Chapter 87 Hide and Seek (5)

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This video seemed to remind the souls in the row of fake heads hanging on the rack, making them remember how they were captured. After the video ended, they became a little agitated. The protagonist in the video was stunned for a long time, and then a trace of grievance appeared on his originally stiff face, and he was about to cry.

"Isn't this behavior against regulations? The company doesn't care?" Yi Han asked the system in his mind.

"It has been detected that all the souls in this level died accidentally... and they stayed in this level to cooperate with the experiment voluntarily." The system froze for an inexplicable moment, and it took a long time to reply.

"Experiment?" Yi Han was stunned.

"The administrator of this level submitted an experimental report a year ago. The topic was to adjust the ratio of precious materials when making special humanoid items so that the souls of the dead can be permanently attached to them, achieving an effect similar to resurrection from the dead. However, due to the extremely high cost and low practicality, this project did not pass the company's approval. Later, the administrator seemed to have been paying for the research himself, but as long as it did not violate the rules, the company did not prohibit such things." The system said intermittently.

Yi Han understood. It seemed that the hypnotist not only wanted to find his wife's soul, but also wanted to make a perfect body for her, so that she could restore her former appearance and live forever with him. Therefore, he did not let go of the souls of these children who were mistakenly captured, but kept them as test subjects for the development of perfect dolls.

This explains why Yi Han could put the dolls in the factory into his inventory, because each doll is a prop made of precious materials. Even if it doesn't seem to have any special abilities, it would probably fetch a lot of money if the materials were sold.

"Then the only breakthrough point now may be the source of the huge amount of points and high-level materials needed to conduct this kind of research..."

Yi Han didn't know how much money the senior NPCs in the gaming company could make, but comparing it to real-life corporate executives, no matter how high their annual salary was, it would be difficult to support this kind of money-burning research.

After submitting some key points that might provide evidence, the system said it would record them and report them to higher-ups, and then there was no further news.

The game was still going on and the ghost hadn't shown up yet. Yi Han was unable to move and could only sit in the hiding place with his female teammate and wait passively.

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

When this reminder sounded, fifteen minutes had already passed.

It took so long to catch the first person. It seems that the ghost really went to an empty area first. Unfortunately, I thought about it wrongly, so I wasted half a day's effort.

After the players nervously reported their locations, Yi Han learned that the player who was captured this time was hiding in Area 5.

[System prompt: Two human players have been captured by ghosts in this round. ]

Unexpectedly, before the players' discussion was over, the second prompt sounded again, and only three minutes had passed since the first prompt.

"He has just figured out the players' hiding patterns, and now he's starting to harvest them like crazy!" All the players realized this with horror.

This time the players are in zone 4.

Yi Han compared the map and found that the opponent's actions this time were no longer as jumpy as before. After all, there were only two minutes left in this round of the game. If the ghost wanted to win, he had to capture another person within these two minutes. After excluding the areas where no players were hiding, according to his route of action, the next target would definitely be him.

Time is running out, I hope it will come soon. Yi Han is eager to try.

The ghost finally did not let him down and rushed into Area 1 where Yi Han was at the last minute.

Up to now, Yi Han still hasn't figured out how the ghosts in this game locate the hiding places of human players. It seems that as long as they stay within a certain range, they can quickly lock onto people's positions, and when humans are found from their closed hiding places, they don't seem to be able to fight back.

Fortunately, Yi Han and the others are now in an open space, so there will never be a situation like last time where the ghost stabbed the player through the cabinet and the player was eliminated.

Yi Han held the pot and watched the ghost rushing towards him with a chainsaw.

Although the girl player next to her was timid, she might have thought that if she was caught, she would lose the game again. If she lost twice in a best-of-three game, all players would be eliminated. Therefore, before Yi Han made a move, she gritted her teeth and made the first move.

Yi Han was waiting for the ghost to approach when he saw the girl next to him raise her hand and throw something out.

【Super glue】

【Quality: Grade C】

【Condition: 90% new】

[Instructions: Sprinkle on the enemy and stick him in place! Duration: 10 seconds.]

The thing looked like a bottle of glue. After it was taken off the hand, it became like an ordinary object, no longer controlled by its owner. It drew a parabola and rushed towards the ghost.

Although the ghost was running, he dodged the unknown object when he saw it coming towards him. Then the glue was scattered on the ground, forming a small sticky patch. It was obvious that something was wrong, and even people with poor eyesight would not deliberately step on it.

Seeing that her attack failed, the female player gritted her teeth and threw another object back.

【Flowers for mother】

【Quality: Grade C】

【Condition: Brand new】

[Explanation: Mother's Day is coming, and the daughter carefully selected a bouquet of flowers to give to her mother. The person who receives this bouquet of flowers will stand there and smile lovingly, and lose the desire to attack within ten seconds. Note: When the target of the flowers is a man, the effect is halved.]

There is less than a minute left to the end of this round. As long as we can delay him as much as possible, the game can move on to the next round - the female teammate obviously has this idea and throws two control props in a row.

Unfortunately, the ghost wouldn't stand and throw it to her, so this time he slowed down and dodged the bouquet of flowers again.

After the bouquet fell to the ground, the ghost even paused for a moment. Maybe it was because the administrator of this level spent too much money on scientific research, which made the subordinates below develop a Zhou Ba Pi character. The ghost picked up the bouquet and took it for himself. Yi Han felt a pain in his heart when he saw it.

"Don't throw it away." Seeing that the girl still wanted to take something, Yi Han quickly reached out to stop her.

These ghosts keep coming one after another and can't hit anyone at all. It would be better to let Yi Han kill him quickly. Once the ghost is gone, the next level will become pure sightseeing.

"If we get caught, we'll definitely lose this time." The female teammate said desperately in her heart.

At this time, the other teammates also learned about the situation here. They were all extremely nervous and dared not say a word.

Yi Han patted the girl's shoulder and reassured her.

Time passed by, and the ghost was not in a hurry. He started the chainsaw and slowly approached the hiding place of the two. At the same time, Yi Han also clenched the iron pot in his hand.

[System prompt: A ghost has been eliminated by a human player! ]

Almost one second before the end time, the goblin wielded a chainsaw and approached the metal rack full of heads.

Yi Han pushed the girl next to him to the ground with his backhand, but since he couldn't move, he couldn't avoid the attack of the chainsaw and could only lift the pot to block the attack.

The electric saw made a sharp sound when it came into contact with the bottom of the pot, which echoed throughout the factory. Yi Han quickly wrapped the iron chain in his hand around the ghost's neck, and with his other hand, he lifted the pot to relieve the force, and smashed it with his backhand -

[Ding, 20 minutes are up, the second game is over. ]

[Result of this round: Humans win! ]

The other players could vaguely hear the sounds of fighting coming from Area 1, and their hearts almost jumped into their throats. But the next moment, they received a series of system prompts.

"!!!"

"Boss is awesome!!!"

At this time, after two rounds of the game, four people were caught in the first round, and two people were caught in the second round. Among the remaining players, except Yi Han and the girl next to him, there were only two people who cheered through telepathy, but this did not stop them from being happy.

"Both ghosts are eliminated! In the next round, we just need to find the key quickly and everyone can pass the level!" the female player also said excitedly.

"We still have to be quick. Even though the rules say that everyone must pass the level after finding the key, I don't know if anything might happen if we exceed the time limit," Yi Han said.

"Yes, yes." The girl nodded. The other two people in the mind link also said they got it.

There was no rest time between each game, and the third game started right after. After a few simple conversations, everyone continued to search separately. Yi Han watched the girl leave, and turned to look at the head of the girl who had seen the video before.

After watching the movie with Yi Han in which she was the protagonist, the girl seemed to remember something. Although she couldn't speak, it was obvious that she had some information she wanted to tell him.

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I didn't run away!!!