Kapitel 15: Gaming Community

After walking down for a while, Alex and her father arrived in front of a wooden door.

"Compared to the high-tech entrance before, isn't this too shabby?" Alex disappointed look at the door. At first she thought that this place is protected with high-tech steel doors, surrounded by an armored wall, with a complex lock.

Zach entered without minding what Alex said. "Stop daydreaming in there. I have the good stuff inside. I already destroyed everything that I can't open easily and renovated it myself." Despite the things that Zach said, the only thing he renovated is the door. Because Zach has been in the military, he knows how to use everything inside. Zach only had a hard time opening the door, so he destroyed it.

Zach moved to the light switch and turned on the lights showcasing the collection he's so proud of to her daughter.

When Alex entered the room, the first thing that caught her eyes was the variety of weapons stuck on the wall. She can see all sorts of knives, pistols, rifles, machine guns, and snipers. Surprisingly, the basement bigger than the house. It is almost as big as a basketball court. Alex can tell that this place was cleaned recently with no signs of dust compared to the spooky atmosphere earlier.

"Damn!! Where did you get all of this, dad?" Because she studied all kinds of weapons, and one of them is guns. Alex can tell that every one of his father's collections is an S-class weapon. This class of weapons can't easily be gained even if you have the money. She once wanted to try one of those when she was studying. Sadly, even with Ezekiel's connection, he only gave her a measly Magnum Research Big Frame Revolver. It is still rare, but it's nothing compared to her father's collection.

Zach boasted to her daughter about his hard-earned collection. "Almost everything here is stolen from the bastards that betrayed me. It's my punishment for those bastards. Isn't your father so cool?"

Alex feels her father is just joking around whenever he's talking about the people that betrayed them. It was like her father is just talking about a prank his buddy did.

Alex walked towards the Barret M95, a manual bolt-action anti-material sniper rifle that she really likes so much, and started stroking it. "These babies are so beautiful. Can I play with them?" Alex pleaded, blinking her eyes rapidly, looking like a little child that found a new toy. "Pretty please...??" Seeing the shooting range in the corner of the room, Alex wanted to fire one of these bad boys so much.

Zach is not surprised when her daughter likes guns. Alex must have inherited this from him and his wife. "Do you think your mother will let you play with one of those big boys? Your mother will probably kill me if even one of those things steps out of this house. I don't want to be riddled with holes the next day." Zach said while casually dragging the capsule towards the door. "Stop playing around in there, and let's bring this virtual capsule out already." Looking at the time on his watch, it is now past 4 p.m.

Alex walked dejectedly to her father. "Okay..." She won't give up that easily. She will pester her father later.

"Stop pouting. I will let you play in here once in a while. I'll try to convince your mother later." Zach missed using everything inside. Now that he thinks about it, it's already been 15 years since he fired a firearm. Maybe he can use his daughter to negotiate with Irene since they both wanted to use this place to play around. He can accept a little thrashing from his wife if necessary.

The capsule's estimated 300 kg weight is not that heavy for both of them. With that kind of weight, even Alex can easily lift it alone. How much more him, who is much stronger than her daughter. What made it harder to carry alone is the capsule's 3 meters length and 1-meter height. Without Alex, Zach can only drag the capsule's one end slowly to the small stairway. With Alex here, it made things a lot easier for him.

...

It was already dinner time when Alex and Zach finished moving the two 1st generation capsules to her room and her father's room. They took quite a long time moving the second capsule because she insisted on firing a few rounds in the shooting range of the basement.

"You guys take a shower first. Both of you are full of sweat." Irene reminded after seeing them finish setting up the capsules.

"Yes!!" Alex happily rushed to her room, firing a few rounds with her father cleared some of her built-up stress.

Seeing Alex going to her room, Zach dragged his wife to their room. "Let's talk."

When she remembered her husband's halted beating a while ago, Irene's motherly, warm aura became incomparably ice-cold, looking at Zach with a murderous glare. Now that the children are not with her, she can finally start beating up her husband unrestrained.

Seeing the murderous glare of his wife, Zach can only cry inwardly. Somebody help!!!

Zach's

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After Alex got out of the shower, her phone started ringing. Seeing that it was Ezekiel, in the caller's name, Alex answered nonchalantly.

"Hey, Alex?"

"What's up?"

"Let's create a Discode server!!" Ezekiel suggested excitedly.

What is this guy thinking now?

"Why?" Alex asked, while brushing her wet hair.

"I already talked with Samantha about this, and we both liked the idea that we can easily communicate inside the game. We are now just waiting for your confirmation."

Aside from Ezekiel's voice, Alex can hear a faint sound in the background calling her name.

"Sis Alex, lets play together!!!" Samantha kept meddling with Ezekiel and Alex's conversation. Samantha is now always together with Ezekiel every time they go home.

Alex's relationship with Samantha got closer these past few days after Samantha found out that Alex and Ezekiel knew her secret of being the world president's daughter.

At first, Alex tried to avoid Samantha after figuring out her identity. Samantha found her behavior weird, so Samantha asked Ezekiel what's her problem, and with Ezekiel's being a chatterbox with a treacherous mind, he exposed her to Samantha immediately. Then, all of a sudden, Samantha became more unrestrained with her actions. Since Alex never had a grudge with Samantha's family. She thinks that there's really no problem with her being close to Samantha. After seeing Samantha's unrestrained self, she started loving Samantha's real self more and more each day.

Alex now always pampers Samantha whenever she has the chance to.

"Since both of you are fine with it, let's create one. By the way, will you mind if I add my father to the server? He will play with me this time, so I'm thinking of making the server a gaming community." For most of the games Alex played, she only has Ezekiel as her partner. Now she has her father, Samantha, together with them having a college course of BS Esports. Their classmates will surely play this game, so it was a good idea to create a community.

It's good that Alex has now started opening up herself with other people. "Nice idea!! I'll talk about the details with you later." Ezekiel gave the phone to Samantha as she kept on pestering him.

Samantha complained. "Sis, why did you leave without telling me? You could have brought me together with you to cut classes."

These guys, talking about cutting classes like a simple matter. Aren't you guys concerned with your grades!!!?

When Alex remembered that she just walked past Samantha when she was going home, she felt sorry for her. "Sorry, let me treat you to dinner tomorrow. How about it? I'm quite good at cooking." Alex suggested, even though she mainly trains with her father now. Her mother also taught her a lot of things in the past, and one of the things she likes to do is cooking with her mother.

"Really??" Samantha happily asked.

"I promise." Hearing the joyful sound at the other end of the phone, Alex can't help but smile.

"You can't go back on your promise, do you understand?"

"Yes."

"We're here." Ezekiel reminded Samantha that they arrived at the gates of her home.

"I'll look forward tomorrow, bye sis..."

"Byeee..." Alex hung up the call.

Samantha gave the phone back to Ezekiel. They then exchanged their farewells.