My Healing Games

Chapter 477 You're here to help me get revenge? (4000 votes needed)
Looking at the confident mall owner, Shizhi's mouth stretched wide, revealing an exaggerated smile.

“You say the same things every time. Do you think I don’t know how you manipulate these lunatics?”

Black flames raged, engulfing the charging mad dogs. His ten fingers reveled in the carnage: "Money bribery, violence, bullying the weak with the voice of the strong, then showering those who pose no threat with small favors. You're adept at winning people over, and you're lucky, but let me tell you, once you leave the shrine, you're nothing but a useless piece of trash!"

Ten fingers pierced the ground, and the special symbols and divine patterns drawn on the wall were actually grasped in their hands, like black and red intertwined chains.

"You consider yourself the owner of the city, but you're not even a watchdog for the shrine. If this world of memories hadn't sealed my abilities, do you believe I would have turned this entire world red?"

The wails of the unjustly killed echoed from each of the ten fingers. The ten fingers possessed a special ability: the heavier the karma of killing, the stronger they became.

As the only source of hatred among his ten fingers, he himself didn't know how many people he had killed.

At this moment, all the souls that died unjustly turned into fuel for the black fire, and the ten fingers wanted to use violence to smash open the divine gate.

The black flames of hatred burned the chains formed by the divine runes, igniting all the symbols in the underground vault. If no one had interfered, the Ten Fingers might have had a chance to succeed, but unfortunately, the rainwater flowing into the underground vault was tainted by the resentment of the Wishing Well, and its biting cold suppressed the black flames.

“No matter how much you struggle, it’s useless. God is omnipotent. When I met him, I knew that I only had one path left, and that was to obey.” Boss Gu looked at the shrine respectfully: “The last offering should be appearing soon. This time, my wish is for longevity.”

Waving his arms, covered in festering scars, almost all the mutated monsters in the city headed towards him.

This is the despair that the shrine owner felt at one moment. He just wanted to live a good life, but suddenly everything in the world was pressing down on him. Those mutated monsters and madmen who had lost their minds crawled out from every corner, wanting to tear him apart and stuff him into their mouths to chew.

The further you go, the more terrifying the monsters become; many are no longer recognizable as human.

"He's the one who twisted this city, and he's the one who turned you into monsters. Now you not only don't disobey his orders, but you even want to kill me?" Ten Fingers let out a maniacal laugh: "What an absurd world! This place is too much like reality; it's far less clean than the afterlife!"

A deranged serial killer mocks the distorted world, licking the bloodstains left on his fingertips, and suddenly pulls on all the divine runes in the underground warehouse with both hands!

The giant clock at the top of the mall rang out, and the blood vessels that lined the department store burst open one by one. What flowed from those blood vessels was not blood, but the living people that this building had once swallowed.

One by one, skeletal corpses fell out and shattered into pieces, but the mutated monsters didn't care at all. They couldn't hear the cries of their companions, nor could they see the increasingly dark sky. They blindly obeyed the mall owner's orders and had even forgotten how to think.

Here, people have become commodities, each with a price tag attached to them. Life and death are not off-limits; even the soul can be sold.

The drained living become bricks in the building. His companions don't care how many souls are buried in the high-rise, they will only wonder why their price is set so low.

"How could a madman like you, who only knows how to kill, understand human pleasure?" The cold gaze of the shopkeeper remained fixed on Shizhi: "I have never forced them, nor have I deliberately guided them. It was they themselves who turned into monsters, it was their inner greed and desire. Everyone has an ugly side, and this world has just magnified the ugliness in their hearts several times over."

"I don't understand human pleasure, but I know the pleasure of killing. You should think carefully about how you're going to die." Ten Fingers didn't leave the world of memories immediately because the sudden appearance of the "unspeakable" in the deeper world made him feel threatened. He was worried that he wouldn't be able to protect the secret of the shrine and that the "unspeakable" would interfere with his next exploration.

That's why he decided to stay and fight the shrine to the death.

While Ten Fingers was talking to the mall owner, the ground floor of the mall collapsed completely. The remaining members of Ten Fingers touched the head tattoos and released their abilities. They charged into the crowd together, their target being Boss Gu.

"You've killed me so many times, haven't you noticed that I've always known about the outsider's existence and have been waiting for him?" Boss Gu didn't even look at the two hands and three fingers rapidly approaching him. A smile also appeared on his cold face: "The last sacrifice is the outsider. This time I've finally waited for him. Tonight I will be reborn."

Boss Gu, who had been exactly the same as during the day, began to experience physical changes!

Red hands crawled out of the festering wounds, grabbing and tearing anything that came near. Flesh and blood clung to his torso, causing his body to swell endlessly.

The two and three fingers that were close by quickly launched an attack on Boss Gu. After regaining their abilities, they could easily destroy Boss Gu's body, but no matter how much they destroyed it, Boss Gu would regenerate at an even faster speed.

He stood in the shopping mall flooded by the torrential rain, countless bloody hands emerging from his legs like plant roots reaching into the ground and attaching themselves to a well.

When the bloody hand and the well water were connected, Boss Gu seemed to have established some kind of connection with the shrine: "As long as you still want to use the shrine and still want to make wishes to it, you will never be able to defeat me."

There is only one way to kill Boss Gu, and that is to destroy the shrine. But how can the shrine, which is the foundation of the world, be destroyed so easily?

His body was rapidly expanding, and Boss Gu resembled a tree of vengeful spirits covered with human heads. Even in such a terrifying form, the mutated citizens of Shahe continued to flock into the mall to help him, only to be devoured by him and become his nourishment.

Two and three fingers were soon unable to restrain Boss Gu; this most evil seed had grown into a tree that could block out all light.

Even at the risk of their souls being scattered, Erzhi and his team could only slow down Boss Gu's growth rate.

"Come back! Don't waste your energy!"

Ten Fingers called his "brother" to his side: "He's right. The only way to kill him is to destroy the shrine, but we must protect the shrine to have a chance to obtain the crucial clue that has become unspeakable, so..."

"So what?" Two fingers was already almost squeezed out of this memory world, but he wasn't too worried, thinking there would be another chance to enter in the future.

“So you can die now.” He grabbed his companion, whose body was also tattooed with human heads, with ten fingers. “I raised you all just to prepare me for breaking through my hatred, but who knew that the flames of hatred would be ignited so easily.”

Two and three fingers immediately tried to escape, but they were already trapped.

"As long as I live in my body, I am not dead. What are you afraid of?"

His ten fingers pierced his companion's body, and flesh and blood slowly coalesced from his fingers: "What a pity. If those few hadn't gone missing, I should be able to unleash my full strength now."

After killing all his companions, Ten Fingers abandoned Boss Gu and rushed straight to the shrine.

Boss Gu, who was still frantically absorbing the mutated monsters, didn't care at all. With his shrewdness, since he dared to tell Ten Fingers that only by destroying the shrine could he kill him, it meant that he had absolute confidence that he could guarantee that Ten Fingers could not destroy the shrine.

"It's no use! It's no use! Nothing you do will make a difference!"

If unspeakable memories can be unlocked by brute force, then how could he possibly be an unspeakable being?

Boss Gu shouted frantically, but Shizhi thought the other party was just bluffing. He didn't believe that a shrine that had been abandoned for more than ten years could stop him.

With his hand burning with hatred, he reached for the shrine, completely breaking his own seal. He used boundless hatred to strike the top of the shrine, making the gap there more and more obvious.

Burn away the approaching mad dogs and monsters, and peer through the gap at the top of the shrine with your ten fingers.

Inside the shrine is a well, a well that holds the wishes of countless people. It seems both far away and very close. The deity who lives in the shrine is hidden at the bottom of the well!

The memories of the deceased Pei Yang, Snake Brother, and Oriole are intertwined, as if a common person once existed in their memories.

It was because of that person's existence that their memories were chosen. Only by weaving together all their memories could the rope have a chance to be extended into the well through the gap.

Looking at the still swaying rope, Shizhi realized that the rope was still some distance from the well water, and at least two more offerings would be needed.

"The shrine has never been damaged before; this is the closest I've ever come to that unspeakable place!"

His eyes were completely filled with hatred as he rushed toward the gap in the shrine without regard for anything else.

Hatred filled with murderous intent is the purest emotion; its black flames seem capable of burning everything.

As the ten fingers entered the shrine, Boss Gu in the mall let out a painful roar, as if the hatred of the ten fingers was burning inside his stomach.

The massive torso twisted and turned, the resentful branches withered rapidly, and Boss Gu's body shrank piece by piece, but his eyes were full of greed: "Once you're inside, let's see how you get out!"

Clutching at the rope of memory, he reached into the well with his ten fingers, but he couldn't touch the water's surface, nor could he retrieve anything from the well.

Gazing at the water so close at hand, he concentrated all his hatred in his left hand and then released his right hand from the rope.

A ball of black fire crashed into the water, and the wishes in the well shattered like bubbles. Ten fingers cried out to the well water, wanting to leave their wishes in it as well.

But just as he expressed his wish, the well in the shrine changed its appearance. The stone bricks turned into arms, and the stone well in his memory spread out in all directions like a red spider lily.

The clear well water turned blood red, reflecting the image of his own ten fingers, as if the god who had sunk to the bottom of the water looked just like him.

"This isn't a wishing well at all; it's a monster that devours wishes!"

As a manifestation of hatred, Ten Fingers felt a sense of impending doom and his soul was about to be scattered. He retreated decisively, but it was too late.

Those arms reached out to grab his body. He knew that if he got trapped here, he would probably be dragged into the well water in the end, so he chose the simplest and most direct method.

His fingers were like sharp knives; he would simply cut off any part of the body that couldn't escape, leaving only the heart burning with black flames.

The black flames were eventually extinguished by the resentful well water. Ten Fingers paid a terrible price to escape from the well, but the hatred he unleashed also caused some damage to the shrine. At this moment, the power shrouding the shrine was greatly weakened, and even ordinary people could get close.

"You actually escaped?" Boss Gu's fate was intertwined with that of the shrine; the shrine was injured, and he was severely wounded as well. But the biggest difference between him and Ten Fingers was that he could recover quickly by drawing upon those mutated souls. As long as there were still people who believed him, as long as there were still people willing to follow him, he would never be killed.

"You old bastard, neither human nor ghost, I now know all your secrets. The next time we meet will be your death day." Ten Fingers was now extremely weak, the black fire of hatred in his eyes was almost extinguished, and only the seed of hatred in his chest was still throbbing.

"There won't be a next time. All the offerings have been gathered. I will be reborn in this memory." The mall owner's words carried a hint of regret. He deliberately said that destroying the shrine could harm his true form, hoping to use the shrine's power to devour his ten fingers.

With a wave of his arm, a large number of mutated monsters pounced on Ten Fingers again. At this point, Ten Fingers was powerless to resist, and the only option left for him was to leave.

With resentment in his eyes and his ten fingers and face full of venom, he stared at Boss Gu. As the monster began to tear his body apart, he used his last strength to try to touch the tattoo on his chest.

But just as his bare hand was about to touch his heart, he suddenly felt something grab his wrist.

Looking up, the mutated monster in front of him fell to the side, and behind the monster stood a young man.

He wore a beast-face mask, and his eyes were cold and chilling.

"He's not from this world of memories!"

As the thought crossed his mind, the young man slowly spoke: "Rest in peace, I will avenge you."

A particularly dazzling light in the darkness entered his ten fingers and chest, and the bloodshot eyes and hatred in his pupils began to dissipate.

Gazing at the dazzling blade piercing his chest, Shi Zhi felt the core of his hatred begin to shatter. He even repeated Han Fei's words: "You've come to help me avenge myself?"

(End of this chapter)