My Healing Games

Chapter 876 Fu Family Ancestral Hall
Touching the secrets deep within your soul doesn't necessarily require your hands; a head-to-face collision can also do the trick.

Images flashed through Han Fei's mind. The monster in the cubicle seemed to be the old man's own son. It seemed to have turned into this grotesque form because it had drunk too much "well water".

"Oh!"

Han Fei burst through the window of the cubicle, his passion burning like fire, overwhelming the monster trapped inside.

With his arms like chains, Han Fei became entangled with the ghost. Ignoring its refusal, he jumped into the cubicle.

The narrow cubicle had no floor tiles, and in the very center of the room was a dug-out grave.

"There's a grave in the guest room? This farmhouse is quite unique."

A black mist of greed surged out from behind Han Fei. The monster sensed something was wrong, and its body instantly withered, turning into a pool of black water that seeped into the grave pit.

"Good lad! You run really fast!"

Squatting beside the grave, Han Fei poured the black mist of greed into the cave entrance: "Wuchang! Take the ferry bird down and take a look!"

The tomb mound is connected to an underground river with a complex network of waterways, so even the Impermanent One and the Ferry Bird working together couldn't find the monster.

However, they also made other discoveries; Wuchang took out some clothes that had been soaked and ruined.

"These clothes should all belong to the victims. The normal killing procedure of ghosts is to drag people into a cubicle in the middle of the night and then drag them to the underground river under the grave to drown them. I woke up too early, so I didn't experience the later plot."

Han Fei looked through the pile of clothes. In addition to the clothes of the survivors outside the village, there were also uniforms of nursing home caregivers and work clothes with the words "immortality" written on them.

"Does 'immortality' represent Immortality Pharmaceuticals? Is the Yi Yang Tian Nian Nursing Home also an industry of Immortality Pharmaceuticals? Why are their clothes here?" Han Fei had never heard of this place in reality, and there was no relevant record in the police archives.

While Han Fei was pondering, the ferry bird pulled a glass medicine bottle wrapped in layers from the pile of tattered clothes.

Wiping away the stains from the medicine bottle, I found two photos inside. One photo was taken before the disaster, showing more than thirty young people standing together. They seemed to be recent college graduates who had spent a lot of time finally finding satisfactory jobs. Everyone's faces were beaming with smiles, and their eyes were filled with anticipation for the future.

On the back of the photo, someone wrote a date with a special liquid; it was the day the game "Perfect Life" was released.

Then Han Fei carefully took out the second photo. More than thirty elderly people were standing on the steps in nursing home clothes. Their expressions were blank and their eyes were numb, like walking corpses.

Comparing the two photos, Han Fei discovered something terrifying: the facial features of the elderly people were very similar to those of the young people. The elderly people in the second photo seemed to be the young people in the first photo!

“Something’s not right! The first photo was taken on the day the Perfect Life game was released, which was a few months before the disaster. But only a little over a decade has passed since the disaster. How could all these young people have become nearly 100-year-olds?”

The people living in nursing homes may not be elderly; their time has been stolen.

"Attention player number 0000, you have discovered an F-grade quest item - SOS Bottle, successfully triggering the shrine random quest - A-Nian."

“A-Nian (random quest from the shrine): My name is A-Nian. I am trapped in the same day. Time is like a prison. Please help me.”

"Mission requirements: Enter the security room of the Yiyang Tiannian Nursing Home and find A-Nian."

The task prompt issued by the system confirmed Han Fei's previous guess: the longevity village and the Yiyang Tiannian nursing home do indeed have a close connection.

After filling in the hole in the grave, Han Fei walked out of the guest room. He was now shrouded in the ghost realm. The flow of time in this village was different from that outside, and everything about it was strange and inexplicable.

“The old man’s son is buried in the grave; this family must know something.”

The kitchen door swayed slightly, and the vegetable basket that the daughter-in-law had brought during the day was overturned. Inside, a large rat dressed as a silkworm pupa stood on the stove, looking quite human, as if it were imitating the villagers.

Where are the elderly couple hiding?

Upon re-entering the main hall, Han Fei discovered a coffin in the elderly couple's bedroom. Recalling the sound of the wooden planks shifting when the old lady opened the door, he was certain that she had been lying in the coffin at that time.

Why would a living person lie in a place where a dead person sits?

When the coffin lid was lifted, a bright red burial shroud was placed inside, along with a black and white family photo of the five members.

The elderly couple in the photo did not look that old, and their son and daughter-in-law did not turn into monsters.

"Attention player number 0000! You have discovered a G-level quest item - a funeral shroud."

"Funeral shroud: Wearing it will give you a chance to gain the villagers' approval, but you will also have to pay a price, such as staying in the village forever."

Is this considered the village's uniform?

Han Fei sat beside the coffin and took out the information about the longevity village from the investigation bureau. All the messengers sent here would reply normally, but they rarely left the village.

Longevity villages seem to possess a special magic that keeps outsiders in, making them unwilling to leave.

"Could staying here truly grant immortality and eternal bliss?"

Han Fei did not stay in the house any longer. He concealed his aura and walked out of the old house.

The longevity village was filled with an eerie atmosphere late at night, but when Han Fei actually got close to a certain place, he couldn't see anything wrong with it.

"If a demonic realm exists, hatred must be lurking here. Where is it hiding? How come none of the demons in the abyss of greed can sense its location?"

Han Fei was heading to the village chief's residence when, halfway there, he suddenly saw a faint light.

Several young men and women dressed in hiking gear, carrying flashlights that were sometimes on and sometimes off, entered the village.

They looked like headless flies, constantly circling around the village, seemingly looking for a way out.

Han Fei followed them for a while, but to his surprise, they were exceptionally perceptive and quickly spotted him.

"Who's behind me!"

The flashlight beam shone on Han Fei, and the "tourists" huddled together in a panic, like frightened fledglings.

"I was a refugee who stumbled into this village by mistake. Everything was fine during the day, but all the villagers disappeared at night..." With his masterful acting skills, Han Fei successfully lowered the tourists' guard.

"We arrived a week ago, and after nightfall, it never got light again. We've been trapped in the darkness ever since," the only female tourist said timidly. She was kind-hearted and felt sorry for Han Fei, who was all alone.

"You're trapped in the darkness? You can't escape?" Han Fei thought of the random quest he had accepted from the shrine, and the person named A Nian was also trapped on the same day.

“Yes, we walk outwards, but all the roads lead back to this village.” The man in the lead was two meters tall, strong and burly, and the other tourists all looked to him for leadership.

"Have you checked the old houses in the village? Did you find anything unusual?" Han Fei sensed something was wrong. The village was shrouded in ghosts and monsters; who knew how many ghosts and monsters were hiding in those houses? How could these tourists have survived for a week? If they weren't incredibly lucky, then they must have been hiding their strength.

Han Fei's pupils constricted slightly as he tried to get closer to observe, but as soon as he took a step forward, the two male tourists stared at him with unfriendly expressions, seemingly worried that he might do something bad to them.

“We’ve searched every house in the village and found nothing. But the well outside the village is worth noting.” The burly man at the head of the group frowned in thought. “We’ve been hearing voices coming from the well, but when we went to check, there was nothing there.”

"A well?" Han Fei asked curiously. "Could you take me to see it?"

“Okay.” The burly man readily agreed, and they led the way with flashlights, with Han Fei following behind.

Whether it was Han Fei's imagination or not, he saw a smile on the face of one of the tourists as they turned around.

The well the burly man mentioned was on the other side of the village, where the vegetation was exceptionally lush, blocking out all the starlight.

The tourists moved quickly and led Han Fei deep into the dense forest, where a very old ancestral hall had been built, and the well was right next to the hall.

"Listen carefully, can you hear voices coming from the well?"

"No, I didn't hear anything." Han Fei's five senses were far beyond those of ordinary people, but he only heard the chirping of insects.

"Come closer." Several tourists surrounded Han Fei, slowly walking to the outside of the ancestral hall, the well only a few steps away from them: "Did you hear that?"

"still none."

"Go further ahead." The burly man at the head of the group stood next to Han Fei, his hand, hidden behind his back, quietly pressing down on Han Fei's shoulder.

The tourists looked somewhat nervous, waiting for Han Fei to continue forward, but Han Fei stopped at that moment: "You're not planning to push me into the well, are you?"

He turned around and looked at the tourists with a smile: "You can't even fool yourselves. With this kind of mentality, how can you be bad people?"

A dazzling blade of light appeared in Han Fei's hand, and in the blink of an eye, the arm that was draped over Han Fei's shoulder fell off.

Instead of bleeding from the wounds on the tourists' bodies, a large amount of dust fell out.

They were terrified by this sudden turn of events and fled in panic. Han Fei, however, was not about to let them go and pursued them closely.

Back deep in the forest, the tourists disappeared near a large tree.

"What about people?"

Han Fei climbed up the big tree and found several giant human-shaped cocoons hidden among the layers of leaves.

"Look at its size, it's more than enough to wrap up a person."

The giant pupae have patterns on their surface that resemble tree rings, and they seem to have grown together with the trees, drawing nutrients from the trunk.

"Attention player number 0000! You have discovered the Longevity Pupa, a ghost that only appears after three mutations, capable of surviving simultaneously in the Deep World and reality."

Wielding the Rebirth Slaughtering Blade, Han Fei cleaved open the giant cocoon, from which fell a humanoid monster with a still-beating heart, resembling a certain male tourist.

“These guys are accomplices to evil; they lure living people to the vicinity of the well and then sacrifice them.”

After leaving the giant cocoon, the humanoid monster died quickly. These special "creatures" were all mutated during the great catastrophe, somewhat similar to the Flower of Resentment that Han Fei had taken away before.

Returning to the ancestral hall alone, Han Fei pushed open the heavy door and saw rows of memorial tablets on the altar. This ancestral hall did not enshrine ancestors or gods, but rather a pure black box.

All the ancestral tablets surrounded the black box, as if hoping that the black box would pour out something for them to fight over.

In addition, Han Fei discovered something else: all the people on the memorial tablets had the surname Fu, the same as Fu Sheng, the founder of Yong Sheng Pharmaceuticals.

"Is this longevity village another testing ground for Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals? Using children, who are like blank sheets of paper, to reshape their personalities and explore the infinite possibilities of thought, while using the elderly to test the limits of life and body." Han Fei looked at the black box sculpture in the middle of the memorial tablet. He really didn't expect to see a black box in the shrine of happy memories.

"Could there be a secret hidden in the Yiyang Tiannian nursing home? Is it because Gao Xing knew this secret that he was able to change his fate, transforming from a miserable, impoverished child into the nightmare of the entire city?"

The three mysterious buildings in Gao Cheng's diary are the key to this world of shrine memories. In the Third Eye Hospital, the two children seem to have swapped eyes. In the Deep Sea Aquarium, they brushed past each other for the last time. In the Nursing Home for the Elderly, their lives seem to have truly taken different paths.

(End of this chapter)