"Can you teach me how to fight?" The soft boy placed the cooked instant noodles in front of Han Fei, and brought him a grilled sausage and a bottle of drink, "This meal is on me."
" I don't have the habit of being paid for by high school students." Han Fei was really hungry, and he took a big bite of the noodles.
"Thank you for helping me today." The boy sat next to Han Fei, and the two looked out at the street through the floor-to-ceiling window of the convenience store.
"If you really want to thank me, then hurry back to school. Studying won't guarantee that you'll get anywhere in the future, but it will bring you more options and opportunities." Han Fei stifled noodles, but his voice was warm: "You are still young, the future is full of all kinds of possibilities. If you don't like this city, you can go elsewhere for college, leave here to start a new life, and make new friends."
"I need money for college, I want to work as soon as possible, I don't want to cause trouble for people around me, originally my uncle's family hated me ..." The boy looked at the empty street outside the convenience store and pursed his lips.
"Your situation is perfectly fine to apply for student loans, the state will help you go to school, but only if you work hard."
"My situation?" The boy was a little confused.
Han Fei did not speak again, he finished the noodles and went to the bar to scan his identity information to check out: "This is my contact information, if those little bastards dare to bully you again, call me directly."
Walking towards the store, when he was about to leave Han Fei turned back and asked the boy, "Qu Wenhou, if you can still see your mother, what do you want to say to her?"
Hearing Han Fei's words, the boy froze for a while and slowly lowered his head: "If I can still see her, I will definitely apologize to her and tell her that I will protect her now no matter what and not let her suffer any more bullying."
When he lifted his head, Han Fei was no longer in the convenience store, night had fallen, and outside the window was the cold old street.
Han Fei's back was stretched out by the bright neon, and he stood across the street and took a look at the child in the convenience store, put his hands in his pockets, and disappeared into the night.
When he returned to his home, Han Fei made a phone call to Huang Ying, whom he had met at the game exhibition, and they had left each other contact information.
The two of them left their contact information for each other. Huang Ying was very happy to receive Han Fei's call, he even directly said that he saw Han Fei on the news and was so surprised that he later said Han Fei was his friend when he met with people in the hospital.
Just from the tone of voice, Huang Ying was very normal, but to be on the safe side, Han Fei still made an appointment with the other party and was ready to meet again offline.
After hanging up the phone, Han Fei skilled the movements taught by Li Xue again, he now really feels that these movements are very useful: "Basic fighting skills have been mastered, tomorrow I have to find Li Xue and learn some new things."
After taking a shower, Han Fei sat at the table and began to study until midnight zero, he put on the game helmet.
Blood poured out across the room, and his consciousness began to fall.
Opening his eyes, Han Fei looked at the familiar living room, "The missions on Building One are basically done, I need to get in touch with the residents of Building Two as soon as possible."
He was about to get up when he suddenly heard a sound coming from the kitchen.
"At this hour, my roommates should all still be in their bedrooms." Picking up the knife on the table, Han Fei quietly pushed open the kitchen door.
Wei Youfu, whose body was transparent and almost on the verge of dissipating, and Xiao Ba were standing next to the gas stove, and Wei Youfu seemed to be teaching Xiao Ba how to cook.
Seeing Han Fei enter, Wei Youfu turned toward Han Fei and smiled, "I'm telling Xiao Ba about the things that happened before."
"Oh." Han Fei was stunned for a moment before he responded, "You can talk? You've regained your sanity!"
"I recovered some of my humanity, thanks to your help." Wei Youfu coughed a few times: "Our eight victims' bodies can fuse together, and the memory of death and painful emotions can bring us strength, but they can also bring us despair that we cannot manage. I divided the portion of power that belonged to me to the others, and this was barely enough to maintain sanity."
"It's so difficult." Han Fei looked at Wei Youfu and walked straight over, using the secret of touching the depths of the soul, he gave Wei Youfu a hug: "Brother, I helped you get your revenge, your murderer has been brought to justice, I am now trying to find a way to take you out of this cage so that you can see with your own eyes the picture of the bad guys being punished!"
"This time you have done too much for us, in fact, we have long considered you as family, no matter what the ending is, we will accompany you to the end." Wei Youfu rubbed Xiao Ba's head: "After so many years, all the residents treat 1044 as a murderous house, saying that monsters live here, only you are an exception. We gave you the chance to escape in the beginning, who knows you still would come back again and again, in turn, gave us hope."
Wei Youfu's current state is very special, he is very weak, looking like a sick man who will collapse at any time, even Meng Shi, an old woman in her seventies, is much stronger than him.
But he traded all his strength for sanity, and he became the only one of the eight victims of the human jigsaw puzzle who could communicate with Han Fei.
"You Fu, do you have any more tasks on you?" Han Fei wanted to finish the mission with his roommate.
" Mission?"
"It's just something that you want me to do."
"No, a few of us got our lost remnants back, now we just need to slowly learn to control our despair and pain, and we should all be able to change back to our true selves."
"So do you have any long-term goals?"
"We've never considered the future, but if I had to say it ..." Wei Youfu looked at Xiao Ba: "We want this child to experience the beauty of the earth, she was raised by a psychopathic murderer, she was from birth chosen to die. You should have seen the Black Forest cartoon shown on TV, that's what Xiao Ba's memory is."
"Maybe I can take her to that world later and show her that there are still many good things on earth." Han Fei looked at Xiao Ba, but the girl hid behind Wei You Fu, who had been afraid of Han Fei.
"What about you? What do you want to go do next?"
"I became the new building manager of building number one, later I'm going to go to building number two, I want to help them take out all the outsiders and then have a good chat with them." Han Fei didn't hide anything from Wei Youfu because the feeling Wei Youfu brought to Han Fei was really just like family.
"Building two is very dangerous, why don't I go with you?" Wei Youfu finished and coughed a few times, he gave the feeling as if a gust of wind could blow him away.
"Let's forget it, I feel it will be more dangerous to take you there."
Han Fei decisively refused, but Wei Youfu shook his head with a bitter smile, "You misunderstood, we eight victims can melt into one, when everyone's resentment and pain is concentrated on Xiao Ba, she will become the most terrifying ghost in the building."
"Just her?" Han Fei also knew that Xiao Ba was special, and yet the girl looked just as weak as she felt.
"Adding all the pain and despair iteratively on one person will be very scary and will also have an extremely bad effect on Xiao Ba, but you have helped us so much, now it's our turn to help you."
After Wei Youfu finished speaking, the deepest bedroom door of the murder house was pushed open and one of the victims came out.