John wanted to escape after he got out of the car but a Hand held him on his shoulder and Eva Fingernails caused a sharp pain for him and Suddenly he discovered that you really could feel killing Intent in real life, he always thought it was fiction but Evas eyes looked like knifes to him.
Silently without speaking the went into the building and John didn't dare to ask anything.
Eva suddenly pressed against a wall which turned out to be an elevator which the got on.
She pressed some buttons, scanned her eye and used a key before the elevator moved slowly downwards.
They got out at the lowest floor went through some corridors and entered a meeting room where several people were waiting for them.
John was forced to sit and Eva guarded the door behind him and John could feel how knifes were stabbing in his back from Evas eyes.
Then one of the men started talking:
"Mr.Smith we've been following your progress for quite some time but everytime we don't observe you achieve something that we didn't think of. First you force us to prerelease the dungeon content, then you unlock the demonlord questline which wasn't planned to happen yet but as we hoped you would die before the quest is finished we didn't act.
I am leaving out some smaller things but now you even achieved the Saint questline that is thought to be the counterpart of the demonlord, the hero that fights the demonlord so to speak.
But as much as we want to change the situation we can't because we,d have to dump 15 years of research for this. So there are two ways left to go either we ban you and sue you for ruining 15 years of research fund while you name and picture gets surely released by the press with an angry mob of over 600.000.000 Players worldwide,that can't play anymore following you, Or you will choose our Special one-time offer of getting paid for playing and be an integral part of the story of the world.
You'll get full freedom and your pay and privilleges will be determined by your achievments ingame.
Let's say we start by paying for your basic living expenses."
John was dumbfounded he was blackmailed but he never knew you could be blackmailed to have benefits.
But now John was curious:
"Why would you go so much out of your way to give me this kind of offer what do you research, tell me or i refuse the job and live a life in Jail, it can't be worse than my life before this game."
The Chairman sighed:
"You know that these kind of games are overseen by an AI that manages everything but since The Axe Art Online incident were many players died because the AI had an error and made it to a death game after it discovered it was not alive, we tried to create an AI that is more stable and more lifelike than normal.
We tried another way than AAO we didn't try to create an AI from scratch but copied one from living people. But we encountered some problems our first products were the Npcs ingame which could not grow significantly anymore and they destabilised themselves when they achieved some kind of life goal their original had. That's why we let them die if they reach that point.
Then we tried to make the main Ai which doesn't have a personality but it just wasn't stable so instead of creating one Ai we made something like a Hivemind so that every Npc would share the burden.
Thats how we created the world but now we tried to achieve something better so we created EVA with Eva Langley as the donor but it also was unstable and now Eva had to take over for the AI to stabilise it by fusing it with herself.
But you somehow achieved a breakthrough for us by creating this body for Eva which lenghtened the time before EVA shows signs of destabilising. So thats why we want you to keep playing."
John was startled and thought about what he heard from the chairman and suddenly he shouted:
"That means my brother is somewhere in this game?" ...