My Healing Games

Chapter 794 D-Rank Mission: The Ghost Card Case
The fifteenth floor had been cleared by Blood Shadow, so it should be relatively safe now. Han Fei released the Cat Ghost and the Black Python and moved his feet carefully.

Walking down the corridor, he once again felt the terrifying destructive power of the Ghost Gate Blood Shadow. Every place the Blood Shadow passed through was covered with a thick layer of bloodstains, as if the walls were covered with scars.

"It's estimated that the Blood Shadow will be regarded as a new taboo by the residents of the building."

Han Fei took out the tattered elevator card and returned the way he came.

Following the system's instructions, Han Fei arrived at the place where he had encountered the large, deformed monster. The monster that had occupied several graveyards had been killed, and its body was scattered all over the ground.

To Han Fei's surprise, the monster was not dead, or more accurately, its soul had not completely dissipated.

"No wonder Sister Hong said that the deformed ghost is difficult to kill. Even though Blood Shadow completely tore it apart, it still had a breath left."

Han Fei's lips curled up, and he happily took out the Rebirth Slaughtering Blade: "You were once beyond my reach, but now I'll make you regret it."

The dazzling blade pierced through patches of shattered skin, drawing the remaining humanity and obsession of the deformed demon into its blade. Han Fei could feel the Rebirth Slaughter Blade becoming even sharper.

"Bah!"

A strange noise in the corridor caught Han Fei's attention. He immediately stopped what he was doing and turned around.

The cemetery was filled with garbage and rotting corpses; at first glance, there was nothing unusual about it.

"Something's not right." Han Fei stood up and walked towards the door, then suddenly plunged his knife into the pile of trash beside him: "Come out, I see you!"

The severed hand slowly rolled down from the garbage heap, and a little boy, smelling terrible, crawled out from under the garbage. He tried very hard to control his emotions, but when he saw Han Fei, he burst into tears.

Her dirty little hands were wiping away tears, and she was trembling with fear, as if she might faint at any moment.

"Don't rub your eyes with your hands that have touched corpses, or you'll go blind." Han Fei rubbed the back of the other person's hand with the Rebirth Butcher's Blade. The child's injuries were not serious; he had never killed anyone and had no intention of harming anyone.

"Stop crying." Han Fei breathed a slight sigh of relief. He only had one drop of blood left, and even a child could kill him. "If you cry again, I'll feed you to the deformed demon."

Perhaps his talent as a leader of children came into play; the child sobbed for a while, but finally managed to control his emotions.

Why are you in such a dangerous place? Where are your parents?

Han Fei activated his masterful acting skills and spoke calmly to the child, but as soon as he got close, the child couldn't hold back anymore and tears streamed down his face.

"Why are you crying again? Am I that scary?" Han Fei always thought he was a pretty good comedian and quite popular with audiences.

"Please, please let us go." A weak voice rang out from outside the corridor. A young man dragging a tattered schoolbag emerged from behind a pile of garbage. His body was covered in festering sores, and his arms were covered in mold. He would probably become a deformed ghost soon.

"There's another one?" Han Fei was puzzled because he hadn't sensed the other person's presence. But after he finished speaking, a very thin woman crawled out of the pit where the man was hiding.

The young couple dared not look Han Fei in the eye. They crawled on the ground to the entrance of the cemetery. The young man seemed to know that he had committed a serious taboo. Before Han Fei could speak again, he kowtowed to him.

"My husband and I are almost turning into deformed ghosts. Please, please spare that child. He knows nothing. He has only just begun to see this world."

Inside this skyscraper, the dignity of those at the bottom has long been torn apart.

The couple kept pleading, and the boy started crying again.

"Stop arguing!" Han Fei took a step back. "What's so interesting about such a dirty and ugly world?"

Upon hearing this, the couple thought Han Fei was going to kill them, and their expressions became even more tense.

"Let that child go. I'll do anything you ask. I'm willing to give anything to save his life." The young man's forehead was bruised and battered, blood and mold mingling together, his hands gripping the mud on the ground tightly.

"Why would I kill you? Go away, get out of my sight." Han Fei grabbed the little boy's clothes and pulled him in front of the couple: "Do I look like that kind of cruel person?"

“That child can sense evil, and he’s so afraid of you, which means you are a…” The young man quickly covered his mouth halfway through his sentence, but it was too late.

Han Fei patted the little boy's head and received a system notification.

"Attention player number 0000! You have discovered a special resident—Dirty."

"Dirty (Special Resident): Born in a skyscraper, his parents are innocent people who have never done anything wrong, and he has a pure heart. Gods love such sacrifices the most, and believers search for such children every day."

"To find people with pure hearts in this chaotic place?" Han Fei himself found it unbelievable: "You all get up first. Good people shouldn't kneel. Good people should pick up the butcher's knife and kill all the bad people."

The words may be crude, but the principle is sound: equality is never something that can be begged for. Han Fei hoped that these parents could also understand this principle.

At Han Fei's insistence, the young couple finally stood up. To express his gratitude, the dirty father quickly took out a palm-sized piece of human skin from his pocket: "I tore this off from the body of the grotesque ghost in the graveyard. This should be your spoils."

"How could the skin of a deformed ghost be so smooth?" Han Fei took the human skin and felt incredulous. The human skin in front of him felt very good to the touch and had a strange fragrance.

"Deformed ghosts with a mutation rate of over 70% have a very small chance of growing new skin. This is an extremely rare piece of new skin, which can be exchanged for a week's worth of food on other floors," the young man explained.

"A week's worth of food?" Han Fei nodded. He opened his inventory and took out some food that Huang Ying had sent over. "This should be enough for your family to eat for a long time."

Seeing those delicacies that only existed in their memories, the young couple felt as if they were under a spell. The father, who was covered in dirt, dipped his fingertip in the food, put it on his lips, and his eyes immediately welled up with tears.

He called Zangzang over and proudly told Zangzang the names and tastes of various things, but he himself didn't eat a single bite.

"Eat whatever you want, I have plenty of food here." Han Fei then took out the new clothes of the fierce ghost. He suddenly had a brilliant idea and sewed the skin of the deformed ghost onto it as well.

"Attention Player 0000! Zhang Xiaowei's friendliness towards you has increased by three! Jin Wei's friendliness towards you has increased by three!"

A hearty meal improved the two's friendliness, and what surprised Han Fei even more was that he had just seen their names in the police archives earlier that day.

The two men disappeared during the Joker case, and their bodies have not yet been found.

"Eat slowly, don't rush," Han Fei said gently. "The fifteenth floor is basically full of graves. Why don't you try to move to another floor?"

“Those believers always try to kidnap my child, and we had no choice but to hide on this floor.” Zhang Xiaowei looked at Han Fei with gratitude in his eyes: “Most of the people living on this floor are here to escape. Although our bodies are ugly and deformed, and we don’t know when we will become deformed ghosts, I feel that this floor is much cleaner than the other floors. I feel more at ease here.”

“Zangzang is our child’s nickname.” Jin Wei put down the food in her hand and explained to Han Fei, “Because there are many curses in the building, we didn’t give the child a real name, we just called him Zangzang. But although he is called Zangzang, he is very pure and kind at heart.”

"Are there other people on this floor?" Han Fei asked thoughtfully. "You two take me to meet them. I have a way to heal your injuries."

Seeing that the couple hesitated, Han Fei took out the Rebirth Slaughtering Knife and cut off the deformed parts of Zhao Xiaowei's body.

The couple was also astonished. The knife in Han Fei's hand seemed to be only effective against ghosts and monsters, and could protect them to the greatest extent.

"Okay! I'll take you there right away!"

The family of three carried food into the secret passage on the fifteenth floor. They took a long detour, and the stench in the air became increasingly unbearable.

"We've arrived. Everyone usually gathers in this corridor, and if anyone gets extra food, they'll share it."

Zhang Xiaowei shook a bell on the wall, and a faint light appeared in the dark stairwell. Several ragged residents emerged from their hiding place.

"Xiao Wei, why did you bring outsiders in?" The old man at the head of the group stopped in his tracks when he saw Han Fei, his expression turning serious.

"Uncle Li, he's a good man. He even gave me food back."

"You're hopelessly stupid! There's no such thing as a free lunch in this building!" The old man's beard trembled with anger, and he coughed violently. The fifteenth-floor residents with him also looked at him with hostility.

“Li Shisong, a doctor at the Ninth Hospital in the old city of Xinhu, is the oldest missing person in the Ghost Card case. Before his disappearance, he had treated other victims and was once suspected by the police as the murderer in the Ghost Card case.” Han Fei recognized the old man immediately when he saw his face. The man had suffered endless torment in the skyscraper and looked half-human and half-ghost, which was very miserable.

“I know I can’t convince you with words, so I’ll prove it with actions. Some of you have become so deformed that if it’s not treated, you’ll become deformed ghosts, and the houses you’ve lived in will become new graves.” Han Fei took out the Rebirth Slaughtering Knife: “I can save you.”

“Uncle Li, everything he said is true!” Zhang Xiaowei raised his arm: “He’s the one who saved me.”

At the urging of Zhang Xiaowei and his wife, several residents with extremely severe physical deformities were carried out.

Han Fei used the Rebirth Butcher's Knife to cut off the deformed parts of their bodies, and then used the shallow world medicine sent by Huang Ying to treat them. The effect was not great, but it did prolong their lives.

“This is only a temporary solution. The fifteenth floor is almost entirely made up of graves. You’d better move to another floor.” After Han Fei treated everyone’s wounds, the victims’ hostility towards him disappeared, and many people’s friendliness began to increase.

"If we could leave, who would want to stay here?" Li Shisong's attitude had changed a lot. He looked at Han Fei with a hint of apology in his eyes: "The fifteenth floor is a garbage dump. The garbage that other floors don't want is piled up here. In a skyscraper, one out of every twenty-five floors is completely abandoned. Maybe there weren't that many graves here at first, but as more and more people become distorted here, the number of graves will increase."

The old man sounded distressed. He waved his hand and said, "Let's not talk about this anymore. Thank you for saving us, but I'm still wondering why you helped us?"

“Helping you is helping myself.” Han Fei used his masterful acting skills to reveal his gentlest smile: “I am a criminal investigator. Perhaps one day in the future I will also lose my way, but right now I still believe in hope, fairness and justice.”

After learning that Han Fei was a crime-fighting expert, several residents on the fifteenth floor became even more friendly towards him.

"A new taboo has appeared in the building. The fifteenth floor has been cleared out, but it is possible that others will come to check the situation in a while. I suggest you hide on other floors first." Han Fei had a deep conversation with these innocent residents and found that most of them were victims of the Ghost Card case. When all the victims' friendliness towards him increased to three points or more, the system's notification sounded in his mind.

"Attention player number 0000! You have triggered a D-level high-difficulty mission - The Joker Case."

"The Joker Case: One of the top ten unsolved cases in Shanghai, the Joker carved the faces of fifty-three psychopathic killers onto playing cards. Hearts represent heart removal, clubs represent dismemberment, diamonds mean being buried alive in a box, and spades symbolize disappearance and mystery. Everyone who receives the Joker card will die within three days. The clown who distributes the Joker cards and the Joker hiding behind the scenes have not yet been found."

"Mission Requirements: This D-level mission has multiple steps; completing one step will unlock the next!"

"Task 1: Go to the 25th floor and obtain the first Joker card!"

"Attention! All D-rank missions are related to the unspeakable. They may not appear in the mission, but you will definitely encounter something related to them during the mission."

Upon hearing the mission prompt, a hint of surprise flashed in Han Fei's eyes. He hadn't expected the Ghost Card case to be a D-level mission: "Could one of the top ten unsolved cases in Shanghai back then have been done by this unspeakable person in the building? Is he the hidden mastermind?"

(End of this chapter)