My ‘Healing’ Game
Chapter 782: A Place Twisted to the Point of Terror

Chapter 782: Chapter 782: A Place Twisted to the Point of Terror

The sign at the sixth floor’s entrance bore the words "Red Alley," and the middle-aged woman in this house coincidentally was called Sister Hong. Although Han Fei couldn’t see anything particularly special about her, he always felt that this Sister Hong was no simple figure.

After rescuing Xiaozhu, Sister Hong’s friendliness increased by two points, which was extremely important for Han Fei, a newcomer to this unfamiliar map.

"The two of you are dressed like you’re from another floor. I suggest you smear this substance onto your clothes to conceal your scent." Sister Hong took out a box from her drawer. It contained a reddish-brown pasty substance, looking from afar like a mixture of blood and flesh, but up close, it appeared to be a special kind of mold.

The elderly man still didn’t quite trust Sister Hong, but Han Fei did not have so many reservations and tried to simply wipe it onto his coat.

"Did you realize we were from another floor the moment you saw us? Is there such a big difference between us and the residents of Red Alley?" After wiping, Han Fei passed the box to the old man.

"People from Red Alley have a numbness in their eyes, but you are different." Sister Hong, together with Xiaozhu, entered a bathroom cluttered with garbage. She did not close the door and turned on the rusty tap, using the yellowish-brown water from the pipe to wash Xiaozhu’s body.

The icy, foul-smelling water slid over the skin, causing Xiaozhu to tremble uncontrollably, all the fear she had just experienced now surging in her heart.

Biting down on her own hand, Xiaozhu collapsed, tears streaming down her face, yet she dared not cry out loud.

"Wash yourself, and make sure not to leave a trace of scent. If those guys track it down, no one can save you." Sister Hong turned the tap to maximum, then walked out of the bathroom barefoot and sat back down on the bed. "You two just stay in this room tonight, and don’t go anywhere else. Also, make sure not to turn off the light by the door, no matter what happens outside, do not open the door."

"The man in the restaurant seemed like a murderer. Such a person shouldn’t have any friends, right? Who would specifically go look for him?" Han Fei slowly made conversation, turning on his "Master-level Acting" switch in his mind.

"I don’t know what it’s like on other floors, but Red Alley has its own rules." Lighting a cigarette, Sister Hong sat with only that oversized shirt on, showing no regard for Han Fei and the elder man. Her left leg rested on her right leg as she stared at Han Fei’s face: "Is your ability related to enchantment? I feel like I’m drawn to you, I can’t help but answer your questions."

"We indeed came from other floors, we aren’t too familiar with the floors below us. Could you possibly tell us about the people and places we need to be cautious of?" Han Fei produced some bone coins: "You can have as many of these as you want, and I’ll also give you things that money can’t buy—like freedom, ambition, and absolute safety."

Sister Hong looked at Han Fei silently, and after a long while extinguished her blood smoke: "You really do seem very special, are you from above the fiftieth floor?"

"Where I’m from is not important, what’s important is that I can help you do things you couldn’t do before. I can promise you in the name of Big Evil, I will never harm you."

"Who is Big Evil?" Confusion flashed in Sister Hong’s eyes.

Han Fei opened the buttons at his collar, revealing the fearsome and grim Ghost Pattern on his body: "It is the Divine Spirit I worship, it is sin, and it is a totem."

Sister Hong gently touched the Ghost Pattern with her fingertips, the Disaster aura emitted by Big Evil made her fingers bleed.

Licking the fresh blood off her fingertips, Sister Hong was not scared by the ferocity of Big Evil, but instead became even more interested in Han Fei: "I only know the areas below the fiftieth floor; this place is a chaotic Sin Land, occupied by various forces and monsters. Red Alley, Gambling House, Rustic Ladder, Grave House, Believers, Night Watchman, Crime Chasers, Blind Merchant, Mutant Ghost, Death Duty, Extreme Authority, Taboo, Meat Food — various criminals hide here, including murderers, psychopaths, and madmen with deranged minds, anyone you see might be hiding another face."

Sister Hong’s speech was densely packed with information; Han Fei also pondered it twice before memorizing: "Is everyone an enemy then?"

"The majority of them were completely consumed by malice, Red Alley forced the victims to sell their bodies; in the Gambling House, everything could be used as a bet, including life and soul; the cleaners at Rustic Ladder were responsible for cleaning up corpses, using elevator passes to exploit the sinners living there; there were no normal people in the Grave House, just half-dead monsters; the followers of Divine Spirit seemed amiable usually, but they would brutally sacrifice their own for the rituals of the Divine Spirit..."

Through Sister Hong, Han Fei gradually understood this extremely twisted and insane place.

The Night Watchman were bounty hunters disguised as police; Mutant Ghosts were the products of mutation, powerful and terrifying; no one had seen Death Duty, it was said that all who encountered them died; Extreme Authority represented the managers of the lower fifty floors, they made the rules, entirely different from those struggling to survive at the bottom, and also knew how to move to higher floors; Sister Hong did not elaborate on Meat Food, she just told Han Fei that becoming Meat Food would lead to unbearable suffering; lastly, there were the Taboos that even Sister Hong wasn’t clear about, triggering a Taboo had very serious consequences, if encountering Death Duty meant one person would die, a Taboo could potentially kill everyone on a floor.

"Among all these powers and monsters, there are two that could somewhat be considered neither wholly righteous nor evil. One is the Blind Merchant you just met, they have their own method of internal communication, responsible for transferring goods between different floors, I’ve heard that Blind Merchants seem to come from areas above the fiftieth floor, each Blind Merchant knows a lot, and they never harm anyone."

"Besides the Blind Merchant, another unique existence is the Crime Chaser."

When Sister Hong mentioned this, she began sizing up Han Fei: "They are not criminals, their hearts uphold justice and fairness, they risk their lives to catch felons, all the good qualities of humanity can be found in them, but their end is always tragic, some fall into becoming the criminals they once despised, others become Meat Food. However, it’s strange that every once in a while, a Crime Chaser will appear in the floors of the skyscraper, it’s like they are toys specifically created by the Divine Spirit, who wants to watch those with the strongest sense of justice gradually walk towards their destruction."

"What specific characteristics do Crime Chasers have?" Han Fei felt like Sister Hong was mistaking him for a Crime Chaser.

"After they kill a villain, they gain one of the opponent’s abilities and memories, then take on the opponent’s crimes," Sister Hong stood up and looked at the Ghost Pattern on Han Fei’s body: "The more powerful the Crime Chaser, the more crimes are marked on their bodies."

Han Fei remembered that after Big Evil ate Zhu Wu, Zhu Wu’s name was directly engraved on Big Evil’s body, and after obtaining Zhu Wu’s name, Big Evil’s aura had slightly increased, it seemed like Big Evil possessed abilities similar to those of a Crime Chaser.

If Sister Hong wasn’t lying, then Big Evil might become the most special, terrifying, and ruthless Crime Chaser in the skyscraper.

With his thoughts turning, Han Fei pressed his lips together.

The so-called Crime Chaser seemed like living people brought into reality from the Unspeakable, he imprisoned the most upright and kind people in the skyscraper, watching them degenerate on Sin Land, this seemed to bring him a different kind of pleasure.

Han Fei suddenly remembered something, Li Xue’s teacher had heard something said by the Garden Owner, that mysterious Unspeakable apparently also planned to transform Li Xue’s teacher into one of his creations.

Li Xue’s teacher never bowed to evil, had fought the cunning Butterfly for over a decade, resisting any temptation, his will as firm as a rock, wasn’t he precisely an ideal candidate for a Crime Chaser?

Felling somewhat uneasy, but Han Fei was currently unable to save himself, he planned to find a way to notify Li Xue’s teacher after leaving the game.

"What are you thinking about?" A somewhat icy hand reached towards Han Fei. Sister Hong wanted to touch the Ghost Pattern on Han Fei again: "Your revered Divine Spirit is called Big Evil, so what’s your name? Big Sin?"

Han Fei frowned and stood up, how could this even be hereditary?

To prevent his real name from being cursed, he hesitated slightly and then spoke: "My surname is Bai, called Bai Cha."