The Virtual World

The First Encounter, Final

They saw their coworkers on the screens, thrown of to a dark place, the place seems not to end they kept on falling, but as they fall, their bodies slowly vaporize from feet to head.

They were so covered with fear that they can't move their legs. Then suddenly,  a voice of a man echoed back and forth through the place and it's like talking to them.

"Do not fear! I threw your other coworkers cause they don't belong here. And I know that what they're all about is just for the material things here and it's not what I am looking for right now."

"Who are you? Where are you?", one of them asked.

"I was commanded to build this world, for short, I am the creator of this world you're living in! I am everywhere in this world but all I'm handling is this world, everything outside this world is out of my responsibility. And I was here for already billion of years, waiting for the perfect persons that should know the truth!"

"What truth? And I thought you are everywhere in this world, then why wait here in this place like nobody can't find?", the other miner asked.

"I'll show you."

Suddenly, a massive hologram of the world projected out of nothing then the unknown started to explain.

"I know that you two are not just miners, I know that you two pursued to create modern technologies so that's why you became miners to find minerals that will help complete your goals."

The hologram of the world slowly zoomed in to where they are standing, it's a massive island from the top.

"The world is digital, it is virtual, it is programmed, it is coded, it follows instructions I wrote."

"What? Are you serious?", the miners asked.

"Stop talking and listen to my explanation!"

"My creator commanded me to create this world, so the only way for to do it is to make codes, generate graphics, construct algorithms, I created this world with the theory of automata, so the world is continuously running, whatever happens, an effect is always expected."

"Now, this place is the storage of all the instructions I created. I hid this place this far so it's far from danger. It also has a defensive mechanism that I, myself created. I only let deserving persons to enter this place. And to mention it, you two were the very first humans I let in and talked to."

"I just can't believe it!", the other said.

"I'll show what my instructions can do."

The screen infront of them became black and word by word, the instruction was completed.

The code was like this:

sub_command

coordinates[14.243087,-176.023808]->gravity=below_normal:

end_command

The two miners seem to understand it a little bit. Because they also have a background in programming and the message was there obviously.

"A code! Is that what your instructions look like?", one of them asked.

"Yes, and now, wait and see what will happen after I enter this instruction."

The creator entered the instruction and suddenly, all things on the place where they are seems to have no weight! They also felt that their body is so light, they don't even need force to move their limbs.

"So we were right! The instruction you entered removed gravity in this place!", they said.

"Yes. I know you two woudn't fail me. Now, I'm giving you a part of my superiority. You will be my descendants and you two will have the power to set instructions to the world."

"Before this, my instructions were perfect, with no bad effects to the world, but after I will give you two the responsibility to maintain the world's good run, it may be imperfect and that imperfection in giving instructions shall create a good or bad effect, and you will call it a "Bug". It has random effects! And you shall let the world know that the world is virtual, and if no one believed you, you two shall hide this forever and show the truth to deserving persons only!"

"I shall now give you two the power."

Their bodies were like soccerballs, drawn to them were hexagons, they were like modernized humans.

Suddenly their bodies came back to what it is. And they knew all the instructions that the creator knew, but they have imperfections in creating algorithms, etc.

After this, the creator vanished leaving strong winds.

The two of them created "shortcuts". It's a software they created that will transport someone from a place to a place. They created the first two pairs of permanent shortcuts to get back home. These shortcuts are the only permanent shortcuts they can create, all the other shortcuts they will build after this will vanish after some time. The maximum limit of permanent shortcuts are two pairs. And deleting a permanent shortcut will make it available to be built again after a year. And only the two of them have the power to create permanent shortcuts. Shortcuts come with pairs, the first and the second. Temporary shortcuts can be deleted by deleting the second of the pair of shortcuts, but permanent shortcuts can only be deleted by deleting the original shortcut, the first shortcut before the second. And lastly, before a shortcut can be deleted, a password is needed. This is the defensive mechanism the two of them created about shortcuts.

But they also made shortcuts secured. There is a password needed to be able to use a shortcut, a password different from the password used to delete it.

And after some time, they will start to invite deserving persons to join their group. They only limited the members of the group by 30.

This is the start of their adventure in creating a more better world.