Horror Game Designer-Chapter 657: Finding the Brain in the Jar
Ten times? Twenty times? Fifty times?
Tang Hanlu sank into an endless nightmare. She was always found by a madman. He’d only do one thing: carry her and jump off a tall building. The cycle never ended. Whenever she thought she’d wake up from the dream and everything was going to be over, the madman would appear and drag her into the deeper abyss. Her eyes were bloodshot. Blood vessels covered her eyes. Tang Hanlu’s mind was about to break. Tears and snots covered her face.
“No. I can’t do this anymore!” Tang Hanlu climbed up from the ground. In her thin pyjamas, she crawled to the window. “Let me die! Just let me die!”
The window opened with a click. Tang Hanlu stepped on the metallic windowsill and glanced out. The familiar city was unrecognisable. Every building was made from organs and human bodies. The rails were capillaries, and the electrical wires were nerves. The energy plant turned into a giant heart. In the centre of the city was a sealed black box. Inside the box was Xin Lu Intelligent City’s seventh-generation supercomputer. It was deep inside this nightmare. Similar to how it was in real life, it contained a living human brain!
Endless chains surrounded the giant box. The wounded brain was responsible for keeping the city running.
“During the 191st descend, Tang Ling’s self-consciousness is finally fully destroyed. Is this the thing she has been hiding?” Gao Ming stood on the top floor and took in the flesh city. “Does Xin Lu look like this in Tang Ling’s heart?”
Gao Ming leaped down and allowed the nightmare to mutate. The next second, he appeared beside the giant box. The box was made from unknown material. The brain was trapped inside and unable to escape. Gao Ming tried to open it, but his attacks couldn’t affect the box. At most, he could only break the chains.
“Stop wasting your energy.” A familiar voice came from the big box. It sounded like the brain directly transmitted the message to Gao Ming’s ears. “Come closer to the box. My voice can’t travel too far.”
Gao Ming once heard this voice at Shanghai’s Haunted House. It belonged to No. 2, the former supercomputer. Stepping on the chains, Gao Ming landed on the top of the box. The top was transparent so he could see the brain clearly.
“You are here, after all.” No. 2 sounded tired. All his power was suppressed. He was just a sad brain in a box.
“No. 2?”
“I’m just a consciousness trapped in Tang Ling’s deep-level nightmare. My actual body is with No. 0.” The capillaries on the brain pumped. No. 2’s emotions shifted.
“Can a trace of consciousness unleash such a scary presence?” The whole city was affected by No. 2’s power. It was sealed in layers, but it still felt dangerous to Gao Ming. It was hard to imagine how scary the complete No. 2 would be. He was probably one of the top threats among the Unmentionables.
“Why did you lie to me at the haunted house? What is the nature of your relationship with Tang Ling?” Gao Ming’s hand snaked through the gap into the box. The brain was soaked in a clear sticky liquid. Gao Ming couldn’t reach the brain.
“I never trusted Tang Ling. However, only by pretending to be tricked by her would I have the chance to interact with the outside world.” No. 2’s voice travelled to Gao Ming’s palm like sound waves.
“Have you considered that due to your cooperation, many people who were not satisfied with Immortal Pharma are now dead?” Gao Ming’s face was unreadable. “They only treat you as a bait to fish for taboo players and followers of the world’s saviours.”
“It doesn’t matter how many people die. The only way to solve this conundrum now is the return of the saviours. Therefore, I have to send the messages to the world’s saviour’s altar no matter what.” No. 2 was very rational and cruel.
“Where is the saviour’s altar? I can help you.” Gao Ming was not a good person, but he didn’t want innocent people to die.
“I forgot.”
“Forgot?” Gao Ming almost squeezed the brain. “How can you forget such an important thing?”
“That is the thing that worries me the most. Unmentionables should be above life and death. They cannot die. They can only be forgotten. When everyone forgets them, that is when they really die.” No. 2 sounded more drained. “I forgot his name and the location of his altar.”
“So… are the saviours gone?” Gao Ming frowned. He couldn’t take on Immortal Pharma alone.
“It might be that they are too far away. After all, they went to the core of the inner world.” No. 2 consoled Gao Ming. “I can tell you everything about Immortal Pharma and Xin Lu Blood City, including the Project Han Hai that you care about. However, you need to hurry. It won’t take long for the new No. 0 to arrive and move my consciousness somewhere else.”
“What can I do to save you?”
“It’s pointless. The jar that entraps me is modelled after the inner world’s despair black box. It’s immune to ghost power. Immortal Pharma fitted it with a self-destruct protocol. Once the black box cracks under pressure, it will eliminate me before it crashes.” No. 2’s giant head was encased in the middle of the city. It was constantly under torment and pain.
“It looks like I have to take the black box with me.” Gao Ming nodded. “I know what to do now.”
He tore apart his chest, and eight giant arms reached out. They latched on the black box from eight different directions. The dream city made from human organs and bodies started to crumble. Gao Ming sped up. Endless cracks appeared on the black box. Just as the dream was about to disintegrate, Gao Ming dragged No. 2’s brain and black box into the torture room!
After 191 descends, Gao Ming finally found the thing he wanted in Tang Ling’s subconscious.
“Break!”
Tang Hanlu’s face rapidly changed. The blood city tattoo on her body receded. The tattoo morphed into keys that could open the dream doors and returned to Gao Ming’s hand. When the last trace of the tattoo faded, Gao Ming exited her dream.
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Tang Ling opened her eyes, and blood leaked from her face. Intense pain assaulted her head. Her bloodshot eyes stared at the work document on the table. However, not a single word registered. There was only one thought in her mind: “Jump!”
“I should be in a dream. I’ll wake up once I jump! Yes! That has to be it!”
She stood up and ran towards the window. When her colleagues heard the commotion, they came to check on her. They had to exhaust all their energy to control Tang Ling.
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Chapter 657: Finding the Brain in the Jar
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