At this moment.
Herta Space Station.
The Astral Express was docked at the platform.
Himeko finished her daily stroll around the space station and would return to the car on time to rest.
"Pom-Pom, get me some black tea."
"Got it, Pa."
"Hm, where's Welt?"
"In the guest car, Pa."
"Oh."
Himeko carried her black tea and headed toward the guest car.
As soon as she reached the corridor here, she saw Welt standing there, seemingly pondering something.
"What are you doing here?"
"..."
Welt silently stared at the three rooms ahead, each door plastered with a piece of paper.
He looked at these notes and fell into thought.
Zeig: [I'm so tired, the game version updated, I need to seclude myself to grind games, do not disturb!]
March 7th: [Same as Zeig.]
Dan Heng: [Me too.]
"..."
Himeko furrowed her delicate brows slightly and asked uncertainly:
"Zeig and March 7th I can understand, but Dan Heng's gotten addicted to games now too?"
Welt was silent for a moment when a snow-white canine creature silently walked past him.
Peppy bit a room card, leaped up, and with a beep, the door to Zeig's room in front of her opened.
Then Himeko and Welt watched wide-eyed as this little dog leisurely walked in, then locked the door behind it.
"..."
A few minutes later.
A delivery robot wobbled onto the Astral Express, passed through the parlor car, and went straight to Zeig's door.
It extended a mechanical arm and knocked.
"Beep——Hello, your delivery has arrived, please check it."
Whoosh—
The door opened, and Peppy, wearing VR glasses, leisurely walked out again, bit the delivery bag the robot placed at the door, then went back in and closed the door.
"..."
This scene was all seen by Himeko and Welt hiding in the corner.
"Himeko... why doesn't Zeig come out to get the delivery himself?" Welt asked quietly.
"Maybe Peppy took the initiative to help grab it. For it, isn't this just freeloading games in someone else's room? Helping grab a delivery seems normal too."
"But I always feel like something's off."
"I feel like something's off too, but when we knock, they ignore us, even Peppy won't open for us." Himeko said helplessly.
"Himeko, how about we..."
"No way!"
"I haven't even finished..."
"Anyway, no. Entering their rooms without permission when they haven't agreed is definitely wrong."
"Fine."
Welt silently stared at the words [Me too] on Dan Heng's door, finding them somewhat刺眼.
Zeig hung his up a week ago, March 7th four days ago, and the day before yesterday even Dan Heng hung one up.
What game is so fun that even Dan Heng can't hold back?
"Himeko, do you know what game they're playing?"
"Not sure." Himeko shook her head and said solemnly:
"Just ask them on your phone! They're secluding to grind games, not like they don't have phones!"
"Makes sense."
Welt silently pulled out his phone, @'d Zeig in the group chat, and asked:
[What game are you playing? So grindy?]
At this time, Zeig hadn't replied yet, but March 7th responded:
[First, I gotta call out a four-character game.]
Immediately after, Zeig replied instantly:
[Genshin Impact, what about it?]
Welt pushed up his glasses and turned to Himeko beside him:
"They're playing Genshin Impact."
Himeko's expression was full of disdain:
"Is it really that fun? Zeig hasn't come out for so long, who knows if he's died in there!"
"Should be... pretty fun, I guess. As for his health... since he can still reply, it shouldn't be a big issue."
"What about Dan Heng? Ask Dan Heng! Those two aren't worth asking, Dan Heng was always the obedient one before."
"Yeah... I'll ask."
Welt found Dan Heng in his contacts and privately messaged:
"Dan Heng, are you playing Genshin Impact too?"
Unlike Zeig and March 7th who reply instantly, after three or five minutes, Dan Heng finally replied:
"Yeah, yes, I'm playing Genshin Impact too."
"Turns out you play Genshin Impact too?"
"Yeah."
"Gotta go, two bosses are kinda hard."
"..."
...
At this very moment.
In Jarilo-VI's snowplain.
A battle had been going on for several hours.
"What are you doing? Why are you looking at your phone too!" Seele yelled at the blond righteous hero beside her.
"Sorry."
The strange righteous hero put away his phone and thrust his sword, pushing back the face-hugging gray-haired youth.
There were four people fiercely battling on site.
The gray-haired golden-eyed youth gripped an iron rod, looking utterly reckless and cocky.
The red broom-head loser woman held a Gatling gun in both hands, standing behind that gray-haired youth providing fire support.
And their opponents were Seele and the blond guy who had just been on his phone.
The blond youth's yellow short hair was dusted with falling snow, his light green eyes calm as still water.
"Damn, that little blond guy's pretty fierce!" March 7th said in surprise.
Originally, Seele had challenged March 7th to a one-on-one, and March 7th accepted, choosing the snowplain as the spot.
But as soon as Seele arrived, she found out Zeig this gray-haired bastard was there too, turning it into 1v2.
But even in this situation, she could leave the current Zeig covered in wounds!
All his injuries were on his back.
Those dense bullet holes made Zeig highly suspect that March 7th was born just to screw him over.
But in this situation, another blond guy popped out!
March 7th and Zeig originally thought this blond was a noob, but he slashed and put a huge gash in March 7th's Gatling.
"..."
At this time, the four faced each other.
Zeig scratched the dense bullet holes on his back and pointed his iron rod at the blond youth:
"Do you know who we are and you still dare come? I advise you to take turns standing guard with both eyes when you sleep at night!"
Blond Dan Heng said coldly:
"Hmph, you keep talking about one-on-one, but then gang up on her when she arrives, how despicable!"
March 7th also pointed at Dan Heng's nose and cursed:
"What's it to you? You here to stand up for her?!"
Seele snorted coldly, her sharp gaze fixed on the two little punks in front of her:
"Even without help, I can still take you down!"
On a snow pine not far away, two figures were lurking.
Regarding the one-on-one, Seele wasn't an idiot, how could she come without backup.
Bronya held binoculars, standing on the tree silently sizing up the suddenly appeared blond, and said:
"This guy, what do you think of his strength?"
The temporarily conscripted Sampo also held binoculars and shook his head:
"Nah."
"Why?"
"He's not as flashy as those two in front."