The Gene Gamer

Chapter 25: First VR Experience

In the room Cylius was drinking a healing potion while looking at the instructions on how to play a VR game. The liquid went down his throat and dissolved in his stomach, all along a warm feeling rose all over his body. Soon the capsule was void of any liquid. He threw the empty capsule to his feet, making a ping sound.

Healing internal injuries were hard, fortunately with a mid grade potion his injuries had healed considerably and with another one he would be able to completely recover. But mid grade potions were expensive, placed at a hundred points each.

He was rich nonethless, even though with his control skill he could buy a bunch of low grade potions and the cost would be much more lower. But he was lazy and he placed comfort at the top. Plus he was busy and anxious, to play the VR game sooner.

After drinking another potion he got the VR suit ready, gene upgrading could be done later. After wearing the suit he connected to the public place. Right after he experienced a blackout, but soon he recovered and he found himself in a kind of a square.

Sure the body here matched his own, to be exact of a thirteen year old kid. He moved his arms and it felt completely real, he experienced a kind of shock but it quickly died. A screen appeared in front of him which asked if he needed basic information as it had recognized that it was his first time here.

He didn't need any help with the basics but he needed the screen to search for games. After a few questions he dismissed it. This place was a public place where VR users would first appear, it was kind of a starting place.

It was basically the same as the real life here, there would be police often referred as enforcers and pretty much the same as the real life. There would be search screen in your vision and you could use it find websites. You could also get virtual massages and so on with the buildings around here.

If the distance is too long you could just teleport there, it was very convenient and people would use this space here to gain money rather than in the real world. The virtual industry was a large industry and it was also controlled by the Federation. There were black markets and underground organizations everywhere, so the rules here were also very strict.

Right now he was looking for some racing games, and after that would be shooting or some others. He asked the A.I. about the good racing gaes out here and it recommended some. He was still a newbie but he believed that with his perception he could be quite successful. He could also earn money and convert it into points or preserve it as such as they were useful.

They had much more uses than points, after all a ship was just an insignificant thing compared to the whole Federation. It would have many uses not just limited to Rare genes with bitcoins. Here even Ancient genes were possible but its very unlikely to find it not to mention someone willing to trade it.

Even in second grade it would be immensely useful maybe only in the tird grade would its value drop. After all third grade geneticians were entirely different species not worth mentioning together with the ordinary, in front of them second grades would be ant willing to be crushed.

The only reason why he suspected that such an honorable person had come to their ship was that some divinations might've been involved, and sensed that a talented individual would be boarding the ship which was most likely to be Farold.

After searching for the suitable one among the recommendation he picked "Foreseen" which had a very suspicious name but it was among the ones in the top so he thought that playing it once wouldn't do any harm to him.

Just as he had placed the position and teleported there he was asked if he needed to have a tutorial or not. Well he was new so he agreed on a tutorial. It wasn't too long nor too short after explaining the rules he would race with bots and after that would he participate in the real races with other players.

The instructions were clear, at the beginning he would participate in a race that required great perception, there would be places where there would be no roads, some with sharp turns and some that even required going through buildings, fake of course just a virtual environment.

The thrill was there, with races you could even get money by the stakes, you would have to get into a higher league of course.

Just thinking about it excited him, after all the roads would be in a hellish environment, air drifts cliffs it was basically an extreme race.

After finishing the controls he was teleported to a car, a race car to be exact. He looked out his window and he saw other cars next to him. Then the lights turned from red to yellow as he prepared himself. Then it turned into green and as soon as it did he pushed the accelerator hard.

It went shuun and the experience was very vivid, he pressed as hard as he could and the car also went very fast. Even though it was isolated he felt great. Soon the first obstacle came, it was a sharp turn and before it came with accuracy he drifted.

When he had drifted in a slow motion he saw the wall very close to him almost coming in contact with the car, luckily the drift worked and didn't come in contact with the wall. If he was an average person he would definitely be thrilled but somehow he felt dull. All the thrill that had been in him changed to dullness as he decided to crash.

At least it would be more interesting, then in the next turn an accident occurred. His car went directly into the wall and crashed! Time came to a stop and he felt the impact of the car crashing against the wall but nothing showed up in his eye, it was a dull darkness.

If someone were to see him in this state they would never forget it. Even in this dangerous disaster being able to stay calm meant special even though the dullness in him might not mean calmness.

'I'm done' he said to nobody and the notification of him losing the race came out but he didn't pay any attention. He was... bored.

He logged out and returned to the space ship, the blank white ceiling appeared in his vision and a tear uncontrollably went down his eyes. Right at that moment he felt himself losing a part of him, a part of his emotion.