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Chapter 805 Home? Is it my home? (Thanks to Twilight Remembers Bamboo Autumn for the Silver Alliance)
Birthdays represent celebration of life, hope, and the future; funeral portraits represent remembrance of death, longing, and the past.

Two completely opposite images appear in a photograph: Gao Ming makes a wish in front of a birthday cake, with fathers and mothers standing behind him. In the black and white image, death is blessing new life.

Gao Ming gripped the portrait tightly. Just as he was about to read the text on the back of the photo again, he suddenly sensed something, slipped into a corner, and glanced sideways at a tunnel.

Gao Ming, who emerged from that tunnel, was already dead, with one eye and a missing arm, pointing in a certain direction, but his father and mother were unaware of this.

The tunnel was full of mud and thorns, piled with fallen rocks and dead trees. A middle-aged couple walked out of the tunnel with anxious faces and entered the blood-red tunnel.

They entered the vast ocean from a tributary of fate, and the parents of those who died with high lives were also implicated and gathered in this desperate and cruel deep world.

The couple clearly had no idea how terrifying the vast ocean of the deep world was; all they knew was that their child had suddenly lost contact, and they wanted to find their child.

The light was swallowed by the darkness of the Deep World. The couple could not see the corpses embedded in their heads as they groped their way forward. From the moment they stepped into the Deep World, they could never go back.

Gao Ming wanted to remind them, but he couldn't bring himself to say it, because he wasn't the Gao Ming the other party was looking for.

Using the power of Blood City to clear the road, Gao Ming followed the couple out of the tunnel from the shadows, watching them encounter ghosts for the first time, panicking and trembling with fear, until finally becoming numb and used to it, trying various ways to survive.

Their only goal was to go and take a look at where Gao Ming lived.

"Gao Yun is cycling through the tunnel of time, I am cycling through the tunnel of death, and there are people who keep searching for us cycling through pain and despair... So that's what Gao Yun meant. The reason I can keep starting over is because someone keeps remembering me, cares about me, and believes that I still exist, just like those unspeakable things will not truly die as long as someone remembers their names."

"They've been looking for me."

"Perhaps, they're not looking for me."

Gao Ming was able to be reborn time and time again because someone always remembered him, so the tributaries of his destiny were not completely cut off; otherwise, if he died, he would truly be dead.

"In order to escape the perception of destiny, that blood-clothed fiend and other terrifying beings set up a four-fold interlocking loop, trying to use this weakest fulcrum to pry open destiny."

Silently following behind the middle-aged couple, Gao Ming shielded them from several near-fatal crises, allowing them to smoothly reach the old city of Han Hai in the Shadow World.

With an address provided by an unknown source, the two entered the old site of Lishan Hospital. They went straight to the back building and knocked on the door of Dr. Luzang's clinic.

Upon seeing this, Gao Ming's eyes narrowed slightly.

"Dr. Lu, are you there?"

“You said you and my child are colleagues, and that he had an accident while working here, so we came to pick him up and take him home.”

"Dr. Lu? Are you inside?"

The knocking continued, and the middle-aged couple eventually broke down the door of the clinic with force. All they found was a pile of blood-red furniture; Lu Zang was nowhere to be seen.

“It was Lu Zang who conveyed the message to my parents. That guy doesn’t seem to be a ghost from the Deep World. He seems to have the ability to walk through different branches of fate.”

"If my parents' first stop in the Deep World was to find Lu Zang, then they would definitely be used by Lu Zang, brainwashed, experimented on, and turned into manipulated zombies?"

Countless fathers and mothers still live in Gao Ming's torture chamber; they were all summoned by Gao Ming using their portraits.

With a slight sigh, Gao Ming dug out a piece of flesh and blood, and using the abilities of the Flesh Immortal and the rules of Blood City, made it exactly like himself. Then, he separated a wisp of his remnant soul and transferred it to Gao Ming's body.

"Go, stay with Dad and Mom in my place."

Patting the fragment of flesh and blood that had become his soul, Gao Ming turned and went downstairs. The home he was looking for wasn't here. Back in the depths of the tunnel, Gao Ming gently touched the black and white portrait, slowly infusing it with the Blood City Ghost Mark.

Gradually, Gao Ming felt as if he was being held by a pair of warm hands, moving along the wall to a corner not far from the scene of the car accident. There was a safety door in the tunnel, its surface covered with dirt and bloodstains. After wiping it clean, Gao Ming saw that it was written in white letters: Emergency Escape Door.

"It's just an ordinary door, nothing special about it, and it doesn't exude any special power."

Gao Ming casually opened the door, and the scene behind it made him stand there for a long time.

The space behind the door is small, and there are messages left in various ways, such as bloodstains, scratches with keys, and other marks.

"Don't go to Lishan Hospital! Don't trust Luzang! Don't take the medicine!"

"Lishan Hospital is a dead end. Luzang will make photos of us to deceive our children!"

"Beneath the city lies a massive corpse that will guide the way. I'm too badly wounded to go any further."

"Hande Private Academy has a safe zone. Remember, the only good person there is named Yan Xizhi."

"My child isn't in the south of the city. I've searched everywhere, even other places!"

"Beware of the black fog! My husband is lost inside! I will return after leaving this message. If I do not return, please stay away from the black fog!"

"I met a girl named Xuanwen. She has seen our child. Go find her!"

"Watch out for the people around Xuanwen, they're looking for our child too!"

"We have to be quick! We have to rescue the child before they do!"

The same handwriting, different information, parents from different fates are all searching for their children. They have no special abilities, but they explore this information with their own flesh and blood in a world full of ghosts and monsters.

Gao Ming had completely overlooked this door before, because he couldn't sense any ghostly power here, only information left by ordinary people.

As Gao Ming descended the steps, he saw a locked door, and his fingers, covered in Blood City tattoos, trembled slightly.

Gao Ming took out the key Xuan Wen had left him, inserted it into the lock, and gently turned it, thus opening the door.

There was no seal, no curse, and no ghostly markings; it was just a simple door.

Several discarded fire extinguishers sat in the corner, and the four cement walls were covered with instructions. The neatly stacked papers, notebooks, and cardboard boxes on the ground were full of their last words. Among them, the word that Gao Ming saw most often was "live, live well."

Sitting in the room, Gao Ming read it word by word.

In their desperate search for their children, those trapped in the deep shadow world tried various methods. Some approached Lu Zang, failing countless times before finally uncovering the fact that Lishan Hospital was a dead end. Lu Zang altered the memories of parents from different branches of fate, instructing them to influence Gao Ming, deliver his funeral portrait, and make him the so-called parent. His true purpose, however, was to drag more citizens of Han Hai into the shadow world, accelerating Han Hai's alienation and causing more dream ghosts to appear.

Some parents went insane after seeing the tunnel full of dead bodies, but were later found by other parents who firmly believed their children were still alive and refused to give up.

Some parents avoided Luzang and explored other areas of the Shadow World, where they discovered corpses beneath the large tombs and recorded some of the demonic markings on the corpses. They didn't know what these markings were for, only that they might be good for their children, so they tried drawing the demonic markings on the corpses of Gao Ming in the tunnels.

The short line of words on the notebook might be their life. Gao Ming turned each page very slowly; he had never read such a heavy "letter".

(End of this chapter)