"No, something's wrong." Liu Siting sensed something amiss. So many people disappearing at once wasn't normal.
In the dream, everything was a little illusory, yet also so real that it was hard to distinguish it from reality.
That vague sense of strangeness made Liu Siting's heart skip a beat. She kept feeling that something bad had happened, but she couldn't find its source.
Two seconds later, the player Po Wu, who had been discussing a prison break beside her, vanished along with the other players.
At that point, the AIs in the dream also realized something was wrong through their own reasoning.
"Too many people are disappearing."
"There shouldn't be this many people waking up right now. Some only entered the dream a minute ago. Why would they suddenly wake up at this particular time?"
The AIs couldn't understand it, but their logical reasoning alerted them to the anomaly.
This defied all reason!
Something had to be behind such an abnormal occurrence. A large-scale incident might have happened in reality, disturbing the players' consciousness and preventing them from continuing to dream.
Liu Siting wanted to wake up too, but she had no way to do so.
Within the dream, people couldn't wake themselves up voluntarily. They had to rely on their Game Pod's scheduled waking mechanism or sleep until they woke naturally.
"Did something happen?" The players who hadn't woken up all looked worried.
"I don't know what happened in reality. Once you wake up, don't do anything strange. That includes praying, peculiar habits, or talking nonsense," Liu Siting warned.
"Ah, I haven't done anything like that in reality. After all, surveillance is everywhere in modern life. I always feel like Orange Mother is watching me, so I never dare do that sort of thing in reality."
"Me too. I