2025-08-11 02:16:25"That's impossible!" Mr. Daniel exclaimed as he shifted his gaze back to the gruesome scene happening downstairs. His expression wasn't the one Everett was expecting after he had just told him something that sounded crazy.
The expression on Mr. Daniel's face was one of shock and disappointment. It was almost as if he was expecting this, just not expecting it to be this way.
"No, the code was supposed to make my game dominate yours and then, with my game dominating yours, it would have enough power to clash with reality and make the Blood Battlefield into the new reality. But somehow, your code was able to dominate mine, and now your game, The Aero Game, is a reality!" Mr. Daniel grabbed his head, with buckets of sweat trickling down his face, and his white suit was now drenched in sweat.
A puzzled expression appeared on Everett's face after hearing Mr. Daniel's words. It was almost like he was talking gibberish.
"What do you mean? I don't understand!" Everett questioned.
"There's no time to explain! All you need to know is that the former world you once knew is now gone! The whole world now lives under the rule of the game you created! No more governments, no more laws, just the laws of the game!" Mr. Daniel voiced out as he was currently panicking.
"Sir, please, I am not following!" Everett still couldn't understand. The commotion and massacre going on downstairs prevented him from understanding and kept distracting him.
"The code I made you input into my computer was a project I have been working on for twenty years now. A project that would change the whole world. A project that would make my game a reality! But somehow I failed, and now your survival game has merged with the real world!" Mr. Daniel explained.
Everett remained mute. His heart racing and sweat trickling down his face as he shifted his gaze to the commotion downstairs.
"Shit. This is exactly how it is in the game. The level one is about the player going to a headquarters to strike a deal with a man named." Everett paused in his words as he shifted his gaze towards Mr. Daniel. "The man was named Daniel. I named him after you since you were the one who inspired me." Everett's eyes widened in shock.
"Exactly. What's happening now is exactly what happened in level one of the game. You are the main character, and you came to the headquarters to strike a deal with me, just like how you came here tonight to discuss business. Since that's the case, then we will surely make it out of here alive without getting eaten by those lizards. You are the creator, so you should know the lizards' weakness or better still know a safe exit." Mr. Daniel bellowed as he wiped the beads of sweat off his face with his sleeves.
"This is bad." Everett commented with a tensed look on his face. "I only focused on the main character when creating the game. Meaning I only programmed it in the game that the main character escapes through a hidden tunnel, while everyone else in the headquarters got eaten by the lizards." Everett explained.
"What? Why would you do that?" Mr. Daniel exclaimed in shock.
"I don't know. I didn't really pay attention to extras since they were only added to make the game more realistic." Everett responded.
"So, you are saying everyone here, including me, would die?" Mr. Daniel questioned, and Everett remained silent as he was lost in thought.
While designing the game, he made three solutions for the main character to pass the first level. The first solution was for him to kill Mr. Daniel and unlock an instant weapon and also get a portable portal that would teleport him out of the headquarters.
But Everett never used that option while playing since he respected Mr. Daniel even if he was a character in a game.
The second solution was to fight his way out of there, meaning he would have to fight with all he had against the lizards to find an exit.
That was mostly how Everett loved completing this level since he enjoyed fighting the lizards.
But now that it's all real and he couldn't just respawn whenever he dies, he knew fighting them would be suicide.
Which leaves him with the last solution, and that was to find a secret tunnel. Everett never bothered to find this tunnel since crawling through a tunnel would be so boring to play.
And whenever he gets to the end of the tunnel, there is always a lizard waiting for him.
"There might be a way to save you. I didn't focus on the extra characters while creating the game, so I didn't program them to live past this level. But because I didn't program it doesn't mean I can't let them survive. I can always fight the whole lizard's way before they kill anyone, and by doing so, everyone would survive. But since this is not a game but the real world, I can't start fighting those lizards. I can also take them along the escape route if I please, and in doing so, they survive."
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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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