My ‘Healing’ Game
Chapter 829: That Is His Mom

Chapter 829: Chapter 829: That Is His Mom

In the most terrifying Red Mansion of Area A in Xinhu, Han Fei was risking being discovered by countless ghosts and monsters, intending to destroy the Curse Item spreading hatred.

Wang Chuqing, who was traveling with him, turned pale immediately; he never expected Han Fei to suddenly go mad and do such a thing.

Wang Chuqing wanted to stop him, but it was too late. He watched as Han Fei, enveloped in black mist, pounced toward the dining table like a monster crawling out of the Abyss.

The massive dining table resembled a lake surface, and Han Fei’s hands grasped those Missing Person Notices. A terrifying curse spread across his arms as a warning from the system echoed in his Brain Sea!

"Player No. 0000, be advised! You have been cursed, Mental Pollution increases to thirty-three!"

"Player No. 0000, be advised! You have been deeply cursed, Mental Pollution increases to thirty-five!"

The Greed Personality left by Gao Cheng was fully activated. Fragments flew off the Deceit Mirror. He knew he was no match for the child within the Curse Item, but still, he wanted to contend with it unhesitatingly.

"That love never belonged to you in the first place. You stole something that should not have been touched. Just like your real parents, you are all despicable thieves."

The child on the Missing Person Notice opened its mouth, and its voice gradually penetrated into Han Fei’s Brain Sea.

Hearing this voice, the black mist in the Abyss boiled over; the darkness manifested by the Greed Personality wanted to tear the Curse Item apart viciously. They clashed in Han Fei’s Brain Sea, with the Curse and Greed using Han Fei’s mental world as their battlefield.

Mental Pollution skyrocketed, and Han Fei’s brain felt as if it were being shredded. However, as they collided, numerous Memory Fragments fell from the Missing Person Notice.

The stack of Missing Person Notices was actually just ordinary items; it was only because they carried the memories of some special being that they became Curse Items radiating hatred.

It was strange; those Memory Fragments that fell from the Missing Person Notices turned into clusters of scarlet and ferocious flowers, blossoming in Han Fei’s Brain Sea, leaving indelible scenes of memory.

The child in the black-and-white photograph seemed to come alive; he was the only one in his family with normal eyes.

From a very young age, he discovered something strange. His blind parents would always secretly tear down the Missing Person Notices on the wall. They couldn’t see, yet always pretended to be very enthusiastic.

After tearing off the Missing Person Notices, they would never look for the lost children but would patiently and earnestly shred the notices into pieces, then throw them into the toilet.

The child with normal eyes didn’t understand the actions of his blind parents, but they were still his parents. At that time, he believed every word they said, so he never exposed what they did.

Bloody flowers bloomed over the Abyss; the curse spread throughout his body. The unforgettable hatred turned into the most vicious words, branding Han Fei’s skin.

Luckily, Han Fei had extremely high Curse Resistance; otherwise, anyone else would have already died countless times over.

Through Wang Chuqing’s shocked expression, the terrifying extent of Han Fei’s Curse Resistance was evident.

However, without assistance from other forces, Han Fei’s complete subjugation to the curse was only a matter of time.

When the curse from the Missing Person Notices covered every inch of Han Fei’s skin, the Prosthetic Eye obtained from the Third Eye Hospital in his pocket began to change.

The ghost in the pupil seemed agitated and, without being sacrificed, voluntarily merged with the black mist emanating from the Greed Personality. New Memory Fragments appeared in Han Fei’s Brain Sea, though the perspective of these fragments was different from those before the search.

The memories from the Missing Person Notices belonged to Gao Xing, while those associated with the Prosthetic Eye belonged to Gao Cheng.

Many years ago, in the Third Eye Hospital, Gao Cheng and his adoptive mother were resting outside a high-level ward. His adoptive mother cared for Gao Cheng meticulously, while a nurse squatted nearby, recording various data about the Prosthetic Eye. They were planning the second surgery to restore Gao Cheng’s vision.

The second floor’s high-level ward was bathed in sunlight, warm and cozy, but the regular ward on the first floor was just a medley of colors—crowded, chaotic, with the stench of decay in the air.

Patients came and went, pleading with the busy nurses. Everyone wore a worried expression, and amidst the crowd, a gaunt child was holding his blind parents’ hands. He seemed out of place, lonely and helpless.

The adoptive mother had arranged the best doctors and services for Gao Cheng, fully committed to the vision restoration surgery.

Gao Xing and his blind parents came to the hospital. They had saved money for a long time, determined to accompany their parents for a check-up to see if there was any chance of restoring their sight.

Overlapping, intertwining Memory Fragments: the two children looked at each other.

One could see, but everything around him was engulfed in darkness.

The other was blind, yet embraced by light.

This was the scene of their first meeting.

The Greed Abyss and the curse on the Missing Person Notice unleashed an intense conflict, with neither caring for Han Fei’s survival; they only wanted to shred each other, completely obliterate the other’s existence, and be the one left standing.

Twin Flowers seek to bloom fully, with one flower intending to seize all the Nutrition from the other.

"Stop going mad! Let’s go!" Wang Chuqing was indeed a decent person; the situation had grown exceedingly dangerous, yet he hadn’t abandoned Han Fei to escape alone. Of course, he might also have been after the White Token in Han Fei’s possession.

The ghost hidden in the Prosthetic Eye and Gao Xing were mortal enemies, irreconcilable. The battle centered in Han Fei’s brain intensified, with the dense curses now spreading from Han Fei’s body to the room.

Urgent footsteps rang out outside, the happy laughter of children echoed from the red lanterns, and doors of other rooms opened as if the guests at the Blood Banquet were moving this way.

"It’s over! You’re going to get me killed this time!" Wang Chuqing pulled out a knife wrapped with black cloth from his back. Just as he was about to block the door, all abnormalities inside the building suddenly disappeared.

The cries, laughter, and footsteps seemed to have never existed, as if time within this Red Mansion had come to a halt.

The bizarre atmosphere, unsettling and deathly silent, made Wang Chuqing clutch the knife tightly as he approached the door. But before he could reach it, an unspeakable force slammed him aside.

Flowers grew on the door of the room, but they quickly withered, turning to ashes along with the door.

A figure entered the room, a presence that Wang Chuqing couldn’t discern clearly, as if his eyes failed to capture the ghost at all.

A faint warmth fell on Han Fei’s shoulder, the Greed Abyss boiling in his mind and the endless Hatred from the missing person notice began to slowly subside. They seemed like children who had done wrong, or like hard ice under the warm sun, that coldness and pain slowly melting away.

"Mom?"

When Han Fei came back to his senses, the missing person notice on the dining table had been taken away, and the Curse of Hatred on his body was cleansed, though it seemed that someone was still trying to keep him in the Greed Abyss, but in the end, caught nothing.

"Player number 0000, please note! You have successfully survived Gao Xing’s Memory Curse! Memory Curse Resistance increased by 20%! All Curse Resistance increased by 5%!"

"Player number 0000, please note! The Blood Banquet has ended! You successfully survived to the end of the banquet and completed the Shrine Random Task! You have gained a significant experience reward! You have gained a chance to open the Item Bar!"

"Player number 0000, please note! Your Mental Pollution Index has reached forty! You are on the brink of mental collapse!"

The task was completed, but Han Fei felt no joy at all. His emotions were completely influenced by the Greed Abyss, all positive, constructive emotions devoured. If he couldn’t break out soon, he was likely to slowly fall into the abyss.

"Damn it, it’s worse than before."

Collapsed on the ground, Han Fei looked like a child abandoned by his biological parents, watching helplessly as they left him and chose someone else.

That kind of abandonment pain felt like needles piercing his heart, every breath made his whole body tremble painfully, living became a torment.

"Let me die."

"Die my ass! Stop acting up!" Wang Chuqing slung Han Fei over his shoulder and charged out of the room. He was prepared for a fight to the death, but there was no one in the hall, and all the red lanterns had been extinguished: "Was that the Mother Ghost that appeared just now? Did all the Ghosts and Monsters retreat to hide?"

Looking back at the half-dead Han Fei, Wang Chuqing gritted his teeth: "Remember the deal between us!"

Fortune lies in danger, Wang Chuqing carried Han Fei into the off-limits kitchen of the Taste Pavilion for outsiders, where there were currently no Ghosts and Monsters.

"What an opportunity!"

Splitting open the floor, Wang Chuqing opened a hidden freezer in the basement, storing special ingredients prepared explicitly for the Mother Ghost.

Aside from the Ghost Blood capable of neutralizing mental pollution, there was also a Heart of Grudge and several other things stripped from Ghosts and Monsters.

"The rumors are true, the Mother Ghost likes to eat Ghosts and Monsters, tasting all kinds!"

Such things cannot be obtained in an ordinary Red Mansion, but Wang Chuqing wasn’t greedy, knowing he couldn’t keep too much for himself.

Taking one Heart of Grudge and enough Ghost Blood for Han Fei, he sprinted out the door.

After running quite a distance, Wang Chuqing finally dared to look back, seeing the red lanterns inside the Taste Pavilion relit at some point, a man in a blood-colored chef’s outfit had chased to the doorway, memorizing Wang Chuqing and Han Fei’s figures.

"The Heart of Grudge and Ghost Blood are valuable to other Ghosts and Monsters too, returning to school smoothly tonight will be difficult."

With a bitter face, Wang Chuqing didn’t know whether to say Han Fei was lucky or unlucky.

Pushing himself hard through the streets, Wang Chuqing paid a huge price to bring Han Fei back safely, overusing his personality and wanting to give up Han Fei a few times, but ultimately, he couldn’t bear it.

Skulking and hiding, Wang Chuqing finally returned Han Fei to the school in the early hours, throwing him in the infirmary and quickly searching for different medicines to prevent the curse from entering the body.

"Living turned into torment, why continue living?" Negative, painful, and desperate, those emotions uncontrollably rampaged in Han Fei’s brain, he couldn’t control himself.

With high mental pollution, his soul contracted a disease.

"After Kuangxiao left, I seemed to become much more fragile, so am I just a counterfeit?"

"I don’t understand what you’re saying, but talking normally with a mental pollution index above thirty, you’re the only one I’ve seen!" Wang Chuqing uncapped the bottle of Ghost Blood: "Drinking a lot of Ghost Blood will destroy body functions, equivalent to suicide, I don’t know where your limit lies. If you feel uncomfortable, let me know to stop."

Pouring the Ghost Blood into Han Fei’s mouth, Wang Chuqing noticed Han Fei’s body temperature rapidly dropping. He wanted to stop, but Han Fei clutched the bottle himself, continuing to gulp it down.

"Hey! Stop! Get it together! Even Ghosts wouldn’t dare drink like that!"

Han Fei’s intestines, trained by Xu Qin’s food, played a crucial role. He hovered on the edge of death until he’d drunk the entire bottle of Ghost Blood.

His body temperature kept dropping, his heart beating slower and slower, Han Fei felt less human, more like a newly born Ghost.

"Player number 0000, please note! Your Mental Pollution Index has decreased..."

The Greed Abyss in his mind was repeatedly washed away by the Ghost Blood, countless memory impurities and negative emotions digested, and Han Fei’s eyes slowly regained focus.

"And you’re not dead?" Wang Chuqing looked at the empty bottle, somewhat unable to comprehend.

"Got any meat? I need food." Though mental pollution cleared, his physical state worsened. Han Fei had no other way but to rely on Midnight Butcher’s Professional Talent to recover Gao Cheng’s body.

"I’ll take you to the cafeteria." Committing to help, seeing it through to the end, Wang Chuqing secretly took Han Fei to the cafeteria, lit a fire, and took out the stored meat: "Can eating cooked meat heal the damage Ghost Blood did to the body?"

He watched Han Fei eat heartily, the meat seemingly disappearing into his stomach without needing digestion.

"Not enough! I’m still starving!" Han Fei’s body was now able to move, he opened the fridge, putting various meats on the fire to grill.

After eating enough for a whole class, Han Fei’s body temperature finally began to rise, he glanced at his Attribute Panel, finding his Mental Pollution Index reduced to twenty.

"Drinking Ghost Blood, eating cooked meat, I seem to have found a way to heal myself, allowing infinite use of the Greed Personality."

The night’s experience shook Han Fei deeply, he still remembered that arm’s feeling resting on his shoulder: "Was that mother? Gao Cheng’s emotions are influencing me, even I want to get closer to her."