Chapter 17 Hot Spring Bath (5)

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This time, the mandatory task has a time limit. After the system assigns a pool to each person, the countdown begins.

I don’t know if it was intentional to make things difficult for him, but the pool that Yi Han was assigned to was very remote, and when he looked over, he saw that it was a high-temperature pool.

The family of three over there was still struggling, but the two adults had already changed their tone. While preparing to go into the water, they kept reminding their children: "Don't go to the toilet in the water. Be patient! Be good!" Although it was a sad and embarrassing story...but they were the ones who behaved uncivilized first and now they were being taught a lesson by the system, so no player expressed sympathy.

The countdown ended quickly, and Yi Han entered the pool just in time. His body was submerged in the water and he immediately felt a little hot.

The temperature of this pool is 42 degrees, which is already very high in the temperature standard of hot spring pools. Hot pools of this temperature usually have signs warning that it is not recommended to soak for too long, otherwise the body will easily feel uncomfortable.

Yi Han knew that this might be a special arrangement by the system. After all, the system probably already disliked him as a troublesome player who increased the workload of the staff dozens of times every time... But the mandatory task had to be completed, so he could only endure it temporarily.

Yi Han leaned quietly on the edge of the pool, looking at the other players from afar.

The family of three was in the pool where they almost went to the toilet just now. The couple was not far from them, except for the pair of best friends, because one of them fainted in the sauna room. The other girl was near her when the mandatory task was issued just now. Now she was supporting her companion who had recovered a little and sitting upright in the pool assigned to them.

Everything seemed calm. But Yi Han guessed that this situation would not last long. After all, the players had to stay in the pool for 10 minutes and could not leave. With such a good opportunity, the ghosts would definitely take action.

Sure enough, when the mission was carried out for three minutes, some players began to speak out in fear.

"Are you all okay? Why... I feel like there's something in my water?"

The one who spoke was the girl who was not unconscious among the pair of best friends.

Her partner "Yanyan" was still leaning weakly on her and could not be consulted with, so she had to ask others.

Hearing her ask this, everyone panicked again. But the water in the pool was actually very clean, and you could see the bottom clearly. Even the girl who asked this question stared into the water for a long time, and finally confirmed that there was nothing special in her pool.

But... she clearly felt that something touched her feet under the water just now.

She retracted her feet in fear and hugged her friend tightly.

Time passed by minute by minute, and soon it was the 5th minute.

5 minutes seemed to be a signal, and suddenly, the players became agitated.

"Why do I feel like there's something in the water?"

"Me too... I think my calf was scratched just now. I moved it and it was gone."

Everyone was communicating in panic, and the atmosphere became even more tense.

As a single person with no one to play with in a duo, Yi Han stayed alone in a high-temperature pool away from everyone, listening to what they said.

He thought that due to his geographical location, he would be the focus of attention of the ghosts, but now, five minutes later, abnormalities have occurred in everyone's pool, while he has been fine.

Yi Han's skin had turned a little red at this point, and the heat made it difficult for him to breathe, but his expression remained unchanged. He remained calm, waiting to see what other tricks these ghosts would come up with.

Sure enough, he didn't have to wait too long.

The vague touch starts from the ankle and slowly extends to the calf.

...Just like he felt in the restaurant.

He was in darkness at the time, and his hands were stained with the strange water, which touched him for a long time.

But because I was concentrating on opening the door and catching the person outside, I didn't pay much attention to it. When the person outside ran away, the thing in my hand was gone, so I didn't know what it was until later.

Yi Han felt the touch on his calf and looked down. As his teammates had said, there was only clear hot spring water in the pool without any abnormalities.

"I, I was touched by that thing again, what should I do, it seems to be always there..." Almost at the same time when Yi Han's knee was touched, screams came from the direction of the couple again.

"I can't take it anymore. I want to get out." It was the girl who spoke, but it was her boyfriend who said this. The man seemed to be even more frightened than she was. Both of them had fear in their voices, which instantly made everyone more panicked.

"Don't be impulsive, you guys. If you fail the forced mission, you will lose this round." said the father with his son.

But just as he finished speaking, his wife suddenly screamed, and then the 5-year-old child started crying.

It was obvious that they could no longer bear it. The splashing sound of water mixed with the shouts of various people and the crying of children, and the entire indoor hot spring hall was in chaos.

"It, it, it touched my chest, I must get out..." the child's mother screamed.

Her husband held her with one hand and held his son with the other, and he even had the energy to shout to other teammates: "I think this thing is just to scare people, it's nothing, everyone please don't leave the pool."

"How do you know it won't hurt people...what if it crawls to our throat, mouth and nose?!" the man in the couple shouted.

Both of their guesses sound possible, but it is clear that the only way to pass the level is to persist for the full 10 minutes.

Yi Han sat calmly in the pool, listening to his teammates shouting and making noises, without saying a word from beginning to end.

He had experienced this, so he was more inclined to the child's father's point of view. He just said that, even though he knew in his heart that its purpose was to make people panic and rush out of the water, causing the mission to fail... It took a lot of concentration to still insist on sitting here under the harassment of an invisible thing that kept groping and groping.

The human physiological mechanism is to seek benefits and avoid harm. At this time, there are still two minutes before the end of the mandatory task, but except for Yi Han, all other players in the field can no longer suppress their instinct to escape.

"Will it go in through our noses and ears? Woohoo..." Someone said this. Her description was so horrifying that the players were in a state of confusion.

Yi Han felt the invisible thing touching his waist, then slowly moving to his back, chest, collarbone... and soon, it reached the throat, the most vulnerable part of the human body.

That thing kept lingering near the Adam's apple, as if it was looking for a suitable spot to break through the skin and get into the throat.

Yi Han lowered his eyes and listened to the countdown.

3.

2.

1.

【Mandatory mission 1, completed.】

The moment the system prompted him, Yi Han stood up from the water.

The scorching hot spring water slid down the already red skin, the strange feeling on the neck disappeared instantly, and a black iron pot appeared in his hand.

Yi Han ignored the suddenly louder screams from his teammates and turned to face the only door in the hall.

Without waiting to see clearly, he turned sideways without hesitation, raised his arm, and threw the pot out with force.

With a loud bang, it hit a figure.

When he threw the pot, the man had not actually reached the door yet. However, it was very difficult to brake while he was fleeing at high speed. The man just touched the door handle and was hit on the back of the head by the pot.

"Ouch——" The thin male NPC covered his head and groaned, but he didn't dare to stop. He opened the glass door and ran away quickly.

Yi Han stepped out of the pool to chase after him, but it was too late.

Even though the hot spring pool he was in was the closest to the entrance among all the players, no one was able to catch up with him in the end.

Yi Han stood at the door, remembering the direction he escaped, and couldn't help but touch his neck. The thing formed by the water flow before had been circling there for a long time, causing him to still feel a little uncomfortable.

I turned around and went back to the hot spring hall, and then I found that my teammates were gathered in front of a pool inside... and there seemed to be someone crying in the crowd.

When Yi Han walked over, he saw a woman with her eyes closed, floating on the water in the hot spring pool allocated to a family of three. She seemed to be dead.

Her child and his father stood outside the pool, crying.

“Just now, the child and his mother couldn’t help but want to come out. The child’s father was pulling both of them at the same time, but he couldn’t hold them together for a while, and the result was…” A female teammate crossed her arms and said with a pale face.

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