My Healing Games

Chapter 46, Fifth Floor
Han Fei is not a detective; it's better to leave the case-solving to the police. He is only responsible for providing clues.

After defining his role, Han Fei felt a little more relaxed: "Before catching the culprit, I must keep a low profile and act no different from everyone else."

Looking back at the filming location of the "Flower of Evil" crew, Han Fei was a little worried that the murderer might come looking for them. After all, the movie they were making was based on a real case, and many serial killers had a perverted hobby of appreciating their own "works".

After eating a simple meal, Han Fei returned home.

After he pushed the door open, he didn't go inside immediately, but first checked whether anyone was inside.

"I'm on edge every day, and it's made me start to develop some weird habits."

After closing the door and turning on the TV, the rented room finally felt a bit more alive.

After a comfortable hot shower, Han Fei sat in a chair, holding a dumbbell in one hand and picking up a book on criminal psychology in the other: "When a person's criminal psychology develops to the point of personality change, it indicates that their criminal psychology has become fixed. Correcting this fixed personality requires extremely meticulous, complex, and long-term work..."

Water dripping wears away stone. Learning is a long process. Han Fei, who dreams of becoming a comedian, believes that as long as he perseveres, he can definitely become an excellent auxiliary police officer after his dream of becoming an actor is shattered.

At 11:50 p.m., Han Fei connected all the cables and lay down on the bed with his gaming helmet in his arms.

“I can’t communicate with the victims in the 1044 haunted house yet, but we’ve gotten used to each other, and they don’t seem to want to kill me for the time being, which is a blessing in disguise.”

As midnight arrived, Han Fei put on his gaming helmet. As the crimson light descended, the cold, mechanical voice echoed in his mind.

"Welcome to the Perfect Life! Now you can choose your own perfect life."

Opening his eyes, Han Fei looked at the gloomy and deserted living room and grinned: "Why don't you give me a few more options?"

The digital clock on the wall was pointing to midnight. Han Fei picked up the kitchen knife from the ground and looked towards the bedroom at the deepest part of the haunted house.

Of all the haunted houses in 1044, only the bedroom door was tightly closed.

Han Fei doesn't yet have the courage to knock on the door. The seven victims can only barely maintain their rationality when they are separate; when they are combined, they become a monster dominated by despair and pain.

"I've finished all the beginner quests, looks like I'll probably have to go out tonight."

Han Fei opened the task panel. The original three beginner tasks had disappeared, and a brand new task had appeared: visit the neighbors on the fifth floor and say hello to them.

"Judging from the name of the mission, it really does seem like a healing game." Han Fei scratched his head: "Meng Shi said that there is a crazy woman named Xu Qin living on the fifth floor. She is a nice person and can be a friend. Since we have to do this mission anyway, we might as well go to the fifth floor to visit her."

In real life, Han Fei avoids people he doesn't know well and prefers to be alone, but in the game, he becomes particularly fond of making friends.

"I'm going to meet my new neighbor. What kind of gift should I bring her?" Han Fei looked at the kitchen knife in his hand: "Never mind, I'll just meet her first."

After making his decision, Han Fei turned on the TV. He wanted to try and see if he could lure his roommate out.

If his roommates help him trigger a new mission, then he won't have to leave his warm and safe home.

Han Fei watched the TV screen with no signal for three hours straight until 3 a.m., flipping through all the channels more than a dozen times, but his roommate still didn't show up.

"I have to go out on a mission." Han Fei picked up the kitchen knife and checked his inventory: "The landlord's ring can detect ghosts, and the landlord's key should be able to open all the doors in the building. The problem is that none of the keys are numbered, so I have to try them one by one. The landlord's diary is blank, so I don't know what it's for yet. As for the landlord's three cigarettes..."

Han Fei clicked on the inventory and took out the landlord's cigarettes.

"The landlord's three children offered him three cigarettes after he died. These cigarettes are consumables, so we don't know what will happen after they are lit."

"The initial sleeping task and the increased difficulty sleeping task are completely incomparable. If the difficulty and reward were proportional, then this additional reward should be quite good."

Having found a lighter in the kitchen, Han Fei decided to light a cigarette to calm his nerves when he was in dire straits.

After organizing all his equipment, Han Fei went to the security door. He first looked around through the peephole to make sure no one was nearby before he dared to open the door.

Throughout the entire process, Han Fei did not utter a sound.

The hallway was pitch black, and just looking at it gave me a creepy feeling.

"The newbie protection period is over, and the vengeful spirits may be more active than before. I need to be careful at all times."

To prevent the door of the haunted house from closing, Han Fei moved a chair from the living room and wedged it into the door panel.

That way, he won't have to open the door when he comes back, saving time. Also, if a neighbor gets curious and goes inside, everyone can gather together for a meal, although everyone else will be sitting in chairs while the neighbor might be lying on the dining table.

Taking a deep breath, Han Fei quietly walked out of the haunted house number 1044.

He moved his feet little by little. This was the first time Han Fei had gone out since the newbie protection period ended. He could clearly feel that some changes had occurred in the apartment building.

My body felt as if it were sinking into a thick, black ocean, and my consciousness was constantly sinking.

Han Fei touched the wall with his palms, pressing his body tightly against it so that he wouldn't be seen by the people upstairs as he walked up.

Han Fei had never been to the fifth floor before. He walked very slowly, taking a full minute to reach the area between the fourth and fifth floors.

Looking up, Han Fei stopped in his tracks.

There are four households living on the fifth floor. One of the doors was open, and a dark figure was standing in front of it.

At three in the morning, in the deathly silent stairwell, a person opened their door and stood quietly at their own doorway. The scene seemed eerie no matter how you looked at it.

Han Fei dared not go any further, but the dark figure standing in the corridor seemed to have seen Han Fei, and in the blink of an eye, he disappeared.

"What is that?"

The shadowy figure had disappeared, but the door to his house was still open. Han Fei was worried that if he went over there, something would pull him into that room.

The doorway was pitch black, making it impossible to see what was inside, but it instilled a deep sense of unease.

"Xu Qin lives in room 1052, and the shadowy figure was just standing in room 1051..."

Han Fei shifted his gaze to room 1052, and the courage he had mustered dissipated considerably.

The door of room 1052 was covered with the word "death," and dark brown bloodstains were seeping out from under the door.

(End of this chapter)