Chapter 81 Hypnosis (6)

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The character value detection system of the system only monitors the player's behavior, but does not detect the player's thoughts. It is not technically impossible, but out of consideration for privacy protection. After all, no one wants their every thought to be monitored by the system.

Moreover, even a saint cannot have never had vicious thoughts like "I want to strangle my husband" or "I want to throw the naughty kid next door who has been making noise all day down the stairs" in his life, but most of them are just thoughts when they are angry. If thinking is a sin, then there may be no players who can pass the screening perfectly in the entire escape game. Therefore, when the system determines the infamous players, it only looks at what they have done, not what they have thought. However, correspondingly, there will be hypnotists who can kill people without being seen just by thinking. Yi Han now even suspects that Qin Yi, who used similar methods and could brainwash people into his subordinates, may have some relationship with this hypnotist...

"What should I do? The three dreams have ended, but I still can't get out..." Jian Lin's voice sounded in the darkness behind him.

Although he said it was behind him, Yi Han seemed to have lost the concept of space at this time. After the third dream ended, his consciousness floated in darkness. He could not feel his body and could not see the exit.

"With system supervision, there won't be any copies with no way out. Let's just try to find the direction at random." Yi Han tried to reach out to pull his two companions, but there really was no physical consciousness space here. He had no "hands", so naturally he didn't touch anything.

"Okay, then I'll go ahead. But how do we make sure we're heading in the same direction?" Jian Lin hesitated.

In this invisible and intangible situation, it was difficult for the three of them to even travel together.

In the end, it was only after Yi Han tried hard that he finally figured out a way. He separated his consciousness into two parts and touched Jian Lin and the somewhat angry Xiao Hei on the other side. It was as if he was "holding hands" with his companions in a peculiar way.

The three of them finally moved forward slowly and tentatively in the pure darkness.

This feeling was a bit novel, but not wonderful at all. The black color seemed to have swallowed up all perception. Yi Han could not feel how far he had walked, or even whether he was walking. Because he had no body, he could not even have such a feeling. All he saw and felt was black.

Anyone who has been in a room without a ray of light will know that this kind of environment can make people depressed and panic, especially when they don't know how far they will go and how long they will have to stay like this. Perhaps the only consolation is that Yi Han is no longer alone. Even in this situation, there are still people around him who are walking with him.

After an unknown amount of time, Yi Han's consciousness gradually became blurred.

When he woke up again, he found himself in a dim room - although it was dark, at least there was light and he could see the stone walls around him. His body had also returned, a little weak and tired, but no big problem.

The phone is still in my pocket, but there is still no signal.

"Still in a dream?" Yi Han woke up, put away his phone, looked around, and tried to walk around the room.

As he had been in the darkness for too long, Yi Han was still a little uncomfortable with suddenly regaining control of his body. He rubbed his forehead and after a quick exploration, he found that there were only walls in the room and nothing else.

"There should only be three dreams that provide clues..." Yi Han rubbed his head again and said to the air, "You are guilty of a crime, so you temporarily changed the level settings. Aren't you afraid of being discovered by the system?"

No one answered, but Yi Han knew that the administrator of the level, the hypnotist, must be spying on him somewhere.

The system will not allow the existence of a level with no way out. The solution to the fourth dream must be in this room.

Yi Han sighed, moved closer to the wall, and felt the patterns on it.

Because the light is dim, if you want to see clearly if there is anything on the wall, you have to get very close. And there is nothing else in this room except the wall. If there is a clue, it must be on the wall.

After looking and touching for a while, I really found some traces.

The crooked characters were carved in the corner, slightly lower, just the right height for an adult to easily carve characters with his hands when leaning against the wall. The strokes in the front row were heavier, but had some old blood stains, while the strokes in the back row were cleaner, but had very light scratches, as if the person who carved the characters had gradually lost strength.

Yi Han looked at them for a while, and then used them as a starting point to gradually explore outwards. After a while, he found another line of words.

“Don’t touch your phone”

Yi Han was stunned, not understanding what this meant. But when he first entered this scene, he had already checked the time and signal on his phone.

Looking further back, there was another sentence in the corner not far away.

"I looked around but found nothing. My head hurts."

Later on.

"The administrator is guilty and refuses to respond, but he must be watching"

"Now we can only explore the walls and look for clues"

"There are many correct characters here. Who drew them?"

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“??? Why does this person think exactly the same as I do?”

"Who wrote these words?"

"Is it... me?"

…

Yi Han stared at the messy handwriting.

There are meaningless scratches between the words, making it very difficult to discern the content. The handwriting becomes more and more chaotic in the later sentences, as if the person who carved the words had fallen into self-doubt.

And at the end:

"I must write this discovery down before my blood runs dry"

"If the level has no exit... at least, every death and reincarnation should be recorded..."

At this time, Yi Han had already walked around the room again and returned to the corner with a row of positive characters engraved on it. If combined with the previous sentence, this positive character probably represented the number of times "someone" was trapped here and encountered infinite reincarnation.

Yi Han touched the indentation of the engraving and suddenly felt that the handwriting was very similar to his own.

"Drip" a drop of blood dripped on the ground. Yi Han touched his face and found that his eyes and nose were bleeding.

Looking down, I saw in the dim light that several drops of blood had dripped onto the ground in the corner. The color of this patch of ground seemed to be darker than other places, showing a dry red, as if a lot of blood had accumulated and dried here.

"This is a good location. If I lean it like this, I can add another stroke behind the regular characters in that row."

Perhaps because the hints given before were too sufficient, Yi Han inexplicably had the urge to lie down and continue recording, and the more he stared at the line of words, the stronger the urge became.

Feeling that something was wrong with him, Yi Han frowned and rubbed his forehead.

"The owner of this level is a master of hypnosis. We must not fall into his trap." Yi Han stopped looking at the wall and took out the iron pot and returned to the center of the room. "Although I don't know how to break the situation, as long as I go against his intentions, there will definitely be no problem."

This room has nothing but walls, and there is no more room for maneuver. But as a player with strong hands-on ability, Yi Han's principle has always been -

"Since you want me to lie down and die, I will tear this place apart."

Yi Han smiled slightly, weighed the pot in his hand, and seemed to hear something from the system, but it should have been blocked by the level administrator, so he could only read the text message after leaving the level. Now Yi Han only felt that the weak feeling just now disappeared, and the strength returned to his body.

He rolled his shoulders, strode forward, and swung the pot hard.

With a loud bang, the stone room shattered like a glass mirror, starting from the force point.

The fragments of the room reflected the originally dim light, flickering and disappearing like butterfly wings. Yi Han's eyes were filled with dazzling light, and after a long time, they fell into darkness again.

[Clear the level, basic points: +400]

[Level completion 100%, bonus points: +100]

[Scene exploration degree 100%, bonus points: +100]

[Randomly add a level completion rate of 100%, bonus points: 100]

[Total points obtained in this level: 700]

[Clearance Rating: S]

The long-awaited reward reminder for completing a level rang in his ears. Yi Han opened his eyes and saw his own living room in front of him.

Because he had stayed in the dark for too long, his mind was still a little fuzzy. Yi Han confirmed it anxiously before he believed that the scene in front of him was real and no longer a dream.

[System prompt: The debuff Deep Illusion has been removed! ]

[The player successfully escaped from the illusion by his own judgment. The buff: Steadfast Heart (immune to attacks from ghosts' mind manipulation abilities) has been upgraded and can now resist attacks from higher-level ghosts. ]

This was the content of the system prompt when he was in the last room. Yi Han finished reading it and put away his phone, but he still felt uneasy because Jian Lin and Xiao Hei had not returned yet.

The fourth additional level was obviously set up by the level owner, who also separated the three of them into different rooms. Yi Han didn't know that their rooms were different from his own, but they didn't have the immunity buff, so he didn't know if they could find a way out.

Passive waiting was not his style. After a little thought, Yi Han took the initiative to open the chat software and contacted the hypnotist administrator with the flower avatar.

"Where are my two companions?" Yi Han went straight to the point.

"They didn't come out?" The hypnotist replied a few minutes later with a surprised expression. "Oh, that's bad. Although it's a functional level, it still contains dangers. Did they happen to encounter a random additional room? That's so unlucky."

"Where do you live?" Yi Han ignored his nonsense and fired another straight shot.

"I'm sorry, I understand what you mean, but even if you are an administrator, you still have to follow the rules and you can't deliberately let the game go. It's no use for you to come to me." The other party replied.

Yi Han was about to continue speaking when a figure flashed before him. Jian Lin and Xiao Hei appeared out of nowhere and escaped safely from the checkpoint.

"Fortunately you put lotus root and pork ribs soup in my inventory beforehand. That was a close call." Jian Lin said in shock.

Yi Han just remembered it after hearing what he said.

Lotus root and pork ribs soup - the recipe that Jian Lin picked up at the end of the amusement park level. Its effect is to remove the hallucination state once.

"You two stayed together later?" Yi Han asked.

After his companion came back, the hypnotist seemed to send him a few more long messages, but Yi Han ignored him and put away his phone.

"Yeah, it's a good thing that's the case, otherwise Xiao Hei wouldn't have an inventory and might really not be able to get out." Jian Lin turned his head and looked at Xiao Hei beside him, with lingering fear.

Xiao Hei had now returned to his animal form and rubbed Jian Lin's palm affectionately.

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Hypnotist: Hello? Where are you?