Max opened his eyes with difficulty.
Or at least, he thought he did.
There was no ceiling.
No walls.
No floor.
Only emptiness.
An absolute, infinite, silent void.
Black, but not exactly black. More like the complete absence of something his brain simply couldn't process.
"…What the hell?" he muttered.
His voice sounded strange. As if there were no air, and yet sound still somehow existed.
He looked around.
Thousands. No, millions of lines of code floated slowly everywhere.
Symbols. Letters. Numbers. Variables. Fragments of commands.
Everything drifted around him like frozen vertical rain.
Strings of familiar and unfamiliar text.
[PLAYER_ID: UNKNOWN]
[WORLD_INSTANCE: ACTIVE]
[ERROR DETECTED]
[REALITY THREAD STABLE]
Max narrowed his eyes.
"No," he said immediately.
Brief pause.
"I do not like this at all."
He tried to move one leg.
Nothing.
Then an arm.
Nothing.
He looked down.
He was floating.
