269 Mirror God's Request

 

Two rows of blood tears trickled out from the black hollows as Ying Yue was reminded of her painful past. Using Soul-depth Touch, Han Fei helped Ying Yue wipe away her tears. He didn’t say anything more, it was also not an occasion for words. “Notification for Player 0000! You’ve fulfilled the promise to Ying Yue, friendliness level with Ying Yue increases by 20!

“Notification for Player 0000! Your action has been witnessed by all the residents of Happiness Neighbourhood. Your action brought them a bit of hope! Friendliness level with all the tenants of Happiness Neighbourhood increases by 1!”

Ying Yue who stood before Han Fei did not look like a girl at all, she was more like a lost girl who had found her family again. Ying Yue held onto Han Fei’s clothes to signal for him to stay a bit longer while she walked towards her bedroom. She eventually returned with some old woollen dolls.

“I think you better keep these dolls.” Han Fei said, he didn’t help Ying Yue because he wanted a reward. Hearing Han Fei’s rejection, Ying Yue shook her head stubbornly and then tore open the dolls’ bodies. She shoved the evil energy inside them into Han Fei’s ghost tattoo. “Notification for Player 0000! Grade G Beginner Skill, Ghost Tattoo has absorbed sufficient negative emotion and resentment! Skill has skipped level to upgrade to Advanced Level Ghost Tattoo!

“Ghost Tattoo: Several spirits are hidden inside your tattoo, they are sealed there on the surface of your skin by Ying Yue through her unique method. They can help you block the negative influence of curses, incoming attacks and absorbing negative energy waves.

“Warning! Ghost Tattoo can continue to be upgraded! If you manage to trap special type spirits inside it, Ghost Tattoo has a small chance of gaining special abilities!”

Ghost Tattoo at Beginner’s level already helped Han Fei a lot. Without the protection of the tattoo, Han Fei’s skin would corrupt when brushing into spirits, much less having close contact with them. Upgrading Ghost Tattoo exhausted Ying Yue greatly, her body was significantly weaker than before. But compared to physical weakness, her cold heart appeared to regain some warmth. When he left Ying Yue’s place, Han Fei touched the tattoo on his skin, he could feel the energy coursing through it.

When he passed the 7th floor, Han Fei was still studying the Ghost Tattoo, and the door to the Mirror God’s room swung open. The Mirror God at Building 1 and the Spectral Dog at Building 2 were the earliest tenants at Happiness Neighbourhood. When the Singer entered Building 1, only the Mirror God was left unscathed, that showed how powerful it was. During Han Fei’s earlier missions, he almost died in Mirror God’s hands so even after he became the building manager, he rarely returned to that room. To his surprise, now the door of that room opened on its own as if inviting him.

With some consternation, Han Fei stood where he was, he didn’t dare to move too carelessly. Just as Han Fei considered going upstairs to get Ying Yue to accompany him past the 7th floor, a mirror which was placed inside the room facing Han Fei started to bleed. Then the blood coagulated into a sentence. “You’ve helped many tenants here, if possible, do you mind helping me too?” Seeing the blood message, Han Fei was first startled before it dawned on him. With his rescue of Xu Qin and completion of his promise to Ying Yue, Han Fei had gained an increased friendliness level with all the tenants and that must have included the Mirror God as well.

“Of course.” Han Fei agreed without hesitation. The Mirror God was itself a mysterious cursed object. To get to Ziggurat, Han Fei needed all the help he could get. With Xu Qin and Mirror God with him, it would make his life much easier.

“I need you to help me find a body, I’ve been staying in the mirrors for much too long already.” When the new blood message appeared on the mirror, Han Fei received a new system notification. “Notification for Player 0000! You’ve triggered Grade F Hidden Mission—Mirror God’s Request!

“Mirror God’s Request: The mirror at Happiness Neighbourhood’s 7th floor came into being almost at the same time as the neighbourhood did. He knows a lot of secrets and possesses very unique powers. If you are willing to help him find a suitable vessel, then you’ll gain his friendship and help! The mission has no time limit but the vessel you find must be up to the Mirror God’s standard, perhaps you can offer your own body to try.”

Hearing the notification, Han Fei was shocked. This was a Grade F Hidden Mission. “You’re a tenant here so naturally I’ll do my best to help you fulfil your request! I’ve been cursed by the people from Ziggurat, I might need to head there after 7 days, that might not be enough time for me to find you a suitable body.” Han Fei said but he had actually accepted the mission. After all, this was a mission with no time limit, he had nothing to lose.

“You’re willing to help me, that’s enough.” The blood on the mirror slowly disappeared. Everything returned to normal but the system told Han Fei that his friendliness level with the Mirror God had increased by another 3 points. “I will help you if I can, after all, you are part of the big family too.” Closing the door on the 7th floor, Han Fei came back to the ground floor. He was prepared to start his communication with Huang Yin. After completing Jin Sheng’s manager mission, Han Fei’s Spirit Farer talent upgraded, he could now use it twice every night. However, his Resurrection talent could only be used once per night. In other words, Han Fei could drag 2 people down into the cryptic world in one night but only sent one back.

Walking into the shadows of the building, Han Fei activated Spirit Farer again. Different from when he summoned Ming Mei, the ghost face that represented Huang Yin felt like he couldn’t wait to come back to the cryptic world. As the ghost face morphed into a blood fish and swam towards the surface, Han Fei spotted giant shadows that coursed through the depths of the red sea. He wondered if he continued to strengthen Spirit Farer, would he one day be able to pull out the deep sea monsters from the blood sea?

“Perhaps I can consider pulling an uncontrollable blood sea creature at Ziggurat, that’ll surprise the Butterfly…”

A flash later, Huang Yin’s familiar scream came from Building 2. Han Fei shook his head with a bitter smile as he led Weep towards Building 2. Following the soul-crushing screams, Han Fei found Huang Yin on the 3rd floor of Building 2.

When he arrived, the impossibly slim Lee Zai had twined around Huang Yin’s neck. He sniffed Huang Yin carefully and mumbled, “Black on the forehead, red in the eyes, misfortune between the brows, your chakra cannot be worse! You are destined for tragedies and misfortunes, it is destined that you are to meet us brothers!”

A man had curled around his neck like a snake, it was understandable why Huang Yin almost died from fright. He thought he had already trained his courage but he realized his training was still not enough.

“You are born with misfortune and eventually become a doctor because it’s easier for you to cure yourself after endless strings of illnesses. It’s extremely rare to come across someone who is absolutely devoid of luck.” Lee Zai still had more to say but Han Fei pulled him away. Huang Yin was his only friend, if he was scared witless, who was going to help him?

“Brother Huang, are you alright?’

“I, I’m okay.” Huang Yin stuttered as he slithered behind Han Fei. His face was pale and he didn’t dare to meet Lee Zai’s eyes.

“This is Lee Zai. You two have met before, he means you no harm,” Han Fei made the introduction before he quickly changed the subject, “By the way, Brother Huang did you bring the things I asked you to?”