His wounds tore open, and the blood leaked out. The normal Gao Ming tried his best not to fall. He didn’t have the strongest physique or the brightest brain. He had nothing to do with courage or noble traits. He was the most normal of them all.
Blood tears flowed out of his eyes. He gritted his teeth until they bled. He was at his limits, but to his surprise, he still hadn’t fallen.
“I can still take one more step.”
Drenched in curses and blood, he resisted the gaze of God and gripped the mud figurine by his throat.
“I don’t think I can do anything amazing. I am just the most normal one. But… I feel like I can still keep going forward!”
The station was not far away. The bus of fate was coming. The headlights cut through the dark and lit up the gory path behind Gao Ming. There was no right or wrong for the choices of the past. In fact, the dead Gao Mings might be more trustworthy than the living Gao Mings. However, they failed to reach the end of their journeys. They used their corpses to pave the way for Gao Ming’s past and present.
The different Gao Mings were like the human bricks at Han De Private School. The students there used their souls and consciousness to help Yan Xizhi become a dream ghost. That moment was replaying itself at Everlasting Life Apartments. However, Gao Ming did not have the help of others. He used his own deaths to create a path that shouldn’t exist. Yan Xizhi became one with the students and staff at Han De Private School. Their consciousness had lingering cracks and flaws. However, Gao Ming didn’t have this issue. He made his human bricks with his different selves. He was the own disciples of his own faith.
“It’s not why we have chosen you, but you have ultimately become your current self.” The kind Gao Ming burned his soul so that the God of the Past would stop harming the normal Gao Ming. His voice travelled far. The other Gao Mings eventually made the same choice. Starlight and sparks lit the last segment of the path for Gao Ming. They were not bright or warm. However, as his life continued, this ray of light would shine the way for him.
The bus from his memory drove towards the station. The light finally shone on Gao Ming. The shadow was chased away. Gao Ming saw a dark tunnel and many versions of himself encased in the walls.
“I used to possess kindness and bliss. I have left everything from my past in the darkness in exchange for this chance!”
His heart pounded heavily. The death memories buried deep inside his heart morphed into Gao Mings’ many faces. Gao Mings, who died horribly in the past, tried to show the gentlest expression. The untouchable pain fully flowed into Gao Ming’s soul and heart. At that moment, Gao Ming’s soul had an empirical change. A strange pattern similar to the divine pattern of the Past appeared in his heart. The pattern slowly penetrated the rules of the Past and Death.
The back of his hand that grabbed the figurine burst with veins. The normal Gao Ming’s consciousness collided with God’s majesty. The whole Everlasting Life Apartments crashed at him like a ghost mountain. He was alone but when he raised his hands, there were countless different versions of his past that held up his body. After taking one last step, the normal Gao Ming exited the neighbourhood. The death realm at the Everlasting Life Apartment was broken! The figurine became fragile as it lost its divine power.
He turned back to look. The burnt Gao Mings were slowly swallowed by the shadow. They were buried in the past, in a spot no one except Gao Ming knew. He tightened his five digits. His bloody fingers crushed the figurine. At that moment, the night turned upside down. Endless darkness exploded inside Everlasting Life Apartments. All the ghosts inside the neighbourhood cried. A blood rain occurred inside the death realm. Even the shadow world seemed to be crying.
As the figurine shattered, the divine pattern on Gao Ming’s body, which belonged to the God of the Past, was taken over by a new pattern. A giant lock appeared to be undone inside his heart. All the memories rushed at him like waves. The normal Gao Ming stood in the dark.
“I… remember everything.”
Gao Ming’s most uncommon life was created by the most normal Gao Ming. The death memories surged into his mind. Gao Ming’s soul had its own divine pattern. The pattern consisted of three rules, flesh and blood, past and death.
The big ghosts could be categorised into normal ghosts, ghosts that possessed the resentment room, those who could recreate their nightmare in their resentment rooms and dream ghosts. An increase in each category would require a lot of effort to break through. Gao Ming and the God of Flesh and Blood paused at the stage where they could reconstruct the nightmare. However, after Gao Ming got to know all of his pasts, he seemed to have touched something new.
“Kindness, flesh, madness… I have lost so many parts of myself along the way.” Gao Ming successfully brought the figurine out of the neighbourhood and destroyed it. However, he didn’t choose to leave the anomaly but looked at the bloody path that he took earlier. The most normal high school student became the scariest horror game designer at Han Hai. Only he knew what he had been through.
“The Heart of God has returned to me. It’s time to reclaim my Heart of Flesh.” Gao Ming still wore his school uniform. However, his presence and aura were completely different from before. He couldn’t be described with simple words anymore. The most suitable word to describe him was dangerous.
“I need to kill the past and butcher the future to have control of my present.”
In the earlier situation, Gao Ming was suppressed by two divine figurines, but he managed to survive. As long as one Gao Ming could leave the neighbourhood and escape the control of the God of the Past, he would regain his memory. Even if the Gao Mings had different lives, their last diary entry mentioned the same thing. ŗΑℕΟ𝖇Ε𐌔
Pushing open Everlasting Life Apartments’ old door, Gao Ming entered the darkness again. His body was carved with the new pattern of the God of the Past’s divine pattern. The ghosts in his past life wanted to pounce at him, but they were scared.
“Before killing the God of the Future, I still can’t fully replace the God of the Past and control the original tenants of this place. However, they don’t seem to dare to attack me.”