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Join the ServerThankfully, the venue was in our city, so Yingning and I didn’t need to take the train a day early like Huo Jinjin and the others… Oh, by the way, there were game pods on the train, so they could go online last night.
Since we were wearing miko outfits, the wide long skirts made it impossible to pedal the bicycles properly. So we had no choice but to give up cycling and call a taxi.
When he saw us, the taxi driver froze for a moment, then realized his rudeness and coughed dryly: “Are you girls going to the carnival?”
“Yes! Who wouldn’t want to go today?” Yingning replied with a sweet, expectant smile.
The closer we got to our destination, the more we saw players in various cosplay costumes lining the streets on both sides.
In the previous world, these cosplay outfits would have been considered alternative or non-mainstream, but thanks to the prevalence of holographic games, they had become everyday wear in this world.
Young and old alike loved wearing magical or fantasy-themed clothes on informal occasions, making them feel as if they had returned to the carefree game world.
Especially for large events like the carnival! Not dressing up properly would make you feel out of place!
Because of the huge number of participants, the organizers had set the carnival venue in the suburbs. We had already left the city, and the roadsides were lined with trees and fields instead of modern high-rises. Seeing the shaded paths, the players walking under the trees with swords and shields, or wearing beast ears and tails, it felt like we had traveled into the game.
Yingning and I got out of the taxi a kilometer from the venue, because the road ahead was too congested for vehicles.
“Ah, I wish I could go to the carnival too—the pet system info reveal, Yang Ye’s special release… missing any of those would be a lifelong regret… But those scalpers! I didn’t snag a single ticket! And then the ticket speculators jacked up the prices sky-high!” The taxi driver looked enviously at the diverse crowd walking by. “I wanted to come so badly that I didn’t let the self-driving mode take over; I just wanted to see you all and feel the carnival atmosphere… Ah, curse those scalpers to turn into enoki mushrooms!”
Carnival tickets had been driven to astronomical prices by scalpers. Online sales were sold out in a second—but with me around, did the scalpers stand a chance?
That’s right, I had unwillingly played the role of the biggest scalper, just so Yingning and I could get tickets.
But I hadn’t maliciously inflated prices; that was the real scalpers’ doing. They bought tickets from me at double the price and resold them at a hundred times, much worse than me!
“Don’t talk about enoki mushrooms like that; maybe they have their reasons…” I slipped a ticket into the fare and handed it to the driver, then got out of the car with Yingning.
The driver sighed and shook his head. “Reasons? No reason justifies scalping! Even enoki mushrooms are too kind… Sewing needles are what they deserve!”
Unbeknownst to me, I had just received an even crueler curse. By then, Yingning and I were standing in front of the ticket gate.
But we hesitated, not stepping forward to scan our tickets, lingering outside the gate under the gaze of those around us.
Simply put, we doubted whether we were in the right place.
We checked the GPS coordinates on our phones: N.141, outskirts of Z City.
No mistake!
“Strange…” Yingning held my arm, repeatedly confirming that there was no building in sight, and looked bewildered.
In our imaginations, the carnival would be in a huge, high-tech hall filled with all kinds of activities, like a comic convention.
But ahead, there was nothing. Only the poor gatekeepers, cowering as if afraid of being beaten by agitated players.
Behind the gatekeepers stretched an empty wilderness, not even a single tree, though we could vaguely see crowds of players blocked at the other end.
Where was the promised carnival?! Were we supposed to organize our own open-air player battle royal?
“Let’s wait. I heard the carnival officially starts at 10 a.m. It’s not even nine yet. Let’s wait here for Qingyu and the others… Oh, here they come! Yaya, get into character!”
…So she wasn’t calling me ‘big brother’ anymore, but ‘Yaya’ directly…
Alright, fine. Into character.
We had already seen photos of Turret Fairy and Huo Jin, so we recognized them immediately. Turret Fairy was a bespectacled, voluptuous intellectual lady, fitting the image of a caring older sister in Yingning’s mind.
Today, she wore a purple-red mage robe covered in flame patterns, holding a realistic red crystal staff.
The highlight was that her robe seemed ready to burst, completely unable to contain the two massive mounds on her chest… Good heavens, were they G-cups?
Huo Jinjin… that fool came in a wheelchair.
He tilted his head, deliberately pretending to have a twisted face and mouth, like the great man with ALS—Stephen William Hawking.
Huo Jinjin’s legs were perfectly fine; clearly, he was just paying tribute… to a great man!
“Everyone else is roleplaying their game characters, and you’re just being yourself…” Turret Fairy complained as usual, eager to stay far away from that moron, unwilling to let anyone know she knew him.
“What do you know? Mr. Hawking is my idol! I just wanted to feel the pain under which the great man wrote ‘A Brief History of Time’! Hey, don’t laugh! I’m serious!”
Judging by the expression on Huo Jinjin’s face, he really was serious.
Who would have thought that this goofy idiot had a great idol…
But the next second, he jumped up, revealing his true nature.
“Alright, tribute over! I have to say, guild leader, you’re as beautiful as you are in the game. The looks balancing system didn’t lie to me! To have a super beautiful guild leader like you in this lifetime is amazing! Wait… where’s the War God?”
Meeting online friends in cross-dressing was too embarrassing! So I had been deliberately hiding behind Yingning, half-crouching to hide my face. Only when Huo Jinjin spoke did I reluctantly poke my head out.
“Hi…”
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