The room was empty.
Tommy's mood, accompanied by the low bgm,
Tommy's face was bloodless, pale as paper, reflected in the sword.
I still have to fight!
I must rescue FrostNova as soon as possible!
You must wait for me, Miss FrostNova!
A fervent cry from his heart, his calves trembling even as he took a step, but Tommy persisted.
The capsule access pod produced by Bao Xue had a much lower safety warning threshold than the pilot's, and it was now emitting a 'beep beep beep' warning.
[Detected that the player has been in the VR world for over 18 hours, exceeding healthy gaming time, and is being forcibly logged out...]
Beep—!
With a mechanical alarm, Tommy woke up to the sight of his bedroom ceiling.
"I'm fine, I can still fight!"
After a moment of daze, Tommy wanted to lie back down in the access pod to continue fighting, but his body was already issuing warnings.
Reluctantly, he climbed out of the access pod in silence. Seeing the smiling FrostNova wallpaper on his computer desktop, the middle-aged man's loneliness deepened.
Lying on his bed, he listlessly scrolled through his phone.
The trending searches were all about Ling Jing, which had crushed Bao Xue in the overseas market as a dark horse, and discussions about its masterpiece "Wang Daar and the Colossus."
He didn't care about these; he just wanted to browse discussions about FrostNova in niche communities.
Tommy loved her deeply, and he could never forget that stab.
...
Tommy didn't care about this trending topic, but Bao Xue was in an uproar.
"Star," released 24 hours ago, saw its sales finally settle at 6.53 million copies, with nearly 5 million of those achieved in the first eight hours after launch.
In contrast, Ling Jing's "Wang Daar and the Colossus" sold 11 million copies!
Crushing Bao Xue as an absolute dark horse!
Considering there were only over twenty million VR devices in the entire market, and excluding Ling Jing's 500,000 "Pilots," the access pods were all produced by Bao Xue.
Was half of their product a make-shift for others?
Bobby flipped the table at the celebration banquet!
Eat, eat, eat!
Eat what for!
Conversely, in China, people exploded upon seeing the data!
...