8:00 a.m., Earth Plane.
When sunlight squeezed through the gap in the curtains and reached the foot of the bed, Chen Ya sat up right on time. She slowly removed the pitch-black holographic visor and studied it for a while.
"..."
The blue runes on the visor's surface were still flowing and flickering slowly, but putting it on now would be useless.
Even so, she raised the visor before her eyes and looked at it for a long time, still reluctant to let go.
"Logged off again."
"Sigh..."
Chen Ya murmured softly. Only after a long while did she set the visor on the bedside table.
"Another new day..."
Then she picked up her phone, unlocked it, and opened the familiar readers' chat group.
She had expected to see the usual things today—people bragging about last night's results, lamenting how many times they had died again, those without access begging for closed beta slots, or someone showing off pictures of their visor before going off to argue with others, that sort of chaotic mess.
However...
To her surprise, today seemed different.
Because the tone of the group chat was completely off!
Anyway, the very first message she saw after eight in the morning was a truly explosive opener:
[I Want to Sleep Another Thousand Years]: "Fuck—help! Somebody, please come save me!"
[Little Ming Fell into a Pit]: "What happened? Don't tell me... you fell into a pit too?"
[Endless Strong Vodka]: "Holy shit! It's early in the morning—why are you howling like someone died?"
[Is Xiao Xiao Well-Behaved]: "???"
[I Want to Sleep Another Thousand Years]: "You got it right! I am howling! Whoever it is, you have to come save me tonight! Save me! Save me! Save me! Save me! Save me! Save me! Save me! I seriously can't