After Liao Fan said that, his three roommates stood in the hallway and fell silent together for three seconds.
"The way you put that..." Zhou Yu, the one on the left, spoke first. "You sound like you're recruiting for a pyramid scheme."
"Get lost." Liao Fan kicked him. "That's genuinely how I feel."
"Fine, genuine feelings." Lin Ze, on the right, stuffed his phone into his pants pocket. "Then don't just talk about your feelings. Did you enter an instance last night?"
"Yeah. The Thirty-Three Heavens."
All three leaned in at once.
"How was it?"
"I'm an outer disciple of the Star River Sect now."
"Holy shit..."
"My senior brother is an NPC, but yesterday, while he was teaching me to meditate, he yawned. A yawn, you get it? One of those casual ones where he closed his mouth before it was even fully open."
Zhou Yu's eyes lit up. "That's way too realistic."
"More real than reality." Liao Fan headed toward the cafeteria, with the three trailing behind him. "My only problem now is... when I get hungry in the instance, I'm still hungry when I come out."
He had barely taken a few bites of breakfast when Doule started pushing recommendations again.
Over the past week, interest in the Origin World had shown no sign of fading. If anything, it was getting more and more outrageous.
How outrageous?
Liao Fan scrolled to a video titled: [I fell in love in an instance world. My girlfriend is an NPC.]
In the video, a young man with red-rimmed eyes spoke to the camera. "Her name is Su Ying. She's a senior sister in my sect in the instance."
"She brings me pastries when I'm tired from cultivating. She gives me her umbrella on rainy days. Yesterday... yesterday, she said, 'If