Chapter 86 Hide and Seek (4)

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Yi Han looked at the map and thought about it, and finally came to the conclusion that the ghost would not come back to an area where it had already captured someone once.

There are no players in Area 2, Area 3, and the adjacent Area 6 now. Yi Han and Jian Lin discussed it and decided to go to Area 1 to find the players there to hide together.

The player in Zone 1 was a girl. When Yi Han arrived, there were only 2 minutes left before the ghosts started to catch people, and the girl had already hidden. This area was a workshop for producing child dolls, with child body models everywhere. The girl hid behind a row of iron hooks with children's heads hanging on them.

After getting the other party's permission, Yi Han also hid in.

"Boss, do you think the ghost will come here later? QAQ?" Even though the two of them were hiding together, the girl didn't dare to speak, but continued to communicate with him through telepathy.

"I don't know either..." Yi Han told the truth.

Originally, according to his idea, the best situation would be to refresh directly to face the ghost like last time. But luck is something that is unpredictable. Although Jian Lin is lucky, he can't make his wish come true.

Fortunately, according to past experience, even if we cannot catch the evil spirit instantly, we may still gain something else.

Yi Han and the girl player crouched in the hiding place. Soon the ghost catching time began and the two were restricted in their movements. Unless something unexpected happened, they could not leave this position within 20 minutes.

The ghosts did not spawn nearby. Yi Han waited for a while but did not hear any news of other players being eliminated.

"Did this guy really go to search those deserted areas?" Yi Han suddenly became suspicious.

As a prey waiting to be caught, it was not a good feeling to just wait passively. Yi Han soon felt impatient, but the girl beside him seemed relieved. After a while, a slight friction sound was heard in his ears.

"What's that sound!!" The girl player immediately grabbed Yi Han's sleeve, a look of horror on her face, and asked in her heart.

Yi Han did not answer, but just listened carefully - this voice was somewhat similar to the voice of the puppet that came to life before, but the voice did not sound like footsteps, and... the location where it sounded was very close, as if it was right next to him.

Yi Han frowned, protected the girl behind him with one hand and held the weapon with the other. When the voice sounded again, he slowly looked up in the direction it came from.

Above their heads, there was a row of metal racks filled with children's head models. On the racks were iron hooks that looked like those used to hang animal carcasses. The heads of little children with hair and expressionless faces were tied to these hooks.

At this moment, Yi Han looked up and saw that in the pale light of Area 1, the children's black hair slowly drooped down, and their round heads slowly shook, gradually facing them...

And among these heads, no matter whether they were originally facing them or were slowly turning towards them, all their eyes were pointed downwards, staring at the two of them. It was unknown how long they stared at them. The glass eyeballs reflected the light, and just one look at them was enough to make the hair stand on end.

The female player also raised her head following Yi Han's action. The moment she saw this scene, she covered her mouth, but managed to hold back from screaming.

"What's going on? Why are there other ghosts in this level? Are they the same kind you just encountered in another area? How can puppets become spirits?" the girl asked incoherently in her heart.

"Well, I suspected before that it was a player who lost the game of hide-and-seek...but if there are children..." Yi Han stared at the dolls vigilantly, and suddenly questioned his own guess.

"Kid, it's very rare to reach the three-star level." Although he didn't finish his words, the girl already understood.

"Hide and Seek" is a three-star level, and those who participate in this level must be three-star players. However, as an adventure escape game, the system itself rarely pulls children in as players. Even if there are, they come in with adults. And this combination of adults and children is generally eliminated quickly, and then they will sign a contract with the company and become NPCs. Therefore, in this high-star level, especially this special type of level, seeing the soul of a child is itself very wrong.

"I have an ability that allows me to detect the enemy's past, but the cooldown time is very long and there is only one target. Should I use it?" Seeing Yi Han's strange expression, the girl pulled him and asked in her heart.

Yi Han's heart moved when he heard this, and after a little thought, he finally felt that it was necessary to figure this matter out, so he said, "Use it for a while."

The administrator of this level must be a hypnotist, so the secrets hidden in this level should also be related to the hypnotist.

The girl nodded, but she didn't make any movements. Yi Han saw something like a screen slowly unfolding in front of him. The screen was white, and there was a projector in front of it. After a few seconds, the projector automatically turned on and played a video with one of the children as the protagonist. The protagonist of the video, that is, the head of the child, seemed to have seen this scene as well. It was stunned for a long time, and its eyes, which had been staring at Yi Han and the others, could not help but turn away and watch with the two of them.

The film begins with the birth of a little girl. There is nothing special about this part. After watching it for about ten seconds, the girl fast-forwards to the moment when the little girl is one year old.

At the girl's first birthday party, Yi Han finally discovered something. He noticed a male figure outside the crowd, who seemed to be strangers to everyone present, but no one paid attention to him, and he didn't bother anyone, but just kept observing the child silently.

The film fast-forwards again, and the little girl is two or three years old. The girl's parents are holding her and playing on the lawn, and the man appears nearby again, secretly observing them but not interacting with them.

Until the little girl was five years old, one day she was walking in the night market with her mother. Her mother was picking things at the stall, and the little girl ran away mischievously.

At this time, the man appeared again and talked to her for the first time.

From the projected video, it was unclear what the two people said to each other. Yi Han could only see the man squatting in front of the little girl, talking to her, and touching her head. Then the little girl seemed to be drugged, her eyes were wide open, but she did not follow the man. She just turned around woodenly and went back to find her mother.

"This? I thought it was... child trafficking, but it turns out not to be. I was scared to death." The female player patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief.

But Yi Han knew that things were not that simple.

Sure enough, the next day after the little girl came into contact with the man, she fell from the building. Her parents burst into tears, and the little girl's soul stood beside her own body and her family, confused and at a loss.

Not long after, the man, as the person in charge of this area, took the little girl's soul away.

The video ends here.

The video does not show what happens after the little girl is brought into the game world, probably because the girl's ability level is not high enough to see what happens to high-level NPCs like the hypnotist. But this part alone can already explain some problems.

"He had reason to harm the guests at the wedding, but these children have nothing to do with his wife's death. Why would he harm them? His wife was already dead when these children were born." Yi Han pondered and looked up at the head on the clip again.

These heads all belong to little girls, and they all look to be about four or five years old.

Yi Han looked at them, and suddenly turned to look at the other puppets in the workshop.

——Sure enough, the other dolls are also female children between the ages of four and five.

This workshop is full of dolls of girls of this age, and the hypnotist will go to the real world specifically to find girls of this age, kill them, and then bring them to this level.

——What does he want to find from these girls?

In other words, who does he want to find?

"The hypnotist loved his wife so much that he killed hundreds of innocent people for her death." It's just like the psychopaths in some stories who claim to be deeply in love and massacre the whole city for love. But killing as many people as possible is just a way to vent, and it can't bring back that living person.

So with his crazy style, if he still wants to find his wife, but finds that his wife's soul did not enter the escape game, but went directly to reincarnate... What will he do? Will he look for baby girls born in the real world at the same time as his wife's reincarnation, and then kill them one by one, bring them back, and test them one by one to see if they are the souls of his deceased wife?

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