Rioneed: VRMMORPG

Oya sat in the middle of the aircar while her mind was trying to figure out what happened to Ibro. It didn't make any sense at all for him to leave without leaving a notice, so she started digging for that notice everywhere there. After some time of detailed search, she found his phone.

"He couldn't have left without taking his phone, that's weird."

She then tried to open the phone, but it was locked by password and fingerprint. This was nothing in front of her, as she had learnt how to decode such things a long time ago. 

She took out her own phone and then connected both phones together. She then used a certain decoding program that cracked the phone open in less than ten minutes. 

She began to search inside his phone, away from some normal stuff like his own diaries before the game started and his photo album, the contacts only got two person names and the messages were clean. 

When she opened the contacts, she found her own name side by side with 205 names. She remembered this name, as Ibro told her before he was the man who helped him to free her. 

She didn't delay as she called the number with impatience, she was very worried right now and some bad ideas began to pop up in her mind. The call took some time to be picked by a male voice with much noise in his surroundings, which indicated he took the call while being in the game.

"Hello Ibro, how can I help you?" 205 said.

"Hi, it's me, Aya Darwish. You are 205, right?" She asked.

A moment of silence prevailed, 205 wasn't a normal man, he was one of the brightest brains in the espionage department in a whole country, that made him realize something was wrong, so he asked:

"Why are you calling me from the phone of Ibro? Where is Ibro?"

"That's the same question I want to know an answer to," She replied.

"What?! Tell me what happened," He said.

Oya then started to narrate everything that happened since she tried to call Ibro a couple of times without response. After she finished saying what she knew, 205 stayed silent for quite some time, then he said:

"I will log off the game now and start searching for him. Are you sure the aircar didn't stop at any place?"

"I'm sure, I have revised the travel log of this aircar, the aircar continued to wander around the country without stopping for even a second," She replied.

"That's weird, as far as I know there is no one that has the ability to kidnap someone from a movable aircar without causing any damage in the aircar itself. Is there any damage in the aircar?"

"No, I double checked, the aircar is fine with no scratch whatsoever."

"Hmmm, leave this thing to me then, and add me in the game so I can brief you with any news I got," He said.

"No, I won't enter the game until I know what happened to him," She said with determination and anxiety.

"Ok, wait for my call then, but this might take quite some time," He said.

"Take your time, but please find out what happened to him," She said.

Both closed the call at the same time, then Oya sat over a sofa in the aircar as she became fixated over the game capsule of Ibro. 

Her mind was very chaotic right now, as she was sure Ibro wouldn't just evaporate in the thin air like this. As there was no possible explanation to his disappearance, her mind began to play dirty games on her out of fear.

"Even if he was kidnapped, why did they kidnap him and let me off? Why can't I open this damn game capsule?"

Few hours passed over her like a few centuries, although she didn't know Ibro for so long, she was already captivated with him. He appeared out of thin air to help her out of her disaster, and now he again disappeared in thin air like he was never here. 

Amidst all her fear and worry, the phone rang suddenly to make her body jolt awake. She grabbed it and found 205 was calling her, so she replied at once:

���Hi Aya, it's me 205," He said.

"Have you found him? Where is he? Is he ok? What happened to him?" she rushed out venting all his worries with this train of questions. 205 sighed as he said:

"Unfortunately I couldn't find a trace of him."

"W… What do you say?" She said while her both hands were jittering from fear.

"Look, I contacted all I know in my world, everyone is still looking desperately for him. There is no country out there that got a wind of his place, and I checked all the entries into Hept, even the unauthorized ones, and I found nothing. 

I tracked your phone and got the license of your aircar, I tracked the travel journey it took and made many of my colleagues check the surveillance footage of the satellites, and we found no result. 

The aircar didn't stop at any place, and nothing got near your aircar throughout its journey," He said with a dejected tone.

"What do you mean? Did he just evaporate in thin air?" she yelled out of frustration and disbelief.

"You told me you can't open his game capsule, right?" he didn't bother with her tone as he knew very well the mental status she was in right now.

"Yes, why?" she said with doubt.

"I checked the game info with our Armonian friends, the game capsule was designed not to be opened by anything if the player stays in it. I made them check this info again and they confirmed this," he said.

Oya stopped for a moment over the game capsule of Ibro as she tried to open it again with not avail. 205 added:

"I also did a trial here, as I closed my game capsule and then tried to open it from the outside. It opened smoothly, so I entered the game for a brief moment and let someone try to open the game capsule, but he couldn't even shake the hatch."

Oya muttered with some rushed breaths:

"What do you mean? Is he in the game and I can't see his body?"

"I don't know, but I recommend you to enter the game and search for him everywhere. Ask anyone who might know him. 

If this game was developed by humans, I could have made the developers check the game system and revise what happened, but as you know this is impossible for me or you to do," he said.