Gao Lanlan at the base Command Center learned immediately that Imperium forces had received reinforcements and begun attacking the last fortress of the Chaos forces.
What was more, Gao Lanlan knew that two mainstay vessels of the Imperium fleet—those six-kilometer-long Lunar-class cruisers—were flying toward the wasteland where they were located. They might reach the airspace above the base in less than two hours.
So, Gao Lanlan had to prepare for battle.
Of course, the ordinary players knew nothing about this, and no one had told them. The Imperium army's offensive began at eight in the morning, which happened to be when the players logged off. By the time the players found out, it would already be after "8:01."
And 8:01 was time within the "game." Although it was only an instant, for the players, that instant meant an entire day of leisure time spent on Earth—from eight in the morning until midnight, a full sixteen hours!
See?
At 8:02 in the morning, Xiao Jie had just gotten out of bed. After putting away his gaming visor, washing up, and getting dressed, he immediately left his fairly well-decorated single dorm room. After filing a report, he drove his newly purchased electric car, with a range of five thousand kilometers, straight toward the city center.
All of them players had now been incorporated into the system. Officially, they were described as a scientific research institution, but naturally, only the people within knew what the real situation was.
Two or three months ago, a housing development on the outskirts of the city that had sat unfinished for over a decade was swiftly revived and renovated by their classified administrative unit. In short order, it was converted into numerous one-bedroom, two-bedroom, and three-bedroom staff apartments. Most of the nearby players had moved there to