Chapter 15 Hot Spring Bath (3)

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There are no other exits in the hall of the indoor hot spring area. There are only a few doors on the wall on one side, behind which are the steam steam room, stone bed room, and bathroom.

Yi Han glanced at his teammates who were soaking in the pool and walked straight over.

"Did you see anyone come in just now?" he asked.

"No?"

"What's wrong? What happened?"

Although they looked like tourists, these players at least remembered that they were in a difficult dungeon. Seeing Yi Han's unfriendly tone, they immediately became alert.

"I just saw a man come in at the door, and then disappeared." Yi Han did not mention what happened in the restaurant, but simply described it as a thin man.

Clearly someone came in, but no one noticed, and now looking around the room, no extra people were seen. Suddenly everyone felt as if they were facing a great enemy.

"Although we didn't see anyone coming in, we didn't stare at the door just now..."

"Maybe someone came in when we weren't paying attention. It must be with bad intentions if they sneaked in so secretly."

"There is only one door here. Doesn't that mean that the man is still in this room?"

The teammates were talking at once, causing panic. The seven people instantly came out of the pool and gathered together.

"There should be quite a few NPCs in this game, but we've only seen one in the lobby. The rest must be hiding in the dark," Yi Han said. "We have to find them."

As he spoke, he observed the seven teammates in front of him, and felt that they did not match the figure just now. It was just that the person always made him feel familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen him before.

The soda and beer that everyone had taken from the restaurant refrigerator were now standing by the pool. Each bottle had been drunk, and a layer of mist condensed on the bottles due to the heat from outside.

There must be something wrong with that refrigerator. If these people drink the drinks in it, something bad might happen to them later.

Although these teammates were not good, they did not make trouble or hinder the team. After all, there were ghosts hiding in the dark, and they could not play at ease. Therefore, after listening to Yi Han's words, they all nodded in support.

"Then, let's search together. There's strength in numbers." One of the two best friends took the initiative and said, "Let's search the sauna room over there."

"Then let's look around the hall."

“We’re looking the other way.”

Everyone quickly divided the work.

Yi Han said, "Then I'll go to the steam room with you guys."

The two people who took the initiative to go to the sauna room were both girls. It was a separate room, so it was easier to hide people there. It would be dangerous if they really encountered an evil spirit.

Although Yi Han did this mainly for exploration, no one thought there was anything wrong with what he said.

Who would have thought...

"OK."

“No need.”

The two girls spoke at the same time.

Then the two of them looked at each other in surprise.

"I, what I mean is, the hall is bigger and we need more manpower." The girl who refused said while waving her hands nervously.

She had just come out of the pool and was wearing a large towel that almost covered her entire body. Her long hair was stuck to her face, revealing only a slightly blue complexion. She seemed to be avoiding Yi Han - wait, was there such a person in the team just now?

Yi Han had previously focused on observing his male teammates and had not really noticed this somewhat strange girl.

Her acting skills were obviously not that good, and no one thought much about it before she explained it. But when she said this, everyone looked at her.

"Yanyan, why do you act weird since you came back from the sauna room just now..." The other girl seemed a little confused. She looked at her best friend hesitantly, as if she had forgotten something, as if she suddenly didn't recognize her.

I just went to the steam room, and now I don’t want anyone to get close to it…

No one would believe it if you said there was nothing fishy about this.

Yi Han raised his eyebrows, turned around and walked straight over there.

"Oh...?" The girl seemed to want to explain something, but seeing how determined he was, she remained silent.

The door of the sauna room seemed to be locked, and it could not be opened by pushing with normal force. But this kind of door was not actually locked at all, and this state was definitely not normal.

Yi Han pushed harder, but the door remained motionless.

Yi Han then took out his iron pot again.

Aim at the door panel and swing down with force.

With a loud "bang", the S-grade iron pot instantly made a big hole on the wooden door panel.

At this time, the remaining teammates also gathered around nervously, and instantly everyone felt the gushing heat.

It was unknown how long the door had been locked. Yi Han pushed it a few more times before it finally bounced open completely.

"Help - woo woo -" At the same time the door opened, it seemed as if the invisible barrier was broken, and a weak female cry for help finally came out.

Then everyone saw a girl leaning against the door, her face flushed, her breathing weak, and she was about to suffocate and faint from lack of oxygen.

"Yanyan???" One of the girlfriends who just spoke screamed immediately. Everyone then realized that the girl on the ground was a member of the original team.

But when I looked back at this time, I found that the fake "Yanyan" with poor acting skills had disappeared.

Everyone immediately stepped forward and carried the girl trapped in the steam room out, placed her on a chair nearby, and fanned her.

"We were soaking in the hot spring just now, Yanyan suddenly said she wanted to go to the steam room, I said I would accompany her, but she didn't want to, and then she came back in less than two minutes..." The best friend of the fainted girl said in a trance. Thinking about it again, it is obvious that the person who came back at that time is no longer her best friend, the original girl was replaced, and she didn't even notice it.

"That person just now was completely different from Yanyan in both appearance and personality. Why didn't I find it strange at all..." The girl looked terrified.

Not only her, but other teammates also realized at this time that the stranger who had sneaked into the team was obviously different from everyone else from head to toe, but no one noticed anything wrong just now.

It's like being drugged...

It seems that the drinks are the problem, Yi Han thought.

The players who came to visit had received a reminder from the system before, saying that the food in the level was fine - but just because the food was fine, it didn't mean the drinks were fine...

This kind of cunning quibbling is indeed the system's style.

Yi Han sighed and was about to say something else, but he heard a "click".

The door to the hot spring area was locked for some unknown reason.

Everyone was shocked and turned around.

Behind the frosted glass, there was a vague female figure standing. It was the person who had just sneaked into the players and disappeared after being exposed.

The man seemed to grin at them through the dim glass.

“Squeak—”

From another direction, there was a sound of a door being pushed open.

It's the bathroom.

I don't know if it's to unify the architectural style, but the doors of this hot spring bath are almost all wooden doors coated with waterproof material. At this moment, behind the bathroom door, it seemed that... something was slowly pushing the door.

The action of pushing the door seemed to be deliberately slowed down, as if to deliberately torture the player's tense nerves.

Even though the hall was filled with the sound of flowing hot spring water, it still couldn't cover up the sound of the wooden door opening.

The players huddled together with their companions, not daring to distract themselves to look at the door where the figure was standing, and all stared at the bathroom.

The atmosphere was extremely tense. Yi Han felt that strange familiar feeling again...

"Does the woman who pretended to be your friend just now have any obvious characteristics?" Yi Han asked in a deep voice.

The girl was still immersed in nervousness, and it was not until Yi Han asked her again that she realized that he was asking her.

"I, I don't quite remember..." The girl was trembling with fear, but she also knew that Yi Han might have thought of something when he asked her this question, so she tried to think about it again, "Ah... It seems that there are some bruises on her wrists and calves."

It was such an obvious abnormality, but at that time it was as if her consciousness was confused and she could not notice anything. The girl shuddered again when she thought of her previous state as if she had been bewitched.

After hearing the answer, Yi Han looked a little strange.

The thin male ghost who looked strangely familiar outside the restaurant...

A female ghost with strange bruises on her wrists and ankles...

A slow-tempered ghost hiding in the house and slowly pushing the door open to scare people...

This combination, emmmmm.

Yi Han felt mixed emotions for a moment. He gripped the iron pot tightly and walked straight forward.

"Be careful!" the teammates screamed.

Yi Han waved his hand to indicate that they were fine, then stood by the bathroom door.

The wooden door had been pushed open a little, revealing a head with long hair covering its face.

Her hair was wet and water was dripping from the ends.

A meaningless “mmm” sound came from the owner of the head.

The players couldn't help but scream when they saw this, supporting each other in fear.

But Yi Han stretched out his foot and exerted force, and the wooden door of the bathroom closed again, hitting the female ghost's forehead.

The players' eyes widened.

The female ghost was making angry sounds behind the door!

"It's you..." Yi Han couldn't help but feel a sense of familiarity in this terrifying scene.

This familiar slow-tempered girl, the familiar way of pushing the door, the familiar angry reaction after being hit on the head... Isn't it the slow-tempered girl ghost who stood in front of the recipe table and refused to give way at the novice level, and was pushed by Yi Han several times, and finally got hit on the head by an iron pot and pawned 10 points...

The female ghost with bruises on her wrists and ankles was the one hiding in the toilet cubicle at that time, trying to scare him. In the end, she was sacrificed to the gods, and Yi Han got a poor ghost with a bankrupt store in his place...

So the one at the restaurant door must be the male ghost who was the "fake teammate" at that time.

“It turns out you haven’t been fired by the game company yet…” Yi Han sighed in his heart.

Not only was he not fired, but even though he completed the mission so badly, in just a few days, he was promoted from a novice level NPC to a difficult dungeon NPC... Was it because he was beaten so badly by Yi Han in that battle that he couldn't swallow this breath, so he kept working hard to fight for a promotion...? I don't see how this game system is so perverted to players, but quite tolerant to its own employees.

"Then let me see if your brain has become harder after your promotion." Yi Han raised the pot.

When the long-haired female ghost pushed the door open again angrily (but still slowly), Yi Han hit her head with another pot.

The sound of "Bang——" echoed in the hot spring pool, so melodious...

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Yi Han: Even NPCs know how to work hard and get promoted and get a raise, but how come you players only know how to eat???