There were many ways for Players to escape District 017. They didn't need to transfer to the Capital Safe Zone.
And if that Player was such an important figure, then the people from the underground base who had just escaped weren't the only ones who would make arrangements for him. Government Players or other officials would surely have handled his relocation first. They wouldn't have left him in the AS9 Safe Zone and made a little girl risk her life to rescue him.
The girl was telling the truth, but she hadn't told him everything.
"His situation is different from everyone else's... You'll understand when you see him. I'm not lying."
Xu Huo decided to take her at her word. After putting the group back into the "Staff Dormitory," he took the girl to the address she had given him.
The place she'd mentioned was a Nursing Home on the outskirts of the city. It had been affected when the city descended into chaos, but most of its residents were elderly and unable to flee. Since the main building hadn't been completely destroyed, they had chosen to hide there.
Following the girl's description, Xu Huo found the person she wanted to rescue in the basement—a man with an abnormally enlarged head.
The man lay on a hospital bed, with different monitoring devices and IV tubes attached to either side of his head. Testing equipment and several specially made glass containers crowded both sides of the bed. The tubes, however, weren't delivering medicine. They were drawing fluid from his head at regular intervals.
"Meng Cun!" The girl hurried to the bedside, her eyes red. "Are you feeling all right?"
The man's torso and limbs looked no different from anyone else's. From the moment Xu Huo saw him, he had been tapping