My Healing Games

Chapter 614 The Painter's Past
Arlene had seen several children run out of the second-floor corridor. She was usually reluctant to go into the second-floor corridor, but just now, because she was too scared, she unconsciously followed the others and rushed into the second floor.

By the time she realized what was happening and tried to stop everyone, it was too late.

"Oh no! How did we end up here?" Arlene screamed and backed away, accidentally bumping into Xiao Chen behind her.

"Don't stop!" Xiao Chen was terrified. The moving altar and the huge faceless portrait had become an inescapable shadow in his mind.

"This floor is haunted! It really is!" Arlene tried to stop the people around her, but then something incredibly terrifying happened.

The altar, which was originally placed at the corner between the third and second floors, moved to the outside of the emergency exit on the second floor. The faceless portrait was pasted on the glass window of the emergency exit, as if it were staring at them with its blank face.

"The portrait is coming!" Xiao Chen shook off A Lin's hand and ran forward quickly.

A few seconds later, the five actors arrived at the center of the second-floor corridor, where a heavy metal operating table was placed.

No one knows who moved the operating table out, and no one knows why there was a blood-red cake on the operating table.

“We might be able to use this to block the safety gate.” Before Li Huang could finish speaking, Bai Cha had already run past her. Bai Cha, who was “brave” than anyone else before, was now faster than anyone else when faced with real danger.

Climbing onto the operating table, Bai Cha rushed directly towards the closed emergency exit on the right.

Following closely behind Bai Cha was Wu Li. Seeing that neither of the two male actors showed any sign of stopping, Li Huang had no choice but to follow them as well. However, she was considerate enough to wait for A Lin for a while.

While Li Huang was waiting for A Lin, Xiao Chen also climbed onto the operating table. He was so flustered that he stepped on the blood-red cake, and red paint and sticky substances splattered everywhere, covering him completely.

"groove!"

Xiao Chen cursed under his breath and scrambled off the operating table.

"Come here first!" Wu Li pulled Xiao Chen up, then looked back at Li Huang and A Lin on the other side of the operating table. He reached out his hand to the two actresses, wanting to help them: "Quick!"

Wu Li's face changed color the moment his gaze fell on the emergency exit behind Arlene.

No one touched it, yet the emergency exit door had been fully opened!

Just outside the security door was a dark, ominous altar, upon which sat a huge portrait of a faceless woman. The ghost was relentless, seemingly determined to keep chasing after her!

"She, she, she came in!" Wu Li instinctively pulled his outstretched hand back, but before he could fully retract it, he felt something grab his hand.

Looking down, I saw a child with only black holes in his face squatting under the operating table, grabbing at me with hands stained with blood-red cake!
"There's a ghost!"

Wu Li had never been so frightened before, and he had never swung his arm so forcefully in the previous twenty years.

To break free from the brat's fingers, he wished he could just snap his own arm off.

"I've gotten that red stuff on me! The red handprints on Arlene's back are from them!"

Shaking off the child's hand, Wu Li fell to the ground, his phone also falling to the side.

"Let's go!"

Wu Li shouted loudly to remind his teammates, but his voice woke up not only his teammates, but also other things.

The phone screen on the ground emitted a faint light, and the tattered cloth covering the operating table fell off, revealing the faces of children one after another beneath it!
Wu Li's body was trembling; he was almost scared to death. He used to be the one who acted in horror movies to scare people, and now he was getting his comeuppance.

Children stripped of their faces, young souls shattered, huddled under the operating table, their hands covered in scarlet "cake".

As Wu Li fell to the ground, Li Huang pulled A Lin over the operating table, and the two actresses rushed towards the other side of the emergency exit.

"The door is locked!" Bai Cha, who was the first to run to the right emergency exit, looked at the rusty chain on the emergency door and was sweating profusely. He shook the lock frantically.

"Kick the door! Like Han Fei! What are you still hesitating about now!" After saying that, Xiao Chen kicked the door himself. The security door made a loud noise, but the lock was intact and showed no signs of being damaged. "That shouldn't be the case! I think Han Fei could kick the door in one go."

Xiao Chen and Bai Cha tried in turn, but they just couldn't open the door. The strange sound of the wooden table moving was getting closer and closer to them.

In that incredibly oppressive atmosphere, the five actors were all somewhat desperate. They now realized how difficult it was for ordinary people to survive, and that a locked security door could cut off their path to life.

The door was shaking. If they had another minute or two, they could definitely break the lock, but something behind them was already getting closer in the darkness.

A sense of oppression, terror, unknown ghosts, and a possible serial killer seemed to be rushing towards them all at once.

"Hide first!"

Unable to open the security door, they had no choice but to find somewhere to hide. The five of them squeezed into an old room next to the security door.

It was pitch black, and they had no idea what the abandoned room was for.

"The room smells terrible."

"Never mind anything else! Block the door first!"

To save their own lives, Bai Cha and Xiao Chen became proactive for the first time, pushing the cabinet near the door behind the door panel.

"No! This isn't safe! We need more stuff to block it!"

The five actors, who had been working together since entering the plastic surgery hospital, finally managed to unite for once. They quickly piled everything that could be moved behind the door!
"It should be almost done."

"I can't take it anymore, I'm exhausted. I've never been this tired even when filming."

"My fingers are all scraped and blistered. I've really sacrificed so much for this variety show."

Xiao Chen sat on the ground, clutching his hand. His heart was pounding, and he still hadn't recovered from the shock.

Panting heavily, before he could say anything more, he suddenly felt something wet under his buttocks.

Using his phone, Xiao Chen looked down at himself through the light.

"Ah! The ground! Look at the ground!"

Xiao Chen seemed to be on fire, he jumped up and pointed his finger randomly at the ground.

The others also looked down. The unlocked room seemed to be a children's playroom, with windows drawn on the walls leading to the outside world, and dense, blood-red characters filled with resentment and hatred written on the floor.

“My mother doesn’t want me anymore, but I don’t hate her. I know I’m a monster. My friends have always said that about me since I was little. I shouldn’t live in the same little house as them, let alone live with them. Everyone hates me, but that’s okay. Who told me to be a monster? I’m an ugly monster, a terrible monster, a little monster that nobody wants.”

"Many people asked me why I killed him. They asked me if I had any humanity left?"

"It's really ridiculous. You're the ones who call me a monster, and you're the ones who demand humanity from me. How can you be so despicable!"

"Haha, I made a birthday wish today, but I won't say it out loud. From now on, I'll keep an eye on you and see if your birthday wish will come true?"

“These doctors collect all sorts of problem children like they collect dolls. They open our minds and study how we are different from other children.”

"The doctors are kind. Before opening our brains, they would feed us 'love'. In this place, 'love' is the most precious thing. A long time ago, my mother also said that she regretted not loving me properly."

"I forgot how I bit the doctor to death that day. Maybe it was because I consumed too much 'love' and couldn't control myself."

"Today I met an interesting person. He is an artist who came to paint windows for us. This crazy guy painted windows leading to the outside world in a completely enclosed room. He also said that he put the world into the windows, so that when we yearn for 'love', we can look at the windows."

"What's so great about the outside world? Everyone calls me a monster. In my eyes, they're just a bunch of wriggling worms, not even worms! They're disgusting!"

"The great artist is here again, carrying his little bucket full of all kinds of paints. I don't really like him at all, but on my birthday, he secretly brought me a piece of 'candy'. If I had to describe that sweet feeling with a color, it would be the same color as the sun. Huh? How long has it been since I've seen the sun?"

"Day after day of life, my growth is just my mind being constantly opened up. They are trying to transform me, but it's all in vain. The monster is still the monster, and life is still life."

"After the artist finished painting the thirty-first window, he said he was leaving and would probably never have the chance to come back."

"He also confessed to us monsters that he was powerless to save us."

"So the artist's job is to make people laugh? Someone actually wants to save a group of monsters? I admit I was amused by him. As a return gift, I bit his painting hand and dug a number out of his arm."

“I’ve long forgotten my own name. The doctor said that number four is everything to me. If I leave my number on his arm, does that mean he will have everything to me?”

"He traded a single piece of candy for everything a monster had. He probably doesn't think he got the short end of the stick, does he?"

"The artist left and never came back."

"Actually, I miss him quite a bit, after all, he's the only one who's ever wished me a happy birthday."

The unlocked room was covered with dense red characters, all of which had just been written. They looked like the word "death" in the elevator, each stroke bloody and terrifying.

"What on earth is this?! It's terrifying!" The five actors were so frightened that they stood frozen in place, too scared to move.

As if things weren't going to go wrong, just when they were most afraid, something suddenly banged on the door. A dull thud was heard, as if the thing had hit the actors' hearts instead of the door.

The cabinet behind the door trembled slightly, and while the actors were stunned, the door was slammed open again.

The tightly closed door was flung open a crack, and through the gap, several children's faces could be seen. Their hands were covered in red cake, and their faces were full of holes, lacking any distinctive features.

"Quick! Block the door!"

Wu Li was the first to realize that a group of children didn't have the strength to break open the wardrobe; it really was haunted!

Using their backs to brace against the wardrobe, the five actors squeezed behind the door.

But just as everyone was leaning against the door and facing inside, Arlene, Wu Li and Xiao Chen simultaneously discovered that there was another person in the room!

"Look there!"

The light from the cell phone shone on the corner of the wall, where a thin man in a painter's uniform was writing something on the wall, carrying a small bucket full of red paint.

"Where is anyone? Are you three scared out of your wits? Don't have a meltdown at this crucial moment!" Bai Cha also looked towards the corner of the wall, but he only saw the blood-red words that kept appearing and did not see anything else.

"Is anyone there?" Li Huang herself hadn't seen anyone. She pondered for a moment: "Xiao Chen stepped on the blood-red cake just now, and that stuff splattered on Wu Li. Arlene was first covered in red handprints on her back by the children. Is it possible that only those who have been stained with blood-red paint can see ghosts? That blood-red cake also seems to correspond to a certain sentence on the ground. Is the cake a gift for ghosts?"

“There really is someone! He’s standing right there!” Arlene was so frightened she could barely speak. She pointed tremblingly at the sixth person in the room.

"Are you out of your mind?" Bai Cha couldn't see anything, all she could do was yell.

"No! There must be something real!" Li Huang saw shoe prints appearing on the blood-written words on the ground.

"He's coming!" Wu Li gritted his teeth, not knowing what to do. At this moment, something even more terrifying happened!

Arlene noticed that her back was itchy. When she reached out to scratch it, she felt like she touched something. Turning her head, she saw that the children's bloody handprints had soaked into her back. At that moment, a pale arm was sticking out from Arlene's clothes.

Completely terrified, Arlene screamed and ran forward, accidentally knocking Wu Li down again.

With two people missing, the gaps in the door panels grew larger and larger.

Just when it seemed they were about to lose control, Bai Cha was the first to give up, and he suddenly dodged forward.

Seeing that three people were missing, Li Huang decisively dodged away. Xiao Chen, who was at the very end, also tried to run, but it was too late. Children's handprints began to appear on his back, and blood-stained cake was smeared all over his body.

"Oh!"

The door was kicked open, the cabinet tipped over, and pinned Xiao Chen down.

"help me!"

In the darkness and chaos, Xiao Chen screamed, but no one helped him.

Bai Cha seized the opportunity, stepping onto the cabinet and fleeing outside. Wu Li followed closely behind, and then Li Huang grabbed A Lin and also fled in a panic.

"Don't leave me!"

A jumble of footsteps sounded; Xiao Chen, like Han Fei, had been abandoned by most people.

"Come back! Come back!"

Xiao Chen, who has always appeared on screen as a sunny and warm man, showed his "exquisite" acting skills this time. His whole face was distorted with fear, and tears and snot came out at the same time.

The four were so frightened that they lost their minds. A series of illogical events combined to break down their psychological defenses.

The safety door on the right was blocked, so they could only retreat to the left.

As soon as the door opened, the four of them saw the altar and the huge portrait outside. Even more strangely, faint bloodstains began to appear on the faceless portrait, and a slightly familiar face was emerging on the dead person's photo.

"Run downstairs!"

There was a serial killer on the first floor, so the four of them didn't dare to linger. Led by Bai Cha, they rushed directly into the basement of the plastic surgery hospital.

After running through the first basement level, the second basement level, and all the way to the third basement level, Bai Cha, who was at the front of the group, was stunned. How many underground levels does the hospital actually have?

"Why does it look like there's a children's playground built in the basement of this plastic surgery hospital? Why have all the signs on the walls been painted over?"

Looking at the strange objects around them, the four actors were hesitant to continue.

But when they stopped, they heard children's laughter in the hallway they had come from, as if someone was saying over and over again, "Happy birthday to you."

(End of this chapter)