The next day when Alex opened his eyes, he heard a familiar voice in his head, and a message written in white came into his view “activating the system.”
Then, a circle with a percentage at its center started forming under the massage.
Alex looked to his right and saw that Emily was starting to wake up.
“what was that? My head hurts,” said Emily.
“it’s ok, Emy. Just listen to me and do as I say. When you hear the voice in your head, don’t panic.”
When Alex said that, as if by magic, Emily heard a voice in her head and jumped up.
“it’s ok. Just listen to me. Tell me when the circle finishes forming, and I will tell you what to do.”
“ok,” Emily said obediently.
After that, Alex turned around and looked at the almost full circle.
“The integration was successful. Do you wish to see the results?”
“yes,”
Alex Adams
Age:17
Blood type: A+
Level: 0
job: _ _ _
title: _ _ _
skills: _ _ _
integrated nanobots: 6,475,438,954
(the body can’t accept any more nanobots at this time)
strength: 6
agility: 7
stamina: 5
nano control: 98
free stat points: 0
“wow, it’s too much,” in his previous life, Alex started with only a hundred million integrated nanobots, so he was shocked to see the results.
He never thought that his starting integration would be with this many nanobots. He expected it to be more than his previous life, but not by this much.
As he was in his thoughts, Emily’s integration finally finished.
“Alex, it’s finished. It’s asking me if I want to see the results.”
“Ok, answer yes to the question.”
“Ok, now there are some numbers.”
“Can you read them for me?”
“Ok.”
Emily Adams
Age:10
Blood type: A+
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Level: 0
job: _ _ _
title: _ _ _
skills: _ _ _
integrated nanobots: 5,824,235,035
(the body can’t accept any more nanobots at this time)
strength: 2
agility: 5
stamina: 3
nano control: 86
free stat points: 0
“What does all this mean, Alex?”
“It means that you are powerful. do you want to see something cool?”
“Yes,” answered Emily with enthusiasm.
Alex turned around, looked at the soda can on the dashboard, and raised his right hand.
Immediately, the can started to move and went into his hands.
“Wow, cool. Can I do it too?”
“yes, but you have to concentrate. Look at the can and ask in your mind for it to come to you.” Said Alex and put the can on the dashboard again.
Emily raised her hands, closed her eyes, and said, “come to me.”
At first, nothing happened, but the can started to shake after the sixth try.
“don’t close your eyes. Look at it directly and ask it to move,” said Alex.
Emily opened her eyes and said again, “come to me.”
This time the can moved a little bit before stopping.
“did you see that? It moved,” Emily said with a proud grin on her face.
“yes, nice job. But it’s enough for now. If you do it more, you will get exhausted. Now buckle up because we are starting our real adventure.”
Two hours later, after a little bit of rest, Alex and Emily were on the road again.
“where are we going, Alex?”
“We are going to the summer house,” answered Alex with a sad tone.
But it seemed that Emily didn’t notice his tone and just shouted happily, “yay, I love the summer house.”
Their summer house was located about two hours from the city, in a jungle near the lake. They went there ever since Alex was little, and his mother was still alive.
After the explosion and the release of the nanobot, the police surely wouldn’t have time to recheck it to see if they were there or not. Hell, they wouldn’t even have the time to care about their existence.
After about 24 hours of driving, they finally got to the summer house, and Alex unloaded everything he had bought into the house.
It was a two-story wooden house with big windows and many trees surrounding it.
Inside, the house was like a palace made from wood. Everything was made from high-end wood. From the doors to the bathroom sink, it was all wood.
When they got into the house, Emily ran upstairs to her bedroom.
There were four bedrooms on the second floor. One main bedroom, one Alex’s, one Emily's, and one guest room for their friends.
Alex too went to his bedroom and when he saw that everything was the way he left it he sighed in relief.
“I missed this,” he said in a sad tone when suddenly he heard Emily’s shouts.
“awwwwww”
“what is it? Was someone in here?” asked Alex in a hurry
“no, but there is a strange creature in the bathroom. It looks like a cockroach.” Said Emily, almost troughing up thinking about it.
Alex took a look inside the bathroom and saw a cockroach the size of a human head sitting on the toilet.
His eyes shown in happiness, and he quickly closed the bathroom door and ran to the kitchen to grab a knife.
“wh-what are you going to do with that?” asked Emily with fright in her voice.
“I'm going to kill it, obviously”
“but it’s too big. Are you sure you will be ok?”
“don’t worry, it can’t do anything.” Said Alex and went into the bathroom.
There were two kinds of existence in this new world: a real one and a hologram.
The real creatures are your everyday humans and animals that you can see and touch normally. They both will change and mutate with time, but they are just ordinary creatures for now.
The holograms, on the other hand, were not real; the nanobots inside everybody’s brain made them, but they were still touchable. When you went near them and tried to touch them, the integrated nanobots in the person’s body would simulate the feeling of touch, smell, etc.
You could even ride them if the nanobots in your surroundings were enough to lift you. But unfortunately, it wouldn’t be possible in the initial stages of the “game.”
Surely, not all the holograms were harmless, as some of them were hostile to humans and could be hunted down for exp and unique objects that they dropped.
There were also human holograms called NPCs that could give you missions and help you level up easier. Just like computer games, but real.
After the nanobots fill the world, they start duplicating to the point that you can’t differentiate between a real and a hologram creature.
These animals were categorized into different ranks: Common, uncommon, rear, epic, legendary, and mythic.
The cockroach in front of him was obviously a common type creature, so it shouldn’t be too hard for Alex to kill it even with his current stats.
After closing the door, Alex got ready to stab the cockroach and jumped forward with all his strength.
The cockroach seemed to want to flee, but it was too slow, and Alex cut off its head with one slash of the big knife in his hand.
The cockroach started disintegrating, and soon some messages flashed in front of Alex’s vision.
“exp leveling system activated”
“you have killed level 1, common rank giant cockroach.”
“you are the first person to activate the exp leveling system.”
“calculating extra rewards.”
“because of the insufficient nanobots in the environment, the rewards can’t be granted.”
“you have leveled up to level one.”
“all stats plus one”
“two free stats are added to your account.”