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Dunia virtual memang menyenangkan, kita bisa menemukan dan berteman dengan orang dari berbagai macam kota dan negara. Namun hal itu tidak selalu positif bahkan terkadang sampai memakan korban, hal ini membuat Jeana bingung apakah ia harus melanjutkan aktivitas virtualnya atau ia harus fokus pada 'real life' nya. Karena bagi Jeana dunia virtual jauh lebih menyenangkan dibanding kehidupan nyatanya yang sangat hambar, Jeana seorang gadis 16 tahun yang sangat susah besosialisai tetapi sangat gencar dalam mencari teman online. Semuanya sangat menyenangkan hanya sampai Dirga seorang lelaki 19 tahun yang entah darimana asalnya datang dalam kehidupan Jeana, ia bisa membuat Jeana sekejap merasa seperti manusia yang paling beruntung didunia ini lalu keesokan harinya ia membuat Jeana merasa seperti seburuk buruknya manusia yang hidup didunia ini. Mewarnai dan menghancurkan kehidupan Jeana dengan sekejap dan secara bersamaan, Jeana tau apa yang ia lakukan ini terlalu jauh tetapi untuk melepaskannya sangat sulit bagi Jeana. Hanya tuhan yang tahu apakah mereka bisa bersama atau tidak, Jeana sudah lelah dengan hal itu.

Jeana : F*CK VIRTUAL

Dirga : gausah sok sok an benci virtual kalo ujung ujungnya juga lo suka sm gue

Michael was astonished when he saw the President of the MMA Club. The president was actually a short blonde chick. She was about 5 Ft 3 In and had a petite body. She walked with elegance and had a mature air around her. She looked to be in her late twenties. Michael did not expect to see a girl like this in the MMA club. 

" What is going on here?" She asked the referee. 

The referee explained everything that happened while pointing at Michael occasionally. The president turned to Michael while inspecting him. She was very surprised by the referee description; he made Michael seem like Superman.  She came over and introduced herself.

" Hello my name is Jennifer Parker, I am the President of the MMA club and the Captain of the girl's collegiate team." Jennifer shook Michael's hand enthusiastically. 

" Hello, my name is Michael. I am a Freshman Business Major." Michael replied; he thought Jennifer was kinda cute. He was always more into a mature looking woman and was charmed by Jennifer's appearance.

" Well, Michael are you interested in joining the Men's collegiate team? We could use a natural talent like you." Jennifer asked Michael. She had seen the video of the fight because one of the spectators has recorded it and uploaded it to the club's Facebook page. Michael was very skilled; he was probably a natural martial arts prodigy. His movements were nearly impossible to follow and he attacked with a purpose to incapacitate.

The University of Texas was a very competitive college and the MMA club was no different. The Women's team always won the state championship; however, the Men's team always lost miserably. Jennifer was actually a Master's student; this was going to be her last semester in college. She had been a part of the MMA club for six years and had always wanted the club to win state championships for both teams. Seeing Michael in action had given her hope. 

" No thanks, I am not interested in joining. I was just keeping my friend company." Michael said while pointing to Peter. 

"Are you sure? I have many connections and can help you find a job after graduation." Jennifer did not give up. She finally saw hope in Michael and could not believe that she was rejected. 

Michael adamantly refused and left the gymnasium with Peter. He had better things to do than participate in some MMA tournament. Michael attended his classes and went back home. 

After dinner, Michael sat down to plan his future goals for the business. He still needed to form a real Investment company because it was not really feasible to trade in the Megamillions with a personal investment account. However, Michael was clueless about the procedures necessary to establish a business. He realized he needed to hire people; Empires cannot be built alone. 

Michael wondered if he should post an Ad on Indeed Jobs website to attract employees. He did not really know if he can trust other people because of his suspicious trading success. Michael also wanted to expand into other businesses eventually. He was planning on starting with Video games. 

Virtual products like games had many advantages. There would be fewer employees compared to a traditional company. Virtual product companies also faced significantly fewer regulations. A normal Factory in the US would have to comply with City, County, State and even Federal level regulations. Everyone wanted to find faults and impose massive fines. 

Virtual products had regulations too; However, compared to a traditional company it was not even worth mentioning. Michael had many ideas regarding games but for now, he decided to focus on Investing. He would keep his eyes out for good employees. He was confident that with a competitive salary package he could attract the necessary talents. 

The next day Michael attended his classes and stopped by the Business Club. He figured that he could start from here and get advice on hiring events and recruiters.  When he walked into the club office he saw some students hanging out in the office.

"Hello, is this the Business club?" Michael asked while looking around. 

"Yes, My name is Allen. I am the Club President; how can I help you?" One of the guys stood up and replied. He was dressed in professional clothes and looked like a young business professional. 

"Well I am an aspiring entrepreneur and I was wondering if I can join the club. I was looking for resources and tips for entrepreneurs." Michael replied while shaking Allen's hands.  He explained to Allen how he was trying to start a business and was looking for resources and employees. Allen was helpful and explained that the college frequently hosts hiring events where new companies can sign up and recruit graduating students. Michael was still talking when the door opened and Jennifer walked in. She saw him and stood still for a moment.

"What are you doing here?" Jennifer asked Michael. She was surprised to see the freshman who made a scene at the MMA Club here. 

" I was interested in the Business club and so I came to visit." Michael explained. What was this girl doing here?

" Oh is that right? And is our meager Business club worthy of the emperor? " Jennifer asked sarcastically. She could not believe the freshman had the nerve to turn her down. Usually, most freshmen dreamed of joining a collegiate team so they can get bragging rights. It was very rare for a freshman to be invited to a collegiate team so she was dumbfounded when he said no. Jennifer could not take it anymore and stormed out of the room while slamming the door.

Michael was helpless against the girl's temper. He turned to Allen hoping that he would explain her role in the Business club.

"How do you know Jennifer? What did you do to anger her? You better apologize or you will not have a pleasant life." Allen cautiously warned Michael.

"Why, who is she?" Michael curiously asked. He thought she was just the MMA club President but it seems like she had a big presence at the university. 

" You don't know her? Oh… that's right you are a freshman. Well, she can only be described as a prodigy. She graduated from college at 18 and started working a lower-management job. She performed so well that she got promoted to the COO position. She came back to do her MBA now but she is still getting tons of offers. 

Jennifer is known as one of the top CEOs of the new generation. Her only passion is Business and Martial Arts so she is very involved in both clubs. She is actually our Vice-President (VP); she would be the perfect person to help you with your entrepreneurship. You should try to get on her good side and she will help you; although she is short-tempered, she is very helpful to fellow students." Allen explained. He did not understand how Michael angered Jennifer. But it was better for Michael to make it up to her and get on her good side. 

"Hmm… that is very interesting. Thanks for letting me know." Michael thanked Allen for all his help and left. On the way back, he was thinking about all the information he received about Jennifer. It would seem that Jennifer would be the perfect person to help him with his future business ventures. Michael walked to his classes while trying to think of ways to recruit Jennifer into his company.

Michael was just an ordinary boy living in modern-day America. He grew up in an orphanage with a bleak future. One day he acquired a mysterious package only to inherit a system. Join Michael as he changes his fate and conquers his destiny; armed with a mysterious system that tries to convince him to take over the world.

This is my first novel so I would appreciate any constructive criticism and support.


This novel will also be posted on RoyalRoad.

Star Game Club was one of the biggest game clubs in the city of Haidong, and it covered an area of 500 square meters. The business area spanned from the second to the fifth floor.
Even though it was said to be a club, it had little difference from a cybercafe in the older times. However, calling it a cybercafe would make it seem too behind the times.
Compared to a traditional cyber cafe which was usually noisy and cramped, Star Game Club was almost filled to the brim. However, other than the small chatter of the technicians and servants, it was completely silent. In the slightly broad room, green and blue light shined from the virtual helmets and virtual games.
Tap...tap…
"Eh, did some games end early? Please go and check whether the customers that have woken up from virtual game cabin zone C need any help."
"Alright, captain."
A series of beeps could be heard, and the servants and captains were familiar with the strange noise. It was the sound made before the virtual game cabin opened up.
A few female servants went to zone C, and the virtual game cabins in zone C started to open without any sound, and the players started to wake up. They opened their eyes and looked dazed, then realized that they had returned to reality.
One by one, the teenagers walked out of the cabin and stretched themselves. Many people stamped on the ground to remove the discomfort from returning to reality.
"This broken game server had another problem. If it ends at the usual time, my rank will have gone to the top 500!"
"Nonsense, it's not even that easy to get into the top 500 at all. Even though our game area only includes players from Haidong and a few other surrounding smaller cities, the population could very well exceed a few million. Even getting in the top 1000 is not easily done by us newbies. Speaking of this, brother "***" didn't even qualify for the top 1000. I thought he was going to be in the top 10."
"You're right. Brother "***" is my idol. He's such a badass while remaining anonymous. The elites in the black knight guild in the arena were all utterly defeated. Winning more than a hundred consecutive times while dominating over them was such a thrill!"
"It is thrilling! However, what is "***" ? It should be 'anonymous'! His name must be determined by the server to be an unspeakable name, which is why only stars show up in his name!"
A bunch of players started a heated discussion after coming out from the virtual cabin. But before they could continue with the discussion, they started arguing just because of a player name.
They were players who just came out from the game, "Wizards World: The Foundation."
Chen Bing too came out from the game cabin and walked past the players while putting his hand in his pocket. As he heard them, he lost his balance and almost fell to the ground.
Glancing at them and realizing nobody recognized him, Chen Bing hastily walked out of Star Game Club with a guilty conscience.
Brother "***", or "anonymous," that were mentioned by the players were both him.
His name in the game was the five *'s.
Normally, a name like that would not be possible to create. Many players in the arena believed that he had given himself a restricted name, and somehow cheated the system. After entering the game his name was detected once again by the system, and it became a series of "*****".
However, Chen Bing swore that his weird name had nothing to do with that!
Two months ago, Chen Bing used the virtual helmet to enter the game "Homeland" for the first time. However, while building his character, problems in the game occured.
Just before starting the game, Chen Bing investigated the game forums in advance as his preparations.
Somebody in the forum mentioned metaphysics, stating that a player's name may indirectly affect their attribute growth in the game.
Chen Bing did not quite believe him. While building his character, he built it muscularly and gave it a name of "I Want Strength!"
However, just as he was about to confirm the name, the game started to crash, and just as it resumed, the muscular character that he designed was gone, and in its place was a teenager that looked similar to his actual body. Even worse, his name was changed to a string of * characters!
Who are they kidding!
Chen Bing wanted to smash his helmet into pieces. What is with this broken game!
After calming down, Chen Bing wanted to delete the character and rebuild it only to realize that he could not even do that. Characters that were built could not be deleted! He was furious.
Chen Bing could only accept his fate helplessly. After using this weird name to log into the game, nobody recognized him in the virtual world.
That was the first time that he caused a game server to have problems. He entered into the tutorial and completed the tutorials and got his awards, and he did not think much about it after that.
"Let's eat something hot, then do a check up in the hospital!"
After getting out from Star Game Club, Chen Bing felt cold and his stomach growled.
Even though the virtual game cabin could lower metabolism by a huge amount, energy was still needed while playing the game.
　　…
Being a highly modernized megacity, Haidong City had three famous hospitals, which were the First Haidong Hospital, People of Haidong's Hospital, and the Hospital of the Medical Department of the University of Haidong.
All three hospitals had their own advantages, and it was hard to determine which was the best. However, if popularity among young people was considered, then it had to be the Hospital of the Medical Department of the University of Haidong.
There were a lot of beautiful students that went to that hospital to do their rotations and further their studies and it had become a feature of that hospital.
There were times when people who went to that hospital to do a check up ended up getting a partner. Therefore, it became a first choice for young people when they needed to go to the hospital.
Other than that, there were plenty of youthful nurses and doctors...how could they compare to the other two hospitals which only had old ladies?
We need to dream big. What if luck was on your side and you successfully hooked up with a beautiful doctor or nurse?
Simply thinking about the japanese nurses in movies made teenagers excited.
There were quite a lot of people who came to the hospital for work, but nobody knew that recently, a famous movie star, Su Ya, also went to the hospital to become a nurse in preparation for her latest movie.
"Miss, you've finally showed up. I couldn't get through to your phone and was wondering if you were kidnapped."
Wearing a face mask and full white nurse attire showed off Su Ya's awesome figure. Luckily it was an affiliated hospital, and there were many interns here. Or else, Su Ya would not have easily escaped the eyes of pervert men even if she tried to blend in.
Su Ya returned to the resting room, took off her mask and untied her hair. The lady who was waiting anxiously in the resting room finally breathed a sigh of relief.
She was Su Ya's manager, Li Qingqing, a rare beautiful manager in the entertainment industry.
"What's the fuss? There was no kidnapping. There was an unusual guy who needed a special check up, and I was helping at the side and could not open my phone."
Su Ya smiled and it made people feel pleasant. It was because of this smile that she was constantly surrounded by fans.
"Unusual guy?" As she saw Su Ya was fine, Li Qingqing was relieved and asked out of curiosity.
Su Ya was used to situations like this. For her to claim that someone was unusual was pretty unusual for her.
"A veteran. He has a rare A class medical treatment listed on his veteran discharge papers. It was not a normal check up; he was immediately sent to the VIP lane. Our movie had a similar scene, which is why I was helping." Su Ya nodded.
"A veteran with A class treatment? It could not be; usually armies with A class treatments belong to the special forces. Their tasks are usually very dangerous, and they might get injured if they are not careful, so they need the treatment. However, after their retirement, their treatment class would be downgraded. Could there be a mistake?
Li Qingqing frowned as she listened.
To encourage their citizens to join the army, Hua Xia would give the army all kinds of special treatments. As for healthcare, all veterans would get a D class treatment, where they were able to do a free check up once a year. Other than the basic medical subsidies for medical treatment, they were entitled to additional discounts too.
However, the A class treatment was only a privilege for important ministers and certain special forces of the army. It was strange to see a veteran enjoying A class medical treatment.
Suddenly, Su Ya's phone in her pocket started to ring, and her expression changed as she listened to the call.
"What happened?" Li Qingqing knew Su Ya best, and she knew something was up.
"You're right. The finance department called me over and told me that his veteran certificate had some problems and the review of the transaction failed. It is highly likely that his certificate is invalid."
Su Ya smiled bitterly.
"Are they asking you to take the blame?"
As Li Qingqing saw Su Ya's face, she guessed.
When the bill could not be reimbursed, somebody had to take the blame. As Su Ya did not reveal her true identity, and she was affiliated with this incident, naturally she was the perfect person to take the blame.
"Let me make a call." Li Qingqing took up her phone and prepared to call. As her manager, she could not let a star under her care undergo such an embarrassment.
"It's okay. It's hard for the others too. I'll take the blame this time, it might be good experience."
Su Ya was not too concerned and stopped Li Qinqing with a smile on her face.
She would be leaving the hospital after two days. She took it as a good deed of the day.
At the same time, in the hospital finance department.
A middle-aged lady put her phone down and glared at a young female medical staff and said, "How many times has this been? Be alert while you're working. How do you even do work when you can't even confirm a person's identity?"
The young female medical worker lowered her head and did not dare say anything. She wanted to tell her that it showed that he was a veteran which had A class treatment, but it had changed when it was here for some reason.
"Director, Director Zhang, why don't we lodge a police report, so that that person cannot escape."
After thinking, the young female medical worker suggested with a weak tone.
"What are you thinking! Isn't the incident big enough? You want more people to know about it? If not for your family, I would have you fired this instant! You'd better follow my instructions properly, or else don't regret what you've done!"
Director Zhang warned her sternly.


Have you ever wanted to use magic as in Wuxia stories, use martial arts in a Western fantasy game, or create the Destroyer battleship in a game like StoneAge?
“Homeland” is a game that includes all games. Players can access various games through Homeland. While experiencing different kinds of games, players get to obtain rare equipment and skills, and bring these items to other games through Homeland and become the best of the best in that game!
Chen Bing enjoyed Homeland, but it was not long before he realized that there seemed to be a bug inside his body, which caused the game servers to crash and fail.
“Time Rewind?”
As he crashed the game servers for the fifth time, he realized that he is equipped with an overpowered skill!

Aurina smiled sheepishly, "It's not like I don't want to tell you. But I spent too much time to improve my skill, then I forgot." 

Alfizar's sight returned to normal; he gathered himself together then took a slow, deep breath. He began to get used to sudden visions. But the more violent ones often caught him off guards and he almost got trapped in them even after the vision ends.

'Aurina is here. She is alive. She is here.' Alfizar could feel himself calming down. 

Aurina, Henry, and the rest of his friends all began to talk about the CCTV footage. Except for Dioz, he seemed to be a little out of it. But no one can really blame him, he was probably still dazzled by the unexpected shock.   

"I see..." Aurina nodded from behind her work desk. Rachzi just finished briefing her on the situation, and what they need her for. She shut down her laptop after unplugging the small device she had been working on before. 

"Let's go to Computer Club. I don't have everything that I need here." Aurina began to pack her things. It's turned out that the Computer Club's room only next to the Tech Club. The room was not big but it looked very different from the messy Tech Club. The Computer Club looked clean and well organized. 

Computers of the latest model were neatly arranged in the room. Most of the computers were used by the club members. The monitors were very thin, but it wasn't made of glass because having a transparent monitor wasn't really comfortable to use. 

"Cathleen!" Aurina dumped her heavy bag of electronic devices on Alfizar and skipped to a nerdy looking girl. Alfizar stepped back, startled and bumped on Vianzo who was standing right behind him. 

The two exchanged pleasantries for a few moments before Aurina gets back to the business. 
 
"The main computer?" Cathleen considered their request. She looked a little conflicted, unable to come up with a decision. Cathleen eyes wandered from Aurina to the rest of them before stopping and looked past Alfizar, then her troubled eyes went back to Aurina. 

As if she knew that their request would be probably get rejected by Cathleen, Aurina quickly made a deal with her. Aurina leaned closer to Cathleen's ear and said in a low voice that only those in their group could hear. 

"I will make that level 7 firewall cracker device you tried to convince me to make last week." 

Cathleen took a few seconds to process what Aurina just said. Her eyes widened in surprise before a gleeful smile broke upon her face.  

"Don't take back your words! Here!" She dropped a small silver key on Aurina's waiting palm. Aurina grinned back after she got the key. "No more than an hour!" She warned. 

Aurina took them to a separate room, then she unlocked the door with the key she got from Cathleen. The room is small, but no one paid attention to the room's size. This is because all of their eyes were already staring at the 'special' computer. It has a sizeable monitor that is comparable to six monitors arranged into two rows. 

In addition, there is another monitor on the side; it's a normal small-sized monitor that looked like an extra. Aurina quickly turned on the weird computer while explaining things about the computer to the 'tech-blind bunch' in her words, proudly as if she had been the one who built it.  

According to Aurina, they could only use this computer if they wanted to access the school's database directly. That was one of the reasons why this computer was off limits.  

Aurina took a seat in front of the computer. With an excited smile, she connected the computer with her laptop. 

"Are you sure about this? We are breaking the school's rules like this." Vianzo's voice was low in concern. His expression looks uncomfortable.  

"That's definitely what you expect from the teacher's favorite student. Obeying the rules even if the teacher isn't here," Frans said thoughtlessly.  Then, he snickered when Vianzo shoots him an angry look. "Did I said that out loud?" The answer was obvious just by looking at the rest of his friends. "Ah, sorry!" He raised his hands in defense as if expecting a smack from someone.

Alfizar could see it from Vianzo's expression; he suppressed his irritation and probably also the urge to smack Frans's head. Alfizar has an odd feeling again. Was it just him overthinking things or was Frans really targeting Vianzo?  

"Don't worry about school's rules." Aurina suddenly said. She was accessing GIPEC's database right now. The monitor displayed a virtual box asking for ID and password. Being the hacker that she was, Aurina knew she shouldn't input anyone's ID.  

"We won't get caught unless someone tell on us to the teachers. And look at this." Aurina took out the small phone-like device; it was a bit thicker than a phone and seemed to be also a little heavier. She waved the device around proudly; this is the device that she had been working on when they barged into the Tech club.

"What is that? Isn't that the device you worked on before?" Rachzi asked curiously, he had been curious about it since he saw Aurina working on it earlier on. Aurina nodded happily as she connects the device to her laptop with a short cable. 

"That's right, but it's not completed yet. I need to upgrade a few things in it, and have to reprogram it a little. I called it Virtual Hammer." She giggled. The laptop's screen displayed a black screen with series of blue numbers and commands. The boys in the room looked at the display in confusion. Obviously, they didn't understand a single thing in the monitor.

"Virtual Hammer?" Frans wondered out loud. Aurina glanced at him with a bright smile. 

"I'm glad you asked! It's named Virtual Hammer because it was like a hammer that will force its way in and break down the wall I want to infiltrate. The CCTV footage wasn't as important as GIPEC's information or students' information, so they didn't put much security wall on it. But I don't recommend anyone to try cracking the wall comma" she said.

"I need to work on it more before I could hack my way into a higher level security wall."

"Aurin, since when did you learn hacking?" Alfizar asked seriously. He knew his sister was clever enough not to do anything dangerous that could possibly lead it back to them. But still, one wrong move, and the more powerful hackers will be able to trace their tracks. 

It is dangerous. 

Aurina suddenly stopped typing on her laptop; her fingers paused in mid-air, then all her fingers curled into a fist. She looked at Alfizar with determined eyes.

"Brother, I want to talk. Just the two of us, tonight." There's no room to refuse, and Alfizar won't refuse. One look into her eyes, and he knew she is being serious. Plus, it's clear that she doesn't want to talk about it with his friends in here. 

Henry, who was standing beside Alfizar felt left out in the sibling's bonding time.

We were born alone, we were also doomed to die alone. 

But on that fateful night, he didn't die alone. 

That's his biggest regret. 

If only he gets a second chance. 

He will make sure... 

His family... his comrade... would be safe... 

From that traitor...

*Modern Fiction* 

Betrayed by the most trusted person in his family, cost him his parents. They were at war against each other. Trying to win back something they believed were supposed to be theirs. He lost the game, also his life, his remaining family, friends, and comrade. All because of that traitor. 

Now that he is back. He will not fall into that death trap again. Even if he can't remember it. He won't fail. He will protect everyone. 

Alfizar looked at the face he sees every day in the mirror. "Nothing's wrong with it, but.... shouldn't my face look older?" 

Time passed by quickly and he realized that he had indeed died. But, who killed him? 

A/N:
I'm back to my 3 chaps a week after a month of updating every day. For those who worried that I won't complete this original, don't worry. I will finish this original soon, story progress 49%.

School is boring as usual, what do you expect when you were once a grown adult and has already passed the Board Exams. At least the mandatory PE class activities break the Monotony of looking at blackboards and books all the time. When the bell rang for the end of the day I booked it out of there.
Since I want to maximize my time playing GBN I am part of the Go-home-club, clubs are not mandatory in this school, which means I also get pestered by Momoka Yashiro to join the soccer club alongside the MCs Riku Mikami and Yukio Hidaka. Just because I like playing sports does not mean I want to enter sports clubs.
Which led to this situation, the both of them and I entered the Gunpla shop after leaving school, they invited me to participate in an exploration mission that this Okama girl(?), called Magee IGN, told the two to go try the other day. They even called her/him for the mission details and opened a Call Interface.
"Hello cutie~, This big SISTER is called Magee. Nice to. Meet. You!"
Aarrgggh!!! My eyes. This guy, Magee, is wearing a pink jacket and a leotard with an extremely low V-cut showing the Avatar's muscles and stomach area.
(AN: In case this is not obvious yet this is GUNDAM DIVERS AU, where I will follow the general plot in a sense that I will not follow it word for word nor scene by scene make my own version.)
They did not inform me that they also had another friend going with them but I already know who she was. The Virtual entity named Sarah.
Yes, that girl. Then again May is still not born yet so, no best girl for me.
Though we got caught up with three illegal players using Virus Hacks against another player and a kid both of which are wearing a variation of an Ogre costume which the two boys with me recognized. From what Rikku and Yukki, their IGN, told me they were scammed and attacked by the kid which they managed to defeat even when new to the game.
This means we are still at Episode 2 of the series. That and that explains why Yukki did not log in with his Custom Gunpla, why he didn't have any Virtual Mobile Suit ready I don't want to know. In case your wondering the Acguy parts I got from the event were assembled into a full unit as part of my Virtual Mobile Suit Collection.
"It's because Custom Gunpla is better than just plain Gunpla."
Whatever you say Yukki, whatever you say.
*Boom!*
We heard an explosion and Rikku moved in front of Sarah. While Yukki got surprised and ducked down.
"That's all you got?!" 
Looking back at the 5 guys a distance away from us they started fighting. The kid moved out of the way and one red GNX type Mobile suit is fighting against three DOM types.
Right forgot that in this open-world type of MMORPG players can fight in various ways. In this instance, it is an Open PVP type of setting and if we the spectators aren't careful we may get dragged in.
Checking the Information Panel, The GNX was a custom named GNX-803OG Ogre GN-X and the DOMs are classic MS-09B Dom must be Virtual Units.
Right I guess, I can join in on the fun since Rikku boarded his Mobile Suit. GN-0000DVR Gundam 00 Diver.
-=-=-
Let's do that next Chapter.
Caio~

I died and found myself in front of something with a pen and papers.

WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!

SYPNOSIS:
Dade Anlace, a son of an infamous hacker centers his life around the art of hacking. Due to the imprisonment of his father and her mother being long dead, he is forced to live alone as he starts a new semester on his third year in college.
In the midst of all his mischievous deeds inside and outside the campus, a new detective club has been established in the university.
Will the student detectives stop "The Virtual Dagger"? Or will the emergence of another mysterious hacker stop his reign?

SETTING:
The story is set in the modern era of year 20XX, where technology innovation is ever so rising all over the world. Computers are the most advanced and used technology so far in the current generation. 
The protagonist's story centers around a university in the Philippines. The university focuses on science and technology courses, which are courses related to innovation and computers.
After classes, the protagonist stays in an apartment near the university. He is living alone due to his father being in jail and his mother being long dead.

CHARACTERS:
Dade Anlace
A twenty year old college student and a son of an infamous hacker. Being taught by his father in a very young age, Dade has become a skilled but mischievous hacker. Hacking had been the main reason for his survival, because he earns money by doing private hacking services illegally to support his studies and basic needs. Due to his cold personality, Dade only has friends that he can count using the fingers of his one hand. One more thing, he can't live without coffee.

Lucas Pervertio
As showed on his last name, Lucas is your average pervert. He proclaimed himself as the protagonist's bestfriend even though Dade doesn't think the same. As the story progresses, he has became Dade's sidekick of some kind doing favors and missions for his partner. Lucas is also the drummer of a famous band inside the university.

Ethan Salazar
Upon entering college, the freshmen psychology student, Ethan has been looking for something interesting to do inside the university. He doesn't want his college life to be filled with only studies and exams so he immediately signed up at a newly established detective club called "The Deductionists". Overwhelmed by the current members of the club, Ethan will have a hard time in getting used to the club and provide help in solving cases inside the campus grounds.

Airene Torres
The founder and president of "The Deductionists". Airene has been a fan of detective movies and novels since high school, which she carried until now. The third year engineering student has studied and practiced a lot of mystery solving techniques and deductions, which she often uses in solving little mysteries in her everyday life. Now that she had the opportunity to make a club of her own, she aims to know the true identity of the campus hacker "D466ER" and to stop his continuous mischief once and for all.

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The hacker who mysteriously emerged from nowhere and became the main character's rival in terms of hacking. More information as the story progresses.

STORY OUTLINE:
SECOND WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD! I REPEAT, SPOILERS AHEAD!

Chapter 0 (Prologue): The Virtual Dagger
Dade's POV:
This chapter introduces the main character, Dade Anlace. The chapter also explains what hackers are and what types of roles will they play in the story. This short chapter will also introduce some side characters.

Chapter 1: Messages and Threats
Dade's POV:
The chapter will focus on Dade's private hacking services and doing the request of his first client of the semester. The classes and activities inside the campus were interrupted as he retrieved the mobile numbers of all the enrolled students in the university's main server and sent a surprising text message to all of them. After the occurred chaos, he goes to a coffee shop to unwind. A new character is then introduced as Lucas Pervertio entered the establishment.

Chapter 2: Campus Detectives
Ethan's POV:
The second chapter will start with the introduction of Ethan Salazar. After classes, the freshmen looked around the campus as many clubs and organizations began to look for new members. Ethan then discovers the detective club known as "The Deductionists" and instantly applied to join. He meets the club president Airene Torres who'll test him if he has what it takes to be a campus detective. The chapter ends as Airene decides to accept him in the club.

Chapter 3: Vice Advices
Dade's POV:
The third chapter focuses on the main character's life outside of the university as he deals with his life problems as a person living alone in an apartment. Being unable to find requests or clients for his private hacking services, Dade then decides to visit his imprisoned father to check on him and to ask for advice as a fellow hacker.

Dade Anlace, a son of an infamous hacker centers his life around the art of hacking. Due to the imprisonment of his father and her mother being long dead, he is forced to live alone as he starts a new semester on his third year in college.

In the midst of all his mischievous deeds inside and outside the campus, a new detective club has been established in the university.

Will the student detectives stop "The Virtual Dagger"? Or will the emergence of another mysterious hacker stop his reign?

After a long and hard day, Marino had just passed today, the tall, hunk man then closed his laptop down and he called it a day as soon as he had confirmed that the day's work was over.  
He glanced at the clock on the wall, it was already nine in the evening.
Marino then reached for his cell phone to call his sly best friend, none other than Mickey Young.
After several phones rings away, Mickey, who had rather slanted eyes, finally picked up the phone.
"Hello," asked the man on the other side lazily. Marino could faintly hear gunfires on the other side of the phone.
"Where are you now?" Marino asked to the point.
"I'm at My Tech. Do you want to come over?" Mickey, who currently was immersed in playing a virtual game, screamed in annoyance every now and then whenever his shot misses his enemy.
"Yes, I will be coming over right away!" Marino answered quickly as he stood up and quickly grabbed his winter coat from the clothes rack not far from the window behind him.
"Bring me some food!" Mickey yelled, but unfortunately, his friend already hung up the phone without waiting for him to respond.
Tut!
"Huft!" That silly guy rolled his eyes when he noticed that Marino already cut the line.
He then loosened one of his shoulders that had been clutching the cellphone to his ear and he threw the phone coolly on the table and return to his initial occupation: fully concentrating on the virtual game that he developed by himself and his team.
One hour later, Marino arrived at the My Tech building with a serving of whole fried chicken from Chicken Seoul and also a box of beer containing four bottles of Belgian beer with an alcohol content of around eleven percent.
The package of four beers had two free glass beers that came with it.
"Oh my God,  what took you so long to come here!" Mickey grumbled as he furrowed his brows, while he caught the scent of fried chicken from his favorite restaurant bar for hangout.
"Because you asked for some food, that took me so long, you idiot! I have to wait in line for almost half an hour just to buy this fried chicken for you!" Marino explained at length like an angry wife scolding her husband as he put the things he brought on Mickey's desk.
The nerd guy then turned his body, his back now facing some large monitors that were still playing virtual shooting games, and stared at Marino who was casually sitting in the guest chair.
"Are there still some bugs in the game?" Marino asked while pointing at the monitor screen with his chin.
"Not much, but I am still not satisfied with the results yet," Mickey said honestly as he unpacked the fried chicken.
"If there is a problem, I'll fix it after the new year, because I'm very busy right now," Marino said again.
"No problemo!" Mickey answered with a weird accent without looking at Marino.
He lowered his eyes and focused all of his attention on the delicacy in front of him.
With a piece of fried chicken in his hand and chewing the flesh in his mouth, Mickey used one and a half of his hands to open the box of liqueur that was placed right next to the package of fried chicken with some difficulties.
As soon as the man saw the contents of the alcoholic beverages that Marino brought, his jaws dropped, almost reach the floor, which made the fried chicken in his mouth he was chewing almost fall out.  
Right then, he knew very well that it was a piece of bad news for him. And for that very reason, of course, he did not want to suffer all alone!  
Even though Marino, Daniel, and Mickey were often hanging out together to just having a few drinks together, Marino rarely drank alcohol with high contents. Moreover, Daniel, the so-called chamois man was just too pious to lead himself astray in the alcoholic beverage cradle.
Mickey acted like he knew nothing.
However, after he took out the four bottles of beer and the two beer glasses from the box, he secretly sent a message to Daniel so that they could endure the misery together.
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At that time, Daniel was still in his office, struggling with a pile of paperwork that he had to finish for the bookkeeping of the company before the end of the year holidays coming and many offices were closing for national's holidays soon.
Because he has many subsidiaries outside of the country, Daniel worked more often in the evening rather than during the day to match the virtual meeting schedules with the top management of his subsidiaries.
The cold-faced man was massaging his forehead out of fatigue. His head was already starting to feel dizzy due to the accumulated work when he suddenly heard the sound of notification of an incoming message to his phone.
As he heard the sound of notification that he had set especially only for his close circle before, Daniel then knew that the text message must be from either Mickey or Marino.
Mickey was the one who sent him the message.
[The Star Operation. Skybar Club now!]  
Seeing the message that he sent earlier, Daniel squinted his eyes. He was curious why in the world did he get such a message now.
It has been some years since the operation was closed by them. And why now? What exactly had happened?
Without further ado, Daniel replied to the text message and immediately turned off his computer, grabbed his winter coat and used his private elevator to get to his special car park.
When Daniel's car drove away from his office building, there were two other black cars that immediately followed and watched him attentively from behind.
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Back at the My Tech.
"Geez! If we want to have a drinking party, just do not do here, please!" Mickey feigned surprise as he got up from his seat and immediately held up a bottle of beer that was about to drink by Marino.
The nerd guy quickly put the beer bottle down and approached Marino. "How about if we go to the Skybar Club? Let's party till drop there!" Mickey continued his sentence and pulled Marino to his feet and left the office.
"But..." Marino was about to protest to his close friend because he had just arrived at My Tech after standing in line for a serving of whole fried chicken just for Mickey.
"There is not but! Only yes! Let's go now, Daniel is on the way, just for your information,"  Mickey immediately interrupted Marino's words while patting him on the shoulder.
As he pushed Marino outside from behind his back, a sly smile appeared on his good-looking face.
After a few steps away, however, Mickey stopped in his tracks as he somehow remembered something out of nowhere.
"But… Especially for me, we absolutely can bring food from outside, Am I right? He he he…" The nerd guy quickly returned back into his office, and not long after, he came back with a box, untouched fried chicken with him along with the condiments.
Marino could only furrow his brows at his antics, then he chuckled and shook his head unbelievably.
Not many people know that the Skybar Club is actually a business place owned by Marino to have fun and also gather information.
For the layman, this place is known as a clubbing place and elite bar that is not easy to enter for the general public. Only certain people who meet the requirements will be invited to become members of the club which usually consists of important people and artists who have access to enter it.
To be able to occupy a table on the ground floor, they have to spend at least 500 dollars as the minimum order limit.  
But behind all that, the Skybar Club is a creepy place where all kinds of secret transactions take place safely.  
Starting from the purchase of illegal heavy weapons, to politics and the exchange of classified information between countries.
When Marino and Mickey arrived at the Skybar Club, they headed straight to the VVIP 3 room located on the third floor. In front of the door of the VVIP 3 room, several bodyguards wearing formal clothes had been seen guarding the place, making some people who passed through the room feel intimidated and didn't even pass, even though they themselves who could reach the third floor were also high status people. .
"Ah, apparently Daniel has come," Mickey said as he entered the VVIP 3 room. The guards who saw them nodded their heads slightly to respect the friends of their big boss.  
"Finally you guys came," Daniel said, just sipping his glass of Virgin Piña Colada.  
When Mickey who had just entered the room saw Daniel who had just sipped his Virgin Piña Colada, he burst out laughing.  
When Marino and Mickey arrived at the Skybar Club, they headed straight to the VVIP 3 room located on the third floor. In front of the door of the VVIP 3 room, several bodyguards wearing formal clothes had been seen guarding the place, making some people who passed through the room feel intimidated and didn't even pass, even though they themselves who could reach the third floor were also high status people. .
"Ah, here he is! Daniel has come,"
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The successor of a high-tech military equipment business tycoon wanted to be an actress?! 

Velina, the granddaughter of a conglomerate in Jet City. That woman traveled the world to study martial arts only to be the successor of her grandfather's company! 

But one day she stirred up her family when she said... 

"Eyang, I want to be an actress!" 

Velina then became an actress known as 'Nana'. 

Nobody knew her true identity as a rich girl, but...

Who was this man who wanted to be her sponsor? 

Daniel was an introverted man with a terminal-stage of being a 'tsundere'.

A childhood friend who had been gone a long time ago...

One day, he wanted to make Velina as the exclusive new icon of his giant companies, the Garibaldi Conglomerate.

Sounded fun, huh? Not really... 

Velina was famous as a good-for-nothing, useless heiress who could only have fun?!!

Rumor had it that this girl played the hearts of boys... because she had lots of handsome, well-established men right at the grasp of her fingertip! 

Eh, Velina was accused of trying to kill the president??

WTF?!!

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"If I'm the sponsor, it's called love!" - Daniel, A High-level Tsundere.  

Could Daniel win Velina's heart?

What trials would hit Velina's career as an actress? 

Could she survive? 

Read-only... what's the title again?

Wei Wendong, known as Shadow King, was an honorary member of the King's Esports Club as part of the League of Legends team runner-up in the S4 series. After the S4 he chose to retire from the scene and became a streamer, but surprisingly had a lackluster performance in the streaming world.
But because he grasped on the historical opportunity of <New Era> coming online, he boldly chose to become a mobile game streamer that didn't seem to have a future. He finally used <New Era>'s influence, stunning game content, and first mover advantage to become the leader in New Era streaming.
Right now, New Era's market penetration had already far surpassed Heartstone, and even edging out the PC platform League of Legends, his influencing in the streaming world obviously increased because of that as his follower on Weibo was comparable to his old captain.
Therefore, half of his achievement today was because of Future Technology. So to the name that changed the lives of many, he had a strong connection to the company.
Just sometimes ago, Future 1.0 suddenly had a pushup notification which perked his interest.
<Dear valued users, Future Technology's current under-development VR MMORPG <Godly Land> is in internal testing phase! To support the users' continuous support, Future Technology decided to draw 2000 internal testing players to the tourist destination Pannu Islands, tour the beautiful Pacific and experience the astonishment of the era-defining MMORPG.>
The internal testing phase will be two months. In this period, the player can obtain 2000 USD in monthly salary with flight and accommodations covered by Future Technology. After the internal test, participants will receive a collector game helmet. The helmet will be sent to participants on the first day of the official release.
At the same time, the name used in the internal test will be retained in the official release.
Virtual reality MMORPG? Free international travel?
Disregarding the international aspect first.
With the release of this news, it erupted among domestic forums as the netizens all expressed Future Technology's lunatic move.
The 2000 USD monthly salary, no one really cared about. People who were not dumb all knew that by being the first in obtaining information about the game, guilds would kill for you to join them. Even if you didn't join a guild, with the experience through the internal test, it was easy to make a living through the game.
The profit by that time would far exceed 4000 USD! Even the most foolish person would know.
Just take New Era, for example, professional players could make ten thousand easily through taking players to level up and selling gold. If they obtained legendary equipment, rich players would often pay millions just to get their hands on it.
Almost no one questioned the fact that the Godly Land had a future without a ceiling.
On a forum:
"Virtual reality MMORPG? I can't believe I can see this in my lifetime? Let me go calm down first."
"Are the officials of Future Technology stupid? Playing games with this kind of technology? If this is used to train soldiers, our soldiers' combat ability will increase by ten levels! The military budget for training would be reduced by 50%! But you use it to make games, what a disgrace!"
"What a dumba*s!"
"The second comment poster just connected to the Internet? Virtual reality technology is already mature overseas. Plextek's virtual reality equipment is already used in training by the British forces, but it has yet to replace the whole training process. I don't know where you got the ten levels of 50% data from. Also, Eve's VR equipment could already simulate intergalactic travel, if VR is as insane as you have described, why don't you go up in space?"
"I just want to know where the public beta is! I'm not selected. QQ."
"Asking for internal testing spot for one million RMB, message if interested."
"The internal spot is connected with your ID, you really can't buy IQ with money."
"…"
The posts on the game's official website already exceeded twenty thousand on the first day. It was evident that the players were all eager for the virtual reality MMORPG.
As to the game itself, Future Technology left enough mystery to it and only released a one minute CG as well as a portal for the draw. Before the draw, the players must confirm that they can head to Pannu Islands. If the player cannot attend, they will be banned for ten years once the game is online.
With anxiousness, Wei Wendong pressed the button.
With the number of participants in the draw continuously increasing, he didn't have too much hope. But happiness suddenly came around the corner when he managed to obtain a spot!
When he saw the notification <Please confirm the availability during internal testing period>, he pressed yes without hesitation, then uploaded the screenshot to Weibo which instantly caused an explosive reaction among his fans.
<Damn! The Shadow King is switching games?"
"What about streaming?"
"The Shadow King definitely did butt stuff with the president, Jiang Chen. No way he would be this lucky!"
"Brother Shadow King, could you bring me there, I'm cute, and I can warm the bed…"
Wei Wendong looked at the fans' envious replies as he lips curled up. He ignored the comments filled with jealousy. While his vanity was fulfilled, he thought about how to grasp the opportunity.
The only information provided by the game designer was a one-minute cinematic trailer with an ancient Oriental and Western background. There were warriors, archers, mages, thieves, and a lot more.
In New Era, Wei Wendong chose an archer, but he planned to change his style and play as a mage. Since it was virtual reality MMORPG, the mage would definitely feel more powerful compared to physical damage dealers! Anyone could swing a sword and shoot an arrow in real life, but who could throw a fireball?
But just as he was planning how he would spend the two months, his phone began to ring.
"Who is calling me this late?" Wei Wendong glanced at the darkness outside and picked up his phone.
When he saw the caller, he was stunned. It was his formal boss calling him, the big boss of King, Wang Tao! Wei Wendong was deliberating on what made the boss call him personally as they didn't have any contact for over a year.
"Hello?"
"Haha, Little Dong, do you still remember me?" Wang Tao said with a smile.
"Of course, how is Boss Wang doing?" Wei Wendong chatted with his old boss.
"Doing well, oh, do you have any interest in returning to Kings?" Wang Tao asked.
[Return to Kings? Play League of Legends? Who plays that anymore?]
Wang Tao seemed to have sensed Wei Wendong was about to reject as he immediately dropped a mega bomb.
"Twenty million, yearly salary."
Wei Wendong held his breath.
[Twenty million, damn, two times the premium!]
Even as a streamer with the highest earning potential, Misaya was only worth twenty million. Although Wei Wendong's influence and reputation were not far off, New Era was not a game that could easily pump up the viewership as competitive games do. It is less common for the viewers to give "666 (1)" compared to LoL, therefore his yearly income was only nine million.
"But boss Wang, I don't want to scam you, my LoL skill has already-" Wei Wendong squeezed the words out of his mouth.
The offer was attractive, but he knew his skills well.
"Who is asking you to play LoL." Wang Tao laugh, he paused, before he asked in a quite reserved voice, "Is the screenshot on your Weibo real?"
"Screenshot?" Wei Wendong came to a realization.
Kings made the wrong judgment call when New Era first came online. Wang Tao initially thought the game had a great promotion with great graphics, but it was still lackluster compared to the dominate LoL kingdom.
Therefore, while Kings did form a New Era division in the beginning, it didn't invest in too many resources. But then, once the guilds that invested heavily rose with the rise of New Era, Kings began to regret their decision, but it was too late. A bunch of esports clubs with a name no less than Kings spawned out. A club named Conquerors was almost edging Kings out as the dominant club in Hua.
Therefore this time, Wang Tao would not miss the <Godly Land> ship!
Everyone knew that the big trend on internet development was virtual reality. PC games were on a downward trend, and Future Technology was the leader in domestic artificial intelligence technology. With the release of this Godly Land, it was combing their competitive edges together. The throne of Tencent's empire might not be so secure after all.
But unfortunately, none of Kings member obtained an internal test spot.
Although Future Technology provided some spots for the major guilds in New Era, the spots were mostly targeted towards guilds with major influence. What made Wang Tao frustrated was that the Kings' Guild had no influence in New Era at all.
He threw in some money a few months ago, but it only managed to bring the guild to above average. Compared to the top five in the server, there was still a noticeable difference.
Fortunately, Wei Wendong's Weibo post made him see hope.
Professional player plus internal test participant! It was easy to foresee that this guy's future in the Godly Land was bright. Therefore, Wang Tao immediately called him and extended an offer to the ex-member.
Wang Tao coughed, used a serious tone, and spoke to Wei Wendong with sincerity.
"The Kings Esports Club sincerely wishes for your return and bring Kings our formal glory. Also, you'll be the guild leader of "Godly Kings", are you interested?"
The guild leader of the Kings guild.
Wei Wendong's eyes widened. He didn't think the always cautious formal boss would bet on such a risky move.
-With Kings' resources as well as his own professional ability, and the experience as an internal player…
He took a deep breath as he felt his heart pumped furiously.
The feeling of one step to heaven was just like this.
"Yes. I'm very interested!"
"Welcome home, my Shadow King." Wang Tao laughed out loud.


After the nuclear war, ruins stretch across the landscape in the apocalypse.
If you accidentally survived on the wasteland, then you must be ready to face the endless hunger, ceaseless dangers, the mad zombies at night, and the peculiar mutant creatures that are the aftermath of constant radiation.
But for Jiang Chen, this place is heaven.
Mansions standing tall, luxurious cars parked on the street, high tech products and gold abandoned everywhere.
What? You were the president of a game development company before the war? You were responsible for the development of the 3D virtual reality online multiplayer game? Well, that’s great, why don’t you come work for me. Your salary is two pieces of bread a day.
iPhone? Ultra thin design? Don’t you see that the phone I invented is thinner than a condom?
Aircraft carrier? Fighter jets? Oh, I have those things as well, but they are designed for space combat.
Watch the story of Jiang Chen, who possesses the ability to travel through space and time, as he witnesses the creation of an empire stretched across space and time... 


"There are 4 steps to politics - pick a goal, grow your group, sideline your enemies, start over."
 - The Darkness

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1 Week Later
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I wake up, grab my phone.  No new disasters.  Good enough.  I go back to sleep.

I wake up again, and drag my ass to the shower.  I stare at the hypno-clone.  What the hell, I fire it up.  I'm flooded with possible fuck-mates.  I watch them stream by, each profile up for mere moments before it's paired off.  

When we built the hypno-clone, most people thought it wouldn't work.  Not for technical reasons, they just thought there wouldn't be enough girls willing to fuck strangers on the internet.  Turns out there's plenty.  Safety and anonymity do wonders for the libido.  Also, being able to effortlessly change your appearance really levelled the social playing field.  It changed society more than immortality.  I scan a few more profiles.  Is that chick wearing prom dress?  I log in quickly and accept her invite.

She appears in my shower.  It is not a prom dress.  From the waist down she's half squid.  Like a mermaid, except half squid.  A mersquid.  Squidmaid?  She has tentacles.

This is not how I saw my morning going.  She's super happy.  Ahh, what the hell.  We make love.  It's more alarming than exciting, but it gets me there.  I return the favor.  I think.  I'm not sure what I'm supposed to rub.  I just rub everything.

We chat a bit as I wash my hair.  She's really nice.  I friend her.

I check the news over breakfast.  Everything's trending stable.  I head to my lab and pull up test data for my last hypno-trigger.  

A hypno-clone has three parts; VR contact lenses, haptoclone, and hypno-trigger.  

Virtual reality contact lenses provide the visuals.  They connect to the internet through your phone.  They replaced the 3D projectors that replaced virtual reality sunglasses.  They're super comfortable.  I've had mine in for months.  I forget I wear them.

The haptoclone provides virtual touching. It's an ultrasound projector that makes a weak force bubble where you touch a virtual image.  It's super cool, but the delicacy of the virtual surfaces can be a bummer.  You can make the feeling stronger by turning up the ultrasound, but it will bruise your fingers.  Or, your lady parts.  Depending on how your evening is going.

The hypno-trigger was my contribution to the project.  It's a post-hypnotic suggestion that makes bad graphics and barely touching a fun date.  It doesn't make the VR seem real, it lowers inhibitions until you don't care.  It's like the suspension of disbelief you get when you're sucked into a great movie.  But, for your lady parts.  I did all of this to bang a long-distance hottie.

My first hypno-trigger was a 20 minute Youtube video.  It was half guided meditation and half old school stage hypnotism.  I stared into the camera, and spoke softly about relaxation for 19 minutes.  In the last minute, I tried to plant a posthypnotic suggestion - when your lover touches you, it will feel wonderful.  If you want to cum, you may.

Only 5% of people were able to orgasm using my hypno-trigger and the ephemeral tickling of the haptoclone.  It was enough.  It's the all-time most watched video on Youtube.  I'm still tweaking it.  Nowadays, 32% of people can cum, and another 39% report loving it anyway.

We never really got paid for inventing the hypno-clone.  It's a household item, but rich and poor agree on stealing tech.  Such is life.  I made a little money off advertising and licensing.  It was enough for a downpayment on the club.  

I still make a hypno-trigger every week.  I feel like I'm helping people, in a small, weird, way.  I'm committed to making them work for everyone.  I also make a few bucks off requests.    

My last effort was the Surefoot Trigger.  Hypno-clones have safety features to stop users from masking danger.  So they can't put a virtual dance floor over a real life stairwell and boogie their way to oblivion.  Invariably, these safety features get turned off.  You can't play naked beach volleyball in grandma's guestroom without erasing a few walls.

The Surefoot Trigger taps your subconscious memories of your surroundings to subconsciously guide you around hidden objects.  It all happens in your subconscious.  Like blinking.  It doesn't work.

According to my data, everybody who tried it got hurt.  Fuck.  My help made everything worse.  I think I gave them faith in non-existent abilities.  Better erase this one.

Whelp, that project's shot.  On to the next one.     

I head down to the club.  The chill vibe is no more.  The club is full.  The work is intense.  The parties are epic.  Project Trouble is happening.

I grab a beer, look around.  Building a superintelligence is complicated.  We're still in the flailing around stage.  Eventually, the club will be a temple of quiet focus.  Now it's a clusterfuck.  There are dozens of workstations devoted to various parts of the project.  People wander from station to station, looking for meaning.  Big Iota waves me over to the prediction station.

"Did you come downstairs for pizza?" he asks.

"No."

Big Iota looks at Psi.  Psi bangs a few keys on a laptop.  Reads.  Looks at Big Iota.  Nods.

"Okay, that checks out."  says Big Iota. 

"Cool."  I back away.  I sit at the bar by Brian.

"What's going on over there?" I ask.

"Pizzabot." says Brian.  "It's an A.I. that predicts when you want pizza, then orders it in advance, so it gets delivered to you the moment before you decide you want it.  It's a test of the prediction algorithm we'll put in Troublebot.  Just simpler and less likely to lead to dead bodies if we fuck up."

"That sounds kinda responsible."

"Kinda.  They wanted to build the suicide predictor first, but we don't have training data yet."

"That sounds more like us." I say. "Does it work?"

"Well, we're selling a fuckload more pizza.  So, maybe?" says Brian.  "We could be stealing market share from other pizza joints because of our unique predictive delivery system.  Or, we could have found a flaw in the human psyche that allows us to fill our unsuspecting victims with baked cheese.  It's one or the other.  I've been meaning to figure out which, but I'm too busy making fucking pizza.  Speaking of which, here's yours."

He puts a small pizza in front of me.  It smells delicious.  I look over at Psi.  He nods.

"On the upside, we're making enough money off pizza, that we can soon start more dangerous experiments on random strangers."  says Brian.  

"Cool."  Fuck it, I'm eating it.

"I guess, but some of our other groups have run into ethical concerns." says Brian.  I reach for a beer off the bar.  "Don't touch that.  It's a opiate vaccine."

"What?"

"I found an opiate vaccine on the internet.  It's from, like, the 90's.  It trains your immune system to attack opioids before they fuck you up.  I brewed up a couple thousand doses for 10 bucks.  Way cheaper than drug testing kits."  

"Why's it in a beer?" I ask.  

"I don't like needles." says Brian.  

"Fair enough."  I say.  "Why's it on the bar?"

"I'm thinking of drinking it."  says Brian.  "Half the drugs that go through this bar get thrown out because they're laced with Fentanyl.  Imagine if we were immune to Fentanyl!"

"We could do twice as much drugs!"

"I was thinking we'd save a ton of money.  But, yeah, probably your thing."

"Let's do this up."  I say.

"Yeah, but what about Fresh Start?" asks Brian.  "If - fuck - when we need it, it's nice to have opiates to take the edge off.  That shit hurts.  The personality changes may be direct result of how much it hurts."

"Fuck.  Good point."

We stare at Pandora's Beer.

"This is why they can't even get junkies to take this shit." says Brian.  "Although, if we tweaked Pizzabot a little, I bet we could deliver it at the exact moment they'd be willing to take it."

"Sunday morning coming down." I say.

"We could probably charge them all their money.  If junkies had money."

We stare at Pandora's Beer.

"So, these are our ethical concerns?"  I ask.

"Fuck no.  We know what this drug does." says Brian.

"Are we making mystery drugs?" I ask.

"You should talk to the intervention group." says Brian.

"Yes, I should."  I point at Pandora's Beer.  "Drink that or put it away.  I don't like the way it's looking at me."

I stride over to the intervention group.  "Are you planning on drugging suicidal people?"

"No, but keep talking." says Orcette.  "You may be on to something."

"Will they be taking the drugs voluntarily?" asks Delta.  "I need to know for budgetary reasons."

"Yeah.  We have a dollar per intervention problem." says Zeta.  "Because there are 500,000 suicide attempts a year, every dollar we spend on an intervention costs us half a mill.  Unless we're dumping acid in the water tower, I don't see how we can afford drugging half a million people."

"Jesus.  Okay, the simplest intervention is passing a note.  What's it cost to get a stranger to read something?" asks Orcette.

ABOUT FIVE DOLLARS A PAGE.  says Command Line.  THAT'S FOR AN ADWORDS CAMPAIGN, REGISTERED MAIL, OR HAVING AN UBER DRIVER SHOUT IT THROUGH A DOOR.  SPAM, REGULAR ADS, AND CATFISHING ALL COST MORE.

"The cost of catfishing is getting crazy." says Isaiah.

"How much money do we have for each intervention?" asks Orcette.

10 CENTS.  says Command Line

"The fuck?" I say.  "How do we have a grand a week?"

"I got a job bitches!" says Omicron.

"The fuck you did."  I say.

"What can we do for 10 cents?" asks Orcette.

"We could have a drone pepper spray them." says Delta.

"That sounds like a crap plan."  says Isaiah.

Delta shrugs.  "Can't kill yourself if you can't see."

"What about Candy's hypnos?"  asks Isaiah.  "A couple million people watch them.  That puts us in direct communication with, like, 10 percent of suicide guys.  Suicide people.  You know."

"Yeah!"  says Zeta.  "Candy can just hypnotize them!  Make them not kill themselves."

I wince.  Rub my head.  "I don't think so guys.  My hypnos don't always work so good."

"Thioacetone!"  says Delta.

"Shut up, Delta."  says Isaiah.  "Ransomware!  We hack their profiles, change all the passwords, and don't give them back until they promise not to kill themselves."

"It's bullish.  Shows we care.  Maybe.  God, is that really our best idea?" asks Orcette.

IT'S REALLY HARD TO GET PEOPLE'S ATTENTION.  THERE'S A LOT OF UNSOLICITED COMMUNICATION OUT THERE.  WE'RE GOOD AT TUNING IT OUT.  says Command Line.

"Fuck it.  Let's just do Candy's plan.  Acid in the water tower.  Job done." says Omicron.

"I thought Candy's plan was free blowjobs." says Delta.

Omicron rubs his jaw.

I laugh.  "Is that the job you got?"

Omicron smiles.  "You wish.  Check it out."  He slides a form at me.  It has an envelope with some pills stapled to it.

I read.  "Optimal Job Experiment.  20 hours a week for $1000.  Subjects take the blue pill and answer questions on their phone for 2 hours.  Immediately afterwards, take the yellow pill and do whatever you want for for 2 hours.  Pills included.  Questions found at Optimal.job."  

I think.  "Is this a job or an experiment?"

"It's a job experiment." says Omicron.

"I think they are experimenting on your brain."  I say.

"Well I love drugs and hate my brain, so let's do this." says Omicron. 

"Are we this hard up for money?" I ask. 

"Maybe, how'd your last hypno go?" asks Omicron. 

"Fine.  When do you start?"  I ask.

"Tomorrow.  We're doing mushrooms and LARPing pantsless tonight."

"Fuck.  Is that tonight?  I forgot and put on pants.  That's 4 seconds I'm not getting back."  Everybody giggles and gets a little fuzzy.  "Did I already do the mushrooms?"  

I look across the club at Psi.  He looks up from his laptop, nods, looks back down.

"Shoot.  I better get ready."  I pull down my pants.  "I guess that's it.  No, I need a hat!"

"How do I look?" asks Omicron. 

"Majestic." I say.

"I was going for hairy, out of shape, elf dude with his dick hanging out." says Omicron.  

"You are nailing that.  I like the mustache curls.  They tie it all together" I say.

I grab a pixie hat, a 3 pound bow, and some arrows with sponges on the end.  Omicron passes me some red paint.  We usually play elvish scouts.

The club is near an experimental farm.  I will spend the next couple hours running through a cornfield, tripping balls, being chased by dick-waving orcs.  

Psychedelic pantsless LARPing is the pyrrhic victory of our harm reduction program.  It keeps me from drinking and smoking, and gets me some good exercise, but I can no longer watch Lord of The Rings without confusing emotions.

I suppose a healthier alternative would be to unravel the underlying causes of my sobriety aversion.  But, I don't watch Lord of The Rings that often. 

I run into the cornfield.

"A super-intelligence is only limited by its ambition. If you could do anything, what would you do?"

Megacles has a pretty good life. Also, she is horny, lonely, bored, anxious, and a bit of a drunk. She decides to fix all this with science. It works okay, until she accidentally builds a doomsday device. At least she’s not bored anymore. 

Mr. President has inherited a broke, corrupt, government. Unemployment is high, nobody pays taxes, the healthcare system is collapsing, and the government is using systemic blackmail to cover it up. He has a plan to fix it all, he just needs to steal a trillion dollars to get started.

Super Science and Fast Romance is a near future, science fiction, romantic comedy, political psychodrama. It's fun. It teaches how to fix everyday problems with lasers, evil robots, and mass hallucinations. These solutions work really well. Only a couple people die.

Any money made by this book will be spent on drugs and super hot lasers.

"The human brain is the most valuable resource on Earth.  But only if you use it.  You can’t just pile them in your basement.  Doesn’t work."

Candy is the Guardian of Humanity.  It's not going well, but she's cautiously optimistic.

A chatbot has destroyed the economy by being better at white collar jobs than hung over dudes.  Candy has a plan to fix that.

The government wants to send half the population to debt prison.  Candy has a plan to fix that.

Several super weapons have been stolen, and are turning up in the hands of desperate people.  Candy has no plan for that.  She's working on it.

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