My ‘Healing’ Game
Chapter 126: It’s the Boss’s Blessing to Have an Employee Like Me

Chapter 126: Chapter 126: It’s the Boss’s Blessing to Have an Employee Like Me

"This..."

Regret, enormous regret as if ten thousand resentful souls were howling past the old man’s heart.

He admitted he had underestimated Han Fei, he had underestimated the complexity and horror of human nature.

"I don’t want to buy anything."

The old man, knowing better, did not resist; instinctively, he shrank back, but his arm was tightly gripped by Han Fei.

The two store employees facing him seemed to have conspired together, repeating the same sentence with grim faces.

"What do you want to buy?"

"I want to go home."

The old man’s arms were seized by the two employees, and he was dragged into the store.

"What do you want to buy?"

Though they were repeating the same sentence, the murderous intent in their words grew heavier.

Looking at Han Fei and the one-eyed shop manager as if begging for mercy, the old man reluctantly walked to the counter and picked up a piece of candy.

"I’d like to buy a piece of candy," the old man’s voice trembled; he lived at the crossroads and knew the true nature of this store all too well – it was anything but a convenience store.

"We’re having a promotion now, buy three pieces of candy, and you’ll get an extra one for free," Han Fei said with a professional smile, giving off a refreshing aura, "Would you like to buy more?"

"But..." the old man’s complexion was pale as he clutched the candy in his hand: "I don’t have that many eyes."

The old man knew the hidden price of the convenience store; he was prepared to sacrifice one of his own eyes: "Let’s check out."

The one-eyed shop manager nodded, took out a tiny paperman from his pocket, and had the old man swallow it.

Only a few seconds passed before the old man’s body began to twist; he painfully clutched his own neck, then reached his hand down his throat, attempting to cough up the paperman, but no matter what he did, he couldn’t touch it.

A faint laughter emerged from his stomach; he maintained that horrific posture, his dark energy rapidly shrinking, eventually turning into a puddle of foul-smelling black blood.

The one-eyed shop manager picked up the paperman from the black blood, which was now holding a new piece of candy with an even more lifelike smile on its face.

"Senior, isn’t the value of a piece of candy equivalent to his eyeball?" In Han Fei’s view, earning a double profit was good enough, but he hadn’t expected the one-eyed shop manager to be even more ruthless, directly eliminating the person.

"The price comes into play when the other party is in a position to negotiate with us," the one-eyed shop manager carefully pocketed the paperman, picked up the cleaning tools from the waste disposal room, and started to clean up the floor.

Watching the one-eyed shop manager busy inside, Han Fei slowly realized that this senior was actually a very reliable person.

"The old man didn’t dare to resist in front of One-eyed; could it be that this shop manager’s strength is terrifying?" Han Fei suddenly became curious about the one-eyed shop manager and went over to help, cleaning earnestly, "With the one-eyed shop manager here, tonight’s task doesn’t seem so difficult."

Before the two employees had finished cleaning, strange noises came from the back alley as if someone was rummaging through the garbage bins.

When these noises arose, the one-eyed shop manager started to have a headache again; his sole remaining eye twitched, seeming like it could pop out of the socket at any moment.

Muttering words that no one could understand, he squatted on the ground, covering his ears.

"Are you okay?"

"The rats, those rats are back again, they need to be killed, all of them..." the one-eyed shop manager refused to go near the waste disposal room, squatting alone on the ground, muttering like a madman.

When the one-eyed shop manager was lucid, he seemed as normal as anyone else, but he became incredibly dangerous when agitated.

Han Fei didn’t dare to get too close to One-eyed; he picked up the cleaning tools from the ground and entered the waste disposal room.

"When I mentioned leaving, the one-eyed shop manager had a fit. The words ’leave’ seemed to trigger the curse the Boss had placed on him; now, upon hearing the noise from the back alley, he’s begun to go mad again. Could there be something in that alley that is of great significance to him?"

The curse on the shop employee had been set by the Boss to prevent accidents. Since the one-eyed shop manager reacted to the alley’s noises, there must be something there that could help him regain his sanity.

With the pungent smell in the air, Han Fei put down the tools in his hand and opened the back door of the convenience store.

The moment the back door opened, all the noise outside ceased.

Han Fei looked down the alley; everything seemed normal except for a ball that slowly rolled to his feet.

"A ball? It can’t fit a human head at this size; it should just be a ball."

Han Fei slowly squatted down and touched the ball with his fingertips, and there was no reaction from the system. It was only then that he dared to pick up the ball, "One-eyed said there are a lot of rats in the back alley, but how would rats play with a ball?"

He walked out the back door, holding the ball, as the Ghost Pattern on his body started to wail again. However, for the sake of a thorough investigation, Han Fei could only put the Resentment Soul within the Ghost Pattern through this inconvenience.

"The garbage cans have been rummaged through, but there aren’t any visible tooth or claw marks..." As Han Fei slowly approached the space between the first and second trash cans, he stopped in his tracks.

Hiding between the two garbage cans was a little boy, about four or five years old. The child, seeing Han Fei in the uniform of a shop employee, was so scared that he turned pale, his eyes brimming with tears, but he didn’t dare to cry out loud.

He bit his little hand, and tears rolled down ceaselessly as he desperately burrowed into a filthy corner.

Honestly, Han Fei was also very scared at the moment. After all, he couldn’t exit the game yet, and if something really happened, he’d be finished.

As they stared at each other for a while, Han Fei was the first to bend down. He gently rolled the ball he was holding towards the child, "Is this yours?"

The boy hugged the ball, his eyes watery as he nodded. He was still reluctant to speak, as if afraid that opening his mouth would lead him to start crying outright.

"Do you live nearby? Where are your folks?" Han Fei asked for a long time, but the boy didn’t respond, so he backed off, "I’ll pretend I didn’t see you. You should head home quickly, and don’t come here to play again. This place is dangerous."

Rising to his feet, Han Fei stepped back towards the convenience store’s rear door.

Seeing Han Fei retreat, the little boy, clutching the ball, ran out stumblingly.

He glanced uncertainly at Han Fei and, noticing that Han Fei had no intention of chasing after him, he placed the ball down, bowed deeply at a hundred degrees to Han Fei, and then ran towards the exit of the alley.

"You forgot your ball," Han Fei shook his head, "This kid’s quite cute. If the ghosts in Deep World were all like him, that’d be nice."

Upon hearing Han Fei’s reminder, the child ran back wobbly, picked up the ball from the ground.

"Little guy, what’s your name? We could be friends in the future."

Han Fei spoke again, and this time the child didn’t run away but struggled for a while before saying in a babyish tone, "My mom says the people in the store are very scary."

"If you know the people in the store are scary, why would you still come and play in this alley?" Han Fei was only trying to tease the child, for such a cute little guy was a rare sight in the Deep World.

"I came here to find my brother. He’s here, inside the wall."

"Inside the wall?" As soon as the little boy finished speaking, Han Fei immediately looked at the wall with caution.

The alley was dark, and it was only upon closer inspection that one could notice the silhouettes of people on the walls of the alley.

"My brother is in the wall. He used to want to save me and Mom, and then he entered the store, and I haven’t seen him since. The old lady shop employee said that all people who enter the store end up on the wall. She said my brother should also be in the wall," the boy babbled nervously, and Han Fei keenly picked up on the key point.

"The old lady shop employee?" Han Fei had seen the photos in the employee prep room. His own photo was next to One-eyed’s, and next to One-eyed’s photo seemed to be an old lady whose face had been blotted out.

"Your brother, does he have a melon seed-shaped face, with long hair..." Han Fei described One-eyed’s appearance, and before he could finish, the boy came running toward him.

"Have you seen my brother?"

Before Han Fei could reply, the system’s voice came into his head, "Player with ID 0000, please be aware! You have successfully triggered a Grade-G hidden mission — The Disappeared Brother."

"The Disappeared Brother: Help the child in front of you find his brother. Reuniting family members is a virtue."

"Attention! The rewards of this hidden mission are not fixed, and completing this hidden mission may affect other missions, please choose your approach carefully."

If it weren’t for the system’s warning, Han Fei might have sent the boy to see One-eyed immediately, "Hidden missions couldn’t be that simple. If I let the boy see One-eyed directly, One-eyed, cursed by the Shop Manager, might explode on the spot, and the Shop Manager hiding in the storeroom might also come out and kill both me and the kid..."

A long-term plan was required for this. To complete the mission perfectly, he first needed to remove the curse from the brother’s body.

Staring at the boy in front of him, Han Fei thought of a plan, "Maybe I can use this kid to gain the trust of the brother, and then collaborate, the new and old employees together, to slowly find an opportunity to replace the Shop Manager."

"The Shop Manager is very strong, but Deep World is so chaotic, who can guarantee nothing unexpected will happen? As long as we seize the opportunity, it is not impossible for me and One-eyed to become the boss."

Although it was Han Fei’s first day at work, he was already thinking about joining forces with the senior employee to rise up and replace the Shop Manager.

"Curses are hard to remove, and right now I only know two ways to dispel them. The first is for the Curser to voluntarily lift the curse, and the second is to off the Curser."

"Currently, we are far too weak compared to the Shop Manager, so it’s better to just work honestly. Everything can be done slowly. As long as I stay alive and undying, my chances of success will grow."

A glint flashed in his eyes, but Han Fei quickly controlled his emotions, "I’ve seen your brother, but you can’t meet him yet. However, I promise that in some time, I’ll reunite you with your family."

"Really?"

"Of course," Han Fei used his secret of touching the depths of the soul, tousled the child’s hair as the simple-minded boy’s emotions conveyed only concern and longing for his family.