Chapter 328 - Elimination Process (1/2)
Chapter 328 Elimination Process
Zhang Heng browsed several other hot posts and registered an ID called Saturn 5. He then shut down the computer, and left the Internet cafe. The whole process only took him less than twenty minutes, and when he returned home, Tian Tian was alone jumping on a rope in the backyard. Grandpa was leaning against the courtyard door, looking at her. He looked a little worried.
Sensing unrest, Zhang Heng put on his slippers and walked to his grandfather.
“Do you remember taking Tian Tian with you last summer holidays?” Zhang Heng nodded.
“At that time, she was very lively, running around the house behind you. In fact, when I saw her a month ago, she was still very normal, jumping up and down all the time. But after that, she somehow became terrified of communicating with other people.”
“What happened in between?” Zhang Heng asked.
“No one knows. A child her age usually has a regular life. She spends most of her time in school every day, and on Sat.u.r.days and Sundays, she’s either with her parents or attending cla.s.ses. Her parents suspected that it was the school’s problem at first. After all, she spends most of her time there. You know, sometimes, children in school get bullied…”
“What happened after that?”
“As a result, her parents went to talk to her cla.s.s teacher. They even sought her subst.i.tute teacher and the rest of the kids in the cla.s.s, hoping to find out a little more about their daughter’s peculiar behavior. They all told her the same thing. Tian Tian is good at learning, beautiful, well-behaved, and she’s the cla.s.s monitor. She is very popular among teachers and cla.s.smates. A kid like her is unlikely to become the target of bullies. Later, her parents brought her to a psychologist. Since then, the situation has improved to some extent, but…”
“But?”
“But the good times didn’t last long, and soon, her condition began to deteriorate again. Now, she seems to have social anxiety, not knowing how to communicate with others. Her mother will apply for a school leave in two days. After that, she will bring her to the city to meet a specialist for treatment. In fact, if it weren’t for Old Chen’s injuries, they would have already contacted the hospital over there.” Grandpa shook his head. “I hope everything ends well this time.”
Zhang Heng was left in silence.
The current situation showed that there should be two possibilities for what happened to Tian Tian. Either she had come into contact with monsters like Moresby and Zavilcha, or she had unintentionally obtained some game items. The psychiatrist, though an experienced expert, wasn’t equipped to deal with supernatural phenomena like this, so Zhang Heng decided to investigate the matter himself.
He intended to start with the latter possibility, where many game items were circulating among players at the moment. It wouldn’t be too surprising if one of them lost an item or someone accidentally took it. That was why Zhang Heng initially intended to deposit his game items at the game checkpoint.
Right now, Zhang Heng needed to focus on locating the game item.
Although the environment in the quests was more dangerous than reality, it had its own advantages. For example, when the players laid their hands on a game item, they would hear a notification from the system. This method could also be used to quickly identify whether the item the player was holding was a game item or not. So far, the system had been very accurate except for extreme cases like an auction.