novelzi Chapter 2 - 2: Awakened
Chapter 2 - 2: Awakened
There were many other similar chats and private messages, but he ignored them all.
For him, playing a game was like this: whale to the top, make other players envy him and then quit the game.
This way, he made his nickname, the WhaleGod, legendary.
At the same time, game companies both hated and loved him.
Every time Alex did this, they got flooded with complaints.
But none ever banned him; instead, he kept getting invitations to beta-test new games.
The income Alex provided alone was more than that of a hundred whales combined, not to mention the publicity they got, as some YouTubers made dedicated channels about him.
'Haha, what final boss?
I didn't even see the credit card statement.'
Alex laughed to himself, remembering some of the chat.
But his elation only lasted a moment as he remembered he needed to look for a job.
He started typing 'how to earn money online,' but the results were filled with ads.
"Get Rich or Die Scrolling: Learn to Earn $500 Daily with Our Fun Online Strategy!"
"Earn $1000 a day now from your home."
Seeing these ads made Alex frown.
He knew they were probably scams, but he wondered, 'Why the hell did they advertise such small amounts?'
'Who would even be baited by $1000 a day?
Make it at least a million dollars a day!'
If he had said this out loud in public, Alex would surely have been beaten up; most people's expenses were around $1000 a month, and he thought it was too small.
As he kept scrolling, Alex realized why he had even
The authorities then quickly sealed the area and sent out their own expeditions, but only a few barely survived.
They then started noticing a red aura appearing around the portal.
At first, only part of it was visible, but as time progressed, the red aura grew, starting to surround the portal.
When it made a full circle, a flood of monsters would come out from it.
People called this a Dungeon Break.
Although modern weapons could harm them, the results were not too effective.
The government then started considering using a bomb to explode the area.
That was until the first Awakener suddenly appeared.
With the Awakener, they succeeded in controlling the situation.
The dungeons then started being treated as strategic resources.
Awakeners would enter them to hunt monsters and obtain new exotic materials.
Some dungeons were even filled with other civilizations, allowing contact between them, but the details of this were not clear.
The public only knew they had obtained many new technologies from it.
One of these technologies was hyperrealism virtual reality, in which Alex played a lot.
In the Pandora Research Facility, the place that gave Alex the job offer, three scientists were busy experimenting.
Their appearance was haggard.
One of them, a silver-haired woman, held a vial filled with red, murky blood.
"I don't get it.
Why doesn't this give any reaction, no matter what we do?"
The murky blood was something that one of the Awakeners found inside a dungeon.
At first, many were interested in it, but after numerous experiments, they started feeling tired of the dead-end.
The blood seemed sentient.
When they tried to add some chemicals to it, it showed no reaction.
However, when they tried to separate the liquid, the blood rejected the separation, moving on its own like slime.
They even found someone to drink it, but the blood rejected this, too.
It moved out by itself, exiting the person's body.
"Prof. Faerith, you should just give up already."
She was the only professor still interested in the blood.
She didn't know why, but she became obsessed with it.
Faerith was sure that she just needed to find the right person for it to show any reaction.
Hearing what her assistant said, she frowned and slumped into her chair.
"I just got another response for a new test subject.
I guess I'll take a break if this one fails again."
"Prof, you've been saying that for seven months.
In total, we've already experimented on the blood for a year."