Strange game designer.

Chapter 723 The Hidden Darkness and Malice

"A black box?"

This was the first time Yu Hui had heard of this thing. He listened patiently to Gao Ming's explanation, a maturity beyond his years showing on his youthful face: "Is this something from your world?"

A simple sentence, seemingly unintentional, revealed a very important piece of information to Gao Ming—Yu Hui seemed to have seen through him as an outsider and sensed his soul's incompatibility with the city.

Shaking his head, Gao Ming changed the subject: "I have another question. Why did you inject the extra medicine into my body? Isn't this stuff very precious?"

Gao Ming was shirtless, with veins and roots piercing through his chest, ruining the Blood City tattoo. He also felt a rare sense of relief, as carrying Blood City on his back was not a pleasant thing.

“I hate medicine, I hate life flowers, I hate us who have become medicine. If I could, I would want to give all of this to someone else.” Yu Hui was just a five-year-old child. Even though he had been forced to mature by pain and despair, his behavior was still different from that of an adult: “All medicines are extracted from life flowers. I did not deliberately manipulate them. It was your body that attracted life flowers and those memories abandoned by darkness.”

The world in his eyes continued to change rapidly. As the medicine was continuously injected into Gao Ming's body, the world in his pupils became clearer and clearer. The two worlds existed at the same time. This feeling was very strange. He seemed to be both the observer and the observed.

He reached out to touch the afterglow, picked up the photo on the table; he smiled as he looked out at the darkness, and smiled as he looked at the wall filled with corpses; Gao Ming stepped on the cement floor, on the writhing, enormous blood vessels; his memories and Li Sansi's memories began to merge deeply with the help of the medicine, no longer just looking through memories, but Gao Ming truly became Li Sansi.

The medicines stockpiled at the Takekawa Pharmaceutical Factory were enough for the people on the black streets to use for a week, and now they were all flowing to Gao Ming, seemingly wanting to turn him into a human-shaped flower, blooming at the intersection of two worlds.

The Gao Ming of the past was completely out of place in this shrine world, both in his way of doing things and in his deeper soul. Not to mention the city council hall, even the Takekawa Society had many ways to detect Gao Ming's abnormality, but as the medicine flowed through his body, the aura of Gao Ming's soul was altered. He was more like a native than anyone else, and the darkness emanating from the depths of his eyes made him seem like a seed buried deep in the soil, never having seen the light, yet never giving up hope.

“There are many restricted areas in the city. He can go and meet other people, but they may have lost their minds.” Yu Hui said calmly, “I can feel my consciousness slowly fading away. They should be facing the same predicament as me. Fortunately, you arrived early.”

"I will rescue you and them all."

“I don’t believe what you adults say.” Yu Hui turned his head slightly, and after a moment, he looked at Gao Ming again: “I heard Cheng Guang say that this city is very sick. There are three ways to really cure it. One is to kill the city’s master in the forbidden zone world; another is to wipe out all the gangs in the gang world; and the last is to find the ultimate darkness and become it.”

"Didn't you say that the people in the other restricted areas have all lost their minds?"

“I said possibly. Also, Cheng Guang isn’t just one person, he’s nine children. Their wills are incredibly strong, but also incredibly chaotic. After I die, their voices and mine should be heard in your ears…” Yu Hui seemed to have let something slip and looked away. “Don’t ask me any more questions. I don’t know either. My head hurts every time I think about it. I want to sleep for a while.”

Can I come visit you again in the future?

"Of course... if you remember me."

A tiny body is embedded in a giant root system, a horde of corpses envelops the building, pain embraces memory, and the afterglow bows its head.

Gao Ming still had many questions in his mind, but judging from Yu Hui's appearance, he probably wouldn't be able to get anything out of him.

"Thank you." Gao Ming walked back, his body undergoing an astonishing transformation. A new pattern began to appear under his skin, resembling shadows or scars.

The large amount of medicine was inhaled into his body. Anyone else would probably have died several times over by now. Gao Ming managed to pull through thanks to his strong willpower, but at this moment he also discovered something else that was very terrifying.

Such a massive amount of medicine was enough to suppress all malice, and might even have completely eliminated it. However, the malice that belonged to Li Sansi in Gao Ming's heart did not diminish and remained deep in his heart.

Gao Ming felt that he had really underestimated Li Sansi. Just by looking through Li Sansi's memories, he couldn't tell how dark a person he really was, so Gao Ming lowered his guard.

"Li Sansi's malice has only subsided; he still knows how to hide himself."

Outward malice is not scary; what is scary is the kind of evil that is deeply hidden and unknown to everyone, including Li Sansi himself.

"Did he suffer severe trauma after committing the crime, causing his brain to automatically block out those memories? Or does he have a second personality? Or is something else that has entered his mind?"

After realizing something was wrong, Gao Ming's gaze towards his three subordinates also changed. Thinking about it carefully, Director Li could be said to have no personal charisma at all, yet his three subordinates remained loyal to him.

Do these three guys really exist?

Gao Ming wavered. He was the master of the Dream Shrine, and in this war of invasion of the shrine, the master of the Dark Shrine was also trying his best to deal with him.

"We can't let him lock onto us. The master of the Dark Shrine can use all sorts of strange abilities without restriction in the Forbidden Zone. It's safer to do things in the gang city."

Yu Hui told Gao Ming three ways to deal with the shrine's master. The dream ghost's sense of danger subtly reminded Gao Ming that only one of these three methods might be effective, or even that all of them might be deceptive.

"My biggest advantage now is that I can hide in the shadows, in the dark shrine, in the shadows."

Stepping onto the concrete steps, Gao Ming escaped the horde of zombies and descended the stairs one by one.

The forbidden zone is indeed dangerous; ordinary people can easily lose their lives if they enter. However, Yu Hui had vented his anger and discovered that Gao Ming's soul was pure yet full of anomalies, so he had no hostility and was able to leave so easily.

"Director Li! You're amazing! You actually survived all that. I'll carve your name on a wooden plaque and wear it every day." Jia Youzhi was genuinely shocked, grabbing Gao Ming's arm, still feeling a sense of unreality.

"If you can't speak properly, then don't. Spend your time learning how prop masters on other film sets flatter their superiors." Gao Ming stood at the stairwell exit, and in his eyes, his three subordinates also had two completely different appearances.

(End of this chapter)