Steel torrents pioneering a different world.

Chapter 8 Fellow villager, checking the water meter (Please continue reading)

Lin Li lives in a hotel in Zhurihe Town.

Unaware that his information had been thoroughly investigated, Lin Li was playing a game.

"Jungler, come here! Jungler, come here... Damn it, they're all actors, always sabotaging me! This crappy game isn't even as fun as a single-player game! My Stellaris, my Dark Tide..."

Lin Li put down his phone, which had run out of battery from playing Honor of Kings, and grumbled.

"Online games are no fun at all compared to single-player games; they're all just actors!"

Looking at the score, it's 12/2/6, but the record shows a loss.

After making a few complaints, Lin Li ate something to fill his stomach, then closed his eyes and sensed what was happening on the other side of the time portal.

After the portal opens, Lin Li will gain a god-like perspective, similar to illuminating the fog of vision.

The range is not large; within 5 kilometers, it's almost a god's-eye view, while beyond 10 kilometers, it's a rough, blurry view. Later on, Lin Li can choose some characters as anchor targets to observe the development of the other world without leaving home.

The seventy-two hours given by Lin Li have passed, but the rabbit has made very little move.

Lin Li frowned: "Really cautious!"

"We made a mistake. We should have set a countdown timer for anyone who gets close to the time portal."

Lin Li secretly pondered this, casually charging his phone, which had run out of power, wondering when Rabbit would make his move.

After the initial panic, the rabbits have now established a new cordon around the city's urban warfare simulation building.

"Let's wait another day. If they still don't make a move, I'll proactively create some clues! Logically speaking, with so many clues I've left behind, they should have taken action by now!"

Lin Li thought this to himself, then suppressed the urge to summon his projection clone to appear before people. Instead, he decided to stick to the original plan and wait until they entered the other world.

The Metaverse Pioneer can open a spacetime portal to connect the two worlds, and also allow Lin Li to pass through the spacetime portal to transmit limited information to people nearby.

They received preliminary information in the modern world. Once they entered the other world through the time portal, they would receive the information that Lin Li had left for them.

This reserved information can help Lin Li convey his needs and inform him of basic information about the other world.

At the same time, this mechanism can also be used as the best tool for dispatching "system tasks".

Unfortunately, the rabbit was overly cautious. Although the other side has sent many professionals to investigate, they have not made any major moves so far!

Seeing that the rabbit army wasn't planning to enter the other world in the next few minutes, Lin Li took out his computer, edited the videos he had accumulated, and uploaded them to his carefully cultivated social media accounts.

"On my sixth day in Zhurihe, I found the environment here to be pleasant, the food and drinks enjoyable, and it's a great tourist destination. Everyone should come if they're interested!"

Done, published.

"Hey YouTuber, when are you going to start making new game guides?"

Lin Li answered a few questions and suddenly saw a message on his WeChat account.

"Old classmate, I've returned the five thousand yuan I borrowed from you. Please check your account!"

Upon seeing this, Lin Li raised an eyebrow: "Hmm, you're not using it anymore?"

"No need, no need, thank you old classmate! I'm busy now. I won't reply to messages."

Upon seeing this, Lin Li clicked to accept the transfer and then ignored the other party.

Before graduation, an old classmate lent him 5,000 yuan. Now, several years have passed, and when he tries to collect the debt, the classmate makes all sorts of excuses. He heard from other classmates that the classmate was involved in online lending and gambling, accumulating debts of over 100,000 yuan. He was prepared for the debt to become a bad one, but unexpectedly, the classmate suddenly paid him back.

After receiving the money, Lin Li was thinking about what to do today when he suddenly saw someone in the class group @everyone send a message.

Upon opening it, I was surprised to find it was a piece of gossip.

Did you see that?

"What?"

"My local news: Zhao X, from the department next door, got arrested! Take a look!"

"Zhao X Hua?"

"Yes, Xu Nuo happened to see her a couple of days ago when he was on duty! Tsk tsk, I didn't expect she actually committed a crime."

"That girl was hooking up with rich guys before she even graduated, and after graduation she went straight into pimping. It's no wonder she got arrested!"

Lin Li was taken aback when he saw Zhao Xihua's name, and then secretly clicked on the forwarded message.

"A certain organization was involved in selling drugs; the individual is an accomplice and also guilty of fraud, and is expected to be sentenced to 5 years in prison."

Lin Li stared at the news report, his brows furrowing as he looked at the woman whose eyes were blurred but whose appearance was still faintly discernible—a woman with a pure and sweet face and a top-notch figure.

"I never imagined you'd end up like this. Now that you're in handcuffs, will you ever think, 'If only I'd known this would happen,'"

After saying this, Lin Li felt a surge of exhilaration.

"You only have yourself to blame!"

The suspect who was arrested and whose identity was being circulated in the class was Lin Li's ex-girlfriend, a junior in college.

Because of her pure appearance and hot figure, she was pursued and won over by the handsome Lin Li as soon as she entered university, and the two dated for more than a year.

The unripe grapes eventually turned into a sweet and sour treat, but the result was not pleasant.

She comes from an ordinary family, loves romance, pursues a sense of ritual, and has a strong sense of vanity, making life difficult and exhausting for Lin Li.

Later in the relationship, the two argued more frequently, and the other party also failed to maintain boundaries with other male classmates, which made Lin Li completely disappointed.

Upon hearing that he had secretly gone to a party with a rich second-generation, Lin Li angrily dumped him, considering the tens of thousands of yuan he had spent on him during their relationship as a "dressing fee"!

In the years that followed, he was severely affected and became addicted to games.

Seeing the people in the classmates' group chat continuing to chat, someone said it was his girlfriend, but Lin Li ignored them and continued to lurk.

Just as I was getting into a good mood and about to play another game, there was a loud knocking on the door.

Who is it?

"Hello, local patrol officer!"

As soon as Lin Li opened the door, he saw two middle-aged police officers, a man and a woman, with gentle faces, wearing uniforms, and looking quite ordinary, standing at the door.

The male police officer had an ordinary appearance, medium build, a buzz cut, one eye with some white showing, and dark skin; he looked like any other passerby you'd find on the street.

The policewoman was slender with a gentle face, giving her a very approachable appearance, but her eyes revealed a sharp edge.

Seeing the two men's feignedly friendly faces, Lin Li felt a slight tightness in his chest.

The fish has taken the bait!

I hope everyone can maintain a good understanding!

Lin Li had seen this man and woman lingering nearby through the God's vision of the time portal.

Lin Li composed himself and feigned surprise, asking, "Uh, hello officers, is there something you need?"

"Comrade, we're just doing a routine patrol, just checking!" The slightly dark-skinned policeman said with a smile, "Comrade, please don't block the door."

"Oh, oh, okay..."

Lin Li quickly stepped back to let them in.

The two disguised police officers nodded to Lin Li, entered the room, looked around to make sure Lin Li was alone, and then smiled and said it was a routine check, asking Lin Li why he was there.

"I've recently become obsessed with World of Tanks and wanted to visit the Zhurihe training base and buy some souvenirs or something."

"I see..." The two asked casually about various miscellaneous questions.

Lin Li replied instantly.

They didn't get any answers, so they smiled and said goodbye.

After they left, Lin Li breathed a sigh of relief and went back to playing the game.

On the other side, after the two police officers finished questioning all the hotel guests, they got back into a police car that looked ordinary on the outside but was full of equipment inside.

"Blind man, do you feel like our target has seen us before?"

"Yeah, he seemed really nervous when he saw us, like someone who'd committed a crime, which is quite different from how ordinary people react."

"Besides that, the target replied to messages too smoothly, and many difficult answers were very detailed. An ordinary person wouldn't answer like that!"

"Based on his movements, I can confirm that we haven't had any contact with him, so he's almost certainly the target."

"After you've compiled the data, tell your superiors about this."

"good!"

A few minutes later, their superiors gave them the order—

"Maintain a friendly and safe distance."

Upon seeing the information above, the middle-aged policewoman smiled and said to her colleague, "The higher-ups value him highly! It's a pity I wanted to approach him under a different guise."

The male police officer pulled a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, but after noticing his colleague's gaze, he awkwardly stuffed it back in: "Who among us is going to take over his duties?"

"Come on over. Your daughter is only five years old, and you're close in age to the other person, so you'll have a lot in common. I'm prepared to take charge of the entire otherworldly exploration!"

"I'm three years older than the other person, and there's already a generation gap at that age, so I'd rather be in charge of exploring that time portal."

"I'm a level above you, and there's not much of a language barrier between you and the target! So you'll be in contact with him."

"……All right!"

The male police officer angrily took out his cigarette case, lit a cigarette, and blew smoke rings directly inside the car.

Seeing her colleague's reaction, the policewoman laughed, then got out of the car and left in another vehicle.

The male police officer watched the other party leave, then glanced at the action team members inside the disguised van in the distance, sighed, and had no choice but to take out his communication device and have them keep watch nearby.

Soon, several energetic, dark-skinned, short-haired, burly men checked into the hotel.

The backpacks of the group were bulging, and it was unclear what was inside...

(End of this chapter)