RECURSION (재귀)

CHAPTER 1: SAM

My name is Sam.

I am currently 26 years old and I was born in the 7th of January, 2001.

I work as a programmer in a small game company, STG, which was established in 2026. Our company have only released one game so far and it was released in the beginning of this year, 2027. That game is Tarrom, an MMORPG, and it was a big hit.

A few months later, players from our game Tarrom started to move to a newly released game, which is LOONAH. It's also a MMORPG game but it was released from a bigger game company, ISG.

After 6 months, Tarrom has only less than 20 players. Our company's economy started to fall apart and we could not hire another programmer and designer to update our game. After exactly 6 months and 2 weeks, Tarrom had no players and was officially removed from the gamestore. That game had no more updates and was given up by our company.

Because of this failure in our company, many of our employees left the company and joined ISG. Only the loyal ones were left here. We were desperate and had no hope that our company would have a bright future. Our game designer ran out of ideas for a game and had also decided to resign.

STG now only has 7 employees including me. Our company has 4 programmers, including me, but no game designer. STG pretty much has no hope now. Everyone's hoping for a miracle, but at the same time knowing that a miracle is impossible for our company.

One day, I went to the office building and realized that it was a holiday for our company. I opened my desktop because I always do it routinely, but I recieved an e-mail from an unknown sender. The sender's name was identified as "R". The e-mail stated:

"Good morning, Mr. Sam, I am R. You might not know who I am, but you soon will. You will recieve a location in your phone text in exactly 3 minutes after opening this message. If you want a better future for your company, I suggest going to this location. One more thing, do NOT share this with any of your co-workers. You and your company's future is at stake. Thank you, I bid you farewell and good luck."

"What is happening?" I thought to myself. "Is this a joke? Following a location would help our company, sure.." I laughed to myself but then I realized something. I went to my computer again and opened the e-mail again. I checked the date this message was sent and I was shocked. 19 December 2037! It was sent exactly 10 years from now.

"You have recieved a new message."