Chapter 80 Hypnosis (5)

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It seems that this is the clue given by the second dream. Now Yi Han has two clue cards in his hand: one is two women eating delicious food obsessively, and the other is a bride with a wedding dress stained red by blood. But just combining these two pictures, it is still impossible to infer the exact information. It seems that in order to completely solve the mystery of the chef's disappearance, we have to get the third clue card.

After Yi Han came out of the wedding dream, he waited for a moment before the scene in front of him lit up again.

This time, the scene before him was an ordinary hotel lobby, but it was empty and quiet, with no waiters or guests.

Yi Han was dressed like an investigator, holding a case investigation report in his hand. On the report was scribbled "multiple...suicides..." He flipped through it roughly, and it seemed to say that the staff in the hotel committed suicide one after another. Although there was no evidence at the scene to prove that it was homicide, the superiors still sent him to take a look.

"Uncle policeman, where should we go first?" A young girl standing next to Yi Han asked.

This girl looked familiar, about fourteen or fifteen years old, wearing a school uniform. Yi Han couldn't quite remember where he had met her before, but it didn't matter. He just needed to know the role she was playing now - it seemed to be the daughter of the restaurant owner who had just returned from abroad.

"Were you abroad when the incident happened here?" Yi Han asked as he gestured for her to take him around to have a look.

"Yes, yes. I happened to go out playing with my classmates a few days ago. It was only after you informed me that I found out such a big thing had happened at home." The girl said uneasily.

"Do you know who your family has feuded with? Do you know if there are any particularly bad rivals?"

"I'm not sure about this. My parents don't often tell me about business matters. But a month ago, something went wrong at a wedding hosted by my family and someone was killed... Could this be a wronged ghost seeking revenge? I went to see it, too. Will something happen to me too?" the girl said fearfully.

Yi Han raised his eyebrows after listening to this and flipped through the case records in his hand again. Sure enough, he saw a sentence on a page at the back saying "the newlyweds at the wedding...died on the spot." It seemed that the deceased was a young lady from a wealthy family, and her husband also committed suicide shortly after the incident.

After thinking for a while and turning back to the previous few pages, Yi Han found that the person who wrote the report, when describing the situation of the restaurant where the accident occurred, also mentioned that the food here is "incredibly delicious" and "fascinating". Therefore, although the venue is not particularly large and the decoration is not particularly luxurious, it is very popular among young couples, and it feels like an Internet celebrity restaurant, so some wealthy people will also choose to get married in this hotel.

Seeing such an obvious clue, Yi Han finally breathed a sigh of relief. This third dream finally connected all the clues given in the first two dreams.

"This is the locker room." Several people walked through the hall and turned into the corridor. The girl stopped in front of a half-open door and said nervously.

The report said that five waiters died in the locker room from poisoning.

When Yi Han pushed the door open, he saw five white lines marking the outlines of the dead on the ground, but there were no strange traces at the scene. They must have all committed suicide.

After a brief inspection, several people left the locker room, and then the boss's daughter took them to see the kitchen, manager's office and other places.

The staff of this hotel died in various ways, some took poison, some cut their wrists, and some even hanged themselves by tying ropes around water pipes. It can be said that apart from working in the same hotel, they had nothing else in common.

After visiting all the places where the accidents happened, Yi Han suddenly started to wonder if it was really the ghost of the newlyweds who was seeking revenge... But judging from the report, the bride's accident was purely an accident. Even if she was seeking revenge, she shouldn't have sought revenge on everyone in the hotel.

"Perhaps we can start thinking from the first two dreams," Yi Han pondered, "At present, it seems that there should be a causal relationship between these three dreams. The 'addictive food' led to 'a wealthy couple choosing to get married in this popular hotel', and then 'the bride died tragically on the wedding day', which led to 'the entire hotel staff committing suicide', including the boss, chefs, waiters and hundreds of others.

"So now there are two questions. 1. Is there really a murderer who blames the chef and other employees of the hotel for the bride's death and then uses some means to make them commit suicide together as revenge? If so, is this person the bride herself or the groom?

"2. What does this have to do with the two chefs suddenly leaving the infinite world to be reincarnated? After all, even if this kind of thing really happened, it should have happened in the real world. Suppose the chef of the restaurant in question is one of the 'two chefs who mysteriously left', and they became NPCs in the escape game after their death. Their careers were obviously developing well, so why did they leave without even saying a word?"

Given that the content of this dream level was created to answer Yi Han's questions, he reasonably suspected that the murderer who caused the employee to commit suicide and the murderer who caused the two chefs to leave the game world was the same person.

"How old is the chef in your restaurant?" Yi Han asked.

"He should be in his fifties. I don't know him very well, but I have tried his food and it is really delicious," said the girl.

In his fifties, that might be the former cook that A27 mentioned, who specialized in making work meals for NPCs. The former owner of the iron pot and the recipe book was not that old. According to the former owner of the shop, they were only in their thirties.

"Does your chef have any apprentices?" Yi Han asked again.

"He has no apprentice, and it seems that his recipes are not passed on to outsiders. I heard that he only has a nephew who is his apprentice." The girl thought for a moment and said.

Nephew and uncle, this kind of relationship is consistent with what the former boss said, "learning cooking from elders". It seems that this is the person Yi Han is looking for.

"That nephew is also on the death list? What's his name?" Yi Han flipped through the report in his hand, but since he didn't know the man's name, he had no idea where to start.

"No, he seemed to have taken leave during the months when the accident happened, and he was not in this city just like me. As for his name, I don't even know it." The girl replied.

Hearing this, Yi Han was slightly stunned. The previous owner of the recipe was not dead yet?

But if you think about it, the time is right. According to the former owner of the store, they entered the game for no more than a year, and the old chef in A27 should have been older. So the difference in the time of their death should be at least four or five years. I just don't know if the nephew's death later had anything to do with the murderer.

Yi Han took out his phone and tried to contact him, but unfortunately he was in a dream and couldn't make a call. It seemed that if he wanted to get more truth, he could only continue to rely on his own guesses...

At this time, all areas of the hotel had been searched, and the girl sent Yi Han and others to the door.

"Then take care, everyone. If you need any help from me, you can come here and find me directly." The girl politely saw the guests off.

Yi Han had no choice but to nod and watched her turn around and walk back to the hotel, probably to pack up her family's things.

"Is it really a supernatural event?" Jian Lin asked after the girl's figure disappeared.

"It shouldn't happen. Since both chefs entered the escape game after their death, if the bride and groom didn't reincarnate, they would be directly pulled into the game. In theory, they would not have the chance to stay in the real world and harm others." Yi Han said.

"So it wasn't done by ghosts. Could a living person make so many people commit suicide together? A cult? Hypnosis?" Jian Lin asked hesitantly.

Yi Han did not answer. He lowered his head and turned to the page of death list in the record book in his hand, and looked at the groom's information and date of death respectively.

From the data on paper, the groom was a psychiatrist and had the motive and ability to commit the crime. But he did not have the time to do it. He committed suicide a few days after the bride's death, and then other people in the hotel began to suffer.

——But Jian Lin was right. Unless hundreds of employees in the hotel believed in a cult at the same time, such collective suicide would not have occurred.

Yi Han put away the notebook and turned his gaze back to the interior of the hotel.

Several people were standing in front of the hotel at this time. A little further away was the white fog at the border of the dream. They couldn't leave too far and could only move around in the hotel. But the information had been collected almost completely, and Yi Han just wanted to see if the scene he had imagined would appear.

Time passed quickly in the dream. Yi Han didn't wait too long, and was suddenly pulled by Jian Lin.

Jian Lin looked surprised and motioned for him to look upstairs.

I saw the window on the sixth floor slowly open, and a girl in a school uniform leaned against the window frame and stretched her legs out.

"She, she wants to commit suicide too?" Jian Lin turned to look at Yi Han.

Yi Han didn't comment, with an expression of "as expected", and didn't intend to stop it - even if he wanted to stop it, it was too late to climb to the sixth floor at this time.

Seeing the boss's daughter leaning out of the window in a trance, and then falling down, like a rag doll, in front of him. The body after falling from the building was mosaiced by the system, and Yi Han had confirmed his thoughts.

"It looks like it's him." The dream scene in front of him was shaking and seemed to be about to disappear.

"Who? The groom?" Jian Lin asked behind him.

"Yes." Yi Han looked at the corpse on the ground and slowly stated the conclusion drawn from all three dreams.

"The chef here is so good that many guests are addicted to his food. The bride should be one of them. Because she was obsessed with the food made by the chef, she chose this hotel to host her wedding despite her husband's objection. On the wedding day, some accidents happened and the bride died. The groom, who didn't want to get married here in the first place, blamed the chef and all other staff for his wife's death.

"He was a doctor who was good at hypnosis. In his grief and anger, he hypnotized everyone present at the time and asked them to pay for his wife's life together. Although the boss's daughter in the dream almost escaped, she was immediately stabbed after returning to China. Of course, this character may not exist in reality. It is very likely that she was created in the dream to imply that there is such a person who almost escaped in reality.

"This man is the chef's nephew. Although no one knows why he died a few years later, when he entered the escape game and opened a shop with someone, he attracted the attention of the groom from that year. Apparently, the groom also became an NPC in the escape game after his death. After many years, he met the 'two murderers who killed his wife' again, and one of them was the one who escaped the net that year. Naturally, he would take action again."

"He harmed hundreds of people by himself, but he was not detected by the system. He even signed a contract with the company and became an NPC?" Jian Lin was surprised. "Then, how do we find him? The administrator of this level is an expert in this field..."

Jian Lin obviously wanted to say the second half of the sentence, "Do you want to consult him?" But when he saw Yi Han's expression, he suddenly stopped talking.

"Maybe this expert is the groom from that year." The two exchanged glances, but no one said this out loud.

Now they are in someone else's checkpoint. If they guess right by accident, they may not be able to get out of the checkpoint.

As Yi Han finished his long guess, the third dream finally disappeared, and a clue card appeared in his hand. The card showed a sea of blood and a man standing among the corpses, with a flower drawn with simple lines in the background.

Unfortunately, when Hua and Yi Han contacted the hypnotist administrator of this level a few hours ago, they saw each other's chat software avatars, which were exactly the same.

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