After they met near the Laboratory, Xu Huo carefully asked Qiao Qiao about how he had been captured.
Qiao Qiao hadn't thought much of it at first. He'd just figured he'd been lucky to escape after falling into someone else's hands. But as Xu Huo pressed him for details, he gradually began to see what Xu Huo was getting at. "You mean there might have been members of the Rebel Army among the people captured with me?"
"What were they trying to accomplish by infiltrating the base and causing trouble? To abduct the psychotherapists?"
"Not necessarily," Old Zhou said. "They could certainly abduct people, but it's also possible they were trying to plant someone inside. Otherwise, why not kill all the psychotherapists? That would give Agor Company a headache, too."
Lin Cao nodded, then turned to Xu Huo. "Why do you think the Rebel Army would capture psychotherapists?"
Xu Huo didn't tell them everything he'd seen earlier. Instead, he said, "Maybe they wanted to get Agor's secrets from the psychotherapists, just like we do."
"But that's a bit roundabout for us. All the psychotherapists are under the protection of Agor's players now. Even if we guess that the Rebel Army will plant someone among them, we won't know who it is. And tracking the company's players won't be easy, either. This place, on the other hand..."
He gestured toward the Laboratory with his chin. "The Rebel Army is keeping an eye on it. The Outer District Player took the bait at the trading company, so maybe this place is as important as the medical base."
Xu Huo had gone to the medical base based on Zheng Yuci's schedule, which the Rebel Army had provided. Lin Cao and Old Zhou, meanwhile, had tracked Qiao Qiao there. Under normal circumstances, if what