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Anaxa is a capitalist who spends his free time playing games. He is interested in games that have just been released and are played by many people. Even the content creators he often watches play the games.
Anaxa lay on his sofa, wearing his usual white T-shirt and his favorite black shorts. Today was his day off. Was it okay to just spend the day at home? Unlike most of his coworkers, who already had families and spent their days off on vacations with them.
But Anaxa showed no interest in romantic relationships and considered himself too old to find a partner.
Anaxa lay face down on his sofa, swinging his legs up and down, hitting the surface of the sofa. he looked at his phone screen, which displayed the download process for the game he was going to play. Anaxa had loved playing games since high school, and had played many games recommended by his favorite content creators.
Finally, after waiting for the game to install on hia phone. The game itself is quite easy; players only need to find anomalies while crossing the station corridor eight times. It's a simple but very creative concept, and Anaxa likes it. The game finally shows the loading screen, everything looks normal, a train station background.
Anaxa entered the game and started playing, everything looked the same as the content creators on the internet play. He passed through station 1, then 2, then 3. But when he made it through station 3, the man passing by at each station had a different look.
Anaxa was confused by the change "hm? Wasn't he an office worker before? Is this an anomaly?" Anaxa got up from his position and began to sit up straight, still confused by the striking change. The man turned into a white-haired man wearing an elaborate outfit like the armor on male characters in gacha games
Anaxa decided to think of it as an anomaly and controlled his character to walk in the direction they came in, and he was right! The man was an anomaly and the station was now 5. Anaxa again controlled his character to walk straight. But the white-haired man reappeared. Anaxa felt confused, shouldn't this man not be in the game? Anaxa began to think that he might have installed the game wrong.
When the man got close to him, the screen suddenly flickered rapidly and the man turned into a tall, scary-looking figure. He wore a tattered black cloak and a strange, frightening mask. Anaxa frantically controlled his character to run to the back, leaving the scary man there
Now that the station showed the number 6 which he successfully passed the floor before, Anaxa dropped his phone to his thigh, thinking if he installed the wrong game, why did the game look different and scarier than what he saw on his favorite streamer's video? "Is this the same game?...so scared" But even though he was starting to get scared Anaxa still continued his game because the game process was half over. .
He picked up his cell phone again and controlled the character to walk straight. But instead of meeting the white-haired man again, this time he met a blond man with yellow incisions on his body and a large sun-shaped halo behind him. Anaxa was getting convinced that the game had a problem and controlled the character to turn around, but suddenly the screen stopped and a dialog appeared there "Anaxa... Why... You... Running?" The blonde man walked closer to him, his controller unable to move at all adding to Anaxa's fear.
How does this guy know his name?! he never entered a name in the game. Then another dialog popped up "Anaxa... Don't be afraid.... Why did you leave us?" Anaxa was getting scared, was the game really set up like this?! Anaxa blindly pressed the phone screen, the man in the screen seemed to realize his fear, the man suddenly walked backwards and the screen blinked quickly and Anaxa was already where he started the game, the station wall showed the number 7.
Anaxa began to think about stopping playing the game, but he was already at the end of the game, 1 floor left for the ending. Finally Anaxa decided to continue the game, his mind was on the three characters he met before, they shouldn't exist, but. Somehow Anaxa felt that he knew them.
This time it wasn't the white station hallway that greeted him. The hallway was red and distorted and at the end of the hallway Anaxa could see the white-haired man again.... But his body seemed to be distorted and a circle with a large strange symbol behind, looked like the halo on the blond man he met before.
Anaxa for the first time did not want to risk the game and controlled his character to retreat, but suddenly the screen seemed to shake and the strange man was already in front of him, Anaxa screamed in fear and threw the cell phone to the floor, such a jumpscree should not be in this game! From the floor Anaxa could see that a dialog appeared but it was just a lot of 1s and 0s, Anaxa could hear the sound and knew that it was binary code.
"01000001 01101110 01100001 01111000 01100001 00100000 01101010 01100001 01101110 01100111 01100001 01101110 00100000 01101100 01100001 01110010 01101001"
Anaxa quickly picked up his cell phone from the floor. Unlike the blond man earlier this time Anaxa could move his controller and hurriedly turned around, leaving the strange man and the distorted floor and fortunately the man did not chase him and just stayed there.
Finally Anaxa could conclude that he had successfully completed this game! The number on the wall that had returned to normal showed 0 Anaxa hurriedly crossed the hallway and found a staircase which after reaching the stairs, the screen showed a cutscene displaying the names of the people who participated in making the game.
Anaxa closed the game and realized that it was late, wasn't the game only 1 hour long? Why is it already night? Anaxa still feeling shaken by the unexpected presence of the four men, finally decided to prepare for bed.
Anaxa lay on his bed hugging his favorite big dromas doll, and started to go into dreamland without realizing that his cell phone turned on and showed a white hallway.
A television news broadcast at a supermarket reported the death of a young man with the initials A who was found dead in his room covered in blood. And the police are still investigating the case.
"Anaxa"
"Anaxa"
"Anaxa"
"01000001 01101110 01100001 01111000 01100001"