My 'Healing' Game-Chapter 39 Hunting the Killer!
39: Chapter 39: Hunting the Killer!
39 -39: Hunting the Killer!
After a long while, both the girl and the monster disappeared into the mist of the shower, and the bathroom returned to normal, as if nothing had ever happened.
The water from the shower slid down Han Fei’s body, and he, drained of all strength, slumped to the bathroom floor.
His clothes were completely soaked through, and as he looked at his own hands, he still felt an unreal sensation.
“I…
sliced through flesh.”
Although his intention was to save someone, the horrific scene still gave Han Fei a great shock.
It was as if he was standing at the crime scene of a murderer, watching everything unfold before his eyes.
With a buzzing in his head, Han Fei kept washing his hands under the shower, as if there was blood on them that couldn’t be seen with the naked eye.
“And this was only a beginner’s task.”
It took a good while before Han Fei managed to get up off the floor; he turned off the shower and stood blankly in front of the bathroom mirror.
The blood splatters that had bloomed on the walls were too shocking, and even now as he recalled them, he still felt frightened.
“Wei Youfu told me to help that girl, and the other victims didn’t make a fuss either; in their eyes, the girl inside the monster’s body needed help.”
Han Fei didn’t dare get too close to the mirror as he silently sorted through the clues in his mind.
“The girl looked to be in her teens, yet seemed to know nothing, apparently completely isolated from society, with only father, mother, and siblings in her world.
Perhaps it’s because she never received proper education that she could speak of such horrifying matters in such a calm tone.”
His clothes clung to his body, and Han Fei now had a splitting headache; he was mentally and physically at his limit.
“My Brain Power and Physical Strength are still lacking; just doing two beginner tasks has pushed me to the brink.
I need to level up as soon as possible.”
Leaning against the wall, Han Fei was now a bit unsteady on his feet.
He opened the Attribute Panel and first allocated all the Free Skill Points he earned from completing two beginner tasks entirely to Acting.
“Player No.
0000, please note!
Your Acting has reached Intermediate Level 5!
Congratulations on crossing the watershed; now you are truly qualified to say you possess Acting skills!”
Han Fei had been playing in the game for a few days and used all his Skill Points on improving his Acting, constantly in a life-or-death crisis without paying much attention to it.
Now, seeing the system prompt, he realized that his Acting had indeed improved greatly.
He could easily control his facial muscles and effortlessly produce subtle expressions.
Beyond the improvement in technique, his psychological endurance and adaptability had also made a leap, probably surpassing many veterans in the field.
After upgrading his Acting, Han Fei took out the landlord’s diary from his Item Bar.
It looked like a very ordinary black notebook, clean and without a single word inside.
“It’s probably because I haven’t mastered the correct way to use it.” Han Fei was truly exhausted.
He put the notebook back into the Item Bar, then walked out of the bathroom and carefully closed the unlocked security door: “Too bad, no neighbors came over last night.”
After he finished busying himself, Han Fei chose to exit the game.
The Blood Sea spread over the entire world, and Han Fei had grown accustomed to it all.
Removing the gaming helmet, he lay on the bed, not wanting to move at all.
It was always night in the game, but in reality, the early sun had already risen.
Lying quietly in bed, Han Fei now opened his eyes, and all he could think about with his mind full were the various clues of the murder case.
Closing his eyes again, he felt as if he was in a Corpse Mountain and Blood Sea.
In this extreme inner turmoil, he slowly fell asleep. freewebnøvel.com
The noon sunlight seeped through the gaps in the curtains into the room, waking Han Fei with the sound of a telephone.
The electric shock self-defense tool and cosh he had ordered online had arrived.
After retrieving the package, Han Fei read the instruction manual and learned how to use it, he now could be considered to have some fighting capability.
After eating something casually, Han Fei turned on his phone and began to organize the clues bit by bit.
“The eighth victim is a girl, likely between the ages of thirteen and sixteen.
Considering there’s no record of her in the citizen information database, she is very likely to be an abandoned baby.
In today’s highly advanced technological world, even orphans from an orphanage have a complete set of identity registrations.
Only children who have been completely isolated from the outside world since birth would not appear in the information database.”
“With the help of the sixth generation Smart Brain, as long as a person leaves some trace on the internet, their identity can be identified and traced, which means the eighth victim never used the internet.”
“Abandoned baby, forest, strange parents.”
Han Fei took a pen and wrote a sentence on the blank picture of the eighth victim—living far from the city and technology, possibly deep in the forest.
“The killer murders in the name of beauty; the eighth was the last victim, dying before dawn, dying at the moment the artwork was completed.
Based on the short poem of the eighth victim, I believe it is highly possible that the murderer is her father.”
The range of suspects narrowed further, and Han Fei remembered another clue.
“If the killer did indeed choose to kill Wei Youfu because of Youfu’s beautiful soul, then it is very likely that the killer knew Youfu.”
After screening through the internet for Wei Youfu’s interpersonal relationships, Han Fei eventually focused on the toy collectible store that Youfu frequented.
He studied it for half a day, from the boss to the employees; none of them had the potential to commit the crime.
“Just for Wei Youfu alone requires checking so many people; I’m probably too busy to cope by myself.” Han Fei truly realized the difficulty of police investigations and, after much consideration, finally decided to seek help from the police.
Hiding away the gaming helmet, Han Fei took out his own phone and dialed Li Xue’s number.
Investigating a serial murder case from ten years ago alone was too difficult for a comedy actor.
Han Fei needed help, and he also wanted to make a deal with Li Xue.
“Li Xue, do you have time now?” Continuous cursing and pleading voices came through the microphone of Han Fei’s phone, but he couldn’t hear Li Xue’s voice: “Are you on a mission?”
“I’m on an anti-pornography operation.”
“Can you come over to my place?
I have discovered what the Human-body Puzzle Case’s eighth victim looks like.”
“You’ve figured out the identity of the eighth victim?!” Li Xue’s tone of voice changed: “Great!
I’ll be right there!”
“My rental place is at…”
“I know where your house is, have you forgotten why I personally sent you home last time?”
After hanging up the phone, twenty minutes later, Li Xue, dressed in casual clothes, appeared at Han Fei’s doorstep.
“Your place is quite clean, not like that of a man living alone.”
Upon entering the house, Li Xue paused for a moment when she saw the wall in Han Fei’s home.
A large wall was plastered with photos of the victims, and various character relationships and clues were also meticulously listed out, looking just like the office of a major case unit at first glance.
“Take a seat wherever.” Han Fei poured a glass of water for Li Xue.
“I thought you were an actor?” Li Xue’s gaze was still fixed on the densely filled photos on the wall: “Are you also working as a private detective on the side?”
“Don’t get me wrong, I’m just recently involved in a play that relates to the Human-body Puzzle Case, which is called Flower of Evil; it’s adapted from the Human-body Puzzle Case.” Since playing “Perfect Life,” Han Fei exuded a gentle and modest demeanor, showing neither arrogance nor impatience in anything he did.
“You mean…
you were only trying to understand the Human-body Puzzle case for the sake of filming, and now you’ve inadvertently discovered key information about the eighth victim?” Li Xue, a former major case unit detective who had seen it all, was also shocked by Han Fei.
