Chapter 41: Mad Scientist
Henry seemed troubled. Adyr's question had clearly put him in a difficult spot.
After a brief internal struggle, he decided the least he could do was give Adyr that much. He turned to the doctors and researchers nearby.
They caught the signal in his eyes and left the room without a word, closing the door behind them.
"Before we begin, I should be honest. I don't actually know much about the game itself either," Henry said as he slowly sat down in the armchair in the corner.
"I'll only tell you what the City Manager told me directly." He shifted into a more comfortable position before continuing.
"According to him, eighteen years ago, a man appeared claiming knowledge of another world, one entirely separate from our own. Naturally, the City Managers didn't believe him at first, but he brought proof. All kinds of it. Most notably, the earliest version of the devices we now use as game pods."
So the game world isn't a game at all. It's a real place. The revelation didn't surprise Adyr as much as it should have.
"In essence," Henry continued, "these devices are portals, tools designed to let us enter the other world without being detected."
"Without being detected?" Adyr raised an eyebrow.