"Wilton! Wilton!"
"Wilton! Come out! We are moving on!"
Johnson scanned the forest, suddenly, he detected a life form. He quickly destroyed the bushes blocking it. Indeed, Wilton is in there, curling into a ball.
"Yo, come out, we gotta move on." said Johnson.
Wilton noticed Johnson, he quickly cleaned his clothes and came out.
They all exited the forest and gathered.
"Not gonna lie you are a god of hide and seek." said Covie.
"I feel like that's an insult."
"Whatever."
Wilton glared at Albur, the 2 then scoffed and turn their back at each other.
"What now? Earlier its human vs cyborg and now its human vs human?" asked Johnson.
"Well uh, I don't know how to explain it but....." Mysty murmured.
"We suspect he is an imposter. " said Albur.
"Imposter?"
"Do you not realize? Ever since he is with us, the glitches could 'magically' find us way more easily, no?"
Johnson squint his eyes and looked at Wilton, Wilton slowly backed off.
"Let me do a little.....scan real quick."
Johnson scanned Wilton from the head to his toes. The blue scanning beam analyzed Wilton's whole body.
"Hey I gotta say, its tickles a little...." Wilton felt very uncomfortable.
Suddenly, the scanning beam focused on his shoes, beeping loudly. Wilton quickly took it off. Johnson picked it up and looked at it. But then, he started coughing.
"Ugh! Man! How long since you've washed your feet?"
Wilton laughed awkwardly.
Johnson looked beneath his shoes. Then, his eyes widened.
"What is it? What have you found?"
Johnson pulled out a round cyan device. Its a round device with silver linings. He gave it a scan.
"What the, this is a.....land mine type tracker..."
"Land mine type tracker?" The crew all asked together.
"Its a type of tracker which is invisible and planted on the ground, when someone or something steps on it, it will stick with them using a special energy force, showing their locations.
The crew gasped.
"I stepped on this bull crap after all of this time?"
Johnson threw it on the ground and destroyed it with his minigun. Albur looked at Wilton, knowing he had wrongly accused him.
"I think someone owes someone an apology..."
Mysty looked at Albur. Wilton felt nervous, knowing he accidentally caused the crew so much trouble. Albur and Wilton looked at each other, they couldn't make up words, but still, they took a deep breath and said.
"I'm sorry... "
The 2 of them looked at each other.
"No no, I am the one who should be sorry, I wrongly accused you, making you feel not good." Muttered Albur.
"No no, I am the one who should be sorry, I...caused such big trouble to you guys and, didn't even realize, I am so so sorry....."
"No, I am."
"No, I am"
"Its me."
"No, its me."
The 2 of them kept arguing on who should be sorry. Mysty and Johnson looked at each other, Mysty shrugged, Johnson sighed.
"Why not, you 2 be sorry together?" asked Covie.
The 2 of them looked at Covie, then at each other again.
"Sorry dude, I shouldn't have suspected my best cameraman. "
"I caused this lots of trouble, and you still hyped me up, thank you so much, I'm sorry as well."
Albur patted his shoulder, the 2 then have a fist bump. They then laughed.
But Johnson just slowly approached to Wilton, and looked at him.
"Hey....."
The 2 of them looked at Johnson.
"No wonder the glitches know out exactly location, though I know you didn't mean to but..... I really have the urge to...."
(Maintenance break, Covie is currently reviving Wilton Notlim.)
The crew packed their stuff. They opened the map and started to head to Crimson. Before leaving, Albur stared at the ocean. Only fragments of wreckage floating where The Bug once stood. Albur didn't feel that much of a relief of beating an enemy unlike previously. His heart felt complex, but nonetheless, he straightened his body, and saluted at the ocean.
"What are you doing?" asked Mysty.
"Oh uh, nothing, come on, let's go."
The gang quicken their movement, more energy absorbers thrusting into the Earth means their time is slowly running out. The rushed as fast as they could. And after an hour, they reached the place. In front of them, is a huge building ruin, it used to be levitating but now collapsed and broken. It is the head office of the planet executive, where the Earth is being ruled by different combined countries leaders.
The crew stood outside of the building. Albur disabled the door of the entrance and the others break the door using their weapons. They entered the building. The inside of the building is luxurious looking. It consist of the highest technology on Earth and here stores every data and information about everything on Earth.
"It sounds sarcastically that the place on Earth with the highest technology dies to some computer glitches."
"I mean this place wasn't even built for attacking isn't it?"
"But at least put some defensive stuff like laser or something. "
"Maybe they did, but it was controlled by the glitches."
"The military base is not far from them yet they were all captured."
The crew searched deeper into the building. Digital folders are seen scattered all over the ground. Many torn wires and missing machines can be seen everywhere. It seems that the glitches robbed quite some stuff from here.
They then came across a huge laboratory. There they found a lot of broken machines, and some machines seemed to be stolen. Albur found a piece of paper on the table. It is a fragment of report about an unknown experiment, the others also found similar fragments nearby, they gathered them and let Covie do the repair job. When the report is fixed, they took a look at it.
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Experiment Report
Experiment D190R
Attempt: #4
Aim: To investigate whether organic creatures and components could be transported to the Parallel Realm by using digitalization.
Experiment Procedure: The rats which were given a ECG device and materialization zapper were placed onto the testing template, later being zapped by the digitalization device at risk level 4 for 120 hours. The digital data was later transported by the realm teleporter.
Observation: After 1 minutes 14 seconds, the rats vanished. The ECG device showed that the heartbeat of the rats have stopped. Attempts to bring the body back was unsuccessful.
Conclusion: Experiment failed.
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"Heh, such easy technology couldn't even be mastered by the lab with highest tech on Earth." scoffed Johnson.
"How do you actually do that when you are just 18?" asked Albur.
"I was forced to read many books when I was small remember, I used those knowledge I learnt and put them to good use. Using those crazy tech I learned from secondary school, I combined them all and attempted numerous times. And combined with the shallow knowledge about cyber realms and stuff I got from 1 year in college, I made a device which have the capability to easily turn anything into digital data, and another switch on it was able to transport it to the digital world."
"The digital world pistol?"
"Yeah."
Johnson looked at the atomically shattered pistol which was shattered by Error earlier, and sighed.
"I think it is a good thing I didn't show this technology to the world that time, or else every human would be turned into digital data right now." sighed Johnson.
"So that means most of the technology of the glitches are stolen?" asked Mysty.
"Probably, and hope so." said Johnson.
"What do you mean hope so?" asked Albur.
"If its Earth technology, we could find a way to beat them, if its their own or somehow alien technology, that is problematic..." murmured Johnson.
The crew continued searching around the building. They found tons of plan paper and reports about the recent glitch activity, but still, they were unable to find the upgrade station.
"Dang it, still couldn't find that stupid upgrade station." exclaimed Wilton.
"Strange, I scanned this whole place, there's no sign of the upgrade station anywhere." said Johnson.
"They couldn't have taken it right, it will anchor itself if it is 100 meters far from the allowed spot." said Mysty.
"Where the heck could it be?" Albur groaned as he leaned on a wall. Suddenly, the wall behind he started moving. Albur quickly backed away, the team go into battle pose. Then, a hatch on the wall opened, a scanner opened up, it scanned the team, then, it flashed a red light.
"Not given access, unauthorized personals unallowed to enter."
Johnson smirked, he approached to the scanner and put his robot claws onto it.
"Not given access, unauthorized personals unallowed to enter."
"Shut up scanner, watch me go in." said Johnson.
"Not given access, unauthorized....."
"You can shut up now."
Johnson locked his robot claws onto the scanner, he then started hacking its system, ultimately, the scanner approved them all. It glowed a lime green light, then, the walls behind it split opened, showing a dark dusty hallway.
"You really need to explain why the hell could you hack things if you're a cyber security." said Albur.
"For a while I wasn't, I am a hacker. Don't tell me you forgot about everything I told you." said Johnson.
Albur rolled his eyes.
The team entered the hallway, which then led to a staircase, the dust in there is very thick, it looks like no one have been down here for years.
"Could possibly compete with our basement." said Covie.
"What do you mean? Our staircase is super clean." said Johnson.
"To you. Not me."
Johnson rolled his eyes.
After a few seconds of walking, they've reached the bottom. It is a huge underground database, even bigger than the one at the surface. There are a lot of flash drives and a player with an LED screen.
But during the walk, Johnson suddenly stopped, the team all bump into him.
"Bro, what's your problem? Why'd you stop?" Albur asked.
Johnson stared at their front, the team all looked as well, they all gasped lightly. Its a super large machine, with key pads, 3 LED screens, a lot of hatches and a Crimson color logo, it is, the Crimson upgrade station.
"We found it....." murmured Johnson.
Albur and Mysty handed over their watch to Johnson. He took them and put them into the hatch of the machine. The puzzle of this upgrade is super complicated and it consists of 3 puzzles. Johnson stretched his limbs and started solving it, Covie floated near him and watched him solve it quietly. Wilton sat down and took a nap, he doesn't seemed to have enough sleep.
Mysty wandered around in the data base, she looked at every flash drive. But one of them caught her attention. Between those cool looking futuristic flash drives, there's one ordinary yet outstanding flash drive. It is very old looking flash drive, its is heavily rusted and very dusty. Mysty took it out, curious of what is in it. She brought it out, she tried to insert it into the player they saw earlier, but its too old and the plug is too old to insert into the player. Albur noticed Mysty's actions, he walked to her and looked at what she is doing.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"I found a flash drive earlier, I want to see what is inside it." Mysty showed Albur the flash drive she found earlier. Albur looked at it.
"Damn, it seems to be from the 20 whatever century." said Albur.
Albur and Mysty looked around the database, trying to find what can be used to play this thing. Albur searched shelfs and drawers, then, a gust of dust suddenly came out from a drawer. Albur was choked, he shook his head, he then looked inside the drawer. There sits a very very old computer, covered in dust and very rusty. Albur took it out and placed it near his feet.
"Hey Mysty, look at this." said Albur.
Mysty walked to him, she looked at that computer, and looked at the flash drive. She found a hole that seemed to be able to perfectly fit the flash drive. She inserted it, but then, the computer started to glow, it then shot a beam of light. Albur and Mysty backed off in shock, the light turned into a hologram, showing a man standing, holding a voice recorder. He is wearing glasses, he have a lab coat with the shirts that seemed to be from the 26 century.