Han Fei fulfilled the wishes of the three souls. After the long night, everyone saw the dawn. This would be a brand new beginning.
With his family's encouragement, Lao Gui's grandson puffed out his chest. He cried and gritted his teeth, trying to become what his family wanted him to be.
Before Lai Sheng's parents fully recovered, the boy stuck close to his parents. No matter where his parents went, he would jog behind them.
Firefly also met the group members that he had helped before but he did not expect his first offline meeting would be in the underworld.
Before this, it was the group members who relied on him but in the cryptic world, he was protected by them.
Everyone had found a way out. The souls that Han Fei possessed were slowly disappearing.
'Wardrobe 4444 has been destroyed, the tunnel left behind by the butterfly can't be used anymore. How am I supposed to send them back? Use the Resurrection talent? '
There was no better solution, Han Fei wanted to give them more time.
After consuming the food brought by Xu Qin, Han Fei's Life Points recovered to a safe level. However, he still could not move his limbs. His injuries were too severe this time, his face was almost disfigured.
"I'm fine, I need to help Little Eight calm down." The butterfly's consciousness had dissipated but its presence still lingered around the Ziggurat. Little Eight and Zhuang Wen had already reduced the butterfly to dust but they still could not let it go. They continued to destroy the whole building.
To prevent themselves from being buried alive, the people from Happiness Neighbourhood and Spider tried their best to stop them.
After a long time, Little Eight finally walked out from his madness. The huge red shadow collapsed with a loud bang, and only eight broken souls were left in the ruins.
'The previous manager told Wei Youfu not to leave Happiness Neighbourhood unless it's absolutely necessary.' Han Fei looked at the 8 unconscious figures with gentleness in his eyes like he was looking at his own family. 'A person who has no friends in real life has found his real family in the cryptic world.'
Thinking of his family, Han Fei stood up and looked into the distance. He searched for a long time before he found Zhuang Ren's eldest daughter, Zhuang Qing, at a corner.
Her body was curled up, hugging a broken statue. The curse on Zhuang Qing had been lifted and her memory was slowly recovering.
Supported by Xu Qin, Han Fei walked to Zhuang Qing's side. "Where are your mother and sister?"
Raising her head in confusion, Zhuang Qing said in a hoarse voice, "Not long after they entered the Ziggurat, they were tortured to death by the butterfly."
Her fingers gripped the pieces of paper doll on the ground. Green veins popped on the back of her hands. Zhuang Qing's heart was like dead ashes. "The butterfly wants to use us to summon souls. First, it used my sister's soul to threaten me and my mother, then it used my mother and sister to threaten me. That animal only needs things that are useful to him. I'm the only one left. "
Zhuang Qing's eyes were empty. Her only obsession started to waver. She no longer had any attachment to this world.
"You're the only one left?" Han Fei shook his head. "Do you have any wishes now? Maybe I can make it happen for you. "
"Wish?" Zhuang Qing seemed to have lost her faith in everything. When her memory came back, her world had completely collapsed. Now, she only had one last hope left. "I haven't seen my father for a long time. The only memory left in my mind is regret. The accident happened very suddenly, and I remember it very clearly. I even had an argument with him that morning."
"Do you want to see him?"
"The butterfly has always wanted us to summon his soul into the Ziggurat but we've never succeeded. I know the steps to summon a soul. Only when both parties miss each other will the soul summoning succeed. Perhaps my father doesn't miss us. During the time of the accident, he was caught in the middle of a scandal. People said that he slept with an actress during an audition. I believe he has remarried. "Zhuang Qing hugged the cracked statue in her arms. Her expression was lonely and forlorn.
"The reason the soul summoning failed is not because he doesn't miss you but because of other reasons."
"You don't have to console me."
"I'm telling you the truth. To find you, your father quit his previous circle and lost his job. He even willingly became a madman in other people's eyes." Han Fei decided to fulfill his promise to Zhuang Ren. He walked to a relatively intact room. "I think I'll let him talk to you himself."
Closing the door, Han Fei chanted softly inside the room, "Summon the soul!"
The menu was like a bloody door that slowly opened. A red and white 'little fish' struggled in the sea of blood. He dodged the ghost faces and finally leaped out of the sea with all his might.
The door closed and Zhuang Ren collapsed to the ground. He stared at Han Fei with shock.
"Han Fei?"
"Your daughter is outside this door."
Just as Han Fei said that, Zhuang Ren climbed up from the ground and tried to push the door open.
The corridor outside was filled with broken flesh and ghastly ghosts. Zhuang Ren collapsed to the ground but his eyes caught sight of Zhuang Qing who was hiding in the corner.
Zhuang Ren's lips were shaking. He was so afraid that he could barely stand. He crawled up from the wall.
He rushed past the ghosts and monsters and ran towards his daughter.
Compared to many years ago, Zhuang Ren's hair was all white. His skin was sagging and his face was wrinkled. He used to be tall and chubby but now he was a thin old man.
His appearance had changed a lot but his gaze was still the same.
Zhuang Qing had been through so much pain at the Ziggurat. She thought she had become numb to it but when she saw her father charging at her like that, her tears fell involuntarily.
Han Fei did not want to disturb Zhuang Ren but just as Zhuang Ren got close to Zhuang Qing, the last statue suddenly exploded with blood.
It was because of the statue that Zhuang Qing wasn't eaten by the butterflies and luckily survived.
But now the statue seemed to sense something. The moment Zhuang Ren touched Zhuang Qing, it shattered and the blood from the statue enveloped Zhuang Ren.
He collapsed to the ground in pain. He hugged his head and screamed. The red figure in his eyes seemed to have awakened the part of his memory that did not belong to him.
The ghosts in the Ziggurat were afraid that the butterfly would come back to life so they all gathered around. Han Fei was worried that Zhuang Ren would be scared to death when he opened his eyes so he quickly squeezed into the crowd.
"Calm down! Your daughter is right beside you! You finally got to see her! Don't lose yourself! "
Han Fei shouted but it was to no avail until Zhuang Qing stood up and hugged her old father.
Zhuang Ren, who was almost out of control, slowly regained his sanity. He pressed his hands against his head like he wanted to crack open his skull.
Han Fei shivered. If he had summoned Zhuang Ren with Spirit Farer at Room 4144, he would have fallen into the trap immediately.
After a long time, Zhuang Ren finally spoke. His eyes were filled with fear as he stammered, "There are broken images in my mind, they are not things that I have experienced before!"
"What did you see?"
The chairman had done something to Zhuang Ren's mind. There was a sea of blood hidden in it and the statue appeared to be able to resonate with the blood sea.
"I saw a giant monster crawling out from the black cocoon. It was wrapped in malice and it was fighting with a man. Both of them were heavily injured and left behind two broken altars. " Zhuang Ren merely shared what he saw in his mind, he had no idea how much of an impact his words had on Han Fei.
"The monster crawled out from the black cocoon?" Han Fei had been to the bottommost floor of the Ziggurat, he knew that the presence of death in the Ziggurat originated from the giant cocoon. In other words, the presence of death that could resist the unspeakable came from the cocoon.
Even though the voice was heavily injured, it was still an unspeakable presence. From this, one could deduce that the butterfly that flew out from the cocoon was also an unspeakable presence.
"What else did you see?" Han Fei's voice was chilling.
"The man who was fighting with the monster told the monster that all its struggles were futile, it was destined to die a horrible death and disappear into the nightmare."
"Die in the nightmare? What happened after that? "
"That's all. The monster eventually escaped into a city shrouded in darkness. The man did not venture too deep into the city, he only said that one day, he would destroy the place."
The memory that Zhuang Ren saw did not belong to him, he was merely a chess piece left behind by the Fu Sheng brothers, perhaps a backup plan.
Hearing Zhuang Ren, Han Fei frowned deeply. His eyes slowly moved to the security guard Hua Kui and the madman in Room 1144.
'The butterfly that we've killed has been trying to create another version of itself. To achieve this goal, it has done many crazy things but why would it create another butterfly?
'It sacrificed so much just so that it would not be lonely?'
'With the butterfly's personality, it would not do something so pointless. It probably created another version of itself because it wanted the new butterfly to die in its place, to accept the future that was destined for it in the nightmare.'
Han Fei was reminded of the countless children's souls that dangled from the giant cocoon. He silently recited the mission hint from Soulnight, 'When I fell to the bottom of the nightmare, the nightmare and the demon stared at me silently. They wondered why I didn't struggle for help. I wondered why they would ask such a question.
'Could it be that not every child in this world is like me? He was locked in a cocoon from birth until he finally grew wings? "
The bottom of the nightmare was the giant cocoon. Before the butterfly that Han Fei killed became a butterfly, the cocoon was already there!
'Regardless of whether we've killed a real butterfly or not, at least this thing has been punished. Next, I need to prepare myself to improve my power. Next time, I'll personally slice off its wings.'
Standing inside the Ziggurat, Han Fei looked out at the city that was shrouded in darkness. Who knew how many unspeakable secrets and horrors were hidden in the endless darkness.
The reunion was short because the sun was about to rise.
Even though Lai Sheng's parents did not want their child to leave, they knew they had to do so.
As the Soul Chasers inside the Ziggurat, they were the Butterfly's puppets. They obeyed the Butterfly's orders and therefore knew many of the Butterfly's secrets.
The couple carried the weary Lai Sheng to Han Fei's side. They signaled for Han Fei to follow them to the Ziggurat.
Following the exposed blood vessels inside the Ziggurat, Han Fei's group was led to the deepest part of the Ziggurat.
As the altar was destroyed, the heart inside was consumed and the cocoon started to shatter.
The flowers that covered the pit had already wilted, revealing an altar filled with 'offerings'. Almost all of them were pictures of children.
The wilted blood splattered around the children's pictures. It was a heart-wrenching sight.
After the Butterfly's consciousness dissipated, not only Lai Sheng's parents, the other Soul Chasers appeared to have wandered to this place. They looked at the children in the pictures with complicated emotions in their eyes.
'These pictures appear to be the embodiment of the Butterfly's hatred.'
Han Fei placed all the pictures that he had collected on the altar. Upon closer inspection, he realized the children in the pictures appeared to be alive. They would occasionally blink at Han Fei like they were trying to say something.
When the sun was about to rise, the Soul Chasers leaped into the pit one after another. The blood on their bodies slowly faded and the children's pictures regained their colors.
"Leave and never come back."
The Soul Chasers' bodies melded with the Butterfly's hatred. It was like a key that unlocked the altar.
The children with color started to break free from the pictures. When they rushed out from the pictures, their souls were still glowing.
The innocent souls were like fireflies. They rose in the dark and gathered to form a pool of light.
Who knew how many children's nightmares were gathered under the Ziggurat. The rising light connected the underground of the Ziggurat to the sky of the cryptic world.
"This is a dream. After you wake up from this dream, you have to live a good life."
Lai Sheng's parents pushed Lai Sheng into the middle of the altar. The small body rose with the light. A faint light leaked out from his mind and flew into Han Fei's body.
Next was Ying Huo and Ol 'Ghost's grandson. Those who had their souls summoned had to return before dawn. This was the last step of the Soul Return Night.
Their summoned souls rose together with the souls of countless children. They seemed to have gone to where they were supposed to go.
The three souls returned to Han Fei's body. After they entered Han Fei's mind, the sea of red memories slowly returned to normal. The Blood Orphanage was suppressed back into the depths of his mind.
The exit button finally lit up. Han Fei sighed in relief after he was released from the special state.
However, this incident did remind him of something. Before this, he thought it was the split soul that prevented him from leaving the game but now that he thought about it, that was not the case.
When his first soul was extracted, he could still exit the game. It was not until Han Fei's Mad Laughter was triggered that the system notified him that he was unable to exit the game.
'When the Blood Orphanage appeared in my mind, the system appeared to forbid me from leaving. Could it be that it has some misgivings?'
His memory slowly returned. After his three souls completely merged with Han Fei, he heard the system notification.
"Notification for Player 0000! You've completed Grade E Main Mission — Soul Return Night! Obtained double EXP! Obtained basic reward 5 Free Skill Points! Obtained basic title reward — The Immortal!
"The Immortal (Unique Grade E Title): The first player to clear the Ziggurat will receive the praise of the Immortal! Mental threshold increased by 20! Brain + 1! Stamina + 1! Maximum Health Points + 20!
"Notification for Player 0000! You've found your lost souls in the Ziggurat, rescued the souls that were summoned into the Ziggurat, sabotaged the summoning ritual and successfully killed the Butterfly! You've completed the main mission with the highest standard. Congratulations for obtaining additional reward!
"Curse (Grade E Active Offensive Ability): After killing the manager of the Ziggurat, you have become the scariest Death Curse in the Ziggurat! Your words contain a curse, your voice can affect all who listen to it. It can be used 5 times a day. The stronger the listener, the weaker the curse.
"Notification for Player 0000! Your butcher's knife — Rebirth has absorbed a large amount of soul energy, it has become sharper and stronger!
"Notification for Player 0000! You've slaughtered a large amount of lingering spirits and slain the Butterfly, obtained Slaughter EXP reward!
"EXP calculation, you've successfully reached level 14! Obtained 1 Free Attribute Point!
"EXP calculation, you've successfully reached level 15! Obtained 1 Free Attribute Point! "
The system notification kept ringing. Han Fei looked at the changing character menu. He was more curious about how many people the Malevolent Soul had killed.
After all, killing Lingering Spirits in the cryptic world did not give much EXP. One had to complete missions to gain EXP. However, the number of Lingering Spirits killed by Malevolent Soul in one night was so high that the system gave out a special notification.
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