Eight in the morning.
Today was another bright, sunny day. Even with the curtains still drawn, sunlight had already squeezed through the gaps and into the bedroom, painting glaring golden lines across the pale wooden floor.
"..."
Right then, Chen Ya slowly sat up in bed on schedule, then slowly removed the pitch-black holographic visor she wore, one that seemed alive and had the strange tactile sensation of some bizarre creature.
Whew—!
She looked at the visor, which seemed to have a self-cleaning function, as well as the runes on it that glimmered with a faint, eerie blue light in the morning sun, and could not help letting out a breath.
She was alive again.
No, that was not right... She should say she had logged off again?
"..."
After putting away the visor, Chen Ya picked up the phone on her bedside table and habitually opened the familiar reader group chat.
Without a doubt!
The unread message count had climbed by who knew how many hundreds again. Even now, new message notifications continued to pop up one after another.
"..."
After thinking about it, she did not check the chat history and instead went straight to the newest messages:
Eternity 38: [No matter how you put it, where's my closed beta qualification? Why hasn't the text message arrived yet?]
Dustless Mirror 516: [You didn't get one?]
Eternity 38: [What do you think?]
Flying Fish 2222: [...]
Silly Head, Silly Brain: [Wuwuwu, I want to play too!]
After sending that, Silly Head, Silly Brain hurriedly followed it up with a crying emoji.
Skyflash Wing: [Sigh— I wasn't on the second batch list either. This really hurts. Sure enough, in this damn world, good things never come our way!]
"..."
Chen Ya did not look at those meaningless messages. Instead,