My Healing Games

Chapter 441 The Woman in the Fitting Room
The department store was cold and dark after midnight, and it looked particularly eerie at first glance.

"Weren't you two going to follow me the whole time?" Han Fei saw the two thugs hesitate and provoked them further: "I'm going to the third floor now."

After he finished speaking, he started walking. The two thugs with bandages wrapped around their arms hesitated for a long time before following him.

Seeing the two thugs dawdling around, Han Fei found it strange. These two thugs weren't employees of the mall, so they shouldn't know about the various terrifying things that happened inside.

Turning my head, I saw two men dressed in suits. The scarred man was carrying a plastic bag with only two movable fingers. The bag contained the sunflower seed shells they had just eaten.

Looking further towards the shop entrance, everything was spotless; the newspapers that had been lying on the ground had been removed, and there wasn't a single sunflower seed shell left.

"You loan sharks actually have some principles." Perhaps it was because Han Fei had beaten them into submission that they dared not act recklessly.

"Don't jump to conclusions." The fat man shook his arm, which was in a cast. "We're in the low-end financial industry, helping micro-enterprises and individuals..."

Before the fat man could finish speaking, he was interrupted again by the scarred man. The tall, thin man's eyes were full of cold light, like a lone wolf on a snowy plain, but the plastic bag dangling between his fingers was a bit of an eyesore.

"I can't pay you back in a short time. If you insist on following me, then we'll probably have to spend some more time together." Han Fei walked side by side with the two thugs so that he could push them out if they encountered danger. "What are your names? We've become friends through a fight, so we can get to know each other."

Upon hearing the phrase "no fight, no friendship," Scarface's forehead veins bulged, but unfortunately, he was no match for him.

"My name is Li Hu, and this is my brother, Li Long. We were both orphans and grew up on the streets," the fat man said casually. He didn't think there was anything wrong with saying these things; they were just names, and the young man in front of him couldn't possibly curse someone to death based on their name.

"Ahem!" Scarface coughed and stared at Han Fei with a serious expression: "Kid, I know you're good at fighting, but if you don't pay back the money, my brother and I will follow you around like the Black and White Impermanence! After you go home, we'll guard you, block your door, and even go back with you. No matter what you do, we'll stick to you."

“The place I live in is really weird, the two of you probably aren’t enough. Do you have any other brothers? I’ve seen it in movies, people like you usually act in groups of many.” Han Fei asked very sincerely, but Scarface felt that Han Fei was just teasing him.

After letting out a cold snort, Scarface fell silent.

With two passersby accompanying him, Han Fei was no longer so nervous. Before, he needed to run faster than the ghost to escape, but now he only needed to run faster than the two thugs.

Thinking about this, his mood even began to slowly improve.

The elevator had stopped running, so they walked step by step to the third floor.

This was Han Fei's first time entering a department store, and the shopping area appeared very empty at night.

They took out their phones for light, and the boundless darkness brought Han Fei and the other two together.

"Why did Huang Li come to the third floor? Where did those two security guards go?" Han Fei hadn't forgotten that when he left work that morning, the two security guards stood pale-faced by the railing staring at him. They were probably no longer human.

"When the strange noise came last night, the two security guards rushed over to check, and when they came back, they began to show some kind of change."

Han Fei didn't know where Huang Li had gone. He had no clues and could only head towards the direction from which the strange noise came.

On the third floor of the department store, in the women's clothing section, every shop window had mannequins. As Han Fei and his companions passed by the shops, they always felt as if the mannequins were staring at them.

"We cannot let our guard down; some of the human-shaped objects standing in the shop window may not be mannequins."

The light from the phone shone on the shop window, reflecting the plastic mannequin inside and also showing Han Fei's own image.

"Aren't you a shop assistant? Why are you doing the work of a security guard? Can you please stop wandering around?" Scarface said in a low voice. His wrist was broken, so he couldn't use his full strength and felt very insecure.

"I don't want to either, but do you know where the mall's security guards are?" Han Fei continued walking forward, but Scarface hooked his remaining finger around Fatty's shoulder, and the two slowed down.

Seeing that Scarface was reluctant to move forward, Han Fei noticed something was wrong: "I found it strange earlier. You are not employees here, but you seem to be afraid of this mall and don't want to go in. Do you know something?"

Han Fei was too perceptive; he noticed the problem from just a few of the other party's subtle movements. He grabbed the cast on Scarface's arm and asked with a smile.

“We’ve been wandering the old streets since we were kids, so we do know some things.” Scarface glanced at the open space in the center of the mall: “When this mall was first built, a woman jumped from the third floor women’s clothing section and was directly impaled by exposed steel bars. Her death was horribly gruesome.”

"Was it a construction worker who accidentally fell?"

"I heard from the older women on the street that the dead woman was the mall owner's ex-wife. Neither of them were originally from this city. When they were young, they did business in the coastal area. He ran a secondhand store, and she sold women's clothing. The man's secondhand store did very poorly, while the woman's clothing store was very successful. It's said that they even opened several chain stores." The scarred man had a cold demeanor, but he knew a lot about gossip from many years ago, which surprised Han Fei.

"and after?"

"The man had been pursuing the female boss, and they eventually got married. But after marriage, things completely reversed. The woman's clothing stores went out of business for various reasons, while the man's secondhand market became increasingly successful. The man's luck also improved, and his business grew bigger and bigger. Later, they divorced, and the man took the money back to his hometown and built a department store there."

Han Fei hadn't expected there to be such a story behind the business world. He slowed down and listened attentively.

"Shortly after the mall started construction, various accidents occurred, but the mall owner suppressed them all, including the woman who specifically went to the mall to commit suicide. It is said that the woman sneaked into the construction site in the middle of the night, wearing a bright red dress and heavy makeup, and then jumped from the third floor."

"No one knows what happened between them. After the mall owner learned that the woman had committed suicide, he rushed over that night and took her to the hospital for emergency treatment, but it was too late."

"According to the doctor at the time, the boss was extremely grief-stricken. A grown man held the cold body and wept bitterly, which was heartbreaking to see."

"The mall owner is a kind and generous person, so at the time, no one thought of anything negative. Many people comforted him and hoped that he wouldn't be so sad."

"Strangely, after his ex-wife died, the construction of the shopping mall went very smoothly, and no more accidents occurred."

"At that time, the matter was gradually suppressed and few people would mention it anymore. However, there is a saying here that the reason why the third floor of the department store is the women's clothing section is because the owner wanted to atone for his ex-wife."

"After his ex-wife died, the mall owner devoted himself to charity in a very high-profile manner, becoming a well-known philanthropist. He established his own charity organization, helped many orphans, and donated all kinds of items. Now everyone speaks highly of his good deeds."

After Scarface finished speaking, his brother chimed in, "Those who've been in the underworld for a while will know that we can mess with anyone here, but we absolutely cannot mess with the department store owner. The old hands in the underworld have also warned us not to cause trouble for this department store."

"The elderly people don't want you to cause trouble for the mall?" Han Fei found it strange. "Do they know something even more terrifying about the mall?"

As Han Fei continued walking, the light from his phone suddenly flickered a few times.

The moment the phone's light dimmed, Han Fei seemed to see a figure standing not far ahead.

"Orioles?"

Han Fei asked softly, looking at the open space in the distance.

There was no response from inside the mall, which startled the two thugs.

"You saw someone?"

"It seems to be a person."

As Han Fei slowly moved forward, he was about to approach the spot where the figure was standing when his body suddenly froze!
Han Fei turned his head slightly, initially only glancing at it out of the corner of his eye, but gradually a look of extreme surprise appeared on his face.

He turned around abruptly and pointed his phone at the glass window of a women's clothing store next to him.

Between two mannequins, Oriole, dressed in bright red, stood pressed against the glass in the shop window!
Her face was pale, she wore bright red lipstick, and her eyes were wide open!

The three men leaned back simultaneously, their hearts pounding.

"Sister Huang? Sister Huang!" Han Fei shouted loudly. Upon hearing his voice, Huang Li seemed to wake up from a sleepwalking state and fainted to the ground.

Han Fei approached with his phone, but just then, a sound came from another store next door, as if the curtain of the fitting room had been pulled down.

"You two stay here and watch her!" Gripping his phone tightly, Han Fei rushed straight to another shop.

Of the four fitting rooms, only three had curtains. Han Fei raised his phone and, using the light, slowly walked deeper into the store.

The curtain in the fitting room swayed gently, as if an arm might reach out at any moment.

The darkness grew thicker, and the light from the phone could no longer reach any further.

Subconsciously reaching into his pocket, Han Fei quietly grasped the bladeless knife. He slowly moved to the door of the fourth fitting room. The empty fitting room was empty, with only a pile of red new clothes on the floor.

"What about people?"

As Han Fei looked back, he noticed that his mood score, which had just started to recover, had inexplicably dropped a little. Before he could even react, his mood score dropped a little more.

He had never encountered such a falling speed before. Without any hesitation, Han Fei turned around and ran out of the shop.

As he ran, Han Fei saw a fitting room mirror on the wall of the shop.

The mirror hanging in the depths of darkness not only reflected Han Fei's figure but also showed the fourth fitting room.

Among the pile of red clothes stood a woman with a hole pierced through her back. Her back was to Han Fei, and her fingers were constantly writing the word "death" in the fitting room.

Rushing out of the shop, Han Fei quickly ran back, shouting, "Let's go! Downstairs!"

Han Fei shouted at the two thugs, but they stared at the shop window without moving.

"what happened?"

"She...she seems to be dead..." The fat man stammered. Although he was a loan shark who often got into fights and even had a tattoo of a fierce tiger coming down a mountain, he had never seen a dead person before!
“It’s difficult for a dead person to stand up on their own without support.” Han Fei’s words sounded very professional. Instead of abandoning Huang Li, he quickly carried the unconscious Huang Li out of the shop.

The three of them ran downstairs together. He could feel Huangli's body temperature slowly dropping and her heartbeat becoming weak.

"Do you have a car? Quick! Take her to the nearest hospital!"

Han Fei's mood score was only in the twenties at this moment. He would probably have a hard time surviving after leaving the mall. If he didn't want to go crazy on the way, he would have to rely on those two thugs.

"We don't even have hands, how could we possibly drive here?"

After carrying the oriole to the store entrance, Han Fei dialed the emergency number. About ten minutes later, an ambulance arrived from the darkness.

"You two take her to the hospital! I'll pay you back as soon as I get back!"

After receiving Han Fei's promise, Scarface let Fatty get in the car with him to accompany Huang Li to the hospital, while he chose to stay and continue watching over Han Fei.

After the ambulance took Huang Li away from the mall, a system notification appeared in Han Fei's mind.

"Attention player number 0000! You have successfully triggered the random shrine quest - Money."

"Money (Random Shrine Quest): If one day money could buy a person's life, what would you choose?"

"Mission requirements: Arrive at the Third People's Hospital before dawn and make the right choice."

After hearing the system notification, Han Fei did not act immediately. He moved a chair and sat down at the shop entrance: "Li Long, how long will it take us to get to the Third People's Hospital by bicycle?"

"About half an hour, why are you asking this?"

"fine."

Han Fei did not plan to leave the mall for the time being. He would wait until his mood value recovered to above 50 before setting off: "The shrine owner's mother lives in the Third People's Hospital. It seems I need to prepare in advance. After all, in the eyes of patients' families, hospitals are not a good place."

As his mood gradually calmed down, Han Fei stared at the attribute panel. While he was waiting for his mood value to recover, a light suddenly flashed on the fifth floor of the mall.

Immediately afterwards, the voice of security guard Li Daxing rang out around the light, as he loudly called out the name of his companion.

"This guy's still alive? What was he doing when I went up to the third floor just now?"

Not long after, security guard Li Daxing ran down from the fifth floor, his face full of panic and unease. As soon as he saw Han Fei, he quickly asked, "Have you seen Ma Yang? He's the security guard who was on duty with me yesterday!"

"No, what's wrong with him?" Han Fei shook his head.

"He's gone! We patrolled up to the fifth floor together, and then he suddenly disappeared!" Security guard Li Daxing was deathly pale, with blood still lingering at the corner of his mouth. His eyes were filled with fear, and his palm was covered in cold sweat.

"Don't panic." Han Fei pulled the scarred man back a step. "This mall isn't going to eat you. Your companion probably just went to the restroom."

(End of this chapter)