Chapter 71

"Don't act rashly!" Han Fei noticed that Meng Changxi's tone was off and immediately tried to persuade him: "The police have already been to the Donghua Ice Factory. They know your plan. If you go to the Xinhu International Plaza now, you won't be able to harm Meng Chang'an; you'll only increase their suspicion of you."

"The plan was meant for the police to see. I update a different plan every day, but the real plan is never written down." No one could guess what Meng Changxi was going to do: "Both Meng Chang'an and Meng Changshou are murderers, but ultimately, the real murderer is the butterfly. Even if Meng Chang'an and Meng Changshou are brought to justice, the butterfly that caused all this tragedy will still be at large, hiding behind the scenes, never showing its face."

"Let's take it step by step. Let's catch Meng Chang'an first."

"But I don't have that much time left." Meng Changxi turned around, revealing a large, festering wound on his back: "I bear the stigma of killing my mother, I endure the false accusations and defamation from the real culprit, and I live in great pain. So now, I want a spectacular finale."

Han Fei roughly understood what Meng Changxi meant. He wanted to stop him, but Meng Changxi stopped him: "After you find that evidence, be careful and take care of yourself."

"Don't worry about me." Han Fei nodded.

"You are too deeply involved in this case. The butterfly will definitely come after you! So be as careful as possible. Over the past ten years, I have been on the run, and there have been several times when I almost died accidentally. Those accidents, when I think about it now, might have been the butterfly watching me."

"Accidental deaths?"

"The butterfly likes to play with human nature, creating certain coincidences. Two seemingly unrelated events might end up costing you your life." Meng Changxi told Han Fei everything he needed to be cautious about. After giving his instructions, he pointed to the door: "Let's go. After leaving here, don't look back. Pretend we've never met. I hope this will make the butterfly notice you a little later."

Han Fei stood in the room without moving. He knew this might be the last time he would see Meng Changxi.

Noticing Han Fei's hesitation, Meng Changxi showed a slightly more human side for the first time. He patted Han Fei's shoulder: "The luckiest thing that happened to me in the past ten years was meeting you when I had little time left. If you really want to catch the butterfly, if you really want to avenge the dead, if you really want to know everything, then do as I say."

Meng Changxi tried to smile, but the scars on his face made his expression very frightening: "I'm not trying to scare you. I just haven't smiled in ten years and have forgotten how to do it."

His last words touched Han Fei.

"I hope your plan goes smoothly. Good luck."

After saying this, Han Fei left Wei Youfu's father's house and headed to the address Meng Changxi had given him.

At three in the afternoon, Han Fei arrived in the outskirts of Xinhu, where almost no one could be seen.

With the development of technology, cities have become larger, and many people prefer to live in small, crowded apartments in the city center rather than move to the outskirts.

Walking on a rare dirt road, Han Fei found the Happy Neighborhood behind an abandoned chemical plant, as Meng Changxi had described.

This place had been abandoned for a long time, with overgrown weeds and severely eroded walls. There was a warning sign for dangerous buildings nearby.

However, even the warning sign was from many years ago, covered in rust and could fall at any moment.

"This building is exactly ten stories tall, just like in the game, but the layout inside is completely different. Most of the doors are wooden."

With doubts, Han Fei cautiously entered the apartment building.

The air was filled with a musty smell, and there was trash and severely damaged furniture everywhere. It seemed even homeless people rarely visited this place, as many things were covered in thick layers of dust.

On the fourth floor, Han Fei looked at room 1044 and felt a strange sensation, as if reality and the game were overlapping.

Gripping the doorknob, Han Fei found that the door hinge had already been damaged with a slight effort.

Entering the room, Han Fei shivered.

Despite it being daytime, the room was very eerie, with various paper-made furniture in the living room.

"This place feels like it's prepared for the dead."

Due to the building's layout, sunlight hardly reached the living room. The paper people and furniture, filled with some material, were already moldy and emitted a foul smell.

"Meng Changxi told me to go to the bathroom."

Walking through the pile of paper furniture, Han Fei pushed open the bathroom door and found the documents Meng Changxi had mentioned under the fourth tile.

Opening them, Han Fei saw a bloodstained letter.

The letter listed seven addresses, corresponding to seven rooms in the building. These seven rooms contained parts of the victims' bodies from the Body Puzzle Case that had not been found yet.

This seemed to be part of a ritual, with the positions of the seven rooms forming something like the butterfly's wings.

"How much does the butterfly know about the Black Box and the deeper world of Perfect Life? Why is there a building in the game that is almost identical to the one in reality?"

After memorizing the numbers of the seven rooms, Han Fei continued to read the documents. The choice of this building by the Body Puzzle Case murderer to bury parts of the bodies was not a coincidence.

This building had been a haunted house for decades, with many strange stories and rumors, and was a famous suicide spot in Xinhu.

Taking out his phone, Han Fei searched for the Happy Neighborhood in Xinhu, and dozens of news articles instantly appeared.

The news reports read like a collection of ghost stories, making it hard to believe.

"In the Body Puzzle Case, the butterfly buried parts of the victims' bodies in the haunted house and used their body parts and the body of the eighth victim to create the most terrifying corpse, which met their requirements for misfortune, despair, and pain. However, they still didn't find the Black Box in the end."

Han Fei read the information left by Meng Changxi, which included detailed data about the Body Puzzle Case and a lot of information about the butterfly.

Just as he was about to read carefully, a popular push notification appeared on his phone.

Han Fei usually ignored such things, but this time was different. He saw that the image accompanying the notification was of Meng Changxi, whose face was completely disfigured!

Opening the notification, he saw a live stream.

Meng Changxi, bare-chested, calmly looked at the person sitting next to him. He seemed to be in a TV station or a live streaming company: "I won't harm anyone in this room, but the condition is that you don't cut the signal or play any tricks."

It was unclear who he was talking to. After saying this, he looked at the camera: "Meng Chang'an, I know that even if I risk my life, I may not be able to reach you and talk to you, so I can only do it this way."