Chapter 96: Real Illusion (7)
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Yi Han narrowed his eyes, but still couldn't see clearly whether there was an ambush downstairs of his house.
Before today, he actually treated ghosts as villains in the dungeon according to common sense, but today he experienced the parent ghosts who left breakfast for him, the senior ghost who gently helped him, and the malicious human NPCs who were in sharp contrast to them.
Yi Han suddenly felt that the ghosts in this world might be the pros and cons, and humans were the cons. He wanted to try to communicate with the four ghosts near his home, so he went home directly after leaving school.
Now the two ghosts upstairs are warning him that there are enemies here, and they think the enemies cannot be the two siblings who died of poisoning and are also ghosts.
It could only be the humans who were looking for him everywhere.
Yi Han turned around on the spot and returned to the gate of the community without hesitation.
As soon as I stepped out of the door, I saw the naughty kid from the drugstore next door running around with a water gun in hand. The two of them almost bumped into each other.
"Mom! Mom! I saw him!" The naughty kid screamed immediately.
Then the tough female store manager poked her head out of the store, and after meeting Yi Han's eyes, she immediately shouted, "He's here!"
Yi Han didn't know how she got in touch with those people who wanted to arrest him. He probably thought that someone came to this area to inquire about the location of his home, and the store owner took the opportunity to add insult to injury and enthusiastically took the initiative to help keep an eye on Yi Han's movements.
Cursing silently, Yi Han turned around and wanted to run, but after a few steps, he saw a group of young people rushing over from not far ahead. They were probably the friends of the rich second generation during the day.
The road was blocked and there were probably people waiting in the community, so Yi Han had no choice but to flee across the street.
But when he turned his head, he found several adult men standing on the other side of the road. They might be from the school. It was estimated that in a few seconds, they would cross the traffic and come to him.
The situation suddenly became serious. Yi Han was surrounded, with enemies all around him.
"We can only rush over from the female store manager's side. She and the child are the weakest."
Yi Han quickly assessed the situation, made a prompt decision, and took action before others arrived.
Although he is weaker now, his reaction and speed are still very fast.
In a flash, Yi Han rushed past the naughty kid and the female store manager. The female store manager was just a bystander and didn't really help to stop them, but she had a really loud voice and immediately started yelling, "Hey! This little bastard ran away—"
The young men behind him and the group of people on the opposite side of the road chased after him, shouting meaningless words like "Stop". Of course, Yi Han would not listen to them. There was already some distance between the groups, so although Yi Han did not run as fast as an adult, he quickly got into the narrow alley behind two rows of shops where miscellaneous items were piled up and disappeared.
"Pah, that's pretty fast."
"Where is it hidden?"
"You guys go around to the other side to block it, we'll search from this side."
The two teams met outside the path, and quickly started to cooperate facing the dark, backlit path.
But when they held up their cell phones as flashlights and searched through the debris for a long time, they found that Yi Han was not there at all, as if he had disappeared out of thin air.
"I just saw him come in, how come he's gone?"
"Yes, didn't we come in right away to look for him? Someone from the other side also came over very quickly!"
"It's really weird...hiss, come to think of it, don't you think this place is a bit..."
"A bit, eerie?"
As soon as a certain man asked this question, he immediately attracted the attention of his companions.
"Actually, I wanted to say this before. It's so cold here."
"Yes, yes, it's even colder than outside. I always feel a chill... air..."
The person who agreed suddenly stopped talking here.
The others turned their flashlights towards him in confusion, and then saw that he was staring straight at the end of the alley with an extremely terrifying look in his eyes. Everyone couldn't help but feel their hair stand on end, and their necks stiffened as they looked in that direction -
Across the narrow alley not far away, against the backdrop of flashing neon lights, stood the figure of a child about five or six years old.
His neck and forearms were twisted at weird angles, and because the light was against him, his face couldn't be seen clearly.
Everyone was stunned, and before they knew it, their clothes were soaked with cold sweat.
"W-What the hell?"
"...The child we are looking for, I remember, was not this short?"
Someone asked uncertainly, his voice trembling a little.
"Because that's not him."
A light female voice replied.
"Eh? Why, why is there a girl——"
The man asking the question became even more nervous. He clearly remembered that there were no women in their team this time and in the team they had just cooperated with. He could not help but turn his head and move the flashlight tremblingly.
The next moment, the phone fell and the man fell to the ground.
In the light from his phone, he found that his companions were so scared that they held their breath and froze in place. Right next to them, a dishevelled adult woman with a blurred face stood in the shadow of the debris, reaching out her bloody hands to them.
“Ghost!!!”
A group of big men collapsed, screaming, rolling and crawling, and in less than a second, they all escaped from the alley.
After the area became quiet, the female ghost in the alley and the child ghost at the end of the road also disappeared.
Yi Han poked his head out from behind the covering on the back window of a business, and only jumped down lightly after making sure that everyone had left.
"Thank you—" He picked up the phone that the man dropped on the ground, scanned the area with the flashlight, and said hesitantly, "You guys, are you still there?"
Just now, it turned out that the brother and sister with bloody handprints who died of poisoning last night took the initiative to come forward to rescue him.
This place is very close to the pharmacy, and may also be near their homes (which is also the place of death). It is understandable that they would show up here, but why would they suddenly help him, and then run away without even seeing him after helping him?
"Still there," the ghost girl said softly, a little shyly, "You're welcome. We died in a rather ugly way, so we didn't want to scare you."
Yi Han didn't expect this reason.
However, after getting the clue of "one death" from the school, he was just about to find a way to contact the other ghosts. In this way, they would come to him on their own initiative, and Yi Han would not have to find a way to lure them out like he did during the day, which would save a lot of trouble. However, as a very vigilant tasker, Yi Han believed that there was no free lunch in the world. Before asking for clues, he still had to find out why they helped him.
"You don't seem to belong to this world." The female ghost said after a moment of hesitation.
"Huh?" Yi Han was slightly stunned.
"Yeah, it doesn't have that disgusting smell." This time it was a male child's voice that spoke. It was the ghost girl's younger brother, who also came over from the alley.
Yi Han's first reaction was that they almost thought that they knew that the world was just a man-made illusion, not the real world. The next moment, he remembered that Jiang Yan's ghost had said something similar.
"This world is disgusting." These are Jiang Yan's original words.
Could this also be a hint for how to pass the level?
"Then what should I do if I want to leave here?" Yi Han did not ask the question in a subtle way this time, but asked it directly.
The two ghosts had obviously never received such a straight ball before. They paused for a long time and did not give any answer.
"Brother, why don't you come with us tomorrow?" It was the younger brother ghost who spoke in the end.
"Where are you going?" Yi Han asked.
"Tomorrow will be the seventh day after our death. At night, a guide will come to pick us up and take us to the game world after death! I heard that there are no bad people there, only good people. If we live there, we can play games with everyone every day, and we will definitely live a super happy life."
The younger brother ghost's voice was very excited, but after listening to this description, Yi Han only felt a weird sense of déjà vu in his heart.
"Is the game world you're talking about like a parallel world, with everything, but players just need to solve puzzles and pass levels to accumulate points, which can be exchanged for food and daily necessities..."
"Yes, yes."
“…”
This... I didn't expect that the real world in this fantasy also has a corresponding escape game world?
Yi Han frowned secretly, but for a moment he couldn't be sure whether this nesting doll-like "small escape game world" was really the exit of this copy.
In the real world, for most dead people, the world of escape games is indeed like a safe haven and the destination of the souls of the dead. In the copy, this pattern seems to continue, and Jiang Yan and her siblings all expressed the idea that "only in the world after death can there be happiness and peace."
But this copy was created by a hypnotist.
Meeting the clearance requirements by dying in the illusion was too rough. Yi Han always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't grasp the subtle strange feeling for the moment.
After thinking it over again and again, he finally said to the two ghosts beside him: "Tomorrow I will go with you to meet the guide, and then make a decision, okay?"
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The next day, Yi Han stayed outside for another day.
In the morning, he looked from a distance near his residential building and found that there were still people squatting at the door waiting for him, so he gave up the idea of going home to contact the ghosts of his parents again. He found a coffee shop with the cat and spent the day. In the evening, Yi Han came to the place where he had agreed to meet with the brother and sister as promised.
It was almost midnight at this time, and the two ghosts, the sister and brother, also appeared this time. One of them was tall, and the other was short. Their figures were erratic, and their hands and necks were covered in blood.
Yi Han stood behind the two ghosts and waited for a while, then he saw a black-robed figure walking out of nothingness.
This illusion is essentially created by the hypnotist based on his memory, so the only people who appear in the illusion are those he has met before.
The only in-game staff member Yi Han had met who was also a guide for the undead was a27.
Sure enough, when the man came closer and took off his hood, Yi Han saw the familiar face of the young man named A27.
Yi Han felt something furry rubbing against his feet. He looked down and saw the little black cat lowering its body with its tail erect, as if it was extremely wary of the person in front of it.
When he looked up again, the ghost siblings were already standing behind a27. Then their figures faded and merged into a27's shadow, connecting with the other slowly crawling ghost shadows.
"I see," a27 stared at Yi Han, tilted his head slightly, and listened carefully to the information conveyed to him by the ghosts in the shadows.
After listening, he narrowed his eyes and smiled, and extended his hand to Yi Han in a friendly manner, "Do you want to come with us? Come to our paradise."
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