[World] Silent Sorrow: Wasn't it your plan to start this all over?
[World] After Your Birth: What do you mean?
[World] Silent Sorrow: We will see.
After that, Charlie remained silent no matter how much After Your Birth or Creepy Group tried to provoke him. He preferred to exert mental pressure on his opponents. But dealing with Rita took little effort. That woman was really stupid.
There was a lot of noise in the World channel, but it was merely exchange of words between Dragon Leaping and Dragon Yelling. To be more precise, it was the Creepy Group and Candy Group kept sending message in the World channel until everyone felt deeply annoyed and joined the verbal battle.
Elsa seldom browsed the World channel. Messaging in World channel did not come free of cost. Many of her friends and group members used the channel and saved their data and messages. But sending one message in the channel cost one dollar in the physical world. That was money Elsa could not afford.
But Olivia had the privilege to spend a few extra dollars, and she had already uploaded the game after the server was merged. Merely a day had passed since the merger, and people were already competing to spend lavishly, which in turn contributed to Dragon's revenue.
Olivia quietly mined in the safe regions, while closely paying attention to what was happening in the World channel. At the moment, it was impossible to elevate the player level by engaging in fights in the jungles. The only thing to do was to save some equipment and forge medicines in the safe regions.
A considerable amount of anonymous accounts surged into the server, naming themselves from 'Sweet Dream's Supporter A', 'Sweet Dream's Supporter B' to 'Sweet Dream's Supporter Z'. The user names looked like typical anonymous accounts, which had magnificent power to send an overwhelming number of messages to dominate the World channel. If someone sent a single text, it would soon be drowned in an explosive amount of messages from these anonymous accounts within mere seconds. Thus, being absent-minded for even one second meant that the message you wished to see would be nowhere to be found.
The World channel became peaceful once again due to these anonymous accounts, but messages in [System] continued coming in. Endless news about players from Creepy Group being defeated one after the other dominated the comments zone.
At 11 pm, the electricity supply was cut off in all dormitories, except for the double room dormitory. Olivia indulged herself in the gossips. Although it was not available to connect to the school network at the moment, she had access to personal Wi-Fi on her laptop. She lay down on her bed and continued gaming.
"Olivia, you're not going to sleep now?" The lights went out when she had just finished her bath, so she followed the light emitted by Olivia's laptop and walked to her bed.
"I have some more exercises to finish. You go to sleep," Olivia told her with a smile. She was clever enough to understand that Charlie had lost his temper because the players had discussed about what had happened in the college in the game forum. It had ticked him off. He had been waiting for the electricity to be cut off, so that Elsa wouldn't take part in the fight anymore.
The moment Elsa lay down to bed, her phone screen lit up with a message notification.
"No kiss for your sweetheart before going offline? "
Elsa blushed at the bluntness of his text. Knowing that Charlie would keep pestering her until she obliged, she sent him a message with a kiss emoji, "There you go. I'm going to sleep now. Good night!" After ending him the text, she set her phone on silent mode.
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