Perhaps because of his long-term relevant experience, Zhou Tianhao was extremely skillful in picking the lock.

He inserted his short knife into the door crack, and with a few strokes, he easily opened the old door lock of the building.

With a creak, the metal door slowly opened, revealing the dark staircase leading to the basement.

"wait……"

Before Lin Chi could finish his words, Zhou Tianhao rushed forward.

At this time, Zhou Tianhao was completely unable to remain calm. Seeing that the guy had already entered, Lin Chi took out the drone from his backpack and flew it onto the street.

"If you find someone approaching, notify me immediately." He gave orders to Frankenstein.

"I know." A cold female voice rang out from Lin Chi's headphones: "I will watch."

Relying on the power of the exoskeleton, Lin Chi rushed down the stairs quickly and happened to see Zhou Tianhao kicking open the broken wooden door in the basement, and his whole body bounced into the basement like a cannonball.

——This guy is too reckless…

Although he could understand Zhou Tianhao's thoughts, Lin Chi sighed, turned on the flashlight he brought, and used the white aperture to highlight the "underground world" in front of him.

In this dark and damp basement, the walls peeled off large pieces, which looked very unsightly. Apart from some garbage piled up in the corners of the wall, the only "large furniture" in the room is a large game warehouse standing in the center of the basement.

"Is this really a game warehouse?"

Looking at the device that was refracting the flashlight beam, Lin Chi opened his eyes wide in surprise:

Unlike the streamlined shell equipment on the market now, the shell of this "game warehouse" looks like a sharp blade, extremely sharp. The dark brown shell at both ends and the slender tips of the knife look to easily tear apart human flesh and blood.

Obviously, even if a company develops equipment of this shape, it will not be allowed to be sold. Then... this metal warehouse is probably made by some guys.

"What the hell thing? Damn..."

Zhou Tianhao cursed and came to the strange-looking metal bin, looking for a way to open this "coffin".

Then, the two soon noticed the slender infusion tube that reached into the right side of the metal chamber, and a bottle of liquid with unknown composition hanging next to it.

"It's the trick of the 'old player'." Lin Chi said.

——At that time, not long after the brain imaging device was released, players who came into contact with this type of game for the first time were like opening the door to a new world, wishing they could spend twenty-four hours a day in the game.

However, unlike traditional game types, when performing in-brain imaging games, the player's body in the real world cannot make any reaction.

In order to avoid dying of thirst or starving while playing games, fanatical players came up with crazy methods: replenish themselves with energy through the hospital's infusion equipment and forcibly play for a long time.

While those madmen are killing the world in the game, their bodies in the real world are like patients who cannot eat in advanced gastric cancer, maintaining their lives through infusions.

Due to the great damage to the body, this life-long gameplay method quickly withdrew from the stage of history. To this day, only a very small number of players who are still using the "infusion method" to play games for a long time are left.

But now it seems that Zhou Tianhao's sister is also using this crazy method.

"I'll open it now..."

Seeing the strange-looking "game warehouse", Zhou Tianhao was completely anxious and even planned to pry it open with a knife.

Just as Zhou Tianhao was about to take action, Lin Chi grabbed the other party's arm and dragged the guy aside.

"Are you crazy? This will kill her."

——Even the second-generation brain imaging game warehouse, the sudden power outage has a very small chance of damaging the player's consciousness. What's more, the origin of this device is not clear. If it is opened rashly, it may directly destroy the user's consciousness. And...

"I can't confirm whether it's her here." Lin Chi said.

"Let me go!"

Zhou Tianhao struggled hard, but his hands, under the blessing of the exoskeleton, still firmly fixed his body, making his arms unable to move.

"Calm down, call the police first..."

As soon as Lin Chi opened his mouth, an electronic synthesizer suddenly sounded in the room:

"Don't notify the police, otherwise the girl's life...I can't guarantee it."

Hearing the other party's words, Zhou Tianhao's chest burst out with a suppressed roar, like a wounded beast: "Who the hell are you?"

"I have no malice, I'm just a 'leader'." The other party's voice was very kind: "This woman chose us, and that's how it is."

"Let's go NM fart!" Zhou Tianhao roared, his body suddenly exerted force, and he actually broke free from the constraints of the exoskeleton: "You are dead from the kidnapper of the cult!"

"We are not cults, nor are we kidnappers." The other party's tone still sounded very patient, and he explained slowly: "Please calm down first, I will explain it to you. In addition, please don't try to open the hatch door again, it will be good for us."

"Grass……"

In the next minute, Zhou Tianhao scolded all the dirty Chinese words that Lin Chi had heard since he was born. But even though he was furious, he had no choice but to stand next to the metal cabin and stare at the brown metal shell.

"damn it……"

Zhou Tianhao stared at his swollen eyes and looked back at Lin Chi. The muscles on his face kept spasming and his back was bent a lot:

"Brother, what should I do? I can't lose her..."

"Calm down and listen to what that guy said." Lin Chi pointed to the small speaker installed diagonally above the game compartment.

The electronic sound just now came from this speaker. Since the other party can have a conversation, there must be a device for receiving sounds in the basement.

"My friend is a little unstable, so I'll take him out to slow down." Lin Chi waved to the game warehouse: "We'll be back soon, can we?"

"Please." The other party gave a positive answer.

Lin Chi increased the power of the exoskeleton and forced Zhou Tianhao to walk up the stairs and returned to the street outside the house. Seeing that Zhou Tianhao was planning to rush in, he reached out and knocked on the other party's forehead and reminded:

"We don't know the other party's identity yet, so don't anger him."

——If Zhou Tianhao continues to be reckless, if he annoys the mysterious person who communicates with them remotely, Zhou Tianhao's sister may be in danger.

So the first thing to do now is to restore the angry and depressed man to calm down.

“Hu…hu…”

Zhou Tianhao was gasping for breath, and a lot of blue veins burst out on his forehead. After about five minutes, his breathing finally slowed down:

"You're right, I'm so excited."

"When I think about it now, why did your sister come to this place?" Lin Chi stared into Zhou Tianhao's eyes: "Have she done anything abnormal before? Have she said any strange things?"

"These days... no, I suddenly signed up for a piano class. I planned to ask her to sign up for online remote teaching, but she insisted on choosing a tutoring class for on-site teaching."

Zhou Tianhao lowered his head and pulled off a strand of hair hanging from his forehead: "If I had stopped her at that time, she wouldn't have come here..."

——It seems that this so-called piano lesson is just a trick for the girl to leave home.

Lin Chi thought secretly and continued to ask, "What's before this? Are there any signs of abnormality?"

"I'm usually busy and I'm going home few times. I didn't notice anything..." Zhou Tianhao shook his head: "I only remember that she seemed to say something like 'paradise' and 'oasis'. I thought it was a TV series at that time, so I didn't ask much."

"Oasis..."

Lin Chi frowned slightly when he heard the familiar name.

Is this incident another one that the "Oasis Army" has hit?

Judging from the situation of the fishing strategy team, the Oasis Army has indeed begun to extend its hand to the players of "War Paradise". However, if this is true, how did Zhou Tianhao's sister be related to the "Oasis Army"?

"Have your sister been playing "War Paradise" recently?" Lin Chi asked.

"She has played it before, but it seems she has changed to other games recently." Zhou Tianhao shook her head: "She has said before that her War Paradise ID is duplicated with a famous player and is often targeted in the game, so she simply stops playing."

"It seems that the War Paradise does not allow repeating IDs." Lin Chi narrowed his eyes.

"That might be that she took the other party's original name." Zhou Tianhao shook his head irritably: "What is that name... a general? Or something..."

"Valkyrie?" Lin Chi thought of a name that matched the description.

"Yes, that's it." Zhou Tianhao nodded immediately: "This is the ID she mentioned!"

"In this case, I met her once in the game a long time ago." Lin Chi said softly.

——The famous player of the brain imaging game "Valkyrie", the ID in the war paradise was indeed occupied by others, so she could only change the name "Valkyrie" to enter the game.

As for the player who registered the ID Valkyrie, Lin Chi once met on the New York map and had a "passionate showdown" with the girl. However, now is not the time to recall such past events:

"Are you sure your sister hasn't really played War Paradise recently?" Lin Chi asked again.

"I don't know what she is playing? I can't check her game console, they have privacy, right?" Zhou Tianhao said depressedly: "She seemed to say she didn't play games much, but just went to the 'field' every day to stroll around."

"That's going to be troublesome." Lin Chi looked up at the drone hovering over the street.

——Compared with the world of "War Paradise", the situation in the giant online community like the field is more complicated, and the number of users completely crushes War Paradise.

It is completely impossible to find out who Zhou Tianhao's sister met in the field. Even if Frankenstein takes action again, it is difficult to find out any information.

"What should I do..."

Zhou Tianhao's body leaned against the wall and slid down dejectedly. He seemed to have grown a lot older: "My parents are busy with work, and my sister has lived with me for the past few years. I have watched her grow up. She is still young and has a lot of good times. How can she go crazy in this ghost place..."

"She won't be crazy." Lin Chi comforted: "Let's just listen to what that person is going to say first."

Although it is not sure whether the other party is a member of the Oasis Army, the guy who "agained" the girl must be the one who spoke just now and didn't run away.

Leaving Frankenstein to continue to investigate on the street, Lin Chi took Zhou Tianhao back to the basement. As soon as he entered the door, the irritating voice came into his ears again:

"Sir, have you calmed down?"

"I'm very calm..." Zhou Tianhao gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.
To be continued...