My Healing Games

Chapter 28 Survival Rules in Apartment Buildings

Han Fei picked up the books from the freezer and tried to add them to his inventory, but he was unsuccessful and the system did not provide any corresponding prompts.

"I always felt that there were secrets hidden in the books left by the third brother, Meng Chang'an. Maybe we can find out what kind of person the third brother really was through these books."

Han Fei tried to look through the books in the freezer, but all the books were too badly damaged to read. He had no choice but to rely on his exceptional memory, honed from memorizing lines, to write down the titles of the books, intending to look them up after leaving the game.

Meng Shi revealed the secret she had kept hidden in her heart, and all the guilt and unease she had been hiding were exposed. At this moment, she was still kneeling next to the freezer.

"Grandma, cheer up, you still have to take care of Chenchen. No matter what, he hasn't made any mistakes, you can't let the child share the adults' pain."

Although Chenchen was a mischievous child, he had never even properly experienced the real world before being murdered along with the old man. If we're talking about who's pitiful, he was the most innocent and the most pitiful.

After helping the elderly woman up, Han Fei carried Chenchen into the bedroom and placed her on the bed. He said, "Grandma, I will come to help you often from now on. If you have any problems, you can come upstairs to find me, and we can discuss them together."

Han Fei treated Meng Shi's place as a safe haven. After logging into the game, he would stay there for three hours, and then he could log off at any time after completing one task. It was perfect.

Still in great pain, Meng Shi was unaware of all this. She was simply surprised: "Knowing all this, you're still willing to help me?"

Meng Shi has already paid the price with her life for her mistakes, but Han Fei has no intention of saying that. He just wants to survive in this underworld game.

"Take good care of Chenchen, don't let him run around. Even for the sake of this child, you have to hold on." After saying this, Han Fei found a pen and paper in the room and prepared to get down to business.

The reason he worked so hard to improve his friendliness towards the elderly and gain their trust was for this very moment.

Han Fei didn't understand this world, and he needed someone to provide him with intelligence. The old lady Meng Shi had lived here for a long time, and she was the most suitable candidate.

"Grandma, the building manager hasn't shown up for so long, something might have happened. I want to go to the tenth floor to check."

"It's very dangerous upstairs, you'd better not go up," Meng Shi advised Han Fei directly.

“If you keep avoiding it because of the danger, the danger will eventually spread to your side, and then it will be too late to escape.” Han Fei picked up his pen: “Grandma, you’ve lived here for a long time, could you tell me if there are any taboos in this building?”

Seeing that Han Fei had made up his mind, Meng Shi did not stop him anymore. She thought for a while before saying, "The 1044 haunted house you live in is a taboo in itself, as is the 1034 on the third floor. Almost no neighbors go to these two rooms, and people usually quicken their pace when they pass by."

"Is there any place in the building more dangerous than these two rooms?"

"Yes." The old man nodded: "Something happened on the ninth floor. Apart from the building manager, no one who went upstairs has come down. There's also a problem with the stairs between the seventh and eighth floors. If you go there after midnight, you might end up in another place and see something special."

Have you seen it?

“If I had seen it, I probably wouldn’t be alive now. I’ve only heard about it.” The old man wasn’t very brave: “Some strange things have happened in room 1084 on the eighth floor. Someone met a girl there. When the building manager was still there, he often warned me never to go to the eighth floor alone. It seems that no one lives on the seventh floor. The original neighbors on the sixth floor moved away, and people from outside the community moved in. I have very little contact with them. I usually avoid them whenever I hear their voices.”

"Are there several people living on the sixth floor? Or did they come from outside the community?" Han Fei thought of the neighbor who had come to visit him; the neighbor had initially appeared on the sixth floor.

"Yes, besides these, there are many other things to be careful about. For example, if someone calls your name from behind when you're walking in the hallway at night, don't turn around. Don't open the door if someone knocks in the middle of the night, because most of the neighbors here don't visit each other at night. And one more thing I want to remind you: if the motion-activated light suddenly goes out while you're in the hallway, be extremely careful, because something might be coming..."

The old man told Han Fei many things to pay attention to, and Han Fei wrote them all down.

"Grandma, you've lived here for a long time. Are there any neighbors in the building that you feel are of good character? The kind you could be friends with?" Han Fei wanted to unite more people, as he was well aware that one person's strength was limited.

After thinking for a long time, the old lady shook her head: "There is no one who is particularly suitable to be a friend. If you have to choose one, I think the tenant living in room 1052 on the fifth floor is okay."

"The tenant of room 1052?"

"Her name is Xu Qin, and she's crazy." The old woman seemed afraid that Han Fei wouldn't understand, so she added, "Although she looks crazy, she has never hurt anyone. Once, Chenchen accidentally ran upstairs, and it was she who brought Chenchen back."

"Okay, I'll slowly try to get to know her and become friends with her." Han Fei wasn't afraid because the other person was crazy. Compared to his roommate in the haunted house, a crazy person who wouldn't hurt others was practically an angel.

"She's a pitiful person, so we should try our best to help her if we can."

"Yes, I'll try to help her resolve her inner conflict." In the entire building, there were only two neighbors who could get along well. Han Fei was actually quite devastated, but he didn't show it.

They talked for three hours straight, during which Han Fei drew a map, marking all the known forbidden areas within the building.

"My ultimate goal is to get into room 1101 where the building manager lives, find out why he chose me to play this game, and get all the things the building manager left behind."

"Before that, I need to become friends with the tenants of room 1052 and try to unite as many residents as possible in the building."

Haste makes waste, so Han Fei decided to explore the game step by step, ensuring his own survival.

It was almost four in the morning when Han Fei left the old man's house. He sneaked into the building without disturbing anyone.

"There were some blood-red stains in the stairwell, and many children's handprints on the railings and walls. It seems that the crying child really did cause a scene in this residential building. He probably suffered a lot while looking for me."

Han Fei returned to the haunted house number 1044. The room was in a mess, as if a great battle had taken place: "Was the crying one of you here last night? Sigh, can't everyone just get along peacefully?"

(End of this chapter)