My ‘Healing’ Game
Chapter 176 Seeing a Nightmare

Chapter 176: Chapter 176 Seeing a Nightmare

Jin Sheng was the most crucial person at Yimin Private Academy, and he was the link to all the ghost stories. In reality, he was also the first one to foresee death and alerted those around him in the form of ghost stories.

Though the tragedy still unfolded in the end, he had at least tried very hard to change it.

Time was of the essence, and Han Fei wasted not even a second as he threw open the doors of classroom after classroom.

That monster, similar to Ma Manjiang, could appear at any moment, and to hesitate was to forfeit one’s chance of survival.

Without a key, then force must be used. To find Jin Sheng, Han Fei couldn’t care less about the consequences.

With every second counting, Han Fei entered the last classroom.

The lecture desk in the laboratory was large, and underneath was a storage cabinet that typically held a variety of miscellaneous items.

"Jin Sheng?"

Han Fei called out softly, but there was no response from the cabinet under the desk.

He reached out to open the cabinet, and balls of crumpled paper rolled out from within.

Bending down to look into the cabinet, Han Fei saw that Jin Sheng was not there; it contained only a large pile of waste paper.

"I’ve checked all the classrooms on the fourth floor, where could he have run off to?"

Picking up a ball of paper at random, Han Fei unfolded it and quickly glanced over it, unable to look away after.

Homework books and the backs of papers were filled with lines of writing, which, connected together, seemed to tell one horrifying story after another.

"I saw the school security guard on his night patrol; he is the only night-shift security guard here. I kindly warned him not to get close to the dormitory buildings and the cafeteria, but he wouldn’t listen. Now his health is deteriorating, his body crawling with ghosts."

"I saw three kids following behind Ma Bo, representing his three deceased brothers. The doctor says he’s schizophrenic, but only I know he’s not crazy, clearer-headed than anyone."

"I saw the stray dog outside the school desperately trying to please the lush leaves of summer. Unfortunately, summer will eventually end, and that dog, shunned by all, might not survive this harsh winter."

"I saw a ghost residing in the corridor of the girls’ dormitory; he only appears after the dorm supervisor leaves, luring Eve to taste the forbidden fruit."

"I saw Teacher Ma at the school has two different faces, one like a human, the other like a ghost."

There were many paper balls like this, and the words on all of them started with "I saw," as if the writer truly witnessed everything.

"This must be left by Jin Sheng. All the ghost stories and strange tales have become reality in this school. No, it’s more accurate to say that the events happening in reality were recorded by Jin Sheng in the form of strange tales."

Those reading Jin Sheng’s words might guess these are nightmares made by a child.

But those who really know what has happened at Yimin Private Academy will realize that, compared to reality, these called nightmares have been softened considerably.

Jin Sheng described everything from a first-person perspective, with the innocence of a child, cloaking bloodshed and cruelty in the guise of strange tales.

Not missing a single paper ball, Han Fei, with his extraordinary memory, memorized every story inside them.

Without missing a word, he intended to find a way to break the curse from these stories.

As he was half-submerged in the cabinet, a system notification suddenly sounded in his brain sea.

"Player number 0000, please note! You have discovered the incomplete G-level Curse Item—Jin Sheng’s homework book."

Looking at what his fingers had touched, Han Fei found a homework book deep inside the cabinet.

The homework was torn very thin, with only a few pages left.

"Jin Sheng hid in the cabinet and recorded one kaidan after another on this exercise book? The crumpled pieces of paper were discarded, what he truly wanted to express must still be...on the exercise book."

Picking up the exercise book, Han Fei flipped through it, and the text that met his eyes made him feel somewhat uneasy.

On the exercise book was an apology letter.

"Dear Teacher Ma, I write this letter of remorse and regret to you, I shouldn’t have made up those false stories, nor should I have lied."

"This is a very profound reflection, I will never tell ghost stories to scare my classmates again, nor will I claim, out of my own vanity, that those kaidan are real."

"I hope the teacher and all my classmates can forgive me, and I also hope that my classmates won’t make the same foolish mistakes I did, this lesson has really been a harsh one."

"I’m sorry, I apologize to everyone once again."

All the kaidan on the exercise book had been torn out and crumpled into balls of waste paper, only this apology letter was left behind.

"The recipient of the apology is Teacher Ma, it seems Teacher Ma already knew Jin Sheng had discovered all his secrets, but he not only didn’t hurt Jin Sheng, instead, he tormented Jin Sheng in this way."

Han Fei found Ma Manjiang’s actions familiar; in the Human-body Puzzle case, Butterfly and his group had also tortured that kind-hearted vagrant in the same way.

They had intentionally let the vagrant spread the word, but among the victims of the Human-body Puzzle case, apart from Youfu, no one else paid any attention to what the vagrant said.

"What exactly is the relationship between Ma Manjiang and Butterfly?"

Jin Sheng wasn’t in the cabinet beneath the podium, and Han Fei didn’t know where the other party had run off to either. The only clue in his hand was that exercise book.

Continuing to flip through it, Han Fei didn’t hold out much hope, but on the very last page of the exercise book, he discovered another passage of text.

These words were written at the end of the exercise book, the handwriting was very neat, showing the writer had taken great care while writing this line.

"All around me is pitch-black, I can’t see anything. There is no light here, only occasionally can I feel the medicine pills beneath me."

"I feel like I’m about to fall asleep, I saw everyone appearing inside the cabinet."

"They are questioning me, why, when I saw them, I did not reach out to grab them."

"I don’t know how to answer; even I can’t believe my stories now."

Having read the last line on the exercise book, Han Fei’s mood became somewhat complicated, "In the end, Jin Sheng himself became one of the school’s kaidan."

He intended to sigh, but his gaze suddenly swept across two words—cabinet.

"Surrounded by pitch darkness, Jin Sheng said that the people in his stories all appeared in the cabinet, so he must be hiding in a certain cabinet."

"No light at all, able to feel medicine pills beneath... Could he be in the cabinet in the infirmary?" After this task, Han Fei guessed he might also develop a mental shadow regarding cabinets, preparing himself mentally every time before opening a cabinet door to prevent suddenly seeing an unfamiliar corpse behind it.

"Old Li, where is the school infirmary located?"

"On the second floor of the office building." Old Li also saw the scattered paper balls on the ground: "Is this some student’s prank?"

"Let’s go check out the office building first."

Han Fei gathered up all the paper balls on the ground and stuffed them into Jin Sheng’s exercise book, thinking it would be more convenient to carry that way. Little did he know that this inadvertent action would actually trigger a system prompt.

The previously incomplete Grade-G Curse Item had thus been assembled by him.

Jin Sheng’s exercise book was probably the most tender Curse Item Han Fei had ever encountered; it did not emit any grudge or pain, but when holding it, there would be an inexplicable sense of sadness in his heart.