Chapter 41 Underground Supermarket (1)
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After entering the checkpoint, the first thing Yi Han saw was a shelf full of sauces and condiments.
There was a slightly sour smell in the air, I don’t know if it was because the vinegar on a shelf had spilled, the light was very bright and the color was pale.
The name of the level is Underground Supermarket, so this should be a corner of the supermarket. I just don't know how many floors this supermarket has, and which floor I am currently on.
There was a person sitting on the ground next to him. Yi Han lowered his eyes and saw that the person he was helping was a young girl.
This girl is pretty, but her clothes are disheveled, her hair is messy, and her makeup is a little smudged. Apart from some blood at the corner of her mouth, there are no other injuries on her body, and I don't know what happened before she was pulled into the game.
The human players who are chosen by this game are usually pulled into the main god space when they are on the verge of death. Before entering the level for the first time, there is only a very short time to understand the rules of the game. Therefore, many people look miserable when they first enter the novice level.
As a high-level player, Yi Han entered the level to help her pass it. The girl must have received relevant prompts, but thinking that he would have to trick her together with Jian Lin in a while, Yi Han felt that he should not be too cold, so he took the initiative to greet her.
"My last name is Yi, and I'm here to help you pass the customs."
The pretty girl on the ground couldn't help but brighten up when she saw that Yi Han, the "high-level player" who came to help her, was actually quite young and handsome.
For some reason, she pretended to be frightened, holding her chest and said softly, "Thank you, Brother Yi... My name is Wang Linlin, you can just call me Linlin."
Brother Yi...Yi Han was shocked by this title.
This girl does look young, about seventeen or eighteen years old, so she should be younger than Yi Han... It’s not wrong to call her brother, but they have just met, right?
Yi Han looked at the girl in disbelief, and then he saw her biting her lower lip, trying to stand up by herself by holding on to the shelf next to her. While pretending to be strong, she gave Yi Han a "stubborn and pitiful" look.
Seeing her like this, Yi Han raised his eyebrows and suddenly understood her intentions.
In order to better complete the task of tricking others, Yi Han chose to cooperate with the performance, so he stepped forward and supported her.
The girl immediately leaned on his arm and said aggrievedly: "Thank you, brother. I think I sprained my foot. I'm sorry. I'm too weak. Please help me."
Yi Han: "It's okay, it's not a big deal. Since you sprained your ankle, why don't you sit down and rest for a while? Don't get tired. I can go find clues by myself."
As he spoke, he loosened his grip, and the girl fell back to the ground before she could fully stand up.
Girl: …QAQ? ? ?
Yi Han: "Ah, sister, are you okay? Are you hurt?"
The girl's butt was indeed hurt, but in order to maintain her image, she couldn't admit it, so she said with tears in her eyes but pretended to be strong: "No, it's okay."
Yi Han looked relaxed: "I'm glad you're alright, then you take a rest, I'm leaving."
After saying that, he really never looked at her again and walked away on his own.
Girl:…………?
The "Underground Supermarket" level is actually similar to Yi Han's own novice level "Closed Classroom".
When players first entered, they were locked in a small space. Yi Han walked through the shelves, but after a few steps, he was blocked by a locked fire door.
After walking along the wall, he soon returned to where Wang Linlin was sitting.
There are only five or six long shelves in this area. It seems that I have to find the fire door key here first before I can go out and meet Jian Lin.
It was only two minutes since Yi Han dropped the girl off and came back after checking the environment. When he saw Wang Linlin again, he found that she had stood up on her own and had simply tidied up her appearance - it seemed that the girl's sprained foot was not very serious.
"Brother, what's the situation?" Wang Linlin asked aggrievedly.
"The fire door is locked. You need to find the key first. After you go out from here, you should be able to meet up with your other teammate." Yi Han said truthfully, and then began to search on the shelves.
When Wang Linlin heard him mention another teammate, her eyes seemed to move.
"Brother... do you know if the other player is a boy or a girl?" She casually followed him to look for the key, but her eyes were rolling around, and she asked casually.
"I don't know, maybe it's a girl too." Yi Han said casually.
Upon hearing this, Wang Linlin became alert.
She bit her lip, hesitated for a while, and then said casually: "...That must be a sister who is much more capable than me. Without anyone's help, she can open the door on her side by herself..."
Yi Han didn't seem to understand her hint and said casually again: "Hmm..."
"Alas... I'm really useless. I can't do anything right." The girl sighed sadly, "I'm always deceived when making friends and betrayed when I'm in love... But I still can't help but trust others, thinking that sincerity can be exchanged for sincerity, but in the end I always get hurt."
Yi Han: "...Then you have to be more careful in the future."
Wang Linlin:………?
In just a few words, Yi Han had quickly flipped through one shelf and moved on to another.
Wang Linlin saw that this person didn't understand her hint at all, so she gritted her teeth and said directly: "Brother Yi... the sister next door must be stronger and more capable than me. She should be able to get through it by herself. She doesn't need you to distract her to protect her... I, I'm a little afraid of strangers. If we meet her when we go out later, let's not go with her..."
Upon hearing this, Yi Han finally raised his head from the row of seasoning jars.
"Then when we get out of this door, I will separate from you so that you won't be scared." After all, Yi Han and she were strangers.
Wang Linlin hurriedly said: "Brother Yi doesn't count, you are... the hero the system gave me. You will definitely protect me!" She must have felt shocked by what she said, and it obviously took a lot of effort to maintain a gentle tone to say it.
Yi Han couldn't help but touch the goose bumps on his arms.
He pondered for a moment, and suddenly asked: "Can you tell me how you died?"
This question is actually not quite right, because when human players are pulled into the game, they are actually still alive, but time is frozen and their wounds are frozen. If they can accumulate 100 million points in this game, the player will be thrown back to the original world, back to the time when they are about to die, and change their fate.
But Wang Linlin understood what he meant, and quickly recalled it in her mind. Then she secretly tampered with her identity. She felt that there should be no loopholes, and then she slowly said: "I... was killed by my best friend..."
Then she waited for Yi Han to ask further questions, but there was no response from Yi Han.
Wang Linlin bit her lip, but she had already made up the story and would feel uncomfortable if she didn't finish it... Since no one asked, she had no choice but to continue telling it.
"I met her in junior high school. We got along very well and became friends. Later, we went to the same high school. In high school, another boy joined us, so we usually played together. After the college entrance examination, the boy confessed his love to me and said that he liked me very much. I was scared and did not reply him. Unexpectedly, my best friend knew about this. Because her test scores were not as good as mine, she became jealous and went to tell the boy bad things about me. He did not believe it, and my best friend became even angrier. Later, I agreed to date the boy, and my best friend seduced him openly and secretly, discredited me, and wanted to have a threesome with me... In the end, my boyfriend was seduced away by her, and we had a big fight. She was not right, and she beat me and even poured pesticide into my mouth... It was then that I realized that my good friends for so many years were actually fake..."
The girl was about to cry while talking, but she kept her ears perked up, waiting for Yi Han to respond to her from behind the shelf.
The bloody story of best friends tearing each other apart that she told was not entirely made up. It was just that she swapped the positions of the two female protagonists in the story. She was the one who was jealous of her best friend, pretended to be pitiful, slandered others, and provoked others' feelings. At the end of the real story, she called her poor best friend who was innocently triple-teamed to a secluded place and fought with her. After winning the fight, she drank some pesticide and was ready to turn around and put the blame on others. However, she drank too much and was killed by the game on the spot.
Yi Han listened to the conversation in a disjointed manner, and based on his impression of the girl, he guessed that she was lying - in fact, when he heard her ask him not to protect another player, Yi Han already had his doubts.
In this real-life escape game, most of the players Yi Han met were actually relatively friendly. He found this situation strange at first, but later he understood it.
Because this is actually intentional guidance from the game system.
Whether it was the character value detection system, the penalty level that specifically detained malicious players, or even Jian Lin's setting that linked his luck value to his character value, all of them hinted at the game's screening rules for players:
Honest and kind players will be luckier and live longer; players who use crooked means and cheat and harm others will be isolated and end up miserably.
It is actually very difficult to directly judge whether a player is honest when they first enter the novice level. The system will probably lock in some people who seem to be suspected of doing evil, increase the difficulty for them, and focus on observing them - and then arrange a "ghost player" to contact and test them.
Yi Han was pulled into the game when he injured two people and bullied others in the hospital, so he was also marked by the system and assigned to the difficult novice level, and there were "ghost players" who tricked him all the way.
So this time, the delicate Wang Linlin was probably in the same situation - the system also suspected that she was not a good person, so it arranged Jian Lin's promotion task into her level.
After figuring out this rule, Yi Han breathed a sigh of relief.
In that case, there's no need to feel guilty about tricking her later.
"Don't worry, I will take good care of you." Yi Han said seriously.
Upon hearing this, Wang Linlin smiled triumphantly, as expected, across a shelf from him.
Yi Han was now an experienced searcher for clues, and he quickly searched through the rows of shelves. Finally, he found the key to the fire door behind a price tag on a bowl of rice sauce.
He turned around and helped up Wang Meizi, who had a look of admiration and gratitude on her face and kept saying "Brother is so awesome", and opened the door with everyone else.
Jian Lin had been waiting outside the door for a long time. When he saw the two people coming out, he greeted them in a friendly manner.
The girl was stunned. She had listened to Yi Han's nonsense before and thought that the other teammate was really a girl and a competitor for her charm.
But now the person standing outside the door is actually another handsome young man.
Wang Linlin was in a dilemma.
"Don't be afraid, I will protect you. Let's ignore him." Yi Han pretended not to notice her dilemma and tilted his head to comfort her.
"No, no... wait a minute." Wang Linlin said weakly, but her body was supported by Yi Han, and they walked directly past Jian Lin and came to another shelf where beverages were placed outside the fire door.
"Well, Brother Yi, I think another teammate seems to be a very friendly person. Why don't we take him with us?" Wang Linlin said.
In the minds of these girls, men who can be used must be kept around, and the more the better.
"Okay then." Yi Han sighed and put on a doting look as if to say "You are such a kind girl."
"You must be tired after walking so far. Drink something that suits you and rest here." Yi Han waved at Jian Lin, and then without looking at Wang Linlin again, he threw her on the ground, took a bottle of green tea from the shelf and threw it to her.
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Jian Lin: You guys... ?
Yi Han: Sister, you still need to practice your tea art.
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