My Healing Games

Chapter 824 Intertwined Fates

"Wow, Gao Cheng is that strong?"

After sorting through the office information, Han Fei discovered that Gao Cheng was among the top three in terms of strength among the eight homeroom teachers. His abilities were extremely strange, and he also possessed a large number of cursed items. He had entered the haunted building that ordinary people would avoid on several occasions.

"But why did he end up like this? If all abilities stem from personality, then how do I unleash the power of my personality?"

With limited materials in the office, Han Fei put away his apartment key and prepared to go home.

He had just stood up when he suddenly heard the door being pushed open, and two female teachers entered the teachers' office side by side.

"How strange, I didn't experience sleep paralysis yesterday?" The person in charge of Class 8 was a petite girl named Zhang Menglan. She was lively and cute, with permed hair and manicured nails, and looked very young, as if she had just come of age.

"Isn't this great?" The woman following behind Zhang Menglan was named Yan Lan, the class leader. Her skin was covered in terrifying tattoos, and she exuded a fierce and tyrannical aura, like a wild beast.

“But I’ve been experiencing sleep paralysis for a week straight. Why didn’t it come yesterday? Did it go and paralyze other girls? No, I’m going to make it give me an explanation tonight.” Zhang Menglan crossed her arms, seemingly feeling uncomfortable, and changed her posture after noticing Han Fei’s gaze.

The two female teachers did not greet Han Fei. Han Fei was like a plague god now, and talking to him would bring misfortune.

Han Fei had already accepted his unpopular persona. He tidied his desk, picked up his backpack, and walked weakly out of the office.

"You've made a decision so quickly?" Yan Lan's voice suddenly rang out behind Han Fei. Han Fei hadn't even noticed when she had arrived. "If you stay at the school, you might still have a chance to survive. If you leave, you'll most likely become a mentally unstable monster and eventually be exiled to some forbidden building."

The metal chains clashed, and Han Fei turned to look at Yan Lan, who was even taller than him, dressed in pure black, a blend of wildness and death.

"What else can I do?" Han Fei couldn't understand it at all. Yan Lan was clearly just a living person, but her aura was ridiculously strong. It seemed to be the power of her personality.

"After you leave, Class 7 will be divided up, and you might not have a single student left." Yan Lan's eyes were terrifying, like a sea monster that might open its bloody maw at any moment. It was very impolite to describe a woman like that, but that was the actual feeling she gave Han Fei.

"Do you have any good suggestions?" Han Fei felt that the other party could smash his head with one punch; his intuition was always very accurate.

"I just think it's a pity you died like this. If you're willing to agree to my previous conditions, maybe I can help you." Yan Lan ignored Han Fei and turned back to her seat.

Throughout the process, Han Fei observed Yan Lan. The woman's spine was branded with silver-gray metal, her hands were covered with gauze stained with the aura of a curse, and every muscle in her body seemed to contain infinite power.

"Did Gao Cheng and Yan Lan have some kind of deal? Could it be that the Guifu profession is at work?" Han Fei glanced at Yan Lan's fist, frowned and left the office: "Go and talk to those kids first, then go back to the apartment and find out Gao Cheng's secret."

When Han Fei returned to Class 7 looking sickly, he originally intended to inform the other children so that they could prepare in advance. However, when he approached the classroom, he heard the following conversation.

“We know nothing about the city outside, and escaping from the school rashly would only lead to our death. We might as well stay here and find a way to kill all the teachers and the principal.”

“I agree with Number Eleven’s proposal. Considering the worst-case scenario, if the city is not two-thirds occupied by ghosts, but completely occupied by them, then we will face endless pursuit even after we escape.”

"Let's start with our teacher. Kill him? Replace him? Or win him over?"

Han Fei, who was listening in the corridor, was horrified. He had only been gone for a short while, and these students were already planning to kill their teacher and principal? This made him, who was preparing to return and deliver the message, feel somewhat uneasy.

"Don't act impulsively." Han Fei walked forward, looking into the classroom, and suddenly noticed several empty seats: "Where are they?"

"Teacher Gao, it seems your illness has improved somewhat." The calm voice of student number one appeared around the corner. Han Fei wanted to back away, but the thin student number four silently emerged from the shadows, blocking Han Fei's way out.

They looked like ordinary students, but Han Fei had a very dangerous feeling about them.

"Were they saying those things in the classroom on purpose so I could hear them?" Han Fei leaned against the wall, never expecting that he, the teacher, would face a life-or-death crisis so soon after waking up. Putting aside Number One, Number Four was genuinely intent on killing; it was terrifying.

“We want to determine what kind of person you really are.” Number One stopped in front of Han Fei: “We don’t sense any malice from you, which is strange, because the more brutal the place, the less likely there is to be pure goodwill.”

Han Fei felt a chill run down his spine. The eyes of the fourth student had turned completely black, as if he had mastered the use of personality power.

"I come from the same place as you. I promised someone that I would protect all the students in the class and not let any of you die." Han Fei didn't use his acting skills; he felt that even his masterful acting skills might not be able to fool these children.

"Go into the classroom first." Number Four put his hand on Han Fei's shoulder, and his dark eyes made Han Fei feel uneasy.

The door closed, and Han Fei stood on the podium again. He looked at the thirty students in the classroom, each with a youthful face hiding a hideous monster.

He now feels as if he is not teaching students, but rather that his students are deciding his life or death.

“Teacher Gao must really be thinking about us.” As the atmosphere in the class became increasingly tense, a little girl raised her hand. She was very young, and the number 30 was written on her workbook: “I think he is very kind, like an older brother, and also like a father.”

The child number 30 had no fighting ability, but she seemed to be able to see a person's true nature. She felt that Han Fei gave her a sense of family, which could be considered one of the highest praises.

“It’s hard to trust someone when you’re in a completely unfamiliar environment.” The second child closed the book on the table: “But someone has to try. His behavior matched what he said, so he wasn’t lying.”

“I still feel very insecure right now, and I don’t understand this world at all. Besides, the human heart is the most complex thing in the world. How can you be sure that he will stick to his own ideas?” Number Four’s hand was on Han Fei’s shoulder, like a vigilant venomous snake.

“In that case, let’s decide by voting.” Number five, Zhou Qi, raised his hand: “Raise your hand if you trust him, and remain silent if you don’t.”

Less than half of the children in the class raised their hands, and Zhou Qi understood their opinions: "Excuse me, Teacher Gao, could you please leave here? If you really want to help us, then don't interfere in our affairs. If you want us to believe you, then please believe us too."

Han Fei vaguely remembered that Kuangxiao had also said something similar to Zhou Qi's last words: these kids didn't want him to get involved.

"Okay, I'll go." There was no misunderstanding or misinterpretation; both sides were simply trying to survive in this cruel world.

After taking a few steps, Han Fei stopped again. With all the classmates looking at him, he asked Number Four somewhat shyly, "Have you already mastered the power of personality? How do you trigger this power?"

"It varies from person to person." Number Four's eyes returned to normal. He simply told Han Fei four words and then asked Han Fei to leave the classroom.

The door slammed shut, and Han Fei heard Zhou Qi, number five, say his last words.

"The assessment is in three days. From the moment you leave the classroom after school, I hope you will strictly carry out your respective tasks. Let's survive together!"

Han Fei also wanted to be with everyone, but the children wouldn't play with him.

"I underestimated them before. Rather than worrying about their safety, I should focus on getting myself ready first."

Leaning against the wall, Han Fei, who was disliked by most people in the school, left the teaching building and entered the teachers' apartment building according to the map.

He took out his key and opened the door. What greeted Han Fei's eyes was a pile of garbage and smashed furniture. The wallpaper inside the room had been slashed with a knife, and crazy words were written all over the place.

Han Fei also found warning signs and torn-off security tape hanging on his door, indicating that his apartment had been designated as a dangerous area by the school.

Standing silently inside the room, Han Fei saw several different shoe prints, indicating that someone had been in his room.

"All the cursed items Gao Cheng collected were looted. Those intruders didn't even leave me with food or clean water."

The rusty springs in the dilapidated sofa could pop out at any moment, so Han Fei could only sit on the overturned wardrobe. He looked out the window at the sky that was slowly darkening, and unease and fear began to spread in his heart.

This emotion is eroding his personality, constantly trying to destroy it.

“It will definitely be more dangerous after dark. I need to find a way to change this terrible situation.” Han Fei took out the eerie mirror: “This is the only item Gao Cheng brought out of the haunted building. That eye hospital is also strange. Before Xinhu became a ghost town, Gao Cheng suffered from a serious illness, but after the disaster, his eyes returned to normal…”

Looking down and touching the mirror, Han Fei gazed at his reflection: "Should I go to the Third Eye Hospital for another checkup?"

Han Fei was concentrating on his thoughts when he suddenly noticed that his reflection in the mirror was smiling and had its mouth open as if it wanted to tell him something.

"Judging from the shape of his lips, it seems like he's talking about the bathroom?"

Running to the bathroom, Han Fei banged on things, then smashed open a floor tile and took out a notebook and a black key from underneath.

"Attention Player No. 0000! You have discovered the E-grade special item Gao Cheng's Diary and the F-grade special item White Building Rental House Key."

"A diary? How come the person in the mirror is so familiar with Gao Cheng's house?" Han Fei stared at his reflection in the mirror. The face was exactly the same as his, yet it felt incredibly unfamiliar to him. "Could it be that the real Gao Cheng is imprisoned in this strange mirror?"

Han Fei still remembers that in Fu Sheng's memory shrine, he became Fu Sheng's father, Fu Yi, while the real Fu Yi was in his body. Their fates overlapped and their souls were intertwined.

"What exactly is the relationship between Gao Cheng and Gao Xing, the owner of the shrine? Why did I become him after entering the shrine?"

Han Fei opened the diary and was immediately captivated after reading just a few lines.

Gao Cheng suffers from an eye disease, and his biological parents also have eye problems.

On the night he was born, his selfish parents secretly swapped him with another normal child so that he could receive treatment, thus changing their fates forever.

For every flower that blooms, another will wither.

While he was receiving various treatments and enjoying his parents' boundless love, the seemingly normal child was actually experiencing one of the most tragic things in the world.

Later, when disaster struck, Gao Cheng's adoptive parents told him the truth. In fact, his adoptive parents had already realized that he was not their biological child, but because their own child and the blind couple had disappeared, they continued to treat Gao Cheng as their own child.

Even amidst the great disaster, Gao Cheng's adoptive parents continued to care for him until they were killed by the monsters. Gao Cheng lost all his relatives and was transformed into a monster himself.

By reading Gao Cheng's diary, Han Fei learned many things, including how Gao Cheng would stop at nothing to survive.

To regain his sight, he made a deal with the ghosts; to avoid being tortured and bullied by the refugees, he sacrificed them to the Red Mansion.

The human part of Gao Cheng has completely disappeared; he is now just a ghost in human skin.

In addition to descriptions of her inner changes, the diary also contains hand-drawn maps and exploration records.

Gao Cheng entered the haunted building five times and escaped unscathed each time. His diary contains information about three "haunted buildings": the Third Eye Hospital, the Yiyang Tiannian Nursing Home, and the Deep Sea Aquarium. This valuable information is what the school most wants to obtain.

Besides the information about the three "haunted buildings," Gao Cheng also has a secret storeroom outside the school, where the most precious cursed items and some supplies are stored. The key to open the storeroom is also kept with the diary.

(End of this chapter)