My Healing Games

Chapter 929 Deep Within the Black Box
Fragments of the black box drifted in the air. Han Fei lay on top of the box, staring at the faces inside.

If it weren't for the maniacal killings and the sacrifice of the other thirty children, he might have been one of them.

Locked in a box, building walls with one's heart, one brews despair into oneself.

The numbers branded on his flesh and blood came into Han Fei's eyes, stinging his nerves and awakening his past.

The excruciating pain in the back of his head combined with the hidden fear within his body, making it difficult for Han Fei to even breathe.

"I should have saved you, but I don't have the ability to save everyone. I'm sorry that I let you see the light, and now I have to kill you."

Han Fei was very clear about one thing: this was the most critical moment in the world of the shrine's memories. If he wanted to truly save these children in reality, he could not be soft-hearted now.

Raising his sword once more, Han Fei was overcome with murderous intent when something unexpected happened.

The faces of the children who made up the box changed in the light, and one by one, the children who looked at Han Fei gradually became like Han Fei.

Their facial features, eyes, and bodies transformed them into Han Fei's likeness, as if Han Fei were imprisoned inside a box.

Each child, each Han Fei, all the despair intertwined and tangled together. An invisible chain of despair emerged from the black box, connecting Han Fei to all the children. If Han Fei wanted to kill those children, he would also be killed. This seemed to be the black box's defense mechanism.

Han Fei now has no way out. If he kills those children, he will die with them; if he doesn't kill them, he will be slowly dragged into the black box and become a new child inside it.

"What are you hesitating for!" A-Nian shouted anxiously. Destroying the black box might mean his child would never come back, but he still urged Han Fei to act quickly. Only by destroying this thing could the survivors reverse their fate and regain hope.

"I……"

Han Fei looked at the children, gripping his butcher's knife tightly. He was never one to kill indiscriminately; killing was simply something he had to do.

From the first killing until now.

"I will save you in reality."

The blade, hanging high, slashed downwards, its dazzling light tearing apart the despair woven from the children's bodies, and the faces imitating Han Fei shattered in the light of humanity.

The invisible chains emerging from the black box tightened, and Han Fei's own body began to crack. After being bound by the chains, his body seemed to be connected to the children's body. Killing the children in the black box was equivalent to killing himself.

A profound sense of despair emanated from the children and Han Fei, engulfing everything.

Ah Nian and the staff finally realized something was wrong, and the two climbed onto the black box: "Gao Cheng!"

Blood flowed from Han Fei's body, but he did not stop: "If I am already in despair, then I might as well kill myself as well."

Since entering the world of memories in the shrine of joy, Han Fei activated the Rebirth Blade with all his might for the first time, and the souls of all his companions gripped the hilt with him!
He was willing to die to see what was inside the black box; he was willing to give his life to wield that blade.

The healing starlight in his mind flowed out through the gap, reflecting the brilliant humanity on the Rebirth Blade. Han Fei's blade fell like a galaxy, cleaving open the black box beneath the Eternal Life Building.

The night seemed to be split in two, the numbered children were cleaved in two, and as Han Fei killed them, his own body was torn apart by the invisible chains of despair.

Covered in blood, Han Fei stood atop the black box, his life slowly fading, but he did not fall. All his companions from the Rebirth Slaughtering Blade stood behind him, supporting his body.

The children who saw the light inside the black box began to decay and dissipate, and invisible chains of despair broke off from their bodies. Han Fei also saw what was hidden inside the black box.

The despair of all the children was gathered together and woven into a dark dream, a dream without love or hope, a dream of eternal darkness, where all light exists only to make ugliness more apparent.

Terrifying monsters, murderous demons, brutal and out-of-control beasts; imprisonment, death, loneliness, torture—there is no escape. This dark dream is like a deep world with layers upon layers.

The roar of machinery filled the air, and within this dark dream, countless sophisticated instruments were in operation, all interlocking together to form the black box.

In the center of the two-story-high Black Dream Instrument, there is a shrine.

"Does the black box, which is a replica of a black box, hide a dream similar to the deeper world? Does that mean the deeper world is inside the black box?"

Han Fei didn't know what was inside the black box, and Gao Xing didn't seem to know much either, which is why he put the most important shrine inside the black box.

Perhaps in Gao Xing's eyes, his shrine was already the most precious and rare thing in this world of memories.

"Attention Player 0000! You are on the verge of death! Your third life has been activated! You now have three lives! Find the body incubation chamber within five minutes to repair your body as soon as possible, or you will die again!"

Han Fei regained consciousness and fell off the black box, where he was rescued by Anian and the staff member.

"Go find the body cultivation chamber! He needs to repair his body!" The staff member, who had seen Han Fei "come back to life," was about to leave with Han Fei on his back, but this time Han Fei stopped him.

"Glad to know the black box has been destroyed, he'll definitely rush back as soon as possible. We must destroy the shrine before he gets back!"

The situation is very bad for Han Fei. His body needs time to recover, but Gao Xing will definitely not give him that time.

"You can't even hold a knife properly, how are you going to destroy the shrine?" A-Nian wanted to help Han Fei, but only Han Fei himself could use the knife.

“There’s still a chance.” Han Fei roughly calculated the time, then told A-Nian and the staff to let go, handing over control of the body to the blood-red paper figure.

Perhaps it was luck that came into play at this moment, because a system notification suddenly rang in Han Fei's ears. The fifth statue inside the building was destroyed by his happy wife, and the seal in Han Fei's mind weakened again, and healing starlight enveloped him.

Then, under the protection of the healing starlight, Han Fei rushed into the children's nightmares, just as he had when he first entered the deep world, bringing change to this dark dream.

The closer Han Fei got, the clearer he could see. The shrine deep within the nightmare was unlike any other shrine in the city. It was real, made of despair and sin, and built from countless pieces of flesh and blood.

"Nightmare, technology, flesh and blood, gods and ghosts—which madman built this black box by imitating the black box?"

Before he could even get a good look, all the things that the child feared in the nightmare crawled out from the base of the shrine, their flesh dripping down and transforming into their bodies. As Han Fei approached, they bared their teeth and pounced on him.

"To be reborn!"

Forced to wield the butcher's knife, Han Fei knew he couldn't get past the monster's obstruction. He aimed the blade at the statue in the shrine and, before his life was exhausted, hurled the Butcher's Knife of Rebirth.

"My souls who walk with me, if I fall, I hope that some of you can go further than I have."

The blade of humanity pierced through the shrine and crashed into the flesh-and-blood statue, causing the Eternal Life Building to tremble violently. An unexpected event occurred on the day that Gao Xing had been most looking forward to.

The shrine itself is the foundation for maintaining the operation of the memory world. The attack on the main shrine caused problems with everything.

Time was disrupted, and Gao Xing's suppression of power over everyone inside the building was also broken.

Giant, fleshy hands tore Han Fei apart, and his mangled body fell into the black box. Beside him, A Nian's eyes were bloodshot, and he screamed hoarsely.

"Attention player number 0000! You are on the verge of death, your fourth life has been activated! You now have two lives left!"

Coughing up a mouthful of blood, Han Fei used his only remaining arm to grab the edge of the black box and crawled toward Anian: "He's still alive! Quick, find the body repair chamber!"

The blood-red paper figure, wielding the Rebirth Slaughtering Knife, fled in the opposite direction from Han Fei. Meanwhile, A Nian carried Han Fei and the staff member back to the eighteenth underground floor, where they all hid in the body repair chamber.

“Gao Xing could come at any time. Are we just going to hide right under his nose?” Anian was a little worried.

“My butcher’s knife was marked by Gao Xing because it destroyed a statue of a god. The paper figure took it with it and left, which can help us divert the god’s attention.” Han Fei endured the pain of his body being torn apart and tried his best to remain rational: “There are other people in the building. The gods have more than just us as enemies to be wary of.”

The changes underground continued. After Han Fei attacked the shrine, a series of chain reactions began to occur.

Gao Xing's most anticipated plan seems to have been forcibly brought forward. The instruments inside the black box are running at full speed, turning all the children's nightmares into an infinitely extending bridge centered on the shrine.

"Where does that bridge lead? Deeper into the nightmare? Or to another world?" A-Nian's hands were trembling. He turned to look at Han Fei, but Han Fei had already fainted.

(End of this chapter)