"Bang!"
Ji Luo slammed his bedroom door shut, and the sound of his gaming pod starting up immediately came from inside.
Ji Li shook her head helplessly and was about to retrieve her phone from the couch.
But a glance out of the corner of her eye revealed what looked like two phones sitting there.
Ji Luo had probably been so excited that he had left his own phone on the couch too.
"He ran off faster than a rabbit and even forgot his stuff."
Amused, Ji Li picked up Ji Luo's phone, intending to take it to his bedroom for him.
However, the instant her hand touched the phone screen-
"Bzzz, bzzz, bzzz!"
"Bzzz, bzzz, bzzz, bzzz!"
The phone, whose screen had been dark, suddenly began vibrating like crazy!
Urgent Green Bubbles notifications rattled off like machine-gun fire, with new message pop-ups appearing on the screen nonstop.
"Hmm? Who suddenly sent so many messages?"
Ji Li raised an eyebrow, a trace of confusion flashing in her eyes.
Had some urgent, unexpected crisis happened in the game?
Out of concern for her silly little brother-and because she knew his phone's unlock code, which was simply his birthday-
Ji Li barely hesitated before deftly swiping her slender fingers across the screen.
What appeared was a five-person group chat called "Closed-Door Strategy Room for First-Test Veterans."
Ji Li looked down at the messages on the screen, and her somewhat serious expression instantly crumbled.
In the group chat:
[Passing Pure-Love Warrior]: "@Ji Luo, Old Ji! Stop playing dead out there in the real world!"
"It's not that big a deal! So a bunch of bugs played you. You're a grown man-don't hide under your blankets shedding little pearls all by yourself!"
"Get online! We found the Pale Mite's weakness!"
"That bastard Kuang Shao,