My ‘Healing’ Game
Chapter 121: Do you need me to take you home?

Chapter 121: Chapter 121: Do you need me to take you home?

The three cigarettes left by the landlord were special blood-colored items. The mission description mentioned that after the landlord’s death, his three children paid their respects with three cigarettes in front of his "Spiritual Altar".

Han Fei had observed carefully; each of the three cigarettes was enveloped with "Dark Energy", and he did not know what would happen after lighting them.

It might cause the "Dark Energy" to invade his body, or it could trigger something related to the landlord, or even possibly summon the landlord’s "children".

"I once heard a volunteer at the orphanage say that if you encounter a ghost hitting the wall, you could break it with black dog blood, boy’s urine, or by lighting a cigarette. I don’t know if it’s true or false."

With only three cigarettes, Han Fei held the bowl in one hand, standing amidst the cold wind and dark night, and he inexplicably thought of the little match girl.

He clamped a cigarette between his lips and took out the lighter he found in the haunted house’s kitchen, silently calculating the time.

The surrounding streets were desolate, without a single person in sight.

After a full eight minutes, Xu Qin still had not come, and the human-shaped bloodstain on the wall across the street had also disappeared.

The landlord’s ring on his finger began to emanate a cold feeling, and Han Fei watched his surroundings vigilantly. When he looked down, he accidentally noticed an additional bloodstain on the sidewalk.

"It’s moving?"

The bloodstain resembled a person crawling on the ground, and every time Han Fei blinked, the distance between them shortened.

By the ninth minute, that "Blood Shadow" had already appeared in front of Han Fei.

"Logically, I should be scared of it, but being scared won’t make it leave me alone."

A flicker of flame emerged in the dark night, and Han Fei lit the landlord’s cigarette.

Strange "Dark Fiend Energy" quietly erupted. Han Fei was familiar with this sensation, as the amulet Meng Shi had given him also contained someone else’s "Dark Fiend Energy".

"Does each cigarette amount to an amulet? No, the ’Dark Energy’ contained in this cigarette is far more than that in Meng Shi’s amulet; they’re not even on the same level."

The overwhelming "Dark Energy" caused even the night to twist. As the cigarette burnt continuously, the "Dark Energy" kept intensifying!

"Were the landlord’s three children that powerful? Just one cigarette contains such terrifying ’Dark Energy’?"

Han Fei guessed that when the cigarette burnt out, the "Dark Energy" would dissipate, so he had to make good use of this time.

The "Dark Energy" not belonging to Han Fei dispersed within the curling smoke, lingering around him. Before the cigarette burnt out, it would be difficult for "Lonely Ghosts" outside to harm him.

The correct way to use an amulet is for protection, but Han Fei felt he could not just sit around waiting for death.

He looked at the "Blood Shadow" which had suddenly stopped moving, a slow smile growing at the corner of his mouth.

"Why have you stopped moving?"

The sizzling sound of the burning tobacco leaves was comforting. Han Fei, cigarette in mouth, stepped on top of the "Blood Shadow’s" head.

"Dark Energy" surged like a fierce wind, and Han Fei watched the bloodstain beneath his foot silently: "Do you want to fight me for this body?"

Exhaling a breath of smoke onto the bloody stain, that vastly superior and terrifying "Dark Energy" spread outwards. The human-shaped bloodstain, having not anticipated this, didn’t dare to make a move despite being provocatively stepped on by Han Fei.

The cigarette had already burnt halfway. Han Fei knew all the "Dark Energy" came from that cigarette, and once it burnt out, he could be seen through by the other party.

"I’ll give you half a cigarette’s time to come out on your own."

Pressed down by the terrifying "Dark Energy", the bloodstain on the ground seemed to start hesitating.

While Han Fei verbally gave his adversary half a cigarette’s time, it had barely been two seconds before he stretched his hand holding the cigarette towards the bloodstain on the ground.

Dark Energy surged like ocean waves sweeping the floor, and faced with Dark Energy that was in an entirely different league, the humanoid bloodstain did not attempt to resist.

Han Fei used a secret to touch the deepest part of the soul, and the moment his hand contacted the bloodstain, ripples spread across the pool of blood, and he grasped a shattered and fragmented head.

Resentment, pain, insanity, along with slivers of unease and panic, Han Fei sensed a multitude of emotions in the humanoid bloodstain.

It was afraid.

Putting the cigarette back in his mouth, Han Fei grabbed the hair of the head and yanked it out of the bloodstain.

The skull, having been crushed and violently impacted, was completely deformed; Han Fei stared at its twisted and broken face, excitement and pleasure flickering in his eyes.

"You enjoy making people lose their way home, but in reality, the one who truly can’t find the way home is you." Licking his lips unconsciously, Han Fei’s expression was chilling, "Would you like me to send you home? From now on, we’ll be family."

At first, when it heard about going home, the humanoid bloodstain didn’t comprehend, but as soon as it heard that it was to become family with the current Han Fei, it immediately realized something was amiss.

"That’s a place with no pain and despair, a place only for family."

The cigarette was nearly burnt out, and at this moment, the Dark Energy reached its densest point.

"Don’t be scared, it will be over soon, and we’ll be one family," Han Fei’s smile hid an uncontrollable madness and cruelty. His fingers caressed the chin of the incomplete head, his gaze tender and filled with sickly infatuation.

Opening the Attribute Panel, Han Fei used the Soul-returning Talent of unknown level on the humanoid bloodstain!

Even more terrifying Dark Energy erupted abruptly, the night was torn asunder, the Attribute Panel oozed fresh blood, and then began to shatter on both sides as if opening the Ghost Gate Pass itself!

One after another, Ghost Faces appeared, and behind Han Fei seemed to be an endless Blood Sea.

The humanoid bloodstain on the ground seemed to sense something and looked behind Han Fei, its already flattened face almost splitting in terror.

It decisively abandoned its own chin and retreated swiftly. At the same time, the space around Han Fei began to twist.

Cigarette ash fell to the ground, and the voice of the system echoed in Han Fei’s Brain Sea.

"No lost Wandering Soul found! Soul-returning Talent activation failed!"

Han Fei paid no attention to the prompt in his Brain Sea; he simply turned his head to have a look behind him.

The way back was still there, and Xu Qin was standing in the shadows by the wall of Happiness Residential Community.

"It felt like ten minutes passed, but actually, it seems not that long. That pool of blood has the ability to confound the senses. If there’s a chance in the future, I might have a chat with it again."

The humanoid bloodstain was nowhere to be seen, but Han Fei noticed some residual bloodstains on his hand: "In its rush to escape, it seems to have forsaken the lower half of its face."

The blood in the palm of his hand was quickly consumed by the Ghost Pattern, and Han Fei dared not to waste any more time, continuing forward while squatting down with his bowl.

The humanoid bloodstain across the street was apparently one of the ghosts with the heaviest Grudge Energy at the intersection. After abandoning pursuit of Han Fei, the other entities seemed to become restless.

"Just crossing a street is this dangerous; it seems truly challenging to live a good life in this city,"

Setting aside the distracting thoughts in his mind, Han Fei focused on the task at hand. He dodged several "flirting" Lonely Ghosts and avoided numerous inconspicuous traps before finally reaching the other side of the road.

"Attention, Player No. 0000! You have successfully completed the Level-G main quest—A Hundred Ways to Die at the Crossroads! Receive base reward: one Skill Point. Receive item reward—The Groom’s Boutonnière."

"The Groom’s Boutonnière (Level-G Crimson Item): He thought it would be the happiest day of his life, but as he passed this crossroads, his wedding car was hit against the wall by a speeding truck. From that day on, he began to wander this crossroads, never encountering the person he was waiting for. He gradually grew envious of all Happiness and joy."