The next day.
Early morning.
Still bleary-eyed, Xiao Jun had only just been woken by the biting cold wind.
After instinctively lamenting that this garbage game not only made people tired and hungry but also required sleep,
he had just wanted to lie back down, close his eyes for a while, and catch up on sleep.
Then suddenly, boundless golden light burst forth!
It was an incomparably dazzling sight.
Even though Xiao Jun, who wanted to catch up on sleep, had already closed his eyes and covered his eyeballs with his eyelids, the golden light still pierced through them.
His still-sleepy eyes caught it with perfect clarity.
"Ah! Too bright..."
"Motherfucking fuck..."
"What happened..."
And he was far from the only victim. Those nearby who were likewise sleeping in the streets of the Novice Village began cursing one after another.
But before long,
when they saw the thing in the distance,
the words coming from their mouths gradually changed in tone.
They turned into pure astonishment.
"What is that, a second sun?"
"It's too bright—I can't even look at it directly..."
"I feel like even evil me is about to be purified. No, I'm dying..."
Amid all kinds of remarks,
Xiao Jun wiped the tears that had automatically welled up in his eyes from the glare of the golden light, then slowly climbed to his feet, full of astonishment.
He raised his left hand before his eyes.
Peering cautiously through the gaps between his fingers, he looked toward the source of the golden light in the sky.
It really was blinding...
In the end, just as Xiao Jun felt his pay-to-win dog eyes were about to be dazzled blind,
he finally managed to make out the source of that golden radiance.
It was an incomparably enormous cup, radiating brilliant pure