101 Avatars
60. The Secret Portal To Another World, Professor In Gu's Crime
That night, from Professor Melisa's story, I also learned an even more hidden truth about the night of the Hoho game disaster.
Professor In Gu aka Michael is a child of Chinese descent who was exiled by his own family due to physical disability. After graduating from High School, he was sent to Stanford University and managed to get his bachelor's and master's degree in the field of android chemistry there.
Two years after he obtained his master's degree, he enrolled and successfully graduated as one of the research staff by one of the famous professors in Indonesia. He is Professor Gilbran Lasona who is none other than Kak Kaiser Dewantara's grandfather from his mother's side.
But suddenly, three years after Michael joined Professor Gilbran's team, he suddenly became a freak. Professor Gilbran who finally could not stand the change in behavior Michael finally decided to dismiss him after surviving all the strangeness for approximately two years.
But even that tragic event happened. Unexpectedly, Michael took the life of Professor Gilbran and all the research staff at that time there were 13 people.
But what made me more shocked was that I knew very well the research team that Professor Gilbran was looking after. Because that's where my father as a virtual physicist and my mother as an android chemist got his first job before finally leaving the job and then working together to build their own lab.
Well, even if it doesn't last long. I think it was also in the time range that Professor Gilbran, Kak Kaiser's grandfather, was killed along with his entire staff, my father and mother decided to divorce by leaving their young children to pursue their dreams abroad.
I just realized, apparently the fate that connects between me and Kaiser Brother has begun longer than I imagined. But, of course the one most saddened in this matter was Kaiser's sister because her grandfather had been sadistically killed by that person.
But there was nothing more that could be done to take revenge because that person had also died a long time ago.
However, the man is escorted to his final resting place through a fine family ritual using the identity of Michael whose crimes are completely hidden thanks to the power of collusion and nepotism.
He was pronounced dead with a body that disappeared as one of the victims of the Hoho game disaster night that was killed by one of the avatar monsters, the Void.
As for all the mistakes regarding the night of the Hoho game disaster that seized the attention of the entire world, transferred to the identity of Professor In Gu who until now has not been found its existence.
I want to scream at the world that they are the same person, just look at their similar photos, just that one is young with clean skin with almost bald shaved hair, while the other is older with wrinkled skin with long and disheveled hair and wearing glasses.
Just by editing a little CCTV blur it then states that it was Michael who had grown old who had been killed by Void, everyone believed the public lie. This is also supported by Void who never once showed his face to the public after that.
Leaving aside the error of the damned Professor In Gu aka Michael, both Kaiser and Professor Melisa currently suspect the mastermind behind all the actions of Professor In Gu. This is evidenced by the sudden change in attitude of Professor In Gu while still working under Professor Gilbran using the identity of Michael.
In addition, there is someone outside his family who has sponsored him so far that he can be free from legal entrapment despite having committed the sadistic serial murder.
He then changed his identity as In Gu who is a South Korean citizen, then studied 4-dimensional architecture and managed to obtain a professor in the field of science. In 2050, he created Hoho game together with Professor Indro Nuryono and managed to gain fame thanks to the world's first virtual reality game.
But why did he foolishly throw away the success that was finally obtained by messing with the game of his own creation? If the night of the Hoho game disaster had never happened, he would have been a wealthy man, if he had ignored the sins he had committed to Professor Gilbran and his former research colleagues.
Professor Melisa continued, “We are working to investigate who exactly is the person or perhaps the institution that has sponsored the success of Professor In Gu aka Michael. However, we were unable to track down his identity at all. But there are other interesting facts that we can reveal.”
Professor Melisa suddenly fell silent as if preparing to inform something even more astonishing. However, it was Kaiser Brother who first revealed it.
“Whatever the sponsor was, it turns out that based on the track record of his exploration on the internet that we painstakingly got, he is none other than Mr. X, owner of the ranker for the series number 4 avatar, Avatar Time. We've been trying to figure out who it is, or even find out if it's possible that he's been killed and replaced by an avatar monster, but we haven't found a clue yet.”
Said Kak Kaiser who seemed to show intonation and mimic disappointment at the end of his sentence.
“Oh yes, one more, Mr. Aili, try showing the tape.”
I saw the CCTV footage. In it, Professor In Gu looks like he is putting a virus into the main Hoho Game server in Jakarta. I heard him, he laughed as he said, “Hahahaha. Finally, finally with this, I was able to break free from this broken world and become the third person who can head to the virtual world, the ideal world where there are no more irregularities.”
A moment later, a portal actually managed to open up, though, then the avatar monster named Void came out of the portal and then memimik Professor In Gu then kill him and dump his body into the virtual world before the portal that connects to the two closed worlds. Be Professor In Gu fulfill his ambition to head to the virtual world. Unfortunately, only his body can because his life has been strung from his body.
From the CCTV footage, I also learned that it was impossible if all this was planned by Professor In Gu. Professor In Gu was framed by someone or something. From the beginning, Professor In Gu did not do so to release the avatar monsters, but rather to head to the virtual world itself.
So, who framed Professor In Gu for doing it? Was the sponsor that Kaiser and Professor Melisa were talking about or was there someone else? Then, what kind of virus did Professor In Gu enter? Who is the creator of the virus? How could the virus cause the opening of a portal to the virtual world?
Why did he do it in Jakarta when there is one main server in his own country, namely in South Korea? In addition, there are also three other main servers located in China, Japan, and Thailand, respectively.
It seems that all those questions can only be answered when we manage to find Mr. X which means we have to immediately find the existence of Avatar Time who has a close relationship with Mr.X through the avatar-ranker relationship that Kak Kaiser said, he was one of two avatars beside Remote who had never revealed his form to the surface.
“Lantas, is there any possibility of Michael's family involvement as Mr. X'S? Because if you pay attention to the explanation just now, everything is only possible if it is arranged by Michael's own family.” I asked the forum again.
However, Kaiser suddenly gave me an astonishing answer for the last time, “That's impossible because all of his family members have died in a tragic fire disaster from an electrical short circuit in their mansion simultaneously, not just in the main house, but also the house belongs to the whole family of its branches.”
“That's impossible.” My comment was instantaneous in disbelief.
“Yes, it's impossible unless someone is behind it. However, no irregularities were found by the police there after investigating the accident. Therefore, we suspect this is the same offender that is very dangerous.”
“Mr. X?” I asked back to Kaiser's comment. Then I saw, Kaiser nodded his head in agreement.
Then, one thing suddenly bothered me once again beyond the discussion of Mr. X it.
“Tadi Professor In Gu said the third person will go to the virtual world. Does that mean there have been two others before who have gone to the virtual world, Kaiser?” I finally curiously asked Kaiser.
I see, Kaiser was a bit hesitant to answer, but finally answered anyway.
“That, even happened 6 years before I was born. So, I don't know the details. I also first heard it when Dad was delirious in his sleep. Then after I urged Grandpa to say it, ah, I mean not Grandpa Gilbran, but Grandpa, the father of Father, Grandpa Arkias before he died. They were both apparently my father's cousin's sister and his wife.”
Kaiser then muttered for a moment, before continuing to say,
“Hmm. I myself am less clear about the story because it seems that it is very secretive, especially when I heard the story, I was only 4 years old. Now Grandpa Arkias, Grandma Dwinda, and Dad are gone. No one else can tell of the incident. Sorry, Adrian. I can't answer your question details.”
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That's how Kaiser, no, the Avatar Healer disguised as Kaiser answered Adrian's question by pretending not to know the details. Though actually he knows everything is related to the father, mother, sister, and youngest child of the person in question, the mother, still alive and keep in touch with the faker until now who is still a living witness to how the tragic accident left the person and his wife stranded to another world.
“I'm sorry, Adrian. You can't know that information yet because it will prevent me from reaching my goal.” The faker murmured in his heart.
With innocence, Adrian also replied, “Bok Kak, it's okay. I don't need to know.”
Thus, the conversation about a married couple who were stranded to the virtual world ended there.