Chapter 8 Endless Stairs (3)
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"How are you?" Yi Han asked as he put away the pot.
"I'm fine, no one cut me." Jian Lin held his hands, obviously he hadn't recovered yet. He didn't know whether he was scared by the NPC male ghost or by Yi Han.
The chopping board behind him fell to the ground, and the table and the floor were in a mess. Yi Han took a glance and roughly understood... It must be that he kneaded the dough too badly, and the NPC was so dissatisfied that he wanted to chop him up...
But now the NPC has been knocked offline, and the mandatory mission has been forced to stop before it is completed. Not only is there no way to ask for clues, but the door of -1801 cannot be opened at all. How can the two of them get out?
Yi Han went forward to try and found that the thin security door was locked tightly by the system rules. No matter how he pushed it with his hands or kicked it with his feet, it didn't move at all, as if it was fixed to the wall.
After a little thought, Yi Han turned around and went back to the master bedroom.
"Looking for keys...?" Jian Lin followed blankly, but just as he finished speaking, he saw Yi Han coming out of the bedroom again with a huge fire axe.
When Yi Han had briefly searched the master bedroom before, he had seen the family's box of hardware tools in the closet. At that time, the axe was standing behind the box. Because it was so large, he took a closer look. He didn't expect that he would actually use it now.
"It may not work. Let me try it first." He said, waving his hand for his teammates to step back.
So, Jian Lin retreated to the side at a loss and with a confused look on his face, and then watched Yi Han raise the huge axe high up and swing it fiercely at the door.
There was a loud bang, and it felt like the air around was shaking.
But upon closer inspection, there was not even a scratch on the seemingly flimsy door.
"Sure enough, the door cannot be destroyed without completing the mission." Yi Han sighed, not surprised.
"Then... I'd better go and finish making the dumplings." Jian Lin said.
"No need." Yi Han rejected the proposal without even turning his head.
Neither of them knew how to make dumplings, and now that the NPCs were gone, who would judge whether the task was qualified? At this time, wasting time on following the rules to complete the task would be foolish.
Yi Han took two steps back and stared at the old-fashioned security door in deep thought. As he looked at it, he suddenly shifted his gaze to another place.
"...What are you going to do?" Jian Lin's face turned pale.
"I'll try again." Yi Han said, raising the axe again.
But this time his target was not the security door, but the white wall on the left side of the door that was connected to neighbor 1802.
“…”
Under the horrified eyes of his teammates, the giant axe was swung down again, followed by another loud bang.
This time, as the corner of the axe pierced into the wall, the wall paint peeled off, and various fillings such as sand, gravel, cement, etc. inside were vaguely exposed, and gray debris fell all over the ground.
Sure enough, he guessed right... When the system was making the game scenery, the unimportant parts were blurred out - in layman's terms, there was selective cutting of corners.
In the normal world, it is almost impossible for a residential building to be split by an axe. But the game system probably never considered that there would be players who would smash the walls in an escape game, especially the walls of a room with ghosts. So they only did superficial work and did not use building materials that met the standards of the real world. As a result, when they encountered an impatient player like him, they would be smashed.
Seeing that he had really found a breakthrough, Yi Han took some effort, moved his shoulders, raised the axe with force, and swung it again.
Although this wall is not as strong as the C25C30 concrete in the real world, it is still difficult to split it completely. Yi Han made a crack in the wall with one blow after another.
He dropped the axe and went back into the bedroom. After a while, he came out with an iron wedge.
"From the guardrail of the iron bed," he explained.
Jian Lin: …………
"Help me hold on." Yi Han said again. When he turned around, he suddenly found that the other party was still petrified. "What's wrong with you?"
"…………No…" Jian Lin hadn't come back to his senses yet, but he subconsciously followed Yi Han's words and reached out to hold the thing that was inserted into the crack in the wall…
Then Yi Han replaced his S-class iron pot and aimed it at the end of the wedge...
I vaguely remember that during this wall-demolishing activity, I changed tools several times... When Jian Lin reacted again, the wall in front of him had been broken into a hole big enough for a person to pass through.
"Let's go." After some exercise, Yi Han had a thin layer of sweat on his body, but it was not to the extent that he needed to rest, so he went through the hole first -1802.
Jian Lin hurriedly followed, and when he came in, the light had already been turned on by Yi Han.
Unexpectedly, Yi Han was not the only one in the room.
A girl, about thirteen or fourteen years old, stood face to face with Yi Han in the narrow square hall. The girl was in a school uniform, which was stained red with blood, and her face was ashen. It was unclear whether it was because of her natural appearance or because she was angry.
"...Are you the third NPC in the building?" Yi Han asked calmly without any sense of shame for smashing through the wall of someone else's house.
He was originally worried that he would waste a place to enter the room by opening a hole in the wall, but he didn't expect that the last ghost was waiting next door...
Praise the Emperor of Europe.
"You are too brave." The young NPC said grimly. Yi Han was knocking on the wall next door just now, so she probably had been waiting on the other side. She didn't know what his mood was, so it was normal for him to have a bad tone.
"Oh, so?" Yi Han said casually without caring, and quickly glanced around the room with his peripheral vision.
-1802 is exactly the same pattern as -1801, just in the opposite direction.
The doors of both bedrooms were ajar, and the kitchen door was blocked by the girl, so the layout of the house could not be seen, and therefore it was impossible to guess the content of the mandatory task she would propose.
——But they didn't knock on the door when they came in. Will this trigger the mandatory mission? I wonder if I can avoid the mission if I go up to the girl NPC and cover her mouth and kidnap a dragon?
Yi Han moved his fingers slightly.
But before I could take any action, the system prompt appeared quickly.
[System prompt: Because you knocked on the wrong door, you have triggered mandatory mission 3. You will play two rounds of truth or dare with the owner of room -1802. If the game ends abnormally, you will be deemed to have failed to clear the game. After the game is over, you can return to the corridor to continue.]
...Okay, because Yi Han knocked out the NPC for not completing the task in the last round, this time the system directly changed the rules temporarily and did not allow him to exploit loopholes and cause trouble again.
Yi Han had no choice but to temporarily let go of the handle of the iron pot in the inventory.
"Truth or Dare, it's very simple, just play 'Rock, Paper, Scissors', one person per round, who will go first?" said the female NPC, while stretching out her hand and slightly clenching her fist.
"I'll do it." Yi Han said.
Jian Lin had done the first two mandatory tasks. This time, it was a one-man game, so anyone could take part, so it didn't matter who played first.
So, listening to the girl's countdown of "3, 2, 1——", the two of them reached out their hands at the same time.
The NPC dropped "cloth", and Yi Han dropped "stone".
"Truth or Dare?" The girl grinned as if her conspiracy had succeeded.
"...Big adventure." Yi Han knew that he was dark, and after a long silence, he made a choice.
"Go open the bedroom curtains." The girl quickly decided on the adventure mission.
…Is it that simple?
Yi Han followed the girl's finger and looked towards the master bedroom of the house.
But the next moment, he reacted.
The room he is in now is on the 18th floor underground.
Thinking back now, the curtains in the two rooms I entered before were all drawn tightly.
When I saw it, I subconsciously remembered that the game time was late at night, so I didn't think there was anything wrong with the curtains being drawn. But now I think about it...
What will be outside the window on the 18th floor underground?
Seeing the NPC girl's extremely evil smile, Yi Han had no doubt that there must be something bad outside the window. Maybe he would die if he saw it, and even if he didn't die, he would definitely be frightened.
"I'll go in by myself, you wait here." Yi Han told his teammates and turned to leave.
-The master bedroom of 1802 is not much different from the one next door, except for the furniture style. But the overall style is still old-fashioned and shabby. The curtains are drawn tightly, without any gaps.
The NPC girl followed him, but did not enter the house. She just stood by the door and looked at him with a smile.
Yi Han took a quick look around and then stood in front of the window.
The moment my hand touched the curtain, I felt an inexplicable palpitation.
It seemed as if he was face to face with something extremely dangerous, and all the hairs on his body stood up.
Yi Han frowned, thought for a moment, and then closed his eyes.
Then, without much hesitation, he exerted force and pulled the curtains open to both sides.
When people close their eyes, they can still feel the changes in light. The light in the master bedroom was on when he came in. Although it was very dim, after drawing the curtains, Yi Han felt through his eyelids that all the light was swallowed up by the things outside the window in front of him.
It was pitch black all around him, and it seemed as if countless pairs of eyes with malicious intent were staring at him in the darkness.
The body temperature dropped sharply and it became difficult to breathe.
Yi Han didn't open his eyes. After completing the task, he turned around, recalled the location of the bedroom furniture, and walked out of the room with steady steps.
He didn't open his eyes until he felt the light again. In front of him was an NPC girl with a bad look on her face. Yi Han walked past her without changing his expression. The two of them completely left the room, and Yi Han even closed the door.
"Hmph." The young girl snorted coldly. Although she was reluctant, Yi Han had already completed the task of pulling the curtains, so she had no choice but to let him go.
"It's your turn in the next round." She turned to look at Jian Lin.
Because Yi Han had just told him not to follow, Jian Lin had been waiting in the small square hall.
This time, seeing Yi Han come out as if nothing had happened, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then extended his hand together with the NPC.
“3, 2, 1——” the girl counted.
As a result, after Jian Lin played "Paper", Yi Han watched with his own eyes as the girl's hand gesture quickly changed from "Rock" to "Scissors" with two fingers extended.
Yi Han:?
Yi Han, who is very good at hands-on work, is itching to do it again.
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