Chapter 74: Forbidden Land of Ghost Forest (8)

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"You misunderstood. This time I want to ask you for help with something." Yi Han waited patiently for him to finish his rant, casually put a cup of mood-boosting milk tea in the email, and then said sincerely.

"..." Separated by the space, Yi Han didn't know whether Xiaojiu drank or not. He could only see the label "The other party is typing" flashing repeatedly on the dialog box, and then this status would disappear after a few seconds. It was obvious that the other party was preparing all kinds of insults to him, but Yi Han was really too irritating, and Xiaojiu might have no more words to complain about.

"Am I familiar with you?" After a long while, Xiaojiu typed these words in a haughty tone.

"Aren't we friends?" Yi Han replied immediately.

After saying that, he also sent a photo taken at the "Amusement Park" level. It was at the entrance of the "Rafting" project where Xiaojiu was on duty. In the photo, Yi Han was hit by the cute girl debuff and was sitting on a surfboard with her skirt spread out, while Xiaojiu was swimming in front of him with great effort, dragging the surfboard.

Yi Han: "Look, we had such a good relationship back then."

Xiaojiu: “…………???”

"So you are still angry, right? Last time, I asked you specifically, and you said you wouldn't be angry with girls, but it turns out that was all fake." Yi Han continued typing.

"You're not a girl at all!!" Xiaojiu was angry, and his reply speed became super fast.

“But this is not my fault. Just because I’m not a girl, you don’t want to be friends with me?” Yi Han originally wanted to add an emoticon like qwq at the end, but he didn’t do it.

Xiaojiu on the other side seemed to be stunned by his shameless and sophistry style of chatting, and did not reply for a long time.

Yi Han sent him another ice cream and received a few sad emoticons.

After repeating the operation several times, Xiaojiu replied.

"What's the matter? Tell me quickly." His tone was still bad, but it was obvious that he fell for Yi Han's tricks... Even after being cheated so many times, he still couldn't resist being fooled.

Yi Han was relieved, and briefly explained the situation, then asked: "Do you have a solution?"

"I do know a ghost doctor. There's one at the checkpoint I'm on duty at recently. But can you come?" Xiao Jiu asked doubtfully.

"I'll find a way." Yi Han said.

I have to admit that Xiaojiu's upgrade speed is really fast. He has reached the three-star level in the amusement park not long after he stayed there. However, his duty location this time is also quite special, and it seems that it is not a regular level-breaking map.

"I will be on duty at 11 o'clock tonight, but you don't have to come right away. Come when it's almost over around 12 o'clock." Xiaojiu was reluctant and said that he didn't want to stay with him for even a second.

"Thank you, you are such a nice person." Yi Han didn't mind and replied casually.

"..." Xiaojiu immediately ended their online chat indifferently.

By the time Xiaojiu said, Yi Han had already set up his own game mode, because he had to join a level halfway, but he was neither a player nor an NPC... Yi Han set up a ghost mode for himself, which was equivalent to a passerby who was just filling in the numbers.

Following Xiaojiu's location into the dungeon, Yi Han suddenly found himself standing at a bus stop late at night.

The evening breeze was cool and the surroundings were quiet. In the distance, a bus was driving along the road.

Xiaojiu's level seems to be called Midnight Hearse. The plot is that after several players catch the last bus, strange and scary NPCs will get on the bus one after another. Players can choose to get off at the stop, but no matter whether they stay on the bus or choose to get off, they will encounter scary things. It's basically a decompression (?) level where NPCs pretend to be ghosts and tease players crazily.

Yi Han stood at the platform and waited for a while, and the bus stopped in front of him.

The car door opened automatically, but Yi Han did not move.

Because beside him, there was a translucent shadow that had already reached the door.

The shadow got on the bus, and after walking into the bright interior, it was revealed to be a dark human figure. At first glance, it looked a bit like the faceless man, but this kind of image that looks kind and cute in anime (?) only makes people feel horrified when it appears in reality. It seems that this is the NPC on duty at this platform.

After letting it pass, Yi Han got on the car with Xiao Hei, who was carrying Jian Lin.

It was close to midnight, and the level was about to end. The bus was almost full. Yi Han still looked like a child, but Xiao Hei was still a big leopard. As soon as they got on the bus, the space inside instantly became much more crowded. But among all the weird NPCs with broken heads and hands, he, who led a ferocious beast, seemed particularly innocent.

Xiaojiu was sitting at the back of the car with a knife stuck in his neck, pretending to be a living dead. Yi Han saw him at a glance and sat over.

"What are you doing...?" Xiaojiu had also noticed him a long time ago. He looked at him suspiciously for a long time before he whispered awkwardly, "What kind of new trick is this? Are you pretending to be a child to deceive people?"

"I got a debuff in the level," Yi Han said helplessly, "I think you have some misunderstandings about me. Can't we coexist peacefully?"

"????" Xiao Jiu was furious. "Who doesn't want to coexist peacefully with whom? Bah, who wants to coexist peacefully with a liar like you!"

He got anxious and stretched his neck, and the knife stuck in his neck slid out a little and was about to fall out of the wound.

Yi Han saw this and thought that no matter what, it was Xiaojiu who helped him out of kindness, so he should return the favor and take the initiative to show his kindness to him. So he raised his arm and helped him to block the knife, so the knife stabbed back into Xiaojiu's neck. However, the bus was bumpy... The knife seemed to be stabbed a little crookedly, and it seemed that the force used was a little too great. Xiaojiu turned pale on the spot, then slapped Yi Han's hand away, covered his neck and stared at him defensively.

Well, the show of goodwill failed. The main reason was that Yi Han had cheated him too many times before. No matter what he did now, Xiao Jiu would probably subconsciously speculate with the greatest malice...

The stop where Yi Han got on the bus just now is probably the last stop of this train. If it continues on, it will reach the terminal soon.

There were originally several normal players on the bus, but now it seems that several of them have left, leaving only two on the bus. These two are now the target of intimidation for all the NPCs on the bus.

As a hitchhiker, Yi Han had nothing to do with this level, so he just leaned back in the back seat and watched the show for a long time. Until more than ten minutes later, the bus arrived at the station and the two players were so scared that they screamed and fainted.

"Are these also notorious players?" Yi Han asked sympathetically.

"No, they are all good people, so we won't kill them, we just scare them for fun." said Xiaojiu, who had just participated in the scare activity.

Yi Han nodded, roughly understanding it. It seems that in levels above three stars, if the players are confirmed to be good people, the system will not set up dead ends to embarrass them. It’s just that ordinary NPCs may not know that the players they are scaring now may very likely become their colleagues or even superiors if they can be promoted to four stars in the future. It must be said that a system that deliberately creates such a situation is really a bad taste.

As the bus slowly stopped, the NPCs worked together to lift the two players and walked out of the door swiftly.

The final stop was a run-down small hospital. Yi Han and Xiao Jiu were the last ones to get off the bus. They saw that the others had already crossed the rusty iron gate in front of the hospital and were skillfully sending the two fainted players to the ward.

A gray-haired old man came out of the doctor's office next door, and it seemed that he had been waiting here for a long time. He was very skilled in his movements. He took the pulse of the two players, took out a box of acupuncture needles, and pricked them twice. The two players were startled and immediately woke up.

Yi Han watched as the bunch of spooky NPCs surrounding the bed, when they saw the man wake up, leaned over and grinned at him, just like the emoticon that says "Are you awake? Have you finished your homework?"

"Ahhh!!!!" The two players were terrified when they saw this magical scene as soon as they opened their eyes. They struggled and screamed desperately, and fainted again a few seconds later. The NPCs on the side checked their GPAs and smiled with satisfaction.

Yi Han: ...

Why does this operation feel so familiar?

System: "That's right. It was because of your inspiration that we arranged an old Chinese doctor to treat players in this scare level. However, we have too few medical talents among our employees, so we can't equip every level with this set of facilities to scare players again..."

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