Strange game designer.

Chapter 718 The City Through a Child's Eyes

Children's words are simple and straightforward, but it is precisely because of this that they can bring a kind of unvarnished terror.

"Impossible, they can't possibly appear during the day."

"Mom, they are right behind you."

"Shut up, shut up! Don't say another word!"

After overturning his rice bowl, Number 031's shoulders trembled slightly.

“Mom…” Yu Hui didn’t understand why her mother was like this.

“Come on, let’s go somewhere else. Mom will take you to a place where they will never find you.”

"But I want to play with them. I've never had any friends since I was little."

"If you stay with them, you'll never be able to come back, and you'll become just like them."

Ling San got up and packed his luggage. Under Yu Hui's bewildered gaze, he grabbed Yu Hui's hand and led him away from the home where they had only stayed for one night.

"Mom, where are we going?"

"Let's go somewhere they can never find us again."

Over the next few days, Ling Sanyi and Yu Hui changed their residences many times. Yu Hui gradually stopped mentioning their friend, but Ling Sanyi dared not be careless in the slightest. He stayed by Yu Hui's side at all times, like guarding a precious treasure, and even asked her every few seconds when she went to the toilet.

031 had to go out after he ran out of food.

She hid behind the curtains, and as people came and went on the street, everyone looked like a spy for the Takekawa Society.

"Xiaohui, you stay home, Mom will go buy some food."

She opened the door and quietly left under the cover of night. Yu Hui had been behaving normally during this time and hadn't mentioned any friends, which was why she dared to leave Yu Hui alone at home.

Wearing a hat and a mask, completely covered up, Ling Sanyi thought no one could recognize her. She ran into the supermarket, not caring about the price, bought a lot of things, and rushed home.

The round trip only took about twenty minutes, but when she got close to the apartment building, she saw a man lurking around suspiciously, refusing to leave.

"Zhuchuan Society!"

Ling Sanyi, carrying the food, slowly backed away, when suddenly his back bumped into a "wall".

Turning around, a burly, fat man was blocking 031's way. Black veins bulged on his skin, clearly indicating that he had overused medication.

"Mother Room 031, found you."

A black watch on the fat man's wrist glowed red: "Where did you hide the new drug?"

"He's not medicine, he's my child!"

A large, foul-smelling hand grabbed the woman's neck and slammed her against the wall: "Without the medicine, you and I would both go insane. We are truly grateful for the medicine. Okay, now stop fooling around and tell me where he is?"

Number 031 didn't speak, but with all her might, she swung her body and bit the fat man's hand. Thick, murky blood flowed out, and the fat man slammed the woman's body against the wall.

Her headscarf and mask came off, revealing Ling Sanyi's delicate face, which instantly attracted the attention of many people around her.

"How could you do this to such a beautiful woman? This fat guy doesn't seem to be from our 11th block."

"That woman looks a lot like my runaway wife. No, she's my wife. Brothers, stop them!" Beauty is a scarce resource in many places. As more and more ill-intentioned people gathered around, the fat man dared not linger. After all, this was not the territory of the Bamboo River Society. He picked up the woman and ran into the depths of the alley.

Inside the old apartment building, Yu Hui sat quietly on the sofa, glancing at the door every now and then.

Half an hour later, when her mother still hadn't returned, Yu Hui suddenly glanced out the window and said, "Don't come out, Mom will be back soon."

"Don't talk to me, I can't hear you, I don't want to play with you guys anymore."

"Go away, don't touch me, stay away from me."

Ling Sanyi moved to several apartments with Yu Hui, thinking she had gotten rid of those things, but in reality, Yu Hui was trying to pretend to be normal because she saw how hard her mother was working.

Since leaving the Takekawa Pharmaceutical Factory, the world in his eyes has become increasingly strange. His friends not only peek at him through the peephole, but also press their faces against the window and call him to come downstairs to play. Later, he didn't know how they ran into his house and stood in every corner staring at him.

Besides having more and more friends, the city and its citizens, which he had previously seen as normal, began to appear strange. He could see something growing in people's hearts, like ugly tentacles or sprouting branches. Beneath that thing was a long string of fine black roots that burrowed into the ends of nerves and blood vessels, sucking away the gray emotions that constantly arose in people's hearts.

Most of them can maintain the shape of a living person, but some have swollen long sections of roots on their bodies, like carrying plant shells, and their bodies are covered with strange patterns. Their mouths open and close, and with each breath, they produce dense black dots, like a group of menacing bloodsucking worms.

The uglier and more terrifying the citizens were, the more sensitive they seemed to be to the presence of the afterglow. They didn't see it with their eyes, but rather smelled it with their noses, as if the afterglow carried a fragrance, a rare delicacy.

The city is like a grotesque, twisted tree tumor, with everyone exhaling black, poisonous insects and a foul-smelling black fog drifting everywhere. This place is beyond redemption.

As Yu Hui heard his friend's voice growing louder, he covered his ears and closed his eyes.

"Mom, where did you go? Why haven't you come back yet? Don't you... want me anymore?"

One hour, two hours passed, and it got dark again.

The cabin was much colder than usual. Yu Hui huddled in the corner of the bed, hugging her knees, head bowed, her eyes peering at the door through her bangs.

"Your mother doesn't want you anymore. She doesn't care about you at all. She gave birth to you just to get paid. She doesn't even dare to tell you her real name. 031 is her maternal number."

"Adults always deceive children because we haven't been corrupted by malice yet. Soon you will be treated like medicine, just like us."

"Your body, flesh, and bones will all become part of the medicine, fused together by the adults. Your pure soul will become their remedy to suppress the darkness within them."

"But this won't cure their illness at all. How can dogs that eat people not harbor malice?"

"Give up, accept our memories, and live with us forever."

The chaotic sounds penetrated Yu Hui's ears, constantly stimulating him.

"Stop talking, stop talking!"

“You know we’re telling the truth.”

“Those living people who have been given the surname Black have long lost their humanity. Only by successfully using their own children as medicine can they become core members of the Takekawa Society. They have become part of the darkness.”

"What you are going through now, we have all gone through. All love is deception, and deep evil is buried behind all care and kindness!"

"Believe us, everything they do is to make you the right medicine!"

Yu Hui pressed his hands to his ears, his face contorted in pain. He looked at the bloodied children around him and burst into tears.

"Stop talking! Cheng Guang, please, stop talking!"

(End of this chapter)