With the arrival of this hail, the temperature plummeted as if in an instant. Several customers in the shop couldn't help but hug their arms. "Why does it feel a bit cold?"
"How could it not be cold? That's hail falling outside—ice! It's bound to be cold."
"No, I mean this weather is a bit strange. Why is it hailing in the middle of summer?"
"Haven't you seen the speculation online that the flood apocalypse is coming? It might be true. I'm planning to get an inflatable raft; it's simple, portable, and good for escaping at any time."
"Is that stuff about the espers true, too? I thought it was just hype."
"Did you watch that viral video, 'Esper Battle at the Top of the Building'? I have connections, and I heard that video is one hundred percent real! No special effects!"
"Really?"
"For real..."
"..."
Amidst the rustling discussions around her, Ye Zhao finally lifted her head from her tomato and egg rice bowl. Remembering the video she had posted before bed, she fished her phone out of her Personal Space and opened Weibo. She was immediately bombarded by a mountain of notifications, causing her phone to freeze up entirely.
Trash phone from a trash system.
Still, with this level of traffic, she was set.
She knew the video she made couldn't possibly fail to go viral!
Ye Zhao tossed the phone back into her Personal Space and continued shoveling down her food, taking the opportunity to allocate her Creation Points—her only harvest since entering the game.
The problem was that she still had too few points; from yesterday until now, she had only earned three thousand. She had already moved 1,000 points to create 10 points for her Attribute Page, adding them to her Constitution, and was hoarding