Chapter 92: Real Illusion (3)
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The ghosts in this fantasy world are currently known to be: two in the house, and it is not known how many there are on the street. Judging from the situation, there may be other places as well.
Although the pharmacy where Yi Han is now is a locked indoor space, the female manager looks strong and powerful, and poses a great threat to him. Therefore, his next task is to find another relatively reliable hiding place as soon as possible to spend the night.
He took out the two boxes of medicine he had just received from his pocket, opened the boxes, and walked to the window, ready to take the medicine first.
With the help of the light from a distance, Yi Han carefully looked at the small words such as indications written on the box.
As a person who has lived alone for many years, he is actually very familiar with the functions of various household medicines. Therefore, before entering the store, he had already determined what kind of cold he had and what kind of medicine he needed, so there was no way he could take the wrong one.
Now I take a look before taking medicine, which is just a subconscious habitual action.
Unexpectedly, after a few casual glances, Yi Han frowned slightly and his expression suddenly became a little strange.
——This medicine seems to be expired.
Although according to the date in this illusion, it has only been two months expired, and generally speaking there will be no problem if you take it, but the efficacy may be reduced.
But this is not in the real world, but in a copy created by a hypnotist. Here, he has to pay attention to any abnormal situation. Moreover, Yi Han vaguely remembered that he seemed to have heard of someone around him being poisoned by taking expired medicines.
He put down the two boxes of medicine in his hand, thought for a moment, then returned to the counter where he had gotten the medicine before and took out all the cold medicines in one go.
He piled them all at the window and looked at them one by one, and then he found that most of these medicines were expired or about to expire.
This pharmacy is located next to the gate of the community, and most of its customers are residents of the community. However, there are two larger pharmacies on the commercial street across the street, so the business of this small private pharmacy has not been very good (especially since the boss is so unfriendly), and it is very likely that the drugs will expire and cannot be sold.
According to standard procedures, if the medicine is expired, you should contact the factory to register and recycle it. I didn't expect that the store manager would dare to sell it in the store, not afraid of causing problems for patients if they take it.
Yi Han sighed, picked and chose from them, and went back to the counter to move some.
It wasn't until my eyes were dazzled that I finally found two boxes of medicines that were not expired.
After opening the box and taking the capsules in his hand, Yi Han discovered that there was no water to drink.
There seemed to be a water dispenser in the corner of the pharmacy hall? Yi Han tried to look in the dark, but couldn't see clearly. He could only rely on his memory and feel his way over to get some water.
However, after finally finding the water dispenser, there was no water in it...
There seemed to be a cup where the female manager had sat before, and there should be water in it, but Yi Han... really didn't want to drink it.
So in the end he had no choice but to stuff the capsule into his mouth and swallow it.
Anyone who has had a fever knows that even if the fever is successfully reduced during the day, it will rise again at night. This time, Yi Han took antipyretic medicine, which was not expired. He thought that he should be fine tonight.
Look at the time, it's already 10 o'clock.
His previous experience in escape games told him that this time was not safe. The ghosts could start to act, and the closer to 12 o'clock, the less restrictions the ghosts would face.
Yi Han found the key to the rolling door in the drawer, took out several stacks of banknotes without any guilt, and prepared to leave.
The dark drugstore lobby seemed somehow darker than before.
Yi Han still had a low-grade fever and felt a little cold all the time.
He glanced at the pile of expired medicines on the windowsill, and at that moment, a medicine box slipped to the ground with a "pop".
Yi Han was stunned and stood still, looking past the pile of medicines to the window. For some reason, the dim street light in the distance slowly went out with the sound, just like the fade-out effect in a slide show.
"Meow--"
The little black cat that had been following at his feet suddenly meowed softly, as if giving some implicit reminder.
Yi Han frowned and looked down at it, but only saw the last ray of dim light reflected in its translucent eyes.
Then the whole hall became completely dark, and it was pitch black outside the window.
“Here it comes!”
At the same time that Yi Han realized this, there was a sudden loud knock on the door in the room.
“Snap—Snap—Snap—”
The person outside the door is definitely not a human!
Even through two doors, Yi Han felt that the sound was deafening. This kind of force was definitely not something that an ordinary person could produce.
He reached out and took the cat into his arms, and according to the route he remembered, he quickly went to the corridor leading to the inner room of the pharmacy where the manager and her son lived.
But just as he was about to go in, Yi Han heard voices coming from inside the house again.
He paused, adjusted his movements in an instant, turned around and hid behind the nearest counter.
But a few seconds later, the door of a bedroom in the corridor opened. Accompanied by the boy's howling, two people rushed into the pharmacy hall one after another, one aggressive and the other stumbling.
With a click, someone turned on the light.
Yi Han squatted in the shadows, but his eyes were still stung by the light and his ears were instantly filled with extremely chaotic noise.
"Woo-wah-Mom--"
The boy howled all the way into the house. It seemed that he had been howling for a while and his voice was a little hoarse.
"You're playing tricks on me. You come knocking every day. Knock knock knock you, my little bastard. I've been putting up with you for so long!"
The woman was furious and yelled at the person outside the door, full of resentment towards her naughty son.
Yi Han poked his head out slightly and saw the woman holding a mop in her hand. She seemed to be furious and ready to go out for a fight. But she was only standing three meters away from the door and didn't dare to get close.
So the ghost outside the door is a child ghost, and it comes here every night to knock on the door and punch in?
Is it possible that its target is only the female store manager, and if I sneak out, will it let me go?
Yi Han pondered over the meaning of the woman's words. After a few thoughts, he suddenly remembered some things and had some guesses about the ghosts outside the door... But after listening for a while, he found that the woman began to swear over and over again, and there was no more useful information.
Let’s retreat first.
He still couldn't go through the main entrance of the drugstore. Even if the ghost was targeting this woman, Yi Han didn't want to offend it. So amid the crying of the naughty child, the scolding of the woman, and the loud banging of the ghost outside the door, he slowly moved towards the corridor.
The two people were so focused on dealing with the ghost knocking at the door that they didn't notice that there was another person in the room.
Yi Han entered the corridor smoothly. There was no light on this section of the road, but it was not because they did not turn on the light, it seemed that the light bulb was broken, but at the end of the road a few meters away, a little inside the kitchen and bathroom, around the corner, probably the bedroom where the mother and son rested, there was light coming from there.
The little black cat in his arms gently bit Yi Han's finger, urging him to walk faster. Yi Han walked into the darkness without stopping.
After leaving the hall and corridor behind, he turned the corner and rushed into the bedroom. Yi Han suddenly felt that all the noisy sounds disappeared.
The woman's scolding stopped abruptly, and the naughty child also suddenly stopped crying.
Yi Han heard a slight sound, but because of the distance, he couldn't hear it clearly.
While keeping an eye on the movement, he opened the bedroom window, forcefully pried open the curtain screen, and was about to crawl over when he heard a loud "bang" from the drugstore behind him.
“…”
"Ding Dong - Welcome -"
The moment he realized that the sudden sound was the doorbell, Yi Han understood what was happening over there.
He reached out and threw the kitten out of the window, and then he jumped out swiftly. Outside the window was the residential area where Yi Han lived, and his home was just one building in front of him.
Yi Han ignored the shouts from the house behind him and ran straight out of the community. When he ran past the fork in the road, he subconsciously glanced at his window and found that the light was on in the window, and two dark figures who should be his parents were standing on the balcony, staring at him.
Yi Han's scalp tingled, but he didn't stop. He quickly looked away and quickened his pace to leave his neighborhood.
Since the road to the drugstore was haunted, he chose another direction this time. But there was no shopping street in this direction, and he had to walk a long way to find a bus stop or something, and there was no one in sight at night.
He slowed down, walked a short distance, hesitated between the 24-hour porridge shop and the self-service bank, and finally chose the latter and stayed in for the night.
Surprisingly, nothing scary happened the next night, as if the ghosts in this world could only move within their own prescribed ranges. For example, the two ghosts in the house could not leave the house, and the ghost of the child in the drugstore could not leave the vicinity of the drugstore.
Thanks to this, Yi Han, holding the cat, huddled in the small room of the self-service bank, at least got some rest.
The next morning, many people appeared on the street doing morning exercises. Yi Han opened the door and went out. He felt that because of the medicine he took last night, his illness had been mostly cured.
I walked slowly along the road back to the pharmacy that was haunted last night. From a distance, I saw a lot of people gathered there, and there seemed to be a police car parked on the side of the road.
Yi Han moved closer, but because there were too many people, he couldn't see what was happening inside. He only heard people talking in low voices, and it seemed that the pharmacy owner was being retaliated against for doing something bad.
They spoke with fear in their voices and pointed with their hands, as if they were gossiping and afraid at the same time.
Yi Han looked left and right, and finally relied on his small body to get through the crowd, pushing through several layers of onlookers, and finally arrived at the innermost circle.
Then I saw that the shutter door outside the store, which had been pulled all the way to the bottom, was violently broken open. Outside the door, which was distorted and hideous, there were countless bloody handprints, which was shocking.
"What are you looking at? Don't you have anything to do? If you look again, I'll dig your eyeballs out! You're crazy!" A fierce female voice suddenly sounded from the room.
Two figures walked out of the store one after the other, apparently having just finished a conversation. One was in police uniform, looking helpless, and the other was the female manager of the drugstore who was in danger last night.
"It might be one of you who did this. Don't let me catch you. If I do, I'll skin you alive!" She put her hands on her hips, her face full of anger, and yelled at the people outside the door. Her voice was full of energy, and she looked extremely healthy.
"Is she okay?" Yi Han was surprised.
Last night, the ghost outside the door had already broken in. What happened afterwards? Why did she act as if she didn't see a ghost and thought it was some evil neighbor playing a prank?
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Note: Do not take expired medicine!
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