When An Yunxiu came out of the bathroom in her rented apartment, humming a little tune, her hair was still not completely dry. Droplets trickled down from her cheeks and the tips of her hair, spreading a small dark patch across the shoulder of her pajama T-shirt. She did not care, merely giving her hair a casual rub with the towel before draping it over the back of a chair and picking up her phone.
Rather than lying back down on the bed, she simply sat cross-legged on the floor, picked up her phone, and swiped to unlock it.
Without wasting any time, she opened the reader group. Sure enough, in the little over ten minutes she had spent washing up, the unread messages had already climbed past nine hundred again?
"Hmm?"
"Fine, then!"
She muttered to herself and, out of habit, began scrolling upward from the bottom.
It was a habit she had developed after years of lurking in all sorts of forums and chat groups: first check what people were talking about most recently, then decide whether it was worth scrolling back.
Very soon, she spotted this message:
[Clear Water Cool Breeze]: [It's a one-hundred-percent real game. Whether you can bring it out or not, can't you just use your brain?]
"??"
An Yunxiu raised her brows slightly when she saw it.
Bring it out?
Bring what out?
So she hurriedly scrolled up several screens and soon found the start of the discussion.
[Hyuga Moqian]: [I heard that the combat techniques and skills you learn in the game can be used in real life!]
[Le Xuan]: [For real? No way, right?]
[White Sanctity]: [Nothing strange about that. It's a completely real game, one hundred percent real. If you fight enough in there, the experience and memories of fighting