My Healing Games

Chapter 475 An Infinitely Bizarre City (5000 votes needed, please vote!)
"If your boss won't approve your leave, just resign!"

Han Fei genuinely cares about Lin Lu. The current focus of the dispute between Shizhi and Boss Gu is Huang Li, who is in that hospital, and Lin Lu is likely to be implicated.

"What you said makes a lot of sense at first glance."

“I know you just got the job and it’s hard for you to decide to resign, but please trust me this once. That hospital is dangerous. Don’t go there after get off work. Just stay home.” Han Fei softened his tone. He rarely dealt with normal women, so he needed to carefully organize his thoughts.

"But...your mother is still in the ward. When I went to ask for leave today, I think I heard the doctors discussing your mother's condition."

"What did they say?"

"I feel there is still hope, but it seems that the dean and doctors have taken bribes from Boss Gu. I didn't hear the specifics clearly, but I know that they seem to be changing the time for their rounds of the intensive care unit tonight."

After Lin Lu finished speaking, Han Fei's eyes narrowed slightly; he had keenly sensed the problem.

When was the ward round time changed to?

"Generally, there are two room checks in the middle of the night. It used to be once at midnight and once at 4 a.m.; now it's changed to only once at 2 a.m.," Lin Lu told Han Fei, sharing the information she had overheard.

"They start rounds at 2 a.m. and then stay there until dawn. Aren't the doctors there during that time? What if something happens to the patient?"

"There are still people on duty, but unless something unexpected happens, they should all be resting in the duty room."

"There's definitely something fishy about changing the ward round time. Boss Gu has been in contact with the doctor, and this morning he threatened me again using my mother." Han Fei lowered his voice: "My mother clearly has a chance of being cured, but the doctor told me she only has one week left. It seems that Boss Gu wants to use my mother to deal with me."

Han Fei saw Boss Gu's bodyguard walking towards him and spoke faster: "Be careful when you're on duty tonight. Call me anytime if you encounter any trouble, and I'll get there as soon as possible."

After hanging up the phone, Han Fei put it away. His expression remained unchanged throughout, but his eyes were somewhat frightening.

Boss Gu left two bodyguards at the store, and they would follow Han Fei wherever he went, ensuring that Han Fei remained within their sight.

“The shrine owner’s mother is seriously ill and still on medication. She is unable to move and can only stay in the hospital. I can’t move her to another place.”

Han Fei walked around the store, wanting to check the underground warehouse to make a decision on his next steps.

But as soon as he approached the entrance to the underground warehouse, he was stopped by one of the bodyguards.

In short, he is now confined to the secondhand store and cannot leave the store or enter the underground area at will.

"Boss Gu has already cleared out the underground warehouse and set up the altar. The next step is definitely to place offerings and prepare to worship the gods."

The loss of the truth had a huge impact on Boss Gu, forcing him to bring all his plans forward.

"I smashed a big hole in the shrine, the foundation of the memory world is unstable, and a future that no one has ever experienced has appeared."

Han Fei looked out the window, his gaze piercing through the rain curtain, fixed on the city being washed by the downpour.

"The sky has darkened, and the nights will grow longer and longer."

Sitting behind the counter, Han Fei took out his phone and sent a message to Snake Brother's men, telling them to bring the old lady and the package to the vicinity of the department store at midnight tonight.

After Snake Brother's subordinate replied, Han Fei was still worried. To ensure safety, he sent another text message to Wang Ping'an, but unfortunately, Wang Ping'an did not reply.

"What are you doing?" The bodyguard who had stopped Han Fei from approaching the underground warehouse came over again. He reached out to Han Fei and demanded his phone: "Who did you call just now?"

Seeing the bodyguard's outstretched hand, Han Fei simply smiled and said, "My landlord is urging me to pay the rent."

Stopping using his phone, Han Fei picked up a secondhand book from a flea market and started reading. Gradually, it got completely dark.

There were hardly any customers in the mall, many shops were closed, and by 9 p.m., almost all the lights in the mall were off.

"Would you two like something to eat?"

Han Fei walked toward the bodyguards, but the two bodyguards did not reply. They stared intently at the entrance to the underground warehouse, and some black hairs grew on their skin.

"Everything was fine before, how did it suddenly turn out like this?"

He gently patted the bodyguard's arm, and the bodyguard suddenly turned his head and bared his teeth at Han Fei like a mad dog, but after only half a second, he returned to normal.

"Are you alright?"

"It's nothing." Han Fei slowly moved away from the bodyguards. The two bodyguards sitting at the entrance of the underground warehouse were slowly undergoing a transformation, without them even realizing it.

"It's only a little past nine o'clock. Some things in my past memories only started to change after midnight."

With a hint of unease, Han Fei looked out the window. There were far fewer lights in the city tonight, and under the shroud of the torrential rain, the entire city seemed to be distorted.

"No wonder Ten Fingers dared not casually damage the shrine; fate changes, and alienation arrives sooner." In the world of memories, the sand river is a symbol of death, and the water in the wishing well is a condensation of hatred and resentment. In this world, everything related to water is ominous.

The nights were already getting longer, and with the thick, dark clouds, not a single ray of light could penetrate the night sky...

"Ding-dong", "Ding-dong"...

At 10 p.m., the doors of the secondhand market kept opening, and footsteps could be heard on the escalator leading to the underground warehouse.

Many toys and dolls on the old shelves had tears on their faces, and some of the once clean old goods had bloodstains on them.

The floorboards creaked and groaned, as if something was crawling around inside. Behind the cracked shelf was complete darkness, but if you shone a flashlight inside, you could see several dark, hollow eyes.

The tables and chairs seemed to be swaying slightly, and a dull sound came from the underground storeroom, as if a huge heart was beating.

Han Fei had no idea what had happened in the underground warehouse, but he felt that all the anomalies originated from underground.

"The mission requires survival for thirty days. The shrine's owner's diary has thirty pages, meaning he should have been sacrificed on the thirtieth day. But now, the mall owner, under pressure, has set up the altar ahead of schedule." Han Fei silently weighed his options: "Should I try to destroy that altar?"

Thunder roared, and torrential rain pounded against the glass. Inside the store, the secondhand appliances, though clearly not powered on, began to flicker on their screens. Through the black and white static, one could vaguely see images of people being pushed into wells, screaming in agony.

At 11 p.m., Han Fei arrived at the store entrance. As the ding-dong sound rang, he heard a system notification.

"Attention Player 0000! Your current hunger level is 60 and your mood level is 30. Do you wish to begin today's work?"

"Yes."

As soon as the system's cold notification sound rang out, Han Fei felt a sudden weight on his shoulder. He turned his head and saw a hairy arm draped over his shoulder.

"Stay here and don't move." The bodyguards had completely changed their appearance. Long black hair grew on their exposed skin, their bodies were hunched, and their spines seemed to have been forcibly bent. They looked like humans, but even more like dogs.

"Okay." Han Fei turned around and quietly took out his phone to send another message to Snake Brother's men, telling them to arrive ahead of time. But just as the phone screen reflected the image behind him, Han Fei saw countless faces reflected on the screen.

Adjusting the angle, Han Fei held his phone up to the glass window and discovered that there were people lying on the glass behind the shop door.

Those people had long faces, their hands pressed against the glass, their faces pressed against the shop window, constantly looking inside. Among them were a few that Han Fei recognized; they seemed to be the workers who had received money from Boss Gu during the day.

"Oh!"

The sound of shattering glass suddenly rang out!
All the people who had been lying outside the shop went inside. They were drawn by a sound coming from underground. They walked past Han Fei and headed one by one toward the underground storeroom.

Shoe prints appeared on the mall floor, but they were quickly covered by new ones.

The night sky was pitch black, and the torrential rain seemed to threaten to engulf the city. The place was incredibly noisy, yet not a single sound related to people could be heard.

"Can't wait any longer!"

Han Fei decisively walked out of the secondhand store, but after only a few seconds outside, his mood score dropped by a point, an unprecedented rate of decline that forced him to stop.

"how is this possible?"

A suppressed growl reached my ears; the sound that seemed to come out when a wild beast was in danger actually rang out in the secondhand shop.

Han Fei slowly turned around and saw that Boss Gu's two bodyguards had turned into large, black-furred dogs. Their canine teeth protruding from their mouths were covered with pieces of clothing and bits of flesh. There was no humanity in their eyes, and they had collars made of money around their necks.

"It's mutated?"

In the eyes of the shrine's owner, the bodyguards were nothing more than dogs kept by Boss Gu, incapable of distinguishing right from wrong, and willing to do anything for money.

The two wild dogs, their eyes filled with greed and a strong desire to attack, bared their teeth at Han Fei.

Leaving the secondhand shop will cause your mood to plummet. The lower your mood, the more mutated the monsters you encounter, and the more dangerous the situation will be.

But staying in the store means being accompanied by these two rabid dogs, who could attack you at any time.

Perhaps seeing that Han Fei refused to enter the shop, one of the dogs lowered its back and suddenly pounced on Han Fei!
Its mouth opened, revealing two rows of human teeth and canines, and a strong, pungent smell of blood wafted from the mad dog's mouth.

"To be reborn!"

Taking out the Rebirth Knife, Han Fei discovered in a very short time that the area where the mad dog wore the money collar had no hair and still retained human skin.

"That should be the weakness."

A blade made of humanity flashed, slicing through the air, and the mad dog's head was severed.

"The fact that I was able to kill you means you must have killed quite a few people." Han Fei didn't sheathe his sword; having gone this far, he simply killed the other mad dog as well.

Before he could make a move, another mad dog had already run over, tearing at its own kind's body with its jaws. It was hard to imagine that just before nightfall, they had been guarding the shop together.

Dark red blood seeped into the ground along the floor. The mad dog, which had been biting its companion, suddenly stopped chewing. Its eyes stared straight at Han Fei, and the phantom of the shrine appeared in its eyes.

It kept growling, and the mad dog's body began to swell, finally exploding right in front of Han Fei.

Blood splattered everywhere, completely changing the appearance of the store. Even more bizarrely, at this moment, all the clocks on the wall stopped ticking.

Han Fei felt extremely uneasy, knowing that what was in the shrine recognized him.

The mood rating wouldn't normally drop if Han Fei stayed inside the shop because the shrine protected the secondhand store. But now, the shrine has discovered that the person who ripped its "skull" off last night is right there in the shop. It's no longer willing to protect Han Fei; it would be a disservice to the title of "evil god" if it didn't do everything in its power to kill him.

The heartbeat coming from the underground warehouse became clearer. Han Fei looked at the ground and saw that the powerful heartbeat was coming closer and closer to him!

Han Fei turned and ran. His mood value would drop a little every few seconds. Before he even left the department store, his mood value had already fallen to a very dangerous level.

His mind was filled with all sorts of terrifying thoughts, and he couldn't concentrate at all. The torrential rain outside the mall seemed like a sea falling from the sky, and if he dared to take even half a step out of the mall, he would be swallowed up.

In this extreme situation, Han Fei had no choice but to go outside, for staying meant certain death.

"Run west! Snake Brother's men will be coming from the West District!"

Without hesitation, Han Fei rushed into the darkness, not daring to stop. He didn't know how far he had run when suddenly a glimmer of light appeared at the end of the street.

"Brother, brother? Why aren't you using an umbrella?"

A stuttering voice reached Han Fei's ears. He looked up and saw a slightly deformed face.

Wang Ping'an!
"I...I just saw your message, I'm sorry."

"Ping An, to the People's Hospital! Take me there quickly!" Han Fei got on Wang Ping An's electric scooter. Only when he was holding onto Wang Ping An would the rate at which his mood score dropped slow down.

Upon opening the panel, Han Fei's mood score had dwindled to only sixteen points, and everything in his eyes was mutating.

The road at night seemed to have turned into the River Styx, with pale arms occasionally emerging from the flowing puddles, and eyes opening in the constantly changing traffic lights. The dark bushes were filled with the shadows of hanged people.

Braving the heavy rain, Wang Ping'an, oblivious to the strange changes around him, put a helmet on Han Fei before starting the car: "Brother, my dad said he wants to give you his helmet. He said you're a good person, and told me to call you brother and be your friend. He also said you wouldn't hurt me."

The torrential rain ravaged the city, and amidst the chaotic sound of the rain, Wang Ping'an's voice seemed to carry a special power, allowing Han Fei to hold onto his reason and not be affected by the mutated ghostly figures.

"Your dad thinks I'm a good person, but what about you? In your impression, what kind of person am I?" Han Fei's mood score dropped to 15. He grabbed Wang Ping'an's shoulder, his cheeks already wet with rain.

“I don’t know what a good person is or what a bad person is. I just feel like you treat me like a human being. You make me feel like I’m the same as you, a human being.” Wang Ping’an still stammered as he spoke, but he smiled happily, as if riding a bike with Han Fei in the rain was a very cool thing.

As the electric scooter crossed the stone bridge, the railings were filled with people soaking wet, shouting that they hoped Han Fei would take them home. They would even chase after the electric scooter, but it seemed they could never leave the stone bridge.

"Ping An, drive faster."

With his mood score dropping to fourteen, the city in Han Fei's eyes had completely transformed into something else entirely; he had never even seen such a scene in his nightmares.

The rain washed away the building's outer skin, revealing the flesh and blood inside. People were sprawled haphazardly within the building, and even breathing felt suffocating.

Blood and sweat flow beneath the city's feet, and floating there are countless unwanted smiling faces.

All the souls were howling, but none of them could hear each other, and everything was eventually submerged by the heavy rain.

"Brother, brother! You can't fall asleep!"

"I didn't sleep."

"As long as you're not asleep, that's fine. Once I took a mother and child to the hospital, and the mother kept holding the child and shouting loudly—'You can't fall asleep!' Bro, why can't people who go to the hospital fall asleep?"

Wang Ping'an seemed afraid that Han Fei would fall asleep, so he kept talking, but Han Fei's attention was entirely focused on the attribute panel.

When their mood score dropped to nine points, they finally arrived at the People's Hospital.

The electric car stopped, and Han Fei and Wang Ping'an looked up. The building in front of them became unfamiliar; it was bloated and ugly, with black veins visible beneath the white paint, as if death had put on an angel's mask.

In the shrine's owner's memory, this hospital accepted bribes from Boss Gu and took away his mother, which is why the entire building turned out this way. In fact, the alienated world is a kind of outpouring of his inner feelings.

"Let's go to the fourth floor."

Upon entering the hospital, Han Fei's mood plummeted again. Without even taking off his helmet, he ran to the fourth floor with Wang Ping'an.

The steps that are usually easy to climb have become like a ladder to heaven tonight.

The four-story building seemed like a distance he could never cover in his lifetime.

“I know your pain. I came here to change all of this. I can go see the places you’ve never been to in your life.”

Han Fei took out the wishing jar and shouted with all his might, "I have helped you so much, now all I want is to see my mother one last time."

The blood-red figures quietly appeared, first the elderly family, then several shop assistants, and finally the woman on the third floor of the mall.

They walked up the steps with Han Fei, turning all the white steps red.

With each step leaving a bloody footprint, they managed to get Han Fei to the fourth floor.

Rushing to the end of the corridor, Han Fei pushed open the door to the ward filled with rotting flesh.

In this bizarre city of endless alienation, the ward where the shrine owner's mother is located is exactly the same as in her memory.

On the bedside table, which was free of any clutter, sat a bouquet of artificial flowers that would never wither.

The haggard mother lay on the clean white sheets. To her left were various medical instruments, and to her right stood a drunken man.

The man was holding a medical tube in one hand and trying to turn off the still-operating machine with the other.

Watching the man's retreating figure, Han Fei clenched his fists so tightly that his nails dug into his flesh.

"court death!"

Thank you to the perfect and dashing leader who grew up in the Yin Yang Flower Garden!
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