My Healing Games

Chapter 71 The Last Time in Life

"Don't be impulsive!" Han Fei noticed that Meng Changxi's tone was off, so he immediately advised, "The police have already been to the Donghua Ice Factory. They know your plan. Going to Xinhu International Plaza now won't hurt Meng Chang'an at all. It will only increase the police's suspicion of you."

“That plan was originally written for the police. I update it with different plans every day, but the real plan is never written down.” No one could guess what Meng Changxi was up to: “Meng Chang’an and Meng Changshou are both murderers, but the real murderer is the butterfly. Even if Meng Chang’an and Meng Changshou are brought to justice, the butterfly that caused this tragedy can still go unpunished. It is hiding behind the scenes and has never shown itself.”

"Let's take it one step at a time. Let's capture Meng Chang'an first."

“But I don’t have that much time.” Meng Changxi turned around, revealing a large area of ​​festering wounds on his back: “I bear the infamy of killing my mother, I am being framed and slandered by the real culprit, I am living a very painful life, so now I want a wonderful ending.”

Han Fei roughly understood what Meng Changxi meant. He wanted to stop him, but Meng Changxi stopped him, saying, "After you find that evidence, you must be careful about your safety."

"Don't worry about me." Han Fei nodded.

“You’re too deeply involved in this case, the butterfly will definitely come after you! So you can’t be too careful. For the past ten years, I’ve been on the run, and I’ve almost died in accidents several times. Looking back now, those accidents were probably the butterfly watching me.”

"Accidental death?"

“Butterflies like to manipulate human nature and create coincidences. Two seemingly unrelated things might just cost you your life.” Meng Changxi told Han Fei everything he needed to be careful about. After giving his instructions, he pointed to the door and said, “Let’s go. Don’t look back after you leave here. Just pretend we’ve never met. Hopefully, this will make Butterflies notice you later.”

Han Fei stood in the room without moving, knowing that this was very likely the last time he would see Meng Changxi.

Seeing Han Fei's hesitation, Meng Changxi showed a slightly more human side for the first time. He patted Han Fei on the shoulder and said, "The luckiest thing for me in the past ten years was meeting you when I had little time left to live. If you really want to catch the butterfly, if you really want to avenge the dead, if you really want to know everything, then do as I say."

Meng Changxi tried his best to smile, but the scars on his face were pulled, making his expression very frightening: "I didn't mean to scare you. I just haven't smiled in ten years, and now I've forgotten how to smile."

His last words touched Han Fei.

I hope your plans go smoothly, and I wish you good luck.

After Han Fei finished speaking, he left Wei Youfu's father's house and headed to the address Meng Changxi had given him.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Han Fei arrived at the outskirts of Xinhu, where there was hardly a soul in sight.

As technology advances and cities grow larger, many people would rather squeeze into tiny apartments of just a few square meters in the city center than go to the suburbs to live alone.

Traveling along the rare dirt road, Han Fei found the Happiness Community that Meng Changxi had mentioned behind an abandoned chemical plant.

This place has been abandoned for a long time, overgrown with weeds, and the walls are severely corroded by rainwater. There is also a warning sign for a dangerous building standing next to it.

However, even that warning sign was from many years ago, covered in rust, and could fall off at any moment.

"This building has exactly ten floors, just like in the game. However, the layout of the hallways is completely different from that in the game, and most of the apartments have wooden doors."

Filled with doubt, Han Fei cautiously entered the apartment building.

A musty smell permeated the air, and there was garbage and badly damaged furniture everywhere. It seemed that even homeless people rarely visited this place, and many things were covered with a thick layer of dust.

Upon arriving on the fourth floor, Han Fei looked at room 1044 and had a strange feeling, as if reality and the game had overlapped here.

Grasping the doorknob, Han Fei discovered with a little force that the door hinges had already been damaged.

Upon entering the room, Han Fei shivered.

Despite it being daytime, the room felt eerily gloomy, with various paper-made furniture arranged in the living room.

"This room feels like it was prepared for the dead."

Due to the building's layout, sunlight rarely reaches the living room, and many of the paper figures and furniture filled with some kind of stuffing have become moldy and emit a foul odor.

"Meng Changxi told me to go to the restroom."

Walking through the pile of paper furniture, Han Fei pushed open the bathroom door and found the information Meng Changxi had mentioned under the fourth floor tile.

Upon opening it, Han Fei saw a bloodstained letter.

The letter listed seven addresses, each corresponding to one of seven rooms in the building, where parts of the victim's body, which are still missing, are buried.

This also appears to be part of the ritual, connecting the locations of the seven rooms in a way that resembles the wings of a butterfly.

"How much does the butterfly really know about the black box and the deeper world of Perfect Life? Why is there a building in the game that looks almost identical to one in real life?"

After memorizing the room numbers, Han Fei continued to review the documents. It was no coincidence that the murderer who created the human body puzzle chose this building to bury part of the body.

This building was a haunted building decades ago, filled with strange and bizarre tales and rumors. It was also a well-known suicide spot in Shanghai at the time.

Taking out his phone, Han Fei searched for "Xinhu Happiness Community" and dozens of results popped up instantly.

Those news reports looked like a collection of ghost stories; it was almost unbelievable.

"In the human body puzzle pattern, the butterfly buried parts of the victims' bodies in the haunted building, and then used parts of their bodies and the eighth victim to piece together the most terrifying corpse. That corpse met their requirements for misfortune, despair, and pain. However, in the end, they still did not find the black box."

Han Fei read the information left by Meng Changxi. In addition to detailed information about human body puzzle patterns, it also recorded a lot of content related to butterflies.

Just as he was about to read it carefully, a trending push notification suddenly popped up on his phone screen.

Han Fei never paid attention to these things in the past, but this time was different. He saw that the picture used in the push notification was of Meng Changxi, whose face had been completely disfigured!
Clicking on the notification showed a live stream.

Bare-chested Meng Changxi calmly gazed at the person sitting next to him. He seemed to be at a television station, or perhaps at a live-streaming company: "I won't hurt anyone in this room, but only if you don't cut off the signal or pull any other tricks."

It's unclear who he was saying this to, but after he finished, he looked at the camera and said, "Meng Chang'an, I know that even if I risk my life, I might not be able to get to your side and talk to you, so this is the only way I can do it."

(End of this chapter)