On the Edge of Pure

It was 6:45 p.m., fifteen minutes before the official launch of Paradise, a groundbreaking online game that had everyone buzzing in their student group chat. They had already pre-ordered neural network connected VR headsets and were busy setting them up at home.,Lu Buwei put on the virtual helmet, plugged the wires into the socket by his bed, and adjusted it slightly so that the neural hub fit snugly against his temple. He lay flat on the iron bed in his dormitory.,What he didn't see was that the city had already been enveloped by a massive dark cloud, an endless storm raging across the heavens and earth, lightning and thunder tearing through the world, causing the mountains to tremble and the earth to quake.。