In a white blank space with white clouds moving everywhere...
Student B opened his eyes and started to look around him in a daze before heard an elegant female voice speak to him as golden words appeared before him,
[ Welcome to the Void.]
As the voice welcomed him, the student's mind became clear, and he realised the place he was in.
' The White space..'
The student thought to himself,
' That was fast, maybe because it isn't my first anymore, my mind is used to the process.'
As he was thinking to himself, the elegant voice continued its speech,
[ You have used two of the three keys to connect into the Void and now you only have one key left , do you acknowledge ? ]
' She actually knows that this isn't my first time? damned Alex, he actually thought about it.' the student cursed in his mind as was caught off guard.
[ Costumer, if you do not answer within the time limit, this space shall crumble and you will be sent out of the void, I shall ask again, customer, do you acknowledge?]
" Huh ? yes i do! i acknowledge, Administrator." The student answered in a hurry as soon as he was given a time limit as it frightened him, if one doesn't answer the questions to the time limit, the white space would self-destruct and they would be sent out of the Void, after that they would would be banned from connecting to the Void for one month, no matter what they do or how many connecters they use, they wouldn't work.
[ acknowledgment accepted.]
Said the elegant female voice, and soon another question came,
[ It appears that you have used your first chip on someone else, do you acknowledge?]
" I acknowledge."
[ Was he okay with being connected?]
" He...was curious..?" the student answer in a hesitating tone.
[ According to the rules, using the connector to someone who's not ready risks a heavy penalty.]
" I acknowledge..." said the student in a defeated voice and then he continued as he looked at the golden words floating before him,
" Administrator, I'm willing to pay in order to avoid the Penalty and also pay for the one whom I brought in with me."
[ Request to avoid penalty has been approved.]
The Administrator replied with a cool voice as she continued,
[ How would you like to pay? ]
A few golden screens appeared before the student with the payment options as followed:
{ Void Credits.}
{ UF Dollars. }
{ In Game Credits.}
The student looked at the screens and without hesitation he chose the middle one as he thought bitterly, ' Damned administrator, are you taking me for a fool? who in their right mind would choose to pay with VC or GC?! I'd rather let you take my UFD than the other two bruh, my old man will still give me more anyway.'
As he chose to pay with the UFD option, the screen before him changed as the Administrator spoke again,
[ You have chosen the UFD payment option]
[The amount you must pay to avoid the Penalty is
80 000.]
[ The amount you must pay for your companion is 50 000.]
[ The amount you must pay for putting your companion's health in danger by forcing him to connect is 900 000.]
[ The total amount you must pay is 1,030,000 UFD.]
[ Costumer,do you acknowledge?]
As the Administrator was calculating the amount for him to pay, student B was breathing calmly but as the Administrator finished calculating the total amount, student B's soul and spirit had already left him, it was just his body that was standing in his place, thinking about the astronomical amount he had to pay and answer his must give to his old man at home, student B was left without any will to live as he answered lifelessly,
" I acknowledge.."
[ Costumer has acknowledged.]
[ Payment accepted.]
[Proceeding to the next phase.]
As the Administrator spoke, the white space began to transform as all the clouds and the white colour crumbled down, revealing what seemed to be the outer space with stars, meteors and galaxies everywhere.
As he looked up the Void, student B was amazed as he commented,
" It's always beautiful no matter how many times i look at it, whether it's in the real world or in the Void one."
All his worries about his money and old man seemed to disappear at that moment as his eyes kept looking at the falling stars and the magnificent supernovae.
[Welcome to the Gateway Customer.]
The Administrator's elegant voice was heard again as she spoke to him, just as she was about to continue, the student interrupted her,
" Don't bother, I'm not new here anyway, why don't you connect me with my previous account please?"
[ Request acknowledged.]
[ Costumer has requested for his previous account, in order to recuperate the account, you must say the keywords and the password.]
" Acknowledged."
[ Please fill in the keywords.]
" The keywords are B1017Frost."
[ Keywords accepted.]
[ Please fill in the password.]
" The password is 17B10Frost."
As soon as he said that , a white light emerged from one of the spinning galaxies and flew towards him, it then encompassed him and he started to levitate as the space before him started to move at a blinding speed.
As the light took him, he could see the galaxies and planets disappeared from his vision, soon he saw majestic space crafts of all sorts flying everywhere in the Void, he then saw gigantic beasts flying either In groups or solitary.
As he was nearing his destination, he saw something that he has always dreamed of having since childhood, it was flying in space at it's own pace, it had gold colour on it metallic surface and was almost 18 meters tall with a muscular build, on it's hips were two golden longswords resting in their sheaths.
" A fuckin mecha..." He whispered in a dreamy voice as he flew by it.
It is said that only the richest or those in power could afford to construct a mecha for themselves, some of them even went as far as to buy mechas for their whole family but unfortunately not everyone can become a qualified mecha pilot.
To become a Mecha pilot, one must have something called the neurotic mind, since one will be controlling the mecha as if it was their own body, the researchers managed to develop a way using the neurotic part of the human brain and the neurotransmitter with a neuro-receiver located in the chest part of the mecha to synchronise the human mind with the mecha's body and form together what was called dependency, meaning that the human relied on the Mecha to move while the Mecha relied on the human for commands.
" Soon... I'll also have my own Mecha.." Student B said with determination in his voice while looking at the majestic Mecha.
Soon, the light entered the atmosphere and he could see the whole world beneath him, he could see tall buildings everywhere with every type of advertisement on them,there were flying cars and spaceships,
he could see the business district with its big buildings close to eachother, the ecological district with the green environments everywhere, the industrial district with its factories, and as he looked at the very center of the city he could see the golden coliseum and he could hear the loud cheering from time to time.
The light guided him to one of the white tall buildings of the Bourgeois District, the district reserved for rich in not the richest. He bypassed the wall and found himself standing in a white, clean living room and the white light started to disappear while he was still thinking to himself about the magnificent world.
Soon the white light went away completely and he started to receive notifications.
[ Ting!! Ting!!]
[ Welcome back to the Void, User Ben Frost.]
[ The settings shall be given back to your personal AI companion.]
[ Anything you need will be handled by your companion except if it's something that exceeds her authority then you can summon the Administrator by simply saying ' Summon The Administrator.' Do not hesitate to report if anything isn't to your liking and it shall be reviewed.]
[ Enjoy your time in the Void, User Ben Frost.]
After the last message, the Administrator left and settings were given to Ben's AI companion Lin, Ben then stepped towards the window as he looked at the view below, admiring the city and all it could offer before he suddenly remembered something and called out his AI ,
" Lin." he called.
[ Yes Ben?] A cute and young voice of a 17 years old girl replied to him.
" Locate for my previous connecter and teleport the carrier here."
[ Understood. Know that the teleportation fee has augmented again,]
" It's alright, just pay the fee and get that carrier here before he gets into trouble please."
[ Understood, please grant me five minutes.]
" the time is all yours."
[Good.] Then Lin went quiet as she started locating the connector using the Void Net.
As he was waiting for Lin to finish her assignment, he sat on the white coach as he switched the TV on and started watching the news,then he saw something interesting,
" The third offspring of The CEO of Galaxy Corporation is suspected of being the rumoured creator behind the illegal White Space passage connecting into the Void, the accusations came from a group of the said so ' Customers' who were blackmailed and 'banned' after not being able to answer the questions before the time limit.
The accused in question ha-"
[ Ben, the carrier shall arrive in ten seconds.]
" Got it, give me some cold drinks and two glasses please."
[ Yes, would you also like some snacks?]
" No need, we won't stay here for more than 30 minutes, actually we're still in class at the moment."
[Understood.]
Then just as they finished talking, a blue light appeared and dropped something before going away.
"Argh! what the heck is goi"- the owner of the voice yelled before he stopped in suprise as he saw Ben sitting on a couch while drinking before him,
"You!! you brought me here!! what did you do?! where am I?! where are we!? Student A hollered with confusion and fear in his voice,
"Whoa whoa calm down mate, I'm gonna explain everything so why don't you take a seat here and listen to me?" Ben replied with a smile while mentioning him to take a seat on the couch beside.
The student, named Alan agreed as he moved to sit together with Ben. Finally calming down a little he expressed his confusion to his desk mate as he was given a cold drink,
"So, care to explain where are we? I mean i know we're in a virtual world but which one? this is one is so freaking realistic! I feel as if I'm in the real world ?"
Ben was spinning his glass of wine and leaning on the couch while studying his confused friend and listening to his words before he finally decided to satisfy him,
" Well, you see this virtual reality we're in is different from the others-" Ben didn't get to finish his sentence before Alan cut his off impatiently before saying with excitement,
"I know that man, just tell me which one is it? I'll buy it."
Holding himself back from slapping his friend, Ben replied patiently with a smile,
" Yes but why don't you let me explain? and please stop interrupting me, it's annoying as fuck." And before letting the other reply he continued, "The world we're in is called The Void, created by renowned researchers from various corporations such as the Galaxy Corporation and the Cross Company. It's said that the Void is the closest virtual world to reality but what most of the people don't know is that there's something even more closer than the latter." He stopped and took a sip of wine before continuing.
" And that is were you and I are right now, it's also the Void but premium, only for the richest of people to come and enjoy, here one can choose to be anything they want without no one knowing their real identity. And yes here, contrary to the other version where you can only login at midnight, with this premium version, you can login anytime you want and anywhere."
" I see...but since it's a premium version, how did you get the pass? I mean it's supposed to be for those in power and upper echelon?" Allan asked with uncertainty in his voice while his eyes were fixing the glass in his hands,
"Well..." Ben started to hesitating wether to tell him or not, and then he remembered the amount he had to pay for him in order to bring him in and decided to tell him the truth, " You see, most of us didn't know about this since it wasn't supposed to be leaked out, yet a certain genius hacker and researcher found out about this and decided to make business out of it, he created the illegal White Space that allows people to pass through the gate in order to enter the Void without having to wait for the pass to be auctioned again."
"Oh? a genius you say?" Allan was interested as he asked, " Can you tell me more about him? "