My Healing Games

Chapter 866 The Brain Hidden in the Jar

The veins on Han Fei's arm, gripping the documents, bulged. The bloody night at the orphanage had completely changed Han Fei's fate, turning a child with a healing personality into a madman who could only laugh maniacally.

It shattered all the hopes that the children had fought for, cut off all their paths to survival, and strangled them on that one night.

Han Fei could sense that despair just from the fragments of his maniacal laughter.

"Childlike innocence? Dean? Old grudges and new hatreds—this time, I'm determined to settle the score with them!"

Thinking of what the children had gone through, Han Fei made up his mind to seize the hatred in the mental hospital. He would now inflict all the pain the children had suffered on the hatred.

Repaying resentment with virtue, why repay virtue?

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth—that's why Han Fei was able to survive in the deeper world.

"Don't be nervous, relax." The first seven noticed Han Fei's unusual behavior and gently handed him a piece of chewing gum: "It just expired nine years ago, it's still edible, chewing it is very stress-relieving."

"Thank you, but no need." Han Fei put down the documents and listened attentively to the plan from the Bureau of Investigation's administrator.

They had actually been preparing to take action against the Third Mental Hospital for a long time, but there was no consensus within the organization. Some people were worried about failure, while others were afraid of causing unnecessary casualties. However, when hatred took the initiative to go out and began to linger near the Bureau of Investigation, all the managers felt a sense of crisis.

They were unaware of what Han Fei had done in Hope City; they only recalled the worst period of the great disaster, when hatred would only leave the original building when it expanded into the Ghost Realm.

In their view, the Third Mental Hospital's hatred was a deliberate provocation, and they even had designs on the Investigation Bureau.

The hour-and-a-half-long operational meeting quickly came to an end. The management decided to launch a cleanup operation against the Third Mental Hospital at noon the next day. Except for the group that left with Li Xue, all other groups of the investigation team were dispatched, along with five groups from the patrol team and the logistics support group.

These are just the basic forces. The management also decided to contact the Bureau's top special personality holders for help. They have made great contributions to the Bureau and are not subject to any restrictions. They will only return when the Bureau needs them.

"It seems the bureau is serious this time." Even on the seventh day after his death, he had rarely seen such a large-scale operation, and his expression turned serious.

"It's alright, just a few more combat teams than last time." Han Fei silently planned his own affairs.

"The Investigation Bureau is divided into several different squadrons. For example, our Investigation Squadron has thirteen investigation teams. The squadron leader is in charge of command and dispatch. He is the most authoritative and the most respected. But the strongest person in the Investigation Squadron is the deputy leader." Touqi explained to Han Fei, the newcomer, "The captain is the overall commander of the battlefield, and the deputy leader will charge to the front line. He doesn't need to think about anything else. He just needs to kill."

"Is the vice-captain the top-tier special personality holder that the leader just mentioned?"

"Yes, their personalities have awakened more than seven times. They are true monsters that mutated after the great catastrophe." This was the first time Touqi had used the word "monster" to describe someone: "The group leader is strong enough, right? But he's just a group leader. Do you understand what I mean?"

In any squadron, only the strongest person can become the vice-captain in charge of killing. This time, the investigation squadron can be said to have mobilized its entire force.

“Hatred doesn’t leave a building for no reason. I have a bad feeling. Now the director has gone to Hope New City. Do you think this could be a trap?” Touqi frowned deeply. “Are ghosts and monsters teaming up to set us up?”

"That's possible." Han Fei nodded slightly. The shrine's memory world had already entered the second stage, so it was always better to be cautious.

"No, I need to go talk to the squad leader." After leaving in a hurry on the seventh day, Han Fei went to Group 10. He consulted with the top student about how to use the possessive personality, and then returned to the school and called all the children into the classroom.

After closing the doors and windows and drawing the curtains, Han Fei made sure that no one was eavesdropping outside before walking to the center of the podium.

"There's something I need to tell you all." After a moment's hesitation, Han Fei slowly began, "On that night of bloodshed, Zero killed you all. I think I only appeared that night. I know this is something you least want to talk about, but now we need to face it. According to the clues I have, Gao Xing indirectly caused the bloodshed by instructing the director. Tomorrow at noon, I will go into the Third Mental Hospital with the people from the Investigation Bureau and kill the director of this worst-case scenario."

"A blood-red night..."

All the children fell silent, a piercing pain shooting through their chests.

What exactly happened that night?

Han Fei looked at Number Two, but the other shook his head: "My brain was stolen a long time ago. My remains survived the bloody night, but the brain stored in the jar did not."

Whether Number Two didn't want to talk about it or there was another reason, he didn't answer.

“Zero kept the most painful memories to himself, and we have no recollection of that night.” Number One stood up from his seat: “Let’s change the subject, like what to do to make the director regret his actions after we catch him.”

"We can't just let it be destroyed so easily, even if it's in the shrine." Number Four lowered his head and wrote the word "death" one by one, his killing intent permeating the desk.

“We’ll go with you tomorrow.” Number Two didn’t show any anger on his face, but he said he would take all the children with him: “We won’t risk going into the mental hospital. You’d better find a way to force it out of the hellish place.”

"No need. This time, the strongest special personality holders from the Calamity Investigation Bureau are taking action. You should just stay in the bureau." Han Fei was responsible for the safety of these children.

“If it really is that person, the investigation team alone might not be enough.” Number Two had a deep impression of the director; a part of his memory materialized into the director’s appearance before being possessed by the evil spirit: “Trust me, and I also need you to help me retrieve something from there.”

"what?"

"A special jar developed by Immortal Pharmaceuticals..."

Number Two can see fate, and since he said so, Han Fei did not refute it.

He left the classroom and found Yan Lan, preparing to take the students of Class 7 out for a new "trial" the next day.

……

In the main building of the Third Mental Hospital, eerie murmurs could be heard constantly coming from the solitary confinement cells, as if someone were talking in their sleep.

"Lately, I keep dreaming about a strange man knocking on my door. He's holding a bladeless knife, wearing a demon mask, and covered in children's blood!"

“I always looked at him through the peephole. His knocking became more and more violent, and I was terrified, but the neighbors in the building seemed not to hear me at all, and no one came to take care of me!”

"That terrifying feeling made me feel like I was back in my childhood."

The chains fell to the ground, the door to the solitary confinement cell opened, and a doctor in a white coat stood in the doorway. He threw a huge suitcase into the cell: "Director, the kind of meat you're looking for still hasn't been found."

Before the doctor could finish speaking, he was sucked into the solitary confinement room by a tremendous force, without even having time to scream.

It seemed to rain inside the confinement room, and after a moment, that eerie voice rang out again.

“I have lived in a haunted house since I was a child. Every time around three o’clock in the morning, the locked wooden door in the basement would make a sound, as if someone was pushing it open and then closing it.”

“I remember when I was little, my brother and I would joke around and scare him by saying that there was a monster with long brown hair hiding in the basement that ate children.”

“My younger brother was so scared that he couldn’t sleep well all night. He started sleepwalking from that time on. Every time he woke up, he was under the bed and dreamed that someone was hiding under the bed and pulling him.”

"I miss my younger brother very much, but unfortunately I haven't seen him in a long time."

"When I was about eight years old, my mother forgot to lock the door, and my younger brother wandered out in the middle of the night and never came back."

"How would I know he went out in the middle of the night? I don't remember, I don't remember anything."

"I forgot what day it was, and my mother hadn't come back for a long time, but she left me plenty of food when she left. There was enough meat in that big box for me to eat for a long time."

"It was the first time I had ever eaten such sour meat. It had no aroma. After eating it a lot, reddish-brown hair started growing on my body. When I looked at myself in the mirror, I felt both terrified and helpless. I seemed to be looking more and more like the monster in the basement."

A large, brown-haired hand reached out from the solitary confinement cell and closed the door, but the sounds from inside still echoed in the corridor.

"I love children the most. I want to stay with children forever, watch them play, watch them learn, watch them go crazy, and see if their brains are as beautiful as yours."

(End of this chapter)