My Healing Games

Chapter 496 Above the High-Rise (4000 views, please vote)
Last night, when Han Fei saw the Glass Cat in the game, he felt something was wrong. The player had a very weak will to live and even wanted to leave the Deep World by committing suicide.

She didn't care much about anything she had in the game, as if nothing around her could interest her or give her any hope of survival.

It is actually a very terrible thing to have no attachment to the world.

Han Fei arrived at Liuli Cat's residence in just twenty minutes. It was an old neighborhood located between the old city and the smart new city.

"Room 1031."

Looking at the address on his phone, Han Fei ran into the residential area.

"Are you a resident of this community? I've never seen you before." The security guard standing at the gate saw Han Fei and came over to ask.

"I'm here to see someone. She lives in room 1031." Han Fei was too fast; the two security guards following behind couldn't catch up at all.

"Stop!" The security guard shouted into his walkie-talkie, his eyes fixed on Han Fei, as if afraid he would disappear in the blink of an eye. "Come help! A stranger has come in!"

"What does he look like?"

"He ran very fast! I didn't see him clearly!"

Upon entering Building No. 1, Han Fei scanned the door numbers. His brain, like a sophisticated machine, wasted no time and immediately drove him to make the most correct judgment.

Upon reaching the third floor, Han Fei knocked on the door and called out the name of the glass cat, but no one answered.

The more this happened, the more uneasy he felt.

"Stop knocking, stop knocking." The door of the neighbor's house was pushed open, and a middle-aged woman came out with a watering can: "The girl isn't home, she seems to have gone out."

Do you know where she went?

“I’m not sure. The girl has rarely gone out since her family passed away. I saw her going out this morning when I was moving flower pots on the balcony, and I was quite surprised.” The woman thought for a while: “She seemed to be on the phone the whole time, but the other party didn’t answer. She was also carrying a backpack with the name of the orphanage printed on it. Anyway, she was quite strange today.”

"A backpack with the orphanage's name printed on it?" Han Fei recalled the woman's words in the last video. She seemed to be preparing to leave in some way, to return the gifts the world had given her, to take back the initial despair, and then destroy everything.

"The welfare home that Yong Sheng Pharmaceutical once built!"

Han Fei turned and went downstairs, just in time to run into the security guards who had gathered around him.

"Who are you looking for? We can help you find them..."

"Thank you." Before the security guard could speak, Han Fei grabbed his arm: "Let me see the security camera footage at your entrance!"

The security guard was just being polite, trying to keep Han Fei calm for the time being. But by the time he realized what was happening, Han Fei had already dragged him away, leaving him powerless to fight back.

With wide, innocent eyes, the security guard looked at his companions, who were still standing there dumbfounded, not having reacted yet.

"Don't be afraid. I used to be a security guard too. Security guards won't hurt other security guards unless you don't cooperate with me."

Upon entering the duty room, Han Fei stood in front of the computer and immediately began reviewing the surveillance footage. His movements were far more skilled than those of the security guards in the residential complex.

Han Fei quickly spotted Liuli Cat in the surveillance footage. An hour earlier, she had been holding her phone, head down, and carrying a tattered backpack.

Who is she talking to?

Even with the surveillance footage zoomed in, it was still impossible to see clearly, so Han Fei had no choice but to give up.

"Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals once built two children's welfare homes, both located in the north of the old town, and the Glass Cat did indeed move north."

Upon leaving the monitoring room, the three security guards appeared to be on high alert, while Han Fei politely thanked them before running out of the residential area.

He hailed a car and headed to the welfare home that Yong Sheng Pharmaceuticals had built many years ago, where he still had a vague impression of the place.

"Drive faster, driver." Han Fei felt that he should save up some money to buy a car, otherwise it would be very inconvenient to go out. If he couldn't afford a sedan, he could consider buying a motorcycle first.

Fifteen minutes later, Han Fei saw the orphanage. After all these years, the building was still the same as before.

Although the exterior has been constantly renovated, the overall building has not changed at all. From the outside, it looks more like a children's hospital than an orphanage.

After paying the fare, Han Fei ran towards the orphanage, but halfway there he suddenly noticed a large crowd gathered across the street, and more people were running in that direction from a distance.

"She jumped! There was a girl in that building!"

"Call the police immediately! Someone is about to jump from the building across from the welfare home."

Various voices came from the crowd, and Han Fei stopped and looked at the building opposite.

The building opposite the welfare home also belongs to Yong Sheng Pharmaceutical. It has seven floors, and no one knows what it is used for. There are no billboards or anything like that on the building.

Moving his gaze upwards, Han Fei saw a girl on the top of the building. She was carrying a worn-out children's schoolbag and standing on the edge of the building. The wind blew against her from the high altitude, and her body looked like a leaf hanging on a tree branch in autumn, as if she might fall at any moment.

"Liuli Cat!"

Han Fei had also seen some suicides. Some of them were emotionally agitated and unusually excited. Their suicides were more of a cry for help. They couldn't find a reason to live, were crushed by the cruel reality, and had completely broken down.

Such suicide victims are actually relatively easy to persuade; the truly difficult ones to persuade are another type of person.

They have become numb to death, or rather, they have given death a thoughtful consideration. When they stand on the high platform, they may have simulated it a thousand or ten thousand times in their minds. They have convinced themselves time and time again until they can no longer find a reason for themselves.

As he climbed the steps, his eyes were completely devoid of light.

Glass Cat belongs to the latter category. She had the worst childhood ever, participated in some kind of experiment by the Immortal Medicine Company, was taken to various places, and eventually had her personality shattered.

If she had never seen the light, perhaps she could have adapted to the darkness.

She was like a kitten curled up in a downpour, and when she was on the verge of death, the old lady adopted her.

The old lady painstakingly pieced together the shattered personality and memories of her childhood, using love and care to help her rebuild them.

Perhaps her personality is still fragmented, but at least it has become a whole; she has the belief to live and the hope to live.

But the cruelest step in this experiment was that the elderly person died of illness, the support of life collapsed, and the pieces that had been pieced together broke apart again.

During the time the old man spent with the glass cat, he truly treated her like his own granddaughter, giving her all his love, and gradually forgot the original purpose of the experiment.

It wasn't until the very last moment before her death that she spoke those words, telling the glass cat the truth.

The old woman must have genuinely wanted to save the glass cat at that moment, which is why she told the truth. Otherwise, she could have easily fabricated a lie and let the glass cat continue living in falsehood.

Hope is false, but love is real, but these are no longer important to Liuli Cat.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"

Police arrived at the scene, followed by the fire and rescue team, their sirens shattering the midday tranquility.

A rescue air cushion was deployed, and firefighters, carrying various tools, entered the building together with the police.

The building manager also came out; he was a chubby middle-aged man, sweating profusely, and kept talking to the police.

"Why would such a lovely girl be so depressed? She's at the prime of her life."

"She's probably heartbroken. These young people these days are so fragile, they're always threatening to kill themselves. I don't believe she'd actually dare to jump."

"Be careful what you say and do. That girl doesn't seem to be having relationship problems. There isn't a single tear on her face, and her pupils look like they're shattered."

"You're really something, you can see so much in just a pair of eyes. Are you a psychologist?"

The onlookers gathered downstairs all took out their phones to take pictures, and some even turned the camera zoom to the maximum to clearly see the girl's face.

"Is she going to jump or not? I'm going to be late for work."

"This is so slow, I've been recording for ages. I don't think she really wants to die, she'll probably be saved in the end."

"I'm still waiting to use her to release material..." A man with a very lewd appearance was filming upstairs when his camera suddenly went black.

He moved his phone away and saw Han Fei standing in front of him, covering his phone's camera with his hand: "Are you sick?"

"If you're so eager to see people jump off buildings, why don't you go up and jump yourself?" Han Fei's voice was very calm, but it sent a chill down the spine of the lewd man.

He wanted to say a few more words, but his companion stopped him.

Those two probably felt that Han Fei was not someone to be trifled with, so they muttered something under their breath and retreated to the outside of the crowd with their phones.

After memorizing the man's face, Han Fei walked through the crowd and entered the building.

With the elevator blocked by the police, Han Fei took the emergency exit and climbed to the top floor in one go.

"Hey! What are you doing here! You can't go over there now!" A young policeman stopped Han Fei, but Han Fei didn't force his way in. He carefully explained the situation of the Glass Cat.

While he was talking to the young policeman, an older policeman ran down from the rooftop: "What are you still standing here for? Have you notified the girl's family?"

“She’s an orphan, and the old lady who adopted her recently passed away. I guess she couldn’t bear such a blow, which is why she made the most extreme choice.” The young policeman was also a little sad: “She has no family left.”

“She has no family, so we are her family. This is the saddest and most emotionally devastating time for her. We need to find a way to calm her down first.” The older policeman looked toward the edge of the rooftop, where a policewoman was trying to communicate with the glass cat.

"It's windy there, why don't you sit down first and we can talk slowly, okay?"

No matter what the policewoman said, Liuli Cat did not answer; her gaze remained fixed on the orphanage across the street.

Standing on the high-rise building, you can see the scene inside the welfare home's high walls. Even after so many years, there are still abandoned children living inside.

They all have some kind of defect, some mental, some physical.

"It feels like she's waiting for a certain time." Han Fei thought of something and grabbed the policeman next to him: "Could you check Grandma Liuli Cat's time of death? Was it this morning? How much longer until her time of death?"

The young policeman was about to refuse, but the older policeman heard Han Fei's voice and turned around in surprise: "Han Fei? I didn't recognize you just now. What are you doing here?"

"You know me?" Han Fei felt relieved. "That makes sense. I'm an actor, so it's normal to be recognized."

“I don’t watch movies,” the old policeman said. “When they issued the warrant for Butterfly’s arrest, they sent you your photo, saying that Butterfly was very likely to target you, and they asked us to ensure your safety.”

"Then I really have to thank your leader." Han Fei walked over to the old policeman: "I've seen this girl before. She lived in the orphanage next door when she was a child."

"You've seen him?" The old policeman was somewhat surprised; he felt that Han Fei's presence was everywhere.

“Let’s not talk about the specifics for now. This girl isn’t just having a simple emotional breakdown; she has no hope of living anymore. Ordinary persuasion probably won’t work; she won’t listen to anything.” Han Fei glanced at his watch. “You guys should check the time of her family’s deaths first. I suspect she might be waiting until that time to leave.”

"We found her. The old lady passed away at the hospital at 10:34 a.m."

"It's 10:24 now, you have ten minutes left." Han Fei looked at the policeman next to him: "Could I go over and say a few words to her?"

"That's absolutely unacceptable. Inexperienced people trying to persuade someone contemplating suicide not to jump might actually hasten their impulsive decision." The police officers present immediately refused Han Fei's request. They had a responsibility to everyone involved and couldn't gamble with such a person.

Han Fei was indeed often courageous and righteous, and he was also very intelligent, but persuading someone contemplating suicide requires rich experience, professional knowledge, and a strong sense of empathy.

Firefighters were positioned on the seventh floor, but the distance between the seventh floor and the top floor was too great for them to take action without proper preparation.

On the rooftop, a male and a female police officer slowly approached, but when they were still five meters away from the glass cat, they could not get any closer because the glass cat's body had begun to lean forward and it was about to fall at any moment.

Time ticked by, and the rescue reached a stalemate. With three minutes to go until 10:34, Han Fei suddenly rushed onto the rooftop.

He wanted to save people, but doing so also involved a huge risk!

If Liuli Cat were to fall from the building while he was speaking, his acting career might be over. The entertainment company that had previously attacked him would surely portray him as a murderer, and an endless stream of online trolls would smear him, making it impossible for him to ever prove his innocence, because he did indeed speak.

Because speaking out comes at a great cost, more and more people are getting used to remaining silent.

At this moment, Han Fei could have chosen to remain silent, but he took the initiative to walk onto the rooftop.

“I know where the old lady who adopted you is! I’ve met her! I can take you to see her!” Han Fei’s voice rang out in the center of the rooftop, followed by another sentence: “Your singing voice is very beautiful, and there must be many people in this world who share the same thoughts as me.”

After Han Fei said those words, the glass cat, which had been unresponsive to the outside world, slowly turned its head.

Han Fei's last words were spoken to the Glass Cat when he used his Soul Return talent to send it out of the Deep World.

(End of this chapter)