LIGHTNOVELWORLD Chapter 56: A hidden ally on Earth: Doctor Zoli
*** 5 years ago in Earth Timezone, Seattle, U.S.A ***
The doctor, who lived alone in his house, quickly went and opened the door.
"Oh, God… Felix!"
"Please, help us, Zolten!" Felix, who had been carrying bleeding and unconscious Harlow for a long time, was breathing hard because he was exhausted.
"Get her here, quick!"
Putting Harlow on the bed in his room, Zolten quickly checked her condition and tried to stop the bleeding. "Good news, this unnatural bleeding will stop soon, also her condition related to blood loss is not critical. But, Felix…"
"Her unconsciousness…"
"Yes… Like the other patients which you led me to check before… I have no clue about this absurd illness still. So I can not do anything for her even if we take her into the most fully equipped hospital in the city…"
"Ok… I understand…" Felix held Harlow's hand and looked at her… lost in sadness… "I can not take her into any hospital anyway…"
"What the hell happened, Felix? It is kinda some developments occurred on this issue which you hide from public…"
"It crossed that line, Zolten. We, I and my company have terribly failed to read the situation. I can not explain it to you since you do not have knowledge about software programming so I will tell you the basics. It was not about our software since the beginning. Someone or some people whose identity we do not know infiltrated our system by using one of us as a spy and caused all of this. When we realized this, it was too late. All others died and Harlow sacrificed herself just to save me. When took her and tried to run out of the building, dozens of masked and armed men entered the building and started killing everyone…"
"Holly God! Felix, there is no news about this on…"
"F.ck them, Zolten Something so big is going on here. Those guys were wearing camouflage clothes and using silenced weapons as if they were professional soldiers! They butchered everyone in a building in the center of the city easily! When I saw these from the camera footage, I panicked and took only the flash disk of Harlow and ran away with her through the fire escape.… To you…"
"Sure, Felix, of course, I will help! But…"
"What is it, Zolten?"
"You remember about my assignment which I told you before?"
"Yes."
"I was getting ready to leave here tomorrow… To Barcelona… For forever…"
"Ah, that is cool. Take her with you, Zolten. Please, I beg you! She will not be safe here."
"Are you out of your mind, Felix? That is not possible, we are not human traffickers!"
"Let me handle it, I will find a way, I promise!"
"You are playing a very very dangerous game, Felix!"
".." Felix smiled, bowed his head, and looked back at Harlow, stroking her hair. "No, Zolten… Someone wrote an unparallel destiny for me and my friends… They gave us no option but to die… I am not playing here… I just want to save my friend…"
"Damn you, Felix! Ok, I will do that… And hide her until we solve this artificial phenomenon those b.stards did!" Zolten, who had given up because of Felix's stubbornness, sighed deeply and looked at him with a smile.
"I am so grateful, Zolten... No, my dear friend Zoli…"
"F.ck off! Zolighost was my player name while we played online games together at university. I am not young anymore!"
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After Zolten moved to Barcelona, he continued to hide and care for Harlow, as well as investigating similar cases he encountered in Spain… Like Treader's sister… and Yolimar… And of course, Treader and Vato Luca too, those who collapsed by logging into the game in the garden of the hospital where he worked… He was the same doctor of all these cases just to help Felix…
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*** Today, Server 1157 World ***
After the catastrophic system announcements, the weakened alliances united with the strong ones, and the total number of alliances was halved.
There were only 3 weeks left before their battle against the Server World 1157 and merging after the War. Although it was an advantage for them to match with a newer Server World than theirs in terms of the experience of their players, the fact that the system killed hundreds of people at the end of the rebellion put them at a disadvantage.
*** AnD Alliance Hive ***
Since it was peacetime by then, players were busy doing daily events that were considered safe, even though they would never feel safe anymore.
"Push it harder, Aseer!!" El Cid and Aseer were trying to build a bigger warehouse for their alliance since they were in the Construction Event period of the World. In this period, Players could obtain resources such as extra food, weapons, and armor for each new building they completed and assigned to any task in the system.
"Well, it is not like to be fit here, Cid" Aseer, the only blood-eyed player of the alliance was trying to drive the solid hornbeam column into the ground that would serve as the column of the building.
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"They are kinda…"
"Yes, Pyranna. Everyone is still in depression but somehow trying to hold on to life again…"
Two lady players of AnD, Amrow, and the previous LNT member Pyranna were chatting in a low mood by watching others in the square.
"Amrow… I am new here, so doesn't have a right to talk about this issue, I know, but…"
"You wonder about Lamour?"
"Yes. Even though we were not in the same alliance, she was my friend…"
"She is my friend also, Pyranna. No one knows the details of the operation she performed with her rebel friends since she refuses to talk still… But I am sure that West will never harm her. She loves her too. But her actions caused a massive massacre that had never been experienced in this World before. So we have no choice but to wait. Don't worry, we have the chance to stay calm for a very short time, like 3 weeks. I'm sure all the truth will be revealed in a very short time, otherwise, the upcoming war may be the end of us all!..."
Suddenly, a pop-up screen and a new announcement has appeared. However, this time it was not by the system but by a player…
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— [World Chat is on] —
— [/WC] —
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