As the midday heat turned into an invisible cat scratching people's faces, Jhon was walking towards his law office with his black briefcase and black suit.
After a long walk, he came to a building with a Japanese ramen shop on the ground floor.
As Jhon walked past the shop, the smell of extra spicy ramen hit his nose and he almost fainted. He kept climbing the stairs, tilting his head to look in the window to see a middle-aged Japanese couple serving ramen to their customers.
John was a ramen lover himself, but just the thought of eating ramen in this heat made him have to fight the liquid trying to get out of his throat.
After climbing up to the second floor, Jhon stopped in front of the door to his office, took his key out of his pocket, and opened the door. The first thing he did as soon as he entered the office was to close the curtains and block out the sunlight.
After relaxing a bit, he turned on his computer and started watching streamers play games on the internet. Since he didn't get many customers at work, this was how he spent an average day.
As Jhon continued to watch the stream, he saw the broadcaster on the air turn his head out the window and frown suspiciously. Thinking it was a fan going to the streamer's house and trolling him, Jhon turned up the volume and waited eagerly for the action that was about to unfold.
This kind of thing often happened on the broadcasts of a streamer called Elraen. Sometimes kids would shine lasers into the room where he was broadcasting. Sometimes some people would sabotage his broadcast with drones.
After looking out the window of his house for a while, the broadcaster came back, put on the headset, and told his viewers that they had to see this as if he had seen something shocking.
When Jhon saw him pick up the camera and point out the window, the first thing that caught his attention was a huge ball of flame that appeared in the sky over the city where the streamer was and then began to fall fast to the ground.
Jhon sweated for a moment, thinking that they were about to suffer the catastrophe that had ended the dinosaurs, then remembered that this meteorite had just entered the atmosphere and would soon burn up and shrink to insignificance. Once the danger had passed, he relaxed his clenched buttocks and watched the beauty of the asteroid and the reaction of the broadcaster.
But gradually his tension began to rise again as he realized that the fireball didn't seem to be shrinking at all. The streamer was also covered in sweat and had lost the ability to speak.
After the fireball hit the ground and caused a huge flash, both the broadcaster and Jhon waited for the shockwave to destroy everything, but nothing happened.
Jhon released the breath he had been holding for so long and started cursing the producers of the movies he had been watching and his physics teacher. After a while, Jhon went off the air to find out what had happened and investigated the country where the broadcaster lived. Then he started searching the internet for the meteor that fell in Turkey.
He was trying to read a news article about supernatural meteors appearing in Turkey and China when suddenly an Ad for the broadcast appeared in the corner of his screen.
After making sure his ad blocker was working, Jhon tried to close the broadcast ad, but to no avail. He angrily said he would leave the site and read the news on another site, but when he returned to the search engine the ad was still there.
Frowning and expecting the worst, he closed the search engine, cursed loudly when he saw that the ad was still there on his home screen, and started the mission manager, but strangely the ad wasn't even there according to the data.
Jhon finally gave up and decided to take the computer to a repair shop, but first, he took a risk and clicked on the ad to satisfy his curiosity. After all, the only thing he saw the whole time the ad was there was a movie-like video.
As soon as Jhon clicked on the ad, it turned into a full-screen live broadcast. It was literally like a broadcast screen with a chat running at the speed of sound on the left side.
John continued to watch the livestream for a while, seeing nothing but confused people wandering around a strange city painted mostly in white. Watching this image for a long time was already starting to creep him out.
He focused on watching for a while and then started to read the conversations on the chat screen to get rid of the awkward tension. It seemed that everyone who was writing messages was confused about this live broadcast. Eventually, john guessed that it was the work of a large group of hackers and continued to examine the interface. The fact that everyone was speaking in English made him think it was a national attack.
After a short investigation, he discovered a camera switch button.
When he clicked the button, the camera switched to another person's viewpoint somewhere else in the same city. After clicking the button repeatedly for a while, he realized that the number of camera angles that could be changed was limited to two.
While John was waiting to see what the hackers would show humanity, the video on the screen changed and went into full-screen mode. The chat and other parts disappeared, leaving only the face of a childish person looking curiously at the camera.
Jhon approached the screen and looked at the white-haired boy reading the papers in his hand. He looked like an ordinary human child, albeit with some odd features, like one of his eyes being blue and the other red.
After a long wait, the boy opened his mouth to speak in an unknown foreign language that all humans strangely understood.
"Earth-999. Hi!"
--------A few minutes ago at the European Congress
While this strange event was happening, European countries were organizing a European Union meeting. The delegations of many countries were bored and waiting on the stage for the president to speak when all of a sudden everyone turned their attention to their headphones.
The Republican President on the podium thought that the people below were ignoring him because he was the President of a small country. As the president of a country that is part of the European Union, this made him angry, so he decided to raise his voice and remind people that he was speaking.
"Ahem, Honorable Madam president of the European parliament. If you don't plan to do something about the way I am being treated now, I, as the fifteenth President of the Republic of Greater Finland, will be forced to unilaterally sever Finland's relationship with the European Union."
Unfortunately, at the same time, the lady who was the president of the European Union's parliament was ignoring what the president was saying and communicating with people in her earpiece.
Just as the president was about to lose his temper, a child appeared on the giant screen of the meeting room.
"You are probably confused about what is going on. But don't worry, I'm here with good news. How rude of me, let me introduce myself first. You can call me the god of games or the god of fun.
Anyway, the Almighty says that the inhabitants of the planet Earth in our multidimensional galaxy have very high potential but are born on low-resource planets that cannot utilize this potential. And I agree with him, especially you people, the people of Earth-999, are very good at entertainment...
Huh! I've gone too far off the subject and you are probably confused. Forget what I just said. You, the human race, live on the planet Earth, which has very low resources, and we want to give you more resources. That's where I come in.
Of course, the Almighty said that I should give a certain resource to those who deserve it the most, so I decided to put your world in a game with many different versions of your world and divide the resources accordingly."
The boy who introduced himself as the game god read the chat for a while after saying his last sentences and slowly the excitement on his face began to fade. He thought that this conversation would be enough to explain to them what was going on since the people in this world have what is called fantasy fiction, but then he realized that it was not.
"All right, I don't want to explain anymore, I'll just summarize. There is a multiverse, there are many different versions of the earth of you monkeys, I have a banana, a male and female monkey are randomly selected from each world, and all the monkeys play a game, the winning monkey and his planet win a banana. The monkeys can use this broadcast to watch the game if they want. Capeesh?"
After the boy, who described himself as the god of games and fun, said these words, the screen changed, leaving behind a live broadcast played from the point of view of two different people.
The boy who called himself a god laughed and mocked the whole of humanity, while the whole world wondered why they could understand what he was saying even though they didn't speak the language he spoke.