I Live To Play VR-MMORPG

Oh, Father is back.

Looking at his painful complexion as he walked over while holding his waist. His back must be very painful, I went to help Father, carrying the bag of food and him to upstairs.

"What's wrong, did you hurt yourself?"

"Yeah, a little bit. I tried to lift something that's too heavy for me and it strained my back badly."

"You shouldn't do that, at least get some help from someone."

"I can't ask the boss to help me, he's been very kind to me."

"Don't tell me you're the only one working for him."

I asked that as I didn't know the one that burned our house was actually Father's co-worker.

"Uh, yeah he quitted not long ago and the boss has yet found a replacement."

Should I ask him to stop working? I don't doubt my workaholic father would want to stop working though.

"Anyway, you should rest in bed, for now, I'll go downstairs to grab some ice from Old Man's fridge."

"Ice? for what?"

"Relieve your back pain."

Well, I know about this because I tend to have back pain back then. Using Ice therapy was a soothing method to reduce and treat pain.

Grabbing cubes of ice and putting it on a plastic basin, with a dry towel on my hand I then went upstairs to treat Father's back pain.

With the Ice wrapped by the dry towel, I then applied it around Father's back as the ice melt, I then squeeze out all the water and then wrapped it with more ice again.

After repeating it for twenty minutes, the pain should numb out already.

"The pain really was gone."

"You should still rest and not move around for now. They're not gone, it's just that the area of the pain went numb that you don't feel anything."

Leaving Father to rest in his bed, I then ate my dinner.

While eating my dinner, Mervin has also returned from work.

Right, we already duplicated the store's key during the holidays as we got nothing to do during that time.

So from now on, Mervin and Father with their own key, they could enter and leave without much hassle.

"Welcome back."

"Where's father?"

Seeing that father wasn't watching television in the living room, Mervin then asked me about his whereabouts.

"He's in his room, resting. He sprained his back."

"Is he okay?"

"Yeah, I relieved his pain and stop it from worsening already. He should be fine if he rests properly."

"I see."

Without asking why and how Mervin sat beside me and ate together with me.

After we ate, I then went to sleep as I was told to while Mervin went to check Father's condition.

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The next day.

As I woke up, ate and dressed. When I got outside, it's raining again.

Though it's not as heavy as last time, I still need to bring my umbrella with me.

As it was running, making the ground slippery, I walked at a careful pace as I watch my steps.

Tomorrow will be the last exam of the fourth grade and after that, we're going to school for Class Meeting, where we still need to go to school but not to study.

We're doing whatever we want at school instead.

There will be some events happening too, you could choose to just stay in the classroom or participate in the events.

Well, most of the events are entertaining for kids only. Such as drawing competition, eating contest, relay race. They're all for kids to enjoy...

During the Class Meeting, I'll pass and just watch on the side as it wouldn't be fair for me to join too.

Arriving at the classroom, the first thing I did was to relay her the information that I found about

"Yulia, I found out where Micheal was at."

"He's at Jakarta, probably due to some unexpected important family matters."

"I know."

Huh?

"The teacher came and tell us just now before you arrive. How did you know though?"

...I shouldn't have said it.

"Well, I went over to the teacher's office and found it out just now. To think, they have announced it to you guys already. Ahahaha."

Yulia looked at me weirdly for a moment.

"Really? Did you know that Micheal is studying over there too and he won't be coming back."

'Not at all.' is what I want to say but no way I would say it.

"Of course, the teacher also said that to me."

"Since you know that, didn't you find it weird?"

Well, hearing that Micheal suddenly transferred school was indeed weird. There must be a good reason to transfer school as the exam was about to start.

But while it's weird, there's no other explanation for Micheal sudden absence either.

"Micheal was either forced or it was his decision to transfer school. In this case, it should be more possible that he was forced by someone."

"But you shouldn't worry too much, he should be fine. There should be plenty of people with him judging from his status as a young master."

"Right, I hope he's fine."

As we're chatting with each other about Micheal, the bell ring and the exam was starting soon.

I went back to my seat, preparing my utensils, and wait for the teacher to arrive.

As fast, as usual, I was the first one to get out of the classroom because I have finished answering everything.

A while later, Yulia also came out along with Kervin.

Ignoring Kervin who's waiting for his girlfriends, we then went to the canteen to discuss the next exam and at the same time just chill our brain.

It was nice as the canteen wasn't crowded and there's only two of us at the moment.

Though thirty minutes later, the people kept increasing and we no longer sat in the canteen as it was too noisy.

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...

Time passed and we return to class again.

After the exam, I then went home by myself.

These past few days, there's a feeling of something missing and it's obviously Micheal.

Without a cheerful person around us, the atmosphere wasn't, no the sun just wasn't there. It felt gloomy without Micheal around.

Arriving home, I continue where I left off, checking Old Man's answers upstairs.

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...

Hm, finally he passed the test.

Now according to my promise to him, I'll be teaching him coding.

Since I don't have Anonymous shell yet, I'll just teach him one of the languages that should be useful in the future and now.

Phyton, a simple and readable language even without knowing the language, a person that's smart enough should be able to understand how the program work.

Borrowing Phyton that I downloaded from the internet, I then converted and modify it into my own version which I'll call it 'Phyton++', this version should be the same as 2070 and its efficiency increased by twofold as I added tons of new functions that could shorten the lines needed when writing a program.

Seeing me modifying the file, Old Man was astonished by the ridiculous lines of codes with incomprehensible words.

"Done. You should try them out by yourself first before I explain things to you."

Old Man immediately starts messing around with Phyton++ that I made or to be precise, that I modified.

As he knew what it feels like to work with Phyton++ I started teaching him basic functions that he should know.

Print function, to display something and Input function, to get input from the user.

Afterward, Loops function, which is For function, a machine-controlled loop and While function, condition controlled loop.

"Try and use For to print a sentence, one by one."

"You can also use 'range()' to control the number of loops."

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...

"It's 6 P.M already, this is a problem for you to solve at home when you have nothing to do. You should try to write the code on paper."

"Just follow the tips I gave and you shouldn't make small mistakes such as missing bracket or quote."

Time passed very quickly when I teach Old Man Phyton, even though he's eager to learn more I'm tired.

Over the last few hours, I'm the one that was guiding him, so to test his comprehension, I gave him a small problem to solve.

As Old Man was gone, I can finally use the computer, opening my email, I check if James was still fine.

[The things you ordered have arrived, what should I do with them?]

Oh, they have finally arrived. I should really find some time to visit James.

[Carefully place them into your storage room or something, don't touch any of them, some of them are fragile too, handle them with care.]

[I'll find the time to pick you up so that you can go buy a car or something.]

Ding*

That was fast.

[Got it.]

Since the stuff I ordered has arrived at James's house, I can finally start to find free time to start assembling the Super Computer for Super AI.

There's still a long way until I could reach VR-MMORPG, but there's finally some progress.

Being super excited, I didn't waste any of my time and start writing the code for Super AI.

Even after Father and Mervin returned home, I didn't notice them.

At first, seeing me engrossed into doing something seriously, he didn't bother me but as I forgot to even eat, Mervin has no choice but to teach me a lesson.

Pak*

"Go and eat!"

"Uh, yes."