My Healing Games

Chapter 166 My Back to You

"Guanxing, where did that word you tattooed on your arm go?" Han Fei took a step back without making a sound.

"I don't know either." Zhang Guanxing was completely bewildered: "After I met you yesterday, that word became fainter and fainter. Later, when the dormitory building door opened, that word 'hate' completely disappeared."

"When the dormitory building door opened?" Han Fei gently grasped Zhang Guanxing's arm, using the secret of touching the depths of the soul.

The boy in front of me was indeed Zhang Guanxing, and the emotions emanating from his soul were the same as before.

"Guanxing, in the ghost stories circulating at your school, has the ghost that turns its back to others ever appeared in the dormitory building?"

“Never before. Many students have seen him in the hallways of the teaching building. It seems that he was killed by his girlfriend and harbored resentment, so he kept wandering around the teaching building.”

"So, that guy probably slipped in from the outside when the dorm building door opened last night. And that's when the word 'hatred' on your arm completely disappeared?"

“Yes, that’s right.” Zhang Guanxing didn’t know what Han Fei was trying to say.

"Why did you get that word tattooed on your arm in the first place?" Han Fei lowered his voice as he and Zhang Guanxing sat on their dormitory bed. "Don't treat me like a teacher. Just treat me like a friend you can confide in. I promise I won't tell anyone your secret."

After hesitating for a long time, Zhang Guanxing finally spoke: "My mother abandoned me and my father. She left on her own, leaving me to be beaten by my father every day."

"Is it because of your mother?"

“My dad would drink when he was upset and then take it out on me. And some of my former classmates would often mock me and make fun of my mother.” Zhang Guanxing’s hands slowly clenched: “I hate them all, and I hate this world. Why did they put all the misfortune on me? I never asked for wealth or happiness. I just wanted to be like other children, but even that simple wish was not granted. Instead, they bullied me time and time again, leaving me with no hope at all.”

Han Fei gently patted Zhang Guanxing's back, offered a few words of comfort, and then said softly, "You hate everything in this world, but is there anyone you don't hate? Like your girlfriend, Chu Xia?"

When the words "early summer" were mentioned, Zhang Guanxing's expression was no longer so ferocious and painful: "I don't hate her. She is the only one who is willing to believe me. Of course, now we also have to count you, teacher."

Zhang Guanxing had forgotten that he was already dead; all he remembered now was the kindness of early summer.

Squinting, Han Fei noticed that Zhang Guanxing's current situation was very similar to Meng Shi's. They had both forgotten about death and the most desperate and painful thing in order to maintain their rationality.

Han Fei strongly suspected that the previous building manager might have also tampered with Zhang Guanxing's body.

If that's the case, then he might be able to find clues left by the previous building manager from Zhang Guanxing.

In fact, Han Fei had already realized something was wrong when he heard Zhang Guanxing tell that story.

Zhang Guanxing seemed to be telling his own story, and the monster outside that turned its back on the world might be made up of the resentment in his heart.

"When the word 'hate' disappeared from your arm, that guy standing with his back to you appeared. Could there be some connection between you two?" Han Fei guided Zhang Guanxing little by little.

"Contact?" Zhang Guanxing stared silently at his arm, the word "hatred" seemingly never having appeared.

He thought for a long time and was about to shake his head when something suddenly bumped into the door of room 104.

It wasn't knocking on the door; it was more like someone slammed their back into it!

"Attention player number 0000! You have successfully triggered a G-level hidden quest - The face with its back to you."

"With my back to your face: I gave you my back, but you pushed me into the abyss. You were afraid that my ghost would haunt me, but I desperately turned my head, just wanting to see you one more time."

"Task requirement: Do not let it stick to your back within half an hour!"

"This is a time-limited task."

The moment the system's voice appeared in his mind, Han Fei immediately tensed up: "I can't let it stick to my back? This mission description sounds a bit scary."

"Teacher, what's wrong with you?"

"Watch out! That guy's right at the door!" Han Fei grabbed Zhang Guanxing and stood inside the room, the two of them staring intently at the door.

"Oh!"

The door to room 104 was slammed hard again, the door panel trembled, and it seemed that it might be kicked open at any moment.

"This door won't last long."

Han Fei blocked the door with the bed and desk, but just then, he saw blood seeping through the crack in the door.

What terrified him even more was the sound of bones being crushed and pulverized coming from outside the door; the monster seemed to be able to freely alter its body.

The stench of blood in the air was extremely strong. Han Fei had Zhang Guanxing place the jar near the dormitory door, and then he had the black python coil around his body.

The dilapidated wooden door of the dormitory trembled more and more violently, and dark red blood and crushed flesh squeezed in from the cracks in the door, dripping onto the ground and staining dormitory 104 a blood red.

Retreating further, Han Fei and Zhang Guanxing had reached the balcony, where the severely rusted security bars trapped them inside the house.

"Teacher, what should we do?"

"Just stand behind me and don't leave no matter what happens. Leave the rest to me." Han Fei can't exit the game yet. If something goes wrong in this mission, it's really game over.

He was more nervous than ever; his heart was pounding and his palms were sweating.

Monster flesh and blood squeezed into the room through the cracks, and the bloodstains on the floor were writhing, making Han Fei's scalp tingle.

The strong smell of blood assaulted the nostrils, and the shattered flesh slowly began to reassemble, revealing a twisted figure in dormitory 104.

It stood with its back to Han Fei, its back twisted and crooked, as if all the bones in its body had been shattered.

The small dormitory room was so oppressive that it was hard to breathe. The monster absorbed all the blood on the ground, and its body gradually became whole again.

Observing the monster at such close range for the first time, Han Fei found that the monster did indeed resemble Zhang Guanxing, except that the monster was wearing the school uniform of Yimin Private Academy.

Han Fei's gaze slowly shifted, landing on the monster's arm.

Among the tattered school uniform, he could vaguely see a bloody character for "hatred".

The word was dug out with someone's finger, and the wound never healed, constantly oozing black blood.

"Why does he have that word on his arm too?"

Han Fei was moving backward when his back suddenly bumped into Zhang Guanxing's body.

Turning his head, Zhang Guanxing stared blankly at the monster in the dormitory. The light in his eyes quickly disappeared, replaced by confusion and pain.

I have never seen his back.

"But why does he seem so familiar to me?"

"I could feel his despair and sadness just by looking at him."

“Every bone in his body was shattered. He couldn’t control his voice. He could hear the wind howling in his ears. He twisted his neck and tried to turn around.”

Zhang Guanxing's voice turned sinister and terrifying. He gripped his arm, his nails digging fiercely into his flesh.

"I remember him, I know him..."

The bones cracked, and both Zhang Guanxing's and the monster's bodies twisted. Han Fei stood between the two, his face pale.

However, he still chose to believe Zhang Guanxing. No matter what happened behind him, he did not turn around, his eyes fixed on the monster in front of him.

"Guanxing, you now have someone who truly trusts you, someone who is willing to risk their own life to save you. You are no longer alone."

Han Fei's voice echoed in the dormitory, and when Zhang Guanxing heard it, his expression became even more pained.

The monster also heard Han Fei's voice, and a chilling creaking sound came from its neck.

As the voice rang out, the monster remained standing with its back to Han Fei, but its head began to turn slowly.

Slowly, Han Fei finally saw the other party's face. The monster looked exactly like Zhang Guanxing, except that his face was covered in scars and blood was flowing from all seven orifices.

(End of this chapter)