Unfortunately, he got so excited that his lines came out far too over-the-top.
As a direct result, his uncle, who lived in the neighboring province, actually called in the middle of the night and earnestly urged his parents to take him to a psychiatric hospital.
He was terrified that the pressure of the college entrance exams had driven the kid into some new kind of pyramid scheme.
Although his entire family had lectured him until three in the morning, Lin Shen was still too excited to sleep, tossing and turning in bed.
It was only six thirty, but he could no longer contain his excitement. He quickly splashed some cold water over his face.
Then he reverently wiped down the VR headset he had scored on a secondhand marketplace, polishing it again and again before placing it on his head with utmost devotion.
Countdown: 00 hours, 25 minutes, 50 seconds.
"Come on! Hurry up!"
Lin Shen lay in bed, his heart pounding as though it wanted to beat a retreat.
After an agonizing wait, the countdown in the center of his vision finally ticked down to its last second!
[00:00:00]! [Bridging the higher-dimensional soul channel... Welcome to Awakening of the Old Gods!]
Boom!
Accompanied by deep, solemn, bass-heavy background music, the boundless gray mist exploded outward before Lin Shen's eyes.
Although he had already watched that wildly popular in-game cinematic dozens of times on the official website, seeing it again in person from a fully immersive holographic perspective was another matter entirely.
Lin Shen was still so awestruck that goosebumps broke out all over him!
The biting wind, the earthy tang hanging in the air, and that despair-ridden Wasteland battlefield filled with hundreds of Cultists and second-tier calamities!
Especially when the scene cut to the end,