The discussion over why an unfamiliar customer had added Bai as a friend came to a temporary end.
Anviya stood up, stretched deeply, and rubbed her stomach.
"I'm a little hungry. Let's go out and eat."
"Eat?" Bai found that a little strange. "Isn't it still early?"
In her mind, it seemed that not much time had passed since she arrived at Origin Mall. She had only played a few rounds of Glory Duel.
"Early?" Amused, Anviya casually unfolded a screen of light displaying the exact time. "Take a look at what time it is."
Bai had been in the Tianxing Empire for quite a few days now, so she naturally understood its unusual system of timekeeping. When she saw the time displayed on the light screen, her eyes widened at once.
"It's already noon?"
Yet in her mind, it felt as though only a little while had passed.
"That's perfectly normal." Anviya was already used to it. "When you're completely absorbed in something, you'll always unconsciously overlook the passage of time. You feel the same way when you sleep too. If you don't dream, closing and opening your eyes can be the difference between night and day."
Her consciousness blurred slightly, and the scene before her shifted with it, turning into a somewhat unfamiliar room.
Bai shook her head, trying to cast off that faint sense of unreality lingering in her mind.
She removed the helmet of the holographic device, and her ink-black hair spilled down. Raising her arms, she stretched deeply, feeling every joint in her body crack with a tooth-aching sound.
Sitting for too long was bad for the body. One needed to get up and move around every so often.
Sitting like this for an entire morning was hardly a good habit, which was why ordinary