The Early Online Dream

Episode 1 Lara's

A group of people marched in two rows one upstream and one downstream amid the torrent of rain that hit the entire city of Bangka Hulu. These people were seen walking without using umbrellas or raincoats but none of them looked wet.

Everyone wears different clothes, different shoes, the accessories are also different only one thing in common from this swarm that goes back and forth they all hold a small stick as big as an index finger shaped like the stalk of a rain umbrella in their right hand.

If viewed with great care it is seen that each of them is shrouded by a bubble that adapts to the shape and contour of their body. These bubbles protect them from the water that is around to keep them dry.

This is the 31st century precisely the year 3155 AD where human life has reached its limit. The Earth has been drought Fossil Fuels by 2035 five years longer than humans had predicted at the time. Many countries are experiencing an economic crisis when after Fossil Fuels were declared extinct.

And humans aren't actually ready with other alternative energy sources to replace Fossil Fuels, even if there is an energy that is very difficult to say beat the Fossil Fuel oil that has been used by humans for centuries.

Unfinished with the problem of human energy has experienced a major disaster. Humans are stricken with a virus that began in Asia in 2019 and then spread rapidly throughout the world. The disaster was a virus called Covid-19.

The virus was not initially noticed only after it took a lot of human fatalities to act to overcome it but it was too late the spread of the virus was too virulent human ability when it was unable to match it.

When in a long standoff all the countries are in power at that time blame each other and in the end that became the trigger of a cold war involving many parties.

Years passed when the world finally learned that Covid-19 was a type of Virus that emerged from the northernmost earth that was buried tens of millions of years before humans existed.

Through long and many years of research together, humans have found a way to fight it. if only the drug was not found at that time the danger of extinction of the human race is already in sight because when the drug is found the human population has decreased dramatically to be cut by more than half since the Virus found at.

Not long ago ended the viral disaster that hit the world ended man again received a disaster where the climate became very extreme making the world almost filled by ice only a few areas in Africa that were not affected while other areas are covered by thick ice that again claimed the human population to less than five hundred million inhabitants left around the world remaining.

Sensing this disaster, humans are increasingly aware of the need to take care of their Earth and also appreciate the differences between each other, culminating in the 27th century, humans finally formed a unity to unite the world in one country it is called EARTH.

Now that human life has reached its peak they are no longer just living on land. Many of them formed colonies in space by making settlements on the moon and around Earth's orbit and have even reached Mars with tens of millions of colonies there. In the 20th century the number of humans reached 4 billion more and now has reached 3 times from that time by reaching 12 billion people.

Now more humans are building tall buildings that are giant like mountains in one to live in and allowing more territory to become a nature reserve with very strict protection. In this way humans hope the earth can be friendly with them and the disasters that have occurred are no longer repeated.

In addition to land and space, humans also build colonies in ocean areas that have been determined by the government. In the ocean area the number of human populations is the largest because in the region has a settlement much more comfortable than on land with land prices are also relatively cheaper than in the land land or in space.

The rain grew more and more and more people did not get any less in a corner seen a man who stood staring at the television that displays the historical narrative of human colonies.

In the eyes of the man did not look a bit of pride when he heard the narration conveyed by the host on Television that he watched.

The man was seen wearing a black old raincoat with full stitches in every corner of his clothes as well as cloths to patch up the large hole holes in his clothes. meanwhile around him many passersby looked at him and also avoided him.

‘’Good narration.’’ praise the man looking to the big indoor television glass in front of him.

This man has a height of 2 meters he is fairly tall and striking from most people around him who walk see and also avoid it.

This man did not care about people's gazes at his beggar-like appearance. A faint glimmer of light from the lights present from inside the room suddenly passed through his face.

Instantly people looked at his face and became surprised then dodged it further some even covered his mouth and nose then ran.

The man's face was so ugly, his nose and lips were crushed like a Zombie in the movies. But this man did not care about all of them who then turned around to leave the place where he was now.

In a dark alley the man's steps were firm, resolute, wide and fast yet no sound could be heard from his every step even the puddle of water did not ripple as he stepped on it the other side his eyes only focused forward like wild beasts in the chasing wild prey.

The trash in front of him scattered and some piled up like a high mountain. This man directly stepped over it one after another pile of trash that blocked him without any empathy in his eyes. Like he would forget the narrative that a moment ago he watched.

After walking through a long, desolate and dirty hallway he now stood at an iron door holding the doorknob and then turned it around and pushed it away.

When the door opened, a beautiful woman was cleaning the room with an old broom in her hand. Looking at the woman his ferocious beast-like eyes turned 180 degrees into affectionate ones.

‘’sayang... before going to bed eat first’’ the voice of a beautiful silver-haired woman is stroked whose length reaches to the area below the waist holding an old broom sounds loving.

‘’ya ma'am I'll eat later. oh yes is uncle Martin here?’’ he asked the beautiful woman he called Mother.

‘’ya.. she left a cardboard on mom, she said it was very important so mom put it in your room’’ said the woman she calls mother.

‘’haha.. I love Mother’’ The man kissed his mother's cheek and went towards a room but when he was about to walk further his mother pulled her large hand holding him tightly.

‘’Let go of your raincoat first, do not make mom clean the area there twice’’ her mother's eyes become fierce like mothers in general.

‘’ah... sorry bu ’’ The man took off his head covering and it was seen that he had no hair with his scalp broken. slowly he then took off his raincoat so that it looks the part of his arm that is no less damaged with the other parts visible.

Lara Hermund is the daughter of John Hermund and Michel Springfield. Lara put her raincoat into her mother's hands and immediately ran to the room in a hurry.

Michel's mother just shook her head to look at her son's behavior and went back to cleaning the room. A few moments passed Lara who was already in her room immediately took off her clothes went up to the old mattress that looked warm and clean while carrying a large cardboard that was on the study table beside her closet.

‘’hoho.. here it is. has finally come that I have been waiting for... Just look at me I will become a famous gamer and all women will shout at me.’’ Lara lifts an object like a Helmet with GTX 5.0 writing that looks no longer new.

What Lara holds now is a Virtual Reality equipment that became popular a long time before she was even born. In today's world almost everyone has Virtual reality equipment.

The use of Virtual Reality is no longer as simple as just to play VRMMORPG games that continue to be popular since the first Virtual Reality equipment was introduced.

Now that Virtual Reality has many functions among which for advertising and even for work, there are many companies that stand in this Virtual world.

Not because they do not want to open an office in the real world but to build a business in the real world will cost a lot. the government implements stricter rules related to business development in the real world that make management very difficult.

In addition, the tax applied to businesses that are in the real world is also very high, that is why the company is so abundant in the Virtual world even set up high-rise buildings in a world similar to Earth called Second Earth.

Lara already has her Virtual account connected to her registered population data. Everyone cannot have more than one Virtual account unless they can manipulate the population data and create false population data.

Seeing her Virtual helmet Lara was so happy she couldn't wait to try it. Michel hears Lara's voice from the outside, smiling and pleased with the noise that Lara makes, which is then changed by silence where lara has put on a Virtual Helmet sleeping on her warm old mattress with her eyes harshest.

Lara saw the white light start to blur she was now standing in a small room with only 1 bed and cupboard and study table beside her.

This room is only 3x3 meters in size almost the size of his own room. This room is called the Lobby, this roar is a private room that is connected to a vast world like the earth, namely Second Earth.

Lara did not care about the room she just looked at the glass in the closet and found her face had not changed at all. His face looked hideous with his large and tall body making him look even more terrifying. Lara could have requested that her avatar be in the fox, however, for some reason she did not want to do so.