boy who regained his memory started to straighten his chest. He had been a human brick for so long, but Gao Ming wanted him to be a human gain. He was not born to be buried deep underneath the school. He just wanted to help more people and himself. The five fingers were bent. The wrinkled skin pulled. The boy wanted to control his dried and aged body, but even with his full strength, he could only wiggle the roots that grew out of his body. He couldnt cut off the roots and thus couldnt sever his connection to the shadow world.

Gao Ming wanted to help, but he remembered Yan Xizhis warning. If he cut off the roots, these human bricks would perish too.

Ill let you decide your own future.

Gao Ming let out the residents of Si Sui Apartments to help the students. If Situ An saw this, he would explode again.

A lot of pure memories were handed back to the human bricks. More roots wiggled about. The human bricks were reminded of their past. Their bound arms started to move. The unwillingness in their hearts compelled them to struggle loose from this deep and rooted underworld.

The power of one human brick was limited, but as more human bricks found the hope to restart their lives, the dust on their skin started to fall off. When the minute vibrations gathered together, water drops could form a wave. He didnt need everyone to wake up. When one-third of the human bricks opened their eyes, the wave they formed would naturally influence the other human bricks. As the first root that extended into the shadow world was yanked off, all the human bricks tried to escape. First, the lab building and then the whole school were affected. Yan Xizhi didnt know what was happening. She was still holding on. If she didnt move, her body might be torn apart directly.

Its their choice to select destruction. The root system was very complicated. The birth of the rules depended on these roots. To overthrow the rules, the most direct method was to destroy all the roots. Many people worried about a destructive future, but the new seeds only had the chance to grow after a fire blazed its way through the forest.

Headmistress Yan, stop this! You have more important things to do! Gao Ming knew he couldnt persuade Yan Xizhi with a normal method. He could only employ the more extreme methods. The collapse of the school is inevitable. If you continue to hold onto these roots, youll only kill these underground children! Han De Shu Xiang Academy is your lifeblood. However, it is these human bricks that make up the school. This is everyones choice.

There are a lot more students on the surface. Once the school is destroyed, their lives will be threatened. They wont be able to return to real life.

There are even more children outside the school! If the school is not destroyed, they will one day be turned into human bricks and sent underground. They will be trapped here, like you! Gao Mings words stunned Headmistress Yan.

The corpse in the suit slowly let go of her hands. She looked around her numbly. The home that she had built for the abandoned children now wandered between the real world and the shadow world. The children whom she personally cared for became the roots that reached from the real world into the shadow world. They were sacrificed.

If the school really collapses, will everything here be swallowed by the shadow world, or will they flow back to the real world and become an out-of-control level 4 anomaly? Liu Yi held onto Yan Shaoyus shoulder. The implication of this incident was far-reaching.

Come help! Help bring the willing students out!

Gao Ming gained the affection of the students. Some of them approached Gao Ming, while the majority went towards Yan Xizhi. Even at that moment, everyone still hoped to stay with Yan Xizhi.

The floor above them slowly cracked. You Liang, who had lost his nightmare and was polluted, was heavily suppressed by the red raincoat. However, You Liangs power was too unique. The more the raincoat injured him, the more wounds appeared on her body.

To Gao Mings surprise, the students of Class 13 used the dangerous cursed items and supernatural objects to forcibly snatch of the boxes away from the investigators.

If they knew how to use the boxes to control the red raincoat, the students probably would have stolen more boxes.

The door to the social practical class flew open. The students infected by Fear Illness wanted to scurry underground to hide from the tragedy. The buildings on the surface had been affected. The foundation of the rules was shattered. Chaos was everywhere. For all parties, the situation had spiralled out of control.

The school rules and Situ Ans rules sent people underneath the lab building. However, the first ghost to arrive wasnt one of their people.

Red paint dripped on the steps. The self-portrait of the art teacher appeared on the wall. She flicked her hair behind her ear but it was Xia Yangs voice that came out of her mouth. What a happy cooperation.