Is this a game? was the first thing that came to my mind. With the strange headache fading, M stopped talking, and at the same time, the car stopped moving. Inside a dense fog, I saw in front of me a blinking light several times. A small screen popped up in front of me, with details like a video game:

Nam: Aden

Age: 16

Race: Human

Rank: Officer

Status: healthy

Skills: Nil

Gifts: Nil

Grade: 1

Phase: 1

Points: 0

Remarks: ?????

Mission: Survive

Duration: 24 hours

Reward: mystery map + skill

What is this? Is this a game? What is going on here? For the second time since I came to this world, I find myself in a weird and strange situation, situations that I have nothing to do with, and being forced to think about what is going on and what's happening to me, and the most strange thing is: WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON? Am I hallucinating? Who is doing this to me?

Nothing is making any sense anymore. Although nothing was making any sense to me to begin with, things are getting more and more strange. I called M several times, but I didn't get any response from her. As per Emika, the chip implanted in me doesn't stop working for any reason. The way I understood it, it was like the mobile phones in my world, except it doesn't require charging or changing.

For me, it was my companion. I had someone to talk to, and it was the only thing that made my life easier. Since day one, I have been talking to her, I named her and didn't consider her as just an AI, and now I am in a dilemma. There is a mission, skills, points, and grades, like I am playing a video game.

Worst of all, I don't know what to do or where to go, and there are no instructions on what to do. I am looking outside. A dense fog, like a mist, is covering everything in front of me. I have been calling (M) for a while and there has been no response at all. I even tried to turn the vehicle on, but it wouldn't turn on. I don't have any idea what to do.

Suddenly, the door of the vehicle opened, like an invitation to get out, and my heart started racing and beating fast. I actually felt a dense atmosphere, and felt scared for the first time since I came to this world. My imagination started wondering very far, imagining some monster would pop up from the fog, and jump on me. How would I go out in this fog when I can't even see farther than my nose? So I started debating whether to stay in the car and lock myself in one of the rooms, or to go out and find out what was going on.

Stiil feels an uneasy feeling that there is something wrong. Also, (M) mentioned that the fog is not natural; it's an artificial one. That means someone is behind everything that is happening, and it's not just an accident. I found a little bit of courage and told myself that if whoever was behind this wanted to hurt me, they would have done it already, and there is no reason for me to be scared or afraid of anything.

The distance between me and the door was less than one meter. It took me two steps and a third one to get to the road. I was standing on the road, and as soon as I put my second foot on the road, I heard one ring, "DING," and a new line appeared in front of me, the same way the previous information appeared,

(23 M straight; 90 Digress Right)

I understood that it was a direction for me to follow, and the only thing I wished for was for (M) to be with me.

It was a very simple direction that anybody could follow it, but I don’t know why my mind was overthinking it. Should I go to the straight that I am facing, which will lead to the forest, or shall I go straight where the car is facing on the road and then turn? Why do I need to think of it that way? I don't know now, but actually that was what was happening inside my mind.

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The probability of finding the location depends on my going the right way, do should I turn right and go straight, or go straight no matter which way I am facing? Whoever does this and reads my mind or knows exactly where I am and what I am doing, I got another notification (Go Straight) and an arrow in front of me that was pointing straight.

I blinked my eyes several times, making sure what I see in front of me is real, this is the third time it has happened, the first time it was the long list with my information and what was required of me, and that time it appeared on the windshield of the vehicle, the second time was a few minutes ago inside the vehicle when the door opened.

I didn't think much about it at that time, but now there is no screen or hard surface in front of me, but the empty air and this dense fog, so I started wondering from where the information is projected. How is it possible for someone to be able to write something on the air? And I suddenly remembered an old saying, "There is nothing called impossibility but there is in capabilities," so maybe since nobody in my world is capable of doing something close to that, it doesn't mean it's impossible.

I followed the arrow in front of me with caution since I was unable to see anything at all. I kept both hands in front of me in case something was facing me that I couldn't see. Whether I looked straight ahead or down, the visibility was totally zero. After I walked the twenty-three meters, the arrow turned 90 degrees right. Still, there was nothing to see but my hand touching a hard surface. I came closer to it with my face only, bending to make sure what my hands were touching was a tree. Although both my hands were wide open, I still couldn't reach the end of it.

While I was checking my surroundings, though I was unable to see anything, I knew that I was inside the forest and that I was facing a very large tree. Its trunk was as wide as a house. Then the arrow pointed down. I looked down and reached with both my hands, and I found a backpack on the floor, and something was on top of it. A wooden box was what I found on top of the box. While I was trying to open the box and feel the box's corners, since the visibility was zero, suddenly the fog disappeared, not gradually but all at once, like it had been sucked from the air all at once.

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Adilne was sitting in front of the screen that she had been assigned to. It's been almost three weeks since she started working in the Dark Room, and until today she didn't know what type of work she was doing. All she knew was that she was monitoring someone. Who was that? She didn't know. Every day, she sits in front of this screen for four hours, typing and noting everything that person does in order to figure it out. She sees only what that person is doing. She can't hear him or anyone talking to him; she only monitors his actions. She doesn't even know until now if this person is male or female.

Today was the first time. She has been given different instructions before. It may look like a simple thing, but it seemed like a conversation to her, and that made her very excited. She knew that they couldn't talk and that there was no way that they could converse, but still, she got excited by that notion alone. She also got the chance to learn some information about him. Yes, he is a boy, almost her age, and his name is Aden. She got this information along with a long list of other instructions.

Unfortunately, he had to hide her excitement, because one of the managers was standing behind her, giving her instructions on what to write, when to write it, and how to do all that. Since this was the first time she had had to do that, although she knew nothing of all the things she had been asked to do, she didn't mind the secrets. As long as she was working, and her sister was being taken care of, she could have two meals a day and sleep in a clean bed. That was all that mattered.