After pressing quit, the spies opened their eyes to find themselves back at the OMG! headquarters, with Olivia standing next to them. Although they felt that they had been inside the game for weeks, in fact barely an hour had elapsed.
"So, how do you feel about my game?" asked Olivia with a sly smile.
"You liar!" exclaimed Eliza, taking off her helmet and throwing it to the ground in fury. "You told us that if we quit, we'll never get back to reality."
"And you tried to tempt us to stay in the game forever by probing through our fondest memories and turning that into a level of your game!" added Claire.
"That's how these levels are made up!" replied Olivia. "I probed through the memories of my users and create a level specifically for each one of them. How else would I get them to continue subscribing to my game forever? Hahahaha!"
Without warning, Eliza stood up and slapped Olivia on the face, upsetting her spectacles with thick lenses.
"How dare you entrap all those people in your game!" shouted Eliza with tears in her eyes. "You only think about yourself and your stupid game. Do you know that whilst you kept these people here how much their families and friends have missed them? You....you selfish woman! I'm ashamed to be your ex-classmate!"
"Well, you're wrong! I did this for them," retorted Olivia, adjusting her glasses. "I'm providing a haven for my users so they can escape this cruel and ruthless world. I was once bullied at school for being so 'geeky' and 'nerdy'. I know what it feels like to want to escape reality. At that time, my favourite online game saved me. Even if it was temporarily, I could escape reality and plunge into another world. Just like the Hungarian saying goes, 'Szégyen a futás, de hasznos' - 'It's shameful to escape, but it's useful'. That's why I've decided to quit school and started learning programming by myself. Then, I founded this company, with the aim to save people just like me."
"And how dare you upset my glasses! Robo, get them!" shouted Olivia, after which the robotic arm started to attack the spies.
The robotic arm was still too fast for the spies. However, Claire had a sudden idea. She opened the wall cabinet on one side, which she noticed to have contained all the servers of the game company.
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