Elysium

15. SINGLES ZONE

Aia:

For all the time of Elysium existense, there was only one person, the memory of which I deliberately don't erase. I know that it will be better for me, because he was special.Levi was nineteen when he came to metaverse. He was a special user. He stood out for his "human" naturalness, synchronizing his face with the avatar. No unique and creative hairstyles, lenses, accessories, wings, piercings, except for the tattoos that were on his physical body in reality. He didn't pay attention to talk about his "plain" appearance. He didn't care. Most of the users he considered frankly stupid. And I was the first with whom he found a common language. His first relationship in the virtual space. He was the only one who knew my secret. I trusted him like no one else. Levi trusted me too.

He came from a family of university professors, an only child, wayward and conflicted. When all education moved online, and artificial intelligence replaced teachers, his parents were left without work and, like most of the population, found themselves in poverty. Levi was very young when his father hanged himself from the bathroom faucet because he had nothing to pay loans. The boy was taught by his grandfather, a professor of philosophy, and his mother, a teacher of literature. Despite the fact that he was very active, often got into fights, was ridiculed by his peers, Levy had a developed sense of justice. The older he got, the more he disappeared on the streets. He spent the night where he had to, he used what random people offered. Soon, those around him dubbed the difficult teenager "the dregs of society." Even neighbors and former friends shied away from him. The face and body are covered with tattoos, his look is aggressive. He was prophesied an early death from an overdose, they said that he was a disgrace to the family, but it was his family that under no circumstances turned away from him, constantly defending and justifying.

Levi had enough ambition to prove himself that he worth something good. He has a developed intellect, he is well educated, he easily learned everything new and denied the current society, he had pronounced leadership qualities. Charismatic, he could convince anyone that he was right.

Levi was influenced by his grandfather, who was an opponent of the existing system of world and inequality, and believed that he could become a revolutionary, hated the concept of artificial intelligence due to the fact that most people were no longer needed by this world, but he knew how to make exceptions for "special types."

When the Elysium appeared, Levi was so interested in it that he took an extra job and, following his father's miserable experience, took out a loan to buy the bracelet. Of course, the game dragged him down. He hung out with a lot of different people, made a lot of friends, and then he met me. Relations between us began quickly, as is typical of this game. But our connection was still special. Having learned my secret quite by accident, he opened up to me, considered that he could only trust me completely. He shared with me all his thoughts and talked about the fact that the metaverse, although attractive and carefree, but like the real world, is not organized correctly. Only in contrast to the erroneous order of reality, the metaverse was a erroneous chaos. Then I still didn't fully understand what he was getting at, so I didn't attach much importance to his words.

"Randomly scattered locations with no controls? Even if you can become a system administrator here, but what's the point if you manage only one single room? What can change from this? Users come to hang out, resources are replenished automatically, good, of course, but still there should be order. No integrity, it makes me sick."

And when I tried to explain to him that this metaverse should not be taken as life, and it was created solely for entertainment purposes, he said that in reality everything works exactly the same. It was difficult for me to understand him. So Levi just translated the topic saying that if he had the ability to control Elysium, it would be a thousand times more interesting.However, his ideas, incomprehensible to me, gradually began to be realized. He gathered other users with similar views around him, told them that everything was wrong. And they listened, but they continued to perceive everything as a game. And that would be right. But not for Levy.