My Healing Games

Chapter 474 The Last Sacrifice (5000 votes needed, please vote!)
The departing doctor had no idea that his three sentences would hasten the destruction of the world. At that moment, he was still fawning over Boss Gu, whispering something to him.

Boss Gu maintained a show of politeness and even had his bodyguard give the doctor a bank card.

They seemed to be chatting and laughing, as if they had a good relationship, but in reality, they each had their own ulterior motives.

After the doctor left, Boss Gu and his bodyguard walked up to Han Fei again.

"I've already asked the doctor to treat your mother well. Cheer up, the more difficult the times, the more you can't afford to break down." Boss Gu's eyes were full of worry, and he put on another acting show with Han Fei.

"Thank you." His soaked uniform clung to his body, and Han Fei trembled slightly. He opened his mouth as if to say something, but in the end, he could only manage a weak "thank you."

Upon learning that his mother might only have a week left to live, Han Fei tried his best to suppress his pain, but the despair still emanated from within.

Gripping the chair armrests with difficulty, a drop of water dripped from Han Fei's pale face. He seemed to have been completely crushed by reality and was on the verge of collapse.

Seeing Han Fei's miserable state, Boss Gu was very satisfied. Now, he only needed to put a little more pressure on Han Fei, and he should give up his hope and truly fall into the abyss.

Imagining the suffering Han Fei would endure, Boss Gu's lips curled into a slight smile. He patted Han Fei's shoulder in a mock manner: "No matter what, life goes on. Come on, let's go back to the shop and see if those two caused any trouble in the mall last night."

After comforting Han Fei, Boss Gu and three bodyguards walked ahead, while another bodyguard stopped beside Han Fei. He seemed to be concerned about Han Fei, but in reality, he was more like monitoring Han Fei's every move.

Han Fei was very concerned about Boss Gu's arrangement. In fact, Boss Gu's hypocritical acting earlier had already aroused Han Fei's suspicion.

“That old man is selfish and shameless. There must be a reason for his concern. According to what he said last time, offerings are needed for the worship of the gods. Huang Li, Pei Yang and other surviving shop assistants are all the targets of the competition. Based on this, I should also be one of the offerings.”

Han Fei's name doesn't contain any animal characters, but he embodies the memories of the shrine's owner. At this moment, he represents the former shrine owner, and he is the most crucial offering in the normal ritual.

Under the watchful eyes of his bodyguards, Han Fei did not react excessively. He was extremely "weak" and could barely walk.

Once inside Boss Gu's car, Han Fei, exhausted, immediately fell asleep.

"How can he sleep like this?" Boss Gu didn't know that Han Fei could sleep soundly in the police car. He just stared at Han Fei coldly.

He scanned Han Fei up and down, but couldn't find any flaws in him. The other party seemed to be just a simple college student with no guile.

"Sleep now, cherish this last beautiful dream."

Boss Gu stroked the ring on his hand. The ring had a strange color and a somewhat bizarre shape, and it looked like it was made of ashes.

The vehicle quickly arrived at the department store. It was already normal business hours, but there was no one in the store except for some merchants and shop assistants coming and going.

Mr. Gu had a very bad feeling. He immediately told the driver to stop the car, opened the door, and ran into the department store.

As the first business he built up in Shahe, he still has a deep affection for the department store.

The bodyguard chased after them with an umbrella, while Han Fei, who had been woken up by the shaking, followed at the back.

Entering through Exit C, Mr. Gu was greeted by water stains and broken glass everywhere as soon as he stepped into the mall. Many shop windows were smashed, and the handrails of every staircase were twisted and deformed, as if they had been stepped on.

Standing in the open space in the center of the mall, Boss Gu looked up and saw that the advertising ribbons on the top of the mall had been torn off, the clock at the top had stopped working, and the worst off was the women's clothing section on the third floor, where almost all the shops were in a mess.

The world spun around him, and veins popped out on Boss Gu's forehead. He was so angry that he almost collapsed to the ground.

His already poor health couldn't take it anymore, and he took out a small bottle of medicine from his pocket.

But just as he bent down to pour out a few pills, his gaze fell upon the cracked mall floor, the cracks vaguely forming the shape of a well.

"Impossible!" Boss Gu shouted, startling the cleaning staff nearby.

"The women's clothing section on the third floor? Did she run out? How could she have run out!"

Shouting loudly, Boss Gu pushed aside the people next to him and headed straight for the secondhand store.

The shop door was unlocked, and accompanied by the clanging sound, Boss Gu, along with his bodyguards and Han Fei, rushed into the secondhand shop.

Most of the shelves on the ground were intact and remained in their original state, which relieved Mr. Gu.

He first walked to the shrine on the ground, lifted the black cloth, and found that the shrine on the ground was intact and there was nothing unusual about it.

"Thankfully, there was no problem with the cap..."

After he finished speaking, he opened the partition of the underground warehouse. The moment the partition was lifted, an extremely cold aura surged out from underground.

Boss Gu's expression changed, and he entered the underground warehouse with his bodyguards.

There was half a foot of water at the bottom of the warehouse, and a large number of shelves were overturned and soaked in the foul-smelling sewage.

Boss Gu was dumbfounded. The expensive scarf around his neck fell into the water. As if he had lost his soul, he walked step by step to the deepest part of the warehouse.

A thick black cloth floated on the water's surface, and the pitch-black shrine remained in place, except that a large hole had been smashed into the top of the shrine!
His eyes were almost bleeding, and Boss Gu's body was trembling uncontrollably. His trembling was even more intense than the emotions Han Fei had just displayed.

"Who did it? Who did it!"

Gritting his teeth, Boss Gu had never been so angry in all the years he had run his business in Shahe.

Following closely behind the bodyguards, Han Fei stood at the escalator, not daring to get too close to the shrine, fearing something might happen.

"Boss, there's another security camera in the store that's working properly!" Han Fei shouted loudly to divert Boss Gu's attention, in order to spend as little time underground as possible.

He ran to the counter and opened a surveillance video he had deliberately saved.

Ten Fingers was too lazy to destroy the surveillance cameras. All the surveillance cameras were set up by Han Fei himself, almost like malicious editing. The surviving cameras captured the chef and the dwarf from an unintentional angle, and also captured the dwarf's terrifying head tattoo.

"Last night, those two tried to kill me! I fought back desperately, but they were incredibly strong, practically inhuman!" Han Fei showed this to Boss Gu, whose heart was bleeding, and Boss Gu focused all his hatred on his ten fingers.

He had his suspicions about Han Fei, but how could an ordinary person possibly destroy the shrine? How could he possibly turn the shopping mall into this mess? Even if you gave him a hammer and made him smash up the shops one by one, it would be difficult to destroy the entire shopping mall like this.

Besides, Han Fei's mother is in the hospital, which is his most fatal weakness. Boss Gu is not worried at all that Han Fei can escape from his grasp.

Based on all of the above, Boss Gu never thought Han Fei had the ability to cause destruction from the very beginning.

"Again and again, do these lunatics really think I have no way to fight back?" A sinister look appeared on his face, and blood began to seep from the festering wounds on Boss Gu's skin. He stood in front of the counter for a long time, then took out his phone and made a call.

Half an hour later, a huge truck appeared at the entrance of the mall.

Han Fei had seen this truck once before; it seemed to be the same truck that was always transporting goods to the underground warehouse.

"Seal off entrance C of the mall and prohibit pedestrians from passing through."

A group of people emerged from the back of the truck, carrying specialized tools, and entered the secondhand store to remove the partitions leading to the underground warehouse.

"What are they trying to do?" Han Fei observed the people behind the counter.

"Be gentle! Don't bump it!" Boss Gu's voice came from time to time; he seemed to have never been so nervous before.

Another ten minutes or so passed, and Han Fei clearly felt the ground shake. Then he heard the sound of rushing water coming from the underground warehouse.

Several staff members quickly moved an item covered with a black cloth from the ground.

"An underground shrine?" Han Fei shook his head slightly. Although there were no more ghosts in the mall now, and the shrine no longer needed to suppress anything, he felt that the shrine was unlikely to have been moved.

Through the gaps in the black cloth, Han Fei could vaguely see the outline of the shelves. It seemed that the mall owner was preparing to empty the things in the underground warehouse, but Han Fei didn't know why he was doing this.

Several staff members worked together, and Han Fei also went downstairs under the guise of helping out.

Most of the shelves were removed, and the remaining shelves were placed in special locations. If you look closely, you can see that the layout is very similar to that of the buildings in Shaheyuan.

After dismantling a large number of shelves, Boss Gu also discovered a large hole in the wall, from which the water in the warehouse was flowing out.

There wasn't a single photo left in the well. Boss Gu looked extremely pale, and he kept coughing, which made Han Fei secretly worried. If the boss were to die of anger, then he would have to deal with Shizhi alone.

The rain was pouring down, and the well water level was still rising.

Boss Gu stood in the water, gritting his teeth as he directed the workers.

They first plugged the gap in the wall and drained the water from the warehouse. Then they began writing a large number of strange symbols on the walls and floor of the warehouse.

Han Fei had seen similar symbols on the scraps of paper in Room 13. These symbols seemed to be the writing in the shrine, representing something special.

"The bodies of women who hang themselves are made up of these symbols, and the mall owner seems to like leaving the marks of shrines on the bodies of those who died unjustly."

Finding photos of the wrongfully deceased who fell into the well can only temporarily grant them freedom; there seems to be another layer of constraint on their souls.

“All the souls that were traded were put up with a price tag; they became ‘items’ and became associated with the shrine.”

Thinking about it this way, Han Fei felt very fortunate. Since entering the world of memories, he had almost made contact with the shrine several times, and the shrine had been pressuring him to make a wish, but he had managed to avoid it each time.

Although he is now one of the people closest to the shrine, the shrine cannot control his fate.

After the final symbols were drawn, the underground warehouse had completely changed its appearance; standing in the warehouse felt like standing in a shrine.

Following the shop owner's instructions, the workers not only drew various symbols, but also brought the slaughtered livestock underground and placed them in various corners.

After everything was taken care of, they took out a photo of themselves and handed it to Boss Gu.

Only those who have submitted their photos can proceed to receive their wages.

The workers weren't surprised. Boss Gu paid them a lot of money, so they came here to work. Submitting photos or anything like that didn't matter to them.

The workers happily received their double wages, unaware of the hysterical madness in Boss Gu's eyes.

As the wage settlement was nearing completion, several workers who had received their wages gathered together, secretly pointing and whispering to Boss Gu, seemingly discussing something.

What started as casual conversation among the workers turned into a heated discussion, drawing more and more people to gather around. The conversation grew louder, and some of the words eventually reached Boss Gu's ears.

"Have you heard? Boss Gu has been passionate about charity because he feels guilty. He drove his ex-wife to her death and even threw his child into a well."

"That can't be right. I saw online that Mr. Gu does charity to make money. He's already made hundreds of millions."

"Indeed, you see that there are hardly any people in the mall every day, so how did he manage to buy half of Shaheyuan?"

“You’re all just repeating hearsay. My uncle is a security guard at Shaheyuan. He worked for Boss Gu when he was young. He said that Boss Gu has connections in both the legal and illegal worlds, and the number of people who have died because of him is too many to count on one hand.”

"What could a lowly security guard know? My sister and a college student who was sponsored by Boss Gu are alumni. She said that Boss Gu appears to be a respectable person on the surface, but he actually has many illegitimate children."

The workers, watching the messages constantly scrolling through their phones, became increasingly engrossed in their conversation.

The muttering sound surrounded Boss Gu, buzzing around him, causing blue veins to appear on his hands as he handed out money.

"Get out of here!"

The underground warehouse had been turned into an altar, and Boss Gu ordered his bodyguards to drive all the workers away.

"Where did these guys, who have no trading value, hear these rumors from?" Boss Gu took out his phone, glanced at it briefly, and his blood pressure instantly spiked.

"Who's spreading rumors!" Enraged, Boss Gu nearly threw his phone away. He glared at the departing workers and said viciously, "You two, come here and smash this wall through."

The bodyguards did their job diligently; following Boss Gu's instructions, they smashed open the wall opposite the shrine.

Behind the wall was a cold, dark room filled with countless photographs.

“I have done so many good deeds, now it is your turn to repay me.”

Boss Gu poured all the photos that the workers had just handed in into the room: "You earn what you put in, but if you want double the money, you have to pay double the price."

The wall was smashed through, and the massive amount of photographs stored in the darkroom poured into the underground warehouse, pressing down on the strange symbols that had just been drawn.

"The altar is set up. Now all we need to do is place the offerings on the altar." Boss Gu stared at Han Fei's back and sent all the bodyguards out.

After confirming that no one was around, he took out his phone again and made a call.

“You failed to complete the task I gave you last time. Not only was your son unharmed, but he also returned alive and kicking.”

"Boss Gu, I never expected that this little beast would send Snake Brother's men to find me..."

"Stop talking nonsense. This time I'll give you ten times the money. Go do something for me."

"You say."

"Haven't you always thought of your wife as a burden? Now you can get rid of that burden."

"What...do you mean by this?"

"She's staying in room 401 on the fourth floor of the People's Hospital. The doctor will make rounds at 2 a.m. tonight and then leave." Boss Gu didn't continue. "Seize the opportunity. I've already put the money in the usual place. Don't let me down again."

"You want me to do it? But she doesn't have much time left to live."

"I won't take the money back, but if you take my money and don't do what I ask, you should know the consequences, right?"

After hanging up the phone, a cruel smile appeared on Boss Gu's cold face: "In such despair, he will surely become the perfect sacrifice."

After leaving the underground warehouse, Boss Gu left his two bodyguards in the store. He intended to offer Han Fei a few words of encouragement, but his phone suddenly rang.

Upon seeing the caller ID, Boss Gu frowned and immediately answered the phone: "What happened at home?"

"When I was cleaning as usual today, I found that the red sweater in the park was missing."

Which red sweater?

"It's the one in the hidden compartment..."

"Thud!" Boss Gu lost his grip and his phone fell to the ground.

"Boss, boss? Are you alright?"

His pupils dilated as he recalled the conversation the workers had just had. His face turned deathly pale, enveloped in immense fear.

The truth has been taken away!

"Boss, the chain in the corner of the amusement park seems to have been cut by something. There's much less trash on the ground today, but the amount of raw meat hasn't decreased. Do I still need to replace it on time?" The voice kept coming from the phone, but Boss Gu didn't answer. He didn't even bend down to pick up the phone.

After a long while, Boss Gu seemed to wake up from a dream. He picked up his phone and hung up the call immediately.

"You two stay at the store tonight and keep my staff company on night shift. Wherever we go, the three of you must go together." Boss Gu spoke quickly, and after he finished speaking, he immediately left with the other two bodyguards.

"The boss looks very anxious. Has something happened at home?" Han Fei stood by the counter and poured himself a glass of hot water. "Oh right, I forgot that the boss has no relatives. He lives alone."

The truth has been revealed: Boss Gu may have many subordinates, but he has always been alone. No one is genuinely willing to help him; they are either after money or forced into it.

Han Fei's situation was the opposite; although he appeared to be alone, he actually had countless hands supporting him from behind.

After the boss left, Han Fei's phone vibrated. He glanced at the caller ID and saw that it was Lin Lu calling.

"Hello? Is there something you need?"

"Why did you ask me to take leave while we were at the hospital? You were being so mysterious and didn't explain it clearly."

"I can't say right now, but you'd better leave there as soon as possible," Han Fei said in a very serious tone.

"I asked my supervisor for leave, but he wouldn't approve it and even scolded me. He made me work the night shift tonight," Lin Lu said, sounding a little aggrieved.

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