6:30 a.m
The sun began to rise, and the sunlight slowly came through the glass wall, illuminating the whole corridor.
Lai Jiayi, who was cleaning the floor, couldn't help but notice this. She quickly turned around to see the beautiful view outside through the glass wall.
The sky, which was pitch black before, suddenly turned orange-ish.
The scenery down there also slowly could be seen with naked eyes. The sunlight gently shone upon the whole city, somehow creating an unusual feeling inside Lai Jiayi's chest.
'Ah... it has been a while since I last saw this scene.'
Lai Jiayi was still in her position, squatting not far from the glass wall.
The girl was focusing on the scenery outside the wall. She didn't notice that the door next to Zhao Yang's place was suddenly opened with a soft CLACK sound.
A short girl wearing a blue-white sailor uniform opened the door before walking out.
She slowly turned her head around and immediately noticed Lai Jiayi right away, but since Lai Jiayi's back was all anyone could see, the girl ignored her.
The girl walked away, and instantly, the sound of her light footsteps rang throughout the corridor.
Yaya and Lai Jiayi couldn't help but notice that someone else was there, other than them.
Still, Lai Jiayi didn't bother to see who was there, but that's not the case for Yaya.
Yaya, who was watching the surroundings to protect Lai Jiayi, immediately found this girl.
When the girl already walked a bit farther away, he immediately called Lai Jiayi, "Jia, look, quack. There's someone over there, quack!"
Hearing this, Lai Jiayi immediately turned her body around out of curiosity while still squatting. Right when she turned around, she saw the young girl Yaya referred to.
The girl was weirdly eye-catching with her voluptuous short twin-tail. The lavender color was really unique, giving off a mysterious vibe.
Even though Lai Jiayi could only see the girl's back, she immediately had a feeling that this girl wasn't simple.
"...she is one of the players, right?" Lai Jiayi squinted her eyes as she asked.
The girl became sure about this as she had just spotted a small black cat hanging around the twin-tail girl. The cat seemed to be an AI, just like Yaya.
Yaya immediately answered, "Hm, quack. The game will notify you if you meet another player for the first time, but..."
"But?"
"But you have to meet the player face-to-face else the game won't notify you, quack."
Yaya still spoke as he stared at the young girl who should be a middle-schooler looking from her sailor uniform.
"For the time being, quack, the 'player' section is filled with nine black boxes, quack."
"Mn?"
"You will only be able to see their silhouette, quack," Yaya explained.
"I see but wait, that girl, a middle schooler, right?"
"Right, quack. Why?"
"Then how can she dye her hair in that lavender color?" Lai Jiayi suddenly asked after she went silent for a few seconds.
The girl's focus was entirely different from Yaya's focus.
Yaya: š
"Why is your focus on her hair, quack??" Yaya rolled his eyes in annoyance and just about to answer Lai Jiayi's meaningless question when both of them saw something strange.
The middle-schooler hair suddenly changed color! It changed from lavender to jet black, suitable hair color for a student.
Startled, Lai Jiayi and Yaya were stunned silly. Both of them dropped their jaws to the floor as their mouth was opened wide.
"Sheā¦.her hair...just change color?" Lai Jiayi pointed her trembling finger to the twin-tailed girl figure disappearing behind the elevator.
She had seen someone with colorful hair glowing like a light bulb, but she never saw someone who could change their hair color in just a second!
Yaya knew that technology nowadays was really advanced, but it's also his first time seeing this.
The duck nodded his head as he said, "She uses the current trendy technology for teens that can change hair color very quickly, quack! "
The AI stared blankly at the closed elevator door as he spoke.
He thought that all the players would be someone miserable...but this girl didn't look so?
"I seeā¦" Lai Jiayi nodded stiffly as she also had the same thought at the AI.
'This girl looked rich enough to install such technology in her hair, so...why should she play this super dangerous game?'
Lai Jiayi was curious, but she knew curiosity killed the cat, so...it would be better if she focused on her own things now.
"Forget her. Let's clean up this corridor and go to the campus! I got a morning class starting from 8 a.m." Lai Jiayi flicked Yaya's forehead and went back to her work.
The girl energetically cleaned the whole corridor even though she was already bathing in sweat.
"Ugh, I gotta retake a bath before going to the campusā¦" Lai Jiayi protested as she wiped her sweaty face.
Hearing this, Yaya immediately responded, "This apartment got a public bathroom, quack! Just use that later."
His words encouraged Lai Jiayi to finish her work and immediately took a bath after.
The girl then continued her work until 15 minutes before 8 a.m.
After finishing her job, she hurriedly went to the public bathroom to take a bath before going to her college, which wasn't far from the apartment.
Along the way, the girl prayed in her heart.
'At 8 a.m, the target, Mr. Zhao, will come out from his house....hope he notices my hard work!'
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