Horror Game Designer

Chapter 216: Two Rooms

The headless door guardian was eager for murder. The blood capillaries sucked on the blood from the newbie investigators. The newbies only had one choice, and that was to open the door before they died.

“Push! Trigger your strongest survival instinct! Push open the door!”

These newbies were all selected by Xia Yang. It was easy for him to kill them. Instead, he used his own methods to select them. After experiencing fear and death, the newbies improved greatly in terms of mental strength. More importantly, the seeds planted by Xia Yang started to grow. Xia Yang’s death portrait had a very special power. It allowed him to paint the death portraits of the living. Xia Yang could use this method to control people’s souls. The shadow world could corrupt the real world, and Xia Yang could corrupt normal souls by enlarging the obsession deep inside their hearts.

“Push! I’m being eaten!” The newbie who was pushed to the front had his body plastered to the door. His hands ‘grew’ into the door. A lot of capillaries crawled into his body to pull him towards the door.

The newbie’s face slammed into the door. Endless vessels surged into his eyes and ears, causing him to scream. The scream only lasted for a few seconds before his eyes numbed like his emotions had been consumed by the door.

“Fuck! Hang in there! You have to focus on your obsession! Do not forget your connection to the real world! Dig deep into your memories!” He Yi wanted to open the bloodred door. If the newbies failed, he had to send his own people. “Focus! Remember!”

The newbie seemed to remember something. Light returned to his eyes, and pain returned to his body. “Help me! I don’t want to die!” He refused to give up, but he couldn’t open the door. The man suffered unimaginable pain as his body slowly became part of the bloodred door. Hearing his scream, the others pushed harder. The capillaries slowly crawled over everyone. Everyone started to mutate to varying degrees. Some of them grew sharp blades in their flesh. Burn marks surfaced on some of their backs. The most obvious change happened to Xiao Yong. He started to grow bloody feathers on his body. The chicken with five toes that he once ate was probably not chicken but something else.

Two gunshots echoed inside the building. It was Yan Lin who fired the bullets. This police detective also had a seedy past. A new arm grew out of his shoulder. The alien arm phased through his uniform to grab the hand that held the pistol until his fingers joined with the gun.

“Did he once injure his teammate… No…” Even Xia Yang didn’t notice this in Yan Lin. The incident was hidden deep inside Yan Lin’s heart.

All the newbies and Yan Lin had mutated. Su Mo tried his best to open the door. He was the only normal person that remained. Different from the other sacrifices, he relied on his ‘brilliance’ to reach this place. Of his five attributes, four of them were zero. His strongest desire was to see the auntie with the four mouths again, and his biggest wish was to pass every university course. He was an upstanding young man who worked hard to keep himself afloat. No matter how hard the shadow world tried, no mutation appeared on him. The newbie investigators around him were sucked into the door one after another. Their mutated bodies became absurd decorations on the door. The survivors tried their best to push the door open. As the bloodred door took in the investigators, the door slowly eased open.

“It’s working! The quality and quantity of the sacrifice have been satisfied!”

The headless door guardian’s actions slowed from eating too much. He Yi saw hope.

Of the newbies, only Xiao Yong was holding on. He gritted his teeth, and blood leaked out of his mouth. “Impossible! Uncle will not lie to us! We’ve been eating chicken! It’s a ghost like you that has been trying to lie to me!” Xiao Yong growled and then slammed into the door. The headless door guardian let go. Xiao Yong managed to open the door for about the gap of one’s arm.

Following Xiao Yong was Yan Lin. He grabbed the third arm that grew out of his body to stop the arm from harming the innocent. To protect Su Mo beside him, he mimicked Xiao Yong and charged at the door.

“We’re the only two left alive!” Su Mo didn’t expect being a main character to be so scary. He just wanted to survive.

“It’s fine. Soon, you’ll be the only one left.” Zhang Lian smiled. She leaned into the door, and then paint dropped on Su Mo’s body. “Strong Heart 0, Strong Body 0, Yin Soul 0, Attachment 0, Brain Power 1… Do you want to kill yourself to start again?”

“Who is talking?” Only Su Mo remained in front of the door.

“Shush. They are not dead. They have merely become part of the door. The sacrifice is a success. I’ll make you the one who pushes open the door. In return, I need you to give me everything you are.” Xia Yang didn’t give Su Mo other choices. The drawing he painted on Su Mo was triggered. The red pieces moved to form a Red Spectre in a red raincoat.

“Push open the door!”

The red rain fell on his body. Su Mo felt his heart turning into a strange kid. A pair of hands reached out from his back and pierced through his chest. As the hands covered his heart, he was given a special power. The power was connected to the bloodred door. As the remaining living human, Su Mo slowly pushed the door open.

Behind the door was still the east city investigation centre. It was covered in shadow and blood. Compared to the real world, there were two new adjacent rooms inside Situ An’s office. One of them was called the House of Butchers, and the other was called the House of Lunatics.