My ‘Healing’ Game
Chapter 824: Is a Monster Someone Like Me?

Chapter 824: Chapter 824: Is a Monster Someone Like Me?

"Player number 0000, please note! You have triggered the Shrine Random Task—Secret Storeroom."

"Task requirement: Please enter Gao Cheng’s secret storeroom before nightfall to obtain his leftover items."

After reading the diary, Han Fei triggered a Shrine Random Task.

"The items Gao Cheng valued the most weren’t in the teachers’ apartment; he hid them all in a secret storeroom off campus. It seems he didn’t trust the people in the school either."

Han Fei memorized the map in the diary, put away the diary and key, found an old backpack in the room, packed a large amount of Paper Money and some simple tools according to the diary’s instructions, and then left the room.

Without alerting anyone, Han Fei quietly left the school through the back door.

Outside the high walls was a desolate wasteland. The skyscrapers looked the same as before, but the living people who built them and the residents who lived in them were long gone.

Quiet, eerie, an atmosphere of unease pervaded everywhere.

Han Fei was tense, walking in the shadows of the walls.

Around the school, he occasionally saw other living people. They wore dirty and tattered clothes, many with wounds and sores, and they looked at Han Fei with strange eyes, filled with fear, dread, and disgust.

"Spit!" A spittle landed in front of Han Fei, a bedraggled beggar huddled in the corner on a tattered mat, eyes full of malice towards Han Fei: "Monster, disgusting monster!"

"Monster?" Han Fei looked at the beggar, unafraid in the slightest.

"Kill me, go ahead and kill me! You filthy monsters! You don’t deserve to be called human!" The beggar became agitated, the wound on his neck tore open, foul blood flowed out, dripping onto the mat.

"I have no reason to kill you." Han Fei didn’t want any trouble; he saw part of the survivors’ attitude towards the school through this beggar.

Hastily leaving, Han Fei’s pace quickened.

As he began to speed up, strange noises seemed to come from behind.

Looking back, Han Fei found the beggar hiding in the corner was gone, leaving only the bloodstained mat on the ground.

"Did someone follow me out from the school?" Han Fei’s senses were far beyond ordinary people’s, but he had yet to recover to his best state due to the influence of Mental Pollution.

"Gao Cheng’s secret storeroom is in a White Building, that area is right next to the Deceit Building Third Eye Hospital, so very few people go there." Han Fei glanced at his watch: "It will be dark in about an hour, time is tight, I can’t wait."

Relying on Gao Cheng’s map, Han Fei deliberately chose a dangerous path to walk. The living people around became fewer, and no shops were in sight, only large buildings with all windows and doors boarded up.

"The boards and heavy curtains blocked out the sunlight, isolating the buildings from the outside world, each building is like a mini ghost realm."

Gao Cheng’s map recorded information about some Special Buildings in the area around the school, but only around the school. The current Xinhu had completely changed; no living person could penetrate deep into the city anymore.

Based on survival experience from the Deep World, Han Fei spent forty minutes walking to a small boarded-up hotel.

This hotel was intended for migrant workers, with the heartless landlord dividing it into countless small cubicles. It was identified by the school as the "White Building."

The Curse Item in the hotel was a piggy bank; the number of ghosts and monsters was unknown, but the strongest was likely the heartless landlord.

Gao Cheng recorded very carefully, also mentioning in the diary a way to avoid the heartless landlord and the Curse, which was to pave the way with money.

Touching the seventh board on the back window on the first floor, Han Fei easily removed it and quietly entered this "White Building."

The temperature inside the building was much lower than outside, and no matter how much clothing he wore, the cold was still palpable.

"This feels scarier than the Deep World; did something go wrong during the fusion of the two worlds?"

Following the address recorded in the diary, Han Fei reached the second floor, where the cubicles were dense like a beehive.

Normally, such dense cubicles wouldn’t end up like this, but the building itself began to warp under the influence of Curse Items and obsessions.

Taking out a key, Han Fei opened a certain cubicle’s door, pulled out a handful of Paper Money from his bag, and scattered it next door, then went on.

Walking among the cubicles for a few minutes, he suddenly heard urgent footsteps, something seemed to have sensed his presence, speeding towards him!

One cubicle door after another was flung open, the banging sound of doors getting closer! Approaching him ever so closely!

Holding his breath, Han Fei was already affected by Mental Pollution, his all negative emotions would multiply. The more he thought of bad things, the more likely those bad things would happen.

"If it’s just regret, that’s fine." Han Fei also started to speed up, racing against time, but still slow by a step, the sound of doors opening caught up with him!

There was no light in the building, Han Fei stared at the cubicle door behind him, the sound stopped just outside, the ghost was now separated from him by only a flimsy, shoddy wooden door.

Clutching the short knife in his hand, Han Fei stared dead at the slowly turning doorknob, the few seconds felt like a century.

As the snap gently popped, the door behind Han Fei opened a crack.

"Not moving?"

Han Fei grabbed the door handle, pulling the door completely open, there stood an ordinary-looking piggy bank outside.

"The Curse Item is here, so that means..."

A piercing coldness appeared behind Han Fei, he took out the Deceit Mirror for a glance, a pale face clung to his shoulder.

The person’s eyes were full of greed, their brain and stomach gouged out, stuffed with Paper Money.

"The landlord!"

Suddenly seeing the ghost appear, but Han Fei remained exceptionally calm, he pulled out Paper Money from his bag, continually stuffing it into the piggy bank.

The piggy bank seemed like a bottomless pit, looking not very deep, but could swallow the entire bag of Paper Money.

The chill gathered behind him, Han Fei dared not be careless.

He kept stuffing paper money in, until he only had one last piece left, then the piggy bank, along with the ghost, disappeared together.

"Was that buying life with money just now?"

The appearance of the piggy bank and the landlord ghost also made Han Fei realize another thing: to deal with ghosts, one does not necessarily have to kill them. Utilizing their weakness in obsession can break the situation more easily.

"The terrain inside the rental house is complex, with countless partitions. Outsiders wanting to kill the greedy boss and find the piggy bank is very difficult. A miser’s determination to protect his wealth cannot be underestimated. Gao Cheng probably saw this point, which is why he built the secret warehouse here."

Carrying a much lighter backpack, Han Fei wandered for a long time before finding Gao Cheng’s cubicle.

Using the key to open the door, Han Fei heard a system prompt in his brain.

"Player number 0000, please note! You have successfully completed the Shrine Random Task—Secret Warehouse, gaining a large experience reward."

Locking the door behind him, Han Fei discovered a large amount of supplies within, as well as some very rare curse items.

"Player number 0000, please note! You have discovered an E-grade curse item—Destiny Coin."

"Destiny Coin (E-grade unique curse item): Used in conjunction with Gao Cheng’s Greed Personality, it can produce unexpected effects. However, in cases of high mental pollution, there is a probability that triggering this coin will exacerbate mental pollution!"

"You have discovered an E-grade curse item—Prosthetic Eye of Death."

"Prosthetic Eye of Death: This eyeball contains a ghost. To use its power, one must exchange it with a living person’s eye; one eyeball can grant its help for ten seconds."

"You have discovered an F-grade special curse item—Black Duckbill Hat."

"Black Duckbill Hat: The owner of this hat was pierced by falling steel bars on a construction site. His soul is hidden beneath the hat. Wearing this hat can allow one to see and hear some special things, but wearing it for extended periods will increase mental pollution."

"You have discovered a D-grade special item—Birth Certificate."

"Birth Certificate (D-grade Special Item): This item is more important than your life! It is proof of all your past memories, and the reason for your existence!"

Han Fei picked up the birth certificate and glanced at it. It looked entirely ordinary, nowhere near a D-grade item.

"Xinhu First Hospital? Was Gao Cheng born there?"

Memorizing the hospital address and the information above, Han Fei began to study the three curse items.

The greatest difference between him and Gao Cheng was that his curse resistance was extremely high, making it hard for curses to backfire even if used aggressively.

Putting on the Black Duckbill Hat, Han Fei’s ears instantly captured some strange noises. He could roughly determine the location of ghosts within the building.

"This thing is really useful."

Indeed, there lived a ghost inside the hat, but it seemed lazy, always asleep.

Han Fei did not feel uncomfortable wearing the hat, though after prolonged wear, he sensed something within it trying to burrow into his brain, and his scalp appeared to merge slowly with the hat.

Picking up the Prosthetic Eye, Han Fei gazed into it. He could distinctly feel something staring back at him, greed glinting deep within both their eyes.

"Both the greedy landlord and the ghost within the eye possess greedy traits, Gao Cheng’s Personality happens to be Greed Personality. His ability to use these curse items probably relates to this special personality."

Lastly, Han Fei picked up the coin. Each time he flipped it, Han Fei felt his life spinning along with it.

The origin of the coin was unknown, and using it might change Han Fei’s plight, yet it could propel him toward a more dark and despairing future.

While researching the Destiny Coin, Han Fei for the first time triggered the power of his own personality, and the more greedy he became, the more frenzied. This frenzy continually stimulated his brain, allowing him to intensely absorb power from curse items, gradually fusing his body with the ghosts within them, turning into a crazed monster.

"Greedy people are easily blinded by external things, yet if they survive to the end, they will be the ones who win it all."

Holding the Destiny Coin, Han Fei felt he was more suited to this world than Gao Cheng, constantly increasing his curse resistance seemingly for this very moment.

"Gao Cheng’s diagnosis report indicates he also hides another personality, and abilities brought by different personalities seem to vary." Han Fei thought about himself: he should be a Healing-type Personality, yet he didn’t know what effect such a personality could have in the Shrine World.

Sitting in the secret warehouse, Han Fei ate the food left by Gao Cheng, sorting the remaining supplies.

These items could sustain him for a long time, but considering those thirty students, obviously, it was not enough.

"Mental pollution stems from curses and ghosts. I must quickly find a way to recover. Teacher Wang is quite nice; I can trade with him some more."

After knowing how to trigger the power of personality, Han Fei’s mind spun another question: "Gao Cheng needs to leverage curse items to trigger the power of personality, but how did the child filled with Death Intent in the classroom this morning activate his personality ability? He had just awoken and didn’t even have time to find curse items!"

Han Fei reckoned he seriously underestimated the thirty children, though they were students, when it truly comes to protection, it’s uncertain who protects whom. After all, they are all Kuangxiao’s family. All the despair previously endured would color the shrine in crimson.

Three days left until the assessment, Han Fei tonight did not plan on returning to school. Darkness had fallen, and outside it may be even more dangerous than inside the White Building.

Fetching a blanket to drape over his shoulders, Han Fei had just wanted to rest a while when he heard the sound of something heavy falling outside the building.

Leaning against the window, Han Fei peeked through the board’s crevices outside. A woman over 1.8 meters tall stood at the street corner, casually throwing away her black leather coat, revealing terrifying tattoos on her body.

On the woman’s face, there was no surrender or fear; she gazed at the shadow in front and smiled in excitement.

Unknown metal embedded in her spine expanded outward, and bones pierced her body one by one. With chains broken, she punched into the darkness, shattering the shadow.

"Why is Yan Lan here? Did she kill the beggars, has she been tracking me all along?"

As the head of class one, Yan Lan, possessing Daring Personality, was the strongest among all teachers; in direct confrontation, none were her match.

Restraining his presence, Han Fei stood in the shadows, silently observing Yan Lan, who seemed to be searching for something.