Chapter 91: Real Illusion (2)

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It seems that the thing at home is the first trap in this illusion.

I have to say that this setting is quite vicious. If Yi Han is really a player whose memory after the age of 10 has been sealed, a 10-year-old child, whose parents have just died, and who is sick with a fever, suddenly a ghost who looks very much like his mother appears at home and takes care of him tenderly...it's really hard to say what will happen next.

Fortunately, Yi Han had an anti-shielding buff and was extremely cautious, so he escaped immediately after realizing something was wrong.

Yi Han stood on the street in the evening and touched his forehead. He still had a low fever, but it was much better than when he was in bed. Perhaps it was the cool towel that the "mother ghost" applied to him.

It's actually quite strange. Now that I think about it, he was unconscious for so long, and the ghost didn't seem to make any attacking moves. It seemed that apart from changing the towel, it just sat by the bed and coaxed him. What does this mean? Can ghosts only act after dark, or are there other rules?

Because of his illness, Yi Han's mind is still a little confused and he can't think clearly for the time being.

But he definitely couldn't go back to that home for the time being. He had to find a safe place now, spend the night there, and wait until he felt better tomorrow morning. Then he would find a way to go home and contact it to find a way to get through it.

Yi Han walked along the road towards the shopping street, preparing to find a fast food restaurant to stay in for a while.

Just as I was thinking about where to get some money and self-defense weapons, I saw a thin stream of water coming towards me out of the corner of my eye.

“Hahahahahaha!”

After reacting quickly and stepping back to avoid it, Yi Han turned around and saw a naughty kid of about seven or eight years old standing on the steps, holding a huge toy water gun in his hand and grinning.

"Bang, bang, bang--" He imitated the sound effects of firing a submachine gun in TV dramas, moved the nozzle towards Yi Han's position, and pulled the trigger.

Several streams of water sprayed over again, but Yi Han did not step back this time. He just dodged slightly. After the shot was finished, he walked towards the naughty kid.

"Where are your parents?" Yi Han stretched out his hand and easily snatched the big water gun from his hand.

"Give it back to me!" the boy shouted immediately.

This child is a little younger than Yi Han is now, but maybe because he eats too well, although he is not tall, he has a lot of flesh on his body and is short and fat.

Yi Han didn't remember him very well, but in his impression, he was probably one of the naughty kids who often appeared in this community.

At this moment, the naughty kid's toy was suddenly snatched away. He was obviously very dissatisfied. He shouted loudly and was about to rush up to hit people with his fists.

However, Yi Han's hands-on ability was beyond the reach of a little kid. The naughty kid came up and made a fuss for a long time, but was slapped to the ground by Yi Han.

"Hand over your pocket money." Seeing that no parents came to take care of him after he had called for such a long time, Yi Han was sure that he was out playing alone, and immediately said fiercely.

"I'm going to beat you to death!!!" The child didn't respond to him at all. He got up from the ground and was about to hit him again, but was pushed to the ground by Yi Han again.

This time Yi Han was too lazy to ask and just reached into his pocket. Unexpectedly, he actually took out a few dollars.

It's a pity that a kid of this age only has a small amount of pocket money, just enough to buy a few bags of spicy noodles. Yi Han put the money in his pajamas pocket, and the naughty child in front of him started crying.

"Mom—he hit me—" The sound was deafening.

This sidewalk faces the restaurant street across the street. Although there are not many pedestrians, the penetrating power of the child's crying is so strong that it seems that even people on the opposite side of the road are craning their necks to look at them.

Yi Han's head hurt from the noise, and he was afraid that he would really yell at his parents, so he threw his toy water gun on the ground and turned to leave.

Unfortunately, just after walking a few steps, the glass door of a small pharmacy on the roadside ahead was pulled open, and a sturdy woman standing on the steps yelled at the naughty child behind Yi Han, "Why are you howling? Are you crying? Get away from me!"

Yi Han just thought that this was an insignificant passerby who was annoyed by the naughty child, but then he heard the child crying and yelling: "Mom - hit him! Beat him to death! Wahhhh -"

...This naughty kid actually has a mother.

Before his mother could react, Yi Han quickly jogged past her.

Given my current physical condition, it's okay for me to bully children, but fighting with adults would be seeking death.

Yi Han heard the ugly shrill insults coming from behind him from a distance, but he ignored them and quickened his pace. The woman seemed to chase him for a few steps, but she probably gave up soon because she was worried that no one was watching the store, so she could only curse some more and watch him run away from the street.

After turning into another more prosperous commercial street, Yi Han slowed down his pace and took a breath, looked around for a while, and finally walked into a fast food restaurant on the side of the road.

It was dinner time and there were many guests in the house. He went upstairs and found a corner to sit down and rest.

This body probably didn't eat much today, but because he was sick, he didn't have much appetite, and more importantly, he didn't have enough money, so he didn't order anything to eat. Fortunately, in this kind of fast food restaurant, even if he sat there, no waiter would come to chase him away.

Yi Han was alert to his surroundings while organizing his thoughts.

This illusion had no hints, and he had to discover all the conditions for passing it by himself. All subsequent exploration actions would be based on a healthy and capable body. Therefore, the first thing he had to solve was his current illness - he had to find a way to get some medicine.

Yi Han thought about the naughty kid and his naughty parents, and then thought about the drugstore behind the naughty parents... and soon he came up with an idea.

I stayed in the fast food restaurant until nine o'clock and nothing else happened.

There were fewer and fewer people in the store. Yi Han's hometown was a small city in the north. At this time, everyone had basically gone home, and the shopping street gradually became deserted.

Seeing that it was almost time, Yi Han left the restaurant. There were no pedestrians on the road at this time. He followed the same route he came from and returned to the area where he had met the naughty child a few minutes later.

The pharmacy was still open. Through the glass door, I could see the tough woman from the evening sitting behind the counter with a tablet in front of her, probably watching a TV series. Her son was neither on the street nor in the hall. He might have been sent to the back room to do his homework.

"There's only one person, that's okay." Yi Han observed from a distance for a while and quickly found the location of the anti-inflammatory and antipyretic drugs.

His body was too weak now. He was weak to begin with, and also had the sick debuff. The woman in the pharmacy was tall, strong, and very fierce. He couldn't beat her, so if he wanted to get the medicine, he could only sneak in low-key.

Now there was only one problem: there was a sensor doorbell at the door of the pharmacy, and whenever someone came in, it would automatically sing "Welcome". Yi Han had to find a way to avoid it.

At this moment, the woman's eyes are fixed on the screen and she doesn't seem to notice the door.

Yi Han approached the gate from the side, but did not rush to get too close. Instead, he first revealed what he was holding in his arms - a black kitten.

He met this cat when he passed the corner between the shopping street and the residential area. Yi Han was actually not a person who liked small animals before, but after spending some time in the escape game, he didn't know if some of the smell on his body had changed... In short, the few animals he met in the game all liked to be close to him, and this little stray cat was the same. When it saw Yi Han, it was not afraid, but came up to follow him. Yi Han happened to need to sneak into the house secretly at this moment, so he took the opportunity to let the cat join his plan.

Yi Han looked up and observed, first guessing the sensing range of the doorbell.

Most of these doorbells rely on infrared sensing to detect human activity nearby, but due to settings, they often give false alarms. That is to say, when the store owner hears the sound, if it is just a cat coming in, he or she will generally not suspect anything is wrong.

Yi Han had done similar things when he was a child, and he was very familiar with it and had no pressure at all.

After rehearsing it in his mind, he gently approached the glass door, holding the cat in one hand and pushing the door with the other.

As the doorbell rang "Ding Dong" greeting, he slipped in.

Because the action was so fast, when the tough female manager looked up from the TV show two seconds later, there was only a black kitten squatting at the door with a curious look on its face.

Yi Han also squatted in the low passage leading to the inside of the counter, silently moving in while listening to the voice of the female manager.

He guessed that the woman would stand up and drive the cat out, then return to her seat and continue watching the show. By the time she was immersed in the show again, Yi Han would have already got the medicine. At that time, he could just open the door and run away. It didn't matter whether he was discovered or not.

But until Yi Han quietly reached the location of the target medicine, he did not hear the woman's voice of driving him away.

The sound of the TV series on the tablet was still playing without being paused. Did she ignore the cat?

I always feel like something is wrong... She doesn't look like a cat lover.

Yi Han's thin body was hiding under the counter, unable to look out. He could only move while carefully listening to the woman's voice with his ears.

It was not until he quickly put all the medicines he needed into his arms and returned to the passage leaving the counter that he heard an indistinct swear word squeezed out of a woman's throat.

“…I saw a ghost.” There was a tremor of fear in the woman’s voice. She cursed again, but it didn’t sound like she was talking to herself. It sounded more like she was talking to something unknown.

Yi Han suddenly had a bad premonition. Sure enough, the next moment, the sound of a chair being moved away was heard, and the woman's footsteps, with a hint of resistance, slowly moved from her seat to the door.

Yi Han didn't hear the sound of the cat being chased away, but she vaguely felt a breeze, as if she had opened the door.

Then there was a loud clatter, the sound of metal colliding, and finally the lock fell.

She lowered the metal shutter door outside the main gate, locked it, and then, as if she was afraid of something, she quickly put away her tablet computer, turned off the lights, locked the door, and quickly left the medicine selling hall.

Yi Han was stunned in the darkness for a while before he felt the furry body of the little black cat approaching him.

"She didn't notice the cat? Why is she so scared? What is she afraid of?"

Yi Han didn't think that such a tough woman would be scared to close the shop and run away because of a false doorbell alarm.

He carefully got out of the counter and stood in the hall looking around. At this moment, the only light in the room was the dim light coming in from the window, making it difficult to see.

The key to the rolling door was on the table. He could take it and open the door and leave. There was also a lot of cash in the cabinet, enough for him to buy something to eat and find a place to stay.

But he didn't dare move for the time being.

The woman's strange reaction just now had turned into a strong sense of uneasiness that surrounded him tightly.

"It seems that besides the ghosts in my house, there should also be ghosts on the streets at night."

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