White Online

[0:00…]

[Game Update Commences!]

''Hmm?'' Isaac's eyelids slowly opened, and he saw a scene that he was not expecting to see.

In front of him, the scene of a starry sky and dark space became visible.

He slowly stood up and looked around him.

In the distance, he noticed two floating spheres.

The first one was a sphere-like item in the color of gray, and it didn't take him even a second to recognize what it was.

'Moon…' Isaac turned towards the other floating sphere and didn't recognize it.

The sphere was surrounded by a heavy layer of cloud, which made seeing the planet's surface very difficult.

But, from the layers of clouds, tall buildings peeked through them and reached the exosphere.

''Is that…'' Isaac widened his eyes in shock and felt his mind blown, ''World of White…''

The floating sphere looked vastly different from the World of Four Seasons.

The layer of clouds was so thick that it made seeing the world itself impossible, which frustrated Isaac.

*SWOOSH*

Suddenly, a far way in the distance, a bright light appeared that suddenly started changing.

The bright white ball changed shapes and became square, with rows of texts appearing.

''White Holographic Screen?'' A frown appeared on his face.

He has only seen blue, green, and red holographic screens, but now a white screen appeared out of nowhere.

Isaac took the first step but felt like his foot didn't touch anything.

While moving in the space, his body felt light, almost nonexistent.

For many, they would be too afraid to move after seeing the darkness around them.

It felt like Isaac was alone in the world.

But, he felt surprisingly familiar with the current feeling.

Isaac's feet started moving faster and faster until he was running towards the holographic screen!

It looked like he was running on top of an invisible road, but when his feet separated from the hidden road, he started floating and traveled a hundred meters in almost an instant.

With this way of travel, he reached the holographic screen in almost record time.

The white holographic screen showed a clock that was slowly ticking down.

[56:47…]

[56:46…]

It was the clock of the downtime.

Isaac touched the holographic screen, and he felt like he was touching a cold window.

Once his hand touched the holographic screen, the clock disappeared, and rows of texts appeared.

[Update Log]

[Downtime]

[Log Out]

Isaac widened his eyes and tried to press [Update Log]

But, a dinging noise appeared.

*Ding* *Ding*

[Unavailable!]

''Ah, shame.'' Isaac thought it would be only available once downtime was over.

Next, he pressed [Downtime], and the familiar clock appeared.

[55:57...]

After seeing that 56 minutes remained till the downtime was over, he decided to check out the forums, which must be exploding in heated discussions.

His delicate finger touched the [Log Out], and soon, his body disappeared from the World of White alongside the white holographic screen.

…

In the real world.

''Whew…'' Isaac took a deep breath after he forgot to breathe properly in the dark space.

It was a natural reaction of a Human; after all, everyone knows that breathing in space is impossible.

He kept taking short breaths, but subconsciously he tried to breathe as less as possible, but after finally returning to the real world, his body was already reacting to it.

After his red face changed shades and his previous skin color returned, he took off the VR Helmet and stuffed it inside the black box but didn't put it back in the wardrobe.

Instead, he left the bed and went to the beautiful wooden desk, where his laptop was already showing the loading screen.

*Creak*

He pulled his chair from below the desk and sat on it.

*Crack*

With a simple crack of the knuckles, he started using the mouse and keyboard to type the website address in the search bar.

He went straight to the forums, and it didn't come as a surprise that the forums were bustling.

When Isaac tried to click one of the forum posts, the laptop froze, caused by the heavy traffic on the forums.

Isaac impatiently tapped his foot on the carpet and waited for the post to load.

It took him nearly a minute for it to finish loading.

His laptop was brand new and one of the best in the market, but even with such a good laptop that could run heavy graphic games, it still took him a long time.

He can only guess how long it will take with others who have a cheaper and less effective laptop.

''Let's see…'' Isaac thought that the forum post seemed interesting, and it was tagged as [Theory]

For some reason, it had a [Hot] tag, meaning that it was one of the most popular ones in the past 24 hours.

But, seeing that the post was published only 10 minutes ago shocked Isaac!

The post was made by a Player named Revolutionary.

''Why is this so popular?'' Isaac frowned and started scrolling down. The forum post was even more popular than his Stream Clip post, which was already a post that made him relatively famous.

''Maybe this Revolutionary is a popular streamer.'' Isaac had his own theories but planned to focus on the theory for now.

Soon, the written text became visible, and the first row of words already made Isaac curious.

''Theory of White Online…'' He pondered for a second before continuing reading, ''Today's update will change everything, but I won't be talking about that for now— instead, something that has been my concern for a long time.''

''First of all, I have closely monitored the movements of Top Companies worldwide, and every one of them had one thing in common… They all started investing in White Online before the Game trailer was even published!''

Isaac widened his eyes, 'My father only invested after the game was published… But he was talking about the Top Companies… I need to read further.'

''It wasn't that strange because maybe Arthur showed them the trailer earlier and managed to get them to sponsor his Company after they noticed the game's sheer potential.''

Isaac nodded and thought it seemed a valid theory.

''But, then I noticed something shocking.''

Isaac frowned, and when he saw the following rows of texts, he was in disbelief.

''Every President of Top Companies suddenly traveled to the moon!''

''It happened before the Top Companies started investing in Legacy Company, and for some reason, they all traveled at the same time!''

''It's not strange for rich men to visit the moon once in their lifetime— they can afford it after all, but it was strange that they all went at the same time, and I dug even deeper… Arthur was also missing during that time!''

''Did he go with them to the moon, and for what purpose? Is there something hidden inside the moon, or is it something else!''

To many, it would sound like a conspiracy theory, but Isaac has learned the connection between World of White and Four Seasons.

''This Revolutionary… Is close to finding something out.''