Strange game designer.

Chapter 488 Hidden Area
"Don't beat around the bush, just tell me what I should do." Gao Ming was in a hurry, and he came to the haunted house purely because of an interview at another haunted house.

"First, you have to prove your bravery. I want you to go to the most dangerous ward No. 0 deep in the corridor and retrieve the key that the head nurse has forgotten. Then you have to go to the bathroom alone and confess your innocence to the mirror. You don't have to worry about the despair at the end. From the moment you take the head nurse's key, you will be hunted down by all the doctors in the asylum and isolated by the other patients. You will no longer be able to get any help and you can only rely on yourself." Donggua deliberately smiled distortedly: "How is it? Are you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid. Don't you still stay with me?" Gao Ming looked at the "pitiful" Donggua and asked, "Where is Ward Zero?"

"Follow the red light, I'll wait for you at the bathroom door." Donggua left the blind spot, turned his body over, twisted his hands and feet, and crawled away in the dark.

"Originally, I didn't have much interest in this haunted house, but its background story seems to be related to the drug of immortality. What's in the black box?" Gao Ming walked in the corridor in the dark. Every time the red light came on, a monster would start chasing him from behind until it drove Gao Ming to the second floor.

"There's another floor above? This haunted house is so huge!"

Climbing up the stairs, the red alarm sounded again. The monsters on the first floor stopped near the stairs. The second floor seemed to be a restricted area for them as well.

The walls changed, and a dilapidated corridor appeared where there was no road before. A large number of medical records were posted on the walls, and underneath the records were densely packed with dig marks.

Dust was flying, and it seemed that this hidden corridor had not been opened for a long time.

After entering, Gao Ming is now away from other tourists and has come to a completely new area.

"All the patients on the medical records were children, no older than ten years old, and they suffered from a variety of diseases."

All kinds of children's toys can be seen in the corridor, including a wooden horse with its legs cut off, a puppet with its eyes gouged out, a robot with a hollowed-out stomach, and a stuffed bear with its hands and feet tied together. At first glance, there is not a single intact thing, and basically every toy is stained with red blood.

As I continued walking, my shoes stepped on something sticky, which looked like blood, or like layers of black hair stuck to my scalp.

Even though visitors know that this is a haunted house, the corridor still gives them a strong sense of oppression, creating an atmosphere of gradual madness and loss of control.

"Ward Zero?"

There was no ward at the end of the corridor, only a dilapidated classroom with thirty-one shrunken desks, each with a black-and-white photo.

Looking at the children's portraits, Gao Ming suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head. Faces in black and white flashed before his eyes. The portraits seemed to be very important to him.

For some unknown reason, Gao Ming ignored the key inserted in the door panel, walked directly into the classroom, and sat in the middle seat.

There was a sound of electricity coming from the radio, background music started, and the sounds of children playing and faint crying mixed together.

"We are the most perfect kids, we are the most desperate kids."

"We are birds trapped in a cage, we are the bridge to another world."

"We welcome you."

After the last sentence, the lights changed, and the figure of a deformed child appeared on all the seats in the classroom. They all looked towards where Gao Ming was. A pair of cold eyes stared at Gao Ming. At this moment, he was overlapping with the figure of a child, as if the child had grown into his body, as if he was the child.

"You are wandering in nightmares, you are walking outside of hope. Do you think we will still exist in the world when we grow up?"

The pale face approached Gao Ming. If it were any other tourist, they would have been scared to death, but Gao Ming just frowned and thought.

“Hope is hidden in a box that can never be opened. Only the most desperate people can become its owner. Let us look into your eyes to see if you are firm enough; let us look into your heart to see if you are kind enough; let us look into your soul to see if you are really desperate!”

Under the reflection of the light above, the children all crawled towards Gao Ming's body, grabbing his body with their cold little hands, as if they wanted to drill into his brain.

"You must find the black box and stop allowing anyone more desperate than you to appear in the world."

A male voice that was completely different from the other children's voices came into Gao Ming's ears. He stood up suddenly and looked towards the second row of the classroom. The last voice came from the drawer of the desk marked with number two.

Gao Ming reached into the drawer and found nothing: "I always feel like the owner of the haunted house is trying to show us a truth that cannot be told."

The words carved on the desks in the classroom, the manufacturers of those toys, and the drugs recommended on the medical records are all related to Yongsheng Pharmaceuticals. This cannot be simply explained by Easter eggs. The owner of the haunted house is hinting to the tourists who come here to play that Yongsheng Pharmaceuticals once committed very serious crimes, but everything was covered up.

"I have heard many people mention that a taboo event happened in Xinhu many years ago. What exactly is that taboo?" Gao Ming woke up from a nightmare, relying on the technology of Yongsheng Pharmaceutical. He only knew that Yongsheng Pharmaceutical was one of the leading companies in Xinhu and it had stood firm during the alternation of times.

"Hey! How long are you going to stay in there!" Donggua's ghost face appeared in the classroom window. Her hands and feet were twisted, and her eyes were full of helplessness: "Didn't I ask you to get the key? What are you doing in there?"

After Donggua assigned Gao Ming a task, she was ready to go scare others, but the haunted house controller urged her frantically through the headset, saying that Gao Ming had entered an unopened area and asked her to take Gao Ming away quickly. So she crawled back using both her hands and feet.

Taking off the key ring on the door, Donggua took a look into the classroom. As a staff member, she felt that this place was scary, with an indescribable creepy feeling.

"Did your boss work at Yongsheng Pharmaceuticals before? Did that company really conduct human nature tests on children?" Gao Ming sat in the classroom, as if he was covered in the souls of the dead.

Donggua had a sad face. She was not sure whether Gao Ming was getting into the role or had gone completely astray. This had nothing to do with the Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals, but in the plot of the Magic City Lunatic Asylum, the director did form a desperate class with the children.

"Those monsters are chasing us! Let's go!" Donggua crawled into the classroom. She wanted to drag Gao Ming away, but when she looked up, she saw Gao Ming gently caressing the black and white photos of the children.

Maybe it was an illusion, Donggua seemed to see the black and white photo on desk number two smiling.

Shivering, Donggua felt that Gao Ming seemed to be communicating and integrating with the child in the portrait, at a higher level.

"It's really evil."

(End of this chapter)