Chapter 1586 - 1582: Ye Qiu's Thoughts

"Thank you."

Qiuya also returned a smile, nodding before pressing the OK button. The entire world was suddenly surrounded by colorful lights, then turned into darkness. Although Qiuya's bodily sensations gradually faded, the warmth on her cheeks and the technical heartbeat lingered.

The girl slowly opened her eyes.

What greeted her was the familiar ceiling and the oversized poster pasted above. It was a poster, capturing images from the screen, magnified to a full B size. A pattern flying in the sky, amidst boundless flocks of birds, where a ponytail fluttered in the wind, and a small fairy flew in the breeze.

Ye Zhi raised his hand, slowly removing the layer of skin covering his head. Compared to early neural devices, the crown structure connected by two rings was relatively thin but offered fewer restrictions.

Her cheeks were still hot from the fantasy world. Naoya supported her upper body on the bed, slowly pinching her cheeks with her hands, then emitted a silent cry from deep within.

...Whoa------!

Only then did she begin to feel increasingly embarrassed by what she had done. Leilei—a classmate of Ye Zhi, often said in the past that as the season entered autumn, Ye Zhi's boldness increased by about 50%, and today it could be said that it reached its peak. Now she was kicking and fussing in bed—what a disgrace.

What an incredible youngster. Although not knowing his age as a player, he was also a teenager in the real world, Naoya felt the other person's age was probably similar to hers. But this calm disregard for age and unexpected mischievousness was almost entirely elusive.

Of course, it wasn't just the character itself filled with mystery. His astonishing combat ability—in this year's Fairy Fantasy experience, this boy was the first player Naoya felt she couldn't defeat. She softly repeated that name.

"Ye Qiu...?"

A year after the last world war ended, Ye Zhi first wanted to see this imaginary world for himself.

Before then, VRMMO games were just an annoying way to take his brother away for Ye Zhi. But when she talked with him hand in hand in the hospital room, she began to wonder what it felt like to live in a world he loved so much.

She wanted to know more about him and the people—so she had to see his world with her own eyes. Ye Zhi wanted to use her own effort to shorten the distance with her brother...

Thus, she wouldn't find herself in such a mental state, nor would she find herself in such exclusive, humanized emotions.

When she said she wanted the "galaxy," her mother stared at her face for a while, finally nodded, and smiled, saying: "Just check the time and your body, don't use it for too long."

The next day during school lunch break, Ye Zhi's class would stand at the desk, he called everyone—or rather, she asked everyone "who knows the best game, please tell me."

This immediately quieted the entire class, and the impact of that moment is still being talked about.

Ye Zhi leaned against the straight iron mesh on the rooftop, hoping Leilei would tell him something about VRMMO, because he stood straight, eyes flickering with a peculiar light. Within seconds, he showed several expressions, then asked Ye Zhi what type she wanted to know.

Regarding games, Ye Zhi still hoped the time for homework and Sword Dao practice would not be affected. When she spoke these words, Leilei quickly lightly tapped her eyes with an elbow, muttering: "Well, you shouldn't spend too much time. Choose a style based on skills."

Although initially not thinking Leilei would start playing Fairy Fantasy, it was because of his kindness and attentive guidance that Ye could scare himself into this imaginary game world speedily. Of course, there are two other main reasons.

Firstly, Ye Zhi's long-studied Sword Dao skills were also useful in Fairy Fantasy.

Generally, in battles between players, there is simply no consideration given to avoiding issues. It's just a simple task to greet your weapon against your opponent because you accept the enemy's blows and then use accumulated damage to determine the outcome.

But Ye Zhi is different; she can easily avoid attacks with developed reflex speed and intuition, so of course, she can develop a fighting power that could be said to be foul.

Of course, in a different kind of graded MMO from Fairy Fantasy, Naoya's time spent on games is absolutely minimal and won't defeat other heavyweight players. In fact, for veteran players, Qiuya's various ability values are below average...

Yet, in this completely technical competition, even with a numerical advantage, her power can remain in Wind God's top five.

Ye Zhi's obsession with Fairy Fantasy's second reason is, of course, that only this game has a flying system.

Even now, she can easily recall the skill of freely controlling flight, the fun of freely flying in the sky the first time she mastered it.

Short and straight blades in a Sword Dao competition also bear shorter attack distances than other blades, so there's long been a desire for faster and farther attacks.

So, in Fairy Fantasy, he often posed in the upper part with his favorite longsword—that motion can't be completed with both hands, needing joystick-assisted flight—and then performed exceptionally long sprints...

The happiness gained from initiating attacks is indescribable. Of course, the joy of flying isn't limited to this, whether it's an almost body-angled dive or mixed birds leisurely high above, etc.

Basically, Ye Zhi was already deeply obsessed with the act of flying.

People not adept at flying like Leilei called her the "flyman." But for Ye Zhi, if there was no flying element, Fairy Fantasy wouldn't be fun.

After playing this game for a year, Ye Zhi had become quite familiar with VRMMO. Initially, she came to this imaginary world merely to shorten the distance with her brother, but now she's deeply in love with it.

Ye Zhi always wanted to tell those around her about Fairy Fantasy—to share that world's joys and sorrows with those around. But when she saw the shadow in people's eyes, she no longer had the courage to speak out.

Ye Zhi was sure that even with fear of previous world events, people's love for imaginary worlds remains unchanged.

Either he didn't know how to put all the recycled neural devices back into the room, or he placed the ROM card of the previous world in a picture frame on the desk as decoration, indicating he still loves this fictional world.