"How did she do that?" one of the software engineers in the control room asked and turned to Mr. Kingman who was standing on his platform watching the outro on the main screen. "How is she able to hold her breath for that long?""She's an assassin remember, they train their bodies to do the most ridiculous things so that they can be able to work themselves through any scenario to take out their targets. And she's the best of them so that's probably nothing compared to what she can actually do," Mr. Kingman said and faintly smirked to himself. "And how's her following going?"Another engineer typed something on his keyboard and the bets popped up on one of the screens. It was a bar chart of the all the players that were still in the game and the number of bets that had come in and were continuing to do so."Bella's up to two million bets whilst the others are still stuck in the bottom half of the one point hundreds," the engineer answered."Good." Mr. Kingman looked on at the chart wit

The players stood with their eyes on Bella; waiting to hear what it was she wanted to say. She had a certain look on her face and with the way she threw her head a little down as she gave out a soft sigh, they could tell that what she was about to say wasn't a walk in the park."If I die in here I want to die knowing you knew the real me, knowing that you knew me for who I really was," she said; looking to the floor but really looking into herself."O.k.," Den said; wondering if what she was about to say was something about him and the kiss he gave her not too long ago or something else."Back there you asked me what I did and I said I was in accounting.""Yeah," a few of them agreed as the rest just nodded their heads; remembering it very well because the job she said was quite contrary to the way she had been carrying herself and so though none of them brought it up again, they hadn't really stopped thinking about it. It was what she said and they had no right to argue but the two j

"Players of OutLive congratulations, you have completed level 6," Lora's voice said to everyone and the viewers cheered on as the players gave out huge sighs of relief. The level that was almost the death of them, and was unfortunately the actual death of Emily, was over. Bella got off the general's back and the other players struggled a little but got themselves up onto their feet and for a moment they just stood there looking at Emily; out of the game and with her head lying in a small pool of blood. "You may exit the game," she then said and the door to the general's office opened and over it was the Nano wall. The players were reduced to tears and didn't want to just leave her there, especially Bella who knew that she was gone for good, but they had no other choice. She was out of the game and there was nothing else for them to do but to move on so that was what they did. With their heads low and their hearts broken the players then walked to the door and exited the game as the ou

*** "If you're in a dark foreign place and you don't have your night vision goggles to help you see in the dark, you will need to rely on what you have with you which are your senses and most importantly your instincts. You will have no idea where you are and there could be people around you with guns so what you need to do is heighten your senses and use them to sharpen your instincts so that you don't just make calls but you make the right ones because making a wrong call when there's not much time for you to work with could 100% be the difference between whether you live or die," Mr. Henderson said to Bella. They were in the gym; she was standing blindfolded on the fighting mat and he was standing on the side. Also on the mat with her were eight people standing in a large circle around her; each one with a toy gun in their hands that shot rubber bullets the size of champagne corks. "You won't have much use of your eyes so what I want you to do is use everything else; your nose, wh

"Sue?" a sweet voice came from the end of the tunnel and Sue's eyes popped open with a brightness in them as inside an instant calmness came to her pounding heart. "Bella?" Sue said. "Yes it's me." "Oh my gosh," she said getting up and they both ran to each other; reaching in a hug that was exactly what the both of them needed at that moment. A hug that lasted quite a while as they both just stood there breathing out huge sighs of relief, more than could be put into words glad that they had found each other and were not alone anymore. "Uh thank you this is better, this makes me feel a whole lot better, thank you," a woman watching on her TV said. "Because being down there in that super darkness by each one's self is not at all bueno." "Oh thank goodness," a girl watching on her laptop with her best friend said and gave out a massive sigh. "Feel my heart," she then said and grabbed her best friend's hand and placed it over her heart."Dude!" her best friend said; she could feel her