Taking a deep breath, Jun Wangchen stepped into the Virtual Platform.
He pushed open the door, and a city came into view. Its thousand-foot walls looked like a dragon resting upon the land, towering like a mighty mountain and gazing down upon the world.
The surrounding streets were packed with people, bustling with activity as one conversation overlapped another.
"Hey, hey! This week's Virtual Arena rankings are out. Did you make the top thousand?"
"Bro, are you kidding? Only geniuses can get onto that list. A nobody like me would thank my lucky stars just to make the top ten thousand."
"Exactly. The Virtual Arena brings together martial artists from across the country. Getting into the top thousand among so many people is way too hard."
"Instead of worrying about the rankings, we should hurry up and train in the newly released Forest of Death."
Jun Wangchen listened to all sorts of conversations as he walked, growing even more curious about the Virtual Platform.
Following Mo Duoduo's earlier instructions, Jun Wangchen entered her ID and added her as a friend.
With the friend-location feature, the two soon found each other on the Virtual Platform.
"Jun Wangchen, this is your first time on the Virtual Platform. Pretty surprising, isn't it?" Mo Duoduo nodded, raising her eyebrows with a smile.
Jun Wangchen looked around and nodded.
Honestly, the environment created by the Virtual Platform was incredibly realistic. If he had not known beforehand that this was a virtual world, he might not have been able to tell it apart from reality.
"Jun Wangchen, let me show you around," Mo Duoduo said, pointing at the city ahead.
"This is the Virtual City. It has ten floors in total. The first floor is the Virtual Service Center, the second and third are the