My Healing Games

Chapter 35 The Landlord's Inheritance

"Eye molds, leg molds, hand molds, lip molds... This perverted killer stole the most beautiful parts of the victims' bodies and then used them to piece together an eighth corpse. Is this what the killer meant by metamorphosis?"

The human body puzzle also included an eighth victim, but the face and key body parts of that victim belonged to other victims. The police extracted and tested various items, and found that there was no information about the eighth victim in the citizen database.

It is perplexing and unsettling that someone could be murdered without a name, a past, or even the slightest trace left in this technologically advanced online world.

"Information about the other seven victims can be found online, but not about the eighth victim. The police have not released any information related to the eighth victim either..." What Han Fei found even more incomprehensible was that while he was doing a TV-watching task, a monster appeared behind him. The monster's body contained only the faces of the seven victims.

"Could the eighth victim be the monster itself?"

Han Fei wanted to find out the truth, so he lived in the haunted house and kept the victim company, and could clearly feel the victim's pain and despair.

Whether it's to avenge the dead or to improve his own survival in the game, he will do everything in his power to catch the murderer.

The situation inside the haunted house is extremely strange. As the only living person, Han Fei is huddled under the covers in his bedroom. In the living room outside, several figures with their backs to him are watching a television set that has no picture. All of them seem to be waiting for something to appear.

The cold light from the television shone on the pale faces, and as the hands moved, the temperature in the entire room slowly dropped.

"What are they waiting for?"

As night deepened, the entire apartment building, along with the outside world, seemed to begin to appear increasingly abnormal.

The sound of fingernails scraping against the wall came from the wall, the motion-activated lights in the hallway suddenly turned on, and the wooden planks of the windows slowly cracked, as if insects were crawling outside the dilapidated apartment building.

However, no matter what happened outside, those figures kept their backs to Han Fei until three in the morning.

The image on the television gradually became clearer. In the pitch-black living room, five brutally murdered people sat on the sofa, facing the television, seemingly trying to find something through the screen.

What are they looking for?
Han Fei peeked through the gap in the blanket. The image on the television was becoming clearer and clearer. The five figures were the five dead people whose bodies were pieced together. The television showed how they died tragically.

Each of them was mutilated, their faces were bloodless, and their pale pupils twitched in their eye sockets.

"What exactly are they looking for?" Han Fei felt extremely uneasy and turned his gaze to the television.

After careful observation, he saw the half-open bedroom door in the corner of the screen, and also his own eyes peeking out from under the covers.

"Am I on TV too?"

The ghost on the TV screen revealed its gruesome death, and the scene playing seemed to be the true appearance of this haunted house.

Looking at those tragically dead faces and staring at those chilling eyes, Han Fei didn't even have the courage to look outside.

"Are they looking for me?"

Han Fei had just seen himself on TV when the child sitting at the end of the sofa stood up and slowly walked towards the TV, as if he had noticed something unusual.

Am I destined to be cursed by children?

It's already 3 a.m., and Han Fei's mission will be completed in five minutes. He's determined to get through this period no matter what.

To avoid being discovered, he didn't even bother looking outside, shrinking completely under the covers and waiting for the system's prompts.

"I have to hold out for five minutes no matter what! Come on! Even if you're all standing outside right now, even if you want to kill me, I'll still stall for five minutes!"

The temperature in the haunted house kept dropping, and Han Fei's heart pounded. He didn't know if the ghosts had come in yet, and he was even prepared for the possibility that his bedside would be full of ghosts.

The phrase "time seems to drag on forever" is somewhat inappropriate when applied to Han Fei; he felt that every second was stretched out infinitely.

Han Fei opened the attribute panel and stared intently at the exit button in the corner of the panel. Just then, he heard the sound of a door opening again. This time, it seemed that the other person had entered his room directly.

"Once I leave alive, I will definitely help you find the murderer! We live under the same roof, I will come to chat with you at night to keep you company, and I will burn paper money for you during the day. Please give me a chance, my family."

Han Fei was so nervous that he started talking nonsense, after all, he had no similar experience before.

"Attention player number 0000! Newbie quest 'Sleep' completed! One free skill point added, quest reward obtained - Landlord's Key."

"Attention player number 0000! Due to a slight increase in the difficulty of the beginner's quest, an additional quest reward has been added—three cigarettes from the landlord."

"Landlord's Key (G-grade Crimson Item): After the landlord passed away, the spare key in the building disappeared. It is unknown whether it was stolen or borrowed by a ghost."

"The Landlord's Three Cigarettes (G-grade Crimson Item): After the landlord passed away, his three children offered three cigarettes at his altar."

Hearing the voice in his mind, Han Fei breathed a long sigh of relief. When he saw that the exit button was lit up, he instantly felt that he could do it again.

"Life is really full of ups and downs. I guess my nerves are as thick as steel now. There is no setback in reality that can defeat me."

Han Fei subconsciously glanced at his inventory; all quest rewards would be stored in the inventory first.

"All the rewards from the newbie quests have the word 'landlord' in them, and they all seem to be the landlord's legacy. Is this game trying to make me the new landlord?"

"It seems that my persistence in completing all the beginner tasks was worthwhile. That set of landlord's keys alone may come in very handy later. The system's initial hints were indeed correct. Completing all the beginner tasks will help me understand this world more clearly."

Han Fei was glad he hadn't given up on the beginner quests, and the generous rewards of the sleeping quest made him determined to complete the bathing quest.

"The three beginner quests should correspond to three rewards related to the landlord. The ring can sense ghosts, and the key is used to open the doors to other rooms. I wonder what the reward for the bathing quest will be?"

Humans are inherently greedy. Once Han Fei was certain that he could quit the game at any time, he decided to take a big gamble: "I can do the bathing quest before 4 a.m. I'll try my best to get all the newbie quest rewards!"

Slowly lifting a corner of the blanket, Han Fei saw Wei Youfu standing at the bedroom door, using his body to block the view of the other ghosts.

"When did he appear?" Recalling the time of Wei Youfu's death, Han Fei was not too surprised.

As he watched Wei Youfu's retreating figure, he suddenly realized that Youfu was different from the other ghosts in the house.

The ghosts all had physical defects, while Wei Youfu's body was intact, at least on the surface.

“Youfu didn’t seem to have any ill intentions towards me from the beginning, which is different from other ghosts. Could it be that he still retains some memories and humanity?”

(End of this chapter)