My ‘Healing’ Game
Chapter 792 Grave Digger

Chapter 792: Chapter 792 Grave Digger

Han Fei stepped out of the headquarters building and suddenly stopped. He turned to look back at the structure behind him, where the night seemed unusually dark.

"What are you looking at? Get on," Li Xue said as she pushed her motorcycle over.

"Li Xue, don’t you feel your teacher has been a bit off lately?" Han Fei had only met Li Xue’s teacher a few times, but he felt as though he had known the old man for a long time.

"I’m puzzled too. Normally, the teacher is very strict with us; he demands the highest standards in everything related to cases. But he’s been particularly lenient with you, even openly acknowledging you as his student at headquarters today." Li Xue couldn’t make sense of it: "The teacher’s students are all top-notch police officers. Now that he has vouched for you, even if you do something easily misunderstood in the future, the police will likely take your side."

"But why does he trust me so much? I don’t even know his name yet." Han Fei believed that there were no free lunches in this world, especially when it came to big shots like Li Xue’s teacher, whose public actions were always deliberated.

"Perhaps the teacher appreciates you. If you can’t continue acting, you could apply to the police academy and become my colleague. With your practical experience, you should be accepted without the usual requirements," Li Xue said, handing Han Fei a motorcycle helmet. She had become completely different from the first time she took Han Fei home, her movements now proficient and natural.

"Becoming a police officer has always been a dream of mine, but I’m afraid I won’t be able to fulfill that dream in this lifetime." Han Fei knew what he had done; he carried the weight of many killings in the Deep World.

"You’re not really saying anything there. Hold on tight," said Li Xue as she sped down the highway with Han Fei. The night wind blew in their faces, and Han Fei still hadn’t managed to ask for Li Xue’s teacher’s real name.

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When Han Fei returned to his home, he saw that there was still some time before midnight. He turned on his computer, logged into Sunshine Boy’s account, and entered the gray zone.

Han Fei just wanted to get a rough idea of the latest news, but he was surprised to find the entire gray zone in chaos.

Activities of the Murder Club members in Smart New City had prompted several major tech giants to cooperate with the Xinhu Net Police, launching a crackdown on the gray zone.

The Cocoon House Hackers and the Xinhu Network Security Investigation Department had engaged in multiple confrontations within an extremely short time, turning the entire peripheral area of the gray zone into a data maelstrom.

All the conversations in the Death Spread Group Chat were discussing last night’s events, yet none of those madmen showed any reverence in their words; instead, they were all excited.

These maggots lurking in the dark corners of the city held a deformed hatred for Xinhu. They wanted to destroy the beautiful and tear apart the most ordinary happiness of people.

Some perverts did this for their own selfish desires, but among the Death Spread Group Chat, there were also some truly capable madmen.

For instance, high-IQ criminals who hated the public database and the universal danger information detection system, living behind masks every day to destroy all of this.

Or those who resisted the disorderly expansion of technology and had serious conflicts of interest with the two tech giants, these people unwilling to be left behind by the new era, prepared to use unsavory methods to resist.

The gray zone gathered all of the dark elements; it had been hiding here for too long and was now finally baring its fangs at Xinhu.

The confrontation outside of the Information Cocoon was just a signal; everything was just beginning.

"The Female Death God was right, we’re indeed at the critical juncture of a collision between two eras."

Suppressing his nausea, Han Fei flipped through various group chats. As he looked on, his eyebrows slowly furrowed, and a familiar name caught his eye.

"Shen Luo?"

Sunday Night School kidnapped Shen Luo right under the police’s noses, but they encountered unprecedented trouble while brainwashing him. Three consecutive Sunday Night School teachers who had given Shen Luo the internal courses ended up with mental issues, and now Sunday Night School has become a joke among the death spread group chats.

Han Fei, looking at the reveling madmen, felt some concern, "I don’t know if Sunday Night School... no, I don’t know if Shen Luo can survive this ordeal."

Unable to find Shen Luo for the time being, he could only let nature take its course while constantly reassuring himself, "After all, Shen Luo is a player who has lived through two Shrine Worlds, he shouldn’t be so easily taken down, but I can’t figure out why the fragments of dream consciousness would fall on him of all people? Is it a shared stench or was it love at first sight?"

The struggle between the three major criminal organizations and Xinhu grew more intense. Unable to be of any help in reality, Han Fei logged out of the grey area after gathering the information and lay down in the gaming capsule, ready to start today’s game.

"My last log-off point was near the stairwell. As long as Blood Shadow isn’t guarding my corpse, there’s a chance I’ll survive." Han Fei took a deep breath and started logging in.

Thick blood blurred his vision; the moment Han Fei opened his eyes, he immediately touched the Ghost Pattern and dodged backwards.

The surroundings were dimly lit, a fierce fight had taken place in the stairwell, with terrifying cracks everywhere.

"The connection between Blood Shadow and me has weakened. Did it ascend to the higher floors?" Han Fei didn’t know what the furious Blood Shadow had done inside the skyscraper after he logged off last night. Following the traces of the battle, it seemed that Blood Shadow had headed upstairs.

"Player ID 0000, please take note! You have successfully demolished 44 Grave Houses and completed the Hidden Map E-level mission, Grave Digger. You’ve earned double experience points from the hidden map, received the buff status—Death Spirit’s Reverence, and the mission to unlock the Hidden Profession, Grave Digger, has commenced!"

"Attention! After demolishing one hundred Grave Houses, you will be eligible for the Hidden Profession of Grave Digger! You may also choose to postpone the conversion; the more Grave Houses you destroy, the stronger the talents and traits of your profession after conversion will be! If you can destroy the Grave Houses built by divine spirits for themselves, you will receive an Unspeakable-level professional enhancement."

"Death Spirit’s Reverence (Buff Status): Increase in movement speed and a bonus of three points to Physical Strength while inside Grave Houses!"

While Han Fei was still observing the stairwell, a system notification suddenly echoed in his mind. He truly hadn’t expected to complete such a difficult mission so unwittingly.

"Was it Blood Shadow that destroyed the Grave Houses? The monsters in this Ghost Gate Blood Sea are quite generous, giving me such a big gift right off the bat."

Having already completed one mission, Han Fei just needed to stay for three more hours, and then he could activate that crucial survival skill again.

"Player ID 0000, please take note! There are Special Items left behind in the Grave Houses you’ve destroyed. Please be sure to collect them!"

Hearing the system’s latest notification, Han Fei was somewhat surprised; he felt that the system seemed a bit more considerate now. The usual cold and sinister system rarely gave him extra hints beyond the tasks at hand.

"Is it my imagination?"