Horror Game Designer

Chapter 133: Monsters in the Pool

The students who were not named sighed in relief. They looked at the five who were named. Standing beside the pool, Qian Junran looked troubled. His eyes radiated pain.

“Sir, I don’t feel too well.” Qian Junran turned his head and raised his hand. “I have stomach pain. I might not be able to enter the pool.”

“Are you sick?” The PE Teacher was reasonable, and he didn’t force Qian Junran. “The tall one, come here! You can bring him to the infirmary.”

The tall one was Zuo Jun. When he heard he was going to the infirmary, his face darkened. He wanted to say no, but he swallowed it once he saw the PE Teacher’s mutated muscles.

“Anyone else who is sick can go with them.” The PE Teacher’s smile was scary. “The infirmary has the complete set of equipment. The last student who went there came in with 170 Jin and came out with 70 Jin.”

Others wanted to act sick, but when they saw Zuo Jun’s dark face and the teacher’s description, they changed their minds.

“Sir, I suddenly feel better,” Qian Junran straightened his body. “I believe I can do this.”

“No. I have to be responsible for your health. Tall one, bring him there now!” The PE teacher grabbed Qian Junran and pushed him to Zuo Jun. His large body was like a small mountain.

“Okay.” Zuo Jun and Qian Junran left. The Teacher picked two more girls to replace their spots. Coincidentally, Zhou Sisi stood beside Gao Ming. Zhou Sisi was already scared, but she was arranged to stand beside the music box killer. She didn’t dare to greet Gao Ming. She kept her head lowered to hide the fear in her eyes.

“After so many years, Zhou Sisi has become shy.” Gao Ming glanced around and was the first to jump into the water. The pool was heated, but his body felt cold. It felt like there was something watching him in the water.

“Don’t waste time. Group 2, prepare to get into the pool!” The students spread around the edge. No one dared to stay too far away from the sides.

“Don’t be afraid of the water. Try to be one with the water. Grab the ladder and lower your heads under the water.” The Teacher’s voice lowered. “Try to hold on for 30 seconds and use your heart to feel the water.”

Staring at the clear surface, Zhou Sisi took a deep breath and sank her head underwater. The warm water covered her cheeks and ears. All the sounds faded away like she had entered a different world. Zhou Sisi had great lung capacity. She would go to the gym after work. Holding her breath for 30 seconds was easy. Zhou Sisi opened her eyes underwater. The fear in her heart lessened. She felt embraced by something warm. Her eyes moved around. She saw her classmates around her. The pair of legs stood around the edge.

“What is that?”

Among the normal humans, Zhou Sisi suddenly saw a pair of white legs. They were fully white with no blood. The pair of legs was standing close to Gao Ming.

“That is not my classmate!” Zhou Sisi thought of that immediately. She noticed the legs moved in the water. The person was moving towards her!

The legs had no sense of beauty. The skin was almost falling off from being soaked in the water. It seemed to ignore the water resistance.

“Why does it seem to be targeting me?”

The pale legs came closer to Zhou Sisi. The students around her felt like they were dead. No one reacted.

“It’s coming!”

Zhou Sisi pushed her head out of the water. She looked at the place where the legs were. There was no one there.

“Did I imagine it?”

Zhou Sisi went underwater again. She opened her eyes, but she saw nothing. As she moved back, she knocked on someone. She turned around and saw the pair of pale legs standing behind her!

She was so scared that she tried to turn around. But when she tried to surface, a pair of hands pressed her shoulders. A bloated face appeared before her. In her shock, she let go of the ladder. She took in a few mouthfuls of water. She didn’t even have time to call for help before she was pulled away by the white person in the pool towards the deep water zone!

“He-help!” More than one student was attacked. Everyone quickly poked their heads out.

“All students have to follow the school rules!” The PE Teacher was furious. He removed his red sports jacket and jumped into the pool like a torpedo. He swam quickly as he tried to save all the students who were dragged away.

The pool was very haunted. Who knew how many students died there?

Based on the school rules, the dirty things could only move around the deep water zone. However, they had violated the rules. They tricked the students to let go of the ladder and tried to drag them over to the deep water zone. The PE teacher looked cruel, but he was a defender of the rules. He wouldn’t harm the students purposely. He would only go after those who didn’t follow the rules. The PE Teacher’s power appeared to be limited when he was in the pool. Even as a big ghost, he only managed to save two students.

“You can only take those who violate the rules!” The PE Teacher swam towards Zhou Sisi, who screamed for help. The water around him deepened in colour. Without warning, he couldn’t feel the bottom of the pool under his feet anymore. He had entered the haunted deep water zone.

The pool was like Headmistress Yan’s storeroom. There was a resentment room underwater. No one knew how deep the water was.

The students had no idea what had happened. They followed the teacher’s instructions and raised their heads again. By then, the PE Teacher was already in the deep water zone. The students were scared. Since the teacher was preoccupied, Wang Jie wanted to get out of the pool. He put his hands on the edge but realised that he couldn’t pull his legs out of the water. There was nothing inside the pool, but something was holding his legs tight.

“Save me!” Wang Jie was not the only one who found this problem. Someone shouted. “There are ghosts underwater!”

The students near the edge were attacked. The school’s swim team stopped their training. They looked over and pointed at them and laughed.

“The class’ students are special! You have to treat them by the rules!” The PE Teacher finally grabbed Zhou Sisi, but he became trapped too.

The students panicked. The students around him would suddenly disappear, and they might be next.

“You can only see those ghosts when you are underwater.” Gao Ming’s heart beat. He knew that he had been heavily targeted.

“Is that true?” Xi San couldn’t leave the pool. When he heard Gao Ming, he knelt down and buried his head underwater out of curiosity. Instantly, Xi San’s head bumped into a bloated head. There were water ghosts all around him. Their hair floated in the water. It felt like the pool ground was overgrown with water weeds.

“The fuck! It’s true! They are everywhere!” Xi San covered his head and stood up. He hadn’t even spit out the water in his mouth when he was dragged away!

At that moment, his survival instinct kicked in. He grabbed anything around him. Gao Ming and Wang Jie, who stood near him, were grabbed.

“Fucker, let go!” Wang Jie couldn’t stop him.

The water in the pool deepened. The shallow water zone was almost gone. Gao Ming was surrounded by a few drowned students. When she saw Gao Ming fall into the water, Liu Yi immediately wanted to save him. Gao Ming gestured at her crazily, but it was too late.

The pool was supposed to be not that deep, but Gao Ming kept sinking. His breathing became difficult. He could barely save himself, much less others.

“What is the big ghost at the pool? The school rules even specified a rule for it…”

The bottom of the pool turned black like an abyss.

Gao Ming saw a large crack at the bottom. The deep crevice had many adults in swimwear trapped there. They were bound there with ropes. In the middle of the ropes, there was a girl who looked like a fish. She wore a red school uniform. Her face was captivatingly beautiful. However, her limbs and the end of her body grew into thick ropes.

The girl carried great resentment, greater than any ghosts Gao Ming had ever encountered.

“Did the girl drown here after she was bullied?”

The pool cracked. The girl looked like she was encased in the cement of the pool floor. The girl wanted to bind everyone with the ropes and hide them in the sunless water.

“She’s coming!”

The resentment surged like waves. When the girl came closer, Gao Ming saw that many wounds were hidden under the school uniform. However, hardened scales had grown over them.

At that moment, Gao Ming summoned the God of Flesh and Blood. As blood flowed, his fingers that held the death portrait opened. The murky flood water dirtied the pool. The boss, Zhang Ding, responded.

Different from the pool’s clear water, Zhang Ding’s flood was forceful and unreasonable. It wanted to bury everything in the world.

The girl’s face twisted. She screamed as she pulled on all the ropes to kill all the ghosts and humans before her. Zhang Ding was the complete opposite. The flood spread. He just wanted to envelop the girl, to undo the knots on her and help her heal.

The collision happened in the abyss. Zhang Ding underestimated the hatred in the girl’s heart. Something couldn’t be healed. The girl wanted to kill, and Zhang Ding wanted to heal. This put Zhang Ding at a disadvantage.

Sensing this, Li Shu, in the portrait, put down his alcohol and ran out. The other supermarket employees followed. The dirty water polluted the pool. The girl in red screamed. It was like her clean home was dirtied by outsiders. Seeing this, Zhang Ding shook his head at his help. He signalled for them to return to stabilise the water ghosts who had died in the flood.

Last time, when he opened the door to send Bai Xiao and Gao Ming back to the real world, the supermarket floor loosened. If everyone came out again, the consequences might be unimaginable!

The neighbours and employees didn’t care. They only saw Gao Ming calling for them and their boss being dragged into the abyss. After everyone got out, Gao Ming sensed something was wrong. The death portrait in his palm started to crack. The supermarket ground in the picture started to split open!

Wei Dayou and the others were still close to the supermarket. If the water ghosts at the supermarket came out, Min Long Street would become a death realm!

Gao Ming swam towards Zhang Ding immediately. The boss also wanted to shake the girl loose. They tried their best, but the supermarket floor broke, and some of the water ghosts escaped.

“Give me the flood picture!”

Zhang Ding returned to the photo at the last moment. He couldn’t stop so many ghosts. After communicating with Gao Ming, they decided to send the flood’s ghosts into the school pool.

The girl in red’s face was twisted beyond belief. These people not only ruined her resentment room but also wanted to take over her room and force her out.

Perhaps it was an illusion, but Gao Ming felt like the girl was so pissed that she was about to speak. He had no choice but to use the death portrait as the centre of the flood.

The trapped water ghosts finally found freedom. They created waves of death. The mud and sand slammed against the pool wall.

The water level of the pool kept rising. Soon, it overflowed and the water flowed to the other rooms in the activity building.