Chapter 43 Underground Supermarket (3)
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Wang Linlin stood up crying and wiping her nose. She looked so frightened that she looked more like a serious girl of 17 or 18 years old, much more pleasing to the eye than the forced white-haired girl she had pretended to be before.
It was now exactly 9 p.m.
The restrictions on ghosts in the level are gradually being lifted over time. After the first hour, Jian Lin, as an NPC, can already use some conventional scaring methods on her, such as playing a recording of a crying baby.
These capabilities are available in every employee's app. When on duty, they can use them to scare players and create an atmosphere by checking the time. Jian Lin has used them before.
So when Wang Linlin was crying and following her two brothers to continue looking for the key, she heard a faint, miserable and shrill baby cry in her ears.
"Brother, brothers...what's that sound?" She grabbed the corner of Jian Lin's clothes pitifully. It was not that she didn't want to grab Yi Han, but every time she got close to Yi Han, he would throw her to the ground for various reasons.
"Where's the sound?" Yi Han looked around and pretended not to hear it.
"It's the sound of a baby crying..." Wang Linlin's hair stood on end, but she couldn't tell where the sound came from. It was vague, yet it seemed to be coming from all directions.
Yi Han pretended to listen carefully and said, "I didn't hear it. Did you hear it?" he also asked Jian Lin.
"...Well, it seems not." Jian Lin is not very good at lying.
Wang Linlin, who was frightened, of course did not notice the slight abnormality of her teammates, and the fact that only she could hear this terrifying sound undoubtedly made her even more frightened. In horror movies, the person who can hear the strange sound is usually the next person to die.
"Brothers, let's leave here quickly. I'm so scared." She said with a sad face.
"The key to this floor hasn't been found yet, so we can't leave even if we want to. The place is too big, and there are only two of us working. My sister is afraid, so we'll have to bear with it for now." Yi Han comforted her casually.
Wang Linlin always felt that this brother was secretly criticizing her for being a lazy and good-for-nothing...but judging from his expression, it didn't seem like that, and she had indeed been lazy all the time, so even if he was really criticizing her, she could only bear with it.
Yi Han took the two of them to find a few more hidden locations, and soon gave Wang Linlin all the exploration levels of this floor.
"Strange, I've searched this entire floor, but why can't I find the key?" Yi Han asked even though he knew the answer.
Jian Lin hadn't seen him secretly hiding the key before, so he frowned and wondered: "Yeah, that's strange."
Wang Linlin suddenly began to feel guilty...
Since she had searched everywhere outside but couldn't find it, the key was most likely in the women's restroom she had just visited.
When she entered, she didn't look for it seriously at all. She was just scared and just glanced at it and started to bang on the door. But it was really hard to admit this. She didn't do much work in this round, and she did the only task assigned to her so badly. If she said this, wouldn't it prove that she was a waste?
She gritted her teeth and held it in for a while, then she heard Yi Han say, "If it doesn't work, we can only search the entire floor again. Sister, you stay here and we'll go look for it."
"Hey? Don't go, wait a minute..." The crying voice that came from nowhere was still ringing! The voice was floating, sometimes far away, sometimes near. She didn't want to be alone!
"Um, the women's restroom, do you want to go check it out again?" She was really scared when she was first locked in there, and she felt scared when it was mentioned again. If she didn't need a key to open the door, she would never take the initiative to ask to go back!
"Hasn't the women's restroom been searched?" Yi Han wondered.
"It's too dark in there, I might have missed it..." Wang Linlin felt guilty.
The two of them saw her expression and understood...it seemed that this girl had not been looking for one at all.
Now even Jian Lin, who didn't know the truth, looked at her with a look of blame. He could only say that it was a good thing that he was not her real teammate, otherwise he might not be able to escape before 24:00 if he was tricked by her.
Wang Linlin didn't dare to say anything else, and the three of them turned back to the toilet.
The lights were still flickering and scary. This time, Yi Han said that he would go in by himself and asked Jian Lin and the others to wait outside.
Wang Linlin was of course happy to take a break, but when she thought about Yi Han going in and being frightened inside, she felt happy and nervous. She was happy because unlucky people always wanted to see others being as unlucky as themselves, and she was nervous because if anything happened to Yi Han, no one would help her get through.
In this conflicting mood, she watched Yi Han walk into the women's bathroom.
Yi Han took out his cell phone, turned on the flashlight, and carefully checked the compartment.
Wang Linlin waited secretly at the door for a long time, but no ghost came out to lock the door.
After another two or three minutes, Yi Han came out.
"It's hidden here indeed." He showed the key in his hand.
Then Wang Linlin was glanced at obscurely by her two teammates again.
In fact, the two of them didn't show any complaints, but she felt guilty and couldn't help but over-interpret it, and then she started to get angry - I was the one who reminded you to go back to the bathroom to search, and now that you've found the key, you're still blaming me? If I hadn't told you, would you have found it! ?
Wang Linlin, holding her breath but not daring to let it out, followed the two men to the fire door.
The key went into the keyhole and the door opened smoothly.
Behind the door, there was indeed a staircase leading to the next floor.
Wang Linlin was a little happy at first, but as soon as she stepped onto the escalator, she screamed again -
At the top of the escalator, a woman in white clothes flashed by!
“Ah!! There’s a ghost!!!”
She grabbed Yi Han's clothes tightly. Yi Han was the first to get on the escalator, so he stood in front of her at this time, while Jian Lin walked at the back to cover the others.
The three of them were very close to each other, and when they heard her scream, they immediately stopped and looked at each other at the bottom of the stopped escalator.
"Ah? Where is the ghost..." Jian Lin asked, while secretly hiding the mobile phone he had just operated behind his back.
"Well, I didn't see any ghost either. Sister, are you scared silly?" Yi Han said with some impatience.
"It was just there!!!" Wang Linlin poked her head out from behind Yi Han in fear, and then found that there was indeed no ghost on the escalator.
But the two boys obviously didn't believe it. No matter what Wang Linlin said, they said there was nothing there just now.
Wang Linlin was about to cry and she didn’t want to go upstairs anymore.
But Yi Han and Jian Lin were blocking her from the front and the back. The formation that had originally given her a very safe feeling now made her unable to control her movements.
Ignoring Wang Linlin's face full of resistance, Yi Han forcibly grabbed the little girl's arm and carried her upstairs.
Just when it was about to reach the -1 floor, the ghost flashed by again.
"Ah!! It appears again!! You guys see it now!" Wang Linlin was frightened and started crying again. She immediately squatted down and refused to move.
"There's nothing. Stop making trouble." Yi Han said speechlessly. His tone clearly implied that she was being unreasonable and making trouble.
“It’s obviously there! Why are you pretending not to see it! Why don’t you believe me!!!” After several shocks and Yi Han’s bad attitude, Wang Linlin seemed to have forgotten her image as a little white flower.
Yi Han glanced at Jian Lin, who was standing at the end of the team and hiding his phone, and finally said, "Then let's be more careful. You stand in the middle, it's okay. Even if there is a ghost, it won't be the first to find you."
When Wang Linlin heard this, she seemed to think there was some truth in it, but her body still instinctively resisted going upstairs.
The speed of clearing the level was quite fast. There were only two levels in this level, and they had already passed one level in just over an hour. At this point in time, Jian Lin could only create some ghost images and strange noises to scare people, but this almost made Wang Linlin collapse.
"If we delay any further, other strange things might happen. I heard that the closer it gets to midnight, the scarier the level will be." Jian Lin said honestly.
Wang Linlin's eyes were filled with tears, she bit her lower lip, and she was extremely confused. But at this moment, there was indeed no ghost, and her two teammates were very sure that they did not see anything. She couldn't help but start to feel confused. Was she really hallucinating?
Seeing that the veteran player Yi Han in front of her had already started to go upstairs again, Wang Linlin had to stand up and catch up reluctantly, as she was afraid that she would be left behind if she didn't move.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I put my hand on the handrail of the escalator, I felt a few cold fingers.
Her first reaction was Jian Lin's hand behind her.
But this hand was really cold. She couldn't help but turn her head and saw several long nails painted bright red.
The owner of this hand is a woman...
Since the hand touched the handrail, it meant that the woman was standing behind her and very close to her.
"Why don't you leave?" Jian Lin's voice came from behind.
Wang Linlin was staring at the hand at this moment, her mind was blank and confused. When she heard the question behind her, she felt that the gentle little brother's voice was covered with a layer of cloth... light, soft, and vague.
Wang Linlin stood there in a daze, and Jian Lin called her again. This time he was closer, almost touching her ear.
As a result, the girl's eyes rolled up, and she fainted on the ground with a plop.
Jian Lin: ...Ah, this.
...It's over. I was probably too scared and ended up breaking my little sister.
When Yi Han heard the voice and turned around, Jian Lin had already hurriedly put away the ghost hand prop.
Yi Han raised his eyebrows: "Ah, dizzy, let's see how many credits this time."
Jian Lin: "...5 o'clock, just like in the toilet just now."
Yi Han was a little dissatisfied: "So little."
I just locked Wang Linlin in the toilet for ten minutes and only got 5 points, but that was because it was still early and there was nothing strange in the toilet. Now it's the second hour, Jian Lin is setting ghosts everywhere and working very hard, so he should earn more than before.
Yi Han took a few steps back and squatted down. He first gave Jian Lin a wink, then picked up Wang Linlin and patted her face.
"Sister, wake up."
Since she didn't wake up, Yi Han increased his strength until the little girl's face turned red, and she finally opened her eyes in confusion.
"Sister, are you okay?" Yi Han asked.
Wang Linlin's mind was still blank at this time, her expression was dazed, and her eyes were wandering. It took her a long time to realize that the person who was talking in front of her was the big boss who could help her pass the level.
Seeing that her eyes had begun to focus, Yi Han smiled.
Then Wang Linlin discovered...
Behind Yi Han, a pair of pale and slender hands were slowly climbing up his shoulders.
It was a woman's hand, pale, thin, with bright red nails.
The owner of the hand was squatting behind Yi Han, and was slowly extending his long-haired head from behind.
Wang Linlin widened her eyes and stared at the ghostly figure that seemed to have come from a nightmare.
Her mind went blank and she wanted to scream but couldn't... Her eyes went dark and she lost consciousness again even though she had just been awake for a dozen seconds.
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Yi Han threw the ghost head and ghost hand back to Jian Lin: "...see how many GPAs you have now?"
Jian Lin: "Another 5 points."
Yi Han was satisfied: "Well, this time it's almost the same."
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Thanks to the goblins who threw rocket launchers: Cheng Yuzi 1;
Thanks to the goblins who cast mines: Bai Ze and Ku Gu 2; Qing Sheng Huo ~ Xuan and Huan Qian Nian 1;
Thanks to the goblins who irrigated the nutrient solution: Yuanyu, sake wine without liver Liao. 10 bottles; Cheng Yuzi 5 bottles; Maple Sugar Momo 3 bottles; Li Youyou 1 bottle;
Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!
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