Yang Feifei was an ordinary white-collar worker.
Until a month ago, she had lived an exceedingly ordinary life.
Then one day, when she saw Starry Sky Technology's official Weibo post on the trending list announcing a lottery for closed beta access to its Virtual Reality System, she learned about the Phantom System and the Neural-Interface Virtual Reality Technology that would soon change the future face of human society.
Although she was not particularly interested in games, the concept Starry Sky Technology had mentioned in its promotional poster—"a second world in the spiritual realm"—still piqued her interest.
Just to join in the fun, she clicked repost.
And then...
By the time she realized she had won, she had become one of the 200 lucky people out of 20 million, joining Starry Sky Technology's closed beta testing ranks.
To be honest, the first closed beta had been rather boring.
Setting aside the empty, monotonous environments and fragmented visuals, having to do things in the Virtual Reality System that she already found tedious in real life was boring in itself.
However, considering that Starry Sky Technology had arranged round-trip airfare and five-star hotel accommodations for remote beta testers like them, she still took part with the mindset of getting a free trip, though she did not have high expectations for the Phantom System.
Yet that attitude lasted only a week.
By the second closed beta, her preconceived impression of the Phantom System had been completely overturned.
Or, more specifically, she had been utterly amazed.
The forest presented before the beta testers looked so lifelike that it seemed alive. The breeze brushing past her ears, the halo of light filtering through gaps in the branches—everything felt so real.
And it was not just that. The other beta testers were all standing in the same