Horror Game Designer
Chapter 168: What is a Best Friend?

Liu Yi’s pretty image was very different from what he saw. Qian Junran’s heart seemed to forget to beat. He turned and saw the dog that lunged at him like the night.

“A giant dog?”

The giant maw swallowed Qian Junran and the student ID. The dog landed on his feet. The long fur danced in the bloody wind. The students who surrounded Gao Ming froze on the spot. It was like their legs were leaden. They couldn’t even move their bodies.

“Since you think I’m the 51st student, how could you possibly fight the school rules?”

Gao Ming touched Xia Yang’s paintings on the wall. After the black dog swallowed Qian Junran, he disappeared into the shadow. The next second, he appeared gracefully behind Gao Ming. The black fur floated behind him. He spat out the student ID and Zuo Bo’s blade. Gao Ming picked up the student ID and touched the picture on it. “Actually, I also wonder if I’m the 51st student. After all, I only have my death memories. I’ve forgotten all the happy times. Perhaps I knew the value of sacrifice and kindness in the past. Perhaps I’ve been betrayed by you in the past before.” Sᴇaʀch* Thᴇ ɴøvᴇl_Firᴇ.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of nøvels early and in the highest quality.

“Gao Ming, calm down! We don’t mean any malice. We just want to know your identity!” Cao Song retreated. His voice shook. After Qian Junran was eaten, their union shattered.

“If you just want to confirm my identity, do you need a knife?” Gao Ming wiggled Zuo Bo’s blade. “Don’t you want to know the message that I’ve sent the 51st student?”

Du Bai considered a possibility. “Did you not send any message? Your phone received all of our messages! You knew all of our secrets!”

“If only that’s true.” Gao Ming dripped his blood on the student ID. The God of Blood and Flesh didn’t react. This was proof that he was not the 51st student, “I’m not him, but he seems to know me very well. He even knows my trump card.” Gao Ming opened his voting paper. His profession was not a killer or a psychiatrist but a game designer.

“I quit my job at Hen Shan Prison a few days ago to be a freelance game designer. No one should know about this but myself.” Gao Ming didn’t tell them he was a horror game designer. “Plus, my life mission is very special. I need to control all of you, using your personality and profession to create a new game ending that hasn’t been triggered before.”

Gao Ming’s words confused everyone present. Only Du Bai barely caught up with him. “A new ending?”

“From my understanding, many students at this school have attended this class before. The collective nightmare will lead to various endings, but I need to use all of you to carve a path to a brand-new ending that has never occurred here before.” Gao Ming didn’t tell them that he was doing the same thing in real life. Du Bai and the other students were very nervous. They couldn’t focus on what Gao Ming said. They just wanted to escape.

“It’s pointless to tell you all of these. You only need to know that I’m not the 51st student.” Gao Ming didn’t kill. He didn’t like killing. “I will not kill you. Even Qian Junran is still alive. He’s merely eaten.”

Gao Ming ignored his stunned classmates and turned around to leave. He put away the student ID and took out his voting paper again. Compared to others, Gao Ming’s paper had an extra note, you are forbidden to kill any student. You are forbidden from using poison, curses and words to indifferently harm the students.

“Other people don’t have these restrictions. Is You Liang giving me special treatment?

“Is it because I’ve killed all the malice with Xia Yang last time I was here? Is that why You Liang has targeted me this time?”

The class was filled with anomalies. Gao Ming tried to summon You Liang, but there was no response.

“I need to get to the basement of the lab building. The flood is coming tonight. It’ll be too hard to move there then.” Gao Ming had decided to go for the goal. Ji Jie was still distracting the student council and Situ An outside. He had to grab this opportunity. “If I can get You Liang on my side, I can tear down all the rules.” Gao Ming didn’t waste time on his classmates. He recalled You Liang’s life. “To make You Liang show up, it’s pointless to kill the malice. I need to focus on the things precious to him.”

Other students tried to survive in the nightmare, but Gao Ming turned around to return to Han De Academy in the nightmare. “Everything that is precious to You Liang is here.”

The school in the nightmare was no different from the school outside. Only the name had changed. The school was filled with young and energetic students. Gao Ming felt influenced and younger.

“The former Han De Shu Xiang Academy was You Liang’s sanctuary. Even in the nightmare, he tried to keep the beauty of this place alive.” One of the reasons he was chased out of the nightmare last time was probably because he had crossed the line. He and Xia Yang almost destroyed the school. Some paintings still remained on the outer wall.

Gao Ming entered You Liang’s former classroom and sat in the last row. “What kind of ending will be new?”

Gao Ming looked at the list of results on the wall, and he remembered something. “The voice in the office building told Qian Junran that the 51st student was in the school. They looked all over the school, but they only found the memory fragments, not the student.” Gao Ming stood up and looked around. “You Liang’s nightmare also has a school! The school in the nightmare is also a school! Has the 51st student been hiding here? Is that why Situ An has been unable to find him?” Gao Ming turned to his voting paper again. Then, he jumped up and ran to the math building rooftop. “Not here.”

Gao Ming followed his memory and searched the library, the canteen and the self-study room. The 51st student was not at those places.

“Where else could be be?” The memory fragments in Gao Ming’s heart collided to suppress the fragment that didn’t belong to him. “The answer might be in our memories with him.”

Different from the other students, Gao Ming was not worried about leaving the school or potential death. He held the student ID with memories and sensed the memory. Faded images appeared in his mind, and Gao Ming started to hear voices.

“Zhou Sisi said you were her deskmate. I’m sorry for taking your spot…”

“I plan to gift Zhou Sisi an apple on Christmas Eve. Do you think she’ll like it? Or is it too forward?”

“Gao Ming, we are best friends. I hope you can tell me honestly. Why am I even more unpopular than you?”

“Are you reading again? You should be a psychiatrist in the future so you can treat both of us!”

“Do you think people without mental issues will be happier? Just like Zhou Sisi.”

“I saw that you put in the game designer as your dream job. But I hope you’d treat me in the future…”

“Gao Ming, everyone in class is sending me messages! Some want me to go to the tunnel to find you, and others want me to stay put. What is happening? I’m scared and worried. Can you tell me the truth?”

“Gao Ming! Answer the phone! Tell me, should I go or not?”

The memories pieced together a blurry face. Gao Ming didn’t try to make it clearer. He merely followed the trail of memory and eventually stopped at the corridor outside Class 13. When he looked up, a normal student walked past him.

There was nothing special about him. However, he looked around nervously like he was searching for his lost student ID.

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