Chapter 88 Hide and Seek (6)

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"The door at the end of the production workshop...?"

Following the girl's implicit hint, Yi Han turned around and looked at the tightly locked escape door at the edge of the first area.

Since it was not marked on the map, Yi Han had always thought that this was a simple set-up, probably a factory back door that could not be opened. But since one of the victims had given such a hint, there must be something unexpected behind it.

"Time is running out, and there are still many places that have not been searched. Now I can only ask you for help." Yi Han untied the box hanging on his waist and released Jian Lin and Xiao Hei.

"Okay, we will try our best to find the key, just go and investigate with peace of mind!" Q version Jian Lin and Q version Xiao Hei said as they stood together.

"Take the box. If you meet a hypnotist, hide inside and contact me." Yi Han thought for a while and put the box on Xiao Hei's back. After giving a few instructions, the two Q-version figures dragged the box and ran to find the key.

Yi Han came to the door with a weapon.

The location of this door is not very conspicuous, and there seem to be some obstructions placed in front of it. Unless a player wants to hide here, he or she will generally not notice it.

Its door lock protruded from the metal surface. The keyhole was narrow and deep, and there was a metal frame around it. It looked very strong. Yi Han twisted it with an iron chain, but failed to break it.

"It seems that there really is something shameful hidden in it." Yi Han raised his eyebrows, put the chain back into the inventory, and took out another small prop with his backhand.

[Sneaky Lock Picking Artifact]

【Quality: Grade C】

[Condition: slightly worn]

[Instructions: Insert this artifact into the keyhole, read the bar, and then you can unlock the lock. Note: It can only be used for locks with holes.]

I found this thing from a notorious player in Ghost Forest Prison. I never thought it would be useful.

Yi Han inserted it into the keyhole. After several minutes of reading the barcode, it opened with a "click".

After pushing open the door, what came into view was a clean little room.

It looked like a place where simple handicrafts were made. On one side of the wall were workbenches and display racks, and on the other side was a glass coffin with a white human figure lying inside it.

When Yi Han saw this, he suddenly had a premonition in his heart and walked forward with concentration.

In the coffin, there was an extremely lifelike female doll lying in white shredded paper. She had slightly curly hair, a rosy complexion, and was wearing a white strapless wedding dress. Under the illumination of a row of small lights on the edge of the coffin, she looked pretty and charming.

If it weren't for the fact that this person was obviously not breathing, at first glance he would have looked like a real living person.

"So, the hypnotist's experiment has been successful? Is this the perfect doll that can completely lock the soul inside?" Yi Han tried to put the entire coffin into his inventory, but unfortunately the system prompted a failure. Apparently, this coffin was not a special item that could be taken away at will.

"System, take a photo of this as well and submit it as evidence. This appearance should be modeled after the hypnotist's deceased wife." Yi Han said.

It's just a pity that the discovery of this doll actually doesn't prove anything. The only thing that can be proved is that the hypnotist has a relationship with the administrator of this level. If you want to really convict the hypnotist, you still have to find something like a diary... He is not a fool, how could he commit evil and kill people and write a diary. In short, it is difficult to find evidence.

"Speaking of which, since this room can be used to store such a precious item as the Hypnotist's Wife Doll and can also avoid detection by players, there must be other good things in it."

Yi Han sighed, thinking that he couldn't take the coffin away, he could only put it down temporarily and turn around to search other places.

After some searching, they found a lot of valuable materials on the workbench, and a bunch of failed but still valuable experimental products in the display cabinet.

Finally in the drawer, he found an empty bottle.

Yi Han didn't notice the bottle at first, but the system suddenly prompted that abnormal soul fragments were detected.

"…What are soul fragments? Are they in this bottle?" Yi Han raised the bottle in surprise, towards the light, and then found some faint translucent outlines in it, like colorless gummy candies.

"These are fragments cut from a complete soul," the system said seriously. At the same time, under Yi Han's instruction, it began to scan the entire bottle. "If the soul of the deceased is not complete, there is no way to reincarnate. Harming the soul of others is a serious violation. Please keep this bottle. The company will send someone to investigate this matter carefully later."

"Is the purpose of cutting fragments from a complete soul to control the souls of those test subjects? Or is it to conduct experiments on soul fusion puppets?" Yi Han was stunned. He didn't expect to get such a bottle of evidence.

Although it is not direct evidence, it is better than nothing.

After scanning the bottles, Yi Han searched the workshop more carefully and thoroughly, but unfortunately he didn't find anything else.

He stood up and prepared to go back outside to let the system scan the souls of the girls hanging on the shelf to see if the soul fragments in the jar came from them.

"It would be great if there was a way to wake them up. But I'm afraid after they wake up, they won't be able to tell whether they were hypnotized or not... Can this guy really do bad things without any trace?" Yi Han frowned.

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At this time in an area outside the room.

Xiao Hei was dragging the box, and Jian Lin was searching ahead based on his intuition for a while.

"Hey, there's a piece of paper here. It looks like the kind that Yi Han has been collecting!" Jian Lin struggled to pull out a glowing recipe from the gap between the machines. The recipe was taller than him, so he couldn't see the contents on it. He didn't have a recipe book to put it in, so he had no choice but to put it in his inventory first.

Walked a few more steps.

"Hey, why is there another one here..." Jian Lin stretched out his hand and pulled out another one.

He felt a little strange, but thinking that he had always been lucky, he continued walking forward for a while.

"Ah, this..." Unexpectedly, when I turned a corner, I found another one hidden in the corner of a storage cabinet.

Jian Lin and Xiao Hei ran over and put the recipe away, but they felt even more uneasy.

In the past, you could only find two recipes at most in a level, and they had to be on large maps.

How come there are so many in this factory? And I didn’t find any recipes in the previous two rounds, but now that I’m separated from Yi Han, they all appear?

Jian Lin and Xiao Hei looked around cautiously, and suddenly realized that they had come to an area they had not noticed before. Jian Lin quickly took out his pocket mobile phone and compared it with the floor plan he had taken before.

"In front is... the exit?" Jian Lin asked in surprise.

The map showed that after turning the corridor, the main entrance of the factory was behind. This place had been searched by a player before, so Jian Lin had drawn a cross on the map on his phone, indicating that there was nothing here and there was no need to come.

But those three recipes were hidden so conspicuously. If they were there when the players searched, how could they not have been taken away?

"This is too weird." Jian Lin scratched his head and prepared to send a message to Yi Han to explain the situation here.

Suddenly I heard voices.

"Both intersections are...hidden..."

The sound came from the front door.

Jian Lin hurriedly typed and sent the message to Yi Han, then led Xiao Hei and walked over with light steps.

Inside the locked main entrance hall, a person I had never seen before was standing there, talking on the phone in a low voice - he was not a player, nor was he a ghost NPC in this level.

"Yeah, he's been collecting this recipe, and he'll definitely contact it if he sees it."

"This level will be over soon. It won't take too long."

"After Qin Yi's contact was cut off, the factory has not had sufficient funds... But don't worry, there are shielding props in that room, and the master's wife will definitely not have any accidents."

From time to time, this person would look towards the two corridor entrances leading to the foyer, so Jian Lin didn't dare to keep looking out and could only try to listen to the sounds.

But the few glances that Jian Lin saw were enough to surprise him——

The man actually had a stack of recipes in his hand, at least a dozen of them!

"Did he hide the three photos we just found on purpose?"

Jian Lin hesitated and reached into the inventory, his heart pounding.

He didn't understand a lot of what this person said, but it was obvious that the hidden recipe was a trap he set for Yi Han. Now that the recipe was picked up by Jian Lin, what would happen next?

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I'm not being lazy on purpose, T_T I'm stuck on this, I've been stuck for the past month, so stuck that I'm rolling on the floor, it takes me 10 hours to write 300 words, crying.jpg

Thank you for not abandoning my little cuties, I love you!

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