Finally Back To Reality

Chapter 2 : finally Back To Reality.

When I regained my consciousness back, the first thing I saw was a silver metallic wall with a small computer screen embedded on it.

It had been 4 years since the last time I saw this familiar metallic wall of my VR cabin, and seeing this thing was here, it meant I really had returned to reality.

Immediately after that, the small screen on the metallic wall lit up and the words welcome back appeared on it.

but I ignored it and moved my hand toward the wall and with a small force, I pushed it to the side, it then slowly slide to the side, revealing a white ceiling.

Without a second thought, I jumped out of the cabin and found myself inside a bedroom.

There were only a single bed, a work desk with a laptop and a few books stacked up at the corner of the desk, a closet, a bookcase, and a few other simple items and decoration in it.

Yup, this was my bedroom that I missed so much.

What was confusing me was the state of my bedroom was the same as when I left it a year ago.

The messy bed, my dirty clothes that were all over the place, the trash bin that was half full, etc.

Nothing had changed at all.

If I was really trapped in the game for a year, my mom should have cleaned up my bedroom numerous of times already.

Lets just say that my mom was too lazy to clean up my room, well, I didn't think my mom would ever be lazy though, there should have been a lot of dust covering the place, but there were none.

a doubt started to sprout inside of me.

Did I really trapped for a year?

To confirm my suspicion, I took my handphone on top of the bed, and checked the date and time information displayed on it.

As expected, the date was the same as the date I was trapped in the game, however the time was different.

The first player who found the disappearance of the log out menu claimed that it was 12 pm when he notice it.

But right now was only 1 am, that meant we weren't trapped for a year, but for an hour.

What ascam.

Who the hell played a terrible joke on us, the poor players.

Did Neo International did this?

But for what purpose?

Their new VR game was really popular, they didn't have to do something like trapping players just to get more exposure right?

It didn't make any sense, and in my opinion it would have a reverse effect if they really did that.

So what was really going on here?

There was no end If I kept speculating by myself, lets just checked out the official website of New World Online.

but before that, there was something I needed to do first.

it had been almost four years for me since the last time I saw my parents, I really missed them.

Luckily, my parents didn't get trap along with me, they were just your casual players who didn't have a lot of time to play and had to go work on the usual days.

And the accident of players being trapped in the game occurred exactly at Sunday midnight, and due to their jobs that required them to arrive early in the morning, right now they should have been asleep in their bedroom.

Opening the door of my bedroom, I then walked on the dark corridor on the second floor of my house.

my house was a medium size house that was divided into three floors, the first floor, second floor, and the basement.

On the first floor, we had a spacious living room, a kitchen, a dining room, a bathroom, a toilet, a garage, and also a garden at the backyard.

On the second floor was where all the bedrooms were located, there were four bedrooms in total, one master bedroom which was my parents bedroom, one room for me, and the two others were for guestrooms, and each room had its own bathroom and toilet.

As for the basement, let's talk about it later, I had arrived at my parents bedroom now.

With a slow motion as to not generate too loud of a noise, I turned the door knob in front of me and slightly pushed it until a small crack open up.

I then stuck my head inside and saw two familiar faces, they were my parents, and as I thought they were fast asleep.,

I really wanted to hug them and told them all of my stories, but I hold myself back, it was still night time after all.

So I just stood there watching their sleeping faces, relieving the longing feeling I had for them that had been bottled up inside of me for this few years in the game.

After half an hour or so, I finally closed the door of my parents bedroom, and headed back to my own room.

Now let me told you about the basement of my house.

In the past, the basement was used as a storage for our family, where all sort of items were gathered, but when I was still in high school, I turned two third of the space in it into my personal gym and gaming room.

Were you wondering why I didn't put my VR cabin in my gaming room?

There were a few reasons for that, but the biggest one was because it was almost full with my gaming consoles and other goodies.

After arriving back to my room, I immediately booted up my laptop and sat down on the chair, waiting patiently for it to start up.

Thirty second later, my laptop finally ready to be operated, I quickly opened the browser and searched for the official website of New World Online.

In the forum section, I found someone already asked the same question as mine posted on it.

Moreover, because there were too many people clicked a like on it, it now on the top section of the forum.

But the answer given by the admin wasn't satisfactory at all.

It was mentioned that Neo International never did such an act, and would never do so, because it was a crime to intentionally trapping someone out of their own will.

Another point was that, the central AI controlling the game didn't have the ability nor the capacity to increase the ratio of time, between the real time and game time, to such an impossible degree of one hour equaling four years.

At the maximal, it could increase it by eight time if it had to be done.

but it wasn't recommended to do it for a long duration of time, because it would put your nerve system in so much burden that it could cause a permanent damage to it.

also, after receiving the complaints and inquiries of so many players, the board members and CEO of Neo International decided to have an internal system check up, so in a few minutes New World Online would be shut down temporarily.

The good news I received thus far was about the players who had died more than four times in the game, they were actually still alive and kicking.

According to their stories,, after they died they immediately kicked out of the game and were automatically logged out by the system.

But the weird thing was that they seemed to be logging out at the same time as the players who were still alive.

there were many theories wrote by the players regarding this phenomena, some were saying they were put to sleep until the other players all logged out, others said that they were really had died but were resurrected after Ultima was defeated.

As for me, I was inclined toward the first opinion.

I didn't want to think what would happen if it was the second one and I failed to defeat Ultima…

It was scary to think that millions of people could die because of my failure.

Anyway, looking that there wasn't any new development regarding the trapped players, for the time being, I decided to spend some more time lurking around at other forums.

Maybe I could find new information there.

But even after an hour of surfing many forums, except for the complaints by the players and baseless speculations, I couldn't find anything useful.

I was too tired to continue surfing, so I made my mind and went straight to my bed, and it didn't take too long for me to start doze off.

the next day, I woke up very late, around 10 am. It seemed I forgot to set up the alarm clock on my handphone.

After taking a quick shower and chaned into a fresh new black shirt along with dark brown pants, I came down to the kitchen.

As I thought, there was no one at home, both my parents already went to work long ago. there was only a paper note with my mom's handwriting on it that was placed on the kitchen table.

It said to heat up the leftover breakfast if I wanted to eat, and also a reminder to bring down my dirty clothes if I wanted it to be wash.

Throwing the paper to the trash bin, I took the leftover breakfast, which was a fried rice with sausage and egg, from the refrigerator and put it into the microwave to be heated.

While waiting for my breakfast, no, it was no longer time for it, it should be my lunch now, I made myself a cup of coffee and started to watch the news on the television.

it seemed this incident had made it to the headlines of many news channels, every time I changed to another channel, the topic that was discussed was all about the trapped players. Some anchors even had become the victim of the incident themselves, and was telling the audience about their experience of being trapped in N.W.O.

the news also mentioned that many government from various countries had began to approach Neo International, offering a helping hand to investigate this incident together, but the spokeperson from Neo International replied with a smile as he told everyone to be at ease and trust them fully to uncover the truth about the incident.

When I heard this news, I snorted disdainfully at the blatant way the government of various countries trying to steal the technology of virtual reality from Neo International.

as long as there was no real casualty, the various governments couldn't do anything to Neo International .

this incident was still in Neo International scope of jurisdiction, so they could only used such tactic to pry some information about their technology.

What interest me more was the news about the time N.W.O temporary shut down was extended from a day to a week.

It seemed Neo International encounter quite the difficult problem, to think they would extended the temporary shut down for that long.

Whoops, I forgot to take out my lunch from the microwave. It should have been finished heating it up for quite some times already.

I hurried away to the microwave and took out my lunch. Thankfully it was still warm.

After finishing my lunch, I headed back to my room and started cleaning it up. It didn't take me too long to finish such a simple chore.

Looking at the time displayed on my handphhone, it was almost 1.30 am,. It was still a few hour until my parents get off from their work. So I decided to have a work out in my personal gym until then.