When they heard Gao Life say that he wanted to talk to the deceased, both the investigator and Teacher Yao thought they had heard wrong.
The deceased who had jumped to his death three days ago, dragging his body with broken bones and twisted limbs back to his soul, slaughtering a building's neighbours in the video, and now Gao Fate wanted to talk to the other side, which was quite a blow up in the entire mental detachment circle.
"You're crazy, aren't you?"The investigator poked Gao Life's arm with his finger, and his fingertip could feel the body temperature of a living person, "It feels like you weren't replaced by Creepy either!Why are you acting even weirder than those replaced monsters?"
Those who were replaced by unknown beings would still try to hide themselves to avoid being discovered, but Gao Ming was not pretending at all, and his honesty made his "teammates" feel scared.
"The truly brutal ghosts will directly come to the door to slaughter you, which will still be through the video to scare you?As a psychological counsellor who has been practicing for many years, I think it's more like Zhao Xi is asking us for help, he hates himself and can't get out of his predicament to change it."High Life didn't tell the investigators the real reason.
In The Only Family game, the mobile phone wove a happy and fulfilling family, a warm and sunny environment for the hero, but the game hero himself was a lazy, gloomy and selfish person, and the mobile phone fictionalised a scene that the game hero could never have at that time.
Zhao Xi's situation is exactly the opposite, his mobile phone fictionalised very scary and creepy videos, but he was a simple and hardworking person in his life, he worked hard and was always grateful to his foster mother.By the same token, Zhao Xi shouldn't be able to do the things that his mobile phone fictionalised before he completely lost himself.
"The Weird Tales game and reality are combining, if I didn't take the initiative to trigger the Weird Tales, when the Weird Tales grow and spread on their own, the tragedy in the middle of the mobile phone video might actually happen."
Gao Life let both the investigator and Teacher Yao enter room 2607, "It won't be long before Zhao Xi climbs up, I need you two to do me a favour."
"What favour?"Teacher Yao carried his toolbox, "I'm seriously ill and won't live long myself, so if you need anything, just ask.""Tear up a sheet or something, knead it into a rope and drop it down the balcony window."Gao Life ran into the bedroom, already in action, "You two stay in 2607, I'll go to 2507 myself and wait for Zhao Xi, I'll stand on the balcony and have a good chat with Zhao Xi."
"Creeps in abnormal events have no feelings, you're sending them to their deaths by doing this!"The investigator, although scary looking, was not a bad character himself, he appreciated High Life's courage and worried about his safety.
"I'll be at the window, if persuasion doesn't work, you two grab the rope and pull me up."High Life lowered his head and tore the bed sheet, very skilfully making the "rope".
"How about I go to 2507 instead."Teacher Yao unbuttoned his shirt, the veins in his chest and abdomen rippled and throbbed, looking terrifying: "I've already lived enough, you're still young."
"I'm a psychological counsellor with an induction certificate, it's better to leave the professional things to the professionals."Gao Life actually had another plan, if he wanted to trigger the good ending of the game, then he had to let Zhao Xi destroy his mobile phone, it had to be him who destroyed it with his own hands to symbolise the breaking of the self-imposed confinement.
It's hard for a living person to dominate the ghosts and monsters, the normal way can't be done, so Gao Ming came up with a crazy idea.
When Zhao Xi killed Huang Mingming, the method he chose was to jump off the building with him, and Gao Ming was prepared to "try" this method of death as well.
After finishing weaving the rope and throwing it down from the window of the balcony of 2607, and after making sure that there was no problem, Gao Life walked out of 2607 alone.
Pushing open the door of 2507, Gao Ming did not go in directly.
The sound of blood and flesh crawling came from downstairs, various horrifying and bloody images flashed in his mind, and the twisted limbs were getting closer and closer to the fifth floor.
"It's kinda tense."
Taking out his lighter, the wavering flames dispersed the darkness, High Life lit a cigarette and sat down on the steps of the building.
The corpses that fell downstairs climbed over the cold steps, the dead souls getting a little bit closer to the living.
Listening to the sound made by the bones rubbing against the ground, High Life gazed at the corner of the stairs.
"Dad and mum have a lot, every night is not the same; colleagues are smart and strong, can kill eight people in three days; now warm and simple neighbours also have, such a life at first glance seems to be quite complete."
Blood-stained hair plastered to the ground, Zhao Xi's shattered face slowly appeared in the middle of the fourth and fifth floors.
"Coming?"
Gao Life didn't choose to run away like Xiao Qiu, nor did he go crazy and attack like Huang Mingming, in his eyes, Zhao Xi seemed to still be the same simple and honest Big Brother Zhao from before.
"Welcome home."
Getting up and walking towards room 2507, Gao Life opened the door of the house for Zhao Xi, and casually also pressed the switch of the living room light.
"Brother Zhao, I would often look for you to chat with you when I was on leave, and what I regret the most now is that I was thinking of waiting until I was done with my busy schedule to properly enlighten you."
Gao Life walked in front of him as the twisted and mutilated body slowly crawled towards him.
"The adoptive mother gave all her love to her own son, the sister-in-law just treated you as a tool to earn money, the other neighbours gossiped behind their backs, they also deliberately made things difficult for you in the factory in the port area, and when they saw that you were being honest, they purposely made you take the blame and falsely accused you of stealing things."
Looking towards the mirror in the living room, Gao Fate had noticed it when he first entered the game, the equivocal mirror reflected an upside down world.
"You try your best to appear optimistic and strong, but your heart is taken over by bitterness; you are the pillar of your family, but no one in your family really cares about your feelings; you often talk to me about the small happiness in your life, but you actually live a terrible life yourself; the world you expect is upside down from the reality, and you try very hard to change it, but the more you struggle instead, the more desperate you become."
Zhao Xi's head was driven by his shoulders, his broken neck twisted one hundred and eighty degrees, he was obviously lying on the ground, but his face could be turned upside down to look at Gao Life.
The most instinctive emotion, Gao Life's body was also trembling slightly, his nails dug into his flesh, his tone remained calm: "You haven't done a single thing wrong, all the pain from the root is imposed on you by others, I am not qualified to stand in a third party's point of view to judge you, and moreover, I will not persuade you to give up your revenge.I just want you to be able to be slightly happier, kind people deserve happiness, and you deserve to have family members who can truly understand you."
Falling backwards, Gao Life had prepared himself mentally in advance, but when he faced Zhao Xi's mutilated corpse up close, he still felt indescribable fear, and he felt that he was too weak.
His back touched the balcony window, lightning streaked by, and a ghastly white light shone on Gao Life and Zhao Xi.
Taking a deep breath, Gao Life said very seriously, "You don't want to be abandoned anymore, and desire to have a family, so why don't you let me be your family."
Thunder roared, torrential rain struck the window glass, 2607's investigator and Teacher Yao tugged tightly on the rope, they vaguely heard Gao Ming's words, the two of them stared at each other, both seeing shock on the other's face.
The blood stains on his clothes dragged out a long trail of blood in the living room, Zhao Xi was already about to climb to the balcony, his face facing Gao Life.
"I'm not intentionally deceiving you in order to save my life, nor am I looking for an excuse to escape, I've talked to you too many times and am clear on what kind of person you are, so I genuinely want to help you."Gao Life took out Zhao Xi's phone and touched the video on the top, "Whether it's pieces of a good life or making those neighbours get what they deserve, I can help you with that!What's in the mobile phone is ultimately just illusory, while we can change reality with our own hands!"
Without stepping back any further, Gao Life took a step forward as he extended his hand, "You'll be my family, and I'll be your accomplice."
The short sentence made Zhao Xi stop crawling for the first time.
A few seconds later, Zhao Xi's twisted arm raised, his bones were stretched, and a piercing sound echoed in 2507.
In the face of such a horrifying scene, Gao Life did not dodge in any way, and there was a hint of anticipation in his eyes in addition to fear.
The hand full of wounds grabbed at Gao Man, but instead of holding Gao Man's hand, Zhao Xi covered Gao Man's arm.
Feeling the strange movement coming from his arm, Gao Life sighed softly, Zhao Xi seemed to have lost his emotions as he was manipulating Gao Life's body, trying to push him down the stairs.
The limbs shattered, Zhao Xi's body opened up like a giant mouth, and Gao Life climbed backwards onto the windowsill.
"Get up here!"Teacher Yao and the investigator shouted as the rope swayed in the torrential rain.
"Wait a little longer."Gao Life wrapped the rope around his wrist, he gritted his teeth and overcame his unimaginable fear, staring at Zhao Xi's "open" body.
No one could understand Zhao Xi, and all Zhao Xi wrapped his neighbour in such a way that the other would die in the same way.
The body pressed down on Gao Ming, shifting his weight backward, and at the same time, Gao Ming shoved Zhao Xi's mobile phone into the body's gaping wound.
"Hurry up!Get up here!"
Zhao Xi's face was close at hand, and Gao Life could see the pain, sadness, and numbness under his eyes.
Flesh and blood were still wrapping around Gao Life's body, and Zhao Xi was about to grab Gao Life and jump with him as their bodies collapsed towards the window.
The torrential rain dampened his hair and clothes, and the moment Gao Life tipped backwards, he, who hadn't been struggling, used all his strength to push Zhao Xi into the house!
The collision caused the mobile phone in Zhao Xi's wound to fall, and the tragedy was rewritten in a different way - Zhao Xi was in the house, watching with both eyes as Gao Life fell in the torrential rain.
"Pull him!"
"Crap!"
Teacher Yao and the investigator used all their strength to tug on the rope, and Gao Life's body hit the wall in the middle of the fourth and fifth floors hard, his arm bending unnaturally, his face cut out in a gash, blood flowing, but it was as if he couldn't feel the pain.