Black threads crawled out of the monsters. They chased after Gao Ming.
“Your friend did it! He survived and came out of the tunnel!” Gao Ming’s dad placed the last hope on Luo Dong, and Luo Dong didn’t disappoint them. The honking of the taxi echoed far in the silent city. A path was cut through the thick fog.
“I also didn’t expect that the two seeds I casually planted back then would grow so rapidly and help me out of the abyss.” Gao Ming kicked down the old corridor door. He lifted his head and saw Luo Dong in the driver’s booth. Luo Dong’s clothes were tattered. He gripped the steering wheel tightly. Luo Dong’s arms were still stuck with window shards. The bus that exited the tunnel was scratched. The bus windows were shattered. A thick layer of blood was stuck on it, and the bus’s original colour couldn’t be seen anymore.
Everything proved the uneasy road Luo Dong had been through. He completed a miracle. When Luo Dong saw Gao Ming, the many different faces of Gao Ming appeared in his brain. However, he soon realised that this Gao Ming before him was different from the monsters inside the tunnel.
“Open the door! He is the real Gao Ming! My child is home!” Gao Ming’s mother was afraid that Luo Dong might understand the situation, so she shouted. They didn’t have time to delay. The monsters covered in black lines were about to catch up to them.
“It’s the real Gao Ming…” After getting the confirmation from Gao Ming’s parents, Luo Dong almost cried. He was saved by Gao Ming, so he felt secure around him. The rusted door opened. The flesh and blood fell out through the gap. Gao Ming led his parents and the female ghost up the bus. He once took the bus behind the door of the God of the Past. Now, he was about to take the same bus to the God of the Future’s hidden room. However, his destination this time was not the past but the future. After he got on the bus, without anyone’s direction, Gao Ming’s eyes were already on the figurine of the God of Flesh and Blood beside Luo Dong!
The figurine had four faces and eight arms. Its body radiated a thick bouquet of meat fragrance. However, there were long nails pierced through his heart!
“The God of Flesh and Blood!” Gao Ming used his deaths to pave the road of the past. The road of the future would be written by him and the God of Flesh and Blood.
“The God in this anomaly trapped this figurine inside the tunnel. It seemed to be ready to consume your God. However, I brought it out with the risks to my life.” Luo Dong glanced at the bus. “The figurine seemed to be suppressing others. We had to sacrifice them to drive the bus out of the tunnel. They used their souls and bodies to paint a bloodred city on the bus.”
Each seat was covered in blood. Only Situ An’s mother’s seat didn’t change much. She was so scared as she held the back of the chair.
“Where is your son?” Gao Ming walked to the tired lady.
Situ An’s mother raised her head. She looked at Gao Ming. Her eyes then moved to Gao Ming’s parents and their special ‘daughter-in-law’.
Lines of fate intertwined. The future that she desperately yearned for Situ An was realised by Gao Ming. Actually, she didn’t wish for Situ An to become the underground emperor of Han Hai. She had been persuading him, but her son couldn’t be stopped anymore.
“You’re not speaking. It looks like he has been brought out of the torture room. Both Gods of the Past and the Future came from the black lake. They are collected by Situ An and Lu Zang. They are one of Situ An’s backup plans, right?” Gao Ming’s body shook with the bus. To avoid the monsters, Luo Dong reignited the bus.
Since Situ An’s mother kept her head lowered, Gao Ming didn’t pressure her.
“You know better than most what Situ An has done. He needs to be punished. Neither you nor I have the right to forgive him on behalf of his victims.” Gao Ming turned around. “Plus, I have to tell you this. If I die, he will perish too.”
From the moment Situ An entered the torture room, he couldn’t shake Gao Ming off anymore. Even if he killed Gao Ming, he would die too and restart the cycle with Gao Ming. The torture room was fate’s blind spot. All the inmates became a part of Gao Ming.
Situ An’s mother trembled, and her head lowered even more.
Gao Ming had a headache. He didn’t expect Situ An to escape in this situation. When the man was trapped, he didn’t mention anything related to the two Gods. In fact, he revealed a lot of other information to move Gao Ming’s attention away from these two divine figurines.
“That man probably is much ahead of the investigation centre. He exposed the investigation centre’s dirty laundry after he died and made himself into a hero. He poured dirty water on the headquarters and heightened the conflict between the investigation centre and the common citizens. If the horror game players represented by me appeared at this moment, we would definitely be targeted by the headquarters. The headquarters would figure out many ways to get rid of me by sending me into anomalies or even…”
Gao Ming remembered that it was Situ An who lured him to Li San Hospital. Perhaps releasing all the mud figurines was part of Situ An’s plan.
The scariest part of this bastard was you’d never know what his real scheme was.
“In comparison, Teacher Xia is so innocent.”
Among the blood city candidates, Xia Yang was on the kinder side.
The bus moved away from the past. The future was an unknown. The danger had arrived, so Luo Dong had no choice but to move forward… even if the way forth was clouded by fog.
Gao Ming came to the driver’s booth and reached out to the God of Flesh and Blood’s figurine. He had waited for this moment for so long.
This time, he entered the anomaly earlier to figure out the investigation centre’s conspiracy. However, the two mud figurines were already waiting to ambush him. However, they failed to kill him directly but had to splice him into endless pieces. The process was immensely painful but Gao Ming survived it.
His fingertip touched the figurine. The four faces opened their eyes and looked at Gao Ming.
Just as they touched, the nailed heart in the figurine’s chest suddenly pulsed.
“It looks like I’m the only one who can help you remove these nails.”