In the early hours of the next morning, I woke up feeling refreshed. After a solid night's rest, the fatigue from the previous day had completely vanished. I tidied up, went downstairs to have breakfast with Xinyu and Lu Xuehan, and then returned to the dormitory to log into the game.
The night had passed quietly without a single phone call. It seemed India had also chosen to rest before plotting their next move. They probably hadn't anticipated that the time difference between China and India would work against them and put them at a disadvantage. After all, Beijing time was ahead; while we were getting up at eight in the morning, it was only around three or four in the morning in India. Who knows, they were probably hugging Indian belly dancers in their sleep—who would want to crawl out of bed in the middle of the night to fight a national war?
When I logged on, it was still quite early. Only a handful of Silvermoon City players were on the city walls observing the situation below, while the newly logged-in players mostly hurried back and forth between the pharmacy and the equipment shop. The temporarily hired blacksmiths were charging three times the usual rate to repair gear, which was outrageously greedy, but since repair was mandatory, players had no choice but to grit their teeth and pay while cursing the unscrupulous game developers to choke on cold water.
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