My Healing Games

Chapter 482 The players were very excited when they first arrived (4000 votes, please vote for me)
The department store was the first building Han Fei owned. With the help of the shrine and the mirror god, he could sense all the souls that entered the store.

Emptying his mind, Han Fei tried to use the shrine to experience the entire building.

Strengths and weaknesses of resentment drifted through the mall, most of which were fixed to the shelves, except for one blood-red resentment that was frantically fleeing.

"Ten Fingers wasn't in the mall; Nine Fingers was deliberately left behind by him."

There is some connection between the ten fingers. They will leave behind the Nine Fingers, who still retain all their fighting power. If the Nine Fingers can kill Han Fei, then everyone will be happy. If the Nine Fingers are killed, they will have to find another way out.

"Just as I guessed, the reason why Ten Fingers could become hatred is not because of any strong obsession left in his heart, but because he is incredibly cunning and cruel. He stepped over mountains of corpses and seas of blood to transform from an ordinary commodity into hatred." Mirror God recalled the previous events and gently shook his head: "Any hatred that grows step by step like this is extremely difficult to deal with. But don't worry, sooner or later, I will personally kill him and make him spit out everything he took from me."

"I just feel a little regretful. I was originally planning to trade my ten fingers to see just how heavy his soul really is." Han Fei stroked the shrine with his fingers, a smile on his face the same as the statue's, as if he were an evil god.

He took the phone that Firefly had left him from his inventory and sent a message to the dead building owners' rights protection mutual aid group, notifying everyone to enter the mall immediately.

After doing all this, Han Fei touched the shrine again, wanting to find the crying female anchor in the department store.

The department store's layout is the same as in the world of memories, except that the department store in the deeper world is more gloomy and terrifying.

Most of the shelves were filled with all sorts of strange and unusual goods, and the paper doll section alone had hundreds of different kinds of paper dolls, which really shocked Han Fei.

There were some of the most "valuable" goods in the mall, but Ten Fingers had already taken them with her before leaving.

"Just what I left behind is enough to feed my neighbors for a long time."

Han Fei searched for a long time and finally sensed the presence of crying in the furniture section on the sixth floor. At that moment, Nine Fingers, who had escaped, was also running upstairs.

"Why is this guy running upstairs instead of leaving directly? Is something hidden there?"

Without any hesitation, Han Fei took Mirror God and chased after them upstairs.

When Han Fei came out of the underground warehouse, he met up with his neighbors who had rushed over. Everyone was very worried about Han Fei.

Han Fei sent Mirror God to chase after Nine Fingers, then found Zhuang Wen and used his last wish on her.

From the underground shrine, flames of greed surged forth endlessly. Zhuang Wen screamed and wailed in agony amidst the flames, frightening the neighbors who watched.

However, after only a short while, Zhuang Wen stopped her hysterical outburst. Her fragmented soul merged back together, and a glimmer of reason appeared in her turbid eyes.

Most importantly, her rotten heart, riddled with holes, was reborn in the flames.

After the flames of greed were extinguished, a faint flame of black hatred began to flicker in Zhuang Wen's heart.

"Attention Player 0000! Zhuang Wen's friendship level has increased by 10! The friendship level has been reached, and you are now officially friends."

Zhuang Wen's soul, which had been tormented and ravaged by the butterfly, had been repaired. The aura emanating from the shrine instantly weakened. Although it was a level three shrine, the strange phenomena it exhibited were not as good as Han Fei's level one shrine.

Having regained her senses, Zhuang Wen will no longer act recklessly, and at least she won't accidentally kill Han Fei.

Zhuang Wen and Mirror God attacked at the same time. By the time Han Fei and the others climbed to the sixth floor, Nine Fingers had been reduced to just a head.

In the hands of these two hateful individuals, a massive resentment was like a toy doll with a human face pattern printed on it.

"Don't rush to kill him." Han Fei stopped the Mirror God. He began to wander around the furniture section according to the shrine's guidance. Finally, he found a dilapidated altar on a shelf where discounted items were stored.

Upon opening the altar, cries echoed from the sixth floor. Han Fei looked at the boy inside the altar and let out a long sigh of relief.

He involuntarily hugged the altar, and then used the secret of touching the depths of the soul to give Ku a hug.

He wasn't faking it; he was genuinely worried and cried.

The still-crying child was carried out of the altar by Han Fei, and the despair around him was twisted.

"Attention player number 0000! A medium-sized special grudge cry increases your friendship level by 20! He already considers you his closest person and trusts you completely. He hopes you will not betray this trust."

The boy who cried was his father, the one who killed him. He had always been terrified of his father, living in endless fear and despair. This time was no different. After sending everyone out, the boy stayed in the department store, plunging back into darkness.

Despair gnawed at his heart. The situation was the same, but the outcome was completely different. The moment Han Fei opened the altar, the child truly cried, but this time the tears had a completely different meaning from the tears he usually shed.

A man carried a child out of the altar in the middle of the night. Although it looked a bit scary, the ghosts around him found it very touching.

Holding Kuri's hand, Han Fei walked up to Jiu Zhi.

He originally wanted Ku to take revenge himself, but Ku told him that after the female anchor in the red dress noticed that Shizhi was becoming weak, she followed them and left the department store together.

It seems the other person discovered something very important in the mall, and she's willing to risk her life to get her hands on it.

"The woman in the red dress should have waited for us." There was no point in saying that now. Han Fei took out the Rebirth Knife and walked to the side of Nine Fingers' head. He hoped to get useful information from Nine Fingers, but Nine Fingers only knew that Ten Fingers and the others seemed to have escaped in the direction of the beauty hospital.

Unable to glean any further information from Nine Fingers, Han Fei concluded that the other party might be unwilling to submit, so he decided to grant his request.

The group brought the remains of Nine Fingers to the front of the underground shrine, where Han Fei used the shrine's special ability for the first time—soul trading.

The black cloth fell away, the divine gate opened, and the scales in the mirror god's right eye slowly swung, before the flames of greed devoured the nine fingers.

"The Soul Trade special ability of the Level 3 Shrine has been successfully activated. Please select one of the following three options."

"One finger (Class F cargo): This finger contains killing intent and resentment, which can greatly enhance the strength of a medium-sized resentment, but it will cause the person to be affected by the killing intent and may cause them to lose their mind."

"Experience: Partial experience value."

“Hidden virtue: Add five to hidden virtue.”

Looking at the attribute panel, Han Fei first ruled out Yin Virtue, thinking that attributes that could be improved in the mortal realm should not be wasted on the resources of the underworld.

"Fingers can enhance the strength of medium-sized resentments. I do have many medium-sized resentments around me, such as Cry and Firefly. However, this arm has side effects, and the surviving ten fingers might even feel it."

After a moment's thought, Han Fei chose experience; he wanted to see how much experience points a large-scale grudge could give him.

The flames of greed vanished along with the nine fingers. With the system's notification, Han Fei discovered that his experience points had increased, roughly equivalent to half the experience gained from an F-level mission.

"If I want to level up from level 19 to level 20, I'll need about nine F-rank quests. That means if I don't do quests and just rely on the shrine, I'll need to sacrifice eighteen large resentments to level up?" Han Fei wanted to kick over the shrine in front of him, but considering that his own idol was inside, he had to give up.

"Is it really that difficult to upgrade just because I chose to open both sides of the black box at the same time? Does it mean that I need twice as much experience to upgrade as Fu Sheng did back then?"

Han Fei always felt that Fu Sheng's promotion was different from his own, but he had no evidence.

"When I find Fu Sheng's memory fragments again, I must ask him clearly and not let him disappear quietly again."

Han Fei didn't log off immediately because he had roughly calculated the time. Although several days had passed in the memory world, not much time had passed in the deeper world.

The world of memory is a place where thought stagnates, where the flow of time is different from that of the deeper world; it is like a time prison that is constantly looping.

Han Fei would show his neighbors around the mall, and if he found any goods that could improve their strength, he would immediately hand them over.

Previously, this shopping mall was only used to supply Shizhi, but now Han Fei has shared it with all the neighbors.

The vengeful spirits, the yin energy, and hundreds of different styles of paper figures and paper money—Han Fei has no use for these things anyway, so he might as well let his neighbors take them to enhance their strength.

"You must stay calm. You can't get used to shopping like this in the underworld. It would be troublesome if you couldn't change it in the mortal world."

Han Fei originally wanted to choose for a while longer, but Haha, who was staying behind in the dead building, suddenly sent a message in the mutual aid group.

"Several people entered the dead building, like wandering spirits or something else. They seemed to have come out of the room where the butterfly died."

Before the department store was taken over, the dead building area was Han Fei's stronghold. Haha was worried about problems, so he immediately notified the owners of the dead buildings here.

"A wandering soul?" Han Fei suspected that another player might have "sleepwalked" in.

"It's not just wandering spirits, there are other things too. Also, the monsters at the plastic surgery hospital are starting to act up again; they seem to be preparing to explore the mist."

"Understood, we'll head back now." The department store has stabilized, so all we need to do is leave Mirror God here to continue protecting it.

"We've saved the crying; our next step is a plastic surgery hospital." Han Fei's overall plan remains unchanged; he is gradually integrating this area.

Leading his neighbors carrying various goods, Han Fei was about to leave the mall when Mirror God suddenly appeared beside him.

"Han Fei, can you do me a favor?"

"What's the deal?"

"Do you remember the drowning child in the shrine world? He was the first customer you met after you became a shop assistant." The Mirror God said softly, "The drowning child's father killed Wang Ping'an's father. When the murderer was burying the body, Wang Ping'an and I happened to see it. We got into a fight, and I accidentally killed the man."

Han Fei still remembered this incident; it was the first plot point he triggered upon entering the world of memories.

“In reality, Wang Ping’an took the blame for me. He became extremely crazy after his father died, and the police came to him and determined that he was the murderer. I could have told the truth, but on my way to the police station, I was taken away by thugs from the West District. After that, I completely fell into darkness and only thought about revenge.”

"You mean there's still a possibility that Wang Ping'an is alive?"

“Very likely.” The Mirror God nodded. “If you have the chance to see him, please help him clear his name.”

“Okay, I’ll help him.” Han Fei led his neighbors out of the department store, and they successfully returned to the dead building by following the alley marked on Fu Sheng’s map.

Haha, Han Fei inquired in detail about what had happened before the Dead Building.

“It’s certain that wandering spirits entered the Dead Building, but besides the wandering spirits, there were some other strange things as well.” Haha pointed to the room where the butterfly wardrobe was located: “We just cleared out the Dead Building area before, and there are almost no ghosts or monsters around here. After those wandering spirits and strange things ran out of the wardrobe, they rushed straight into the mist.”

"But I couldn't sense their presence in the fog. Could it be that they've gone to another area?"

"The nearest hospital is a plastic surgery clinic; I reckon they probably went there." Haha spread his hands. "I don't know why, but all the wandering spirits seem very excited when they first arrive here. I find it unbelievable—what's so exciting about a city shrouded in darkness?"

"Maybe they have that kind of fetish."

Han Fei instructed his neighbors to check the plastic surgery hospital and the area around the dead building, and to save the wandering souls if possible.

Han Fei has done what he needed to do. He really can't hold on any longer. The highest-level shrine inheritance mission has completely drained him.

After explaining things to his neighbors, Han Fei found a safe room and chose to exit the game.

The crimson color slowly solidified in the world, and Han Fei could see a sea of ​​blood on the horizon surging towards the Death Tower.

"I……"

A voice came from behind him, and the blood-covered figure clinging to his back still only uttered one word.

His consciousness was pulled away, and Han Fei opened his eyes.

He tried to take off the gaming helmet, but he found that he had no strength left in his body. It wasn't physical fatigue, but a feeling of mental exhaustion.

Han Fei fell unconscious while lying in the game pod.

Han Fei didn't know how long he had been unconscious. He felt excruciating pain all over his body. He struggled to move his body and took off his gaming helmet.

"My body is much stronger than the average person's, but even so, I still can't quite handle it."

His bones felt like they were about to fall apart. Han Fei didn't know why he was so tired; it was as if he had been suffering from sleep paralysis for a month.

Parched, Han Fei climbed out of the game pod and gulped down a glass of water. He then crawled to the refrigerator and grabbed some refrigerated canned meat to eat.

After eating a lot of meat, Han Fei felt that he had regained some strength and his head was not hurting as much.

"This shrine inheritance quest does indeed have a lot of staying power."

Sunlight streamed into the room through the curtains; it was already noon.

Han Fei looked at the canned meat boxes scattered on the ground and licked his lips lightly: "Why do I like eating meat so much now? Is it because of Xu Qin? But these meats that don't contain the curse just don't taste good enough."

(End of this chapter)