The Ultimate Insult from the Psionic Department's Old Martial Arts Faction! (Thanks to Alliance Leader Dongfeng Nandu)

During summer vacation, there weren't many people online in Qiguang Hengda University's virtual Combat Room.

After all, only a handful of students had access to such good equipment.

A computer equipped with a realistic simulation system and compatible Synchronization Rate hardware cost anywhere from a hundred thousand to several hundred thousand yuan. It was hardly cheap electronics.

Even though students who could get into Qiguang Hengda University usually didn't come from poor families, most still couldn't afford such a major expense.

What's more, using the system whenever they wanted required an internet access certificate and approval from the Inspection Department.

Otherwise, if they logged in as an "Undocumented Person" and were caught by the Inspection Department's cybersecurity agency, the minimum penalty was a fine of tens of thousands of yuan and fifteen days in detention.

That was why a joking saying had spread among Hengzhou's middle-class families:

What kind of family are you from, that you can actually afford to go online?!

There were only a few hundred people in the virtual Combat Room. Some opened training rooms and practiced their damage output on wooden dummies; others, with nothing better to do, gathered in public channels to chat and shoot the breeze.

"The most active users online right now are either third- and fourth-year students who've gotten the school's permission to stay on campus, or rich kids living nearby whose families have money to burn."

Lin Yunqing, who had just revealed that she was a lowly Bronze-ranked newbie, spoke up to ease the awkwardness.

She sighed inwardly. Her dream of crafting the perfect persona, becoming a high-charisma, flirtatious older woman, and taming a top-tier Old Martial Arts guy had ultimately fallen apart.

"Let's get a feel for it first and see how strong the New Martial Arts styles are."

Qin