The Entity

Chapter 4: The Adventure Begins

"So, is everyone alright?" I ask. I mean, the Entity must be near and everyone is worried, and there has to be a way to stop it. But the problem here is that no one knows how. At least no one in our group. So there was only one chance for us: wake the villager.

"I think we're all good," Ms. Vikki responded. Well at least I am. Are all of you alright?

"Well I got a little scratch on my arm from one of those zombies," Erick said. We checked him, and there was a scratch that actually went pretty deep.

"I'm sure it'll be fine," I said. "It'll heal sooner or later."

But the villager was still sleeping, and I didn't want to wake him up, because after all, he did suffer a lot last night. There wasn't much of a choice though, so necessities had to come before leisure. But still -

"Hey villager! We need your help! Thanks for the info last night, but do you have any ideas to stop it? You know, that's our mission here, right?" Griffin did the job for me, which released all the pressure being built up inside of myself. The villager slowly rose from his slumber and quickly booted up his computer. He had some secret files that allowed him to see the source code of Minecraft.

"As you can see here, after analyzing the data from Entity, he is a nonexistent person, therefore he isn't a mob or an item in the game. When the TNT and lava were placed down, it was showing a weird error on my computer, as they randomly spawned out of nowhere with no one placing it. And after seeing my source codes, there was this one persisting number everywhere I checked: 301."

I was so confused. "Wait up, you're saying that this 301 thing was the culprit?"

"Well as I said before, it's not a thing. It's an edit to the original makeup of the game. It seems like Minecraft's code has been changed, but that's impossible. There is not a single person in this world who has access to edit Minecraft code that I know of... So the only way to remove this Glitch is by editing the code of Minecraft and removing any traces of 301."

"Alright, now we know what we're supposed to do, but how do we ever touch the source code? Like seriously though." Griffin's intent was to help destroy 301, but his hopes were let down after he realized he had to edit some source code.

"Well, this villager probably has more to say. How about you try to be a bit nicer next time?" Ms. Vikki replied.

"NAAAW," Griffin snapped back. "How about we get this dumb thing finished and then we worry about my attitude."

"I don't think there's a way to edit the source code. I heard you can't access it in a remote location, so there has to be one place where the code can be edited. That's all I know. Maybe try asking other villagers around here?"

OK then. So he didn't know everything, but at least he gave us the basics. Now all we had to do was ask some villagers and hope for a response. You know, this seems pretty easy based on all the traumatic experiences I had in the past few days, or should I say one day?

We started to ask villagers around. Most of them were thanking us for saving them last night from the huge swarm of zombies. It was pretty hard to actually ask a question. I found this one guy who was smoking, and I asked him. He said he was too poor to help. Another guy said there were some rumors going around but he forgot the details. Finally I met someone who called himself Scott. He said he heard of some folk stories told from ancient generations that the creators of this world entered in through this secret passageway inside of a stronghold. That made me feel like cha-ching! We got it!

"Alright, I met this guy named Scott who said there was a secret passageway inside a stronghold. And I'm guessing there's a portal somewhere in that stronghold where we can access the source." I explained to the team. So WE must have been the Crit Unit! Everyone was ready for the journey ahead of them.

"Crit Unit, Unite!"

Now I can finally be one step closer to avenging myself from almost failing my science quiz