Chapter 2 Closed Classroom (2)
The boy covered his head and squatted on the ground, aggrieved: "Why did you hit me..."
Yi Han: "Are you a human or a ghost?"
Boy: "I am a human being, we are teammates!"
Yi Han: "Then why do you hold the knife?"
The boy was speechless and quickly put away the fruit knife in his hand. After a long time, he explained: "... This is a prop I got in the classroom. I was so excited when I suddenly saw you just now..."
He probably knew that this statement could not prove his credibility, so he quickly raised his phone and showed Yi Han his escape game app.
"I was also suddenly pulled into the game. I had food poisoning before, so you couldn't tell from the outside..." he said carefully.
Yi Han lowered his eyes and glanced at the screen of his mobile phone, then looked at him squatting on the ground, looking scared by himself.
He put down the chair legs temporarily and said, "Okay, you stand up first... Sorry, I saw you holding a knife and you didn't look like a good person. I couldn't hold back."
Boy: …
Seeing him rubbing his forehead with one hand and standing up, Yi Han's eyes fell on the fruit knife in his hand: "...What did you mean by props just now?"
He still did not step out of the classroom, but stood behind the threshold and talked to the other person through the open door.
The boy looked surprised: "That's what the app said. Didn't you receive the system message?"
He fiddled with the screen of his phone for a few times and showed it to Yi Han: "When a new player joins the game for the first time, he can choose an item he likes in the level. The system will use this as a reference to generate a new player-exclusive prop to help us survive in the early stages. I found a utility knife in the classroom just now, and the system gave me this knife."
The boy swiped his finger and displayed the information about the knife.
【Sharp fruit knife】
【Quality: Grade C】
【Condition: Brand new】
[Description: It is slightly sharper than an ordinary fruit knife, but nothing special.]
"Although the quality isn't very good, we don't have any points now, so at least it can protect us..." he said.
Yi Han nodded, indicating that he understood. He had been concentrating on finding the key before and had not paid attention to the system message. However, if the novice weapons given by the system were all of this quality, it didn't matter whether he took them or not. After all, Yi Han found this chair leg quite handy.
"Now you should believe me, right?" the boy said eagerly.
Yi Han didn't comment, "Let's go downstairs."
Although he still didn't quite trust this "teammate", but he was blocking the door, and Yi Han couldn't stay at home forever, so he didn't hesitate and stepped out of the corridor.
Fortunately, after coming out, nothing strange happened, and the other party did not suddenly turn into a vicious ghost and attack people.
Boy: "How about we exchange names, and you call me..."
However, Yi Han waved his hands, as if he didn't want to know his name at all, and interrupted him with the second half of the sentence. The boy hesitated for a moment, and had to follow him with a bit of dejection.
The layout of this teaching building is similar to that of Yi Han School, with a corridor running straight to the left and right. There are classrooms on both sides of the corridor, and the toilet is at the end of the corridor. If you want to go downstairs, you have to enter the stairwell in the middle of the corridor. The iron door of the stairwell is between the two classrooms in the middle, and it is tightly locked at this time.
Yi Han stretched out his hand and tried, then said: "It seems that what we need to find next is the key to this door."
Logically speaking, a teaching building like this would not have just one staircase, but would also have other escape routes.
But it may be because in escape games, the system removes the parts that are unnecessary for passing the level, leaving only the path it wants players to take.
"Before, we were looking for the key to the classroom, which was hidden in the classroom. Now we have to find the key to the stairwell. Theoretically, the chance that it is hidden in the corridor seems to be greater...but we can't be completely sure, so we have to check the classroom as well." Yi Han said.
The two of them roughly counted and found that there were at least twenty classrooms on this floor.
The boy hesitated and said, "If we want to search them all carefully, I guess we won't have enough time."
The start time of this level is 20:00, and it has only been more than half an hour. Although there are still 3 and a half hours left in the game, there is still no telling how many doors there are, so there is not much time left.
Yi Han said, "I'll search the classrooms, and you search the corridors. If there's nothing in the corridors, come over and help me search the rest of the classrooms. We can divide the work and cooperate, so it will be faster this way."
The boy nodded, and the two began to act.
Although he didn't quite trust this "teammate", Yi Han already had some ideas about the key, so he wasn't worried that he would tamper with it. To put it another way, even if he dared to hide the key secretly, he could just beat him up later.
Yi Han took the initiative to search the classroom, mainly because he wanted to improve his exploration level and get as many points as possible.
After temporarily separating from his "teammates", he began to search the classrooms one by one in order. This time he couldn't check as carefully as before, otherwise it would take too much time, so he could only search roughly and leave when he reached the exploration level.
At his request, the system digitized the exploration degree and displayed it on the app. As he continued to enter new classrooms, this number continued to increase.
The doors of the classrooms were not all open, some were locked, but it was obviously not to prevent players from escaping, but probably part of the game scenery, to match the open classrooms to make them look patchwork. So when encountering such a room, Yi Han would not hesitate to hit it with a stick, and if that didn't work, he would kick it again, and the door would open.
In this way, all the classrooms on this floor were searched. Yi Han found several rooms that were a bit haunted, but after Yi Han violently broke the door, the strange noise disappeared. After a few times, he summed up a pattern: it seems that in the first hour of the game, ghosts can only scare people by making strange noises, and their real bodies cannot really appear.
After one trip, the exploration level has reached 11.5%.
After searching the toilet at the end of the corridor, the exploration degree will increase to about 12%. Then according to the proportion, this teaching building should have 8 floors. Yi Han is probably on either the eighth or seventh floor.
At this time, his "teammate" had already searched the corridor and was now standing in front of the toilet door with him.
Due to the noise of Yi Han banging on the door, the voice-activated light in the men's restroom on the left had already turned on, but it seemed to have poor contact and flickered from time to time. In the women's restroom on the right, the light was obviously broken, and it was pitch black inside the door, which was very scary.
"Brother, this is so scary..." The "teammate" trembled a little, not sure if it was real or fake.
Yi Han glanced at him and saw that he turned his head away guiltily, not daring to look at him.
"If you're scared, just stand here and wait for me. Take your phone and help me light the way."
"Yeah, yeah." The boy nodded quickly, seeming relieved.
Yi Han pretended not to notice his abnormality and went straight into the men's restroom on the left. The lights in the men's restroom flickered from time to time and the atmosphere was weird.
Fortunately, the toilet was not dirty. He took a rough look around, then pushed open the cubicle and took a few casual glances.
Because he thought the key would not be here, he just took a quick look and exited when he had enough exploration points.
When his "teammates" outside the door saw him coming out, they turned on the flashlight on their phones and helped him light the women's restroom. However, due to the layout, it could only illuminate the small corridor at the entrance, and the part after the corner could not be illuminated.
Seeing this, Yi Han also took out his cell phone and turned on his flashlight.
"Brother, it's almost 9 p.m." For some reason, the "teammate" reminded him lightly.
Yi Han nodded to show that he understood, and walked in without changing his expression.
The women's restroom is also very clean. After turning the first corner, you can see a row of sinks and a long mirror.
Yi Han looked straight ahead, without even looking at the long mirror, and walked straight to the innermost compartment.
Since there was no light, we could only use a flashlight. Although the layout was similar to the one next door, it looked much more terrifying.
Yi Han pushed open the door of the first compartment. It was clean and empty inside.
He really had no interest in looking at a place like the toilet, so he took a quick look and closed the door.
Then the second, and the third.
Soon, the second to last compartment was checked.
As soon as Yi Han opened the door this time, he noticed with his sharp eyes that in the light of his flashlight, there seemed to be a dark shadow under the next cubicle.
He remained calm and swept the flashlight back and forth in the same rhythm as before. After checking the ground, he gently closed the door.
Even if there was someone next to him at this time, they probably wouldn't have noticed. Just as he was scanning the bottom of the compartment with his mobile phone, he quickly pressed the camera shutter.
Yi Han walked to the door of the last compartment and quickly opened the photo album.
Due to the darkness, the photo was blurry, but if you looked closely, you could see that in the dark, under the partition, there seemed to be two thin ankles with purple and blue bruises.
The owner of this pair of feet secretly hid in the last compartment for so long, and no one knew what bad things he was planning. Yi Han remained silent, put his hand on the door, and pretended to push it open.
With his other hand, he fiddled with the app a few times and clicked on the interface to receive exclusive props for novices.
It clearly states that when players select their favorite items and submit them, the system will automatically generate props with similar properties.
If he chooses the knife like his "teammate", he will get an offensive weapon such as a knife.
If you choose clothes, you may also get a piece of armor.
Yi Han was a little curious at this moment. If he chose this "toilet cubicle with a ghost locked in it", what would the system generate for him...
The time is almost up to 21:00. According to general game settings, after this hour, the restrictions on ghosts and monsters will probably be relaxed to a certain extent. If he doesn't open the door at that time, the things inside might rush out and attack.
Yi Han glanced down and seemed to see a shadow swaying inside. Perhaps the ghost had been standing there for too long and was a little impatient, so its two feet moved slightly impatiently.
Unable to help but raise his eyebrows, he no longer hesitated and clicked "Select" - "Confirm" - "Generate" on the app. All in one go.
The "teammate" waiting outside the door saw the time on his phone reach 21:00, and heard that there seemed to be no sound in the toilet for a long time, so he tentatively called out: "Brother, are you okay?"
But there was no response for a long time.
He stared at the dark women's restroom, waited for a while, shouted again, and when there was still no response, he turned off the flashlight.
He was not afraid, nor did he go in to look for anyone. Instead, he opened his phone, clicked on a group chat, and sent a text message.
"What are you doing?" Unexpectedly, just after typing a few words, Yi Han's voice suddenly appeared in my ears.
The boy's hands trembled and he was so scared that he couldn't hold the phone.
Fortunately, a white and slender hand caught it. Yi Han didn't see anything unusual, just glanced at him and returned the phone to him.
The boy hid his phone awkwardly and stammered, "Brother, you're okay, that's great... I called you so many times just now, I thought..."
"Think I was eaten by a ghost?" Yi Han said.
Boy: "No, no... Ah, well, I'm glad you're okay. Did you find the key?"
Yi Han: “No.”
Boy: "Then why did you stay so long?"
Yi Han: "I took a novice item."
Boy:?
Yi Han stared at him expressionlessly for a while, which made him feel creepy. He felt that this guy was in a bad mood at the moment.
"Let's go, let's go back and look for the key near the stairwell." Without dwelling on this topic anymore, Yi Han turned around and walked back first.
It seems that she didn't care about the abnormality of this "teammate" at all, and she didn't mind showing him her back...
The boy wiped off his sweat and quickly took out his phone, only to find that the "person" he wanted to contact just now was "forced offline"...
"Weren't you on duty in the toilet just now? How come a copy appeared?" He looked puzzled, but didn't dare to delay too long. He put the phone back in his pocket and went to chase Yi Han.
On Yi Han's side, he put one hand in his pocket and unconsciously touched his cell phone.
——Just now, after he took out the item he wanted, the pair of feet in the compartment disappeared immediately...
Then the app froze, the interface kept shaking, and all kinds of colors ran all over the screen.
And when Yi Han used his usual method to violently close the app and then restart it.
There was one more item in his inventory.
[A shop entangled with the resentment of the previous owner]
[Quality: S-level]
[Status: How should I put it…]
[Explanation: The special item obtained by sacrificing "a toilet cubicle with a ghost" is "a shop haunted by the resentment of the previous owner". Due to poor management, the shop has now closed down and the storefront has been sold at a low price. Therefore... the current property of the shop is only: iron pot*1, recipe*1, the above items have been placed in your inventory. ]
【Iron pan】
[Quality: S-level]
[Condition: Long time no firing, in tatters]
[Note: Brushing should still work]
【menu】
[Quality: S-level]
[Status: accidentally put into washing machine, contents lost]
[Description: It is blank, has no reference value, and can be thrown into the classified trash bin]
Yi Han: ...
A voice that sounded like the resentment of the former boss said weakly: "...Actually, it can still be saved, as long as..."
Yi Han's face turned a little dark, and he closed the app without even listening to him finish.
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Yi Han: I'm such a good fighter, and you want me to start a business and open a shop? I, Yi Han, would rather die of poverty or starvation than work for your shop that you got from the toilet.
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