Chapter 68: Forbidden Land of Ghost Forest (2)
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The rain in this world actually tastes salty. Yi Han put away the oven and quickly took his two companions into the house.
This cabin is only about 10 square meters, the floor is dusty and covered with hay. It seems that players often took shelter here in the past.
"You guys go to sleep first, I'll keep watch." Yi Han took out two sleeping bags from the inventory and threw them on the ground, letting his two companions rest, while he sat by the window.
"Wow, brother, you are so doting. You are such a great boyfriend!" a27 started talking in his ear again.
"...This word is not right." Yi Han was speechless.
"Feeding main force? Main force?" a27 kept talking.
Yi Han: ...
Before, they only contacted each other occasionally via mobile phone and I didn't notice it, but this time they kept talking, and Yi Han realized that a27 was really a bit talkative... He had been chattering non-stop during the past few hours in the forest. When he saw Yi Han killing monsters, he applauded and said 666. When he saw Yi Han beating people, he chuckled and said that he felt inexplicably refreshed. When he saw Yi Han grilling fish, he sipped his saliva and said "woooo". He was not greedy at all.
If he hadn't wanted to see the map, Yi Han would have blocked him long ago.
"...Why did the company send you to sign a contract with me?" Yi Han couldn't help asking. He felt more and more that the people around him were all these stupid kids, from Jian Lin to Miko to A27, and even Xiao Jiu, who had a good relationship with the enemy (???), was of this style.
"Well..." a27 suddenly choked, as if he was a little hesitant, but in the end he couldn't resist his strong desire to express himself, and said: "Actually, it's big data matching..."
Yi Han: ………?
"Well, the system counted past game data and calculated that you like to play with naive players the most. I'm the dumbest in our group, so I was recommended to meet you."
Yi Han: ...Okay.
There seems to be nothing wrong with this explanation. I didn't expect the system to be so user-friendly in this regard.
The heavy rain outside had just started, drowning out the angry shouts of the players on the opposite tree. After a27 admitted that he was the stupidest, he probably felt a little ashamed and finally stopped for a while.
Now Yi Han's ears were finally quiet, with only the sound of the rain falling.
After Black Panther got into the sleeping bag, he soon fell asleep with his legs spread out. Jian Lin lay there for a while but seemed unable to fall asleep.
"Let me keep watch with you." After a while, Jian Lin crawled out of the sleeping bag and sat next to Yi Han.
Something will definitely happen tonight. There seem to be few small houses in this forest, and there may be players coming here at night. In this case, Yi Han will not be able to sleep peacefully even if someone is on guard.
So the two of them leaned against the small window together, listening to the sound of rain outside.
I don’t know if the players outside the house were drenched or not. I can’t hear any sound or see their situation through the rain curtain. Yi Han stared out the window and frowned slightly.
"The traps they set don't seem to be very strong. Will they escape?" Jian Lin had indeed thought of this and had the same concerns as him.
"Maybe." Yi Han said.
As the night deepened, the temperature in the house dropped. Due to the heavy rain outside, the air was sticky and humid, which was very uncomfortable. Yi Han took out the small oven and placed it in the middle of the room.
Although it can't be used to hit people, it can be used to warm people up. Just based on this point, it is much more practical than a soup pot (soup pot: ...?). After roasting the fire for a while, the hut finally became a little dry. The sleeping black panther felt the warm fire and hummed comfortably several times.
In this warm environment, listening to the heavy rain outside, with his companions guarding him, Yi Han couldn't help feeling a little sleepy.
I don’t know how long it took, but I seemed to hear the sound of mosquitoes in my ears.
Since entering the escape game, Yi Han hadn't been woken up by mosquitoes for a long time. Suddenly coming to his senses from a half-sleep, he felt a slight pain in his neck as if it were pricked by a needle, and Yi Han slapped the spot.
When he took his hand off again, he saw a bloody mosquito corpse between his fingers. Yi Han quickly took out the water from his inventory and washed his hands.
"Well, what's wrong..." a27 seemed to have fallen asleep out of boredom, and his voice was fuzzy.
"It looks like a poisonous mosquito, it's a little red." Jian Lin came over to take a look and frowned.
At this time, Yi Han also felt a burning pain where he was bitten, and a slight numbness gradually spread from there.
It was not yet 11pm, and the three meal times for the day had not been used up yet. Yi Han immediately took a bowl of detoxifying soup from the inventory and drank it.
After drinking the hot soup, the numbness in my body disappeared immediately.
"It seems that the danger in this forest does not only come from the murlocs and other players." Yi Han touched his neck which was no longer painful, and thought to himself.
The levels in this real world are not as easy as the madhouse. It seems that I need to quickly gain enough character points and try to leave here tomorrow.
Yi Han sobered up for a moment and quickly made an action plan for tomorrow in his mind: meet and capture as many players as possible, and let them help him plant trees and get rid of insects. He would then look for the space loopholes through which the fish-man monsters came in and blow up their lairs. In this way, his character value would definitely be enough, and before he left, he would eliminate those unlucky players in one go. It would be done in one go and it would be extremely cost-effective.
As I was thinking this, I suddenly heard some strange noises in my ears.
There was a hissing sound, like a snake spitting out its tongue and crawling somewhere in the house.
"Be careful, there are enemies outside the house." a27 warned.
Yi Han raised his eyebrows. He didn't expect that the prisoners would come just as he said he needed more prisoners.
So, the snake hiding somewhere beside him seemed to be the work of an outsider.
Jian Lin gently pushed Xiao Hei awake, and the two searched the straw under them and found a small green snake in the corner. Xiao Hei was in a bad mood, so he stepped on it with his claws, and the snake struggled on the spot, unable to move.
Yi Han looked out through the only window, but his night vision had failed by then. Outside, heavy rain was pouring down, covering up all sights and sounds.
"You guys stay in the house first." Passive waiting was not his style. After a little thought, Yi Han took out the iron pot and opened the door.
The moment the door opened, the cold and damp air outside rushed in immediately, accompanied by a sharp sound of breaking through the air.
The attacker seemed to have been eyeing the cabin for a long time and was well prepared. Two sharp spears cut from trees, one from the door and the other from the window, shot in rapidly along with the wind and rain.
Yi Han was prepared. He turned sideways and the tip of the spear brushed past his body and nailed into the wall of the wooden house.
It was the man whose house was robbed earlier. It seemed that they had escaped from the trap.
Yi Han turned his head and dodged out of the house. This person seemed to be very good at throwing weapons, but the range of his ability should not be too far. And the direction from which the two wooden spears were shot just now has exposed his position.
Rushing into the rain alone, Yi Han tried hard to capture the enemy's figure and voice. But in the thick night, almost all traces became ambiguous.
"Swoosh" the subway chain swung, Yi Han bypassed a small area, and finally came into contact with a player at the edge of the open space.
These people were originally staying well in the cabin, but were suddenly beaten by Yi Han, the arrogant robber. They held a grudge, but had no way to avoid it, so they cursed angrily, picked up their close-range weapons, and immediately fought with him.
As a result, he was defeated by Yi Han again within three moves.
"Damn it!" The man was stepped on the ground. He cursed and spat the rain water in his mouth for a long time.
There should be four more people in their group. Yi Han dislocated the man on the ground and asked, "Where are they?"
As a temporary companion, he should not have paid attention to such questions. Unexpectedly, the man raised his neck and said, "Two in the woods, three around the back into the house."
“???” Yi Han didn’t expect that he would actually say that. When he turned around, he saw that a fight had indeed broken out in the house not far away.
In the room with only a small stove lit on a rainy night, the light was dim and there were many people. Jian Lin and Xiao Hei were both able to protect themselves. Yi Han ignored them for the time being, let go of the man first, and turned into the woods.
There were five people in their group before, how come there are six now?
After a quick search around the area, Yi Han didn't find the two people who didn't show up, but a27 said he wasn't lying, there were indeed two people nearby. It's just that the signs on the map are quite dense, and several players are crowded together, so he can't point out where the two people are hiding. But it's certain that they are still nearby.
Yi Han went back to the hut, dragged the prisoner on the ground, and found that the fight in the hut was over. Three people were lying on the ground, Jian Lin was holding one, and Xiao Hei was stepping on two, with ferocious faces and bared teeth.
"Let's tie them up first." Yi Han took out a ball of rope from the inventory, and together with Jian Lin, they tied them up and took them to the small shed at the door.
At this moment, a loud thunder suddenly exploded in the sky, and there seemed to be some sounds of flesh/bodies falling nearby.
Yi Han turned his head and in the flash of lightning, he saw groups of fish-man monsters falling from the sky in twos and threes, and falling to the ground with a "bang".
"Are these monsters brought by the rain?" So the hole in the alien space is in the sky?
Yi Han was a little surprised and clenched his weapon.
And then the next flash of lightning streaked across the sky, and this time, he saw two more people beside Xiaomu - they should be the two people that the player just mentioned who were not found by Yi Han. They had clearly been hiding before, but for some reason they showed up on their own initiative this time.
"Qin Yi?" Yi Han was stunned, and then his eyes darkened.
In the pale light brought by the lightning, the one standing in front of the two people was Qin Yi, the scheming man who was killed by Yi Han in the previous level. Behind him stood one of the five people who had been barbecuing outside the hut before. However, this person now had a blank expression on his face and his eyes were downcast. He looked a bit like the black-clad bodyguard who followed Qin Yi in the last level.
——Could it be that Qin Yi’s ability is to make certain qualified ghosts and monsters pledge allegiance to him without thinking?
"You are much better than these people. Do you want to cooperate?" To Yi Han's surprise, the first thing Qin Yi said was this.
"I just rescued these losers from your trap. At that time, I didn't know that they were going to attack you." Qin Yi took a few steps closer, as if he didn't bear any grudge against Yi Han for harming him. He even acted as if he had been in cahoots with him for a long time, causing the captured players at the door to look at him as if they had trusted the wrong person.
"You also want to find the source of these monsters, right? Let's work together, this is more efficient."
After saying this, Qin Yi had already walked in front of Yi Han, only an arm's length away from him, as if he was sure that Yi Han would agree to cooperate.
Yi Han:……?
Although he didn't know where this brother got his confidence from, Yi Han still stretched out his hand unceremoniously and tied him up with the iron chain. Yi Han had both A27 and Jian Lin in his hands this time, so of course he didn't have to count on Qin Yi to help him figure out the map.
"Don't bother. I'll be more efficient if you become my prisoner," Yi Han said.
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