Han Fei’s focus was on the four paintings. He only turned around when Huang Yin gasped. All the windows in the room were closed but the quilt fluttered. Sothing that looked like black paint dripped from the bedfra. Han Fei and Huang Yin ca closer. He pulled back the quilt. Underneath the bedfra was broken black cocoons. “I think I’ve seen this in Butterfly’s nightmare before.” Huang Yin took a step back. He pointed at the black cocoon pieces. “Butterfly morphed into my mother in the nightmare. Whenever he transford, similar pieces would fall off his body. However, his cocoon wasn’t pure black but had colorful patterns.”
“Dream, black cocoon and Butterfly.” Han Fei rembered the giant shell underneath Ziggurat. That was the shell left behind by Dream. After the bloody mirror was shattered by Han Fei, the black cocoons under the bed lost their protection and they wanted to escape. Han Fei didn’t dare to touch them. He found a lighter from the police and tried to light one up. The fire appeared underneath the bed. The black cocoons retreated like they were alive.
“Be careful.” Huang Yin saw that Han Fei was trying to crawl under the bed. He quickly grabbed Han Fei by his arm. “This is not a ga.”
“I want to see what kind of monster is under the bed.” Han Fei wanted to turn the bed over but he found out he was too weak to do that. To get a closer look, he had to get on the ground. There were a lot of cocoon pieces. So of them had stuck together. They bound to Gao Xing’s bed and tied the child’s dream there. When the light appeared, the glued-together cocoon pieces seed to form a tunnel.
“Is this an illusion?” Han Fei turned to Huang Yin. The other man was shocked too. The sticky substance ford by the black cocoon didn’t look like it could be made by humans.
“Shall we go in to take a look?” Han Fei was very brave. After all, he had sacrificed many Pure Hatreds already.
“Is that a good idea?” Huang Yin paled. Whenever he was with Han Fei, it was like he was in a horror movie.
“Both of you calm down. We’ll send in the robot dogs first.” The officers carried the devices from the car. They controlled a small robot dog to get close to the hole ford by the black cocoons. Before the adjustnt was done, the dog collapsed. The officers hadn’t t this situation before. It felt like there was another world underneath the bed.
“Give the recording device. I’ll go to take a look.” Han Fei fixed the cara on his chest. He tied a rope around his waist. He held the torch and crawled under the bed. The closer he got to the hole, the chillier he felt. At the sa ti, there was another voice in his brain urging him to get closer to the hole. Han Fei looked into the hole. A stench ca out. It was too dark for him to see anything.
“How is this so deep? Where does it lead?” The hole’s entrance was small but it was just large enough for a child.
Han Fei crawled downwards. Children’s broken faces appeared on the sides of the tunnel. They were once occupants inside the cocoons. Han Fei finally reached the end of the tunnel. He found a donation agreent form among the shattered cocoon pieces. The yellowed page had been torn and pasted together many things. This paper was from many years ago. The handwriting was blurred. The general content was that Gao Xing’s parents had agreed to donate their child’s eyes to Gao Cheng.
“Is this the source of the nightmare?”
Once he grabbed the paper, the tunnel began to collapse. If not for the police’s help, Han Fei would be buried alive.
“Have you discovered sothing?” Everyone worked together to drag Han Fei out. They also looked at him with respect.
“I found this and captured the faces of so children.” Han Fei handed the cara and the donation paper to the police. When the police checked the cara, they found nothing.
“It’s alright. I have morized their faces. I can draw them out for you.” Han Fei cleared away the stain on the donation paper. He had to wonder if there were more children like Gao Xing.
Dream purposely targeted children with unstable ntalities. It dragged them into the nightmare to cultivate them into monsters.
Han Fei drew out all the faces he saw deep inside the cocoon. The police compared Han Fei’s drawings to the database. They realized that most of the children had gone missing when they were young, while a small portion of them had beco the elites in Xin Lu. Two of them shocked Han Fei. One of them was an expert in biodicine. The man’s fra resembled the guinea pig!
The other was soone familiar to Han Fei. She was the singer, Ye Xuan. She might be a core mber, Death.
“They were both dragged into the nightmare by the cocoon before?” The three organizations had many killers who were cultivated by Dream. The sins at Xin Lu looked like they were made by Gao Xing and Butterfly, but the mastermind was Dream. “Every child should have sothing that was considered a source of nightmare from their childhood.” Han Fei put the donation paper inside the evidence bag. Even though the mission didn’t arrest anyone, they found much info on the core mbers of the criminal organizations. If they followed this trail, they’d eventually find the murderers hiding in the dark.
“Gao Xing is not ho. He should have started the plan. It’s Thursday tomorrow. Based on his plan, all the tragedy will occur tomorrow.” Han Fei didn’t dare to waste ti. The police continued their search at Gao Xing’s ho. Han Fei and Huang Yin led the AI butler toward Xin Lu the park. Han Fei still needed to see sothing to enter Immortal Skyscraper to stop Gao Xing.
He called Du Jing in the car. She was Fu Sheng’s good friend when he was still alive. She was also Immortal Pharma’s biggest shareholder during the company’s founding monts. Therefore, she had influence within the company. Many things couldn’t be explained on the phone so they promised to et at the the park. With the worker leading the way, Han Fei entered Du Jing’s office. Compared to a few days ago, Du Jing appeared even younger.
“It’s about the life and death juncture for this city.” Han Fei had seen Du Jing in Fu Sheng’s plastic surgery hospital altar before. He was familiar with Du Jing’s past. “There’s soone inside Immortal Pharma who wants to destroy Xin Lu by cooperating with Unntionable.”
Han Fei shared the worst future he saw. When he ntioned Fu Yun’s na, Du Jing’s expression shifted.
“Do you know Fu Yun?”
Du Jing nodded. “Fu Yun is Fu Tian’s adopted child. He is the cleverest, cruelest and scariest one. Back then, Immortal Pharma was in an unstable state and needed to protect sothing within the company. Therefore, Fu Tian prepared two paths for his descendants. If the situation stabilized and the city was threatened by unknown objects again, then his eldest and second sons would cooperate to manage the company. They are both responsible people. However, if the situation worsened, the company would be led by Fu Yun. This way, the company’s legacy would continue because Fu Yun would do everything in his power to make sure that was the case.”
“In other words, since the company had stabilized, Immortal Pharma was inherited by Fu Tian’s eldest and second sons. That was why Fu Yun wanted to betray the company and destroy everything?” Han Fei could hazard a guess.
“Fu Yun is capable of anything. He is capable of turning against Immortal Pharma.” Du Jing sighed. “They are all kids I saw growing before my eyes, but they took completely different paths.”
Han Fei got much info on Fu Yun from Du Jing, but that was not why he was there.
“Through so special thods, I saw what would happen tomorrow. Many people would die, including . My head would be chopped off to beco the key. Therefore, I need your help. I need to enter Immortal Skyscraper tomorrow. I need to stop sothing myself.” Han Fei described the worst future for Du Jing.
Du Jing’s reaction was weird. She didn’t reject or agree to Han Fei’s request. Instead, she said sothing weird. “Your head is the key to activating the tragedy. At the sa ti, you are trying your best to save the city. It’s conflicting but real. This reminds of sothing.” Du Jing looked outside the window. “My most important friend once gave a voice band. After so many years, I received two conflicting ssages. One was from Fu Tian. It told to kill you at all costs; The other ca from an unknown stranger, telling to help you at all cause. I didn’t understand it in the past, but I get it now.”
“What do you an?” Han Fei was confused.
Du Jing smiled but didn’t answer. She placed an id card on the table. “IF you can answer my question, I’ll agree to all of your questions.”
“Ask .” Han Fei said.
“Who is the founder of Immortal Pharma? Does Fu Tian have a missing family mber? Tell that person’s na.” Du Jing guessed a possibility through many clues, but she needed confirmation.
“Immortal Pharma’s founder is Fu Sheng. He is Fu Tian’s elder brother from a different mother. I am his only heir and the only person in the world who rembers him.” Han Fei told the truth.
“Fu Sheng…” Du Jing went into deep thought. After a long ti, she handed the card to Han Fei. “How did you two et?”
“I am one of the participants of Immortal Pharma’s first batch of experints. At first, the persona experint was handled by Fu Sheng. After his disappearance, it was taken over by Fu Tian. That was also when the tragedy started.” Han Fei believed Du Jing had asked him sothing similar in the past, but clearly, she had forgotten about it.
“Has he been prepared since then?” Du Jing seed to have understood sothing. She picked up her phone to call soone. “From today onward, you’ll listen to Han Fei’s orders and manage his relationship with Immortal Pharma.” The man was a core mber of Immortal Pharma. Even though he was confused, he believed in Du Jing.
“Thursday is the ti of big changes. Tomorrow I’ll bring you to Immortal Skyscraper. You’ll represent . No one will dare to stop you.” Du Jing smiled. “Good luck.”
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