My ‘Healing’ Game
Chapter 153: The Tacit Understanding between Han Fei and the Police

Chapter 153: Chapter 153: The Tacit Understanding between Han Fei and the Police

"You’re an actor, is it really appropriate for you to seek out the police every day? Won’t the paparazzi make up stories about you?" Li Xue rode the motorcycle, with Han Fei sitting behind her.

"No worries, I’m quite familiar with the paparazzi. Next, I plan to turn them into informers."

"A star turning paparazzi into informers? You really dare to dream." Li Xue drove fiercely, speeding along, "The entertainment industry is complex; I think it’s better for you to restrain yourself."

"I had no choice before, but now I just want to be a real actor. If those people in the industry dare to trip me up, I’ll flip the table on them and then come over to join you guys at the Xinhu Police." Han Fei seriously asked Li Xue, "Do people with a history of heroic acts get extra points during police recruitment?"

"They should consider it."

"Is there a limit to the extra points?"

"A limit?"

At a little past eleven in the morning, Li Xue brought Han Fei to the Old City District police station.

Originally, Li Xue’s teacher was still in the hospital, but when he heard that Han Fei wanted to meet him, he immediately changed the meeting place, feeling that Han Fei shouldn’t get near the hospital now.

Entering the office of the Old City District police station, the elderly man had already arrived early, not liking to make others wait for him.

"What do you want to talk to me about?" the old man stood by the desk, his stature erect, not appearing sick at all.

"Old man, have your police ever investigated someone?" Han Fei didn’t beat around the bush and asked straightaway.

"Who?"

"Ma Manjiang." After Han Fei mentioned this name, the office became quiet.

Without answering immediately, the old man took a strange look at Han Fei, then surprisingly showed a rare smile, "Where did you get this name from?"

"I found it online." Han Fei spoke his entire conjecture, believing that Ma Manjiang had an affair with Chu Xia, then in an attempt to keep the secret, failing to intimidate her, committed murder. He also suspected that the first child hiding in the gym was Jin Sheng.

If he hadn’t learned some information in the Deep World, he couldn’t have formed such a complete chain of conjecture, but Li Xue’s teacher did not know the existence of the Deep World.

From the old man’s perspective, Han Fei having deduced such a possibility merely from some fragmented information online was simply a prodigy in investigation.

After listening to Han Fei, admiration filled the old man’s eyes: "That you could deduce all this by yourself is quite impressive."

"Have you guys been watching him too?" The surprise in Han Fei’s heart was no less than that of the police, from the old man’s demeanor, it seemed they had long known about Ma Manjiang.

"Two days ago, we extracted some information from Meng Chang’an and then conducted a thorough re-investigation of Yimin Private Academy. Unfortunately, Ma Manjiang has disappeared, and we are currently tracing his whereabouts in secret." The old man sat down and gestured for Han Fei to sit beside him, "We revisited the old records, and it seems Ma Manjiang had many identities, his last appearance under this identity being at his father’s funeral. By the way, his father was the founder of Yimin Private Academy."

"His dad was the principal?"

"Ma Manjiang’s father was an entrepreneur and philanthropist. They initially built the school in the outskirts to facilitate nearby children’s education, but gradually, it twisted..." Li Xue’s teacher shared some of the things he knew with Han Fei.

The police had already established that there was some connection between all the victims at Yimin Private Academy; however, they believed the link among the victims was not Ma Manjiang, but Jin Sheng.

He was the last victim before Yimin Private Academy closed down and was the turning point of the entire incident.

Han Fei was thinking about the case from Ma Manjiang’s perspective, but Li Xue’s teacher was considering it from the perspective of the Butterfly.

The Butterfly enjoyed playing with human nature, pushing kindness to madness; among the victims, the one fitting the Butterfly’s criteria best was Jin Sheng.

Li Xue’s teacher even boldly guessed that all the cases in Yimin Private Academy stemmed from Jin Sheng.

The first person targeted by the Butterfly was Jin Sheng; the Butterfly blatantly presented the world’s malice to Jin Sheng, wrapping him step by step in surrounding evil.

Han Fei conjectured that Jin Sheng was the initial student hiding in the gym, and Li Xue’s teacher further theorized that it might have been the Butterfly’s deliberate lure, allowing him to see firsthand what Teacher Ma was like in private.

Jin Sheng had thought about seeking help, yet the words he spoke initially were not believed by anyone. By the time there were people willing to believe him, those who believed him had been successively killed, and eventually, Jin Sheng was driven to his death.

Perhaps Jin Sheng’s death was not the outcome that Butterfly wanted, as it would have preferred Jin Sheng to embrace malice. Unfortunately, Jin Sheng resolutely chose death.

The police speculated thus, but they needed evidence to proceed with the case, and at present, they could not confirm why Jin Sheng had been targeted by Butterfly.

Through their investigation and inquiry, they felt that Jin Sheng was just an ordinary, kind-hearted child, with his only notable characteristic being his fondness for ghost stories, and that was all.

Since Jin Sheng had died, the police were unable to find out what he was actually thinking from other people. However, it was different for Han Fei. He suspected that Jin Sheng was currently at Yimin Private Academy, and he had the opportunity to approach Jin Sheng closely, to have a good conversation with him, and perhaps even become Jin Sheng’s friend.

Han Fei had an advantage that the police did not possess. After listening to Teacher Li Xue’s analysis, he immediately understood what he needed to do.

In fact, the cooperation between Han Fei and the police had already become quite tacit. In Deep World, through Grudge, he saw the remaining memory images of the deceased, then used these memory images to piece together a truth, offering the police a broad direction for solving the case.

Subsequent meticulous evidence collection and arrests required a massive amount of manpower and resources; these tasks were handed over to the police. Both parties complemented each other, one apprehending Butterfly and the suspects in reality, and the other bringing solace and redemption to the deceased in Deep World.

Han Fei had a fantastic memory. The elder only had to mention things once, and he remembered all the key points, ready to try and find Jin Sheng in the school of Deep World that very night.

"Old sir, having this conversation with you has really opened my mind," Han Fei was focused on the details, but he lacked the big-picture thinking of Teacher Li Xue, after all, he was just an actor.

"I quite enjoy chatting with you too," the elder looked at Han Fei, his expression gentle, "I am very happy to have met a young man like you, but I hope you will promise me one thing."

"What is it?"

"I suggest you choose a happier profession. I know you are a great actor, possessing a talent that a good police officer should have, but neither of these professions can truly help you recover your smile," Teacher Li Xue seemed to see through what Han Fei was thinking, "As an actor, you can portray the smiles of others, but you can’t portray your own; as a police officer, you will see a lot of evil, and those evils will weigh on you, preventing you from breathing freely. By then, it’s not just your smile that you would lose."

Teacher Li Xue’s earnest words warmed Han Fei’s heart, but unfortunately, he had no other option, "I am aware of that, but now I do not want to back down, I must capture Butterfly."

Han Fei spoke with exceptional determination; he truly had no way out, as the Black Box that Butterfly was seeking was in his mind, and their relationship was of an undying and endless nature.

An old and a young man, two individuals with different identities, ages, and professions, chatted in the office for a long time until a hospital called and Teacher Li Xue had to leave, accompanied by another police officer.

Seeing how engrossed her teacher and Han Fei were, Li Xue found it incredible; her teacher had not chatted with anyone for a long time.

After talking with the elderly man, Han Fei’s thoughts were opened up, and most of his speculations were confirmed by the police.

Now, Han Fei had roughly formed a plan in his mind. At Yimin Private Academy, the murders were committed by Ma Manjiang and his child, with the victims being a security guard, thugs, and Ma Manjiang’s wife. Han Fei needed to find the other victims quickly and rescue them all.

Stepping out of the police station, Han Fei was just about to go home when his cell phone rang; Director Jiang was calling.

"Director, is there something wrong?"

"Tomorrow night at eight, ’Twin Flowers’ is premiering on all platforms. We’ve rented a venue and are preparing to gather together to watch the premiere."

"So soon?"

"We’ve given up on an offline premiere. We are focusing on online streaming, and tomorrow night will determine life and death."

With the development of the era, online network movies and offline cinemas have branched into two different industry chains. Online network movies are convenient and quick, and they are no longer synonymous with shoddy work; offline cinemas take the audiovisual experience to the extreme, and you can only appreciate the impact after seeing it.

’Twin Flowers’ that Han Fei and others created, focused on narrative and was a low-budget film, not requiring much from special effects, making full-platform online streaming the most cost-effective approach.

"I will definitely come tomorrow night," Han Fei was somewhat excited internally, after all, this was his first time playing a leading role.

"Good!" Hearing Han Fei was willing to come together to watch, Director Jiang felt even more excited than Han Fei, "By the way, I have a friend who wants to meet you. He is a rather well-known director of horror films, and he will also come over to watch with us tomorrow."

Director Jiang kindly wanted to introduce his network to Han Fei, hoping that Han Fei could proceed more steadily and further.