My Healing Games

Chapter 480: Mission Rewards Far Exceed Expectations! (5000 Monthly Tickets Requested)
Countless cursed arms reached out towards the well in the center of the shrine, carrying the greed and despair of the deceased, and slowly sealed the well shut.

The old man and his family, along with the woman who had hanged herself, wanted to rush over to help, but they were stopped by Boss Gu before they even got close to the shrine. His massive body was frantically sucking the greed of the living, and his canopy, covered with heads, had completely blocked the top of the department store.

"What are you still struggling for? He is the final sacrifice. The ritual is complete. Once I push you back into the well, everything will return to normal. Perhaps I will even have a chance to be reborn in his body."

Boss Gu's face was as rough as tree bark, and his voice echoed in the darkness, but his eyes remained fixed on the well.

All the offerings were put into the well water, and the countless hands controlled by greed also awoke. They began to devour the offerings and concentrate all their resentment on the "stone" pressing the well.

Based on previous experience, the ceremony should have been successful by now, but the number of arms that have emerged is not decreasing but increasing.

The shrine had been pried open by countless hands, which kept reaching downwards as if opening the gates of the underworld.

The mall was in complete chaos, unrecognizable from its original state. Everyone was fighting frantically when a seemingly simple-minded young man appeared at the entrance, pushing out an electric scooter.

"Brother? How much longer am I supposed to hide? Why haven't you come looking for me? Have you forgotten about me?"

The room was filled with mutated monsters, bloodstains, and corpses, but Wang Ping'an showed no fear or panic. He chuckled foolishly, pushing his electric scooter and looking around as if searching for Han Fei.

No one paid any attention to Wang Ping'an, and no one deliberately attacked him. Boss Gu only turned his head when Wang Ping'an approached the underground warehouse, but lost interest after just one glance.

What can a fool do?
"Oh!"

The ground floor of the shopping mall collapsed, and Wang Ping'an, who was pushing an electric bike, was not paying attention and accidentally fell into the underground storage room.

He was both comical and unlucky, and many people had made him a laughing stock. But he had a good temper, and even though he didn't understand anything, he would laugh along when others mocked him.

As Wang Ping'an scrambled to his feet from the mud, he saw countless arms surging out: "What is everyone grabbing for?"

Holding the helmet, they walked forward, their arms, driven by greed, ignoring Wang Ping'an.

From childhood to adulthood, no one except his father liked him, because everyone thought he was a burden, a fool who couldn't take care of himself.

If his father hadn't refused to give up and taught him step by step, starting with the simplest thing like eating, Wang Ping'an might have become a "patient" who could only be confined at home forever.

"Have you seen my brother? He looks just like an actor on TV."

Their arms lashed out hastily, rushing towards the well opening like madmen. They were willing to do anything for their desires and had no time to pay any attention to Wang Ping'an.

As he continued walking forward, Wang Ping'an fell several times. Standing on the edge of those arms, he could vaguely see what looked like a fire in the well in the distance.

The light was not dazzling at all; it gave people a very warm feeling, making people want to get closer.

"what is that?"

He quickened his pace, and even though he was repeatedly knocked over by arms, he would get back up.

He had never seen such a gentle flame in his previous life, it was like the stars in the sky.

After falling down again and again, he finally reached the well and peered inside through the gap in his arm.

Han Fei was plunging the butcher's knife into the well in the man's heart when his body began to fall.

"elder brother!"

Wang Ping'an shouted loudly, and Han Fei heard his voice, but Han Fei no longer had the strength to speak.

His body fell downwards, while the man with the Rebirth Knife stuck in his chest was pushed to the edge of the well.

If no one in this world of memories is willing to reach out and grab him, then there is only one fate awaiting him: to fall back into the deep well.

Flames rose, and the warm light made Wang Ping'an reach out unconsciously.

Among the countless arms trying to push the man into the well, Wang Ping'an stood out. Like a fool, he grabbed the man and instinctively pulled him out of the well!
In the world of memories that had been shrouded in despair, something seemed to have changed at this moment.

The torrential rain that had swept through the city subsided somewhat, and the wind was no longer piercing.

As Wang Ping'an pulled the man's upper body out of the well, the well pattern formed by countless curses on the man's chest began to slowly dissipate, and bright red blood began to flow from both the man's and Boss Gu's chests at the same time.

When he opened his eyes, the man's left eye had been gouged out, and a sea of ​​blood-red water was hidden in the dark hole. His right eye, however, was incredibly beautiful, and in its jewel-like pupil, one could vaguely see a scale that would never be balanced.

The man, his chest pierced, touched the blood on his chest, yet a smile remained on his face.

"Can I finally be free?"

Looking up, the man and Boss Gu, who had transformed into a giant tree, met each other's gazes.

At this moment, Boss Gu had completely lost his mind. His enormous body began to wither rapidly, and large wounds appeared, revealing the originally stinking flesh and blood.

No matter how many monsters wearing money collars are used to fill the wounds, they will never heal.

"So it turns out that there really are people who can do it."

The wound pierced by the Rebirth Knife began to bleed more and more, and the man's smile grew wider and wider.

As the man weakened, Boss Gu gradually became unable to continue; their strength seemed to originate from the same source.

A scream came from Boss Gu's mouth. The spirits of the dead he had killed began to take revenge. Without the help of the shrine, he was indeed just a useless piece of trash.

The more severe the injuries to Boss Gu, the weaker he would become, but he didn't care at all. He just watched all of this with amusement, watching the most disgusting thing in his memory being tortured.

Arms driven by greed could no longer reach for water after the man left the well; they shriveled and lost their vitality, like dried-out water plants.

"elder brother!"

Wang Ping'an lay on the edge of the well and shouted into it; the man heard Wang Ping'an's voice.

He turned around, his gaze softening.

Destroying the shrine is extremely difficult; one must gather all the offerings and enter the well while being pursued by Boss Gu.

Throughout the process, one will be tempted by the shrine. If one's will wavers even slightly, the shrine will immediately seize the opportunity, ultimately leading to one's assimilation by the shrine.

Even if someone has a strong will and can resist the temptation of making a wish at the shrine, they still need to enter the deep well to fish out the shrine owner who is burdened with all the curses and pain, and share most of the curses on the shrine owner in the wishing well.

Once everything was done, that person's state was the same as the original owner of the shrine.

The curse, burdened with countless resentments, became a vessel for absorbing hatred. Under these circumstances, he also needed to send the shrine's owner out of the well.

But there's still one last step missing. The shrine's owner's memories are incredibly repressed and painful. To allow him to see the world of memories before him again, it's necessary to bring one of the people from his memories to him.

In other words, only the salvation that the shrine's owner desperately craves in reality but has never received can awaken him from his endless nightmare.

Inheriting the shrine is an almost impossible task, requiring one to contend with the greed of the entire world alone, but Han Fei is very close to final success.

Grasping at the rope of memory, Wang Ping'an exerted all his strength to pull Han Fei out. He only had eyes for Han Fei and paid no attention to the man beside him.

"Don't waste your energy. This world that exists because of me will also disappear because of me." No matter what the man said, Wang Ping'an gritted his teeth and continued to pull the well rope: "The way you look in my memory is exactly the same as in reality. It's just that I shouldn't have let you see the murderer that night, and I shouldn't have kept silent after you were arrested. I really have too many regrets."

The well was collapsing, revealing a broken black shrine at the bottom. Han Fei and the evil soul lay at the bottom of the well, one covered in wounds and the other's soul about to dissipate.

"Why do you, the character I am, have so many friends? In such a desperate and terrible world, how can you still try so hard to live?"

Grasping the rope of memory, the man pulled Han Fei out of the well. He stared at Han Fei for a long time but couldn't find the answer he was looking for.

"Is this what it means to be unspeakable?" Han Fei had finally regained some strength and quickly said, "Go to the fourth floor of the hospital. The person you want to see most is there. I'll make up for all your regrets."

The mere mention of the fourth floor of the hospital caused a change in the man's usually calm expression. The scales in his right eye began to sway, and he picked up Han Fei and headed towards the hospital.

Blood kept flowing from his chest, dripping from the department store's underground well and spilling outside. What was even more unusual was that wherever blood dripped, the rain would stop.

In this city shrouded in rain, there was a road that remained dry.

The alienated buildings have begun to collapse, with only the department store and the People's Hospital remaining intact. These two places represent the persistence of the department store owner and the one-eyed man, respectively.

Following the bloodstains on the steps, the man arrived at the fourth floor of the hospital.

He didn't push open the ward door, but just looked inside through the glass window on the door.

A nurse was busy beside the hospital bed when the middle-aged woman, who was terminally ill, suddenly opened her eyes with great difficulty. As if by telepathy, she turned her head to look at the door of the ward.

"Auntie? What's wrong?"

"It seems my son has come back."

As soon as the woman finished speaking, Han Fei felt as if someone had pushed him, and he opened the door.

"The world of memories is about to fade away. Say goodbye to her for me one last time." Leaning against the wall, the man stood silently in the dark hospital corridor.

"You really don't want to say anything?" Han Fei entered the ward, and the injuries on his body startled Lin Lu.

The other person hurriedly went to get bandages and medicine, but Han Fei stopped her.

Han Fei, who had been an orphan since childhood, never imagined that he would experience such a thing.

He was a little tired.

Carrying a chair, Han Fei sat down next to the middle-aged woman's hospital bed, leaning over it to keep her company as she waited for the last sunrise.

The middle-aged woman gently patted Han Fei's head, but her eyes remained fixed on the ward door.

When Han Fei came in, the door was not closed, and the corridor outside was empty.

Blood dripped down, but the torrential rain outside the window gradually stopped. The sound of the blood dripping down was like rainwater sliding off the windowpane.

The dark clouds slowly dissipated, tearing a hole in the night that had shrouded the city, and a few glimmers of light illuminated the city after the rain. Slowly, dawn was breaking.

The middle-aged woman's health deteriorated, but her gaze grew increasingly calm.

As the sun was about to rise, the woman spoke softly to Han Fei.

"Child, is your companion who came with you still standing outside the door? Could you please pass on a message to him for me?"

"You say."

"No matter what he becomes, he will always be my best child, and he will always be my pride. If there really is reincarnation, I want to take care of him for another lifetime, and I want to protect him."

As soon as he finished speaking, the first rays of the morning sun shone into the room, lengthening the shadow cast by the doorway.

The man lowered his head deeply. After standing outside all night, he finally entered the ward.

Han Fei got up and left the bedside, dedicating his last moments to the mother and child.

Gazing at the clearing sky, Han Fei stared blankly for a long time. Suddenly, he tried to pull up the corners of his mouth.

"What is this emotion I've never felt before? Is it genuine happiness? Or perhaps envy? Maybe I should just offer a simple smile and send my blessings."

The city's edge had begun to fade away when a system notification suddenly appeared in Han Fei's mind, breaking the emotions he had been building up.

"Attention, player number 0000! You have ultimately saved the shrine owner's mother, allowing the shrine owner to retain his humanistic fantasies about beauty and making up for all his regrets!"

"Attention Player 0000! You have successfully completed the E-rank Shrine Inheritance Quest - Midnight Mall! The Shrine Inheritance Quest is currently the most difficult quest, and you will receive triple experience rewards!"

"Congratulations on gaining the shrine's master's approval and successfully inheriting the severely damaged Level 3 shrine—Soul Trade!"

"Soul Trade: A unique ability of the Level 3 Shrine. Every soul can be put up for a price and exchanged for something else! It can only be used once per night! Please use it with caution!"

"The specific attributes of the shrine may change slightly depending on the statue. Please check after leaving the memory world!"

"Obtained the E-level special building - Midnight Mall!"

"Midnight Mall (Rank E): This building, which has amassed countless evil souls, will forever belong to you! As long as the shrine remains intact, everyone who enters this building will be subject to your suppression."

"Attention Player No. 0000! The regrets of the shrine's former owner have all been resolved. The shrine's former owner will grant you one wish!"

"Attention player number 0000! Because you did not use the quest reward—Unconditional Wish—after completing the random quest at the shrine, you can now choose an additional option!"

Please choose two of the five rewards below!

"Level up by one level (only for levels below 40); random attribute increase by three points; unconditionally heal and repair the souls of ghosts with hatred or less, and increase their friendliness towards you by ten points; awaken an F-rank talent existing in this memory world; take a specific item or ghost out of the memory world."

"Attention player number 0000! You have successfully leveled up to level 19! One free attribute point added!"

The constant system notifications prompted Han Fei to quickly open the task panel, where he was stunned to see so many rewards.

He first habitually added attribute points to stamina before he began to read the mission rewards.

"Level up by one level? Only for those below level 40? That means this quest is normally designed for people in their 30s, and to be a bit more extreme, probably only people in their 20s would dare to take it."

Han Fei entered the shrine out of sheer desperation, but now he finds himself unable to stop himself.

Having two shrines at only level nineteen, one level one and one level three, if Ten Fingers knew this, they would be so angry they would bite off their own fingers.

“The department store has become my building. Outsiders will be suppressed when they enter the building. I can use this to deal with Ten Fingers.”

Han Fei wanted to continue examining the scene, but the world of memories had already collapsed to the point that the vast city was about to turn into a lake.

"This shrine is now yours. You have passed my test and gained my approval." The man walked out of the ward, and he and Han Fei looked at the department store in the distance.

Those who were pushed into the well by the mall owner are still venting their anger.

The mall owner, who had originally mutated into a monster, has now returned to the appearance of an ordinary person, covered in festering wounds, howling in pain.

“You have accomplished what I have not, but I still want to tell you something.” The man, like Boss Gu, was on the verge of death. Only when they completely disappeared would the shrine truly belong to Han Fei: “Don’t take such risks to enter the shrine in the future. The other unspeakable things will use all their power to try to take over your body and be reborn on it.”

“I understand. Actually, I didn’t want to come in either, but…” Han Fei suddenly felt like he had forgotten something, forgotten a very important person: “If this world disappears, will everyone in the world never appear again?”

"Yes."

"Something's not right! I've forgotten someone very important! He's the one who brought me in, he sacrificed himself to get me in!" Han Fei panicked. He had an excellent memory, but he just couldn't remember that person.

"So that's why you haven't forgotten anything. It turns out someone else paid the price for your forgetting." The man smiled, seemingly having let go of everything: "There's only one person who could send you into this shrine, and I know where he is."

"where?"

"Do you remember that mirror in the basement of Xicheng District? That's where one of my eyeballs and a kidney were removed."

“I remember.” Han Fei nodded. That place was where the shrine’s owner began to turn to the dark side. He was deceived by his father in the dark basement, and then chose to abandon his humanity and began to make wishes to the shrine.

“The part of my humanity that I lost is forever left in the mirror in the basement.” The man reached for his right eye and took out the gem-like pupil: “With this eye, you can take him away with you, and maybe you can also help him leave that mirror.”

(End of this chapter)