Miss Witch, even if we're poor, we can't sell ourselves!

Back in her dorm, Mi Ye kicked off her shoes, lay back on her bed, buried her chin in the pillow, and opened the game map promotional video that the official account of Starfall into the Sea had just released.

The camera swoops down from above the clouds, passing through layers of light from exploding fireworks, and slowly unfolds its full view of an ancient city built against the mountain in the night.

At the foot of the mountain are winding streets and alleys, with warm yellow paper lanterns hanging on both sides of the bluestone road. Each lantern sways gently, and the firelight shines through the paper to create a gentle halo.

The hillside is covered with layers of carved railings and pavilions, with upturned eaves and vermilion pillars. Strings of copper bells hang from the eaves of each layer, making a soft, clear sound when the wind blows.

Along the mountainside, a wide river meanders through the landscape. The water is a deep, dark blue under the night sky, and hundreds of lanterns move slowly with the current, as if the entire Milky Way has been brought down from the sky and spread on the water.

A rustic wooden arched bridge spans the long river. The bridge is wide, and glowing vines entwine the railings, with small white flowers blooming among them.

The other end of the bridge connects to a stage built on the water, with layers of red curtains hanging on it, swaying gently in the night breeze.

Fireworks kept exploding in the sky, golden, silver, and blue-purple, each burst illuminating the entire city for a moment before shattering into countless points of light that scattered down.

In the city's streets and alleys, some witches rode brooms low over the rooftops, leaving colorful stardust trails at the ends of the brooms; others strolled side by side with their companions, holding candied hawthorns, laughing and shoving each other.

Steam was rising from the steamed bun stall by the roadside, and the little witch selling lanterns was helping another little witch choose a lantern.

The comments section started flooding the screen from the very first second.

What kind of amazing map is this?!

Please let me in! I'll do anything!

I've been crying for three days now because I didn't get a spot in the first closed beta test.

I can only wait until 7 PM to watch the live stream and satisfy my craving qwq

She turned off the subtitles and watched it again, her eyes reflecting the warm yellow sea of ​​lights on the screen, her mouth unconsciously slightly open.

This is so beautiful!

She rolled over and lay on her back in bed, held her phone above her face, scrolled through the comments section again, and then opened WW to send a message to Luyue.

[Miss Lu, I watched the promotional video, and that Lantern Banyan Street is so beautiful!!]

It really looks good.

How can you be so calm?! That's your game!

[I reviewed the map. The first version of the lanterns had a cool color, so I had the art team change them all to a warm yellow.]

[...So it was you who did this! Good job changing it! Warm yellow is so cool!]

Yes, have fun!

Miya looked at the last reply, buried her face in the pillow and rubbed it against it, then rolled over and lay on her stomach on the bed, swinging her legs, and switched her phone screen to the clock.

There are still a few hours until 7 pm. The equipment I ordered has arrived. I'll go to the courier station to pick it up after I finish dinner!

She jumped off the bed, humming an off-key tune, and ran out of the dormitory in her slippers.

The first canteen had dry noodles today, so she ordered three large bowls with eggs and minced meat. She ate until a thin layer of sweat appeared on her forehead, wiped her mouth, and walked towards the express delivery station with satisfaction.

The witch-like woman at the delivery station searched through three shelves before finding her package. When she handed it over, she glanced at the label on the box.

"A Shihai interconnected device? You got a spot?! Holy crap?"

Mi Ye nodded and hugged the package to her chest; the box was heavier than she had imagined.

As I walked back to my dorm carrying the box, my pace quickened considerably compared to usual.

At the same moment, in a private ward on the third floor of the Central General Hospital in the distance, the jacaranda trees outside the window were quietly blooming in the setting sun.

The blue-purple clusters of flowers deepened in the afterglow of the setting sun, and the walls of the ward and the package in March Summer's hands were all tinged with a faint purple.

March Summer leaned against the headboard and opened the package that the nurse had brought her, placing it on her lap.

Inside was a set of the same mind-sea interconnection device as Mi Ye, along with a small handwritten card with round, slightly crooked handwriting that read:

See you in the game, little ghost! —flos.

She ran her finger over the writing on the card, then placed it next to her pillow, snuggling it close to the little pig pillow.

She couldn't say how long it had been since she had truly seen the world.

The deterioration of her eyesight was like the layers of ice forming on the surface of water in winter; by the time she realized the seriousness of the problem, the surface was already frozen solid.

She can still distinguish colors: blue is the blue of the jacaranda, white is the white of the snow outside the window, and light purple is the light spots of the setting sun shining through the petals onto the wall of the ward, but she still can't see the details clearly.

She could only see a cluster of small white dots on the daisy on the windowsill; she couldn't make out how many petals there were.

She could only see a large bluish-purple light from the jacaranda tree outside the window; she couldn't make out the shape of each individual flower.

When Mi Ye conjured up that entire sea of ​​flowers downstairs at noon, what she saw was a vast expanse of white light covering the ground, with blue-purple orbs of light pouring down from above. It was so beautiful that she wanted to cry, but she couldn't see what expression was on Mi Ye's face at that moment.

If only I could see all of this clearly.

So, from the moment Qianjing Group released its first PV, March Summer started paying attention to this game.

The Consciousness Sea Interconnection Technology directly connects consciousness to the virtual world, and all visual, auditory, and tactile sensations are directly constructed at the Consciousness Sea level.

In other words, it does not require relying on the eyes, nor on its own magic circuits that have degenerated to more than 80%.

In the game, she can obtain a healthy body.

When the first round of applications for the test opened, she sat in front of her phone for three whole hours, repeatedly refreshing the screen, and submitted her application the moment the application channel opened.

Then he was not selected.

She calmly closed the webpage, remained silent in front of the screen for a long time, then opened MikuFans to continue her live stream, smiling and telling the audience that it was okay, there would be another chance in the second closed beta test.

But she knew in her heart that the second test would have to wait until February, and the doctor had told her that her circulatory system was deteriorating faster than expected, and that it would be a conservative estimate if she could hold on until March of the following year.

In other words, she might not live to see the second closed beta test.

Then flos sent her a message with an activation code attached.

Even now, San Yuexia still can't understand why this girl, who had been watching her live stream since it had less than a hundred viewers, was so kind to her.

Flos has given her many gifts and helped her climb the newcomer rankings. She watches every live stream from beginning to end, and for every song she sings, she sends a white flower emoji in the chat.

March Summer didn't know what flos looked like, or who was behind that ID. All she knew was that flos would appear in her live stream at 4 a.m., say that the song was sung very well, and send a long message to cheer her up when she was in a bad mood.

Moreover, the other party has now given her a spot in the first test. Some people online have offered millions of Loren for a single spot but still can't get one, while the other party just asked her if she wanted to play together and then gave her one of the spots.

In March, Xia looked at the handwritten card again. Although the handwriting was just a few blurry black dots in her eyes, she stared at it for a long time.

If, by any chance, she could still stand on the stage of the Kohaku Uta Gassen (Red and White Song Battle).

Not as a weak patient lying in a hospital bed who can't even see the faces of his fans, but as a true singer who sings his songs to the whole world.

Just thinking about it made her heart race.

She wanted to see Flos.

Even if I have nothing to offer, even if the other person might be disappointed after we meet...

Even so, she still wanted to see him!

The only things she can really offer are her face and her singing voice.

But besides being good-looking, what use is this body?

I get out of breath after walking just a few steps, and even planting a tree downstairs requires me to squat on a bench and rest for a long time.

Will the other person find her troublesome?

Wouldn't you feel that getting to know such a sickly person is a burden?

The last rays of the setting sun filtered through the clusters of jacaranda blossoms outside the window, bathing the entire ward in a gentle, pale purple hue.

In March, Xia picked up the cushion, hugged it to her chest, buried her chin in the pig's round belly, and closed her eyes.

Her heart was still beating fast, but she felt more anticipation than fear.

She could see again at seven o'clock in the evening.

And all of this is because of that little witch named Flos.