My Healing Games

Chapter 746: Evil Spirits and Lucky Gods

"Shall we start the new week?"

"Attention Player No. 0000! After the start of a new week in Paradise Zero, all remnant souls within the park will be sacrificed and become part of the park."

As soon as Han Fei entered the seventh room of Zero Paradise, a system notification sounded in his mind.

"no!"

The ghost manager hasn't appeared yet, and Han Fei doesn't want the remnant soul he painstakingly summoned to dissipate like this.

After making his choice, Han Fei began to look around. The room, known as Sunday, was filled with the aura of death, which manifested itself in all sorts of unexpected ways.

Unfinished paintings, white silk hanging high, lifelike specimens, various relics and farewell letters.

This room is like an art gallery with death as its theme. No matter what you experience in the previous rooms, you will eventually come to an end. Death seems to be the only destination.

Han Fei walked among them, initially out of sheer curiosity, but as he walked, he gradually realized something was amiss.

Inside the room was a corridor. After walking through the long corridor, Han Fei entered a strange place that looked like an orphanage.

The calendar showed Sunday, and the caregiver's diary said that the children had all been sent away to a place they would never return to.

Everywhere in the orphanage, you can see traces of the children's lives: their clothes, tableware, and games. But you can't see a single person.

The theme of death led Han Fei to believe that all the children in the orphanage had probably been murdered, and all he saw were their belongings.

"An utterly ordinary day, an unremarkable room, at least that's how it seemed to me."

Sunday was an ordinary day in the room, just like every day Han Fei experienced before he obtained the black box: dull, boring, and desolate, with a sense of decay and silence.

"If I had chosen yes just now, would this room have become something else?" Han Fei looked at the orphanage without a single orphan and felt a strange feeling in his heart: "Zero's Paradise. Zero here should refer to me and Kuang Xiao. I have no memory of this place, so these seven rooms may have been built based on Kuang Xiao's seven memories."

Han Fei wanted to continue checking, but suddenly there was a banging on the door outside the room, so he immediately went back the way he came.

As soon as Han Fei ran out of Sunday's room, he saw the door to Monday's room shaking. He rushed over, grabbed the doorknob, and pulled hard.

With the help of the force inside the door, Han Fei successfully opened Monday's door.

The ghost manager, who was perfectly fine when he entered, crawled out of the room in tattered clothes. After he left, Monday's door closed automatically.

"Are you alright?" Han Fei tried to help the ghost manager up, but when he touched him, a chilling coldness ran straight to his heart.

"It's alright." Ghost Manager Yin Huai raised his head, and his gaze toward Han Fei changed from before, his eyes filled with pity and doubt.

"Attention, player number 0000! Yin Huai, a C-level talent remnant soul, has successfully cleared the first room of Zero Paradise. His friendliness towards you has increased by five points, and he has gained the special status of Compassion. He saw many things, but he couldn't say them. That experience can only be buried deep in his heart."

A system notification suddenly sounded, and Han Fei subconsciously asked the ghost manager, "Why do I feel like you've changed? What did you see in the room?"

“I saw your past…” The ghost manager smiled bitterly and did not continue the topic: “It was our mistake that you grew into a monster. Someone has to bear this sin, and someone has to correct this distortion.”

"I'm grateful that you're willing to take responsibility for your mistakes, but I don't think of myself as a monster!" Han Fei pointed to his face: "Am I twisted?"

"The reason why mentally ill people are called mentally ill is because they have very poor self-control and a severely unbalanced self-perception." What the ghost manager saw deeply shocked him, and he is now convinced that Han Fei has become a madman.

"Let's talk about something more realistic. Paradise is now surrounded by enemies. Your old friend, the Dream Manager, has become the unspeakable entity of the Deep World. It's preparing to wipe out all the survivors in Paradise and then gradually erode the real world. I've been trying to stop it, but my power is still too weak, so I hope you can join my team." To achieve great things, one must learn to be shameless. Han Fei really hoped that the Dream Manager could stay and help him.

"I am currently injured and have not fully recovered."

"It's alright." Han Fei opened his attribute panel. He hadn't used the wish reward he received after completing Fu Sheng's shrine inheritance quest: "I can heal all the injuries of a ghost born of hatred!"

“That won’t work on me.” The ghost manager shook his head and looked at his severed arm. “I’m different from ghosts. I take a very special path, which is also the path that all the ghost managers of the park have chosen.”

"A special route?" Han Fei felt that the ghost administrator had no reason to lie, and besides, the other party might have already reached the stage of hatred.

"The Ghost Administrators of Paradise can temper the malice within the bodies of evil spirits. The more ghosts we suppress, the stronger we become." The Ghost Administrator glanced at the ghost markings on Han Fei's body: "It's similar to your method of improvement. Actually, sometimes I'm quite curious whether you've also inherited some of the Ghost Administrators' abilities. The Butcher's Blade and the Ghost Marks—this is the legacy of every Ghost Administrator in Paradise."

"It must have been left to me by Fu Sheng." The ghost pattern was drawn by the neighbor of the Dead Building, and the Rebirth Slaughtering Knife was something that Spider in Animal Alley had always wanted to forge. They were both related to Fu Sheng.

“Fu Sheng? That name sounds familiar… I feel like that name is gradually fading from my memory.” After saying this, the ghost administrator looked at Han Fei with his eyes, but what was reflected in his pupils was the figure of another young man, only that the figure was gradually being replaced by Han Fei: “Alright, I have no problem helping you, but I need to reforge my own butcher’s knife.”

"I know a place where you should be able to find a knife that suits you." Han Fei called over a few citizen representatives and asked them to go to Animal Alley with the ghost manager.

As the former lair of the spiders, this is the dirtiest and bloodiest place in the entire dead building area. People who have lost their minds have become beasts wielding knives, and killings are happening every moment.

When everyone returned to Animal Alley, Han Fei looked at the alley where he had once fled for his life, feeling somewhat dazed. Unconsciously, he had grown to a level that he never dared to imagine before.

“My butcher’s knife was forged here. Look carefully, there should be a lot of knife blanks hidden in the alley.”

The ghost administrator was very knowledgeable about butcher knives, and Han Fei was just about to take this opportunity to empty all the butcher knives hidden in Animal Alley and distribute them to the citizens so that they would also have the ability to protect themselves.

Most ghosts fight on instinct, relying entirely on their innate abilities, but the remnant souls that Han Fei brought out from Fu Sheng's shrine all maintained clear minds. Under the leadership of the ghost administrators, they could become stronger and become maintainers of order.

As soon as they entered Animal Alley, the ghost manager's eyes lit up. His nostrils twitched as if a glutton had smelled delicious food, and he quickly moved through the alley.

One by one, the old and broken butcher knives were found by the ghost administrator. He seemed to be able to communicate with the souls imprisoned in all the butcher knives and sense the characteristics of each knife.

"Although all the butcher knives in this Animal Alley are filthy, they can be slowly purified into true demon-slaying knives if you patiently refine them." The ghost manager swung the knife with his only remaining arm, and all the butcher knives he touched seemed to be blessed, gaining an extra aura of malevolence and spirituality.

"There are no good or bad knives; the key lies in the person using them. When choosing a knife, you must find one that best suits your own characteristics." The ghost administrator placed all the knives he had found on Da Nie, preparing to pull him back to Paradise and let the citizens choose for themselves: "A large part of the reason I chose you in the shrine world is because of your knife. A person who possesses such a knife cannot be a bad person."

Wandering through the intricate alleyways, the ghost administrator arrived at the Flesh and Blood Factory. He picked up the enormous grappling hook that the former factory owner had once used and stopped for the first time: "What a vicious knife, filled with pure malice and slaughter."

He cut off the back half of the hook and removed the sharp, serrated hook at the very front. The huge iron hook was half a meter long, heavy, black, and covered with scabs.

"Is this also a butcher's knife?" Han Fei asked, puzzled. He had almost been pierced by this hook before, and he still felt lingering fear when he thought about it.

“Yes.” The ghost manager smiled, the first time Han Fei had ever seen him smile. “I never expected to find a suitable knife so quickly. It’s still too fragile right now, but I will slowly train it into the most ferocious butcher’s knife.”

Having acquired a new knife, the ghost manager was still not satisfied and continued to wander around the factory.

When he saw the dried-up pool of blood, his eyes brightened again: "This knife is also suitable for me."

Jumping into the blood pool, the ghost administrator walked to the edge of the pool and dug out a long boning knife from a pile of blood and filth.

Unlike the other butcher knives in Animal Alley, this knife was intact. Although it was dug out of the bloodstains, there was no blood on the blade; it was smooth and perfect.

"How strange, this knife is not stained by blood, and it can even increase one's luck."

The ghost manager was seeing such a blade for the first time. Han Fei was also a little surprised. The blade was at the very bottom of the blood pool, very close to the spider's heart. When he came before, his attention was entirely focused on the spider's heart, and he hadn't noticed the blade at all.

"The filthy Animal Alley seems to have been designed to forge this special blade." The Ghost Administrator gripped the hilt, and as he swung the blade, the stench of the flesh factory seemed to be cleaved apart.

"The spider's mortal enemy is the butterfly. He always wanted to forge a knife full of humanity, and this knife was probably prepared for him. But he still went in the wrong direction. A truly beautiful knife cannot be forged by intention." Han Fei could roughly guess the reason for the appearance of this knife: "Can I see these two butcher knives?"

The butcher knives that have been "appraised" by the Ghost Manager have all undergone certain changes. One of the Ghost Manager's innate abilities seems to be the ability to activate the characteristics of the murder weapon.

As Han Fei reached out and took the butcher's knife, the system's voice echoed in his mind the instant he touched it.

"Attention player number 0000, you have successfully discovered the upgradeable F-rank Butcher's Blade."

"Fierce and malevolent: This butcher's knife can imprison souls, absorb pain and malice, and grow faster the more it kills."

"Attention player number 0000, you have successfully discovered the upgradeable F-rank Butcher Knife Jishen."

"Yoshijin: This executioner's blade can only be used by those he approves of."

The Ghost Manager truly lives up to his reputation as an expert in this field; if it weren't for him, Han Fei probably wouldn't have discovered these two F-grade butcher knives.

However, Han Fei had no intention of keeping the butcher's knives for himself. He had already passed away, and these two butcher's knives could only exert their greatest effect in the hands of the ghost administrator.

With the help of the Ghost Manager, Han Fei and his group found nearly five hundred butcher knives in Animal Alley. More than four hundred of them were completely worthless, simply tainted by filth and death, while fifty of them reached G-grade after being sharpened by the Ghost Manager.

In addition to the malevolent spirits and auspicious deities, the ghost manager also discovered two F-grade butcher knives in the nooks and crannies of Animal Alley. Han Fei packed all of these items up and brought them back to Paradise in batches.

He wanted the ghost administrator to select suitable people from among tens of thousands of citizens and teach them how to use and recognize knives.

In the cities of the Deep World, there are no laws. Everyone carries a knife and everyone can kill. But if anyone breaks the rules of public agreement, it means that everyone can execute him.

By this point, Han Fei had almost finished using up the rewards he received from Fu Sheng's shrine. He had saved the opportunity to heal ghosts below the level of hatred, intending to use it again at a crucial moment.

His next task was to use the Mirror God's Soul Trading Shrine and Zero's Paradise to begin a frenzied expansion, increasing his strength as much as possible before the dream arrived.

Accompanied by Xu Qin, Han Fei searched the amusement park area for a long time before finally triggering a G-level mission. After easily completing it, he discovered that G-level missions no longer added any experience, and F-level missions also added very limited experience.

He is now facing a dilemma: once he occupies an area, it becomes very difficult for new missions to appear, and the system keeps forcing him to explore unknown areas.

"Level 25, I can hardly believe I'm still in the early stages of the game. It feels like in a normal game, the world would have been destroyed several times over by now."

After completing his mission, Han Fei began arranging for his neighbors to continue exploring the area. He himself, accompanied by the painter and Xu Qin, entered the plastic surgery hospital area and met Xiao Baixie.

As fellow orphans who had been harmed, Xiaobaixie initially disliked Han Fei intensely. However, as Xiaobaixie showed kindness and spoke up for Han Fei, her hatred for him lessened somewhat.

It's a bit unrealistic to expect him to help Han Fei, but at least he won't cause trouble for Han Fei.

After finishing everything, Han Fei logged off. Because of the chaos in reality caused by the appearance of the Paradise Passage, he didn't dare to stay in the game for too long.

After taking off his gaming helmet, Han Fei walked to the window and peeked out through the gap in the curtains. Even in the middle of the night, there were still many reporters staking out his apartment.

"That's really dedicated."

Han Fei opened the refrigerator and cooked himself a hot meal, browsing his phone while eating.

Huang Ying has topped the trending searches; he has become a hero.

The mysterious man with the beast-like face ranked second on the trending searches. Under the blame-shifting tactics of Deep Space Technology and Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals, he became the leader of a hacker organization that maliciously exploited game vulnerabilities and the culprit behind the deletion of hundreds of thousands of players' accounts.

"Just as I expected, but Deep Space Technology hasn't provided a specific solution yet, which surprises me. Are they going to let the vulnerability exist?"

Han Fei is still in the eye of the storm. The two major technology companies have not diminished their suspicions about him. If it weren't for the tight protection of the police, he might have already "disappeared" without a trace.

After exiting the webpage, Han Fei opened his email and replied to some routine messages. Suddenly, he saw a message from an unknown number.

“My name is Du Jing. We met once at the amusement park. I have a few questions about you that I would like to clarify. If it is convenient for you, could you provide an address so we can have a proper talk?”

Perhaps because Han Fei hadn't replied, the unknown number sent him another message half an hour later.

"I thought about it for a long time and felt like I had forgotten the most important person in my life. I tried desperately to hold on to him, but my brain was slowly forgetting him, and no matter how hard I struggled, it was no use."

"Can you tell me? Does Fu Tian have another family member?"

(End of this chapter)