My ‘Healing’ Game
Chapter 205: If we had come a few days later, he’d probably have become the principal

Chapter 205: Chapter 205: If we had come a few days later, he’d probably have become the principal

"Deep opening?"

Han Fei didn’t understand what deep opening meant, but he always felt something was not quite right, "Are all the passageways to each area going to be opened, and fierce ghosts and wandering souls from other areas will come here?"

Now Han Fei was already struggling to survive in the cracks, just managing to catch a breath, and it seemed another change had occurred in the Deep World.

Han Fei looked at his Attribute Panel, feeling as if he were being taken special care of by the system, even though this care seemed to be driving him to his death.

"After I completed the Building Chief quest, I wanted to stay a bit longer in the Happiness Residential Community, but then the residents of Building No. 2 cleared out all the lonely ghosts and wild ghosts from the community, resulting in no more quests available."

"Now, just as I’m about to clear Yimin Private Academy’s Hidden Map, the system says it’s going for a deep opening, that ghosts and monsters from other places will wander in. Is the system afraid that I’ll find the game unplayable?"

Licking his dry lips, Han Fei felt that this reluctant care from the system probably had something to do with the path he had initially chosen.

The former Building Chief had chosen destruction between redemption and ruin, while he, in his muddled state, had chosen both destruction and salvation, unlocking two different sides of the Black Box.

"Where there’s a will, there’s a way, fear and worry won’t be of any help for the future. No matter what changes occur, I still have to keep going."

He pushed open the door of the toilet cubicle, and a gust of cold wind brushed Han Fei’s face.

The old windows made a noise, and the cracked glass occasionally had something unknown crawl over them, like hair being dragged by something, or perhaps a kind of poison insect that feeds on corpses.

The door hinge creaked as Han Fei walked out of the bathroom, and something indistinct flashed in the darkness in the distance; those unknown beings seemed to be avoiding Han Fei.

"Is the title ’Patrol Teacher’ taking effect?"

Walking in such a strange and terrifying school, Han Fei didn’t feel too uncomfortable, as if he had been in office here for a long time.

"Having died so many times during the manager quests, I’ve grown attached to this place."

If a new teacher were to be hired, Han Fei could proudly tell them as a senior that he had tried different ways to die in over a dozen places at this school.

"Teacher Han!" Old Li spotted Han Fei from a distance; he ran towards Han Fei, carrying the whole Ghost Mountain on his back, stirring up a wind that carried the stench of corpses.

Ma Manjiang had been killed, but those ghosts seemed to have grown accustomed to staying on Old Li and didn’t seem to have any intention of leaving.

They continued to cover Old Li’s eyes, allowing him to live in a simple world without seeing the painful and bad stuff.

"Where’s your friend?" Old Li was a night-shift security guard and had a faulty memory to boot; he had forgotten many painful things, but he clearly remembered Han Fei and Huang Ying.

"He’s a doctor; he has his own work to do." Han Fei fobbed him off with an excuse, then asked, "Old Li, did anything special happen here at the school after I left last night?"

"No, everything was normal." Laughing, Old Li carried Ghost Mountain and walked alongside Han Fei; as they just passed through the corridor, they saw the back of the entire teaching building covered in blood.

The residual souls of the Outsiders were pierced by ropes and hung high; all the Butterfly tattoos and marks on their bodies had been cut off.

This shocking scene was too much for Han Fei, but it was as if Old Li saw nothing and continued walking straight ahead.

"Are you sure everything was normal?"

"Yeah, there wasn’t a soul in the school last night."

In a sense, what Old Li said was also true.

Knowing he couldn’t get any information out of him, Han Fei went straight to the hanging residual souls of the Outsiders.

The residual souls hadn’t dissipated completely and still had their own consciousness; on their bodies, you could vaguely see some crude writing, and it seemed that each one had a story written on them, telling of the evil in the hearts of the residual souls.

"To not be able to live nor die, the ghosts inside Yimin Private Academy are truly ruthless." Han Fei realized he had always underestimated the fierce ghosts in the academy; if it weren’t for Ma Manjiang and the Butterfly working together, the chances of ordinary ghosts and monsters entering and leaving Yimin Private Academy alive were almost zero.

"Teacher Han? Teacher Han!"

While Han Fei was reading the writing on the residual souls, the voice of Zhang Guanxing, also known as Wild Dog, came from inside the teaching building; he seemed very excited to see Han Fei. The kid respected Han Fei a lot and was also genuinely grateful to him.

"Teacher! I’ve been looking for you all night!" Dragging his severely damaged body, Zhang Guanxing and the pet Xu Qin raised rushed out of the teaching building.

To have a Grudge care so much, Han Fei felt he indeed had the Talent for being a teacher. "You’ve come at the right time, who is it that hung the Outsiders here?"

"The homeroom teacher of Jin Sheng, a very tall female teacher. She has been on the brink of madness ever since Ma Manjiang died, directing all her pent-up Resentment at the Outsiders."

"Did she also remove the Butterfly tattoos from the Outsiders?"

"Yes, she wove the cut-off tattoos from the Outsiders into a skin, and it seems like she wants to wear that skin to leave the academy, to go to a certain place."

Hearing Zhang Guanxing’s words, Han Fei felt that the place the homeroom teacher of Jin Sheng wanted to go was very likely the Death Building; she wanted to seek revenge on the Butterfly.

"Do you know where she is now?"

"She should be patrolling the campus. Before Ma Manjiang died last night, a blue Butterfly carrying all its malice rushed towards the main gate of the school and opened a crack in the locked door. When the blue Butterfly escaped, new Outsiders sneakily infiltrated the Academy."

"New Outsiders?" Han Fei was pondering the identity of these individuals when a piercing Cry suddenly came from the dormitory building: "This voice... it sounds so familiar!"

Han Fei, Zhang Guanxing, and Old Li rushed towards the dormitory building. At that moment, there was intense combat taking place inside, the glass of the building’s floors shattered, and the air was permeated with the pungent smell of blood.

The cries and malicious Curses intertwined, the corridor of the dormitory building was covered in bloodstains and water stains, and the Dark Energy rampaged, dropping the temperature almost to freezing point.

Han Fei’s hand, which bore the landlord’s ring, continually transmitted a chill, but, to his confusion, the coldness did not seem to make him feel bone-piercing cold but rather comfortable.

Quickening his pace, Han Fei let the Black Giant Python coil around him, and he ran with all his might to the end of the corridor, finally seeing the two sides engaged in battle.

"Stop fighting! We’re all on the same side!"

The combat driven by Grudge was extremely fierce. Normally, very few would dare to rush in to stop it at this time, but Han Fei was an exception.

With a living person’s body, he stepped in between the Fierce Ghosts, and what was even more bizarre was that the opponents who were already consumed with bloodlust really did stop their fight!

"Building Chief!"

"Teacher!"

Li Zai and Zhang Guanxing both spoke up at the same time, and then looked at each other afterwards.

"We’re all on the same side, friends striving for the same goal! Don’t resort to violence because of a misunderstanding!"

Standing among a group of Fierce Ghosts, Han Fei’s body trembled uncontrollably due to the chill.

Looking at Han Fei, the Ghosts and Monsters engaged in combat on the corridor all exhibited very expressive looks.

"One of us?"

On the left side of the corridor, Jin Sheng’s homeroom teacher and Shu Mengting stared at Han Fei in silence with cold expressions, but it seemed because Han Fei had helped them kill Ma Manjiang, they harbored no killing intent towards him.

On the right side of the corridor was even more outrageous: Cry was hugging an electric pot, which contained his own Spiritual Altar, and his face was marred by tears.

The One-eyed shop assistant Yinglong and Li Zai stood beside Cry, both wearing puzzled expressions, their minds not quite caught up yet.

Their Building Chief had entered the Academy to gather information, so how did it come to be that he was now a teacher at the Academy?

The three of them had taken the chance to infiltrate Yimin Private Academy the previous night when the Butterfly left; they all had been ready for a deadly fight, but the situation seemed to differ from what they had imagined.

Han Fei was being protected by Yimin Private Academy’s Fierce Ghosts and Monsters as if they were the ones truly wanting to protect him.

Li Zai and Yinglong exchanged glances; their already distraught minds, agitated by despair, were now even more confused.

They had anticipated several scenarios, but not this one.

"Building Chief of Building One, if you’re being threatened, just blink," Li Zai stared intently at Han Fei’s face. He wasn’t joking; if Han Fei blinked, he would take immediate action.

"Blink what?" Han Fei took out his teacher ID and began to explain in detail the events of the past few days.

The bloody, brutal road of survival, filled with Kaidan, turned into a tale of intern experience that went towards realizing self-worth, as retold by Han Fei. He had inherited the work ID left by the previous Building Chief and also took over the responsibilities left by the predecessor.

He planned to use his own Power to help the man-eating flowers in the Academy grow healthily and simultaneously correct and heal their twisted and painful hearts.

"As long as I am here, there will be no more conflict between Happiness Residental Community and Yimin Private Academy. We can try exploring a way of coexistence in the Deep World."

After hearing Han Fei’s words, Zhang Guanxing almost unconditionally nodded in agreement. Whatever Han Fei said, he felt it was right.

Seeing the students in the Academy trust Han Fei so much, Li Zai even began to doubt himself.

"It’s only been a few days of disconnection, and he’s become a beloved teacher, protected by ’colleagues.’ What if we had arrived even later? Is it possible that he could have mixed in and directly became the principal here?" Reason told Li Zai it was impossible, but he felt that for Han Fei, nothing was unachievable.

When he first saw Han Fei charging into the community from the convenience store with a coffin on his back, he felt that Han Fei was extraordinary and had great potential.

Now he was even more certain of his judgment. Following Han Fei would definitely benefit him in the future.

After explaining everything clearly, Han Fei was about to put away his teacher ID when suddenly a voice from the system rang in his mind.

"Player number 0000, please pay attention! Li Zai friendliness plus ten! You have preliminarily gained Li Zai’s trust!"

Turning his head, Han Fei saw Li Zai staring at him. Without giving it much thought, he waved back in a friendly manner.