My Healing Games

Chapter 708 It Lives in Everyone's Body

The key in the underground shrine of the Happiness Community is very special; the aura of despair emanating from it makes even Han Fei feel reluctant to approach it.

"Did the park managers create the 'Happy Community' just to produce a key to despair? What do they want to unlock with this key?"

A sharp pain shot through the back of his head, and Han Fei thought of the black box deep within his mind.

Fu Sheng once said that only the most desperate people can possess the black box, and the key might just be used to open it.

Reaching for the key, Han Fei's hand had barely touched the shrine when his fingers were nearly robbed of all life by the aura of despair. The negative emotions on the key were too intense; it was jealous of all living things and ghosts.

Having no other choice, Han Fei had to send Da Nie to make the move.

The monstrous creature, which particularly enjoyed stealing offerings from the shrine, misunderstood Han Fei's meaning. It stuck its head into the shrine and swallowed the key whole.

Even with the Great Evil's constitution as the king of all poisons, it still collapsed to the ground in pain after swallowing the key. It curled up, its expression ferocious, and it took a long time to get used to it.

"Are you alright?" Han Fei looked at Da Nie, who was slowly standing up, with a surprised expression.

Having devoured the Blood Cocoon and the Lake God, and obtained a trace of the "origin" of the Dream, the Great Abomination has now likely become a D-rank "pet," and not just any ordinary D-rank.

"I have a feeling that the meaning of pets has been redefined by the Great Evil. I wonder if the worldview of the players in the shallow world will be distorted as a result, and they will start to look for all kinds of ugly monsters as pets in the future."

The secrets deep beneath the Happiness Community have been revealed, and Han Fei feels a little more at ease. From this moment on, the Happiness Community has truly become a safe zone in this city.

After a brief conversation with Da Nie and confirming that Da Nie could still spit out the key, Han Fei stopped asking questions. He still had two things to do next.

First, destroy the other rituals in the dream; second, help Li Guo'er get 100 points as soon as possible, and then enter the paradise.

The situation is now out of control. Hundreds of ghosts roam the city at night, plunging the entire city into darkness. All the citizens have lost their basic human dignity in the disaster, tormented by fear, becoming morbid and insane, and ultimately assimilated, becoming one of the monsters.

Fu Sheng showed Han Fei everything that had happened, demonstrating in the most direct way how terrifying the deep world and reality were intertwined.

Even amidst great disaster, Han Fei did not give up. He tried everything he could to turn the tide and attempt to change his predetermined fate.

His efforts were seen by everyone. When danger struck, he was the one who stepped forward to protect everyone; he was the one who found a refuge and cleared out a safe zone free of ghosts; in a city where law and morality no longer existed, Han Fei was like a banner.

The saying "justice resides in the hearts of the people" is often just an empty phrase, but Han Fei truly saved everyone's lives, which is a life-saving grace.

"Wow! You're too amazing!" Ah Chong and Xiao Jia walked out of the stairwell. They had originally intended to help Han Fei, but who knew that Han Fei and Da Nie had worked together to wipe out all the monsters on the ground.

"Next, I will start by cleaning outwards from Happiness Community. Please keep an eye on the residents in the community. If you find anyone who can communicate with ghosts like Xiao You, please tell me immediately." Han Fei knew very well that ghosts mostly exist because of their obsessions, and the root of their obsessions is still people.

For example, Xiao You's mother, in order to save her daughter, rushed to the scene immediately after her death, and her spirit still holds on to her last wish.

When the deep world and the real city overlap, such situations are probably not isolated cases. If such people can be brought together, they themselves can become a force to be reckoned with.

At Han Fei's urging, the players investigated all the survivors and eventually found two special citizens.

One of them was named Zhao Gu, a fourteen-year-old boy who had escaped from the orphanage. He usually took care of the younger orphans. After the entire dormitory was haunted, he was the only one who survived. He hated his own cowardice and timidity, and even thought about ending his life. But when he was about to do it, he heard the voices of his younger brothers. The dead orphans had turned into remnant spirits and guarded him.

Another special citizen is named Shanshan. Her husband died in a car accident a few years ago, and she has never smiled since. Until last night, a crazed serial killer broke into her home, and in her utter despair, a remnant spirit embraced her like outstretched wings.

There should be other special survivors like them, but they don't want to expose their secrets. In fact, Han Fei understands their actions, so he didn't force them. Instead, he chose to lead Zhao Gu and Shan Shan out to clean up those buildings and help them improve the strength of their ghost family.

When the other survivors see that following Han Fei is indeed extremely beneficial, they will naturally choose to confess.

"You guys stay in the community, the rest of you come with me."

The black taxi slowly started moving, and Han Fei began hunting evil spirits in the night. Zhao Gu and Shan Shan also showed an extremely strong side, and they were both striving to become stronger.

Humans are incredibly complex beings. Sometimes they commit suicide to die, and other times they fight tooth and nail to survive, striving to adapt and change. Han Fei certainly knew that the merging of the deeper world and reality would bring about a great catastrophe, but even under such calamity, the brilliance of humanity still shines brightly.

The lingering memories, reluctance to part, kindness, and companionship of the past have allowed those departed souls to return to their families. They are like compensation from this crazy and evil world to people.

Having spent a long time in the Deep World, Han Fei rediscovered the feeling he had when he first started playing the game. He spent an entire night creating a safe zone around the Happiness Community, achieving something he couldn't do in the Deep World.

The children around Zhao Gu and Shan Shan's husband also followed Han Fei in devouring ghosts and monsters, successfully becoming vengeful spirits. Together with Xiao You's mother, the three of them were enough to protect the Happy Community.

"Whether it's Fu Sheng or Kuang Xiao, they both overlooked the original residents of the city. Although individuals are insignificant compared to the times, it is undeniable that every era is created by those insignificant people."

Kuangxiao and Fusheng recklessly destroyed the city for their own plans, while only Han Fei was saving people. They had their own deep schemes, but Han Fei didn't have so many thoughts; he simply followed his heart in everything he did.

Around 5 a.m., Han Fei returned to Xingfu Community with various daily necessities. After seeing the changes in Zhao Gu and Shan Shan, some of the survivors put aside their concerns, and three more citizens, protected by the departed souls, stepped forward.

Han Fei had someone do a rough calculation of the ratio, and found that one in every three hundred people was a special citizen. Based on this, he estimated that in this city of ten million people, at least thirty thousand people possessed their own "guardian spirit".

"Even if the deep world and reality overlap, people should be able to survive, but at a very heavy price."

Through face-to-face interactions with these special citizens, Han Fei taught them how to coexist with ghosts and how the departed souls could become stronger. To gain their complete trust, Han Fei also showed them Xu Qin's red string and shared his story with her.

After finishing these tasks, he rested for a while until nine o'clock in the morning.

All the residents eagerly awaited the dawn, but to everyone's disappointment, the sun had set last night and never rose again, as if the entire city had been forever dragged into the darkness.

"I really want to bask in the sun..." Xiao Jia was playing on his computer. He hadn't slept all night and his head was spinning. Just as he was about to catch up on sleep, an urgent news notification suddenly popped up on his computer.

It wasn't just him; it seemed that all the survivors in the city had received the message on their phones.

Everyone opened it with suspicion, and gradually their expressions became somewhat strange.

"Holy crap! This is outrageous!" Xiao Jia sprang up from his chair, grabbed his laptop, and rushed to Han Fei: "Something's happened! Han Fei!"

Almost at the same time, Qiangwei and Li Guoer also arrived at Han Fei's room, both carrying phones that were playing videos.

"What's wrong?" Han Fei was a light sleeper, and he immediately woke up when someone approached.

"Look at your phone! That F went to the city TV station with your adoptive parents, and they said this disaster happened entirely because of you! They're making you a scapegoat!" Xiao Jia shouted, then placed the computer in front of Han Fei.

The live stream on the screen was somewhat blurry. The middle-aged couple who brought Han Fei home from the hospital stood in the camera's view. Their hair was gray, and they looked extremely haggard, as if they had been heartbroken over Han Fei and had finally chosen to tell the truth under pressure.

The host brought out all of Han Fei's murder tools, murder diaries, and murder scripts that he had stored in the basement. His adoptive parents identified Han Fei as a serial killer in front of the whole city and blamed all the disasters and unrest that happened in the city on him, saying that he was the child of a devil, a mentally unstable madman from childhood who liked killing and torture, and had serious violent tendencies.

They said they finally repented in the face of disaster, and this time, in order to save more people, they chose to put aside their own family for the greater good.

Han Fei's adoptive parents also urged the survivors to be careful of Han Fei, not to believe anything he said, and to try to kill him if they saw him.

If you only look at what's said in the video, anyone would think Han Fei is an utterly wicked bastard, but unfortunately, Han Fei can't refute it.

F broadcast this live video to the entire city before nightfall and all signals were cut off.

Everyone lives in fear and despair, and their anger and pain need an outlet. F wants to make Han Fei the target of everyone's condemnation, so that he cannot unite more forces.

"Han Fei, what your adoptive parents said... is it true?" Li Guo'er trusted Han Fei completely, so when others hesitated, she dared to ask directly, because she knew that Han Fei was not the kind of person who was bloodthirsty.

"I have regained many memories and understood many things." Han Fei's expression was very calm. He was neither angry nor uneasy about being framed. "The welfare home under the park will choose parents for some orphans and raise them to be the most desperate children. The parents they found for No. 11 were human traffickers, while the adoptive parents they found for me were serial killers."

Han Fei recalled many details: "The old couple had gone mad. They created the illusion that their own child was the murderer. Every day, under the guise of helping their child cover up the truth, they hid corpses and killed more people. They branded all their crimes in the name of love. Their hearts were already twisted and deformed."

After leaving the room, Han Fei went downstairs and walked around the neighborhood empty-handed.

Many people were secretly observing him, and he could also sense the changes in the gazes of the survivors.

"The people who caused this disaster are now trying to pin all the blame on me." Han Fei stood in the center of the community, looking directly at everyone: "They are the ones who hurt you, I am the one who saved you. I will tell you the truth, and I hope you will listen carefully to what I have to say. If you are still not at ease, you are free to leave at any time. The security guards at the gate of this Happy Community only prevent ghosts and monsters from entering, and will absolutely not stop you from leaving."

Since he started playing "Perfect Life" until now, Han Fei has been framed and attacked countless times, and he has an extremely strong mental fortitude.

The best way to deal with the enemy's smear campaign is to save more people and unite more trustworthy forces.

Han Fei told the survivors everything about the paradise and his past; he no longer wanted to hide it.

Before Han Fei could finish speaking, several figures had already slipped out of the back gate of Xingfu Community. Those who did not believe Han Fei left one after another, leaving behind only those who thought Han Fei was innocent.

"Are we really not going to do anything about them?" Xiao Jia looked at the survivors who had left. "We saved their lives, but they left because of a video that we don't even know where it came from. It's really disheartening."

“It’s normal. As long as you choose a path and keep going, people will always leave along the way.” Han Fei looked at the remaining survivors and felt a long-lost warmth in his heart. What he had done had been recognized by most people, and this feeling of being trusted was very good: “I will make Happiness Community the happiest place, whether in memory or in reality.”

After saying that, Han Fei found Yan Le: "It looks like the sun won't rise again. Didn't the park's managers plan to completely sever the connection between the deeper world and reality? How come the situation is getting worse and worse?"

“I don’t know how they severed the connection either. They must be in the final stages of their struggle.” Yan Le’s mother glanced in the direction of Paradise, where the night sky seemed to have a hole, revealing a black hole that swallowed everything: “Paradise is in trouble now too.”

“It seems that the Laughing Ones has made their move.” Han Fei no longer cared about Paradise; his goal was to destroy Dream. “Tell me the locations of the other four rituals. Today, we’ll try to destroy them all.”

"The fifth and sixth ceremonies took place in the same place, a hospital in the city center that has the largest organ bank and morgue in the city. Dream selected suitable organs there and nurtured them in the bodies of living people. You can think of it as a part of Dream's usable body being scattered throughout the city. We need to control all those people in order to have a chance to truly destroy it."

"If we spread them throughout the city, then we'll probably need the water ghosts to help us find them." Han Fei instructed Da Nie to try and control the water ghosts, letting them spread into the underground water network.

"Hopefully, those hands reaching out of the toilet and those eyes hiding in the water pipes won't frighten innocent citizens."

(End of this chapter)