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.,For a fleeting moment, all the lights in the city went out, plunging the world into darkness.,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.。