My Healing Games

Chapter 382 The Boy on the Fourth Basement Floor

"I suggest you stay in the elevator and don't move. The outside world and the inside world are probably two different worlds."

The male student Yanzu stood in the corner of the elevator. His online name was Yanzu Xinhufenzu, and his real name was Li Yanzu. He was a very introverted boy.

He was usually a man of few words, but he became talkative after meeting Han Fei because he felt he would be annihilated if he didn't speak. The man before him was like the son of a calamity; they had only known each other for half an hour, and now the entire Building No. 4 was trembling, as if it would collapse at any moment.

"We came underground not to take refuge, but to find out the root cause of why the Dead Building became like this." The Soul Chasers all took the elevator up from underground, but Han Fei did the opposite. When the chaos broke out inside the building, he took the elevator down to the underground.

“A member of the group once went underground. Let him persuade you.” Yan Zu opened the group chat and asked one of the members to send a private message to Han Fei. Han Fei’s ID looked familiar to Han Fei.

"Like a fish drinking water, initiate a video call!"

Like a fish drinking water: "I'm hiding in an urn right now, the light is a bit dim, just bear with it and listen to what I have to say."

Like a fish drinking water: "There has always been a custom of summoning souls in the Dead Building. They summon souls every few days, and on the fourth day of every month. One day I became very curious about where those souls came from. On April 4th last year, I secretly followed a soul hunter to the underground and discovered something terrifying."

"The manager is exploiting the obsession of the vengeful ghosts in the building. He uses the longing of the living and the obsession of the dead as ropes, weaving and knotting them deep in the nightmare. Then he has the dead summon their spirits and the living enter their dreams, ultimately completing the so-called summoning of spirits."

“When we summon souls this way, those of us who have passed away can indeed see the figures of the living, but when dawn breaks, all the souls of the living will disappear. Do you think those souls went somewhere?”

Daniel Li: "Underground?"

Like a fish drinking water: "That's right. Apart from a very few powerful residents, such as the old ghost in 4234, all the souls summoned by the other owners have been imprisoned underground by the administrator. It has tampered with these souls, and it seems to be using these souls to cultivate something."

"Will a living person who has lost their soul die in reality?" Han Fei wondered.

"If he's dead, that's fine. But what if he's lost his soul but not dead? Do you think his body still contains the original him?" Ru Yu Yin Shui's words reminded Han Fei of his Soul Return talent. One way to use this talent is to kill the summoned soul and then infuse one's own consciousness into the other's body. This ability is so bizarre that Han Fei has never used it before.

Like a fish drinking water: "The manager's ability is related to nightmares. His ability can bring the souls of the living into the Dead Building in some way, but the limitations are very great. You can tell just by looking at the various arrangements in the Dead Building. Moreover, as far as I know, the success rate of summoning souls is also very low. It requires a high level of obsession with the dead and longing from the living."

"Even if it's low, there must have been quite a few wandering souls imprisoned in the Dead Building over the past ten years." Han Fei still remembered his mission: if he encountered a living person who had been summoned by spirits, he would definitely save them if he could.

"This is another point I want to tell you. If you encounter other wandering spirits underground, never approach them, and definitely don't talk to them." Ru Yu Yin Shui's voice carried a hint of lingering fear: "When I entered the underground that time, the elevator suddenly stopped on the fourth floor. I waited for a long time, and then a child's head suddenly stuck into the elevator. He said he couldn't find his way home and wanted me to help him."

Did you help?

“Because I had run away from home before, his words touched on something deep within me, so I led him through the fourth basement level. Gradually, I realized something was wrong. The entire fourth basement level didn't have the room he mentioned, nor was there a way home. The entire underground of this dead-end building was just a giant tomb!” Ru Yu Yin Shui’s tone became urgent: “That child wanted to lead me into the tomb!”

The elevator lights flickered on and off. Han Fei was on the phone when a dirty little hand suddenly peeked out from beside the silver-gray elevator door, followed by a boy's head sticking into the elevator.

He curiously looked at the people inside the elevator, who seemed rather pitiful.

"Is this the child you're talking about?" Han Fei slowly turned his phone screen, but the phone, tainted with the resentment and obsession of dozens of ghosts, couldn't completely capture the boy's image. Even the cracks on the screen began to multiply, seemingly because it had captured something it shouldn't have.

"Run! Get away from him!"

The phone screen went black for a moment, then the call was dropped, and the group chat function also stopped working.

"It seems this child has a serious problem." Han Fei put away his phone and walked towards the child. He didn't feel fear; instead, he felt like a biologist who had discovered a new species.

In fact, Han Fei was not without fear, but he understood that fear would not solve any problems, so it was better to remain rational and calm at all times.

"Little boy, why are you out alone so late? Where are your father and mother?" Han Fei's hands were loosely clenched behind his back. If the boy showed any abnormality, he would immediately take out the Rebirth Knife.

"I live here, but I've forgotten which door leads to my home..." The boy's voice was trembling with tears. His clothes were wrinkled and ill-fitting, as if he had picked up someone else's clothes and put them on himself.

"Don't rush, think back carefully." Han Fei's gaze was gentle, and his voice was warm. Then, he patted the boy's shoulder with the arm where Da Nie was hiding. The piercing soul poison dripped onto the child's clothes, and Da Nie, who had not reacted before, seemed to become active again.

"I only remember that there were no lights in front of my house, and it was very dark there, but here there are dark rooms everywhere." The boy started to cry as he spoke.

"How about I take you home?" Han Fei withdrew his arm, and a small fragment of the blood-red paper figure slipped through his fingers and silently fell into the child's clothes.

"I have to be back before 4:44. My parents said something terrible will happen if I don't go back." The boy cried as he walked out of the elevator; he seemed very afraid of the dark.

"It's alright, I'll take you home." Using the secret of touching the depths of the soul, Han Fei took the child's hand. He could feel the stench emanating from the depths of the child's soul, a feeling that the soul had already rotted.

Han Fei had used this ability on many people before, but this was the first time he had wanted to let go voluntarily.

"Kid, what's your name?"

"I don't have a name. My parents say I don't need a name."

"So what do they usually call you?"

“They never called me or spoke to me, as if they were just taking care of corpses, as if they had been dead for a long time.” The stench emanating from the boy’s soul grew stronger, but his eyes remained innocent.

"What an enviable family relationship." Han Fei shouted desperately at the big monster in his arm. He also noticed something strange: the big monster would become excited when it got close to the boy, as if it had encountered a mortal enemy.

"The Great Evil is the natural enemy of butterflies, a special ability confirmed by the system. Could it be that this little brat in front of me is related to butterflies?"

“He’s been guarding this place for a year, which means he can move around freely underground. This kid has a lot of problems.”

(End of this chapter)