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What Jing Jiu did next confirmed Zhong Lizi's suspicions.
He stood at the window, looking toward the river of stars in the night sky, and suddenly said, "I want to sleep for a while."
Even someone forged of iron would surely be exhausted after playing games for nine days without sleep or rest.
That was what Zhong Lizi thought, but she was astonished to see Jing Jiu walk into the bedroom and lie down on the bed.
Of course, she was not astonished because it was her bed, but because Jing Jiu had always lain only on the terrace chair and had never set foot in the bedroom.
Even more unexpectedly, not long after lying down on the bed, Jing Jiu actually fell asleep.
There was no snoring or grinding of teeth, but she knew he was truly asleep.
This was different from when he closed his eyes in the Underground District apartment or on the terrace.
What exactly had happened?
Zhong Lizi opened the Game Pod and discovered, with some relief, that Jing Jiu had not completely logged out of the interactive system.
Following the manual, she selected third-party spectator mode, connected to the system, and began the playback.
A brand-new world appeared before her eyes.
Verdant peaks, an endless sea of clouds, an ocean in the dusk-everything seemed so real, yet so unreal.
Unreal because it was even more beautiful than she could have imagined.
Real because this was probably exactly what the immortal worlds of human imagination should look like.
One could imagine how many resources Xuan Yu Company had invested in