Homecoming through online games

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Country Z, 10:21 AM, Research Center of City G, Province G

A troop was stationed in the research center, and everyone was required to hand in all electronic devices such as mobile phones, and not to send messages to the outside world.

Academician Liu Jiande, who is the top person in charge, is not among the restricted personnel, his phone is almost ringing off the hook, and now he has changed to a mobile phone to only contact certain people.

He took time out of his busy schedule to give the researchers the opportunity to make a phone call to report their itinerary to their families under surveillance.

Zhou Yuan was still arranged to wait for the phone calls and faxes, so she didn't have to do the work of checking emails.When it was her turn to call, she dialed her boyfriend's cell phone number, but no one answered after it rang for a long time.Her heart suddenly lifted.

Hang up and call again, still a long beep, no response to the call that would be picked up soon in the past.

Inexplicably, a premonition that something had happened hit her.

She dialed it again, desperately trying to recall what happened to her boyfriend that morning.She was in a hurry to go out at the time, and after getting up, she put on her clothes lightly and left the bedroom. Now that she thinks about it, did her boyfriend sleep a bit?

While she felt that she might be thinking too much, she couldn't help turning pale because of the ominous guesses.I hung up the phone and clicked on □□ to see if my boyfriend had spoken in the very active □□ group in the morning.

Zhou Yuan's strange behavior had already been noticed by the soldiers on one side, and when she saw that her movements were not right, she immediately reprimanded: "What are you doing!" He stepped forward and snatched the phone.

Only then did Zhou Yuan regain her senses, calmed down, and said, "I'm sorry. My boyfriend doesn't answer the phone. Something may have happened to him."

The soldier looked at her suspiciously, but did not return the phone to her, and asked, "Are you going to call someone else?"

Zhou Yuan thought for a while, and asked him to call the landlord of the house she rented. The phone only said that her boyfriend was not feeling well when she went out in the morning, but no one answered the phone call just now, and asked the landlord to go to the house to check the situation.The landlord was really nervous, and agreed to go and see it immediately.

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Yuan asked the soldier to tell her if the landlord responded.The soldier basically dispelled his doubts at this time, and he was quite concerned about this matter, and he even comforted her after agreeing.

Zhou Yuan was busy with work while caring about her boyfriend, the time passed in tormented waiting.

Suddenly her name was called, she looked up and saw the soldier standing at the door with her phone in his hand.She hurried over.

When the soldier spoke, his voice was very gentle: "There is news, don't get excited."

Wenyin knew it, her heart sank, and she stared at the soldier fixedly.

"Your landlord called and said that your boyfriend passed out and has been sent to the hospital. The specific situation will not be known until after an examination."

She took a step back, almost lost her footing, as if divided into two people, listening to herself say: "I see."

Country Z, 10:25 a.m., a hospital in G city, G province

Ye Mu avoided the exiting ambulance and walked to the building of the emergency department.

He looked carefully everywhere, and even went to the intensive care unit to look outside for a while, during which he also witnessed the death of a patient who failed to be rescued.But there's no sure payoff.Except for the seemingly absent gathering of devilish energy on the chest of the person, there is no visible abnormality.And those illnesses and casualties - he didn't have enough professional knowledge to distinguish whether they were caused by some "abnormal" influence.

He estimated the time, and the flight to T city departed at 01:30 pm. If he still had to go to the research center, he didn't have time to stay here anymore.

He turned to walk towards the door of the building, when an ambulance stopped in front of the door and a stretcher was carried out.

Ye Mu suddenly stopped.He stared intently at the man lying on the stretcher.

In his perception, although it was very weak, the man had a vague aura similar to the "passage" between meteorites and meteorites.

Ye Mu sensed it carefully at an extremely fast speed, but apart from the weak fluctuation that was about to dissipate, there was no perceivable abnormality on the man.

He looked around at the medical staff who hurried past carrying the man, but found nothing.Ye Mu made a decision in an instant.

He could get the information about the research center from that Academician Liu afterwards, but what happened to this man is brand new information, which deserves to be explored first.

Before the ambulance drove away, he sneaked in silently, saw the registration form next to the ambulance bed at a glance, and confirmed that it was the one he was looking for based on the time on it——

Departure location: No. Y, District X

Departure time: 10:25

Patient name: Xia Tian

Diagnosis of the condition: coma, no response to call, no response to stinging pain, stable vital signs.

Arrival time: 10:47

According to the location information on the registration form, Ye Mu quickly arrived at the scene of the incident.

This is a small house with two bedrooms and one living room, and the details are very warm.The bedroom door was wide open, and the quilt was piled messily on the bed.The poster on the wall caught Ye Mu's attention - it was the character poster of the game "Wolf Smoke".He also saw a lot of "Wolf Smoke" game peripherals like water cups and pillows in the room.

He picked up the photo frame on the bedside table. Inside was a group photo of the man on the stretcher and a girl with short hair. The two of them met each other and looked at the camera with bright smiles on their faces. In the lower right corner was written "Tian Tian & Yuan Yuan" written in black pen. And circled with a heart.

Putting down the photo frame, Ye Mu touched the bed with his gauntleted fingers. As soon as he entered the door, he knew he had found the right place. There was a remnant breath similar to the broken meteorite in country Y before.

Memory unfolds.

The scene that emerges is distorted and broken, like an old TV with a bad signal, full of snowflakes and noise.

In the screen, Ye Mu saw the vortex of demon energy.

The vortex gushed out from the wall, protruding most of it like a huge and weird morning glory, and it was facing the position of the bed.On the bed, one can vaguely see the sleeping couple in the photo, as if being pulled by the vortex, flashing a distorted border like a phantom.The man who was closer to the vortex seemed to be pulled away from something and poured into the vortex for a moment, and the vortex subsided and disappeared.The alarm clock time on the bedside table is 04:□, and the part showing the minutes is broken and cannot be seen clearly.

This memory is very short.Ye Mu carefully identified it for a while, and confirmed that it was not an illusion, and indeed something indistinguishable was drawn from the man into the vortex.

As for the source of this vortex... Ye Mu's eyes fell on that wall.

On the other side of the wall is the study room of the house. Against the wall is a double computer desk with a bookshelf, and two computers are placed side by side.

On the bookshelf are figurines of the male and female characters of Chongxiaomen and Beidouying in "Wolf Smoke". Ye Mu pressed the power button of the two computers, glanced over them, and a guess vaguely emerged.

"Wolf Smoke", magic energy, vortex, coma... This makes people have an extremely coincidental conjecture, just waiting to find evidence that can confirm or break it.

After some operations, the power-on password was skipped, and the game icon of "Wolf Smoke" could be seen on the desktop of the computer. Ye Mu looked at the familiar icon that he hadn't seen for a long time in a daze, and logged in - he needed to enter the account password.

He tried to log in to the game account on both computers but failed, Ye Mu was not discouraged, instead he opened the browser page and entered the game forum address of "Wolf Smoke".

This time, I successfully logged in automatically.

The account nickname of the "Wolf Smoke" game forum is the same as the nickname of the game character on the account. One of the two accounts is named "Zhu's World", and the other——

Pressing his finger on the monitor, Ye Mu stared at it intently, and whispered silently: "...so it was you."

On the screen under the black glove, the nickname of the forum displayed is——

"Yuanzhou".

The name he saw from the information column at the demon army conference, which belonged to the "demon god".