Rita quickly picked up the mobile. Luckily, the call was still on.“Hello, Mr. Russell,” Rita quickly said. “Are you still there?”“Yeah. I called you because I saw your mail,” Russell said. “You’re not going to disappoint me a second time, right? If it wasn’t for the innovation of the product you showed and your father’s reputation, I wouldn’t have called today.”“T-Thank you so much, Mr. Russell. There won’t be any disappointments this time,” Rita said confidently but in a friendly tone. “I assure you.”“Let us meet tomorrow. I’ll mail you the details.”“Sure.”The call ended.“Was that really Russell Creed?” Faye asked in a hurry.“Yep. The richest man in the world,” Rita smiled. “I was only fifty percent sure, but he called rather quickly.”“That means our app is just that good,” Faye laughed. “We might really be able to sell the operating system for forty billion like Caleb said. And then the app on top of that… he’s really going to make a lot of money.”“He’s the creator of the

Caleb’s consciousness entered the spirit realm.The first thing he noticed was the silence—not the quiet of an empty park, but a vast, listening stillness, like the world itself was holding its breath.It was as if the time itself had slowed down all around him.He stood on an endless stretch of pale ground that looked like ash, yet rippled like water beneath his feet. Above him, the sky was fractured—layers of twilight folding over one another, as if day and night had been broken and stitched back wrong.For some reason, it felt like the world itself was reflecting his own spirit.As he stepped forward, his world began to slowly fade away, and a new world took its place.Everything was bigger now.The trees were huge, some even penetrating the clouds. The leaves themselves were bigger than football grounds.Suddenly, he heard a distant howl. Then a whisper. A laughter that didn’t belong to any throat. Shapes moved at the edge of his vision.A deer with too many eyes stepped out of the

Caleb returned to the apartment.Some of the guys there tried to give him bags containing fruits and vegetables, but he just shook his head and went upstairs.Now, he was able to cover three to four steps at once without getting out of breath.In front of his flat, a blonde girl was waiting with a bouquet in her hands.“Caleb, these are for you,” she gave the bouquet to him.“For me? Why?” Caleb was a bit baffled. “It’s not even my birthday.”“Do you need a special reason to give someone flowers?” she asked back.“Well, of course,” Caleb tried to give the bouquet back to her, but she stepped back. “I can’t receive these flowers for no reason. It’s not like we’re dating or anything.”Her fingers twirled around her hair. “Then why don’t we date?” She seemed all shy and excited at the same time.She was a good-looking girl who just reached 18 years of age a month back, and she was one of the daughters of the men living in this apartment.They probably told this girl to make Caleb fall fo

Rita and Faye were on their way to the Creed Zone, which was also known as the wealthiest hub in the world.This was because many gamers who played the VR game Dream Creed had become millionaires.“Only five years back, I remember women chasing after software engineers,” Faye said. “They were earning over 100K back then. But a lot has changed in these five years. It’s not due to AI but due to this VR game. The average player of Dream Creed is earning much more than the world’s average income. It just shows why this game has become the most popular game in the world.”“I never played it,” Rita said. “Not even once because my dad was against it.”“He might have been afraid that you might get attracted to the game and give up on the company,” Faye chortled. “I don’t blame him for thinking like that.”“What about you? Did you play it?” Rita curiously asked.“A few days, yes, but I got a fever from playing too much,” Faye said. “Since then my mom hasn't let me play the game. She even destr

Caleb’s car entered the Creed Zone without any problem.This was his second time coming here, yet he was still awestruck by the architecture.“I couldn’t tell it in the past, but now I’m sure. There is no way that regular humans built these buildings,” Caleb thought.His skill ‘Super Designer’ allowed him to see the structures and what kind of complicated procedures the builders had to go through to build such intricate skyrises.The lower floors were so spacious that entire markets fit inside these thick bases.“A special kind of brick is used to build these things…” Caleb thought. “I can feel some kind of vague energy coming off from them. Not sure what it is, but it feels like it’s extending the life of these buildings..”Caleb’s car was going at a snail pace as he was observing the buildings one after another and how they were connected.He was learning a lot.“Those bridges connecting the skyscrapers… they somehow mixed metal and bird bones in it, making it light yet sturdy. Just