"Hiss-"
"Hah-"
In the stairwell.
Several people were puffing away.
But when a noise came from outside, they tacitly extinguished their cigarettes and tucked them into the void to hide them.
Only after the others left the corridor did they start smoking again.
"Keep this a secret, everyone."
A man spoke in a low voice.
"Of course."
"Don't worry."
"I want to push my ranking higher too."
The others chimed in.
-That was right. Everyone had to work hard to raise their game ranking to have a chance of boarding the ship.
But human bodies tired so easily.
And the games kept releasing new updates.
That made gaming for long stretches exhausting.
Under these circumstances, someone discovered a secret.
-Cigarettes could help human bodies "wake up."
They could temporarily improve concentration!
Those who discovered this secret gathered together, quietly using this method to perk themselves up.
Boom-
A tremendous crash came from outside.
They hurried out and stood in the third-floor corridor, looking outside.
A human lay on the ground outside the building, already dead.
"That's the guy ranked third."
Someone spoke quietly.
"He had a shot at first place," another said.
"But he got killed-what's the point of that, though?" another asked in confusion.
In the square.
The phantom image of a towering tree appeared, spanning heaven and earth.
With the blessing of this Dharma Form, the dead man came back to life.
"Ah... damn it..."
The man jumped up, hurried into the online gaming center, grabbed a computer, and quickly entered his username and password.
Beep, beep, beep!
Lines of prompts appeared on the computer screen:
"You were killed in the match just now." "Match over." "Your ranking has dropped."
The man stared blankly at the computer screen, then suddenly roared:
"Bastard-"
He charged toward the