Chapter 261: Reconnecting
In the following few hours after the world wide incident that began with countless people seeing a strange floating window before their eyes, a few significant things happened all around the physical world.
Firstly, the Creators of the Artificial Intelligence that created the world which this strange holographic window had originated from answered most of the significant questions and gave their statement of their uninvolvement in the matter.
They did not do anything that's happening. They simply created a few AI based upon a few abstract concepts, and then they left everything up to them as well as the players who played that game.
Everything that happened, including the appearance of the stand windows, to the appearance of the strange countdown which was now present in all places which has had even one player of this game.
According to the creators, this unexplainable natural phenomenon was the result of a Cosmic Awakening of a self-enlightened consciousness or consciousnesses, which had been in charge of one world, and now, due to a Player breaking down the barrier separating the two worlds, which also was just an abstract concept until it was not, the two worlds started colliding.
The creator had no idea what was happening but they had started all of this exactly to see what would happen, and now that they had achieved what they wanted… they had vanished.
"Should we go back, then?"
"Yeah… the rest of them must be worried."
"I think the others should have already gone back.
The thing that they were fearing had already happened, and since the truth that we have been searching for has actually been found out by the Two of them, the rest of them should know how achieving that actual truth, in fact, is possible."
Though no one knows how the two of them achieved that or how they had actually reached that point, the fact that they had achieved something that was seen as impossible was big news to the rest of them.
"They all must know about the timer as well. I think they are already expecting something big."
Since the time flow between the two worlds was different, they did know that whatever they were experiencing here was much faster for the natives of that world.
Considering that, Elio and Alex knew how it was the best idea to go back and experience all of that like the natives were instead of like the humans of this world.
They would have much longer in that place, and since there are still around twelve days left, they have a good enough time to make preparations and prepare themselves for whatever was to come next.
"I guess they would do that, huh?" Elio was not prepared to go back yet, but there was nothing else to do here for the time being.
All things aside, with Olive on the bed rest, they couldn't really know much about her experiences during the time she was with the Two of them and the other Origins.
She was somehow an important part of that world now, and she was also responsible for the things that were happening as people had heard from the description of the Voice as well.
She needed time to recover, and since her life here could be in danger due to many factors, the two of them, as well as Olive and her family who had just arrived a while ago, were all going to go back to their own home, which was a few states away, and figure the next course out when they were there.
"Anyway…"
The two other significant things that happened over the last few hours was how the world government took initiative to calm the public and to explain to them what was happening.
Their explanations weren't on point, but they were decent enough to at the very least calm down the raging public who did not play any games or knew about anything related to all this.
"Let's go back…"
"Yeah."
This was strange to them since because of this sudden appearance of the screens, many accidents and disastrous incidents had already happened all around the world.
Lives were taken in the process, and however much the government wanted them to deny it, this thing had been a negative influence on this world.
The kind of panic and mass killings that took place right after the incident was nothing less than a small disaster, so, however much the governments all around the world were doing, they knew they needed to do a little more to keep the public safe and calm their opinions down.
The one being affected here was the entirety of the world so, there was no way anyone would have predicted this.
All of this was the same as those eastern novels that young people of the era were so interested in.
The only difference between that and this was, how this was not a novel written on virtual pages.
"Sundry, gaming mode."
[It has already been activated master.]
"Good boy."
Their entire world was facing a crisis right now, and even if the Creators didn't want it to be like this, if they had expected something like this to happen, they should have also prepared contingency plans in case something goes wrong or plans for how the world would deal with it.
Just like most of the others who played this game, they were also simple humans with limitations.
Be it the government, the smart people, the rich people facing a crisis with bad fluctuations in the market, and those who needed to handle the aftermath of this whole situation. All of them were mortals with limitations.
[Ding!]
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Despite their unique abilities and nature, the two of them were also regular players unlike the Two of them.
They wanted to be like them as well, but they simply weren't like those two.
Neither their heads were off, nor were they crazy enough to do things that they do.
Just like how the world was evolving, they will have to evolve as well, but they knew what they wanted and what was needed of them. They weren't carrying any big responsibilities anymore.
And now that almost everything was taken care of anyway… they were free to play this fun game as casually as they wanted from the start.