My Iyashikei Game - Chapter 914: Regret and Guilt
Third Optometrist Hospital was different from all the Taboo Buildings Han Fei had encountered before. This building was twisted by malice. This was like a world imagined by a blind kid. Everything was different from what it should be. They became scary. Most areas were covered by darkness. There were bits of light at the edges, but when a person tried to get close to the lights, the lights would be dragged into the shadows. The scene outside the hospital window was special too. One side was blurrily red, while the other was covered in chaotic darkness. The different sceneries seemed to represent the sight of the two children on the operating table.
With the Pure Hatreds’ help, Han Fei walked down the winding corridor and came to Surgical Room Three. Compared to the other rooms, this surgical room was the most normal. It retained the medical devices and equipment a surgical room should have. At least, that was the case on the surface. Screams came from the surgical room. The tortured souls cried for help, but no one was willing to help them. God’s eyes dripped with blood. Gao Cheng appeared to be familiar with the screams inside the room. His emotion was affected as well.
“Is it not Gao Xing on the surgical table?” Han Fei entered the surgical room. With each of his step, everything around him became larger. Before the cold devices, he appeared so small. This was what Gao Xing once saw. The world was evil towards Han Fei. Everything wanted to kill him. Without the protection of the Pure Hatreds, Han Fei wouldn’t escape from this place unscathed. Pulling back the curtain of the inner room, Han Fei saw something that chilled him to his core.
A pair of blind old couple was tied to the table. Their bodies had grown to join with the hospital. All the devices moved on their own as they shoved different scary things into the couple’s eyes. After the tragedy, the hospital continued to work like normal. However, there were only two patients, and they were Gao Xing’s adopted parents. They kept having ocular operations. The screams were endless. The blood froze on their faces. The fear and hatred in their hearts were absorbed and then pumped underground.
“Are they his parents?”
Gao Cheng didn’t have much impression of his birth parents. He had been staying with Gao Xing’s birth parents. Gao Xing became a complete monster and hated this pair of thieves who stole his fate. Han Fei moved to the table and looked into the couple’s eye sockets. There was no light but endless stain and sin. Gao Xing turned his parents into a trash site. He turned his parent’s eyes into prisons to trap his enemies. “Such madness.” Han Fei had no idea how insane a person must be to come up with something like this. Han Fei took out Rest in Peace to cut off the straps on the couple. He was about to reach out toward them when the husband and wife suddenly turned around. They had no eyes. Their empty holes looked at Han Fei.
“Gao Cheng?” The blind mother appeared to know who had appeared. Blood tears leaked out of her eyes. The blind father also recognized this name other parents had given his own child.
“Go. Don’t come here.” The blind mother’s voice shook. She didn’t even know what her child looked like before she died.
“I’m here to save you.” Han Fei reached out to the couple. However, before his fingers could touch them, their bodies started to melt. The icy surgical tables sunk. Even without the straps, they didn’t leave the tables.
“You…” Han Fei understood one thing then. The couple was not bound there by Gao Xing. Even if they were given freedom, they would choose to stay to receive Gao Xing’s torment.
“You don’t need to save us. Leave. This is not where you should be.” The blind father spoke. He was uneducated, and his body was deformed. “We’ve done too many wrong things. We’ve ruined our beloved child. We need to atone.” With the couple cooperating, the two surgical tables started to collapse. They were like two dark eye sockets or endless wells. The blind couple sunk with the surgical tables. Gao Cheng wanted to change the rules. God’s eyes looked at the surgical tables and lit up the underground of the hospital. The dead black capillaries bound together. The blood capillaries were inserted into different monsters. In Gao Xing’s tragic life, there were many people who bullied him. After he became an Unmentionable, those who bullied him became his targets of torment. Third Optometrist Hospital was a prison for the ‘sinners’. No one maintained their human forms underneath the hospital. It was their fault that Gao Xing was no longer human.
Gao Xing trapped everyone who ruined his life. He was inhuman and crazy. Since many people called him an animal, then he would give up being human. He would let those people see what kind of animal he was. Gao Xing was crazy, and he didn’t disguise it. He looked down on Butterfly’s trickery. He wanted to be feared and filled the world with evil. The capillaries sucked out the blood from the monsters and pumped them with black juices. As the surgical tables sunk underground, the real appearance of the Third Optometrist Hospital was revealed.
The dead capillaries bound together to form two giant eye sockets underground. The blind parents lay in the center of each one. No one was able to leave. They would experience pain forever. Hatred exuded from each monster and flowed back to the couple. Carrying regret and guilt, the two’s bodies were broken down. The blood expanded in the ‘socket’ and formed a pair of red eyes underground. When they were alive, Gao Xing was their eyes, and after death, the blind parents became Gao Xing’s eyes. All the sins and evils were hidden in this pair of eyes. Those viewed by the eyes would have their inner sin released. Those without strong constitutions would be controlled with just one glance.
“I can understand why you’re doing this. If there’s someone who’s still siding with Gao Xing, it’s the both of you.” Han Fei took out the two fake eyes. “I’m just curious about one thing. Did Gao Cheng eventually use Gao Xing’s eyes? How could a blind child grow up to become the founder of the three largest criminal organizations in Xin Lu?”
Han Fei’s question went unanswered. The pair of red eyes stared at Han Fei with hostility. “Perhaps we all deserve a better ending.”
Han Fei’s world of sins enveloped the hospital. He looked at God’s eyes. “Gao Cheng, this is between you and your birth parents. You can handle this whichever way you want.”
God’s eyes from Deep Sea Aquarium and the eyes formed from the blind parents stared at each other. Currently, the scene was cut into two. One half was red, and the other was dark; one half was regret, and the other was despair; one half was the parent’s determination, and the other was God’s hesitation.
With Pure Hatred’s protection, Han Fei entered the hospital underground. Every monster trapped there represented one of Gao Xing’s painful past. Walking through it was like a review of Gao Xing’s tragic life. He had never experienced love since he was born. Due to his blind parents, he was bullied and ostracized by his peers. Even when he was bullied, he didn’t say anything because he didn’t want his parents to worry. He didn’t do anything, and he couldn’t change anything. On that old street, his family was bullied by others. His dignity was worth nothing. Even if he was bullied, he needed to apologize to others with his parents. Living was never something that made him happy. His only hope was to grow up. Everything around him was oppressive. He wanted to escape, but his parents were like two chains binding him to the old, dirty street.
Through the monsters, Han Fei saw the various incidents Gao Xing had experienced when he was young. His twisted childhood was the main reason Gao Xing became a monster. Han Fei walked deeper under he saw a doctor at the deepest part of the underground hospital.
“Are you the doctor who swapped Gao Xing and Gao Cheng’s eyes?” Han Fei cut off the blood capillaries and released the doctor.
“The surgery couldn’t succeed. I’ve said that many times…” The doctor’s eyes had been dug out. He didn’t know who had arrived.