My Healing Games

Chapter 322 The Secret of Atrium 1244 (4000 words)

Frankly speaking, Han Fei also underestimated the audacity of merchants.

This miser, in his quest to reclaim his money, practically danced on a knife's edge, repeatedly teetering on the brink of annihilation. He exerted an extraordinary amount of effort as long as there was a glimmer of hope, relentlessly pursuing even a neighbor more powerful than himself—a truly inspiring story.

"What exactly happened to this businessman? His obsession seems to be money. He died for money, and then reappeared because of money. For him, money seems to be the best cure."

Han Fei followed the merchant and saw some "owners" he had never seen in the game. He discovered that there were still some differences between the Dead Building game and the Deep World Dead Building.

In the Dead Building game, almost all the rooms are occupied, but in the Deep World Dead Building, most of the owners are concentrated in the rooms with the number four in their room numbers.

Han Fei sensed that the residents of the dead buildings in the Deep World had been thoroughly purged, with only a few key residents remaining. It was like the Happiness Community where Han Fei had previously lived; when the previous building manager was in charge, there were many neighbors, but by the time Han Fei took over, there were very few left.

Holding the red dress and following the merchant, Han Fei carefully examined the rooms inside the dead building, and soon he noticed a detail.

Following the scattered paper money on the ground, the merchant arrived at the sixth floor. After seeing the child who often went out sleepwalking at night behind the security door on the sixth floor, he hesitated for a moment, but finally took the child and knocked on the door of room 1064.

The child's mother stopped at the doorway and revealed her face.

Han Fei wondered if it was just his imagination, but he felt that she looked a bit like the woman with the syringe on the 22nd floor.

To verify his guess, Han Fei controlled the game character and ran to the 22nd floor, where he found the injured child next to the safety door.

The child stood alone outside the emergency exit, sobbing softly, while the crazy woman with the syringe hid behind the emergency exit on the 22nd floor.

Han Fei quietly approached, then controlled the game character to pick up the child and run downstairs.

The next scene was the same as in the Deep World: the crazed woman, brandishing a syringe, rushed out of the security door and relentlessly chased after Han Fei.

Through the screen, Han Fei carefully examined the face of the woman on the 22nd floor. She looked remarkably similar to the woman on the 6th floor, as if they were one and the same.

What puzzled Han Fei even more was that when he took the bruised child to the sixth floor and was about to make the merchant take the blame, the woman with the syringe stopped chasing him. She did not enter the sixth-floor corridor, but instead bared her teeth and claws in the sixth-floor stairwell, repeatedly banging her head against the sixth-floor safety door.

"The door wasn't locked, so why didn't she dare come in?"

Just as Han Fei was feeling puzzled, a loud crash suddenly came from upstairs, as if a window had been smashed. Immediately afterwards, Han Fei saw a woman fall from a window in the stairwell.

"A ghost who jumped off a building!"

Calculating the time, the ghost that jumped off the building appeared exactly half an hour after Han Fei entered the dead building, which is basically consistent with the deep world.

"If the newcomer is not killed by the death curse within half an hour, will the jumping ghost be triggered?"

A few seconds later, the eerie voice of the ghost who jumped off the building echoed in the stairwell. Han Fei was on the sixth floor at that moment, too close to the ghost.

Not long after, the deformed ghost climbed to the sixth floor, and the stairwell behind her was covered with blood and bones.

Upon seeing the ghost who had jumped off the building, Han Fei didn't panic too much. He stared at the face that he could barely make out.

"The ghost who jumped off the building, the woman with the syringe on the 22nd floor, and the mother on the 6th floor who kept bringing children into the house all have similar facial features! Is there some connection between the three of them? Could it be that their original consciousness was split into three parts?"

The more Han Fei thought about it, the more likely it seemed, because the ghost who jumped off the building was completely dominated by hatred, with only killing and death in its mind. It had no humanity, not even a trace of memory related to people, which was extremely abnormal even for a resentful spirit.

"Could it be that the butterfly tore apart her different memories to make it easier to control the ghost who jumped off the building? These three different women actually represent three parts of memories."

As the ghost of the suicide attempt drew closer, Han Fei remembered something very important.

He put down the game controller, offered no resistance, and let the ghost tear the game character apart.

Under Zhuang Ren's puzzled gaze, Han Fei took out his phone and began searching for information about the female anchor who had been suffering from a terminal illness fourteen years ago.

That incident caused a huge uproar online back then, and Han Fei easily found the old information.

When he saw the female anchor's photo, his eyes widened, and his suspicions were confirmed.

The photo of the female anchor who died fourteen years ago looks exactly like the female anchor in post #1084 (see Chapter 309 for details)!
In other words, the woman in the red dress in room 1044 and the female anchor in room 1084 are probably the same person. However, the female anchor in room 1084, who is curious about everything and maintains a positive attitude, may represent the sunny side of the woman in the red dress.

The appearance of the photos confirms one thing.

The memories of terrifying beings like the red dress and the ghost who jumped off the building have also been tampered with by the administrators. Their consciousness has been split up. Han Fei is not yet clear about the administrators' purpose in doing this, but he feels that if he wants the red dress and the ghost who jumped off the building to control him, he must first get their scattered memories back together.

"The female anchor in room 1084 is very curious about the tragedy that happened in room 1044 and retains some memories of it, but she thinks it's someone else's story. She feels that she only moved to the dead building out of sympathy and curiosity. There is a clear connection between the female anchor and the woman in the red dress, but what is the connection between the ghost who jumped off the building, the woman with the syringe, and the divorced mother raising a sleepwalking child?"

"Zhuang Wen jumped to her death, and the cause of death had nothing to do with the syringe; the divorced mother's experience was also unlike Zhuang Wen's... but their children's experiences were somewhat similar to Zhuang Wen's."

Han Fei felt that the ghost story was not simple and that there must be more to it than met the eye.

The Jumping Ghost is the most terrifying and powerful vengeful spirit in Building Number One, a monster that failed to transform its hatred. For Han Fei, if he could get the Jumping Ghost to his side, his chances of survival in the dead building would greatly increase.

"This game might give me the answer."

Picking up the game controller, Han Fei continued to play the game. He was now very familiar with the Dead Tower game, and he was playing it like a race, clearing the game faster and faster.

He entered the dead building map again, and the previous steps remained unchanged. However, after obtaining the red dress, he did not go to cause trouble for the merchant again, but went to room 1084.

The female anchor in room 1084 was the only person in the entire building who was very kind to Han Fei. She had no intention of harming Han Fei, and her personality was just like that of the female anchor who had passed away.

Han Fei became increasingly certain of his guess. He tried to get the female streamer to wear a red dress, but the moment she put it on, she transformed into an incredibly ferocious monster and killed Han Fei's game character.

"Why not? Is something missing?"

Han Fei frowned in thought, while Zhuang Ren beside him was completely dumbfounded. Han Fei's actions were something most people couldn't even imagine; his thinking was just as bizarre as this dead-end game.

Trying again, this time Han Fei is prepared to take a two-pronged approach.

He first carried the child and lured the woman with the syringe from the 22nd floor to the 6th floor. While the woman with the syringe was acting crazy, he took the child, who was hiding behind the safety door on the 6th floor, to the 8th floor.

Calculating the time, just as the ghost about to jump off the building was about to appear, Han Fei knocked on the door of room 1084 and asked the female anchor to put on a red dress.

While the other person was getting dressed, he started running outside with the two children in his arms.

After putting on the red dress, the female anchor completely transformed into a monster, chasing after Han Fei all the way to the sixth floor.

At this moment, Han Fei knocked on the door of room 1064. The divorced mother seemed unwilling to leave the room, so Han Fei, in front of her, rushed towards the woman with the syringe while carrying two children.

The divorced mother also ran away to protect her child from harm.

At this critical moment, the ghost who jumped off the building also appeared.

Han Fei had timed it perfectly, gathering the divorced mother, the syringe woman, and the ghost who jumped off the building together, and something unexpected happened.

The ghost who jumped off the building, completely consumed by hatred, actually avoided the divorced mother, the woman with the syringe, and their child!
"There really is a connection between them!"

From the other side of the corridor, the woman in the red dress, now fully transformed, ran over. Everything was just as Han Fei had predicted: the female anchor, now a monster, was locked in a fierce battle with the crazed ghost who had jumped off the building.

Han Fei put down the two children and took the opportunity to run to the top floor. He couldn't open the door to room 1244; he needed a key.

Left with no other option, Han Fei returned to the sixth floor, hoping to take advantage of the chaos and steal the key embedded in the heart of the ghost who had jumped from the building. However, his game character was instantly killed whenever it got close to the fighting ghost.

After restarting three times in a row, Han Fei calmed down. Each restart would waste time clearing the previous levels, and he was going to enter the deeper world again tonight, so he didn't have much time to waste.

“There must be other ways. I’ll be killed by the jumping ghost as soon as I get close. But when the jumping ghost first appeared, it didn’t hurt the divorced mother and the syringe woman. Maybe I can get the key from them.”

Han Fei changed his strategy. He took the child from the sixth floor to a safe place and then told the divorced mother that the child might have been hidden on the top floor by the ghost who jumped off the building. To save the child, he needed to get the key first.

The divorced mother agreed, and Han Fei then lured the red dress, which had turned into a monster, to the scene. After the ghost who jumped off the building paid a terrible price to completely tear the red dress apart, the divorced mother pulled the key from the severely injured ghost.

However, when the key was touched, black death curses began to emerge from the divorced mother's body. These filthy and evil curses were originally only concentrated on the ghost who jumped off the building.

Running towards the top floor, halfway there, the divorced mother seemed to recall some very terrible things, and she was gradually becoming the second ghost to jump off the building.

As Han Fei took the key, his life began its countdown the moment he touched it. The game character would die when the death curse spread throughout his body.

Not daring to waste any time, Han Fei controlled his game character to go to the top floor. He inserted the black and red key into the lock and successfully opened the door to room 1244!

The heavy black security door slowly opened, revealing blood-red runes pasted all over its back, making the entire game screen seem stained with blood.

The room was filled with all sorts of strange statues and scribbled symbols, with strange characters and incantations written on the walls, and scattered folk remedies and books with strange patterns on the floor.

Bloodstains were everywhere. Han Fei controlled his game character to approach the bedroom door. As if hearing his footsteps, crying suddenly came from inside the room.

Upon entering, one finds an ugly, old middle-aged man chained to the ground, surrounded by scattered paper money and numerous tools used for summoning spirits. He is constantly muttering words of begging for mercy and repentance.

It was from this strangely dressed man that Han Fei learned just how terrible the ghost who jumped off the building had been.

Whether she was sick or had mental problems, Zhuang Wen was always locked in the storage room. The more pained and crazy she became, the more the man thought she was possessed. He forced her to drink all sorts of strange things, drew talismans on her body, and repeatedly hit her.

Looking at the cold words on the screen and listening to the sounds coming from the game, Han Fei and Zhuang Ren both felt a chill creeping into their hearts.

After leaving the middle-aged man's room, Han Fei opened the door to the storage room. The cramped storage room contained a single bed, which was dirty and messy, with chains, excrement, and various syringes lying on the bed.

The room that once confined Zhuang Wen now houses the son and daughter of a middle-aged man, who have been driven to dementia by fear and can only cry incessantly.

Han Fei ignored the middle-aged man's child. He lifted the blankets and sheets, which were covered with curses, detailing all the pain and despair in Zhuang Wen's memory. Just looking at them sent chills down one's spine.

Zhuang Wen hated everything, including her mother. When Zhuang Wen was very young, her mother used her as a bargaining chip to threaten Zhuang Ren, the director of the film crew at the time. Later, Zhuang Wen's mother went crazy.

From that moment on, the seeds of resentment were sown.

Zhuang Wen hates her mother, she hates Zhuang Ren, and she hates her adoptive father even more. To her, the world is just a dark and oppressive place.

"The 'syringe woman' used her own child as bait, beating him until he was covered in bruises. Zhuang Wen was also abused in the same way. Zhuang Wen's mother also used Zhuang Wen as a bargaining chip to threaten Zhuang Ren, a director of a horror film! The child of a divorced mother is trapped at home. Zhuang Wen was also imprisoned by her adoptive father's family. At that time, what she hoped for most was to find the non-existent key and leave that home forever! Just like a sleepwalking child can always find the house key and escape at night!"

The three memories were connected, and Han Fei gripped the game controller, feeling a chill run through him.

How could someone do this?

Zhuang Ren, who was standing next to him, also saw the vicious curses in the game screen. He stared at his own blood-red name on the bedding, his hands trembling uncontrollably.

"Is it because of this child? Is it because she locked my whole family in that dead building?"

Zhuang Ren's tone was clearly abnormal. He was breathing rapidly, clutching his chest, and his expression was distorted.

Despite the pain, he grabbed a pill from the table and swallowed it, which provided some relief.

"Han Fei, please, look at the other rooms! My family might be in this room!"

(End of this chapter)