My Healing Games

Chapter 185 The Principal's Office

The female teacher who appeared in the hallway looked to be nearly fifty years old, wearing a light gray outfit, and was somewhat hunched over.

Han Fei had no time to hide; the other person walked silently to Han Fei's side.

"Cough cough..."

Clutching his chest, the teacher coughed violently as he walked past Han Fei.

When she opened her mouth, Han Fei realized something was wrong.

The elderly female teacher had her lips and eyelids sewn shut with very fine gold thread, and her ears were stuffed with some black bloodstains.

She sensed Han Fei's presence, but did nothing to him. She just kept coughing, and then, as if she thought Han Fei was a bad omen, she silently avoided him.

"Li Jingmei?"

This woman, who looks to be almost fifty, is Li Xun's older sister and the most senior teacher at Yimin Private Academy.

"She neither hurt me nor helped me; it was as if she couldn't see anything at all."

Information about Li Jingmei came to mind. This teacher was poached from a public school by the principal at a high price, and she was already close to retirement.

"Her eyes and mouth were sewn shut with gold thread. Was she paid by Ma Manjiang to keep her mouth shut?"

Everything in the manager's task is based on Jin Sheng's memories. Children's impressions of the world are different from adults', absurd and bizarre, yet real and terrifying.

Li Jingmei should know part of the truth, but she neither intended to help Ma Manjiang nor had the courage to rescue Jin Sheng. Like the silent majority in the school, she remained indifferent until the black fire burned her own body.

The female teacher, with her back hunched, walked past Han Fei.

After she walked away, Han Fei finally arrived at the fourth floor of the office building.

The temperature in the corridor suddenly dropped; in Jin Sheng's memory, this place seemed to be a very bad place.

"Isn't there anyone?"

Compared to the noisy teaching buildings, the office buildings are very quiet, and any sound made here will be amplified.

Based on the information he remembered, Han Fei found the office of the first-year junior high school teacher.

He turned the doorknob and locked the door. Han Fei tried to knock gently, but the sound carried far down the corridor.

Almost at the same time he knocked on the door, a cacophony of footsteps echoed down the stairs, as if a gigantic beast were charging madly toward him on all fours.

"Ma Manjiang? Did Li Jingmei betray him?"

Without time to hesitate, Han Fei ran towards the end of the corridor, intending to leave through the stairwell on the other side of the office building.

As he reached the end of the corridor, he suddenly heard footsteps coming from the other side of the stairwell. The other person was deliberately keeping their footsteps low, but the cautious Han Fei still noticed them.

"Are there people in both the left and right stairwells?"

Han Fei once again experienced Ma Manjiang's cunning and wickedness. After learning Han Fei's location, the guy did not act rashly, but instead sent other monsters to come over, trying to block Han Fei's escape route.

"A normal Ma Manjiang wouldn't be this smart; it's that butterfly that's controlling him!"

The footsteps grew closer, and Han Fei was about to be cornered on the fourth floor.

He stepped back, his body accidentally bumping into the principal's office door.

The office, located at the far end of the corridor, had its door unlocked, and one could faintly hear voices inside.

Without hesitation, Han Fei pushed open the door and entered the principal's office.

A putrid stench filled the air, and Han Fei's eyelids twitched slightly as he looked into the room.

Behind the principal's desk sat an obese old man whose body was so distorted that it was stuck in the chair. His foul-smelling fat was piled up on the floor and covered the desk, making it look extremely creepy and terrifying.

"He's the principal? Why does the principal look like this in Jin Sheng's memory?"

He seemed unable to move freely; just opening his eyes to look around exhausted all his strength.

Standing in front of this obese old man who couldn't even move was a simply dressed young female teacher.

She wore a blood-stained necklace around her neck, and strangely, despite being covered in blood, the necklace emitted a sweet scent.

The female teacher was enveloped in the fragrance emanating from the necklace, and a hint of sweetness appeared on her slightly immature face.

"found it!"

The female teacher standing in front of the principal's desk is Jin Sheng's homeroom teacher!

"teacher!"

Han Fei ran straight over, and the female teacher who was reporting to the principal was stunned for a moment. She turned around and looked at Han Fei: "Student, is there something you need?"

Gentle words rang in Han Fei's ears. This was the first time anyone had spoken to him since he began his management duties.

In the despairing campus shrouded in gray fog, after being hated and hunted by countless people, finally someone was willing to listen to his voice.

Footsteps were approaching outside, and Han Fei knew he didn't have much time left.

Because the monstrous principal was also in the room, he couldn't speak directly. When he walked to the female teacher's side, he whispered in her ear, "Ma Manjiang deceived you. That beast in human skin even attacked his own students! Everything he did was a facade! If you don't believe me, you can check the security room's surveillance footage."

Han Fei told the female teacher the location where the surveillance video was hidden.

“Student, your joke is not funny at all.” When the female teacher began to suspect Ma Manjiang, a syrup-like substance would drip from the blood-stained necklace around her neck, emitting a strong fragrance: “Teacher Ma is the most popular teacher among students, and also the teacher I should learn from the most. He was my senior and is my role model.”

The blood-stained necklace around the female teacher's neck seemed to have been given to her by Ma Manjiang. This token of love represented Ma Manjiang's sweet words and vows of eternal love.

Because of this, whenever the female teacher wanted to think independently, she would be influenced by that sweet fragrance.

"Teacher, the fragrance on your necklace is made from corpse oil. You've been deceived by Ma Manjiang's lies!"

Han Fei knew he didn't have much time left. He reached for the necklace, but his fingers couldn't penetrate the invisible fragrance.

At this point, the female teacher still believed in Ma Manjiang. Han Fei carefully considered what the female teacher had done in reality. She only started investigating after Lao Li's death.

In other words, her stance began to change after seeing blood and death, and she finally believed in Jin Sheng.

Without the slightest hesitation, Han Fei took out a shard of teacup and cut his hand.

With his bloodied hand easily passing through the fragrance, Han Fei grabbed the necklace and yanked it off the female teacher's neck!

The fragrance vanished instantly, and the female teacher saw the blackened bloodstains on the necklace.

"Remember what I said!"

Han Fei stuffed the necklace into his pocket to prevent it from falling into Ma Manjiang's hands again.

At that moment, footsteps approached down the corridor.

The principal's office door was pushed open forcefully, and Ma Manjiang, looking like a monster, appeared in the doorway, his face so upright and kind.

After losing the necklace, the female teacher looked at Ma Manjiang with a hint of fear in her eyes.

In fact, she had long felt that Ma Manjiang was not such a perfect person, but she had been deceived by sweet words and therefore had not suspected it.

"Cough cough..."

A coughing sound rang out, and Li Jingmei appeared at the door, with a few more gold threads sewn into her eyes.

"It really was you who told Ma Manjiang."

Apart from the victims, no one else in this school can be trusted.

Clutching the shards of the teacup tightly in his hand, Han Fei, having finally made it this far, wanted to struggle a little longer.

As Han Fei stepped back, his peripheral vision caught sight of the chair beside the table.

As Ma Manjiang entered the room, he suddenly turned around, grabbed the chair, and smashed the principal's office window.

Han Fei abandoned his chair, climbed onto the windowsill, stared intently at the air conditioner unit on the third floor, took a deep breath, and decisively jumped down!
(End of this chapter)