In that moment, a creature appeared that would guide the player to a path of power, but it would not be their friend: the informant.
In that moment, that line from the start of the game that I played so many times came to my head. But there could be no way that an informant could be in the real world; that's just a game, right? My hand started to tremble, and my mind started to think of a lot of things.
**Informant 2**: "Hello everyone, today we will be starting the main story—"
"What's going on? Is this a movie shoot or something?"
"What's that, mommy?"
"Hey, I want to go to work. Can you hurry up already?"
**Informant 2**: "Who the fuck just cut me off? I was talking. You want me to kill all of you fuckers right now? This ain't no movie shoot or some joke."
In this moment, I remembered how the story started in the game I was playing. The main character was trapped in their workplace, depending on which character you choose, and the informant showed up after the earthquake. The scene unfolding in front of me is the same thing that happened in the game cutscene.
If it's the game, in this moment, the informant would have to kill a human to show that it's not a joke and to make the people believe it.
"Hey, what's going on? Let me out of here. I have an appointment with my doctor in two minutes."
**Informant 2**: "Doctor you're talking about a doctor in this situation? These Humans,are all the same like in every other world channel you go. As I told you before!! This is not some fucking joke."
In that moment, the informant placed its hands out that looked like paws and cut the man's head clean off with no hesitation. Everyone started to scream, and the lady dropped her son.
**Informant 2**: "You see what you made me do? You made me kill someone. You see, this is no fucking joke. Okay, there is going to be a screen that pops up in front of you. It's going to show you your stats and other information, and it will give you your missions. Pay close attention to it. Bye..."
Status window: Mission: Escape the bus before it crashes and survive until you reach the bridge. Difficulty: F, Time: 2 days, Not cleared in allotted time: Death of the character. Reward: 100 coins.
In that moment, Hyun thought to himself, "This is the game that I played so many times, and it's come to reality."
"Everyone, calm down and don't panic."
"Who are you, and why are you telling us to calm down? Someones head just got cut off."
People on the bus: "Yah!"
"Ah, I was just telling you to calm down and think about the situation we're in."
Hyun: "Isn't that Jung, yoo? My manager from work. Why is he here?"
"That's not important now. How am I going to stop this bus from crashing?"
"I have to reach the front of the bus and slow it down to be able to get off."
After moving to the front of the bus, Hyun tried stopping the bus, but it was not stopping.
"What's going on? Everything I've tried is not working. How am I going to make it off this bus? The door is locked too and not opening."
In that moment, a notification came up from the system.
System: "The installation of the gift has been finished. Opening the gift automatically. The character has acquired the skill Mind of All Knowing."
"What's this? I've never heard about this skill in S.T.A., so why is it appearing now? But maybe it's a new skill that's placed in the full version."
[Skill: Mind of All Knowing. Information about skill: Helps the user to use information from the past game and gives the character information about the future updates to the game.]
"Isn't this a cheat? Where did I even get this from? Don't tell me it's from the PDF file I got from the company. And how did they know this was going to happen?"
After the bus drove from under the tunnel, what I saw shocked me to my core. The city was destroyed, and there were monsters everywhere. I saw tier 7 dragons destroying cities.
After getting my head back together and trying to find a way out, the system showed up again, asking me if I wanted to use my skill. After giving in and saying yes, a light flashed. It felt like I was going to go blind, and my head started to fill with information that I could not understand.
"Aah!"
System: "Skill has been used. Character can no longer use this skill."
"What? I cannot use this skill anymore? Is this a one-time skill or something?"
After wondering what was going on, something told me to check under the driver's seat. I would see an emergency lever that is going to open the door to escape.
After checking under the seat, there was a lever.
"Huh, how did I know that was there? Huh, I have no time to be thinking about things like that."
After pulling the lever, I the door opened. Everyone was trying to escape now because the door was open. People started to block the door and making it impossible to leave. people started to trample the children and the elderly.
After using the driver's door, I jumped out of the bus, landed on the highway to the bridge.
"Ah, it feels like my left arm is broken."
After using my shirt to hold the arm in place, I ran off the highway to find a loot box.
"If it's the game, there's supposed to be a loot box around here somewhere."
After searching around, I found a loot box containing a healing potion and 200 coins. But the only reason I was able to find it was because of the skill and the memories from playing S.T.A. so many times. After using the healing potion to heal my arm and collect the coins, I thought to myself, "The informant is going to appear to announce the arrival of the world viewers, also seers."
World viewers/seers or beings that were in the game of S.T.A. They would watch the character you play with, and depending on your play style, they would gift you items or help you join their group for power. But in exchange, you would have to play by their play style. It was always a pain to find and cooperate with their rules, and that was one of the reasons why people stopped playing the game.
**Informant 2**: "Hello everyone, thank you for joining my world channel. Please don't mind looking for your character to represent you. And feel free to spend as much money as you like in my channel."
"Hear the bastard sucking up the seers. Most want to be one of the best channels."