My Healing Games

Chapter 47 Don't Look Back

"The door is covered in the word 'death,' and blood is seeping out from under the door. Is such a neighbor really suitable to be a friend?"

Meng Shi said that Xu Qin lived in room 1052, and that although Xu Qin was a bit crazy, she was actually a nice person.

At first, Han Fei had certain expectations for Xu Qin, feeling that everyone could get along harmoniously. However, after seeing the door covered with the word "death," he suddenly realized that Meng Shi thought Xu Qin was a good person, but that was in comparison to the other neighbors in the same building.

Among a group of psychopathic killers, vengeful ghosts, and monsters, any slight merit of Xu Qin's will be magnified infinitely.

Han Fei is currently in a dilemma. He needs to complete a task to leave the game, but there are no more tasks available from his "familiar" neighbors. He can only explore unfamiliar floors.

But the unfamiliar floor was obviously very dangerous, and he wasn't 100% sure he could escape.

"The new mission is probably forcing me to explore unknown areas. I remember when I first quit the game, the system said it hoped I could speed up the exploration."

Looking at the dark stairwell, Han Fei gripped the kitchen knife tightly and slowly took a step.

Since there's no way to escape it, we can only move forward.

As soon as Han Fei's foot touched the steps, he heard a "crash" sound from downstairs, as if the chain on the iron gate at the entrance of the building had been removed.

"The iron gate at the entrance of the building was opened? Did someone leave the apartment building? Or did someone enter the apartment building from the outside?"

The motion-activated light on the first floor turned on, and Han Fei quietly approached the railing, finding an angle to look down.

A shadow appeared on the wall between the first and second floors, resembling a person lying on the ground.

"The situation is not good."

Upon seeing the strange shadow, Han Fei immediately prepared to retreat back to the haunted house, but just as he was about to turn around, the system's cold voice echoed in his mind.

"Attention player number 0000! You entered the stairwell at 3:04 AM, triggering a hidden quest in the stairwell - Do not look back."

Hidden Quests: In this open world, there are all sorts of random quests hidden. The higher your luck stat, the higher the probability of triggering a random hidden quest.

"Don't look back (one of the hidden missions in the stairwell): Within fifteen minutes, no matter what happens, do not go downstairs or look back. If you violate this rule, you may die."

Upon hearing the cold, mechanical voice in his mind, Han Fei felt a chill run down his spine.

He stood frozen in place, afraid to move his neck.

"How come another hidden quest has been triggered? Didn't Huang Ying say that the probability of triggering hidden quests is extremely low, and they are very rare? I'm only level three now and I've already encountered two hidden quests!"

Holding his breath and listening intently, Han Fei's Adam's apple trembled: "No going downstairs or turning around within fifteen minutes, or you'll die? This mission description is way too direct, leaving absolutely no room for maneuver!"

Maintaining his posture, Han Fei stopped between the fourth and fifth floors. He now knew that there was a person lying on the ground on the first floor running upstairs, and he also knew that a dark figure had just entered the room on the fifth floor. Neither of them were good people.

His breathing became increasingly rapid. The mission required Han Fei not to retreat. If anything came, he could only run upstairs. However, the danger upstairs was significantly greater than downstairs. He still clearly remembered having his arms torn off after he went upstairs.

"What should I do? Should I light a cigarette to calm down?"

After putting on the amulet Meng Shi had given him, Han Fei reached for the lighter in his pocket. He didn't know what would happen after lighting a cigarette; he just wanted to prepare in advance.

The voice-activated light didn't turn on again, but Han Fei could faintly hear messy footsteps behind him, as if the other person had just learned to walk.

Slowly leaning against the wall, Han Fei was hoping that his passive ability, Hide and Seek, would work, but unfortunately, it could only reduce his presence. There wasn't a single obstacle in the hallway, and anyone who wasn't blind could see him.

The footsteps downstairs grew closer, and Han Fei's heart began to race.

One of the mission requirements was that Han Fei could not go downstairs. He dared not go upstairs unless absolutely necessary, because the higher he went, the further he would be from the haunted house.

In the dead of night, standing alone in the hallway, listening to the approaching footsteps behind him, Han Fei's heart began to race uncontrollably.

He instinctively gripped the kitchen knife tighter, the sound of footsteps behind him clearly reaching his ears, until a moment later, they suddenly disappeared.

"There's no sound?"

Han Fei resisted the urge to turn around and look, maintaining his posture, but just a few seconds later, another change occurred in the corridor.

"crunch..."

The chair that was blocking the entrance to the haunted house was moved, and the security door of the haunted house 1044 was gently closed!
The moment the door to the haunted house closed, Han Fei felt as if he had lost the bond of home. A chilling coldness crept up his ankles to his chest, and his calves trembled slightly.

Tick, tick.

Whether it was water or blood, some kind of viscous liquid dripped onto his back, and Han Fei could feel something standing behind him.

He subconsciously took a step forward, and as he did, two footsteps echoed in the hallway.

"Only a minute has passed..."

Han Fei tried his best to calm himself down, but even with his strong mental fortitude, he began to feel fear.

"Don't panic. As long as I don't turn back within fifteen minutes, this hidden mission will be complete, and then I can exit the game directly."

Biting his tongue, Han Fei used the pain to dispel his fear: "The other party doesn't intend to kill me for the time being. I hope they can adopt a cat-and-mouse mentality and slowly torture me to death, so that I can buy myself more time."

"Huh? How did you get trapped here too?"

As Han Fei was pondering, a voice that sounded incredibly familiar suddenly came from behind him. The voice felt very warm and friendly, like that of a friend from the past, but he couldn't remember who the voice belonged to.

"I never expected to see you in this godforsaken place. How did you get in?"

The voice came again, but Han Fei still did not turn around.

Although the voice felt incredibly familiar, the tone was very friendly, and the conversation was extremely interesting, Han Fei knew very well that he had never had any friends before! Not a single one!

So that sound must have been made by a ghost, trying to trick him into turning around.

The ghost standing behind Han Fei probably didn't realize this and continued to coax Han Fei in a friendly tone.

In order to buy time, Han Fei quickly got into the zone, adjusting his tone as if he was about to remember who the other person was.

(End of this chapter)