My ‘Healing’ Game
Chapter 407: Outstanding Young Actor Nomination

Chapter 407: Chapter 407: Outstanding Young Actor Nomination

Han Fei watched one neighbor after another leave, and he truly felt a bit of reluctance in his heart.

The outside of the Death Building was dangerous, and the darkness in the distance should have been his to explore, but now he was left with only a drop of blood.

When he could no longer move forward, the neighbors stood up.

Watching everyone gradually vanishing into the night, Han Fei felt fortunate to have met a group of people worthy of trust and reliance.

"Let’s go, it’s time to head back."

Leaving a few Death Building Owners to secretly guard Ancestral Hall Street, Han Fei and Yinglong walked toward Yimin Private Academy.

The Fierce Ghosts in the Death Building Area with the ability to maintain rationality and strong power had mostly left, Wei Youfu and Little Eight hadn’t fully recovered yet, so Han Fei felt extremely insecure; he needed to gather strength around him.

Upon entering Yimin Private Academy, this Hidden Map now felt like Han Fei’s own home.

After greeting the security guard, Han Fei pushed open the door of the medical office and woke up Jin Sheng.

Chains clinked as words imbued with a Curse began to spread across the walls and floor, soon covering the entire room.

The once frail boy had changed; Jin Sheng exuded an intense murderous aura, making him difficult to look directly at.

"After the Butterfly consciousness dissipates, monsters from other areas might come here. We aren’t strong enough to confront them, so I hope you can help me," Han Fei got straight to the point, not hiding his intentions.

Jin Sheng shook his head upon hearing this. He opened his mouth as if wanting to say something, but distorted characters instantly crawled all over his tongue and teeth, looking extremely terrifying.

Raising his arm, Jin Sheng pointed at the floor in front of Han Fei, where a line of blood characters appeared: "I have too many Curses on me, I can’t leave until all the Curses are suppressed."

After the appearance of the blood characters, they slowly faded away. Jin Sheng walked step by step towards Han Fei, his fingers lightly touching Han Fei’s spine, writing new Curse words on him.

"You are fearless, you always harbor hope, your existence shall be known by all, yet no one dares to call your name. One day in the future, you will become the King of East District, ruling over the highest building in the night!"

Blood-red characters permeated into Han Fei’s body, then vanished, as if intertwining with the fate of Han Fei.

After completing the new Curse, Jin Sheng’s body shrank significantly, and the spreading Curses throughout the room also began to fade.

"Did you put a new Curse on me?"

Han Fei was aware of Jin Sheng’s capabilities; the other’s previous utterance had already become reality. Han Fei didn’t know if Jin Sheng had foreseen the future or had changed the future, or perhaps guided Han Fei to a better future.

Compared to the previous Curse, the new Curse Jin Sheng bestowed on Han Fei was clearly much more powerful.

This could be seen from Jin Sheng’s current state; his body trembled, seeming as if those few simple words had exhausted all his accumulated strength.

"Are you okay? Do you want me to get you a more spacious cabinet?" Han Fei attempted to support Jin Sheng, but the latter waved him off, using the last bit of lucidity to return to the cabinet with the medicine, re-sealing himself.

"After I killed Butterfly, Jin Sheng seems to trust me more, and my friendliness with him must have already surpassed that with Fu Sheng."

After thanking Jin Sheng briefly, Han Fei opened the door of the medical office; he was about to leave when he suddenly saw the security guard burdened with a full body of ghosts.

"Teacher Han, who were you talking to?"

"It’s nothing." Han Fei smiled kindly at the old man. He, like the other ghosts and monsters in the campus, decided to weave a benign lie for the old man, "Old man, I might introduce some new students to the school in the future, cultivating them to be people who can illuminate the night."

The students Han Fei mentioned were not only the ghosts and monsters but also some extraordinarily talented players. The security guard, blinded by ghosts, couldn’t see the ghostly spirits, but he could see the players; thus, Han Fei gave him a heads-up.

"That sounds great!"

"So some places should not be too much like the Underworld; at least give them a transition opportunity," Han Fei shared his thoughts, "like improving the accommodation and cafeteria, and marking out a small safety zone."

"Underworld?" The security guard didn’t quite understand: "I feel our school has a good ethos, there aren’t any bullying incidents currently, and in all aspects, it seems commendable."

"Then you’re too confident; even Sun Honglei would have to be a day student at our school."

Han Fei muttered quietly and did not chat further with the old man. He found a safe room and pressed the Game Exit Key.

All became engulfed in a blood-red color. As Han Fei’s consciousness was disconnecting, he once again saw Gesheng.

With an old man’s head in arms, Gesheng looked in Han Fei’s direction, except his gaze seemed to be focusing on something behind Han Fei.

Straining to turn, in the last moment before his consciousness exited, Han Fei saw the bloody figure behind him appeared closer.

"Bang!"

His head, donned with the game helmet, hit the capsule door. Han Fei removed the helmet, breaking out into uncontrollable cold sweat.

He still had not seen the face of the person behind him, only knowing he was closer now.

"Who is that bloody figure really? Why does he only appear when I log in and out of the game? When everything turns blood-red, why is the bloody person behind me?"

Han Fei climbed out of the Game Box and glanced at the watch on the wall: "Oh no, I’m going to be late!"

Playing games had deeply engrossed him, causing Han Fei to forget that he had to shoot a film the next day.

After washing up quickly, he took a taxi to the Meat Factory Courtyard for Family.

When Han Fei arrived, everyone had already begun shooting. He entered the set apologetically, not expecting that from the director to the crew members, not a single person thought his tardiness was an issue. Instead, their looks were full of admiration, which left Han Fei somewhat confused.

"Director Zhang, I’m sorry, I’m late." Han Fei hadn’t even explained when the usually very strict Director Zhang simply patted Han Fei’s shoulder, his expression as warm as Santa Claus bearing gifts.

"Don’t wear yourself out. Being young is indeed your asset, but you also need to watch out for your safety!" Director Zhang’s words were full of concern, "We’ll shoot other actors’ scenes first, you go and rest for a while."

It wasn’t just Director Zhang, but other actors and crew members also persuaded Han Fei to rest more, making Han Fei believe that his secret of owning a Black Box had been exposed.

While eating the nutritious meal specially prepared by the crew, Han Fei opened his phone and then understood what had happened.

The police had announced a new Righteous Hero Award, and the ancient case involving the Death Building Owners had made a breakthrough with Han Fei’s help.

While filming and solving cases simultaneously, the movie hadn’t yet finished shooting, but not just one case had already been cracked.

Other actors might be involved in some scandalous news, but Han Fei was strictly in the legal news. His name had once again hit the trending searches, though he was still far behind Huang Ying in terms of popularity.

Perhaps because the filming of "Mystery Novelist" was nearing its end and the promotional phase was beginning, the production team tried to use Han Fei’s growing popularity, but even their efforts couldn’t shake Huang Ying’s position on the trending leaderboard.

"I wonder how Brother Huang Ying is doing over there?"

Han Fei opened the real-time leaderboard of "Perfect Life"; names from second to ninth place kept changing, but the first place was always Huang Ying.

It was said that the underground black market had already started betting on how many days Huang Ying could hold the top spot.

Han Fei sent a message to Huang Ying, who then called him back directly using an encrypted number.

"Brother Huang, how come you are only level seventeen? I see the second place is already level fourteen."

"Every five levels there is a threshold; the experience needed to level up becomes very large," Huang Ying explained. "Also, ’Perfect Life’ primarily hopes that everyone in the game finds healing and discovers their true purpose, so leveling up is actually secondary."

"That makes sense."

"The items you gave me are almost used up, I need to come over to your place again tonight. This time I’ve swapped for the biggest backpack I could get at this stage." Huang Ying’s voice was somewhat hoarse. "Are there other people around you? I have some important matters I’d like to report."

"It’s just me in this room." Han Fei opened the door to check and then moved to a corner.

"In ’Perfect Life’, the first ten levels are the novice stage where the system guides players to familiarize with various functions. Only after unlocking a profession at level ten does one truly enter the world to freely enjoy all sorts of lives. Although I’m already at level seventeen, I still want to say that players who reach level ten and complete the profession change during this time are already top professional players."

"It looks like you’re far ahead of them."

"The problem is that those players really stop at nothing, they usually come from large studios where dozens of people support one person; how is this enslavement of others’ lives any different from reality?" Huang Ying’s voice carried a hint of anger. "What shocked me even more, some of the players who participated in the beta test have already started deep game experiments. They try to kill NPCs, or deceive NPC emotions to scam money—although most players fail, a few have succeeded."

"What are you trying to say?"

"Nothing much, I just couldn’t stand the actions of a huge game studio. To help an NPC they bullied, using the abilities of Blood Doctor, I managed to take out two of their main accounts." Huang Ying didn’t want to cause trouble for Han Fei, so he thought it was better to inform Han Fei about this.

"Killed two main accounts?"

"They are the lead accounts supported by their dozens of people; I must have formed a feud with them now. Even if they can’t find out it was me right now, if they think about it carefully, there aren’t many players who have the capability to do this."

"Is that it? I thought you did something earth-shattering..." Han Fei was somewhat speechless.

"The death penalty in ’Perfect Life’ is extremely severe. Once a character dies, everything has to start over, as if the character actually died in that world."

"Let me tell you, dying in the game and then being brain dead in reality, now that’s severe," Han Fei said with confidence, "Don’t be afraid, if things go south, just take action directly. Don’t mind the rules, you need to become the rule yourself."

"Isn’t that a bit too arrogant?"

"What you need to do is to become the flag and benchmark for all the players in the Shallow World. As long as you believe it’s the right thing to do, you can go ahead and do it. If someone stands in your way, just remove them. If you’ve tried your best and still can’t make them leave, then you can tell me their name," Han Fei said, his voice carrying a chill, "I can help you persuade them."

"Do the right thing?" Huang Ying seemed to understand, "I think I got it."

"Found out anything else?" Han Fei was Huang Ying’s strongest backup, it could be said that as long as Han Fei was alive, Huang Ying would always be a top-tier player in the Shallow World.

"I explored some maps that weren’t in the beta test. In that massive city, like Heaven, more and more supernatural events started happening. However, these incidents were mostly among NPCs and not related to the players."

"You mentioned that last time."

"Since the fourth beta test, the horror supernatural maps have been removed. ’Perfect Life’ has set up Horror Park and Death Row Prison specifically for players who like these elements. But after the public test was handed over to the Smart Brain, everything seems different," Huang Ying had become very sensitive under Han Fei’s training, "The weirdest thing is, these supernatural events disappeared completely after a large influx of players, it feels like the Smart Brain is deliberately hiding something."

"An increase in supernatural events is not a good sign, especially when the game has just started."

"There’s another thing we should be cautious about." Huang Ying sent Han Fei an encrypted file, "Before ’Perfect Life’ went live, Eternal Life Pharmaceutical and Deep Space Technology announced the biggest Easter egg, which was to find the black box left by the previous chairman, with rewards including original shares of Eternal Life Pharmaceutical. There are already a lot of Black Box Hunters in the game, who are also desperately searching for the entrance to the hidden maps, don’t underestimate them, be ready to meet them in the hidden maps."

Upon opening the file sent by Huang Ying, inside was a detailed list; Huang Ying had infiltrated the Black Box Hunters using his concealed identity as the Blood Doctor and had even risen to the upper echelons.

"Hard work."

Han Fei had an excellent memory, after hanging up the phone, he memorized the long list at once, maybe someday he’d have to send some warmth to the people on the list.

After loafing around in the resting room for a while, Han Fei put away his phone, grabbed the script, and walked out to start a day of shooting.

As it turned out, even though Han Fei was late, he was still the first to finish his part.

Just as he was preparing to leave work, Director Zhang’s assistant had already preemptively stopped him at the door.

"Teacher Han, there’s an event in a while, Director Zhang and the production team hope you can attend."

"An event?"

"The annual film festival is about to start, we’ve recommended your name, and once ’Mystery Novelist’ participates, you should be the strongest contender for this year’s Best New Actor and Best Supporting Actor. Before the festival officially starts, there will be a selection event for the nominees, and we feel that with your performance, getting selected should be no problem at all, so we wanted to give you a heads-up and hope you can attend."

Director Zhang’s assistant’s words gave Han Fei an almost dream-like feeling. A few months ago, he was still worrying about making ends meet, yet now he was already eligible to compete for awards.

"I can, that is possible," Han Fei paused, "Is the event during the day?"

"It starts at eight in the evening. I think it would be better if you attend. This year, there are many heavyweight actors and directors, including the ace horror film director who had been quiet for a long time and a national-level comedic actor..."