Chapter 003 – A help from the past?

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This was his own number no doubt.

[Cyan]: “Who is this?”

Cyan could not help but ask aloud to himself before sending the reply.

Message(You): “Don’t refuse it just yet Cyan”

Reply: “Who is this?”

Under normal circumstances, that message should have arrived at his own phone, however now…

Message(You): “I am you from the future”

[Cyan]: “…that’s it this guy is crazy…”

Before Cyan could reply, again he got another message.

Message(You): “I know you won’t believe me now but I am really you, didn’t you checked already the sender phone number, how do you think I did that if it wasn’t because we have the same phone”

[Cyan]: “…of course you hacked the phone…”

Reply: “I am calling the police right now”

Message(You): “And what are you going the tell them? That you send a text message to yourself?”

Reply: “I will them that someone crazy guy hacked into my phone”

Message(You): “they will think you are crazy though”

Reply: “So what”

Cyan felt himself becoming angry from talking to this person.

Message(You): “I have proof you know”

Reply: “What, are you going to tell me the lottery number now?”

Message(You): “You live an apartment #5 room #2 that you have been renting for the past two and a half years, your monthly payment is ########, you were orphan since the day you were born, you staff your magazines together with all your money under your beg thinking nobody is going to look there, oh right you should look at the corner there is coin you miss there, you also hit your toe once and someone convince you that they would need to cut it making you cry for a whole day, and you if you don’t [accept] that text now you will regret it for the rest of your life because you will never see Alice again”

Sweat drops started to drop from Cyan head as he took the coin he had missed from the corner, this didn’t make any sense for him, what is the purpose of this guy, that information was way too accurate and what was that last part of never seeing Alice again, is that a treat? Did this person have cameras in his room or something?

[Cyan]: “That’s…”

Message(You): “That’s what? It is all correct isn’t?”

Cyan wanted to deny this but this person was not just on his phone but he could also read his mind too now?

This person must know him somehow, at lets this person should be from the same classroom as him but to reach this level of knowledge it shouldn’t be possible, not including Alice but most students didn’t know even his name.

Message(You): “It only could mean that I am you right?”

Cyan choose to ignore it, nothing good would come from keep talking to this crazy person, Cyan thought as he sits down in his desk.

Message(You): “Stop ignoring me kid we don’t have much time, you need to [accept] before you regret it, don’t you like Alice anymore?”

Reply: “Mind your own business”

Even though he said to himself he would not reply again Cyan could not remain quiet for too long, he could not help but want to punch this person in the face that keeps saying he would regret it repeatedly together with the name of Alice.

Message(You): “Kid sooner or later you were going to [accept] in the end anyway I am just trying to help you out so you enter the [Training Tower] early than last time”

Reply: “That’s a lie I was about to [refuse] it when you interrupt me”

Cyan could not help to retort to himself he was about to [refuse] it just moments ago right?

Message(You): “Then why haven’t you [refuse] it already? I had given you ample time between my messages, nor to mention that you can just ignore them”

Reply: “You think I would not [refuse] it”

Message(You): “Then do it, I will wait”

Cyan head almost exploded from the anger he was feeling right now, he was being challenged by this unknown person and the thinking that this person was really himself keep popping up in his head.

Cyan wrote down the reply once more.

[refuse]

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15 minutes later

Message(You): “You cannot do it right?”

Reply: “F***”

Message(You): “You should watch your language kid”

Cyan had been staring his cellphone screen for 15 minutes and he still could not bring himself to press the send button. The thought of never seeing Alice again keep coming up to his head as he started to feel regret that should not belong to him.

Reply: “What do you want?”

Even so, he could not bring himself to be nice to this cocky bastard.

Message(You): “Didn’t I told already? What I want is for your help and for you to [accept] it”

Reply: “Do you think I am crazy?”

The thought that he started believing the nonsense this crazy person was saying could only be done by another crazy person. Would anyone that was sane believe someone that stood in your front door and said it came from the future? That only means both need to be crazy for that to happen.

Message(You): “I really need you help kid”

After waiting for 10 minutes, Cyan got a new message.

Message(You): “Are you still there?”

Cyan gritted his teeth as he held his phone.

Reply: “Are you from the future? Shouldn’t you know?”

Message(You): “The past is indeed a constant, but you or I have become a variables, the mere fact we are talking has already changed the actions you would do in the future until it becomes impossible to predict anymore, as a variable I don’t know exactly what you will do now”.

Cyan did not know why but he was starting to feel the need to believe this person.

Reply: “Say that I am crazy and that I believe you for a second that you are from the future, why do you need my help for?”

Message(You): “I can’t go myself to the past to change it myself that would destroy both of out our worlds, do you want that I destroy your world? The future that I want to prevent from happening, you are the only one that can change it and no one else, and all that starts by you entering the [Training Tower] early”.

Reply: “What will happen to the future?”

Message(You): “That… you don’t need to know because we will prevent it from ever happening”

Reply: “Wait, would that created a paradox if I were to change the future?”

Message(You): “It is true that changing “my” past is indeed proven to be impossible, but what we are trying to do is changing “your” future kid”.

Cyan could only think in the theory of parallel worlds, however.

Reply: “If we change my future, then the future you are from what would happen to it?”

Message(You): “…if we succeed me and my world would disappear like a bad memory that never existed, and like a bad dream you would not remember me either”

Reply: “…How do you know?”

Message(You): “Because this already had happened before, the one before me told I was the third, making you the fourth, what you need to know is that… I didn’t succeed that’s why I can still remember them… now it is your chance to do what I couldn’t”

Cyan had the boiling feeling in his stomach telling him this guy was telling him the truth, he could only do as he says.

Reply: “What I need to do”

Message(You): “[accept]”

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Message(Unknown): “You have been invited to the [Training Tower] as part of a defense program which purpose is the creation, training, and support of Players, do you wish to [accept] or [refuse], please reply this message before the training period ends”.

Reply: “[accept]”

Message(Unknown): “Player Cyan has accepted the invitation, initializing the transfer, please remain still while the transfer is being carried out and don’t take your hands out, loss of body parts is possible”

Message(Unknown): “Warning: check your signal strength before initializing the transfer, a weak signal would cause mild to serious problems as nausea, dizziness, body spams, and loss of internal organs or body parts.”

Message(Unknown): “Signal strength at 99.99% Error at 0.0001%, all system checked, ready to proceed”

Message(Unknown): “Transfer starts in”

Message(Unknown): “3”

Message(Unknown): “2”

Message(Unknown): “1”

Message(Unknown): “Transfer start”

Message(You): “Good luck kid”

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After the dizziness and nausea Cyan was feeling fade away, he could now look around him.

He was inside a huge room that could easily take hundreds of people at the same time, looking around it was no different to the lobby of one of those tall buildings with chairs and paintings decorating the walls together with people walking around or gathered into small grounds.

Behind Cyan a glass door where he could only see white on the other side, and over the door a big sign that said [Entrance]

Scanning himself Cyan found out that he was still wearing his school uniform and he still has his cell phone in his hands where he could still read the last message he got from his future self.

Message(You): “Good luck kid”

Checking out the time, not even 1 minute has passed since the transfer.

Then he got a new message, thinking it was from his future self, Cyan hurried to read the contents.

Message(Midas): “Welcome to the [Lobby Area](10/1000) of [Training Tower #1], concurrently there are 105 people that had accepted of a total of 1000 invitations with 15 refusals, Open areas [Rest Area](10/100), [Dorms Area](74/1000), [Track Field](10/100), [Gym](1/100).

After reading the message Cyan checked the sender, it said [Midas], before the messages he got from the invitation always said sender [], but now it shows clearly [Midas], after clicking the sender a new chat room open up in Cyan phone, even more so [Midas] was already added to Cyan contact list.

[Cyan]: “[Midas]?”

He did not have many contacts added into his phone so he could easily found when new phone contacts is added in, on the other hand, [Alice] contact was gray out, and her status shown to be [offline], he tried calling but not beep would come out from his phone.

Cyan started a chat with Alice and sent her a simple message saying

Reply: “Hello”

Nevertheless, he got an immediate response from [Midas]

Message(Midas): “Message “Hello to Alice” could not be delivered, all communications to people outside the [Training Tower] are unavailable”

Cyan then tried to text his future self.

Message(You): “Good luck kid”

Reply: “I [accept] it and now I am in the [Lobby Area], what I should do now?”

He also got an immediate response this time but it was not what he was expecting.

Message(You): “I [accept] it and now I am in the [Lobby Area], what I should do now?”

[Cyan]: “Is he mocking me?”

Reply: “Hey can you stop joking and help me?”

Message: “Hey can you stop joking and help me?”

Reply: “Hello?”

Message: “Hello?”

[Cyan]: “What the…”

Cyan was very confused about what was happening, should he try once again? By now, he was starting to think he has gone crazy, he read all the chat logs, and make sure the sender could not have been him, him of the present at least.

[Cyan]: “Did I have developed a split personality? And I had been talking to myself this whole time?”

It makes sense if the other him had been deleting the messages after sending them to himself, after all, a person suffering from split personality would be unaware of such events, however, Cyan discarded that possibility quickly because.

Reply: “I am stupid”

Because this time, he got a different reply.

Messaged(You): “You are stupid”

[Cyan]: “…”

Cyan could only blame himself for falling for such an idiotic trap.

Reply: “Are you done playing around”

Message(You): “Haha sorry kid but I could not help it”

Cyan could only let out a relieved sigh; it seems his connection with his future self was not broken, unlike his connection with the outside.

Reply: “Then can you help me?”

Message(You): “Right, you should start by heading to the [Rest Area] and start exercising there like if your life future depends on it, because it does, you can do pushes or any other exercise that you feel comfortable with, the secret is to do until you can’t go on anymore, you do understand?”

Reply: “I think I do but, it is this all?”

Message(You): “Yup, with the help of [Midas] you don’t have to worry about anything else, after you are done and feel you can’t go on anymore go the [Dorms Area] get a room and sleep, don’t forget to set the wake up alarm in your phone inside the [Training Tower] day and night are meaningless”.

Reply: “That… you know what [Midas] is?”

Message: “I have to go for real this time, we talk later”

After that, there were no more new messages, Cyan could only give up for now, and started to search around for the [Rest Area], meanwhile he notice there were little robots moving around the [Lobby Area], all carrying drinks and giving it to the other people. These robots were no more than 1 meter tall and move in one wheel performing a balancing trick that only a robot with perfect balance could do.

Because he was distracted by observing the robots, he didn’t took notice of the robot that was beside him, nor the small robot hand that ended poking him in the sides, scaring Cyan away, when he turned around he found that one of those robots was looking at him as it started to speak in his robot voice.

[Robot]: “Player Cyan Registered. Do wish something to drink?”

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Chapter 003 – Help from the past?