My Healing Games

Chapter 948 Eleven Shrines Enveloped in Nightmares

The eighteen underground floors of the Eternal Life Building have been basically cleared. Han Fei found the building's internal managers and, under the guise of academic research, borrowed the brain of Number Two.

To ensure the activity of the second brain, Han Fei moved the equipment from the laboratory out. Even with the help of the transport robots, they were busy until 3 a.m.

For Han Fei, the second brain is something he must take with him, as the Unspeakable is very likely to attack him in reality, and he needs someone by his side to protect him.

Although Number Two only has his brain left, he is truly unspeakable. He has just been hiding himself and has never unleashed his ghostly power or used his abilities.

Previously, Number Two was worried about being exposed at Yong Sheng Pharmaceuticals, but after joining Han Fei, he no longer had that concern. Everyone knows each other well and is in the same boat.

Han Fei arrived in a sedan, but left the Yong Sheng Building in a truck loaded with equipment.

After returning to his residence, he spent a lot of money to rent a room for Number Two near his home and moved all the equipment into it.

"It's very popular for tenants to do unique renovations for their landlords these days. I'll renovate this house in a post-apocalyptic style. I don't think the landlord will have any objections, right?" After all the wiring was connected, Han Fei and Huang Ying sat down casually in the room.

“As long as the rent is high enough, landlords will like any style, and they might even praise you as an artist. Look at this brain, look at the texture and color, it looks just like the real thing.” The police officers who came to help move the experimental equipment collapsed on the ground, exhausted. Their bodies, which were used to training, were also a little overwhelmed, but Han Fei next to them was still full of energy.

“This brain is indeed real.” Han Fei thanked all the police officers. After they left, Han Fei closed the door and looked at Assistant Tao and Huang Ying: “I thought that as long as Thursday passed, everything would be over. I didn’t expect Meng to abandon Gao Xing so decisively.”

"Four million people are trapped in the game. No matter what the final outcome is, Deep Space Technology and Immortal Pharmaceuticals will definitely be broken up and will no longer be cutting-edge technology monopoly giants." Huang Ying leaned against the wall and lit a cigarette.

"Let's think about how to save them first." As a member of Yong Sheng Pharmaceuticals, Assistant Tao felt uneasy after hearing Huang Ying say this.

“Brother Huang, you are one of the core members of the Inevitable Truth website, and also the number one player. You have connections with all the top gaming guilds and have a very strong influence in the game. I need you to contact those players, act as a bridge between them and us, and gather as much information as possible.” Han Fei sat next to Number Two’s brain, and after a brief thought, began to assign tasks: “Assistant Tao, when you go back, tell Du Jing to be careful. I may need her full assistance for a while in the future, after all, the resources I can mobilize on my own are very limited. Of course, I won’t let you work for nothing. When we rebuild Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals in the future, Du Jing will be one of the new owners.”

Han Fei was shrouded in mystery. Assistant Tao felt that Han Fei was making empty promises, but these promises were incredibly real, as if they would be available soon: "Okay!"

"You should go back now. Get some rest tonight, and we'll start our operation at dawn."

Han Fei stood up from his chair, and Huang Ying, who was next to him, suddenly asked, "Then what about this smart butler?"

The three looked at the intelligent butler who was possessed by Gao Xing's mother's consciousness. Han Fei walked up to her and tried to communicate with her for a while. The intelligent butler vaguely uttered the words "orphanage". She seemed to want to use the rest of her life to atone for Gao Xing's sins and go to the orphanage to take care of the orphans who lacked love.

“Actually, you didn’t do anything wrong, but I can understand your choice.” Han Fei left the smart butler in room number two for the time being, and would take her to the city orphanage after it was safe outside.

Back home, Han Fei quickly logged into the game. Blood descended, but the blood-soaked figure behind him never reappeared.

Pushing open the door, Han Fei could clearly sense that the night sky above the amusement park had changed; it was no longer pure black, but had gained a touch of scarlet.

"what happened?"

After asking the ghost manager for a long time, Han Fei finally figured out the reason. After Gao Xing's original body was completely destroyed in reality, Kuang Xiao completely became the master of the Sin Shrine. The Dead Building area, the Plastic Surgery Hospital area, the intersection of the Department Store, the Paradise area, and the Black Rain area were all connected into one whole. Although Kuang Xiao had not yet left the shrine, his strength seemed to have surpassed the ordinary ineffable.

The night sky was also altered by maniacal laughter; only an unspeakable power could distort the eternally dark night of the deeper world.

Accompanied by the ghost manager, Han Fei arrived at the shrine in the paradise. He lifted the black cloth covering the shrine and opened the divine door.

The statues in the shrine are so lifelike that they don't look like clay sculptures at all, but rather like living people. They exude a kind of hysterical madness and an indescribable fatal charm, making people want to worship them.

With a slight turn of its eyes, the statue looked at Han Fei. Their eyes reflected each other, as if they were looking in a mirror, or as if they were looking at their future selves.

Identical facial features, completely different personalities, twin flowers, their fate reversed, blooming at the same time.

An indescribable power surged from the shrine. That power touched Han Fei, but did not enter his body. It merely turned the ghost patterns on his body into blood red.

"Attention player number 0000! You have obtained the unique B-grade Ghost Mark—Me!"

"Me (Level B): I am with you!"

Blood covered his entire body, and Han Fei's ghostly markings were completely altered.

The attribute panel doesn't have much information about this ghost mark; a simple B-grade rating is enough to tell you a lot. This ghost mark represents an unspeakable, maniacal laugh.

The gate closed, the black cloth fell, and all was calm.

"It's a very special feeling." Han Fei looked up at the passage leading from the Paradise to the shallow world. In the past, that passage would have given him a sense of oppression, but now all the uncomfortable feelings had disappeared. It was as if he was the only one who could oppress others, and no one had the right to make him feel afraid.

"You two do have a pretty good relationship." The ghost manager seemed to have changed his initial opinion.

Han Fei did not answer. He silently looked up at the passage: "The Mad Laughter now possesses unspeakable power. All areas of the Deep World are under his protection. Perhaps I can try to leave here and go to the other side of the passage to take a look."

"You need to think this through. There are still unspeakable threats lurking around the park. They might attack us at any time." Compared to Kuangxiao, Ghost Manager trusted Han Fei more. If Han Fei left and Kuangxiao went crazy again, then this old man would be finished.

“I’ve thought it through.” Han Fei withdrew his gaze: “The reason they can’t say they’re surrounding us without attacking is probably because they’re waiting for me to open the passage myself. They know I can’t stand by and watch four million living people be transformed by dreams.”

"Transformed by dreams?" A hint of murderous intent flashed in the Ghost Manager's eyes. "Is it the Dream Manager?"

“That’s right. It has joined forces with other unspeakable entities to trap four million people in the world on the other side of the passage. If I don’t go to rescue them, those people will become puppets and toys of the dream, becoming new joys and butterflies. If I try to open the passage directly to let them escape, the unspeakable entities lurking in the deep world will take action. We simply don’t have the ability to transfer those living people while defending against the attack.”

"This seems like a dead end." The ghost manager frowned. "Dreams excel at these kinds of things. That ghost that escaped from the deeper world should have been killed back then!"

"No, there's another solution." Han Fei placed his hand on the wall of the Paradise passageway: "We control the passageway. I can take some of the ghosts from the deep world into the shallow world to investigate how the dream trapped those living people. Our strength far surpasses that of ordinary living people; what they can't solve, we might be able to."

The ghost manager didn't argue anymore; it seemed like this was the only way out now.

"The Mad Laughter has integrated all the shrines and enveloped both passages. Xu Qin should also have a chance to become the Unspeakable. The two of them staying here is enough to hold out for a while. And this period of time is our last chance." Han Fei walked towards the outside of the passage: "Prepare to gather manpower. I will take them to the other side of the world."

The ghost manager hurriedly left to inform the others, while Han Fei stood beside the shrine and used his talent for summoning spirits.

The gates of hell opened, and he uttered Bai Xian's name. Waves splashed in the sea of ​​blood, and soon Bai Xian appeared beside Han Fei.

Bai Xian, who has been nominated for Best Actor multiple times but has never won, is now disheveled and covered in blood, looking quite pathetic.

"Brother Bai, are you being chased?"

Sitting on the ground, Bai Xian took a long time to react. He wiped the dirt off his face, his voice trembling slightly: "The game is having problems! 'Perfect Life' can't be exited, and the entire main city is in chaos!"

"I already know that. I called you here to resolve this matter." Han Fei gestured for Bai Xian to calm down: "What's the overall situation with the players now?"

"It's terrible, absolutely terrible!" Bai Xian repeatedly emphasized, "Everyone is panicking. The game can't be exited, and in the game 'Perfect Life,' each person only has one life. Dying is equivalent to deleting your account! A very small number of players tried to commit suicide after being unable to exit the game, and it seems they really died!"

“In reality, there have indeed been cases of players experiencing brain death. After a player commits suicide, their spirit and will might be consumed by their dreams.” Han Fei interrupted Bai Xian, “Before they were unable to exit the game, did the players notice anything unusual? Or rather, after they were unable to exit the game, did anything change in the main city?”

A key question Han Fei wanted to figure out was: how exactly did the dream trap so many players? Why were only players in the main city unable to log off, while players in other areas were able to log out normally?

"Yes! There has been a change!" Bai Xian said excitedly, "When players in the main city were exchanging information in the square, they discovered that in the hour before they were unable to log out of the game, eleven very strange shrines appeared one after another in the main city."

"Eleven shrines?" This number was beyond Han Fei's expectations.

"I don't know how to describe it, but these eleven shrines felt particularly eerie, even more terrifying than this place. After those shrines appeared, the buildings around them were also affected, as if shrouded in a layer of black dream dust, blurry and indistinct." Bai Xian recalled the terrifying scene at the time.

"The passage is in my hands, so how could the shrine have ended up in the shallow world? Does the dream have other passages?" Han Fei asked, somewhat puzzled.

“There’s a rumor circulating in the main city right now,” Bai Xian said haltingly, not entirely sure. “Those eleven shrines were built by players. Each eleven shrine corresponds to one of the eleven players. Only by finding these eleven players and killing them all can you leave the game.”

"It's too difficult to find eleven people out of four million players. I suspect this is a conspiracy by the dream to encourage you to kill each other. The so-called eleven people are just an excuse for you to kill." Han Fei knew that butterflies could affect people's minds through nightmares, so the dream, which was a hundred times more terrifying than butterflies, must have even more bizarre methods.

"Finding people is just too difficult, so some players want to enter the buildings shrouded in dream dust to investigate." Bai Xian gave a wry smile: "I'm one of them..."

"You went in too?" Han Fei looked at the bloodstains on Bai Xian's body. "Did you get close to the shrine?"

Shaking his head bitterly, Bai Xian sighed, "After I pushed open the building door, I immediately fell into an extremely terrifying nightmare. Ghosts were chasing me. Fortunately, I had received special training here. Of the five people who came with me, only I and another hidden profession owner escaped."

"After you escaped this nightmare, did you receive any hints?" Han Fei asked, becoming curious.

“There were no hints.” Bai Xian’s expression was one of utter despair. “After leaving the first nightmare, I took a step forward and then entered the second nightmare with the other survivors inside the building! This nightmare was much more difficult and terrifying than the previous one! Not only were we chased by ghosts, but our own minds were also twisted, causing us to attack those around us. While being careful of the ghosts and other players, we also needed to eliminate the ghosts’ karmic obstacles and find the exit from the nightmare in order to leave.”

"The difficulty has increased that much?"

"Yes, all seven of my companions perished tragically, and I almost got trapped in the nightmare forever. After escaping the second nightmare, I immediately turned around and left those buildings. However, the negative impact and psychological trauma from the nightmares haven't disappeared yet." Bai Xian's emotions were still not completely calm: "Now the players are actively trying to save themselves, and many large guilds have stepped forward to organize raiding teams, but the more they try to save themselves, the more desperate they feel. It's almost impossible to accurately kill those eleven people out of four million, and to clear all the nightmares and reach the shrine is even more of a pipe dream."

"It seems that professional matters should be left to professionals." After hearing Bai Xian's words, Han Fei was even more eager to go and see the shallow world.

As time passed, one by one, ghosts filled with resentment quietly appeared and stood silently beside Han Fei.

After a while, hatred burning with black flames came from afar, with Xingfu and Wuchang standing on either side of Han Fei.

(End of this chapter)