"Attention, everyone," The reporter lady voice cut through the air on the radio and television. "A severe thunderstorm with extreme lightning will hit the city tonight. The meteorological department predicts, today's lightning is likely to produce a high-power outage. Please, everyone, stay indoors and avoid unnecessary travel. Be safe... and so on." The voice slightly fades in the heavy wind, replaced by the car and bike horn on the trafficked road, and heavy wind blows howls outside.On the street, people rushed to their homes, a tension on their faces etched about the announcement, and shopkeepers pulled down their shutters and locked them tightly. The dry leaves swirling at the corner of the footpath, among them, a middle-aged man's hand curled tightly over the handlebars, trying to push his repaired heavy motorcycle against the dusty wind.In the distance, a Lightning strike in the sky looked like veins, and thunder roared sharply. The tiny raindrops fell, a middle-aged man whisp

A man raised his brows in confusion in the crowd wearing baggy pants. "Level 1? " He muttered, his voice incredulous."Huh? Gamers," the short girl questioned, glancing at the remaining crowd."I thought it was a dream." A tattooed girl ponderedAn old man with a bloodied lip and bruises on his face stood up, dusting sand off his torn clothes. He stood after hearing the noise.Again, a familiar AI voice rang out, calm and mechanical, breaking the uneasy silence. "Welcome to the Land Game." The group froze, the voice cutting through the desert air like a knife. Everyone listened and followed the AI voice with sort of confusion.AI continued. "You are in the Land Arena Game. Your target is to reach the endpoint of this desert circle. Rules:- Gamers can start wherever they want.- Each person is provided with one bottle of water.- The desert is 1 kilometer wide. Gamers must reach the end within one hour.Your game starts in two minutes.If Gamers reach the end endpoint, the Game is c

"If we identify each correct and wrong square checking step. For every row, there are two possibilities, so it is multiplied by two, making the 2666 checking square step possible to reach the end." Xavier explained his perspective and his calculation."Wait…. This is insane… "Danny was stunned by Xavier's explanation."Then, how can we reach the end?" The braided girl pushed, biting her nail in curiosity, her eyes still it's remained on Xavier's calculation drawn in the sand. "Do you have a solution?" a young boy hesitated and asked in a low, trembling voice.Xavier nodded in answer, "Yes.... I do. If we go straight by Dean's method, by checking 1333 steps." He noticed everyone's shocked reaction in disbelief and continued, " If a person took 30 seconds for each step to guess the square, whether correct or wrong? 30 x 1333 is equal to 11 hrs. 11 minutes to reach the end point. Thus, we are already dead by this time."Shit! 11 hours…. It's crazy, "a ragged sound caught in Danny's thro

Noticing no more pulse beat, a wide Danny's face narrowed, realizing the truth as His head tilted slightly. "No!" he whispered. He stood up brokenly, without saying anything, his eyes lost their spark, walked towards the endpoint direction slowly, guilt and veins pulsed visibly at his neck towards the people on his face clearly etched, and his mind reeled to his bitter past. "Mom, I brought my favorite chocolate ice cream!!!!!" Danny called out, his voice filled with youthful excitement. He looked younger, holding an ice cream cone in his hand, a cream stain over his upper lip.Danny's mother stood in the huge crowd of people. She nodded with a smile, watched Danny, and waved him to wait there.Danny nodded in agreement as he licked his ice cream and closed his eyes in enjoying every bite."Buy 1 Get 1 Free!" a man with a loud voice announced in front of the shop in the supermarket. After hearing an announcement, a crowd of more than five hundred people rushed towards the single sh