"Finally, a large-scale zone-wide event! And this time, we won't be fighting monsters on our own roads. All of us will be teleported straight into one huge instance."
"An actual instance, like the ones I've heard about! I've been in this survival game for so long, but I've only ever heard the big shots talk about them. I wonder what it's really like inside. Will there be good stuff everywhere?"
"Every player in the zone will be taking part? Does that mean all of us in C13 Zone will meet at six tomorrow morning?"
"Hahahaha! Finally, I'll get to see some living people! Every day, I drive this crappy car down the road alone, without a single soul to talk to. This place was damn near driving me insane."
"Did you see that, Mingyue? Wait for me in the instance tomorrow. I'll show you what I can do."
"You're something else, buddy. You're stuck in a survival game, and you still have the time for an online romance."
"Yeah, aren't you afraid that the lovely Mingyue you've been dreaming about is actually a five-hundred-pound guy picking at his feet?"
"Let's not celebrate too soon. Once the instance opens, with so many players and limited resources, the danger will multiply."
"Exactly. Normally, we're all on our own roads, and our greatest enemies are just the monsters out there. But once all the players are thrown into the same pool, the most terrifying enemies won't be monsters anymore. They'll be the other people around you."
"When everyone's fighting over the resources in the instance, you might be battling a monster for your life when some good buddy you know stabs you through the heart from behind."
"That's right. Under these circumstances, the best choice for ordinary players like us isn't to go