My Healing Games

Chapter 778 Us Caught Between the New Era and the Old Era

Han Fei did not deliberately conceal his whereabouts. He kept a close eye on his surroundings and walked towards a less crowded area outside the venue.

Inside the venue, the revelry continued, and no one could have imagined that a bloody and dangerous massacre might erupt outside. The residents of the Smart New City had been living in comfort for far too long.

"This smart new city looks completely different from the old city. There are virtual projection advertisements everywhere, electronic eyes are everywhere, there are driverless cars on the road, there are various public facilities that operate automatically on the sidewalks, as well as messenger robots and city managers controlled by the AI. This place changes every year. Compared with it, the old city is like a stagnant pool."

Various virtual projections illuminated the night sky, and a star train was planned to be built between towering buildings. Human imagination and all expectations for the future converged in this city, which was like a jewel in the crown of all mankind.

"Fu Sheng ushered in a new era, but unfortunately, apart from me, no one else in the world remembers his name." Han Fei looked into the distance. To the left of the Smart New City stood a skyscraper over a hundred meters tall, which was the headquarters of Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals.

Unlike Deep Space Technology's commitment to openness, integration, and pioneering spirit, the Yong Sheng Pharmaceutical Building prohibits any outsiders from visiting, making it one of the most mysterious places in the new Shanghai smart city.

"Fu Sheng is gone. What kind of era will I be facing?"

Han Fei took another step forward. Suddenly, he looked up. The last driverless car on the road drove by, and all the virtual advertising screens along the entire road started playing incorrectly. It seemed that the electronic eyes had also been hacked. All the lights in the area where Han Fei was standing went out.

"Sunny boy, real gender is female, introverted and shy..." A man wearing a raccoon mask appeared under the streetlight at some point: "Your appearance is very different from your psychological analysis. It seems you really are a pervert!"

"Are you alone?" Han Fei asked in the same tone he used when he sang, which was different from his normal speaking voice.

"It's really not easy to hack into the smart city. Those cocoon hackers went to great lengths to buy us three minutes," Tanuki said as she walked towards Han Fei.

"You've already wasted ten seconds."

"What a waste? Look around you, hehe." The raccoon put on special gloves; if he hit it, a large chunk of flesh would be torn off.

While he was talking to Han Fei, members of the murder club who had been hiding there also emerged one after another, each of them exuding a strong murderous aura.

“Have you ever heard of flash mob killings? Everyone kills a designated target at a designated location and time. We’ve done similar things in many places before, but this is the first time in the Smart City. You’ve set a precedent.” The man wearing the crocodile mask said in a high-pitched voice.

“We’ll take care of you in three minutes, split your body in two, each of us carrying a part, making you disappear from this area.” Next to the crocodile was a woman wearing a starfish mask.

"Dismember a person in three minutes? I love the way you guys brag." Han Fei raised his head, a smile spreading across his face. "You think you can do something I can't?"

The moment he spoke, Han Fei and the members of the killing club moved simultaneously.

It's clear that all the club members who surrounded and attacked Han Fei were skilled fighters, but their training partners were fundamentally different from Han Fei.

In order to quickly eliminate the enemy's numerical advantage, Han Fei took extremely drastic measures.

He charged ahead before the enemy could encircle him, and his speed was astonishing in the darkness.

Before the raccoon could react, a heavy punch landed on his face.

The mask shattered, the bridge of the nose collapsed, and the tanuki's face caved inward, with the mask fragments stuck to the skin.

The raccoon, who had just put on the gloves, fell straight down.

Those people knew the raccoon's abilities very well, but they were completely different from normal people. After discovering that the raccoon had been knocked down, they were not afraid at all, but instead became even more frenzied.

A knife made of a special material grazed the back of Han Fei's head. Han Fei rolled forward and then used whatever was available to take out his "weapon".

He dragged the raccoon by its legs, using the unconscious raccoon as a human shield to block the opponent's attacks while launching a frenzied offensive.

Han Fei never intended to run away. He wanted to leave these guys to the police, and they should be able to catch a big fish by following their lead.

Those senior club members were all in excellent physical condition and skilled in combat. They also had a significant difference from ordinary people: pain seemed to further stimulate their potential, making them even faster.

Did an unspeakable force change them?

Once club members have murderous intent, they completely lose their rationality. Each of them suffers from extremely serious mental illness, and killing will completely unleash the morbid self deep within them.

"Butterflies like to incite normal people to commit crimes, while the murder club seems to prefer recruiting those born psychopaths, gathering all the evil in the world."

Before three minutes had passed, the club members who had surrounded and attacked Han Fei were already lying on the ground. Han Fei did not want to expose himself for the time being, so he took advantage of the last moment to leave the scene quickly.

But just as he was about to leave that area, a ticking sound began, like the hands of a mechanical clock moving.

Han Fei stopped in his tracks, and the hairs on the back of his neck stood on end; he sensed a deadly threat.

Quickly grabbing the half-dead raccoon man from the ground and holding him in front of him, Han Fei looked into the darkness.

"I don't want to do anything to you, I just want to get to know the new member." A woman wearing a death mask emerged from the shadows. Her movements were elegant, and her demeanor was completely different from that of the club's senior member: "But I didn't expect that the sunny boy would be you—the Joker."

Upon hearing the female grim reaper's voice, Han Fei's first reaction was to raise his "meat shield" and charge directly at her. He wanted to close the distance and then deliver a powerful dunk!
“No matter who you are, once you’ve looked into that mirror, you’re one of us. Killing each other among core members is not permitted by the gods.” The female Grim Reaper didn’t seem to move much, but she maintained a safe distance from Han Fei.

"Since you were able to get here from the venue so quickly, I'm pretty sure who you are." Han Fei knew he couldn't catch up in a short time, but another idea popped into his head. Ye Xian had participated in the preliminary rounds of Perfect Life, so he had a Perfect Life account. If he could figure out Ye Xian's login time, he could find a way to bring Ye Xian down.

"It doesn't matter if you know who I am. Identity is irrelevant. You'll understand sooner or later." The female grim reaper's gaze shifted from Han Fei to the tallest buildings in the Smart New City: "You're lucky to have caught the last train. This city is about to undergo a dramatic change."

"A dramatic change?"

"Fu Tian, ​​the pioneer of the new era and the legend of the old era, has been confirmed dead. His posthumously hailed masterpiece has begun to show flaws. The seventh-generation AI has developed a weakness, and the tide of darkness will soon surge into everyone's mind." The female Grim Reaper reached out to Han Fei from a great distance: "No one can stop it. The great lock of fate has been opened, and it is coming back."

"They're referring to the things over there in the mirror, right?" Han Fei felt that the female Grim Reaper wanted to talk about Fu Sheng, but unfortunately the old man had been forgotten by people, and the world only remembered Fu Tian.

"Compared to them, we are just ants living in the cracks between the new era and the old era, all we can do is look up to them." The female grim reaper kept retreating and disappeared down the street when the lights came on.

"He ran really fast. That guy definitely intended to kill me. Luckily, I spotted him beforehand." To avoid trouble, Han Fei also made his escape before the surveillance was fully restored.

Shortly after he left, city patrol officers and police arrived at the scene and immediately began a cordon and investigation.

As police officers came and went, a driverless car silently stopped outside the venue, and the female passenger inside removed the Grim Reaper mask.

"What kind of monster is he? How could he spot me from so far away?" The woman's back was soaked with cold sweat. She quickly dismantled and destroyed the prohibited weapon and changed her clothes. "I shouldn't have acted rashly. He's definitely not a normal person!"

Taking out her phone, the woman made several calls in quick succession: "Go and help me find out about Sunny Boy, contestant number 127. I need to get his information within 24 hours! I don't care how much it costs!"

After hanging up the phone, the woman was still unable to calm down: "The situation is too tense lately, so we can't use living people to relax. We can only make do with NPCs from the simulation game for now."

The woman set the car to "home mode," wiped the cold sweat from her body, and put on a portable virtual reality gaming helmet.

Having evaded the police, Han Fei didn't linger. He hurried towards the old town and finally returned home before midnight.

No matter what happens in the outside world, I will insist on playing games every day.

Because of this game, Han Fei has become an extremely self-disciplined person.

"I logged off in the Black Rain area. I don't know what I'll encounter after logging back in. Sigh, what a miserable life."

Han Fei lay down in the gaming pod and put on his gaming helmet.

Blood covered everything, and when he opened his eyes again, he felt a bone-chilling cold.

Looking ahead, an old man with a huge black plant growing on his back was squatting in the corner of the room. He was surprised by Han Fei's appearance, but he immediately covered his mouth, signaling Han Fei not to make any noise.

Han Fei, who had lost the exit button, was also highly nervous. He took out the Rebirth item from his inventory and gently touched the ghost mark on his chest with his palm.

"This old man seems to be afraid of something?"

Following the old man's gaze out the window, black raindrops fell on the gloomy street, and the bloodstains on the ground were slowly being washed away.

Seeing Han Fei slowly approach the window, the old man waved his hands repeatedly, terrified.

Han Fei stopped in his tracks and remained motionless.

A few seconds later, an incredibly strange, deformed monster appeared on the street. It resembled both a human and a beast, with a child's face growing on its distorted, enormous left ear. Its massive body was dragging in the rain, and it was dressed in clothes made from countless children's dresses cut and sewn together.

"Attention player number 0000! You have discovered the tenth creation of the gods—Di Ting."

"Listen (Super Large Resentment): Every personality flaw is caused by an unhappy childhood. Those children heard too many things they shouldn't have heard, and eventually they became monsters."

"Attention! Remain quiet and do not make any noise!"

(End of this chapter)