My Healing Games

Chapter 683 The Nightmare Begins

The moment she saw her mother, the female student was so frightened that she almost lost consciousness. She never imagined that the person she loved most would one day become so unfamiliar.

The heavily made-up face was right in front of me, appearing somewhat pale against the backdrop of the red dress.

"Didn't you say you would stay with Mom for life and always love her?"

Her eyes bulged outwards, and blood vessels ran up the whites of her eyes. A hoarse voice came from the woman's throat.

If you look closely, you'll find that there seems to be another face hiding in the woman's deep, dark throat!

It was a man whose eyes were inside his mother's esophagus, and his mouth was opening and closing as he imitated his mother's voice.

The female student's body began to tremble uncontrollably. She backed away, her expression growing increasingly terrified: "You're not my mother! You're not my mother!"

A scream rang out, and the girl frantically got up, grabbed the doorknob, and forcefully opened the door.

Her mother didn't stop her. The female student rushed out of the bedroom and ran straight to the living room door. She pulled hard on the chain on the door and pounded on it, but to no avail.

It was only at this moment that the female student realized that the reason her mother had put so many locks on the door was not to prevent ghosts from coming in, but to prevent her from escaping!
"Mom, look carefully! It's me!"

The key was in the mother's hands, and the locked security door blocked the girl's escape route.

All the lights in the room went out. The girl cried and begged for mercy. Her back hit the iron gate, and she had nowhere to retreat. She could only watch helplessly as her mother walked out of her bedroom.

In the pitch black, the mother, dressed in bright red, slowly approached.

Her heavily made-up face wore a terrifying, exaggerated smile, her mouth wide open, revealing her gleaming white teeth and deep esophagus.

"Don't run away, come to Mommy."

The middle-aged woman's hand, which had been hidden behind her back, emerged, holding a knife from the kitchen: "You're sick. Once you get better, we'll be as happy as before."

"It's not me who's sick, it's you!" the girl screamed for help, but the pitch-black room was like a prison built just for her, from which there was no way to escape.

"Mom will always love you. It's because of love that I killed someone to steal the body for you. Don't be afraid of the pain, it will be over soon. Soon we can be together forever, living happily ever after in paradise." The mother's speech became faster and faster. As she spoke, she suddenly rushed towards her daughter and raised the knife in her hand.

"Mom wore a bright red dress especially for you today. Soon you'll be just like Mom. Don't worry, Mom will never let you be lonely. I'll be with you wherever we go, and I'll take you with me!"

The middle-aged woman's voice came from deep in her throat as she swung the knife fiercely at her own daughter without the slightest hesitation.

"Don't come any closer!" the female student screamed, scrambling to avoid the attack as her mother slammed the knife into the security door.

If that knife had struck her, the female student would have been seriously injured, but would have been unable to resist. That woman was truly intent on killing her.

"Sweetie, don't run away, come to Mommy." The mother, dressed in bright red, turned around and stared at the girl lying on the ground: "Look how sick you are. You used to listen to Mommy the most, but now you're like a completely different person."

The middle-aged woman moved slowly in the darkness, but she carried an extremely strong sense of oppression: "Mommy will definitely heal you, Mommy will turn you back into a good baby."

The air inside seemed to have been sucked out, and the female student felt like she was suffocating as her mother approached.

Something was falling from under my mother's bright red coat. Because the lights were off inside, it was hard to see clearly from a distance.

The female student didn't realize that what had fallen out of her clothes was various kinds of meat until her mother approached and her hand touched the sticky substance.

"How is it? Do you like it? This is medicine that Mom searched for a long time to prepare for you. There are medicines for all age groups, hahaha!"

The mother was right there, and she cornered the girl. Just when it seemed the girl had nowhere left to hide, the locked door was suddenly knocked on, and someone was banging on the door from the outside!
"Help! Help me!"

The sound outside broke the silence inside the house and gave the girl a glimmer of hope. She mustered her last bit of courage, pushed her mother away, and rushed toward the security door.

"My mother wants to kill me! She's sick!"

The female student gripped the chain on the door with both hands, desperately pulling on the large metal lock, but even with her fingernails bleeding and cracked, she still couldn't open the door.

"Save me, save me!"

The female student desperately clung to the chains on the door. She knew she couldn't escape; no one could open the heavily locked door.

Footsteps sounded behind her. The female student turned around and looked back, her eyes filled with terror.

The mother's body, like pieces of worms, crawled up from the ground in a very strange way, and her heavily made-up face was even more frightening!

“You used to be very obedient and never resisted me like this. It seems your illness has become quite serious.” The mother gripped the knife with both hands. She stood in the living room dressed in bright red, her bulging eyes staring at the female student, and then she rushed towards her!

The female student pushed over the shoe cabinet and grabbed a random shoe from the floor to defend herself; her screams could be heard throughout the entire corridor.

At this critical moment, the sound of shattering glass suddenly came from the girl's bedroom, and someone opened the window from the outside.

Heavy footsteps sounded, and just as the female student had closed her eyes and was completely enveloped in despair, a man rushed out of the bedroom and violently shoved the crazed mother away.

"Are you alright?" The man turned on his flashlight and shone it on the middle-aged woman in red.

"I...I..." The female student was so frightened that she was paralyzed and couldn't even utter a complete sentence while sitting on the ground.

"Go check the circuit breaker in the house. I'll take control of your mother." The man seemed to have no fear at all. He dodged the middle-aged woman's knife and knocked her heavily to the ground.

A blow that would be enough to make an ordinary person dizzy had no effect on the woman, who was still struggling violently.

"You probably don't want to kill your own daughter, do you?"

Grasping the red rope branded with curses with both hands, Han Fei strangled the woman's neck, holding her down tightly.

The most vicious curse in the world seeped into the middle-aged woman's body, and strange, dreamlike patterns appeared on her skin, as if she had a pair of butterfly wings tattooed on her, which could fly in dreams.

The cursed words continued to erode the patterns, and the woman seemed to be enduring excruciating pain, her mouth agape as she screamed in agony.

As the patterns were destroyed by the curse, the woman's skin aged rapidly, and she spat out copious amounts of blood foam and tiny pieces of black flesh from her gaping mouth.

At the peak of her pain, she spat out a black cocoon the size of a thumb, with a human face carved on it and connected to the blood vessels in her body.

"what is this?"

Once the black cocoon was exposed to light, it immediately withered and cracked, and the baby ghost hidden inside the cocoon also shattered.

"A ghost baby?"

The middle-aged woman collapsed to the ground, unconscious, and the lights in the room returned to normal at that moment.

The female student who had run to find the power switch returned to the living room. She looked at the man who had suddenly appeared and saved her, her eyes filled with gratitude but also a hint of fear.

"Thank you for saving me just now," the female student said in a low voice.

"No need to thank me, I'm just a kind neighbor who was passing by." The man who saved the female student was Han Fei. He and his superior were chatting when they suddenly heard the cries for help from upstairs, so they immediately ran up.

The family's door was reinforced and couldn't be kicked open, so Han Fei opened the neighbor's door and jumped out of the window to get there.

The whole process was dangerous and extreme, and everyone around was dumbfounded, but Han Fei didn't think it was anything special.

"I will definitely repay your life-saving grace." The female student was also terrified, and it took her a long time to calm down.

Looking at her unconscious mother, the female student pursed her lips, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "My mother is not crazy or a monster. She is sick, but she should be able to be cured."

“I feel she’s fully recovered now.” Han Fei put away the red rope and the curse, found the key on the middle-aged woman, and opened the security door: “Come in.”

As soon as Yan Le's father entered the room, he went straight to the female student and her mother: "It's all my fault! If only I had noticed Yan Le's abnormality sooner."

After examining the middle-aged woman's vomit, the man said with certainty, "It was Meng who did it. He can trap ghosts and people in nightmares, control vengeful spirits, and manipulate people's hearts!"

“I’ve seen the patterns on this mother’s body several times. Meng is the manager of the amusement park, but he’s been holding all sorts of strange rituals in this city, as if he wants to disrupt the whole city. I’m afraid his purpose in doing this is not just to target you, right?” Han Fei had seen similar patterns on the boy’s corpse in the cram school, and he also found traces of rituals in the jar where the ghost was hanging in the Happiness Community. Many of the disturbances in this city related to ghosts seem to be related to Meng.

Upon hearing Han Fei's words, the man remained silent, only looking down to check the injuries of the female student and her mother.

“If you don’t tell me, more innocent people will die. That dream is extremely perverted. It seems to be keen on destroying other people’s happiness. The more fulfilling a person’s life is, the more likely they are to be targeted by him.” Han Fei found the dream disgusting. He even felt aversion and disgust when he saw the black cocoon and butterfly patterns.

“Dream… he’s not human, he seems to be a ghost. He’s been trying his best to come back to life, but it’s hard for him to do it alone, and the other four administrators won’t let him do anything reckless.” After seeing the miserable state of the mother and daughter, the man finally spoke: “Dream’s ability is very strange, but he can’t fight against the other four administrators at the same time. But the situation is a bit delicate now.”

Is there a problem at the park?

“Yes, the ‘ghost’ who controls the night was severely injured; I, as the previous brain, had my memories erased, and I’ve even forgotten who my successor is; most importantly, ‘I’ have also disappeared. Now, there are only two managers left in the park that we can rely on: the person who controls the day, and the unidentified Dream.” The man’s memory was severely impaired, and his situation was somewhat similar to Han Fei’s.

"According to you, a dream without constraints might hold a resurrection ceremony for itself, which would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for it." Han Fei had previously thought he would have to deal with five managers at the same time, but now it seems the situation isn't that bad.

"Compared to dreams, I'm actually more worried about people. People without restraint are more terrifying than dreams." The man hesitated for a moment, then continued under Han Fei's persistent questioning: "People are the most fickle. They have insatiable ambitions, boundless desires that devour all greed, and at the same time, they are the best at disguising themselves. On the daytime stage, they are warmer and more dazzling than the sun, but once night falls, they will transform outside of sight, becoming the true nature hidden in their hearts."

"Are people really that terrifying?"

"The last thing I saw before my memory was erased was a person walking into my room. He seemed to have discovered the secrets deep within the labyrinth." The previous brain was afraid of people and felt uneasy just mentioning them: "Let's not talk about this anymore. Let's settle them in first."

"Brain" carried the middle-aged woman into the bedroom and placed her on the female student's bed. He also saw the photo on the bedside table and the video recorder that was still working: "I'm sorry, my daughter hurt you. I will make it up to you."

"I've almost cured her. You should spend more time talking to your daughter instead." Han Fei picked up the video camera, watched the footage he had just recorded, and then suddenly pulled out a sharp knife.

"What's wrong with you?"

"There's another ghost in the house! Look!" Han Fei replayed the video. After the lights went out, the girl was completely plunged into despair. She was being chased by her beloved mother.

Logically, there should have been no one in the bedroom at the time, but the camera lens started rotating on its own, capturing the entire desperate scene. It seemed that the other party was collecting the negative emotions and despair of the living through this method.

“I’ve seen similar videos of despair on the fourth floor of the Happiness Community! The scenes in those videos were so desperate that they were suffocating, and I couldn’t bear to watch them.”

Han Fei never expected to find clues related to the Happiness Community here. He didn't know if someone was guiding him silently or if he had received some kind of blessing and his luck had become very good.

As the video was being played back, Han Fei had already run to the door. It seemed as if someone had just walked past at the end of the corridor, but the darkness erased all traces he had left behind.

"Was it a dream?"

Han Fei took a step forward. As he stepped out of the room, the "brain" that was watching the video in the bedroom suddenly let out a scream. It seemed to have seen something very special, and blood flowed from its eyes.

Normally, he should go back and check on the condition of the "brain" now, but Han Fei's heart suddenly started to beat faster, and a very scary guess surfaced in his mind.

"Will Meng go to the fourth floor? To find Fu Sheng and Yan Le?" If she stays on the fifth floor, Fu Sheng and Li Guo'er on the fourth floor will be in danger, and Yan Le himself is also very abnormal.

But if we go to the fourth floor now, the previous brain might be silenced.

In just a few seconds, Han Fei made his choice and decisively ran towards the fourth floor!

"I disrupted several of Meng's rituals, and he didn't confront me directly, but he may already be watching me from the shadows!"

“Yan Le and Meng had crossed paths. She happened to appear on my escape route, and she led me to this neighborhood.”

In the blink of an eye, Han Fei had already reached the corner of the stairs.

When he ran to the fourth floor, he saw a stranger enter room 404.

(End of this chapter)