Strange game designer.

Chapter 741 Mutation
The yellow hazmat suit was very conspicuous in the darkness. Gao Ming pushed aside the two legs in front of him and looked into the monitoring station.

There were no living people, only indicator lights on the instrument panel that kept turning on and off, and a walkie-talkie hanging upside down next to it.

"You were the one talking to me?" Gao Ming jumped into the room through the window, looked around, and the most suspicious thing was the corpse.

He must have been unable to bear something and chose to commit suicide, which is why the expression on his face at the time of death was so complex, not only fear and pain, but also relief.

Remove the rope from the corpse's neck, lay it flat on the ground, and Gao Ming lifted the hood, finding a small mission camera recorder inside the hazmat suit.

"Out of power." The recording device was marked with a note in red: "Strictly prohibited from being brought into the abandoned water network." The deceased was probably a newcomer who hadn't noticed this rule.

A charging cable was found in the deceased's package. Gao Ming tried to charge the device at the station, and after a short while, the light on the dashcam turned on.

"The warning sign we just saw says that cameras are not allowed here," the driver whispered a reminder.

"Since we're already here, we should at least find out what they filmed, right?" Gao Ming put down the mission recording equipment and took out a walkie-talkie. He stood in the center of the room, turned the knob, and both walkie-talkies crackled with sound.

"Let's hurry up and leave, don't mess around." The driver was afraid to stay outside alone, but also worried about the danger inside the station, so he hesitated and climbed onto the window frame.

After the static subsided, Gao Ming spoke into the walkie-talkie, "Now you should be able to confirm that we're not ghosts, right?"

"Brother, we're not ghosts, but it is! Let's go!" The driver felt as if the corpse on the ground had come to life and urged him anxiously.

"Wait a little longer." Gao Ming saw that the walkie-talkie wasn't responding, so he prepared to activate the mission recording device. Suddenly, the static in the walkie-talkie became louder, and a man's voice came through: "If you still want to leave, don't turn on the mission recording device!"

What did you photograph?

"Don't ask!" the man said, becoming agitated.

"Okay, I won't ask. But can you tell me how you got into the walkie-talkie? Are you dead or alive? What happened to you?" Gao Ming had already gone a long way underground, but every time he felt he had come into contact with the core, new questions would arise.

"My name is Wes. I was assigned to investigate because the underground water network was suspected to be a restricted area. Our cleaning team consisted of three groups of eighteen people, and everyone except me has perished." The man's voice was filled with deep fear and self-blame.

What did you encounter underground?

“We observed things that cannot be observed, and one after another they were infected with madness, but I escaped here.”

"Can you tell me more specifically?"

"No, don't ask anymore!" It was as if the soul of a living person was imprisoned in the walkie-talkie. He turned the entire monitoring station into his own body, and the circuits into his nerves: "Put down the mission camera recorder, return the way you came, and bury the things underground."

"Can't we reveal anything at all?"

"No! Hurry up! You're already too close to her, if you go any further you really won't be able to turn back!" The man on the walkie-talkie kept urging him on, but Gao Ming just stood there quietly.

"I've seen all sorts of strange things along the way. They're completely different from the underground water network I remember. To be honest, I got here before any of you." Gao Ming gripped the walkie-talkie, recalling the past: "When I was very young, the underground water network was just a regular sewer system. It did have a complex network of pipes and sewage full of garbage, but other than that, there was nothing special about it. When did everything start to become abnormal?"

"Stop talking, stop thinking, whatever you do, don't recall the past. Your thoughts will connect with something in the darkness and bring it out! Stop thinking about it!" The voice on the walkie-talkie grew louder, almost hysterical. "Fear is a premonition of something that hasn't happened yet, memory is a ghost living in the past, photographs freeze moments, they are the world I observed from the darkroom..." Gao Ming felt the man on the walkie-talkie couldn't provide him with more information, so he picked up the recorder again and tried pressing the power button.

"Put it down! Don't open it! You'll attract that thing!"

The screen of the mission camera recorder emitted a faint light, standing out in the darkness. Gao Ming and the driver looked at it together.

In the dim, cold light, you could vaguely see several cleaners wearing hazmat suits. They carried various tools and carefully moved forward along the passage. Without any warning, the person at the front suddenly stopped and reached out into the darkness, as if someone was standing there.

"Number 97? What are you doing? Don't stop."

"dark……"

What's wrong with darkness?

"Darkness is surging into my body!" The voice of the male cleaner at the front changed, and when he turned around again, a woman's disheveled face appeared inside the hazmat suit.

"Target spotted! Retreat immediately!"

"Damn it! How can we see her? Isn't she supposed to only exist in our field of vision?! The data is wrong!"

"Is someone carrying contraband?"

"Help! Help! I saw it too!"

On the screen, the sanitation workers in hazmat suits ran frantically backward. They had seen all sorts of monsters, but this was the first time they had encountered something like this.

"Run! Every person who can leave is a piece of the story!"

The new recruit carrying the task recorder turned and ran. A few minutes later, the chaotic noises subsided, and the camera slowly panned back. All the cleaners had disappeared, leaving only a yellow outline in the distance.

"Wes, don't stop!"

"Captain, I..."

"Damn it, damn it! You're not Wes! Emergency call! The restricted area has expanded! Clearance failed! Lockdown immediately!"

The camera captured the captain's escape. He closed a door, and his hand holding the mission recorder slowly flipped upwards, revealing his own face.

That wasn't Wes's face at all, but the face of a strange woman. Her black hair was plastered to the screen as she slowly approached. Suddenly, her cloudy eyes widened, revealing no whites in her eyes, only black ones.

"Damn, that was terrifying." The driver lurched backward, crashing into the equipment inside the station. He clutched his waist, and as he looked down, he suddenly realized that he could see things clearly in the darkness. After making eye contact with the woman on the screen, he seemed to be able to see things he couldn't observe before.

He straightened up, wanting to share with Gao Ming, but the words caught in his throat. He saw a woman's head appear on all the instrument displays at the station, and Gao Ming's shoulders were trembling slightly.

(End of this chapter)