My Healing Games

Chapter 171 Fu Sheng and the Dead Building

After taking off the gaming helmet, Han Fei felt as if his body had been frozen.

He raised his arm, but even such a simple movement as raising his hand made him feel somewhat strained.

The skin felt frighteningly cold, and it took quite a while for the chill to gradually dissipate as the blood circulated throughout the body.

"If I keep playing games like this, my body probably won't be able to hold up for long, so I need to buy a gaming pod as soon as possible."

Those high-end gaming pods specifically designed for the wealthy allow them to enjoy games while simultaneously conditioning their bodies, improving their physical condition, and relaxing their nerves.

Take Huang Ying, who lives in the smart city, for example. He and Han Fei both like to stay up all night playing games. Huang Ying always stays up all night, playing for even longer than Han Fei. But the next day, Huang Ying can still maintain his energy. This is the benefit of a high-end gaming pod.

"Infusing a large amount of Yin energy into the Ghost Rune can temporarily enhance all my attributes and also reduce the damage from the resentment. Once I obtain the Midnight Butcher class and have my own knife, coupled with this ability, my survivability will undergo a qualitative change. Now I just hope that the high-end gaming pod can help alleviate my physical pain and reduce my stress."

No player has ever been as sincere as Han Fei, spending his entire fortune, racking his brains, and even risking his life for the game.

Han Fei turned on the air conditioner and, wrapped in a thick blanket, took out his phone and started searching for the name Fu Sheng.

The biggest takeaway from last night's game was figuring out the name of the previous building manager, but unfortunately, he searched for a long time without success...

At nine o'clock in the morning, his phone suddenly started vibrating, waking Han Fei up from his groggy sleep.

He glanced at the caller ID and saw that it was Huang Ying calling.

"Why is this guy suddenly so enthusiastic? Is it because the sixth closed beta test of 'Perfect Life' is about to end?"

Before Han Fei could even speak after the call connected, Huang Ying's voice came through: "Brother, are you busy today? I contacted a former employee of Yong Sheng Pharmaceuticals, and we want to discuss some things."

"A former employee of Yong Sheng Pharmaceuticals?"

"Do you remember the madman I told you about? When Immortal Pharma and Deep Space Technology were testing the game, one of the testers accidentally entered the Deep World, and he ended up massacring an entire neighborhood in the game."

"I remember that person! He got out of the mental hospital?" Han Fei immediately came to his senses; he wanted to see the tester more than anyone else.

"No, he died in a mental hospital."

"died?!"

"The exact cause of death is unknown, and the police have taken over the investigation. The employee I'm taking you to see today was the deceased's former colleague, and he knows a lot of secrets."

"I'll be there soon."

After hanging up the phone, Han Fei quickly washed up and then took a car to the Xinhu Smart City.

An hour later, Han Fei arrived at an underground pedestrian street.

After scanning his personal information, he entered a very inconspicuous coffee shop on the street corner, which was called Street Corner Coffee.

A faint aroma wafted through the small coffee shop, and the only person standing on the first floor was an elderly barista at the counter.

"Han Fei?"

"Correct."

"They're waiting for you on the second floor."

Han Fei scanned his identity information again and passed facial recognition before opening the door and going up to the second floor.

Compared to the first floor, the second floor is decorated in a more retro style. At first glance, there are no high-tech products, just like the simplest and purest coffee shop from many years ago.

"Han Fei, you've finally arrived! Let me introduce you." Huang Ying warmly pulled Han Fei to the table and pointed to a man sitting in the corner: "His name is Feng Ziyu, online name Absurd Mask, and he was one of the earliest testers from Yong Sheng Pharmaceuticals to participate in the closed beta of 'Perfect Life'."

After introducing the man, Huang Ying pointed to Han Fei: "This is the Han Fei I told you about; he's an actor."

“I’ve seen him on the news. He helped the police solve a serial murder case and even personally apprehended a wanted fugitive.” The man sitting in the corner stood up and shook hands with Han Fei: “I’ve heard so much about you.”

"Let's get straight to the point." Han Fei also sat down at the table, silently observing Feng Ziyu.

The other person was only in their thirties, but looked like they were almost fifty and were in very poor condition.

“I own this corner cafe. Here we can talk freely without worrying about being overheard.”

After Huang Ying finished speaking, he took out his phone and projected the information provided by Feng Ziyu onto the wall.

“The tester who died in the mental hospital was Feng’s senior. Feng was there when that tester entered the Deep World and witnessed everything.”

Huang Ying gestured for Feng Ziyu to tell him what she had seen.

After hesitating several times, Feng Ziyu finally spoke: "Thinking about it now, I still find it very strange. At the time, Brother Zhang and I were testing the plot. Everything was normal at first, but when we were testing a certain supernatural branch plot in a community near the funeral street, an accident occurred."

"What accident?" Han Fei firmly memorized the words "funeral street".

"That supernatural subplot is a hidden storyline called possession. It mainly tells the story of an old man who misses his deceased wife, so on the night the gates of hell open, he runs to a stairwell in building number four of the community to call for her soul. His deceased wife was murdered by a thief there."

"After he returned home after calling back his wife's spirit, he always had shoulder pain and shortness of breath. His health deteriorated, and he passed away not long after. According to the story, the old man did not call back his wife; it was another wandering ghost who followed him home."

"After the old man died, the ghost lived in his house and began to harm his family."

“The old woman’s son, daughter-in-law and daughter all started to act strangely. In the end, the little granddaughter saw a ghost and said that the one living in the house was not her grandmother, but something else.”

"This task requires players to use various props with the help of their granddaughter to exorcise the evil spirit step by step and drive away the ghost that adults cannot see."

"As a hidden quest, Possessed is extremely difficult, terrifying, and thrilling. The tests we conducted were to see if this quest would cause psychological trauma to players."

"Logically speaking, this task has been tested many times and there shouldn't be any unexpected problems. But when we followed the standard answer step by step to complete the task, we suddenly found that the plot had changed."

Feng Ziyu himself couldn't understand it either; besides the confusion, his voice also carried a hint of fear that was hard to hide.

"With the help of our granddaughter, we completed the task process, and the family returned to normal. However, the system gave us a very low task completion rating."

"I didn't take it to heart and was just thinking about getting off work as soon as possible, but Brother Zhang felt something was wrong. He did the task again according to the standard answer, and the rating was still the lowest."

"I urged Brother Zhang to test the next item, but Brother Zhang told me that this task might have a bug."

"He seemed to be possessed, doing the task over and over again, until the fourteenth time, when he killed his most crucial granddaughter right at the beginning of the task."

"I was terrified at the time, but what I didn't expect was that Brother Zhang received a notification that the mission was completed immediately after killing his granddaughter."

Do you know what this means?

"The ghost didn't follow the plot; it possessed my granddaughter from the very beginning! That ghost has been playing the game with us, completing the mission more than ten times!"

"But that's not the scariest part. After we received the notification that the mission was completed, Brother Zhang's expression changed. Sometimes he was normal, and sometimes he would show the smile that his little granddaughter often showed."

"I wanted to pull him out of the game, but he didn't realize he was doing something wrong and kept repeating the same task."

"In the end, I had no choice but to force him out of the game and then make him quit as well."

“We sorted out the matter that very night and prepared to report it to our superiors. Since my home is in the old city, Brother Zhang let me go home first as usual, and I didn’t think much of it.”

"But when I came to work the next day, I found that Brother Zhang was still in the game."

"I had a very bad feeling, and when I logged into the game, it was too late."

Feng Ziyu took a long time to speak before saying, "Brother Zhang killed all the NPCs in that neighborhood. He was covered in blood, his mental state was extremely unstable, and it felt like there were countless people's consciousnesses entangled inside his body!"

"Was that the last time you saw him? Did he tell you anything?" Han Fei stared intently at the man in front of him.

“I haven’t told anyone this secret. I hope that after you hear what I’m about to say, you will keep your promise and take me into the Deep World.” Feng Ziyu pursed her lips and finally made up her mind to speak after a long time: “At that time, Brother Zhang was already in a semi-mad state. He seemed to be hypnotized by something, muttering about the Deep World from a distance. I tried to approach him, but when he saw me, he directly stabbed the blood-stained knife in his hand into my chest and started shouting madly—Kill Fusheng, kill Fusheng, kill Fusheng.”

"I didn't understand this sentence at first, but it took me a long time to realize that 'resurrection' could be a name or a code name."

"I searched through a lot of information and finally discovered that Fu Tian, ​​the chairman of Yong Sheng Pharmaceuticals, had an older brother when he was a child. His brother, who is little known, is named Fu Sheng!"

Upon hearing Feng Ziyu's words, Han Fei's heart was filled with turmoil, as he had been tasked with managing the building by the previous building manager.

In that endlessly recurring nightmare, the previous building manager appeared as the older brother, and he also had a younger brother who was very popular with ghosts.

"Brother Feng, do you remember the name of that neighborhood?"

"It doesn't have a specific name; in the story, it's called the Dead Building. However, the entire map where that complex is located has been completely deleted, so there's no way to enter the Deep World from there."

"The Death Tower?" Han Fei felt the name was familiar. He remembered that the place where the blood-red paper figure and the woman in the wedding dress had gone was the Death Tower.

(End of this chapter)