My Healing Games

Chapter 250 Gathering at the Butcher's House
Han Fei stared at Wu Zui's retreating figure for a long time without looking away. He took out his phone from his pocket and kept the recording function on.

He listened to Wu Zui's words over and over again—he said I was the butterfly, that he hadn't won against the butterfly because of me, and that he hadn't lost to the butterfly because of me.

The spider's life was originally without any attachments, until I sin appeared.

He was protecting the orphan, yet he also wanted to kill him; the complexity of his multiple personalities was vividly displayed in how he dealt with the matter of Wu Zui.

"Am I guilty? Innocent? Or is it my fault?"

The same two characters can have different interpretations. Han Fei didn't know why the spider would give the child such a name. He still couldn't understand many of the writer's decisions.

"It seems that to find out the truth, we need to find the writer in the deeper world. But today was not a complete loss. One very important reason why the spider did not lose to the butterfly in the end was that he held fast to his heart. The spider's life was incomplete before. His life lacked love and protection."

"According to Wu Zui, the spider dares not love, nor does he have anything to protect. He is like an observer standing at the intersection of different worlds, coldly recording everything. It is because of this personality that he was able to write a book like 'Beast Lane'."

"However, when Wu Zui appeared, Spider began to re-examine himself, and the scales that held two worlds in his eyes tilted again. It was because of Wu Zui that the book 'The Butcher's House,' which records the mutual killing between personalities, came about later."

"Two books, one about the world as seen through the eyes, and the other about the world in the heart."

Holding his script, Han Fei looked at the empty end of the corridor and put himself completely in the spider's shoes: "The spider didn't kill the butterfly, nor did it harm the orphan it adopted. Perhaps from the father's perspective, not losing is winning."

The sound of wind chimes rang in his ears, and Han Fei put away his phone.

He gazed silently at the wind chimes, just as he had before, and then he thought of the writer's room in the Deep World.

With a try-it-out mentality, he stood on a chair and touched the ceiling around the wind chimes with both hands.

After a thorough search, Han Fei opened a very well-hidden compartment!

If Han Fei hadn't searched the writer's room in the Deep World, and hadn't discovered the same thing hanging in the Deep World and in reality, he would never have found such a hidden compartment.

When the cover was removed, no butterfly corpses fell out; the hidden compartment contained only a black and white photograph.

There were ten chairs around the dining table and ten sets of tableware on the table, but the photo included two people: Spider and Wu Zui.

The two of them sat on opposite sides of the dining table, silently looking at each other.

Is this considered a family photo?

In reality, the hidden compartment doesn't contain the spider's manuscript, only this photograph.

Han Fei wiped the dust off the photo and suddenly noticed that the chairs at the dining table were numbered. Most of the numbers had been crossed out with a red pen, except for chairs numbered three, five, and nine.

"The third alternate personality is a doctor, the fifth is a teacher, and the ninth is a reader. Could it be that the butterfly was originally hidden among these three alternate personalities?"

Han Fei felt there was another possibility: the butterfly initially only wanted to lure one of the spider's alternate personalities, but it did not expect the spider to have multiple personalities, and then it became embroiled in a battle at the level of consciousness and personality.

This photo is a very important clue for Han Fei. Once he enters the deeper world again, he can specifically target these three personalities.

After carefully putting the photos away, Han Fei, whose lunch break was over, began his afternoon photography work.

As Han Fei's understanding of spiders deepens, his portrayal of the character becomes increasingly outstanding. Although he plays a supporting role in the drama, the focus of the entire series gradually shifts towards him.

The actor Han Fei possesses a mysterious and unique charm. When he immerses himself in the world of the character, what is presented to the audience is not a single character, but a world shrouded in darkness.

As the sun set, the wind chimes rang again on the fourth floor, and the residents inside began to lock their doors.

In their view, the sound of the wind chimes had become a sign of misfortune.

After finishing a day of filming, Han Fei, who never works overtime, said goodbye to the director and left in a police car.

On the way, Han Fei asked Li Xue for some tips on using knives. In modern society, even police officers rarely use knives. They learn more about how to disarm criminals. Therefore, Li Xue could only offer limited help to Han Fei. She simply taught him some advanced fighting techniques.

Possessing the secret to touching the depths of the soul, Han Fei can access resentment and obsession, and close combat is also extremely useful to him.

Around 8 p.m., Han Fei returned home. He checked the entire house to make sure no outsiders had entered before locking the doors and windows again.

After searching online for various practical knife-fighting instructional videos, Han Fei ordered a heavy knife that wasn't sharpened; it wasn't meant for cutting people, but only for practice.

The refrigerator was stocked with water and compressed food, and the house was filled with various self-defense tools. Anyone who came to visit Han Fei's house would probably not think he was an actor, but rather that he was preparing for the end of the world.

At midnight, after connecting all the cables, Han Fei lay on his bed and put on his gaming helmet.

Blood shrouded the world, and Han Fei's consciousness was extracted from his body.

The familiar aroma of meat filled his nostrils again. When Han Fei opened his eyes, he saw bloodstains all over the ground, and several pairs of eyes turned to him at the same time.

"Manager!" The one-eyed clerk, Yinglong, sat on the ground. His convenience store employee jacket was stained black with blood, and his remnant soul was marked with indelible teeth marks and wounds.

Li Zai lay beside him, his head resting on the weeping altar. His thin, elongated soul body bore multiple wounds, and the blood on his body had all congealed, resembling a thin layer of black armor.

It's clear that the two have been through countless battles in just a few days; being covered in blood is an understatement to describe their condition.

"How did you two find this place?" Han Fei asked, holding Yinglong's hand. He had been worried about her and had planned to go looking for them as soon as he logged in this time.

"We were wandering around the outer area when the number of monsters in the alley suddenly increased yesterday. We had no choice but to run deeper into the alley. Finally, when we had nowhere to escape, she rescued us." Li Zai lay weakly on the ground, pursed his lips, and gestured to Han Fei to be careful of the woman in the kitchen. He was a little afraid of Xu Qin.

"Xu Qin went out and rescued you after I left?" Han Fei was surprised, but Xu Qin had also rescued Meng Shi's grandson before, so thinking about it, she was still a very nice neighbor in Happiness Community.

“I initially refused to come with her, but I just couldn’t beat her.” Li Zai picked up the spirit altar on the ground: “The spirit altar has collected a lot of remnant souls and yin energy. Although everyone was injured, their strength has also increased significantly. The monsters in the alley contain a special kind of yin energy, which is extremely domineering and ferocious. This place is simply heaven for my younger brother Li Nan. He has been eating his way here and his size has increased dramatically. I guess you might not recognize him next time you see him.”

Li Zai and Li Nan are one entity; the elder brother maintains his rationality, while the younger brother maintains his fighting strength.

Upon hearing Li Zai's words, Han Fei looked at Yinglong again, and the latter instantly understood Han Fei's meaning. A beastly face covered in bloodstains appeared in his single eye.

With the enhancement of that beast-faced creature, the aura emanating from the Firefly Dragon became even more brutal and ferocious. If one were to be stared at by that one-eyed creature for an extended period of time, their mind would also be affected.

With all his neighbors and colleagues having improved their abilities, Han Fei felt much more at ease looking at Yinglong and Lizai.

"After playing this game for so long, it finally has a hint of nurturing and healing elements."

(End of this chapter)