My Healing Games

Chapter 740 Eliminate Suspicion
The number on the elevator display screen changed to eleven. Han Fei, dragging the leader along, arrived at the eleventh floor accompanied by two police officers.

The transparent elevator doors opened to both sides, and all the staff stood in the high-tech lobby.

"Where is he?" Han Fei scanned his surroundings, but no one dared to meet his gaze.

“I’m here.” The young man who “invited” Han Fei was sitting in a private room deep in the hall. Outside him was the city’s giant screen, where the news being broadcast could be clearly seen by half of the smart city.

Seeing Han Fei approach, the young man showed no intention of getting up. He exuded arrogance and looked down on everyone, as if everyone was inferior to him.

"How rude! I really want to tell him that even his father has to call me 'Grandpa' when he sees me."

Han Fei walked towards the private room. On the virtual projection screen in the lobby, scenes from the game "Perfect Life" were playing. Huang Ying and the monster deep in the passage were still engaged in a thrilling chase.

The battle that captivated countless players failed to attract the young man's attention. As true insiders at Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals, they seemed to have a solution to the problem and were simply waiting for the right opportunity.

Upon entering the private room, Han Fei cut to the chase: "Did you already know that the masked monster wasn't me? Why did you do this on purpose, just to imprison me here?"

"Don't be so aggressive." The young man picked up the cup on the table and took a sip: "At first, we did think you were the masked man in the corridor. The company's higher-ups even identified you as the prime suspect, thinking that you were ruining the Perfect Life game and that there might be a huge organization behind you."

"Me? There's a huge organization behind me?" Han Fei wasn't putting on an act; he was genuinely speechless, even though he was clearly all alone.

"Solving numerous cold cases, hunting down murderers on A-level wanted lists, taking on the super criminal Butterfly one-on-one, reversing online public opinion, and even winning the Best Supporting Actor award at a film festival—I really don't believe it if you say there was no one helping you behind the scenes."

"So, what have you found out in your investigation?"

"Aside from the police, you seem to have very little contact with other people." A hint of doubt flashed in the young man's eyes, which was also the part he couldn't understand the most.

"Are you framing the Shanghai police, saying they wanted to sabotage 'Perfect Life'?"

"I never said that!" Even if the young man had thought that way in his mind, he would never dare to admit it.

"Stop with the nonsense, how are you going to clean up this mess?"

“Since you’re not the real culprit, there’s no need for the company to keep dragging this out. We’ll use the secret door left by Grandpa to interfere with the AI ​​and forcibly erase that bug.” The young man didn’t hide anything from Han Fei. This might be a further test of Han Fei, or it might be because he felt that everyone would know soon, so there was no need to hide anything.

"After the official launch of 'Perfect Life,' won't everything be handled by the AI?" This was the first time Han Fei had heard such a statement, and a bad feeling suddenly arose in his heart.

"That's why we call it the secret door." The young man stared at Han Fei's face. "You seem very interested in these things... You're not worried about the monsters in the passage, are you?"

Two young people of similar age stood in a private room, with a huge virtual projection screen above their heads.

Han Fei had already sensed something was wrong. The young man was saying that on purpose; he still hadn't given up and wanted to use the last bit of time before Han Fei left to conduct a test.

The hall was completely transparent. Although no surveillance cameras could be seen at first glance, given the capabilities of Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals and Deep Space Technology, they could easily hide the recording devices in places invisible to the naked eye. Perhaps Han Fei's every move after entering this place was recorded in some special way.

As soon as the young man finished speaking, screams of agony came from the projected screen, indicating that the maze passages had changed.

The passage near the shallow world suddenly collapsed on a large scale, and all the players standing at the edge of the passage fell into the abyss.

"Is altering the terrain what you call the secret door?" Han Fei was eager to know these things. Fu Sheng opened the front of the black box. He wanted to destroy the deep world, so the shallow world was his strongest support. Fu Sheng entrusted his escape route to his most trusted younger brother, Fu Tian. Therefore, Han Fei was not surprised that the Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals led by Fu Tian could influence the shallow world. He just wanted to find out how much authority Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals would still have after Fu Tian's death.

"This vulnerability involves the black box left by Grandpa and the deleted world. The scope and impact are far greater than anyone expected. That's why the company was able to reach a consensus to use the backdoors to interfere with 'Perfect Life'." The young man clicked on the pattern on the table, and lines of data that Han Fei couldn't understand were projected onto the table: "The number of backdoors is limited, and the AI ​​will automatically repair them. Once all the backdoors disappear, the AI ​​will truly replace humans as the core of 'Perfect Life'."

"I don't quite understand, what are you trying to achieve by doing this? Wouldn't it be better for people to control that game world?"

"As long as there are people, there will be no absolute fairness, let alone a perfect world." The young man smiled coldly: "The AI ​​is constantly collecting various data from the players. One day, even if there are no more players in the game, the AI ​​will continue to create happy, joyful NPCs full of positive emotions. They will be left in the game and live a truly perfect life."

"I still can't understand you." In his heart, Han Fei had already roughly figured it out. Fu Tian wanted to use the AI ​​to simulate human emotions, inject the happiness and joy he created into the deep world, neutralize the despair there, and ensure that reality would not be affected.

"Are you genuinely misunderstanding, or are you just pretending?" The young man's smile faded, and he stroked the table, causing the projection to change instantly. Countless pieces of information about Han Fei were compiled and generated into several animations on the table according to the years: "Grandpa is the designer and creator of 'Perfect Life.' He is the God in Perfect Life, but he didn't tell us all the secrets he knew, the most important of which is that black box."

"You don't know the whereabouts of the black box either?" Han Fei displayed his masterful acting skills to the fullest, revealing no flaws in his demeanor.

“Grandpa once said that the Perfect Life Game only came into existence because of the black box. Deep Space Technology and Immortal Medicine were able to develop to their current scale in just a few decades, sparking a wave of biological and intelligent revolutions, partly because of the black box.” After saying this, the young man reached out and pressed on the illusory image. The projection on the table stopped changing and froze on a certain scene: “Now you know how important the black box is to us, right?”

At this very moment, the projection frozen on the table is exactly the scene when Han Fei went to buy the gaming helmet!
He entered the street alone, and his back was captured by the surveillance cameras outside the street. After that, the entire street was engulfed in flames. Even more strangely, when the surveillance cameras in the old town captured Han Fei again, he had already been home for a long time.

The police initially suspected Han Fei of being the arsonist, but as the investigation deepened, they quickly ruled out that possibility. That was also the first time Han Fei had dealt with the police.

From his initial inexperience to his current status as a police informant, the police have the deepest understanding of Han Fei's growth and transformation.

"Do you have anything to say?" The young man walked over to the projection. "We've investigated. The last person to come out of that street was you, and that street also appeared in Grandpa's will."

"What does this mean?"

“If you were just an ordinary person, we certainly wouldn’t doubt you so easily, but don’t you think you’ve changed too much?” The young man flipped through the virtual projection on the table: “Your whole life is here, and all the changes started from that moment.”

Han Fei's expression remained unchanged. He stared at the other person as if he were an idiot. This wasn't an act; Han Fei knew very well that his childhood experiences didn't match the animation produced by Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals: "Such a large company as you can't even find out about my past? That's quite disappointing."

“It’s alright if you don’t tell me. The black box is hidden in the world on the other side of the passage. We will find out any possible connection between you and that world.” The young man glanced at his watch: “Time’s up.”

He looked up at the huge projection screen above the hall. Huang Ying was carrying Shen Luo and speeding away in the abyss passage. All the players were staring at them and did not notice that the big boss of the merchant alliance had retreated and a large number of NPCs had mixed in with the crowd.

Unlike normal NPCs, these people have strange eyes. They seem to have no emotions of their own and seem to be controlled by some voice.

As the man with hatred and the beast-face mask drew closer to the exit of the passage, the NPCs suddenly fainted and collapsed to the ground.

The entire amusement park maze area became blurred, and a large number of NPCs went out of control, interfering with the AI's control over the area for a short period of time.

At that very moment, the ghostly tourist patterns on the walls of the passage began to crumble, as if a force was forcibly causing the passage on the shallower world side to "heal."

The passage is like a scar on the earth, and that power is healing it.

Originally, Han Fei was just a spectator, but to his surprise, when Yong Sheng Pharmaceuticals used the "secret door" left by Fu Tian, ​​he felt a sharp pain in the back of his head, as if someone was holding a sharp nail and driving it into his skull.

This kind of pain is unbearable for ordinary people, but Han Fei is someone who has died ninety-nine times in the world of divine memories. He has probably experienced more ways of dying than a normal person can imagine.

A slight smile appeared on Han Fei's lips as he reached out and touched his nose before calmly continuing to watch.

The intense pain continued, and the players in the projection were all exclaiming in alarm because Huang Ying and Shen Luo had not yet escaped.

When nine-tenths of the passage was closed, the blurry image became clear again, and it seemed as if an enormous eye had opened in the dark sky of the game, dispelling all the fog.

"Oh!"

In reality, a loud bang came from the basement of the building where Han Fei was, as if something had exploded.

At the same time, the pain in the back of Han Fei's head completely disappeared, as if what he had just experienced was just his imagination.

"It's not closed?" The young man, who had been so confident, changed his expression slightly. He could no longer remain calm in front of Han Fei, and his eyes were fixed on the exit of the passage on the screen.

A chilling roar came from the passage, and Huang Ying and Shen Luo escaped with great difficulty.

The monsters in the hidden map did not continue their pursuit, but they had already planted seeds of fear in the hearts of all players, especially the man wearing the beast-face mask, who was regarded by all players on the server as the villainous BOSS they had to defeat in their lifetime.

The players in the game erupted in thunderous cheers, regarding Huang Ying as a hero. He was the first player to jump into the abyss and return alive, and his existence was their hope.

However, unlike the players' celebration in the game, it seems that there is a big problem at Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals. No one expected that even using the "secret door" left by Fu Sheng could not completely close the passage.

"Is this your solution? You even deliberately left one-tenth of the door open. Do you want the players to always feel a sense of crisis?" Han Fei breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Huang Ying was safe. His biggest worry was that Huang Ying and Bai Xian would get hurt because of him.

Now that Huang has been rescued, most of the passageway is closed, and Bai Xian no longer needs to hold on, it's a pretty good outcome for everyone.

The young man standing by the table was clearly not in the mood to talk to Han Fei. He urgently contacted his staff to discuss the next steps.

"If there's nothing else, shall I go home?" Han Fei walked to the table, his eyes scanning all the information on it, memorizing it.

After finishing, he patted the other person on the shoulder and said, "Remember to pay me for today's lost wages. I was supposed to go to film a movie during the day, but you guys messed things up and now I probably won't be able to work properly for the next month."

The young man waved his hand impatiently, and the staff member next to him, who was very perceptive, quickly came over to guide Han Fei to leave.

"I won't leave until you explain yourself clearly." In the end, the staff had no choice but to call the police, which finally got Han Fei out of the room.

After confirming that Han Fei had left, the young man with a gloomy face pressed a switch on the table.

The once transparent exterior walls of the hall rippled like water, and the view outside the windows disappeared, revealing the true appearance of the hall.

Various equipment was arranged around the hall, which resembled a stage in the center, while executives from Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals and Deep Space Technology sat at the edges of the hall.

"Fu Shuang, you've done very well."

“He probably didn’t find the black box either. According to Fu Tian’s will, the power of the black box is preserved in the ‘secret door’. When the ‘secret door’ is activated, the person who obtains the black box will feel a pain similar to having their skull opened, but his performance just now clearly did not seem to be enduring severe pain.”

"The key issue now is that the passage isn't closed. How do we resolve this? Should we reactivate the 'secret door'?"

"We don't have many chances left. We absolutely cannot waste any more before we find the black box."

What's the explanation to the police?

"We haven't broken any laws, so why do we need to explain ourselves to them? The final interpretation of this game is in our hands, but the days ahead may indeed be a bit tougher."

The crowd was engaged in a heated discussion, and apart from the staff who were not allowed to interrupt, only one old lady sat silently in the corner.

She put the ID card with the words "Du Jing" written on it into her pocket, her eyes silently fixed on the direction Han Fei had left in.

(End of this chapter)