Chapter 61: Are You Crazy?
Fresh red blood trickled down Xu Qin's lips, her fingers bitten, yet she felt no pain.
Han Fei's words seemed to have triggered the deepest memories in her mind, and her expression became even more sickly and mad.
Looking at Xu Qin at this moment, staring at her face, and listening to her repetitive words, Han Fei suddenly felt that the name Xu Qin sounded familiar.
He carefully recalled that when he was searching for information related to the body puzzle pattern, he had unintentionally come across another case from ten years ago.
The supervisor in charge of the clinical trial of a new drug at Eternal Life Pharmaceutical was poisoned by her own younger brother, and that supervisor's name was Xu Qin.
The older sister and younger brother had relied on each other since childhood. The older sister had never married to take care of her younger brother, devoting herself to her work.
The neighbours all thought that the siblings had a good relationship, but who could have imagined that the younger brother would poison his own sister in the end? The method of the crime was crude, but the older sister had never suspected her own brother and ate the meal clean.
That case had been solved ten years ago. The older sister died, and the younger brother was sentenced to death.
In the New Shanghai Old Town where they had once lived, a famous ghost story remained, saying that if you brought a meal to the house on the corner of North Street, you might encounter a crazy woman with a dining knife. She would cough up blood, shed tears, and then devour all the food and the person delivering it.
"Are these two Xu Qins the same person?"
Han Fei also looked at the woman in front of him. He remembered a sentence Xu Qin had said before; she had been using the name Xu Qin recently.
The woman living in Room 1052 might not necessarily be Xu Qin. Perhaps she possessed many memories and was a conglomeration of curses, with Xu Qin being just one of them.
"Sis, what's wrong with you?" Han Fei didn't fear the woman's madness. He took the initiative to approach her. "If you're feeling unwell, go back to your room first. I'll lure out those guys on the sixth floor."
The real target tonight was the outsiders on the sixth floor. Han Fei also wanted to use them to calm Xu Qin's emotions.
With blood-stained lips emitting a sickly beauty, Xu Qin's pale fingers unconsciously touched her own face. "Someone hid away, and I forgot. I forgot something..."
"That person might be on the sixth floor. But if you come with me, they'll be afraid." Han Fei's smile was clean and pure, like a carefree boy next door with no worries. "You can leave the menial work to me from now on."
With the ability to quit the game at any time, Han Fei became brave and confident. He escorted Xu Qin back to Room 1052 and then took the bug chrysalis and headed towards the sixth floor.
Walking alone in the corridor, Han Fei's smile gradually disappeared. He wanted to genuinely smile from the bottom of his heart, but for a long time now, he had lost his own smile.
He could perform various kinds of smiles, but they were never genuine expressions of happiness and joy.
Slowly moving through the dark corridor, Han Fei arrived on the sixth floor for the first time. It was a new breakthrough for him.
"The apartment manager used to live on the tenth floor, and there should be something very important hidden in his room. I need to find out everything. I must find a way to get to the top floor."
Compared to other floors, the sixth floor was extremely messy. The corridor was filled with various garbage and clutter, and there were damaged flowerpots placed on the steps.
"These outsiders really have no manners. They leave flowerpots on the steps. What if it falls on someone?"
Han Fei slowed down his movements and bent down to move the flowerpot. Strangely, no matter how he touched the red string, the bell wouldn't ring. It seemed that the bell and red string were not used to ward off the living.
"Finally, I've reached the sixth floor."
Standing among the clutter, Han Fei looked at the four rooms on the sixth floor. He didn't know which room had occupants, so he randomly knocked on the door of Room 1064.
"Is anyone there? I'm a neighbour from downstairs."
The sound of knocking echoed far down the corridor, but no one came to open the door.
"If you don't do anything wrong, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door. If these people don't open the door, maybe they have something to hide."
If it was another neighbour coming over, they would have their own concerns and wouldn't dare to cause too much commotion, fearing that they would become the target. But Han Fei was different. When he first entered the game, he was extremely timid, cautious with every step, as if walking on thin ice. But once he could freely exit the game after completing his mission, a magnificent transformation occurred within him. Simply put, he became fearless, challenging all the ghosts as if his life didn't matter.
"Why are you speaking like that? I'm here to do a good deed. Do you have a family member missing?" Han Fei didn't carry any weapons, and he gave off a weak impression. The neighbours on the sixth floor regarded him as a madman with no combat power.
"No."
"That's impossible. That person entrusted me to deliver something to the residents on the sixth floor." Saying this, Han Fei took out the human chrysalis from his pocket.
Han Fei's words seemed to have triggered the deepest memories in her mind, and her expression became even more sickly and mad.
Looking at Xu Qin at this moment, staring at her face, and listening to her repetitive words, Han Fei suddenly felt that the name Xu Qin sounded familiar.
He carefully recalled that when he was searching for information related to the body puzzle pattern, he had unintentionally come across another case from ten years ago.
The supervisor in charge of the clinical trial of a new drug at Eternal Life Pharmaceutical was poisoned by her own younger brother, and that supervisor's name was Xu Qin.
The older sister and younger brother had relied on each other since childhood. The older sister had never married to take care of her younger brother, devoting herself to her work.
The neighbours all thought that the siblings had a good relationship, but who could have imagined that the younger brother would poison his own sister in the end? The method of the crime was crude, but the older sister had never suspected her own brother and ate the meal clean.
That case had been solved ten years ago. The older sister died, and the younger brother was sentenced to death.
In the New Shanghai Old Town where they had once lived, a famous ghost story remained, saying that if you brought a meal to the house on the corner of North Street, you might encounter a crazy woman with a dining knife. She would cough up blood, shed tears, and then devour all the food and the person delivering it.
"Are these two Xu Qins the same person?"
Han Fei also looked at the woman in front of him. He remembered a sentence Xu Qin had said before; she had been using the name Xu Qin recently.
The woman living in Room 1052 might not necessarily be Xu Qin. Perhaps she possessed many memories and was a conglomeration of curses, with Xu Qin being just one of them.
"Sis, what's wrong with you?" Han Fei didn't fear the woman's madness. He took the initiative to approach her. "If you're feeling unwell, go back to your room first. I'll lure out those guys on the sixth floor."
The real target tonight was the outsiders on the sixth floor. Han Fei also wanted to use them to calm Xu Qin's emotions.
With blood-stained lips emitting a sickly beauty, Xu Qin's pale fingers unconsciously touched her own face. "Someone hid away, and I forgot. I forgot something..."
"That person might be on the sixth floor. But if you come with me, they'll be afraid." Han Fei's smile was clean and pure, like a carefree boy next door with no worries. "You can leave the menial work to me from now on."
With the ability to quit the game at any time, Han Fei became brave and confident. He escorted Xu Qin back to Room 1052 and then took the bug chrysalis and headed towards the sixth floor.
Walking alone in the corridor, Han Fei's smile gradually disappeared. He wanted to genuinely smile from the bottom of his heart, but for a long time now, he had lost his own smile.
He could perform various kinds of smiles, but they were never genuine expressions of happiness and joy.
Slowly moving through the dark corridor, Han Fei arrived on the sixth floor for the first time. It was a new breakthrough for him.
"The apartment manager used to live on the tenth floor, and there should be something very important hidden in his room. I need to find out everything. I must find a way to get to the top floor."
Compared to other floors, the sixth floor was extremely messy. The corridor was filled with various garbage and clutter, and there were damaged flowerpots placed on the steps.
"These outsiders really have no manners. They leave flowerpots on the steps. What if it falls on someone?"
Han Fei slowed down his movements and bent down to move the flowerpot. Strangely, no matter how he touched the red string, the bell wouldn't ring. It seemed that the bell and red string were not used to ward off the living.
"Finally, I've reached the sixth floor."
Standing among the clutter, Han Fei looked at the four rooms on the sixth floor. He didn't know which room had occupants, so he randomly knocked on the door of Room 1064.
"Is anyone there? I'm a neighbour from downstairs."
The sound of knocking echoed far down the corridor, but no one came to open the door.
"If you don't do anything wrong, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door. If these people don't open the door, maybe they have something to hide."
If it was another neighbour coming over, they would have their own concerns and wouldn't dare to cause too much commotion, fearing that they would become the target. But Han Fei was different. When he first entered the game, he was extremely timid, cautious with every step, as if walking on thin ice. But once he could freely exit the game after completing his mission, a magnificent transformation occurred within him. Simply put, he became fearless, challenging all the ghosts as if his life didn't matter.
"Why are you speaking like that? I'm here to do a good deed. Do you have a family member missing?" Han Fei didn't carry any weapons, and he gave off a weak impression. The neighbours on the sixth floor regarded him as a madman with no combat power.
"No."
"That's impossible. That person entrusted me to deliver something to the residents on the sixth floor." Saying this, Han Fei took out the human chrysalis from his pocket.
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