Hvisland: A VR Colony Sim Game

"The landing of the escape pod that Kat was in was the start of everything for me. When I was born into this world, I couldn't communicate with my colonists. I only knew my job was to guide them." I speak according to my role in this game. "Well, I can't say I can do it well."

Memories of my failures, wrong decisions, and the disasters that befell my colony came back into my head.

"I wonder." Gwen took a step forward, continuing to stare at the broken escape pod. "Don't you feel lonely? You affect their lives, but you can't interact with them."

"Of course, I'm lonely, Gwen. I can only watch and whisper to them to do something." I continued my speech. "Well, although I was finally able to talk to other guardian spirits, it was so infrequent and usually not a friendly chat."

Gwen leaned closer to me, giving a seductive gesture. "So, you're saying, after my arrival, you're not lonely anymore?"

I took a deep breath, caressing her soft cheeks that were starting to blush. "And I'm sorry, Gwen. For everything."

"I'm the one apologizing." Gwen's eyes started to water. "After this, I can't accompany you anymore."

"Gwen...."

"But take it easy, Mr. Spirit." The woman nodded slowly. "I'm resigned to what's going to happen. Well, at least I can be as naked as I want, though my legs will change."

Hearing this woman's bitter chuckle, I felt like my chest was being hit hard.

"No, you'll still be here, Gwen." I hissed. "You won't leave me. And for that, I'm sorry."

I really wanted to keep this a secret from Gwen, but I wasn't sure I could do it well. Gwen had to know what was going on, even though it might hurt me.

The woman's brow furrowed. "W-what do you mean? What have you done?"

"I'm sorry." My voice started to shake.

"W-what happened?" Gwen choked. Her eyes opened wide. "Oh, God."

The woman moved away from me, but I ordered her, "Stop! Don't go to the lake! You don't have to look at that!"

Gwen stopped running, turned to me. "What are you doing? Please tell me."

"You don't need to know. The important thing is that you don't have to be a part of them anymore."

Gwen's breath started to get heavy. Her body trembled. She obviously wanted to continue her run but couldn't.

"It's no use, Gwen. Stay here." I touched her shoulder.

Gwen gritted her teeth, then screamed with all her might. "Arrgghhh!!!"

Her one arm managed to move, and she could finally run.

"Gwen! Don't go!"

Shit, I was too quick to tell her about this.

The woman ran as hard as she could to avoid me, not even turning to look at me and talking to me.

I had to go back to my other colonists, then wake them up. The people looked confused but did as I was told, standing up to restrain Gwen.

Once at the location, Gwen grabbed her jacket and put it on her naked body while continuing to run. "Don't get in my way!"

"Sorry, Gwen. We don't even know why we had to stop you." Levi hissed.

"Damn it." Gwen diverted her run, but her comrades could easily follow her. In no time, they were able to capture the woman's body.

"Let go of me! I have to go to the lake!" Gwen screamed as she tried to free herself. Then, she gasped, looking at her comrades.

"Please don't fight back, Gwen." Manu sighs. "After all, why would a half-naked woman like you go to the lake? You want to get into the cold water there again?"

"Where's Peter?" Gwen continued to search among her comrades.

My colonists searched for the mech controller, but they couldn't find him.

"Errrr... Maybe he peed or pooped?" Alice guessed.

Gwen glared at me. "No, he's going to the lake to do something, though I don't know what it is."

Yvonne turned her head to Eric. "Does that have anything to do with what he said back then?"

I ordered Eric to explain everything, to buy time.

"The escape pod used for the occupants of the giant ship explorer uses fuel that has bad radiation similar to nuclear. Well, that fuel is also used for fighter planes, mechs, the ship explorer itself, and so on." Eric's lips began to tremble. "Usually, that stuff is safe to use for fuel. The emission is also clean without radiation. However, you can fiddle with an escape pod to turn it into a ticking time bomb that emits harmful radiation."

"Peter prided himself on knowing how to do it. He said some of the soldiers on board knew how to do it, especially the high-ranking ones. Peter was one of them.

It was in anticipation of tremendous danger."

"Could the radiation also be dispersed in the water?" Kat asked.

Eric sighed. "Yes, it can."

My colonists fell silent and exchanged glances.

"Hey, all of you. Keep Gwen from getting out of here." I gave the order again in a firmer tone.

"We have to save them. I don't know what radiation is, but from the way you guys talk about it, I think it's pretty bad." Miro opened his mouth.

My colonists looked at Miro, then nodded their heads.

"Yes, we have to save them," Seb answered in a firm tone. "Regardless of why Peter did it, we have to stop him."

"Hey, listen to me as your guardian spirit!" I screamed in frustration. "Don't stop Peter from doing that! Just let him go!"

However, my colonists ended up running towards the lake anyway. Gwen glanced at me sharply and ran as fast as she could.

"Hey, why don't you guys obey my orders!?" Increasingly frustrated, I followed them.

"But what exactly was Peter's reason for doing that?" Manu asks as he keeps running.

Tom, who was running beside the bearded man, shrugged. "Perhaps he is feeling resentful that his group was destroyed by those mermans?"

"Is he really that loyal to the group?" Eric joined in. "To be able to detonate the escape pod, he would need to pilot it. It was for a desperate suicide mission."

"No, it's not for revenge." Gwen glanced at me again. This time her gaze grew colder.

I teleported to Peter to order the man to speed up.