My Healing Games

Chapter 426 He will unleash a great disaster

With a ripped smile, the gaunt man licked the stitches on his lips with the tip of his tongue, his pupils reflecting Zhuang Wen's dismembered body.

"Can a discarded failure possess such intense resentment?" His smile deepened. "Looks like I'm really lucky today. Such rare goods are rarely seen."

He took a step forward, and his body vanished into thin air, reappearing at the alley entrance the next moment, leaving a trail of black afterimages behind him, each face on his body emitting a piercing scream.

"This alley leads to the outer city. Have you been to the edge of the night? Or did you escape back from the end of the night?" The gaunt man's hands had grown new fingers, but each finger was different, as if they had been taken from different people. One of the fingers was the same as the pattern on the Mirror God's body.

In the dark alley, the gaunt man and Zhuang Wen, the ghost who jumped off the building, were about ten meters apart.

The thin man's body surface faintly showed black flames flowing, and the places scorched by the flames left light red lines.

The faces on his body were connected by blood-red lines, as if they had been re-carved with a knife, leaving a bloody mess that looked ferocious and terrifying.

Malice emanated from the depths of his soul. The gaunt man stared at Zhuang Wen with unbridled malice. In his eyes, Zhuang Wen was already shattered, every piece of her flesh contained in a carefully prepared jar.

"You can definitely get a good price."

Stimulated by intense malice, Zhuang Wen's rationality was rapidly disappearing. The black fire in her eyes began to burn uncontrollably. While this black fire gave her power comparable to hatred, it also burned away all her reason and humanity.

“Yes, that’s it. Let me see if you’re worthy of being placed at the top and chosen by others.” The stitches on the gaunt man’s lips came undone. As he prepared to attack Zhuang Wen, he didn’t forget to turn his head and keep an eye on the bloody figures escaping from the mall: “Don’t even think about escaping. You can’t get away.”

The mall's roller shutters rattled, and the eerie building cast a huge shadow under the streetlights, enveloping everyone inside.

The group of people who had just escaped from the mall seemed to be swept away by a wave and submerged in the deep sea. They found that their bodies were being slowly bound by that shadow, and even struggling became difficult.

"The mall's previous owners didn't discover this place's secret." The gaunt man laughed unrestrainedly. "This isn't a mall at all; it's a scale for exchanging souls. Your life experiences have added weight to your souls, and all your efforts have only been to increase your value at this final moment."

With arms outstretched and bathed in shadow, the gaunt man slowly closed his ten fingers, and ten imprisoned phantoms gradually emerged from the dark building behind him. It seemed that once dragged into the mall, there would be no escape for eternity.

The group of people who had just escaped the mall were once again enveloped in the shadow of the building, and their bodies began to move uncontrollably towards the mall's exit. This department store, located at the intersection of several areas, was like a whirlpool; once you got close, you couldn't escape.

The stitches on the gaunt man's face had burst open, and the wounds emitted an indescribable stench—the smell of a rotting soul.

Faced with such terrifying and disgusting hatred, Zhuang Wen could no longer suppress the madness on her face. She was driven mad by malice, and the hatred deep in her heart was about to explode.

A thick stench of blood permeated the alley, and the black flames of hatred burned against her skin. Zhuang Wen walked toward the gaunt man, their hateful gazes locked on each other.

No evil spirits dared to approach. The walls were covered with blood streaks and cracks, but in the midst of this deathly silence, the streetlights at the mall entrance suddenly flickered and then went out.

The gaunt man seemed to sense something; the smile on his face slowly froze as he looked towards the street connecting the shopping mall and the plastic surgery hospital area.

Something seemed to be hidden in the deep darkness, imperceptible yet undeniably present.

"Oh!"

A window in the distance suddenly shattered, and shards of glass fell into the mist without making a sound, disappearing completely.

"That is?"

As the fog spread, the glass on both sides of the street shattered layer by layer, as if it had been pierced from the inside.

An unknown danger, carrying an extremely strong sense of oppression, is rapidly approaching!
The gaunt man's eyes darted around, and the fragmented world in his pupils was shrouded in mist. He found that he could not see anything inside the mist!

The smile on his face vanished completely, replaced by an expression entirely different from when he saw Zhuang Wen: solemn, surprised, and with a hint of deep-seated unease.

He had never encountered such a situation before; even the deep red hatred could not conceal itself from him.

The other party blocked all his senses, or rather, his eyes were not qualified to see the other party.

What's coming from here?

The man had seen countless terrifying ghosts and monsters, and endured cruel tortures unimaginable to ordinary people. Now, the only thing that could frighten him was the unknown.

The mist swirls, seemingly posing no threat, but in the deeper world, the most dangerous things often don a harmless cloak.

To evade? Or to stand in front of the fog?
The black flames in the gaunt man's eyes flickered uncertainly. His ten fingers clenched and unclenched, and as the mist rapidly approached, he suddenly clenched his hands!
The mall's phantom image resembled an abyss splitting open on the earth, or a giant beast opening its mouth. But when that terrifying giant image closed, no power could be felt at all. The countless ghosts and goods imprisoned in the mall could not sense the ghost in the mist and could not pinpoint its location at all!

What kind of power is this?
Just as the giant mouth was about to touch the mist, the gaunt man stopped; he dared not gamble.

Using the shadows that emerged in the mall, the man dodged with astonishing speed, his ten fingers flicking in the air, manipulating layers of phantoms to protect himself.

As he manipulated the illusory images projected from the mall, the people trapped by the images quickly escaped and rushed into the plastic surgery hospital area.

The skinny man tried to stop him, but just then, the ghost who had jumped out of the alley rushed out.

As the fog rolled in, the man hesitated before choosing to evade, while Zhuang Wen in the alley chose to attack.

Her face was covered in blood, her features contorted, and Zhuang Wen let out a hysterical scream.

At the same time, the fog that permeated the streets also descended. The fog didn't care who it was facing, as if anything that dared to stand in its way would only have one fate: to be annihilated.

A misty fog enveloped the area, from which a soul-summoning song echoed, its mournful tone capable of piercing the very soul!

The gaunt man's expression changed upon hearing the song alone. As he retreated again, the mist had already engulfed the crazed Zhuang Wen.

A heart-wrenching roar rang out, flesh and blood exploded, and the jumping ghost, possessing power approaching that of hatred, was instantly shattered.

The yin energy and flesh filling the sky were all swallowed up by the mist. The soul of the ghost who jumped off the building struggled to escape, but it seemed to be held tightly by something!
Her desperate resistance only stirred the edge of the fog.

Hearing the piercing screams from within the mist, the gaunt man's expression changed drastically once again. He retreated repeatedly, avoiding the pervasive fog.

In less than half a minute, the ghost that had lit the black fire was completely devoured, and there was no trace of her left in the darkness.

After the meal was finished, the thick fog slowly dissipated.

The gaunt man opened his blood-red, deformed eyes wide, and he vaguely saw a figure deep within the fog.

The man wore a hideous beast-face mask, and his soul was as ethereal as mist and as deep as a vast ocean.

As if sensing something, he slowly turned his head, his eyes sweeping indifferently behind him.

Evil, indifferent, like a god!
"Unspeakable!"

The gaunt man quickly retreated back into the mall, his mind reeling, and dared not reveal even a trace of his malice.

His pupils trembled. In the world he saw where everything had been dismembered, only that figure remained intact. He couldn't find any flaws or weaknesses in that soul.

"An unspeakable thing actually appeared in the plastic surgery hospital?"

He had only seen the unspeakable shrines, never the truly unspeakable, but as a native of the Deep World, he knew one thing very well.

Whenever something unspeakable happens in a region, it will trigger a great disaster!
Countless souls and lingering regrets will vanish because of this, until no one dares to mention that ghost's name anymore!
“The shrines in the surrounding area have been constantly being destroyed, and it seems that a name has started to be mentioned repeatedly in this darkness.”

The gaunt man's ten fingers merged with the mall's illusory image, and he silently retreated.

He remembered the name, but now he was unwilling to say it easily.

“A new disaster has occurred. I wonder if he will be like that Fu Sheng, wanting to kill everyone.”

The mall's roller shutters fell, and the gaunt man merged his body with the mall: "I also need to prepare early and quickly transfer my soul to that thing."

His clothes were torn to shreds, and all the dense stitches on his body were snapped. He turned into a pool of foul-smelling black blood and slowly sank into the mall's underground.

As the black blood sank, nine other figures emerged from a corner of the mall. They varied in height, weight, and build, but all of them had human faces etched on their bodies.

Eight of the nine figures turned into black blood and seeped into the ground, leaving only one figure hiding in a jar, seemingly disguising itself as a commodity.

After the black blood disappeared, the resentment that had enveloped the mall also dissipated, and the huge shadow cast by the mall returned to normal, making it seem like just an ordinary building.

As the gaunt man hid underground, the fog also dissipated within the plastic surgery hospital area. A masked man collapsed to the ground, his chest caved in, his eyes devoid of light, his consciousness hazy, unable to maintain even the most basic level of alertness.

"Building manager?"

"Han Fei!"

Zhuang Wen, the ghost who had already "dissipated," stood beside the masked man. Her body was split into three parts: the smallest girl was intact, while the most terrifying part was torn into pieces and was now being pieced back together by the little girl.

"Yinglong, what exactly happened just now?" Haha and Xu Qin were also standing nearby. They had just been in dire straits, but they didn't expect the hatred from the "Plastic Surgery Hospital" to suddenly strike.

They quickly seized the opportunity to escape, but when the fog cleared, they discovered that the person in the fog was not the hatred from the plastic surgery hospital, but Han Fei.

"Don't linger here, let's go back first." The Mirror God tapped the mirror, his eyes filled with an unspeakable hatred. He seemed to have just seen his fingers being pieced together onto someone else's body.

"The girl in the red dress and the crybaby are trapped in the mall, and they haven't come out yet." Haha's face was pale, and her laughter was both unpleasant and sorrowful.

“The Ten Fingers already know the secret beneath the mall. They’ve sealed it off, so no one can get in for the time being, and it’s difficult for those inside to get out.” Mirror God sighed. “They seem to be frightened by the building manager. Until they come out from underground, all the ‘goods’ in the mall should be safe. After all, only ghosts that retain a trace of their soul can fetch a good price.”

Seeing that no one moved, the Mirror God spoke again, his voice stern: "The ten fingers have become filled with hatred. Even if we all attack together, we are no match for them. Do you want Han Fei's efforts to be wasted?"

The Mirror God pointed at Han Fei on the ground: "He just forcibly connected with the shrine and activated the power granted by it. He sacrificed his soul and consciousness to make the mist that was obscuring his soul appear on the street. In just a few minutes, he almost lost his soul. In the end, he couldn't hold on any longer, and when the mist was about to dissipate, I was sweating bullets for him. Fortunately, he reacted quickly."

"The fog that can block perception comes from the building manager's soul?" Li Zai was very surprised.

"Yes, but the fog only serves to confuse and does not cause any real harm."

"But I clearly saw the glass on both sides of the street shatter layer by layer, as if it had exploded under some kind of pressure." Li Zai had also been deceived, and he thought to himself that he was doomed this time.

“No need to pretend, it was indeed the glass we broke while hiding in the fog. This was all planned by Han Fei. He seems to be very good at this.” Mirror God interrupted Li Zai: “We need to make outsiders suspicious—that something unspeakable has happened in the plastic surgery hospital. That’s why we’re coming and going from here. We’ll talk about the rest when we get back.”

While Han Fei was unconscious, Mirror God began to take charge: "When only the little girl appears, Zhuang Wen's hatred and black fire will be concealed, but as her true form is slowly pieced back together, that unique hatred will once again attract the attention of those around her. We must return to the Dead Building before her body is fully repaired, otherwise the ghosts in the mall may realize that Zhuang Wen is faking her death."

The Mirror God struck the mirror again, and he instructed Xu Qin to pick up the unconscious Han Fei, and the group quickly fled.

Thank you to the leader of the Alliance of Fellow Travelers! Thank you to the leader of the Alliance of One Ang Source!

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