For certain special reasons, Bai Zhi and Fireworks of Romance were the first among everyone to return.
Altogether, they had spent less than four hours.
Compared to them, the others took far longer. It was not until the next day that scattered Players began returning, and by the time Dead Zero came back as well, three days had already passed since they arrived in the Underworld.
But for Fireworks of Romance, those brief three days had felt as long as three months.
The environment in the Underworld remained unchanged year-round, permeated by a gloomy atmosphere. Aside from the Wongchuan River, the area around the Logistics Settlement Point was covered entirely in black Soil, without the slightest hint of green. It was unbearably dull, let alone home to any sea of lycoris flowers.
—Most importantly, there was no internet here.
If she wanted to binge shows or read novels here, she could only download them in the Yang World beforehand and bring them in. Naturally, Fireworks of Romance had never thought to prepare for that, so she could only miserably go to Bai Zhi to play cards and chess... only to end up with her face covered in little paper slips and an entire arm covered in turtle drawings.
Living under such brutal conditions was practically torture for Fireworks of Romance.
In the end, Fireworks of Romance simply dragged someone along to fish by the Wongchuan River...
So when she finally boarded the return train once more, Fireworks of Romance was immensely relieved, as if she had finally been released from prison.
Compared to the journey here, there were clearly far fewer people on the return trip. Some Players had remained in the Underworld to take up Underworld Posts such as [Ghost Messenger], but quite a few had also been permanently