You jinx! Liu Xiao and the other two silently cursed.
At 9:50, Liu Xiao and the other two began clicking the enter game button nonstop. Naturally, all they got were pop-ups asking them to wait because the server was not yet open.
Zhao Yang received slightly better treatment. He had already entered the virtual reality world.
Something resembling a wireless earpiece hung from his ear. It was the main reason he could still communicate with Liu Xiao and the other two outside the virtual world.
This device had not actually been part of the game's original design. After all, this was a virtual reality game. They could hardly put a chat window in front of you, could they?
As such, players would eventually have to develop their own means of communication within Firmament.
For now, however, fairness had to be considered. Both PC and mobile players could use third-party tools for instant messaging. Blocking that feature outright for Game Pod players would put them at a serious disadvantage.
According to the response on the official website, once Game Pods became universally available, the company would disable all PC and mobile access to the game. Game Pods would become the only way to enter Firmament.
At that point, these instant messaging tools would be removed.
Players had no way of knowing what things would be like afterward. After all, they were completely in the dark about Firmament's content. They knew absolutely nothing.
The seconds ticked by until the instant the clock struck ten.
Liu Xiao and the other two entered the game at practically the same time.
"Please name your character!"
"..."
"Please adjust your character's appearance!"
At that moment, every player discovered with astonishment that the face on their screen was their own, reproduced exactly in