Strange game designer.

Chapter 740 Approaching
"The last person to be infected with the disease was an outsider wearing a hazmat suit. A group of them ran into the water pipes, but only one of them managed to escape," the silicone doll recalled.

"Is it someone from the cleaning company?" Gao Ming took out the walkie-talkie he had found earlier and turned the buttons: "Listen, can you hear this man's voice?"

He changed the channel, and after a while, the man's cursing came from it, repeatedly saying that he would not be fooled and that Gao Ming had given up on the idea of ​​harming him.

"Yes, I peeked at him from the bathtub. The owner of that voice is young and handsome, with a physique like a male doll in a factory." The silicone doll gave it a very high rating.

"Do you think he looks like he's been infected with madness?" Gao Ming continued to ask.

“I don’t want to. He’ll become my aunt after being infected with the madness. He clearly hasn’t lost himself yet.” The silicone doll seemed to suddenly remember something: “If you go further in, you’ll see a lot of abandoned drainage pipes. Some lead to other blocks, some lead to the deepest part of the underground river, and some lead to the outside of the city. With the renovation of the city’s water network, all of those areas have been abandoned, leaving only some small monitoring stations. The trapped man should be hiding inside.”

"Thank you, you've helped me a lot." Gao Ming thanked her sincerely, two blushes rising on the silicone doll's cheeks; her personality seemed to be that she was easily shy.

“There’s none left.” The doll’s head popped out of the bathtub and pointed in a certain direction: “If you don’t know the way, you can bring some meat with you, and the fish in the water will help you.”

To help someone to the end, and to see things through to the end, the silicone doll took a bag of animal entrails out of the bathtub and tossed it to Gao Ming.

Do you usually use these things for bathing?

Gao Ming picked up the internal organs, grabbed the driver's rope, bent over and moved forward. Before long, he saw pipes of various sizes.

These pipes extend downwards from overhead, some as thick as an arm, others large enough for two adults to crawl through.

He had no memory of these pipes in his mind, but his body hadn't forgotten something, and Gao Ming moved through the pipes skillfully.

The gurgling sound echoed in the pipes, and the sewage flowed slowly beneath one's feet. Perhaps Gao Ming made too much noise, because a pair of eyes with thick eyelids emerged from beneath the floating garbage.

"Brother, why don't you just let me go? I really can't help you with anything." Before the driver could finish speaking, he lost his footing and fell into the sewage.

"Don't move!"

The water rippled outwards, and something pushed aside the trash floating next to the driver, revealing something swimming underwater!
Terrified, the driver clung to the rope with both hands; the restraints imposed on him by Gao Ming had become his only lifeline.

The sewage became turbulent, and Gao Ming seized the opportunity to yank the rope. When the driver reached the shore, he grabbed the driver's clothes and dragged him in. Behind him, in the dark, foul-smelling sewage, two scaly hands emerged.

His clothes were torn, and the driver lay on the ground with his back bare. Gao Ming stared intently at the water's surface; he saw eyes underwater.

"Is this the fish that the baby was talking about?" Gao Ming couldn't believe what he was seeing. He took the fish's internal organs out of his bag and placed them on the shore, then dragged the driver backward.

A few seconds later, bubbles rose from the water, black hair swayed like seaweed, and a human head emerged.

The gurgling sound continued, and a fish-scale-covered face peeked out from the slippery pipe.

Six creatures, resembling both humans and fish, appeared in all directions. They hung upside down in the pipes, hidden underwater, maintaining the basic shape of humans while possessing various characteristics of fish.

"The food is all for you." Gao Ming dumped the entrails from his bag onto the ground with a splash. The people crawled over from all directions, a bizarre sight that completely overturned Gao Ming's impression of mermaids. They devoured the entrails in the blink of an eye, their cold eyes fixed on Gao Ming and the driver, not at all like they were looking at one of their own kind.

"I can provide you with more food, but you have to do me a favor first." When Gao Ming said this, the driver was the most frightened. He was worried that the food Gao Ming was talking about was him, and that he was just storing food for himself.

Hanging upside down in the pipe, the largest "fish" straightened its upper body and made a sound from its degenerated mouth: "Speak."

"I want to find someone I can call aunt."

Upon hearing those two words, several timid fish immediately darted into the water and swam away, leaving only three larger fish around.

"No, I can't find it." The fish shook its head, unwilling to have any more contact with Gao Ming.

“Then let’s change our request. A group of cleaners wearing hazmat suits entered this place before. Most of them were killed, but there was one survivor trapped in a monitoring station. Do you know his exact location?” Gao Ming conceded a step.

The big "fish" nodded, licked the blood from the corner of its mouth, and crawled into the thickest pipe: "Follow me."

Moving through the rusty pipes, the large "fish" helped Gao Ming and the driver avoid many dangers. This abandoned underground water network had become almost like a forbidden zone, inhabited by all sorts of dangerous monsters. However, one thing was rather strange: perhaps because it was too dark, the driver couldn't see any monsters, but only heard all sorts of chilling sounds.

"Here."

Upon reaching the end of the pipe, the large "fish" became noticeably more nervous: "Valve, turn left, behind."

It huddled inside the pipe, too afraid to come out, its eyes darting around rapidly: "Watch out, Auntie, appear."

This area seemed to be where Auntie was active. The big "fish" dared not leave the pipeline, but Gao Ming was very brave and pulled the driver down.

The ground showed signs of having been swept, and there was much less trash on the underground river. Most notably, the walls were covered in grime, with words carved out with fingernails.

It's like a curse, or perhaps a lament. The gist of it is that a little boy's flesh and blood have been possessed by a madman. The devil uses his body to live in the sunlight, while he is trapped inside the madman's body, rooted in the deep darkness.

"Brother, stop looking. You're not here for archaeology." The driver was genuinely terrified. There was an indescribable sense of dread surrounding him, and Gao Ming seemed much more approachable in comparison.

Following the large "fish's" directions, Gao Ming headed towards the sewage pipe valve and indeed found an abandoned monitoring station, which used to be frequented only by maintenance workers.

The rusty iron gate was locked from the inside, and the only small window was blocked by a wooden board. The room was very quiet, and no sound could be heard. Who would have thought that there was someone hiding inside?

Without using the walkie-talkie to scare the other party any further, Gao Ming quietly went to the window, broke the lock on the window, and removed the wooden board.

A pair of shoes dangled in front of me, and it seemed as if someone had hanged themselves in the room.

(End of this chapter)