My 'Healing' Game-Chapter 66 The Underground Icehouse

66: Chapter 66 The Underground Icehouse

66 -66 The Underground Icehouse

Within the entire apartment building, there were very few people who had the ability to tamper with other neighbors’ memories, and that mysterious Building Chief should be counted as one.

Therefore, Han Fei’s suspicion had a certain rationale.

Through several days of playing the game, Han Fei now classified the building’s residents into two categories: those who could communicate and those who were completely consumed by despair and pain.

These two types of neighbors lived together in the apartment, and there was some kind of connection between them.

The specific details had not yet been fully understood by Han Fei, but he felt that all the secrets must be hidden in the Building Chief’s room.

“The tenth floor, I must go check out the tenth floor as soon as possible.”

After Meng Shi’s condition stabilized, an exhausted Han Fei finally left room 1031.

He returned to room 1044, the Haunted House, and casually locked the security door behind him. frёewebnoѵēl.com

“I have a good relationship with Meng Shi on the third floor, the sister on the fifth floor is in the middle of being ‘conquered,’ and Cry has had a change of heart towards me.

Now, if I can get my roommates to regain their sanity, then I can say I’ve initially accomplished the small goal of neighborhood harmony.”

After playing the game continuously for so long, Han Fei’s mentality had slowly begun to change.

He had started investigating the case to save his own life, but as his understanding deepened, Han Fei really wanted to uncover the truth and seek revenge for his neighbors.

“It’s time to go.

The longer I stay in this game, the more I feel as if this world actually exists.”

He pressed the exit button, and the world was filled with blood-red color, Han Fei’s consciousness gradually becoming blurry.

Taking off the game helmet, Han Fei lay in bed, not wanting to move a muscle.

Compared to his physical exhaustion, what he felt now was more of a mental fatigue.

“I won’t consider acting work for now, I still have enough savings to live on for a while.” Han Fei opened his mobile banking app: “There are two directions for earning money now, one is to wait for ‘Perfect Life’ to officially release and earn money through the game, but I guess these Underworld products of mine probably won’t be able to reach the normal game world.

The other way to make money is through the reward offered for solving cases.”

His gaze swept over to Meng Chang’an’s photo, and Han Fei seemed to see fifty thousand yuan posted on the wall.

“It’s all about earning money through my own ability, no shame in that.”

This time, in the game, Han Fei had obtained a key clue—the Donghua Ice Factory.

The most painful place in Meng Shi’s memory was the ice factory, which was different from the information Han Fei had obtained before.

He planned to go there and check it out in person after he woke up.

…

At ten o’clock in the morning, Han Fei was awakened by the alarm clock.

He ate something casually and took out his phone to call Li Xue.

“Do you have time right now?

Could you accompany me to a place?” Although Han Fei had never participated in a real case, he had watched many similar movies.

The protagonist would go investigate directly after obtaining a clue, which would ultimately lead to a dire situation.

He definitely would not let such a thing happen to himself.

“Where to?”

“In the case of the refrigerator corpse, the cold storage unit is very likely not the primary death scene.

The bodies of Meng Shi and Chenchen had been moved.”

“We already know that.”

“But do you know where the first death scene is?”

“We can’t be sure at the moment.”

“I’ll take you there.”

It didn’t take much time for Han Fei to persuade Li Xue.

An hour later, Li Xue rode her motorcycle, taking Han Fei to the Xinhu North Suburb.

The entire area of Xinhu is quite vast, with the wealthiest and most of the middle class residing in the core of the Smart City.

Surrounding the Smart City is the Old City District, a place teeming with all sorts of people.

Before the citizen information system was established, it was actually quite chaotic.

Besides the Smart City and the Old City District, Xinhu also has four suburbs to the east, south, west, and north.

As technology developed, a large influx of population from the suburbs moved into the city, making the Xinhu Far Suburb increasingly desolate, with leftovers of unfinished buildings and abandoned factories.

The Donghua Ice Factory that Han Fei was searching for was located in the Xinhu North Suburb.

It was a small-scale ice making factory, which had chosen to build in the far suburbs mainly because the electricity was cheap, there was ample water supply, and there were no residents around, so there was no need to worry about disturbing the peace.

Leaving the main road, Han Fei and Li Xue weaved through the unfinished buildings.

Even though it was daytime, not a soul could be seen around.

After walking for another fifteen minutes, Han Fei finally saw the signboard of the ice factory at the end of a small path.

The sign was severely peeling, the lettering irregular and spotted.

“This ice factory seems to have been shut down for a long time.”

The roads leading in and out of the ice factory were full of cracks, and grass grew in every crevice.

“Even if this is the victim’s first crime scene, what can we find after coming back here ten years later?” Li Xue had been excited when she first heard the news, but she had already calmed down on the way there, “Han Fei, how did you know this was the first crime scene?”

“Roughly guessed it,” Han Fei answered nonchalantly, eyeing the over two-meter-high concrete wall.

After taking a running start, he leaped high, climbed to the top of the wall, and vaulted over, “My physical fitness has indeed improved a lot, I used to struggle just climbing a tree.”

“Don’t rush ahead alone, and don’t stray too far from me, understand?” Li Xue had somehow also jumped over the wall.

She was clearly more experienced than Han Fei, moving lightly with hardly any noise.

“No problem.” Their voices were both very low as they walked along the corner of the wall towards the interior of the factory building.

After entering the ice factory, they deliberately minimized their conversation, speaking as little as possible and focusing all their attention on searching for clues.

The Donghua Ice Factory was not big, with two heavily rusted ice brick and crushed ice machines placed in the yard, surrounded by a makeshift shelter that had collapsed.

“Let’s go inside the factory building.”

They entered the dim factory building, one on the left and one on the right.

The temperature here seemed cooler than outside.

With such a long time span, there was no yield inside the factory building.

As Han Fei was contemplating whether he had missed something, Li Xue was walking back and forth alone inside the building.

“What are you doing?”

“An ice factory must have a storage for ice blocks, like an ice cellar or ice vault, but we haven’t seen any such place since we entered,” said Li Xue as she stopped in the northeast corner of the factory building.

She lifted a worn straw mat from the floor, revealing a thin steel plate underneath.

“I’ll help you,” Han Fei offered, walking over to lend a hand, but Li Xue sharply raised her arm, signaling him not to come closer.

She circled around the steel plate, turned on her enforcement recorder, and then pulled out a baton from her lower back.

That’s when Han Fei also noticed something unusual, the edge of the steel plate not covered by the straw mat was without any dust, as if it had been opened recently.

“Is there someone in the underground ice cellar?”

Li Xue gestured to Han Fei to grab something for self-defense, and then, with one hand, she lightly pushed open the steel plate.

Below the steel plate, in the pitch-dark ice cellar, the sound of the wind could be heard, suggesting the cellar might be connected to other places.

Pulling out her phone, Li Xue recited a string of location codes to her colleagues and turned on the phone’s flashlight function before entering the underground ice cellar alone.