My Healing Games

Chapter 54 The House of Eden
"Meng Chang'an? You want to tell me he's the murderer?" Han Fei didn't have time to ask any more questions before the bodies of the seven victims were torn apart and slowly pieced together to form that terrifying monster.

Without reason, without hope, without kindness, that monster only wanted to destroy everything in front of it.

"Did these seven victims have to endure that dismembering agony every night?" Han Fei left the bedroom, glancing at the digital clock on the wall. It was almost four in the morning, the time the eighth victim had died. "They were also constantly resisting..."

The monster was about to appear, and Han Fei silently closed the door.

The haunted house is no longer safe; that monster attacks everyone indiscriminately.

"The seven victims are individuals, but they were artificially pieced together. What can I do to save them?"

Han Fei was exhausted, so he went to a corner of the living room and chose to quit the game.

After taking off his gaming helmet, Han Fei picked up the water glass on the table and gulped down several mouthfuls.

He sat on the edge of the bed, his gaze sweeping over the wall covered with photos of the murders, finally settling on one particular photo.

"Meng Chang'an."

Overwhelmed by drowsiness and exhaustion, Han Fei could no longer hold on and fell asleep in bed.

……

Around 10 a.m., Han Fei was woken up by his phone ringing. He took out his phone, glanced at it, and quickly answered, "Li Xue? What happened?"

"I'm at your doorstep, is it convenient for us to meet now?"

"At the door?" Han Fei hung up the phone, quickly got up and dressed, then rushed over to open the door: "What are you doing here so early in the morning? Don't you have to go to work?"

"I'm at work right now, let's go inside and talk." Li Xue's expression was very serious, as if something major had happened.

After closing the door and drawing the curtains, Li Xue pulled Han Fei to sit in a chair: "Last night, the Municipal Public Security Bureau mobilized police forces to conduct a thorough search of the Xinhu Ecological Nature Reserve Forest before dawn. Within an hour of the search starting, they found a black wooden house."

"Found it so easily?"

"They thoroughly inspected the cabin inside and out, even digging up the surrounding soil for technical testing, but found no body or traces of human activity."

"impossible!"

“Don’t worry.” Li Xue gestured for Han Fei to continue listening to her: “This black house seems to be deliberately used to interfere with the police’s judgment. At my teacher’s insistence, the police expanded the search area and spent four hours. One of the officers was very lucky and fell into a depression. Later, the police found another black wooden house next to a depression in the deepest part of the ecological protection forest.”

“I remember now, Wei Youfu also entered the Xinhu Ecological Forest twice. He returned empty-handed the first time, but found the child's clothing fragments the second time.” Seeing that Li Xue's expression wasn't too good, Han Fei asked in a low voice, “Did you find anything in that house?”

“The deepest black house contains no modern communication devices; it’s very primitive. The house isn’t large, with two levels, above and below ground. The above-ground level is quite ordinary, like a small hut built by a forest ranger for himself. But once you go underground through a secret passage, you’ll discover another world.” Li Xue’s expression grew increasingly grim. “The underground level is filled with many household items and children’s clothes, and it’s very clean. However, in that underground level, the police found a separate room that the murderer called the House of Eden.”

The Garden of Eden means paradise. Legend has it that it was a paradise created by God, where there were beautiful flowers, trees, and all kinds of birds and beasts, and people lived a carefree, harmonious and happy life there.

"What's in that room?" Han Fei had a bad feeling.

“Even the experienced detectives couldn’t help but vomit after entering the room.” Li Xue took out her phone and showed Han Fei a few pictures: “The room was completely filled with blood and strange symbols. Several children’s corpses were dug out of the soil below the room. The earliest corpse was identified by forensic examination as having died twenty years ago.”

"Can the identities of those children be found out?"

“They are all abandoned babies and orphans. Most of the information is incomplete, but the identity of the earliest deceased body has been found.” Li Xue flipped through her phone and found another picture: “He Yuhuai donated his kidney when he was six years old. His father is He Shouye, the director of the private welfare home on Xinhu North Street.”

"Wait, I'm a little confused. Is the director of the welfare home who takes in homeless people He Shouye? And his own child's body is in this dark room?" Han Fei asked, voicing his doubts.

"As our investigation deepened, He Shouye, the director of the Beijie Welfare Home, became a prime suspect. The dark house in the ecological forest was related to him. His child's kidney donation was not entirely voluntary; it was part of a private transaction. The first money He Shouye earned was from his child's kidney."

"He's a complete scumbag!"

"But he was very good at disguising himself, and almost everyone who met him thought he was a good person. After his child died, he even funded the renovation of the North Street Welfare Home himself, just to remember his child."

"What a high-sounding excuse." Han Fei's eyes were filled with coldness: "Where is this person now? Have you taken him into custody?"

Li Xue shook her head: "He Shouye is indeed a major suspect, but he has a clear alibi for the deaths of Wei Youfu, Amei, and Gu Ye. In addition, He Shouye died in a car accident a few years after the human body puzzle pattern was discovered."

"died?"

“Yes, Jiang Jiang and He Shouye, the two people most directly related to the case, are both dead. It’s as if there’s another hand controlling the whole human body puzzle.” Seeing Han Fei’s furrowed brows, Li Xue gently comforted him, “Although the murderer hasn’t been caught yet, we’ve made a major breakthrough. We now believe that there’s more than one murderer, and there’s even a case of ‘mutual assistance’ in this murder.”

"Mutual killing?"

“He Shouye is closely related to the deaths of Xiao Qing, Cui Caiyi, and Cui Tianci, who are depicted in the human body puzzle. The police have gathered more and more clues, and with the advancements in investigative technology, the case will likely be solved soon!” Li Xue’s expression became even more serious. “I came to see you today mainly because there is another matter I need to tell you. The murderer is cruel, cunning, and extremely vengeful. He may very well come after you.”

"Find me?"

"That's right, the drama you've been filming recently will also attract his attention, so you must be careful."

After Li Xue finished explaining and was about to leave, Han Fei stopped her again: "Li Xue, I've actually been thinking about this for a long time these past few days. There's someone your police force really needs to keep a close eye on!"

"Who?"

"The youngest son adopted by the old lady in the refrigerator corpse case—Meng Chang'an." Han Fei opened his computer: "I know that he is highly regarded online, and people around him also think he is very outstanding, but he may actually be a mentally twisted madman."

(End of this chapter)