My Healing Games

Chapter 127 Having an employee like me is a blessing for the boss

"This……"

Regret, deep regret—it felt as if a thousand wronged souls were howling through the old man's mind.

He admitted that he had underestimated Han Fei and underestimated the complexity and horror of human nature.

"There's nothing I want to buy."

The old man wisely did not resist. He subconsciously shrank back, but his arm was held tightly by Han Fei.

The two shop assistants in front of me seemed to have planned it together; they had gloomy faces and kept repeating the same sentence.

"What do you want to buy?"

"I want to go home."

The old man's arms were grabbed by two shop assistants, and he was pulled into the shop.

"What do you want to buy?"

Although the shop assistant was repeating the same sentence, the murderous intent in his words grew stronger and stronger.

The old man looked at Han Fei and the one-eyed clerk as if begging for mercy, and finally reluctantly walked to the counter and picked up a candy.

"I want to buy a piece of candy." The old man's voice trembled. He lived at the intersection and knew the details of this store very well. It was a convenience store that was not convenient at all.

"We're having a promotion right now: buy three candies and get one extra free." Han Fei smiled professionally, giving off a warm and welcoming feeling. "Would you like to buy some more?"

“But…” The old man was pale, clutching the candy tightly in his hand: “I don’t have that many eyes.”

The old man knew the hidden prices at the convenience store, and he was prepared to sacrifice one of his eyes: "Checkout, please."

The one-eyed shopkeeper nodded and took a small paper figure out of his pocket, which he then made the old man swallow.

Only a few seconds later, the old man's body began to contort. He clutched his neck in agony and reached his hand down his throat to try and pry the paper figure out, but no matter what he did, he couldn't touch it.

A faint laugh emanated from his stomach. He maintained that terrifying posture, and the yin energy on his body continued to shrink until it turned into a pool of foul-smelling black blood.

The one-eyed shopkeeper picked up the paper figure from the black blood. The paper figure was holding a new candy, and the smile on its face had become even more realistic.

"Senior, isn't the value of a candy equal to his eyeball?" Han Fei thought that making twice the price difference was already good enough, but he didn't expect the one-eyed shopkeeper to be even more ruthless, killing the man outright.

"The price is only used when the other party is willing to negotiate with us." The one-eyed clerk carefully put the paper figure back into his pocket, then picked up the tools from the garbage disposal area and began cleaning the floor.

Watching the one-eyed shop assistant busy inside, Han Fei gradually realized that this senior was actually a very reliable person.

"The old man didn't dare to resist the one-eyed man at all. Could it be that this senior shop assistant is very powerful?" Han Fei suddenly became curious about the one-eyed shop assistant. He took the initiative to help and cleaned the room carefully. "With the one-eyed shop assistant here, tonight's task doesn't seem too difficult."

Before the two shop assistants had finished cleaning, a strange noise came from the back alley, as if someone was rummaging through the trash cans.

When the sound rang out, the one-eyed shop assistant started having a headache again. His only remaining eyeball kept twitching, as if it might pop out of its socket at any moment.

He muttered unintelligible words to himself, squatted down, and covered his ears.

"Are you OK?"

"Rat, those rats are back again. We'll kill them sooner or later, kill them all..." The one-eyed clerk didn't want to go near the garbage disposal area. He squatted on the ground alone and started muttering like a madman.

When the one-eyed shop assistant is lucid, he feels just like a normal person, but he becomes extremely terrifying once he is provoked.

Han Fei didn't dare to approach the one-eyed man casually. He picked up the cleaning tools on the ground, turned around, and went into the garbage disposal room.

"When I said the word 'leave,' the one-eyed shopkeeper went mad once. It seems that the word 'leave' triggered a curse that the shopkeeper had placed on him. Now, after hearing the sounds from the back alley, he's gone mad again. Could there be something important to him hidden in that back alley?"

The curse on the shop assistant was set up by the shop owner to prevent accidents. Since the one-eyed shop assistant's hearing of the back alley triggers the curse, it means that there is something in the back alley that can help the one-eyed shop assistant regain his sanity.

Smelling the pungent stench in the air, Han Fei put down his tools and opened the back door of the convenience store.

The moment the back door opened, all sounds outside vanished.

Han Fei looked into the alley and everything seemed normal, except that a ball slowly rolled to his feet.

"A ball? It's this size, it can't even fit a human head inside, it's probably just a ball."

Slowly crouching down, Han Fei touched the ball with his fingertips. The system didn't react at all, so he dared to pick it up: "One-Eyed said there are many rats in the back alley, but how can rats play with a ball?"

He carried the ball out the back door, and the ghostly markings on his body began to scream again. However, in order to investigate the matter thoroughly, Han Fei had no choice but to put up with the vengeful spirits within the ghostly markings for the time being.

"The trash cans have been rummaged through, but there are no obvious teeth marks or claw marks..." Han Fei slowly walked to the middle of the first and second trash cans and stopped.

Hiding between two trash cans was a little boy of about four or five years old. When the boy saw Han Fei, who was wearing a shop assistant uniform, he turned pale with fright and his eyes were full of tears, but he dared not cry out.

He bit his little hand, tears streaming down his face, and desperately tried to burrow into the dirty corner.

To be honest, Han Fei is also very scared right now, since he can't quit the game yet, and if something really happens, he's doomed.

After a moment of staring at each other, Han Fei bent down and gently rolled the ball in his hand in front of the child: "Is this yours?"

The boy hugged the ball, nodded with tears in his eyes, but he still didn't dare to speak, as if he was afraid that he would burst into tears as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Are you a kid who lives nearby? Where are your parents?" Han Fei asked for a long time but the other person didn't answer, so he had no choice but to back down: "I'll pretend I didn't see you. You should go home now and don't come here to play again. This place is dangerous."

Han Fei got up and retreated to the back door of the convenience store.

Seeing Han Fei back off, the little boy ran out carrying the ball.

He glanced at Han Fei uncertainly, and seeing that Han Fei really didn't intend to chase after him, he put down the ball, bowed deeply to Han Fei, and then ran out of the alley.

"You forgot your ball." Han Fei shook his head. "This kid is quite cute. I wish all the ghosts in the deep world were like him."

Hearing Han Fei's reminder, the child staggered back and picked up the ball from the ground.

"Little one, what's your name? We can be friends someday."

Han Fei spoke again, and this time the child did not run away. After a long pause, he said in a childish voice, "My mom said the people in the shop are all scary."

"You know the people in the shop are scary, why did you still run into this alley to play?" Han Fei just wanted to tease the child; such a cute little guy was a rare sight in the Deep World.

"I came to play with my brother. He's here, but he's inside the wall."

"Inside the wall?" After the little boy finished speaking, Han Fei immediately looked at the wall warily.

The back alley was dark, and only when you got close could you see the shadowy figures on the walls.

“My brother is in the wall. He tried to save me and my mom, then went into the store, and I haven’t seen him since. The last old lady who worked at the store said that everyone who enters the store eventually appears in the wall, and she said my brother should be in the wall too.” The boy stammered a lot, and Han Fei keenly caught the key points.

"The last old lady shop assistant?" Han Fei had seen the photos in the staff preparation room. His own photo was pasted next to the one-eyed photo, and on the other side of the one-eyed photo seemed to be an old lady whose face had been painted over.

"Does your brother have an oval face and long hair..." Han Fei described the one-eyed boy's appearance. He had only finished half of his sentence when the boy came running towards him.

"Have you met my brother?"

Before Han Fei could reply, the system's voice sounded in his mind: "Player No. 0000, please note! You have successfully triggered the G-level hidden quest - The Vanished Brother."

"The Missing Brother: Helping the child in front of you find their brother and reuniting the family is a virtue."

"Attention! The reward for this hidden quest is not fixed, and it may affect other quests. Please choose your completion method carefully."

Without the system's warning, Han Fei might have already sent the child to see One-Eye: "Hidden missions can't be that simple. If I sent the child directly to see One-Eye, the One-Eye, who was cursed by the shopkeeper, might die instantly, and the shopkeeper hiding in the warehouse might also come out and kill me and the child..."

This matter requires careful planning. To complete the mission perfectly, we must first remove the curse from my brother's body.

Han Fei stared at the little boy in front of him, a plan forming in his mind: "Perhaps I can use this child to gain the older brother's trust, and then the two of us, the new and the old employees, can work together to slowly find an opportunity to replace the store manager."

"The store manager is very capable, but this deep world is so chaotic, who can guarantee that nothing unexpected will happen? As long as the opportunity comes, it's not impossible for One-Eye and me to seize it, and it's not impossible for us to become store managers."

Although it was Han Fei's first day at work, he was already thinking about uniting with the veteran employees to rise up and replace the store manager.

“Curses are difficult to remove. I only know two ways to dispel a curse: the first is for the person who cast the curse to voluntarily remove it, and the second is to kill the person who cast the curse.”

"Right now, we are far behind the store manager in terms of ability. It's better to just work honestly and take things slowly. As long as I'm alive, my chances of success will only increase."

A glint of light flashed in Han Fei's eyes, but he quickly regained his composure: "I've met your brother, but I can't let you see him right now. However, I promise you, your family will be reunited in a while."

"really?"

"Of course." Han Fei used the secret of touching the depths of the soul to rub the child's head. The child was simple-minded, and the only emotions he conveyed to Han Fei were worry and longing for his family.

Thank you to the leader of Komeijikaku!

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