My Healing Games

Chapter 947 Unable to Exit!
The bridge to the Deep World has broken, and Gao Xing, who was standing at the bridgehead, fell into the void between the two worlds. He was abandoned by the Deep World and hated by the Real World. No place he existed was willing to take him in, not even his remnant soul.

The owner of the skyscraper, the founder of the three major criminal organizations in Shanghai, the unspeakable one who built a shrine with evil, Gao Xing took evil to the extreme. However, strangely enough, on his last day, he did not choose to concentrate all his power to attack Han Fei, but instead wanted to become a bridge to the deep world.

The demonic realm dissipated, the dark dream shattered, and a joyful, twisted, and filthy soul lay naked between the two worlds, his body covered in hideous and terrifying scars.

If you compare the butterfly patterns on Shen Luo's skin now, you'll find that Gao Xing's soul used to be covered with butterfly patterns as well—the imprint of dreams. But Gao Xing used various means to remove all the butterfly patterns, leaving behind a dense array of scars.

His childhood experiences instilled in Gao Xing a fear of being controlled. As a monster who didn't even care about fate, how could he willingly submit to the will of his dreams?
When he was happy to have the ability and hope to rebel against the dream, he would not turn against the dream and would silently wait for an opportunity; but after the shrine was destroyed, everything changed. The rules of the deep world were extremely cruel, and even if it was unspeakable, he absolutely could not show any weakness.

The shrine is the unspeakable essence; when the three souls are destroyed, Gao Xing knew his fate.

In fact, everything went exactly as Gao Xing had predicted. Meng changed the plan, and Gao Xing would become a sacrifice to attract Han Fei and the police's attention and relieve Meng's pressure.

Truth and falsehood are intertwined, but Gao Xing is certain of one thing: compared to perishing together with Han Fei, who brought his mother along, Gao Xing is more inclined to let his "perfect creation" destroy the dream.

He is an extremely selfish and evil person. No matter whether the future of this world is good or bad, if I am no longer in this world, then I will destroy you all.

I'm happy to try to convince myself with this reason, but is it really true? Humans are incredibly complex creatures, and even he doesn't really understand why he changed his mind at the last moment.

The festering, ugly soul vanished with all its sins. Han Fei watched Gao Xing from afar. Gao Xing's soul had been hollowed out beforehand, and everything that could be used had turned into gray dream dust.

The masked members of the three major criminal organizations fled in panic, but Han Fei did not give chase: "Gao Xing was terrified right in front of me, but... the knocking sound in my head hasn't disappeared!"

Han Fei looked around and saw Shen Luo, whose head was bleeding, pleading for help from Han Fei, but Han Fei simply walked past him without stopping for a moment.

"The passageways to both the skyscrapers and the amusement park are guarded. Where could the problem lie? Does the dream possess new passageways?"

"save……"

"Brother Huang, the ghost realm has dissipated. Contact the Shanghai police immediately, and you should call Assistant Tao to come along!" Han Fei had foreseen the worst day, but after the shrine was destroyed, the enemy also knew that Han Fei knew the future, and they would definitely not be foolish enough to act according to the original plan.

"Brother, help... help me..."

"The police are on their way! Communication inside the Eternal Life Building has been restored." Assistant Tao and the staff member rushed over: "A lot of people died in the building this time. Nearly one-fifth of the researchers were hunted down by androids. Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals is in big trouble this time."

"I...I'm still alive, I..." Shen Luo was covered in chains, his clothes soaked with blood, and he struggled to raise his hand.

“Gao Xing was probably used as a pawn! Meng is now very likely to have realized that Fu Sheng gave that thing to me! What is its real plan?” Han Fei frowned. Meng Manager is not human. It came from the deep world. Such a guy has no humanity or flaws. It is very scary.

"Help... Ah! You stepped on my hand..."

Hearing the screams, Assistant Tao finally noticed Shen Luo on the ground, initially mistaking him for a corpse: "I'm sorry."

Assistant Tao quickly helped Shen Luo up, while Han Fei took five steps back before continuing, "Don't get too close to him. Find some staff to take the injured to the hospital. We'll stay here and wait for the police."

Han Fei didn't want to have any contact with Shen Luo, but he vaguely heard a familiar laugh coming from Shen Luo.

"Let me see your wound." Han Fei gently pressed his hand on the back of Shen Luo's head, and a hysterical laugh rang in his ears, then the voice appeared in his mind.

The maniacal laughter that everyone would fear sounded familiar to Han Fei. When that laughter echoed in his mind again, he felt a long-lost sense of security.

Some of the questions that Han Fei couldn't understand before gradually found their answers.

Number Two once said in the shrine that the Mad Laughter separated a part of his will. Now it seems that the Mad Laughter had his eye on Shen Luo in the shrine of Paradise. It was also he who guided the remnants of Dream's consciousness into Shen Luo's mind and packaged Shen Luo as—the successor of Dream.

"No wonder those psychopaths liked you so much. I always said there's no such thing as love without a reason." Han Fei saw Shen Luo's miserable state and wanted to comfort him, but the laughter in his mind seemed to be guiding him to do something.

Walking toward the thirteen preserved boxes, the laughter in his mind made Han Fei touch them one by one.

Opening the box, Han Fei picked up the despairing figures nurtured by his dreams, and some invisible power surged from the black box at the back of his head.

Han Fei endured the despair inside the box. Jin Sheng, Xiao Ba... one desperate name after another flashed into his mind, and one desperate life after another was sucked into the black box.

When Han Fei opened the box containing the second brain, the black box at the back of his head changed, and the two sides representing redemption and destruction were opened simultaneously.

Inside the black box, there was still a black box, seemingly unchanged, but Han Fei felt that the world he saw was different from before. He seemed to be able to perceive everyone's emotions more directly, and his spirit and will underwent a qualitative change the moment the black box was opened.

Reaching into the box containing the second brain, Han Fei retrieved a special container from inside.

The brain of Number Two is still "alive," maintaining its function in this special way.

"Only the two of us are left in the Crimson Night."

The maniacal laughter led Han Fei into the Black Dream, to the center of the black box built to resemble a black box. He placed Number Two's brain in this enormous black room, positioning it in the same spot where Gao Xing had initially stood.

The bridge to the deeper world had broken, the illusory dream receded inward, and finally all the anomalies disappeared from Number Two's brain, as if everything that had just happened was just Number Two's imagination.

Both are unspeakable, but Number Two has always kept it hidden. His demonic realm has never unfolded in reality, and no one knows that this brain is so special.

"Alright, now we can only wait for the police and the people from Yong Sheng Pharmaceuticals to arrive."

The power that the Unspeakable One exerted in reality far exceeded Han Fei's imagination. The entire Eternal Life Building was shrouded in it, and everyone was under its control. Even now, even though the Ghost Realm has dissipated, 80% of the people there are still unable to completely escape the effects, and some people's personalities have even been permanently changed.

A full twenty minutes passed before the people inside the Eternal Life Building gradually recovered from the effects of the ghostly aura. They and the police took the elevator to the eighteenth basement level.

The bloodstains and corpses scattered on the ground shocked many people. The rescue team carried the injured away, while the rest of the people all headed towards Han Fei.

Whether it was the police or the executives of Yong Sheng Pharmaceuticals, everyone looked extremely grim, which exacerbated Han Fei's unease.

"Han Fei, what are you doing here?" The police leader recognized Han Fei.

"I was sent here on behalf of a major shareholder of Yong Sheng Pharmaceuticals." Han Fei took out the identification given to him by Du Jing and gave the police a brief account of what had happened.

Upon hearing that the conspiracy of the three major criminal organizations had been thwarted, the police officer in charge relaxed his eyebrows slightly, but his expression remained serious.

"What's going on outside? Are you going to launch an investigation into Yong Sheng Pharmaceuticals next?" Han Fei asked in a low voice after getting close to the police.

“We probably won’t be investigating Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals and Deep Space Technology for the time being.” The police leader looked at Han Fei, hesitated for a moment, and then said, “Right now we need the full cooperation of these two tech giants. The investigation and punishment will probably have to wait for a while.”

"Why?" Han Fei was puzzled. The things that Yong Sheng Pharmaceuticals had done behind the scenes were extremely bad, and the company had to carry out a major purge.

"Just today, at midnight on Thursday, all players in the main city of 'Perfect Life' were unable to log out of the game." The police leader spoke slowly, each word hitting Han Fei hard in the heart.

"Cannot exit?!"

"Yes, the game 'Perfect Life' has now been completely shut down. Deep Space Technology is trying to kick all players offline using a system backdoor, but even so, those players who stayed in the main city still can't log out of the game." The police leader took out the police's internal communication device: "Some players' relatives tried to forcibly drag them out of the game pod and disconnect them, but after leaving the game, all those players fell into a coma and lost consciousness. Half an hour ago, one player even showed signs of brain death."

Approximately how many people are currently unable to log out of the game?

"Perfect Life is a relaxing and therapeutic game. Many people are busy with work during the day and like to lie in the game pod at night to sleep, relaxing their mind and spirit in the paradise. So midnight is the time when the number of online players is the highest. At that time, there were about four million players staying in the main city."

Upon hearing this number, Han Fei took a deep breath. People who can afford game pods are at least relatively wealthy middle-class individuals, and most of them hold key positions. If they were all trapped inside "Perfect Life," it would cause a huge shock and panic.

Even more terrifying is that Han Fei believes all of this is the work of a dream. It won't simply trap the players; given its personality and style of doing things, it's very likely that it wants to take over and dominate these people, and to transform their personalities and minds, just like it did to Gao Xing and Hu Die.

Once the transformation is complete, these four million players will become a "nest" where dreams breed evil!
If players could log off normally at that time, most of them would probably no longer be themselves, and some might even be possessed by monsters from the deeper world.

"How did they do that?" Han Fei knew better than anyone how terrifying this was; his palms were already sweating.

"The specific situation is still under investigation. The preliminary judgment is that it is related to a manager named Fu Yun at Yong Sheng Pharmaceutical. He is the one who activated all the hidden doors in the systems controlled by Yong Sheng Pharmaceutical, and he is also the one who found the loophole in 'Perfect Life'." The police leader clicked on the screen on the communicator: "It's Fu Yun, the one you asked the chief to pay attention to. He left Yong Sheng Pharmaceutical a long time ago. According to our investigation, he initially joined Sunday Night School, and later betrayed the three major criminal organizations. It's as if he has vanished into thin air."

"Betrayed the three major criminal organizations?" Han Fei knew that the brat under Gao Xing was Fu Yun, the child raised by Fu Tian. It seemed that he had first betrayed Yong Sheng Pharmaceuticals, then betrayed Gao Xing, and now it seemed that he had become Meng's subordinate.

“He is a very terrifying person, and the only one whom the late chairman of Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals specifically wrote in his will to be wary of. The old chairman’s own children are also outstanding individuals, but compared to Fu Yun, they are far inferior.” The police leader said bluntly, “That’s the situation now. The higher-ups have given a strict order to rescue all the trapped players within 48 hours, so we can only cooperate fully with Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals and Deep Space Technology to make them redeem themselves.”

The three major criminal organizations' attacks on the core AI of the smart city have not stopped, and the game "Perfect Life" has suffered another shocking change. The only fortunate thing is that the underground passage of the Eternal Life Building has not been opened, otherwise a disaster would have occurred.

"Players trapped in 'Perfect Life' can't get out, and after the server shuts down, outsiders can't get in either. Their mental world and reality are separated, and if anything unexpected happens, the consequences will be unimaginable." The police officer in charge was also very worried.

Communication had been restored, and Han Fei took out his phone to call Jin Jun, Bai Xian, and other friends around him, but no one answered.

"Deep Space Technology has a vulnerability in the 'Perfect Life' AI. We should be able to send the players in to check the situation in a while, but those players who enter the game will most likely never be able to come back." The police leader put away his communication device and began cleaning up the scene.

Huang Ying, who was standing next to him, also heard the news. He quietly walked over and said, "Don't worry, when Deep Space Technology is about to send players in, I will sign up as the first player and try my best to find out what's inside the main city."

"Don't be impulsive." Han Fei shook his head: "I have two passages in my hands. The passage at the top of the skyscraper connects to reality, and the Paradise passage connects to the shallow world of Perfect Life. If both passages are opened successfully, I can help some players escape."

Huang Ying's eyes widened; he hadn't expected his friend to be so crucial: "You...you're practically a living devil!"

"Are you praising me?" Han Fei lowered his voice again: "I have the talent of summoning spirits. Let me summon Bai Xian and the others first, and then make a decision after I have found out the truth."

Now that you mention it, I feel you're even more like it...

(End of this chapter)