Chapter 84 Hide and Seek (2)

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Player A: “……?”

Player B: "Did I hear that wrong?"

Player C: "Is there a bug in the system?"

The player who had the ability to connect with the mind even directly sent out a huge question mark through his link. Unfortunately, this kind of link could not support too complicated communication, and in the end, the players could only ask the same question: "Which district's boss?"

Yi Han: “Area 3.”

Players: “!!!”

Players: “…Is this a strong person?!”

Yi Han: “…”

In fact, what he didn't say was that this elimination was strictly speaking an accident. He didn't intend to knock him out so quickly.

Just after entering the third area, Yi Han searched for a long time but couldn't find the ghost. Walking along the aisle of the warehouse, passing by rows of shelves with puppets hanging on them, Yi Han looked straight ahead, because he wanted to catch the ghost first, so he didn't spare the energy to look for the key.

But after a quick search of the area, I found nothing.

"Did it run to another area so quickly? Or, during the hiding phase, the 'ghost' and the 'human' couldn't see each other?" Yi Han thought about it and concluded that it should be the latter.

However, in this way, after 20 minutes, the human player will be prohibited from taking any actions, and it may be difficult to catch the ghost and torture it cruelly (...) to force it to call the hypnotist to come out.

So at this time when luck was needed, Yi Han decisively brought out his European emperor.

"There's no rush for the key. The most important thing now is to capture the ghost..." As he spoke, he opened the box at his waist and placed Jian Lin on his shoulder so that his abilities would not be restricted too much by the box.

Then, under Jian Lin's halo, Yi Han began to make trouble along the way.

Originally, he was going to destroy everything here. If it was an ordinary department store, he would just destroy it. At worst, when he passed the level, the system would give him a women's clothing debuff like the first time. But in this doll factory, all the dolls hanging on the shelves were like real people. The dolls were too realistic. Sometimes when he passed by them, he would see the light reflecting on their eyes, and he would feel like they were looking at him.

Yi Han felt that this kind of doll might have some problems, so he did not destroy it, but tried to put it directly into his inventory... Unexpectedly, it succeeded.

Items in the level, except for props specifically for players to discover, are generally not allowed to be taken away by players, so Yi Han has not tried such direct robbery before. Some time ago, in order to store food, Yi Han specially expanded his inventory. Now his inventory can hold all the dolls in the factory.

So Yi Han did just that. No matter if these dolls had any problems or would suddenly jump up and scare people at some point, they all belonged to him now. If they could really move on their own, that would be even better. After passing the checkpoint, he would deal with them and put them in his own store as waiters, which would save him the money to buy waiter dolls.

Yi Han took things as he went along, and almost emptied Area 3. After he did this, the shelves were also empty, so it was obvious whether the keys were hidden or not, and he didn't need to search specifically, thus killing two birds with one stone.

The 20 minutes passed quickly, and Yi Han stopped at an open space.

Then the system prompts that the time is up and the ghosts start catching people.

Then Yi Han saw a ghost holding a chainsaw and covered in blood suddenly appear in front of him.

"Well done." Yi Han stuffed Jian Lin back into the box to prevent him from being thrown to the ground in a fight later, and then smiled at the Chainsaw Monster.

The chainsaw ghost hadn't reacted yet.

After all, this level requires the human player to hide while the NPCs catch the human. He probably has never seen a player standing in the middle of the road before. This time the player hit his face, which was really scary. So for a while, the two of them stood in a standoff, and neither of them moved.

Yi Han was restricted by the system settings and could only stand still. Fortunately, his body could move, but his position could not be changed. After the initial shock, the chainsaw ghost quickly figured out the situation.

This ghost had never experienced the beatings of society and didn't understand that opponents who didn't play by the rules were generally difficult to deal with. He grinned, raised his chainsaw, and walked forward.

Yi Han, who couldn't move and could only wait for the other party to come forward, smiled even more deeply.

Three seconds later, other players received the elimination message.

And Yi Han: …………

In fact, he saw the ghost's scary appearance and thought that he was at least a three-star NPC, so he should be able to fight well, so he didn't hold back. But he didn't expect that the ghost was sent away after just one blow... As a result, the plan of inhuman torture to lure out the hypnotist failed at the first step.

This can probably only be explained by the fact that no player has ever fought against ghosts in the hide-and-seek level before, so the ghosts' fighting qualities are not strong.

Yi Han, who was very good at hands-on work, briefly explained the situation to his teammates, then put away the pot with a sense of loss.

Fortunately, after killing an NPC, his movement restrictions were temporarily lifted. This was a blessing in disguise, as he had 20 more minutes to search than other players.

There were not many areas left in Zone 3, so Yi Han picked and chose the remaining dolls and put them into his inventory. He searched for keys and returned to the corridor to help in other areas. Of course, the target was another ghost. Yi Han was not very interested in keys, and he only wanted to rob and catch ghosts.

[System prompt: A human player has been captured by a ghost in this round.]

Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked out of Area 3, Yi Han heard such a notice.

As soon as the notification was spoken, other players in the telepathic communication began to ask nervously.

Player A: "!! Which zone is this teammate from?"

Player B: "There is a chance that the captured people will be released later! So they are not eliminated directly. Are they locked up somewhere? Can they still participate in the call?"

Player C: "It seems impossible! Otherwise he would have said it!"

Player D: "Then the rest of us should report our positions quickly and see who is silent!"

Everyone reported their respective areas at once. Yi Han looked at Area 3 behind him and reported it truthfully. After a final count, it was found that the people who were caught were players hiding in Area 8.

Yi Han took out his cell phone, glanced at the photo of the map he had taken earlier, and frowned.

When they numbered the areas, they basically marked them in a clockwise order, from 1 to 10. The 8th area where the ghosts were located was the farthest from the 3rd area, almost diagonally, and in the middle it had to pass through the adjacent 6th area and several winding corridors.

Yi Han was afraid that the ghost had run away, so he put away his phone and hurried over.

At this time, there were still more than ten minutes left before the end of this round, and time was not enough. Yi Han entered the border of Area 6 and took a quick look. Seeing that the ghost did not come to this area, and he did not find where the players in this area were hiding, he wanted to go straight through and head to Area 8.

However, just as it was about to leave Area 6, ripples suddenly appeared in the narrow aisle in front of it.

"Is there a trap?" Yi Han stopped immediately and an iron pot and an iron chain appeared in his hands in an instant.

Unexpectedly, the expected attack did not come.

In the group chat formed by the mind link, a player shouted loudly:

"It's over, it's over, it seems the ghost is here QAQ!!! He stepped on the trap I set!! I'm going to die soon, brothers remember me, I'm in Zone 6!!!"

Yi Han: …………

I wanted to explain, but at this moment, some rustling sounds suddenly sounded around me.

This area 6 is a manual workshop for making doll heads. There are many huge machines in the room, but they are not working now. In addition to a few assembled dolls leaning against the corners, there are doll heads in groups of three or two on the machine operating table, in the boxes beside, and on the shelves by the wall. At first glance, it is very scary.

The subtle sound seemed to come from the corner of the wall.

Yi Han initially suspected that the hidden player was trembling with fear and accidentally made the sound. But the sound was very regular, like a disabled person, holding on to the wall stiffly, with his clothes rubbing against each other and his footsteps dragging.

"Ah!! I can hear the ghost's footsteps——" And this player, who was hiding somewhere unknown, was still wailing in the mind link.

"Shut up." Yi Han frowned.

The player's voice stopped aggrievedly, and the next moment, Yi Han saw clearly what appeared in front of him.

It was a male doll. He had a small head and a tall body. His facial features were different from those of other mass-produced dolls. He looked very much like a real person, but his face was expressionless and his eyes were dull. The most special thing was that his hands were glowing. When he waved his hands, a blade of light suddenly shot out and shot towards Yi Han.

How could this factory produce such dolls with special attack abilities?

Yi Han dodged the attack of the dummy, and then saw two more people with different heights and looks, but who looked no different from real people, coming behind it.

One of them seemed to be somewhat familiar - not a teammate he had played with before, but possibly a guest he had received before. Yi Han couldn't remember clearly at the moment, but this was enough to indicate some very serious problems.

"Be careful and try not to get caught. If you are eliminated in this factory..." Your soul will most likely be stuffed into these puppets, and you will also be hypnotized and brainwashed. On the surface, it will seem like you have become an NPC of a game company, but in fact, there is only an empty shell left, and perhaps you will always live under the control of the administrator.

The latter part cannot be told to other teammates for the time being, but Yi Han is already 80% sure in his heart. He is just not sure what this hypnotist wants to do by doing this kind of thing?

Yi Han was pulled into this hide-and-seek series of levels, although it was intentional by the hypnotist, but the randomness of this map was also due to Jian Lin's luck. He vaguely felt that he could discover more secrets of the hypnotist here, but the prerequisite was to successfully pass the level.

There seemed to be only these three puppets appearing before him, no more.

Yi Han told the player hiding in area 6 not to make any sound, and he went up with the pot, and the iron chain shot out rapidly, wrapping around the enemy.

Unconsciously, Yi Han's fighting ability has improved to a level far beyond three stars. After just a dozen seconds, the three puppets were subdued. Yi Han suppressed them tightly and wanted to ask them questions, but the next moment after losing the battle, the puppets returned to the uniform appearance of assembly line puppets - the player souls hidden inside disappeared.

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