My Healing Games

Chapter 528 Huang Ying, Bai Xian, Jin Jun (5000 monthly votes requested)
If you want to keep moving forward in the darkness, your heart must yearn for the light.

Because there is no hope in the endless darkness, and everything in sight is surrounded by terror, coldness and despair, a person can only rely on himself. He needs to remain clear-headed in that situation, not be swayed by despair, and not be seduced by darkness.

Such people are rare, but Han Fei was undoubtedly lucky. He met Huang Ying, who had been killed hundreds of times in his nightmares but still refused to bow down to the butterfly, and he also met Bai Xian, who was incredibly kind-hearted.

Han Fei walked alone in the darkness, intending to accumulate as much power as possible in the deeper world and explore its secrets.

Huang Ying and Bai Xian represent his power in the shallow world. In fact, Han Fei has been pondering a question in the deep world: Why did Fu Sheng insist on going to the depths of the city to fight those unspeakable beings? Why did he have to destroy the deep world at all costs?
After thinking for a long time, Han Fei guessed a possibility: perhaps in the deepest part of the city, those most terrifying and unspeakable beings wanted to open the passage between the deep world and the shallow world, letting darkness engulf everything.

Han Fei's current level is too low, and he is not yet capable of verifying this conjecture, but to be prepared, he must start making preparations in advance.

Having opened both sides of the black box, Han Fei chose the most difficult path. He could neither gain the approval of the deep world nor receive help from the shallow world; he could only rely on himself.

Everything he's doing now is for some future day.

If despair truly arrives, the deeper world will do everything in its power to kill him, and the shallower world will regard him as the darkest demon. Even in such extreme circumstances, there will be people who stand firmly with him.

After chatting with Bai Xian for a long time, Han Fei left.

He received a call from the police outside the residential area. Li Xue provided him with several candidates, all of whom matched the characteristics of 019 and 030.

Everyone has dreams, but how many of them actually achieve them?
Most of the people in the messages Li Xue sent were not actors, and none of them had actually robbed a bank.

Based on Han Fei's description of the children's appearance and personality, the police used a smart brain to simulate what the children would look like when they grew up, according to the human body development curve. They then conducted a large-scale comparison in the database and finally came up with a preliminary screening result.

After reviewing the information provided by the police, Han Fei took out his phone and called Jin Jun, the most famous paparazzi boss in Shanghai. He had saved Jin Jun's life before, and Jin Jun had also helped Zhuang Ren when he first entered the game.

"Boss, congratulations on winning the Best Supporting Actor award! I've seen so many actors, and you've definitely been promoted the fastest!"

The phone was answered after only two rings, and Jin Jun's voice came from the phone.

"I want to ask you about two people." After reviewing Li Xue's investigation results, Han Fei picked out the only two actors mentioned: "They are both about my age. One is a professional opera singer named Qiangwei, and the other is a very low-profile fourth-tier actor who has played many supporting roles. His name is Li Changxiong."

"I know Li Changxiong. He was in a car accident before and almost got disfigured. This actor is very dedicated. He's also a PhD. He's very disciplined in his daily life, even a bit self-destructive. He likes fitness and reading. In our industry terms, he's the kind of artist you can really trust." Jin Jun, as expected of the top paparazzi in Shanghai, can rattle off information about these celebrities off the top of his head.

"What about the other one?"

"As for opera singers, I need to get to know them gradually. Generally speaking, stage plays actually test acting skills more because they are directly in front of the audience and there is no chance to stop them. Therefore, many actors who pursue acting skills will focus on stage plays and operas." After remembering the information Han Fei sent, Jin Jun hung up the phone. He promised to help Han Fei look into it and give him an answer by tomorrow at the latest.

"Jin Jun is still very reliable."

After lunch, Han Fei returned to the old town. He randomly found a quiet little shop, chose a particularly artsy spot, listened to music, looked at crime photos on his phone, and started taking notes.

There weren't many customers in the small shop in the afternoon. The waitresses were surprised by Han Fei's demeanor as he sat at the table. A few girls chatted and laughed quietly, and finally a shy girl was pushed out.

Encouraged by her colleagues, she took out her phone and walked towards Han Fei.

A blush crept onto her cheeks, and she nervously walked up to Han Fei.

Her lips parted slightly, and before she could utter a word, her beautiful eyes caught sight of the bloody crime photos on Han Fei's phone screen.

Her pupils trembled slightly as the lovely girl saw Han Fei's notes again, which contained various hypotheses about murder and techniques for skin grafting and face transplantation.

My initial nervousness, stemming from shyness, has now intensified.

She stood frozen at the table, unable to utter a single word.

"Is something the matter?" Han Fei looked up at the girl beside him. Sunlight slid down his profile, outlining his perfect features.

The girl's face flushed instantly. She poured Han Fei a glass of water and then quickly ran away.

"Are you my fan?"

Han Fei shook his head and continued his research, unaware that several waiters in the kitchen had already gathered together to discuss him.

"That young man seems to have some unusual fetish!"

"Should we call the police?"

"Don't you guys think he looks a lot like a celebrity?"

"Come on, why would a celebrity come to our shabby little shop for a drink?"

"I kind of want to be eaten by him."

Hey! Wake up!

Han Fei didn't hear the whispers in the kitchen. On the contrary, he thought the service at this small shop was very good and he would come here often in the future.

After dark, Han Fei was preparing to go home when his phone suddenly vibrated.

After clicking on it, Han Fei discovered that Jin Jun had sent him a secretly taken photo. In a dimly lit room filled with clutter, a long-haired man was eating raw meat.

"Pica?"

Shortly after Han Fei received the photo, Jin Jun sent another string of gibberish. He seemed unable to speak; he had typed the message blindly.

"problem occurs?"

Han Fei was quite perceptive; he examined the photographs repeatedly, noting that some of the props bore the inscription "Central Opera House."

Han Fei put away his phone and rushed outside without stopping.

"Is that the man with the long hair Rose?"

Han Fei kept urging the driver to drive faster, and he arrived at the opera house in just twenty minutes. Today happened to be a closed day, and there was no one around the opera house.

"Jin Jun's car is still parked here, he shouldn't have left, but why hasn't he sent me any more messages?"

Jin Jun had been a paparazzi for many years and had never failed in his attempts to follow and photograph people, but this time he seemed to have met a special actor.

While the cleaning staff were cleaning the theater floor, Han Fei took the opportunity to slip inside. He moved as swiftly as a cat, and his footsteps were barely noticeable.

Arriving behind the main curtain on the first floor, Han Fei quietly entered the backstage area. Looking at the actors' preparation rooms on both sides, he felt that the place was unusually cold and gloomy.

"Is the theater this eerie even on a regular day?"

Han Fei rarely went to the opera, but he had been to this place once before.

At the end of the corridor, Han Fei saw a half-open door with the words "Props Room" written on the door panel.

Slowly pushing the door open, Han Fei's nose twitched slightly. After confirming that there was no familiar smell of blood, he breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Taking out a baton from his sleeve, Han Fei moved among the various strange and unusual props, his attention highly focused as he carefully observed his surroundings.

The horrors he experienced in the Deep World became Han Fei's most valuable experience. When he entered the dark prop room alone, he not only felt no fear, but also a sense that he had long been used to everything.

As Han Fei ventured deeper into the room, he discovered a lot of children's toys in a corner of the prop room, which seemed to have been transformed into a small amusement park.

"How come there are so many toys in the opera house's prop room?"

The dolls were neatly arranged against the wall, dressed in exquisite clothes and with makeup on their faces, but Han Fei always felt uncomfortable looking at them, perhaps because they looked too much like people.

All the dolls' eyes were fixed on the innermost wall of the prop room, where there was a huge mirror with petals scattered in front of it, and footprints remaining on the petals, as if someone had stood there barefoot for a long time.

"The photo of Jin Jun was taken at this very place."

Looking into the mirror, the world inside seemed even more sinister, with all sorts of props piled up, as if reflecting a deeper world.

As Han Fei's gaze slowly moved across the mirror, he suddenly noticed a person standing behind a prop.

The two of them looked at each other through the mirror, but when Han Fei turned around, the figure had already disappeared.

Han Fei chased after the prop room and looked around; there was no one in the corridor.

Taking out his phone, Han Fei dialed Jin Jun's number again.

A strange melody echoed in the hallway, and it seemed that Kim Jun's phone was in the theater's emergency exit!

Han Fei didn't hesitate and rushed into the stairwell as fast as he could. His physical fitness was much better than that of the average person, but even so, he couldn't close the distance between himself and the ringing phone.

"He's going to the top of the theater?"

In just over ten seconds, Han Fei had caught up to the top floor of the theater. The door that only staff members could enter was opened, the lock fell to the ground, and the ladder leading to the theater's rooftop was lowered.

A bad feeling crept into his heart, and Han Fei climbed up the ladder to the rooftop of the theater.

A cold wind whistled into my ears, dispelling the eerie melody.

Han Fei saw Jin Jun holding his phone, his eyes glazed over, walking towards the rooftop railing.

"Danger!"

Upon hearing Han Fei's voice, Jin Jun seemed to realize something. He suddenly began to speed up, as if he was preparing to jump over the railing!

At the crucial moment, Han Fei increased his speed again, and when Jin Jun was still a few meters away from the railing, he tackled Jin Jun to the ground.

"Brother, calm down!"

With one hand locking Jin Jun's arms, Han Fei held a baton in his other hand, keeping a watchful eye on their surroundings.

His senses were extremely sharp, and he carefully observed every possible hiding place. After about half a minute, he finally confirmed that there was no one else on the roof.

Jin Jun, who had been held down by Han Fei, slowly regained his senses. His blank eyes were gradually filled with fear. If Han Fei hadn't restrained him at that moment, he probably would have been jumping around in terror.

What did you just see?

"Ghost! Ghost! Ghost!" Jin Jun shouted loudly.

"What does a ghost look like? Where did you see it?" Han Fei protected Jin Jun; he was the first actor to protect a paparazzi like this.

"In the prop room, that ghost is eating children! He's hiding the flesh inside the dolls' bodies!" Jin Jun was still very agitated, but after seeing Han Fei, he finally began to regain his composure: "That's right, I filmed it! I filmed him eating children!"

Jin Jun, true to his reputation as a professional paparazzi, was terrified. The first thing he did after regaining his composure was to check his phone.

He opened his phone, but all his latest videos had been deleted: "It's okay! I considered this situation when I was secretly filming celebrities before. All videos are sent to the cloud in real time and backed up multiple times."

After fiddling with it for a while, Jin Jun suddenly shouted excitedly, "Found it!"

He placed his phone in front of Han Fei, and an incredibly bizarre video began to play.

In the dimly lit prop room, a long-haired man dances in front of a mirror, stepping on flower petals on the ground. The exquisite rag dolls around him seem to be the audience watching his performance.

The dance he performed had a unique beauty, carrying the desolation of death and an inexplicable loneliness. It was the first time Han Fei and Jin Jun had ever seen such a dance.

"It looks like he's performing some kind of ceremony?"

After the dance, the man picked up a rag doll, twisted its head, drank the red liquid inside, and then twisted off the head of a second rag doll, took something out, and began to swallow it in large gulps.

As he went to get the third doll, his face suddenly lifted up, and his cheek, hidden by his long hair, was directly facing the place where Jin Jun was hiding.

The next moment, Jin Jun seemed to be preparing to run away, the camera shook wildly, and finally fell to the ground, ending the video.

"He didn't eat the children, don't scare yourself," Han Fei comforted Jin Jun.

"The footage captured is not quite the same as what I saw. In my memory, that guy's eyes were bloodshot, and he was interacting with his reflection in the mirror. It was the person in the mirror who noticed me first, and then he chased after me."

"Do you remember what happened after that? How did you end up on the rooftop all by yourself? Did he do anything to you?"

"I don't remember." Jin Jun grabbed his hair tightly with both hands. "Actually, ever since you saved me that time, I've often been in a daze. I'm always inexplicably afraid. Sometimes when I see ordinary things, I have very bad associations."

"What do you mean?"

"It's really strange. For example, you asked me to investigate 55 Entertainment before, right? When I was going into the elevator, I saw a painter. He was just an ordinary worker, but I always felt like he was a killer. I was so scared that I've never dared to ride the elevator alone since then. Another time, I followed the mistress of the CEO of 55 Entertainment. She was dragging a suitcase and it looked like she was about to leave Shanghai by plane. There was nothing wrong with the suitcase, but I felt like there was a corpse hidden in it. Later, I saw a news report that the woman's own body was found in that suitcase!"

Jin Jun clutched his hair in anguish, while Han Fei's eyes were filled with surprise. He hadn't expected that Jin Jun had already brushed shoulders with death so many times.

This brother's life can be roughly divided into two stages, with the dividing line being the moment Han Fei saved him. It seems that after being saved by Han Fei, the rest of his life became intertwined with Han Fei.

“Some of what you saw shouldn’t be an illusion.” Han Fei had a guess in his mind: “Jin Jun, what is your talent in the game ‘Perfect Life’?”

Grabbing his hair, Jin Jun couldn't understand why Han Fei would suddenly ask such a question: "All my talents are useless trash talents. One is called Pathfinder, which is a C-level talent. Exploring unknown maps can earn double exploration points. The higher the exploration points, the better the abilities you unlock. I started exploring the map on the night the game was officially launched, but all the maps I could go to have already been explored by other players."

"What is your other talent?" Han Fei didn't think Jin Jun's talent was worthless. The vast, deep world needed people with great wisdom and courage to act as pathfinders.

"The other talent is even more useless, called 'Resurrector,' also a C-rank talent. The talent description is incredibly long, saying something about how a person who should have died had their fate rewritten due to an accident. The effect is that after their health points reach zero, they enter a state of suspended animation, and when they encounter a player with the Resurrector talent, there's a chance they'll be reborn." Jin Jun shook his head with a wry smile: "When I first created my account, I was incredibly excited to find out I had two C-rank talents. But after leveling up to ten, do you know what professions the system recommended to me? It said my most compatible profession was psychic, and the most suitable workplaces were crematoriums and cemeteries. How could such a stupid AI be called the future of humanity by Deep Space Technology?"

Jin Jun has slowly overcome his fear, but he is still feeling very down.

"It's said that the AI ​​developed by Deep Space Technology can capture some special brainwaves. You're currently experiencing ghostly encounters and being possessed by evil spirits. Maybe something really is entangled with you. You'd better be more careful." Han Fei didn't want to scare Jin Jun. He just felt that he should be responsible for Jin Jun: "Leave the investigation of Rose to me. What you need now is to hone your courage and learn more self-defense skills."

Han Fei was genuinely thinking of Jin Jun's best interests. Although the Death Tower in the Deep World was incredibly terrifying and gloomy, at least one wouldn't die while tempering their will there. Many people would love to have such an opportunity but haven't yet.

If Han Fei hadn't seen how much Jin Jun had helped him, and if Jin Jun hadn't actually been in danger, Han Fei wouldn't have given this precious opportunity to Jin Jun.

"You're probably also prone to encountering spirits, but don't be afraid. I'll help you gradually get used to those scary things. Just stay home and play games for now, and whatever you do, don't investigate 55 Entertainment anymore. It's also best not to look in the mirror at night."

Han Fei saved Jin Jun once, but he can't protect Jin Jun forever. So the best way is to give Jin Jun the ability to protect himself, or at the very least, the courage to face the consequences.

"Can't look in the mirror? Am I really possessed?" Jin Jun asked, his expression filled with fear.

"Don't think too much. Go back and relax by playing some games. You shouldn't be so scared after dawn." After comforting Jin Jun, Han Fei started calculating his friends: "Huang Ying, Bai Xian, Jin Jun, Liuli Cat, plus one more person, and we can start a community."

(End of this chapter)