"Hello, patrol member. I am the class monitor of this class—En Yu," said the female NPC who called herself En Yu. "Are you here to help me find our classmate Boon Fong, who has been absent from class for many days?"
At that moment, a game prompt box appeared on En Yu's desk, which read "Accept Quest".
One of the female players with short hair took a pen out of her pocket and quickly clicked on the words "Accept Quest".
After the prompt box disappeared, En Yu bowed and said, "Thank you for being willing to help me with this."
I waited for the three of them to leave the classroom before approaching En Yu. After she finished repeating her lines, the game prompt box appeared on the desk. But no matter how hard I pressed my finger on the four words "Accept Quest", the prompt box didn't respond.
After several failed clicks, a system "beep beep" error warning sounded in my ears. A line of red text appeared below the words "Accept Quest": Please equip a weapon first, and use the equipped weapon to click on the words "Accept Quest".
I clicked the "Backpack" button in the lower left corner to open the game's backpack interface. The weapon slot in the backpack showed I had a ballpoint pen, and the item slot showed I had ten cans of sports drink. I double-clicked the "Ballpoint Pen" icon, then clicked the "Equip" word that appeared in the upper right corner of the icon.
The backpack interface in front of me closed automatically, followed by a prompt box that read: Please extend your right hand, palm facing up.
After I completed the action, a dark blue ballpoint pen appeared in my palm.
Just then, footsteps came from the corridor again.
I instinctively looked towards the door. Surprisingly, I knew both the boy and girl who entered this time; they were the Class Monitor and Vice Monitor from my class.
The girl standing on the left was named Lai Xin Hui; the boy on the right was named Chow Zi Qian.
If it's the first time logging into the game using smart glasses, the game system automatically generates a game character based on the facial scan from the glasses. Xin Hui, who usually always wears a high ponytail, must have let her hair down before entering the game, making her look cuter than in real life; Zi Qian's hairstyle in the game, however, didn't change much, still that head of black short hair and that expressionless face.
Of course, I don't rule out the possibility that Xin Hui changed her hairstyle through the game settings after entering the game. Although I'm not sure if this game has such settings, most virtual games on the market allow players to freely change their character's hairstyle and skin color.
I thought they would greet me before going to En Yu to accept the quest, but they had been staring at me since they entered the classroom doorway.
Although we are in the same class, we each have our own circles of friends and rarely interact. But since we've met in the game, wouldn't it be bad to pretend not to know each other?
I awkwardly raised my hand halfway in greeting: "Hello."
After hesitating for a long time, Han Han asked in a tentative tone, "Wang Wu yi?"
"Yes."
"How did you get into this game?" Xin Hui asked.
I didn't understand the intention behind Xin Hui's question. Although technology is advanced nowadays, aside from smart glasses, there are currently no other electronic products that allow the user's consciousness to fully enter a game.
"Through smart glasses!" Although very puzzled, I still answered seriously.
"That's not what I meant. I wanted to ask you..." Xin Hui scratched the back of her head, "Why are you appearing in the game?"
What did Xin Hui mean by this question? Leaving aside those who work in the gaming industry, for a 17-year-old student like me, I'm definitely in the game to play games.
"I came to play the game," I still answered very seriously.
"Did Ong Wei Jun ask you to come?" Perhaps Zi Qian saw that the conversation between Xin Hui and me felt like talking to a brick wall, so he couldn't help but speak up and ask...