Although Qiu Lei had not even graduated from high school in the real world, she was a good employee as far as Su Bai was concerned. She was meticulous in her work, and she always greeted customers with a sweet smile and plenty of patience. Whenever Su Bai left the Rest Room, he would remind her that the streets had been a little chaotic lately. Whether she was coming to work or heading home, unless she was inside the shop or a residential area with regular patrols, she should stick to places where patrol officers were present.
He had thought those players had already given up on targeting the Mist Shop. But when he noticed Qiu Lei leaving the boy behind and hurrying out of the shop with an anxious expression, Su Bai had a feeling that the trouble he so disliked was not over yet, even though he did not know exactly what had happened.
When the knock came, the boy on the projector screen probably had no idea what would happen once he knocked open the seemingly ordinary door before him.
The boy's name was Yang Yu. Like Qiu Lei, he had been a Senior Year 2 student in the real world, but they had not known each other before entering Fog City. They had simply happened to appear on the same street when they arrived. With both of them utterly lost and bewildered, asking every passerby they could find all sorts of questions, it had been easy to realize that they were both players.
Perhaps because they shared the same identity, or perhaps because they were the same age, Yang Yu and Qiu Lei had decided more than two months ago to support each other in Fog City like a brother and sister close in age, and