Few days later, finally it is the time for the launch of our game, Nexus Online. My company had used every way to promote this game. I even used my identity as a Carson for this. We would launch the game this evening. I invited about a thousand guests to attend the banquet, where we would announce our game. Many people have some idea that my company, the Genesis Corporation, is working on Virtual Reality, that can change the world. What they didn’t know was, Genesis Corporation would launch a Virtual Reality game. Everything is possible in this game. It’s possible to live your second life here. You can be anyone you want, a burglar, pirate, king, magician.. Whatever is your fantasy, it would become your reality here. By the way, this is also the motto of our company. Make your fantasies into reality.
For the banquet, we have booked out a museum. Yeah, we could buy everything. If you can’t, just increase the price. After that, I went to the museum. Unlike the museum, you might think, where antiques and all are placed. This museum is empty, no antiques or anything related to history. They decorated the entire museum just for the banquet. Because the guests for this banquet would influence personalities. Including the families that rule the United States. Obviously, it is a secret not well known to the public. But being a person who belongs to one such family, it is impossible for me to not know about it.
A woman, probably thirty-five or something, was the event decorator/event organiser. It is her job to organize the event and make sure that nothing goes wrong with this event. Because if something goes wrong, it would affect her professional life. She might find it difficult to find another event to organize. She ordered her people, and her people did the decoration as she ordered. Meanwhile, I looked at the decorations . The event organiser saw me and quickly came to me and asked, “Sir, how are the decorations? If you don’t like something, I would immediately change it as soon as possible. “ I shook my head and said, “It is good. But remember, I don’t want any mistakes at the banquet. How is the food? “ She nodded and replied, “ Sir, we have hired one of the best chefs to make the food for the banquet. The guests would love the banquet very much. “ I nodded and with that she returned to her work. And I returned home to change my clothes.
Soon, the time for the banquet came. I put on my favorite blue tuxedo and got in the car. Alice entered, wearing a red dress. I don’t know the name, but it looked good and was most suitable for banquets. Sarah had already left for the museum an hour ago. So she wasn’t with us now. As soon as Alice entered, I smiled at her and winked. She smiled and punched my shoulder playfully. I started the engine and went straight to the museum. Outside the museum, the parking lot was full of many expensive cars, like Pagani, Buggati, Ferrari, and Veneno, my favorite. But let’s just say the cost of maintaining a veneno, or as it is known popularly, Venom is too high. I parked my car between a Bentley and Rolls Royce. I obviously recognised the Bentley. It ain’t possible for anyone to not recognise this Bentley. This is a Four and a half litre supercharged single seater Bentley. This was sold a few months ago at an auction. It is one of the rarest cars, since it is from the nineteenth century. The coolest Bentley ever. Well, Bentley has other cool models too, but this is the best amongst them.
Anyway, I opened the door of my car. My car is Aston Martin Volante. It ain’t much, just less than a million dollars. I quickly opened the passenger seat door. Alice smiled and stepped out of the car. She looked quite the stunner. She grabbed my arms with a smile and walked with me inside the museum. I smiled and walked inside. My smile became domineering inside the museum, because well you have to.. How else did you think the other businessmen would respect you?
You have to be domineering when needed. Everyone raised their glasses(champagne) in their hands, as a sign of respect, and cheered. I stepped over the stage like thing before the crowd. I looked at the crowd and said, “You all might know me. Let me introduce myself to you. My name is Mike Carson. I am a Carson. Yeah, the heir of the Carson Enterprises. But that isn’t the focus today. Today’s main event is Virtual Reality. What is Virtual Reality? Just something for games? No.. This is the future of technology. You can research more accurately and quickly using Virtual Reality. But my VR technology isn’t only about games. You can lead your second life here. “ This led to some doubts among the crowd. I smiled. Raising my hand, I said, “I know what you all are thinking. But don’t worry. We connect this game to the real world. You can also work here. No one would become addicted, since it has anti-addiction system too. So in this way, this is a world changing game. You can even earn money here. Just like the real world. There would be multiple worlds. You can live wherever you want for the first time. Then it would cost you money. “
This created a tremendous uproar in the museum. Even there were journalists invited to attend the banquet. And this news made them crazy. If this news was to get out, people would do everything to buy this game and play, since it won’t affect their life financially. But would help them live peacefully.
With that, the banquet ended. There was also food. After eating, everyone slowly left the museum. The entire world would become shocked, because of this action of Genesis Corporation that can change the world.
Sitting on the couch in the living room, I am watching the news. Scrolling down the website to check the news. I sighed when I saw the first news. It was about the hacking incident. Yeah, the same one when my hacker team hacked the shares. It’s been weeks, but the news was still hot. Many news channels showed the incident in repeat. The second news was about US presidential elections. It seems, election is like always, full of controversy. Sighing, I scrolled down and looked at the next news. It was about some prophecy of an asteroid hitting the earth and would cause destruction, blah, blah, blah.. I scrolled down.The next news made my brows furrow. I clicked on the news. It had three million views, well since it is a famous news channel website. The title of the news was, ‘Virtual Reality : Product of Theft. ‘ This made me frown. I read the news. “This.. “ The news said about the announcement of Genesis Corp
I sighed, drinking the wine from the glass in my hands. It has been a day since the press conference. There was no news from Jack about the evidence till now. Alice had gone to her parents’ house. So I and Sarah were alone in the house since yesterday. Sarah had already gone to the company to work. Since there was nothing for me to do, I had nothing to do, so I am ‘relaxing’ in the house. My phone rang. I saw the name of the person who called me. It turned out to be the lawyer. I picked it up and said, “What is it? “ The lawyer’s voice was awkward.After a few minutes of talk, I understood what was going on. It turned out that Carson Enterprises had sued us, the Genesis Corporation, for stealing their core projects. Gritting my teeth, I called Jack. The phone connected. When I asked him about the progress of evidence hunting, he said, “We are too close. Just a few more hours. We can defi
The next day was also boring like every other day. I woke up to the doorbell. Covering my ears with pillow to stop the sound of doorbell entering my ears. But there was no such luck. At last, I had to get out of the bed and go downstairs to open the door. While I was walking down, I also checked up on Sarah. I finally found out why she wasn’t there to open the door. It turned out that she wasn’t in the house. Sighing, I opened the door. And saw a familiar back outside. The person outside had just turned her back to the door, probably confused. Why hasn’t someone opened the door?That person was none other than Alice. I immediately hugged her figure from behind. Alice stiffened at first, but when she smelled a familiar smile, she smiled softly and touched my hands. I loosened my hold on her. She turned around and hugged me tightly, nestling her head in my chest. I smiled and said, “I missed you, Al. “ She rubbe
After eating, we spent some time talking with each other. It turns out that Alice’s brother is about to come home during his holidays. I know little about him. The only thing I know is that he is a General in the Army. The last time I met him was , when he was about to go to the training for army. Soon, Alice went to her room to store her new clothes that she brought in the cupboard. Naturally, we two shared the room, so she entered my room. While I sat on the couch looking at the television that was still turned on. I sighed.Then my expression became determined. I have to at least deal with all my problems before I can spend time with my family. I picked up my phone and called on a number. The call connected with a click. Jack’s voice came from the other side. “What’s up, brother? “ I asked him, “Can you find the total value of the Carters? Along with their properties, she’ll companies and every
Sarah grabbed her pillow and hugged it while crying. She cried, “Why... Why can’t I be with Brother Mike? “ She then continued crying. Although she had seen Mike and Alice kissing many times, the thing she saw today was too much for her. She couldn’t even hold her emotions for Mike. She loved him since the first time they talked. Sarah still remembered how a small girl who had lost her parents in an accident got cast out in the streets. Luckily, a kind woman took her to the orphanage, from where she was taken by Mike’s father. Although she hated everyone in Mike’s family, because they saw her as a commodity. When she reached Mike’s house, she came to know that the reason they took her in was because Mike didn’t have someone to play with.This caused the young Sarah to hate Mike even more. Because of Mike, she lost her friends in the orphanage and had to come to this place, where everything wa
Tears flowed down Sarah’s face. She rushed upstairs, back to her room. She didn’t understand the reason Mike rejected her. He loved her, so why? Was it because there was Alice, since she was Mike’s girlfriend?She wiped her tears away, since she knew what to do.Meanwhile, back to Mike. His heart was in a conflict. He didn’t want to hurt any of them, Sarah and Alice. With the conflicted heart, I went to the company; because that was the only place I could go to clear my mind. I took my car to the company. I found Jack as soon as I entered the company. He was talking with a group of lawyers, who were to fight in favour of us, in the courtroom.As soon as he saw me, he stood up and came to me. He then introduced me to those lawyers sitting in the conference hall.I sat at the head of the table, and tapped on the table and asked, “So what’s the situation of the Carters? “ Jack chu
The text was enough to clear my worries. I walked out of the room. Her text reminded me of the trip I had planned. Since it was getting dark, I returned to the kitchen, where I and Alice had our dinner. For dinner, we had rice and fish. Alice had made the dinner , so I said nothing about how sticky the rice was, nor how raw the fish was. So when she asked me, “Is the food good? “ I stuffed my mouth with rice and fish, and nodded my head furiously. I couldn’t say that the food she made was sticky and not well cooked.Seeing my nod, Alice looked at me suspiciously and took a bite of the food on her plate. She looked at me and directly spat the food on her plate. She hurriedly drank the water. Frowning at me, she said, “How come you are still eating this sh*t? “I ate another spoonful of rice and said, “This ain’t that bad.. I have eaten worse food, and yours isn’t anywhere near that leve
Taking the meat that I cut from the deer, I returned to the camp. Alice and both of our mothers were sitting around the newly built campfire. My and Alice’s dad had returned to the woods a long time ago. It was getting dark, so we cooked the meat and ate it. Then we talked with each other till midnight. The talk was all about what we all were doing nowadays. Both, mine and Alice’s fathers were proud of me for playing with Carters.I didn’t have pride in my eyes. You might think I might have. I don’t know why, but I felt in my heart; Something is wrong. But ignoring the feeling I had, I continued talking with my and Alice’s parents; And soon we retired for the day and returned to our own camps. After the uneventful night passed, morning came quickly. We got ready and started doing our own work. We had already discussed this yesterday, each of us would do the work decided yesterday.The camping wasn&rsquo