2025-08-11 02:09:27The bus finally pulled over after arriving at its destination. Everett got off the bus and glanced around the area he now found himself in.
"I already asked Alice to meet me here, so she'll be here any minute," Everett mused as he walked towards a nearby wall and stood to wait.
Alice was Everett's colleague at work, and while he was on the bus, he managed to convince her to meet him here. Everett did well to leave out some details, afraid of how she might react.
Everett leaned his back on the wall and took out his phone to play some games until she arrived. The anticipation inside him was killing him, and all he needed now was a distraction.
While Everett stood there playing his game, the sound of a vehicle driving towards him caught his attention. He turned off his phone and shifted his gaze towards the direction of the sound.
"She's here already. That's quick," Everett muttered to himself as he saw a car driving towards him. He couldn't see what car it was exactly since the lights were blinding.
"That doesn't look like Alice's boyfriend's car," Everett mumbled as the car pulled over in front of him. It was an expensive black limousine.
The doors of the limousine opened, and three men dressed in black suits got out of the car and began to walk towards Everett. Everett panicked as the men walked towards him with fierce looks on their faces, and he had no choice but to take a few steps backwards.
"Are you Mr. Everett Lang?" One of the men questioned in a deep voice.
"Yeah. Who are you guys?" Everett questioned in a shaky voice, fear written all over his face.
"We were sent by DDD to come get you. Please, follow us," the man informed.
It was at that moment Everett felt relieved. He had thought they were kidnappers or armed robbers, so he panicked. But since they were sent by DDD, he knew he was safe.
"So, he sent a private expensive car to come get me? Wow," Everett blurted out in disbelief as he began to walk towards the limousine. "Um, my friend. We planned on going together. She will be here any moment now," Everett halted his steps and informed.
"There is no time to waste, Everett. Let's go," the man informed, and Everett nodded. Besides, he could always call her to tell her not to bother anymore.
Everett got into the luxurious car, and the door was shut. Two of the men also got in and sat beside him, while one went to the driver's seat.
The engine started, and the car drove off.
While sitting inside the car, Everett pulled out his phone and began to dial Alice's number to inform her about what happened and also save her the stress of coming back to the store.
"No signal in here," Everett lamented as the call failed to connect. He tried dialing the number again, but it still failed, so he just gave up and placed his phone back in his pocket and leaned back in his seat.
The limousine drove for several hours, and even Everett was starting to feel slightly uncomfortable. The men seated with him hadn't said a single word ever since they began the journey, and that alone creeped him out.
After a few more hours of driving, the car finally stopped moving. The door was opened, and Everett got out of the car and glanced around the place.
Everett's mouth widened in amazement as he examined the headquarters of the Blood Battlefield.
It was a tall skyscraper with several billboards displaying gameplay and advertisements of the Blood Battlefield game. Several expensive cars were parked outside, and workers could be seen walking here and there.
"This way," the deep voice of the man snapped Everett out of his daydream as he began to walk forward, and Everett followed him closely behind. He led Everett to an elevator, and they both got in as it began to take them up to the top floor.
In a few minutes' time, the elevator chimed, and the doors slid open. The man in the black suit and Everett stepped out of the elevator and began to walk towards an office stationed meters away.
Arriving in front of the office, the man knocked on the door three times before speaking. "Go inside, he is expecting you."
"Shouldn't we wait for his response after knocking?" Everett inquired nervously while straightening his salesman's uniform.
"Go inside, he is expecting you," the man repeated. Everett nodded as he pushed the door open and walked into the neatly arranged office.
The office was quite vast and spacious, with several modern designs. A flat-screen TV was mounted on the wall, and the wall behind it was made of glass, offering a nice view of the city.
Everett noticed a man in his early thirties working on his computer. He had short black hair, was clad in a white suit, and wore glasses.
"Good evening, sir. It's me, Everett Lang," Everett introduced respectfully.
The man paused in what he was doing and shifted his gaze towards Everett.
"You must be Everett Lang. Please, have a seat. I have been expecting you," Mr. Daniel D. David spoke with a smile, pointing towards an empty seat in front of him.
Everett nodded as he sat down on the chair and straightened his shirt.
"Wow, to be honest, I was expecting someone much older," Mr. Daniel chuckled slightly. "Don't get me wrong, though. It feels good knowing we have young talented individuals in our community who are capable of crafting a masterpiece," he added.
"Yes, sir. I have always studied programming right from when I was a baby, and I have always been an avid gamer. I have been playing your game for seven years now, and you inspired me to create mine," Everett remarked with a slight bow.
"That's nice. It feels good knowing I actually inspired someone with my own game," Mr. Daniel smiled. "About what I told you in the review sections earlier concerning the collaboration. Are you interested?"
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The crowd of players began to mutter angrily. The fear in their hearts was morphing into a violent, desperate anger. When people are terrified of the end of the world, they look for someone to blame. They need a scapegoat. They need a reason. And Everett was the perfect reason. He was the anomaly. He was the man who refused the rules. "If we kill the virus, the computer fixes itself!" Garet yelled to the crowd. He raised his heavy iron hammer high into the air. "Kill the glitch!" another player screamed, pulling out a laser rifle. "Kill him and save the server!" Fifty players let go of the fences and the statues. They allowed the broken gravity to make them light, bounding across the town square like wild, angry animals. They raised their swords, their guns, and their axes. They were coming for Everett. Silas stepped in front of Everett. The brave sniper raised his rifle. He aimed it directly at Garet’s chest. "Back off!" Silas roared, his voice booming with military authority.
Chapter 544
Everett stood up. He grabbed his heavy black greatsword. He did not walk carefully. He let go of control. He surrendered to his own body. Everett ran toward the front doors of the supermarket. His body jerked wildly. He ducked to the left. Two seconds later, a heavy wooden beam crashed through the spot where his head had been. He swung his sword blindly to the right. One second later, a falling piece of iron pipe hit the blade and bounced away safely. He was perfectly dodging things that had not fallen yet. He looked like a madman dancing to a silent song. But he was weaving a perfectly safe path through the collapsing building. "Step exactly where I step!" Everett yelled over his shoulder. Silas grabbed Rae’s hand. Lyra stayed close behind them. They followed Everett’s strange, jerky movements. They ran through the aisles of floating food. The gravity kept turning on and off. One step, they were heavy. The next step, they bounced ten feet into the air like astronauts on the moo
Chapter 543
Everett watched the bullet casing fall. But it did not hit the floor. The small piece of brass fell halfway to the ground, stopped in mid-air, and then slowly floated upward. It drifted past Silas's face and bumped gently against the ceiling. "Gravity," Lyra whispered in horror. She looked around the grocery store. Cans of synthetic soup were lifting off the metal shelves. They were floating through the air like bubbles underwater. A broken piece of glass rose from the floor and hovered in front of Everett’s face. Outside the window, the snow was falling upward. White snowflakes drifted from the ground up into the broken, neon sky. Everett felt his own boots getting light. He felt like he weighed nothing. If he pushed too hard, he would float away. "Rae!" Everett yelled, grabbing the edge of a heavy metal shelf to keep himself anchored to the floor. "What is Chrono-Degradation?! What is happening to the world?!"Rae was clutching her heavy laptop to her chest. She had wrapped he
Chapter 542
The freezing, burning hands of the static-husk squeezed Everett’s throat. Everett could not breathe. His vision was turning black. The monster’s face was a swirling mess of black and white television static. Bright red light poured out of its wide, empty mouth. "YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO SURVIVE LEVEL ONE!" the husk screamed again. The voice was a thousand broken machines grinding together. Everett had exactly 1 Health Point left. The hands on his neck were not squeezing his flesh. They were injecting raw deletion code directly into his veins. He felt his life slipping away. He felt the cold, empty void opening up to swallow him. He needed to swing his sword. He needed to cut the monster's arms off. Everett stared at his heavy black greatsword, the Null-Edge. It was lying on the dirty floor of the grocery store, three feet away from his hand. He was too weak to reach it. He was too slow. “Pick it up,” Everett thought desperately. But before the thought even finished forming in hi
Chapter 541
"He... he has no tag," Rae stuttered. Her hands started to shake. "Everett, he is not registered in the System. He is a ghost file."Everett slowly walked down Aisle Four. He approached the man in the blue shirt. The players from the town square had gathered outside the broken glass windows of the store. They were watching the famous hero. They whispered to each other, wondering what he was doing. Everett stopped three feet away from Mr. Henderson. The manager did not stop moving. He continued to pick up invisible cans and place them on the empty shelf. His eyes were completely glassy and blank. He stared straight ahead at the metal wall. "Mr. Henderson," Everett said. His deep voice echoed in the quiet, dusty aisle. The manager did not turn his head. He did not stop moving his hands. But his mouth opened. "Clean up on aisle four," Mr. Henderson said. His voice did not sound normal. It sounded like an old, scratched audio recording playing through a cheap speaker. It had a stra
Chapter 540
"His cyborgs are marching out there," the warrior warned. "They are made of black metal and purple code. They capture anyone they find. They drag them away to the glass pods. We are trapped here. If we leave this glitched town, the cold and the cyborgs will kill us.""Stay near the fires," Everett commanded gently. "Do not fight them. I am going to end this."Everett began to walk through the crowded town square. Silas, Lyra, and Rae followed closely behind him. The players parted, making a wide path for them. Everett looked around the strange town. He saw the stone castle walls mixing with the old brick walls of the modern buildings. He saw a rusty yellow taxi car half-buried inside a stone pillar. The System code here was completely broken. Reality was tearing apart. They walked toward the center of the town. In the center was the massive, ruined grocery store. The glass windows were smashed. The automatic sliding doors were stuck open. Inside, the store was dark, lit only by fl
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