When Lin Yiyi opened her eyes again, she found herself aching all over, curled up in her computer chair.
Only then did she realize that she must have fallen asleep in the chair, and her cell phone had slipped from her grasp to the floor.
No, that’s not right...
She suddenly lifted her head and checked the time.
Three-thirty in the morning—
Exactly the time she had fallen asleep in the game.
If this was supposed to be a dream, it was too realistic...
"Hmm, wait a second..."
Lin Yiyi came to her senses and turned on her phone.
She quickly flipped to the page of "Continent of Mist" and tapped to open the app.
After opening the app, only a window popped up:
Character’s daily sleep time has not reached eight hours, please rest fully before entering the game again.
...It wasn’t a dream!
Lin Yiyi felt an explosion of ecstasy in her heart!
It wasn’t a dream—she had actually been chosen and had become a first-test player in this epoch-making game!
"Who cares about ’Ghost Cry 5’ on the ice plains... Could it be more fun than Continent of Mist?"
After the euphoria, a wave of depression rose in her heart.
It’s over, how could she play other games after experiencing Continent of Mist...
She still had to make videos. That was her real job...
If possible, Lin Yiyi would of course want to turn Continent of Mist into a live-streaming video. But the first problem was that the big shot who had chosen them probably didn’t want to reveal the game—this was a very real concern.
According to Lin Yiyi’s understanding, many major game titles had fully closed beta-testing phases. Test players had to sign a very strict non-disclosure agreement, promising not to reveal game content before the ban was lifted.
Although they had not signed such a non-disclosure agreement... the restraint of this black technology itself was far stronger than any contract.
She was really afraid of being "dismissed."
Because Lin Yiyi truly, deeply loved gaming, loved that mysterious and magnificent otherworld...
...and that damn beautiful blue-eyed boy.
Even if the deity who summoned them didn’t forbid streaming, how could she record with her own eyes, right?
This wasn’t an issue of how to smuggle in a camera.
Her physical body had never entered that world...
Lin Yiyi vividly remembered that after using the skill "Charge," her legs were continuously sore and painful. Until she lay in bed and chose to log off, it hadn’t improved.
But when she had woken up, she felt that her body was exactly the same as before she had slept. The only difference was that curling up in the chair for three hours had given her a bit of a sore back...
Unless the planners could provide them with a live streaming interface, there was no way to record videos, not to mention stream for the viewers to watch.
She had to sleep eight hours each day... these eight hours could basically be synchronized with the game and reality.
So with the remaining sixteen hours, should she spend half working and half gaming, or should she game hard first and then talk about it?
At least for Lin Yiyi, this wasn’t a very difficult choice.
With her appearance and voice, it was too easy for her to become famous. It was precisely because she genuinely loved gaming from the bottom of her heart that she had chosen this profession.
Her initial idea was to "prevent not having time to play games after working." So she simply chose the game industry as her main career.
Now that gaming and work conflicted...
—so naturally, she would game hard first!
At least first indulge for a while, progress until a fairly decent level, at least until there were no more lingering thoughts, then start making some game videos to slowly release and delay the update pace. She would put the live streaming on hold for the time being.
Lin Yiyi was very relieved at this moment that she had just finished a series. This way, she could free up quite some time to drag out the updates...
Looking at the "Upload Complete" message on the screen, Lin Yiyi fell into deep thought.
She resolutely changed the scheduled release time from tomorrow to three days later.
With a weekly update pace, wasn’t that drawing out ten days’ worth of time...
"If I really can’t produce any videos in the end, I’ll go to Jiu’er for a chit-chat session."
She made up her mind.
First, game like hell, then talk about the rest.
"It’s three-thirty now, eight hours later is... well, I have to sleep at some point."
Lin Yiyi frowned, "But I feel like I won’t be able to sleep at all..."
Sleep while playing the game during the day?
Since her character was sleeping over there while she was here... does it mean that her original body was also sleeping while she was gaming?
If that was really the case, not only had her time not decreased, but she had also gained an additional eight hours!
"...but we need to run an experiment,"
Someone needs to observe what happens to my body after I enter the game, whether it stays in place asleep or gets sucked directly into the phone...
Games are fun, but it would be bad if I suddenly died while playing one.
Lin Yiyi looked down at her phone, finally finding Jiu’er’s WeChat, and then began to type out a message at lightning speed.
Before she could even send it, a WeChat call from Jiu’er came through.
Joy bloomed in Lin Yiyi’s heart.
The two of them hadn’t communicated at all before.
The call itself was proof that it hadn’t been a dream!
She instantly answered, picking up the phone and asking straight away, "Jiu’er, are you coming over or should I drive to you?"
The sharp and wary voice of Jiu’er came from the other end: "Sister Hyphen, I am underage..."
"It’s not Hyphen; it’s Eleven."
Lin Yiyi instinctively corrected her, then lowered her voice subconsciously, "It’s an experiment... about the game, you know. We can talk more when we meet.
"...Speaking of which, why did you call me?"
"I was wondering," Jiu’er pondered for a long time, her voice soft and sticky, "do you think it would be useful for us to learn some cooking skills?"
Lin Yiyi looked confused, not quite grasping Jiu’er’s meaning: "What are you talking about?"
She had long known that the streamer was famous for her bizarre line of thinking, but Lin Yiyi had thought it was just an act for the show’s effect. Like how she would rock out wildly while dishing out crazy damage.
But she really hadn’t caught up with Jiu’er’s leap in logic...
"What I mean is," Jiu’er explained, "should we bring something for the young master?"
"...You mean after learning cooking skills, bringing them into the game to compete as a maid?"
Lin Yiyi was initially on guard for a moment, but after considering it seriously, she thought the idea was actually quite good.
The only issue was, can the crash course in cooking really guarantee to teach you everything in just two or three days...
After Lin Yiyi brought up this concern, Jiu’er seemed to also think the plan wasn’t very reliable.
"Since cooking is no good..."
Jiu’er murmured under her breath, her voice light and airy: "Then we can only make some big booms..."
Do you compete for the position of maid with big booms?
"You should go to sleep, Jiu’er. I think you are too tired to be coherent,"
Lin Yiyi replied decisively: "How about this, I’ll send you my address. You have summer vacation right now, right? Can you go stay at a friend’s house?"
After all, Jiu’er was a minor and supposedly a rich young lady. In Lin Yiyi’s poorer perspective, she must be the kind that has to be accompanied by a bodyguard when going out at night...
"I can’t go out, so you should come to my place."
Jiu’er whispered close to the phone, "My house is really big, you know..."
Lin Yiyi paused for a moment, then nodded, "I’ll pack up and head over."
After all, she was a young single woman living alone, so if she entered the Foggy Continent during the day, she would probably just pass out for the whole day, which wasn’t very safe. Staying over at a net friend’s place might be safer.
Jiu’er responded with a few hums, "Then I’ll call Lee Bo to prepare a bath for you."
"No wait, I should probably call the hospital too," Jiu’er’s voice drifted eerily again, "What if you get so angry that you die suddenly at my place..."
"Please don’t let me die suddenly, okay..."
Lin Yiyi hurriedly hung up the call.
She felt her blood pressure rising to the brink, and if she didn’t end the call, she might die on the spot.
This person spoke in such chaos. The most outrageous part was that she seemed to be aware of her own chaos.
How do Jiu’er’s fans tolerate this quirky girl? Don’t they get mad to death? How could this young lady still be so popular?
—Is it just because she’s good-looking?
"If that’s the case, I should show my face in the next video. Then they should be able to forgive my delayed updates..."
Lin Yiyi muttered to herself as she hurriedly packed her clothes and daily necessities.
In another part of the world, Annan had finally returned home.
As expected, Salvatore had finished analyzing the source of the black fire.