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[Present day, China, Tianjin]

Fading out background noise of Christmas music reminded the woman that it was nearly the end of November. She used to be excited about it but not any more.

She pulled out her wet, declining quality of shoes. She did a quick window shopping but still, she does not have enough money to buy a new pair of shoes for her self.

Malls are also getting busier and busier. Thanks to the upcoming December, people that are working in the mall will get their bonus salaries. In addition, Love confession are prominent every twenty-fifth of December.

But what was the difference from the year before? When half of the population of the earth will open up boxes and do exchanging gifts. Meanwhile, the other half of the population could not afford anything, and the rest would just go to sleep , they do not celebrate it at all.

She then go straight to her room , grab hold of the netbook and open her mind to the other side of the world and just like that she made an example of how to celebrate Christmas with her daily set of rules.

[Daily Rewards Popping Out]

Daily Rewards has always been the first thing she saw every time she entered into the game. She minimizes the window, while the program was still running. She glanced on the different application.

Then she got a notification from discord.

Well aside from her Wechat, she also has access to Discord; she only uses it for gaming purpose and to be updated with her team.

She looked into her squads message on Discord with a server name (Hulk Army):

[RagingLightSpeed is online]

YarBaby: Rage! You are finally online let's play one game. With two squads only!

SendHelp: With two squads only? Aren't we supposed to be a team? Should I leave this server?

[RagingLightSpeed is typing. . .]

She has to decide if she will go with two squads, because she will use her time practicing with it only. But if she chooses a group squad that consists of four, then she will have a chance to bring the team in the list for the approaching competition.

RagingLightSpeed : How about we go with four instead of two?

ChiefMan: Rage is sensible. So who will send the invites?

SendHelp: Let me log in first.

YarBaby: You did not log in yet?

SendHelp: Nope. Not yet.

ChiefMan: I am in the lobby.

SendHelp: (• ▽ •;)

[RagingLightSpeed set its status into Busy]

She minimizes the discord screen and clicked back at the android emulator of were the game was. She adjusted the emulator window and placed it on the left side of the screen to proceed on doing her research.

While she was waiting for her team to send an invite, she opened bing and searched about beautiful animal photography. The image page was still loading in, white screen.

And when she was about to look away, her eyes got locked in with a two beautiful pair of wolfs eye. As if she knew the wolf, she stared at the picture for a minute. Her heart thumped. As she tried to scroll down for a different picture, she accidentally pressed the wrong button and made the wolfs eyes image expand to fullscreen.

She immediately avoided looking at the image and pressed the Esc (Escape) key for the third time in a row.

Her heart throb even more. And for whatever the reason was , she panicked. The photography style of the wolfs eye was captivating. She can not forget it, even if she close her eyes , once , twice, the image has been completely printed out perfectly in her memory.

As the image goes back to its normal size , she instantly look at the emulator.

[BattleAxeEmpress (A.K.A. SendHelp) invites you to a group battle]

She accepted the invite by pressing the check mark. The group battle was about to begin. And she chose to close down the other window from the right side of her screen. She can continue her research after the game ends. Plus, she needed a balanced ping for a smooth gaming experience.

But, she can not forget the eyes of that wolf.

[In game countdown: Three, Two, One]

RagingLightSpeed was her in game name , and her character was a woman who wears a bombed head as her hat, and set with crop top, black hood paired with black, fitted jogger pants.

The aircrafts camera view was realistic , she sees the game like she was there for real. Ordinary people would not understand the kind of imagination she has. As the leader in game she pinned the drop off location.

She slightly giggled in front of her netbook, as she watched the three members of her squad jumped out from the aircraft on her pinned location.

They did not realized she tricked them until they noticed she passed by from the pinned location she marked.

With no warning , GunChaser (A.K.A. YarBaby) opened the mic on his side. He did not stop himself from mentioning her.

"Rage! I swear if you did this just because you wanted to drive the new sticker of your Lamborghini --"

"Just let it be, Chase." RoadKillerRifle (A.K.A. Chiefman) said through his mic as he breathed on it.

With her two male squad talking on the other side , she eventually let go of the mouse from her right-hand and with her left hand moving away from the keyboard too.

She then covered her ears using her hands due to the sharp noise coming from one of her male squads or maybe it was just her netbook trying to keep up with her.

Gladly, her team went speechless and the sharp noise disappeared with it.

But then her in game screen says : Reconnecting. . .

At the same time , the timer from her alarm clock that she set, beeped. She hurriedly turned her alarm off by just throwing it inside her rusty cabinet.

And the in game screen says : Reconnected

She then saw her character jumped out from the aircraft.