Lawbreaker's Code

Chapter 1

About 4 years ago, a highly respected game developer came up with a new game idea. This game was called 'Lawbreaker's Code.' In it, you were a criminal, who had just broken out of jail. You were to find 50 clues to beat the game. These 50 clues, however, were ever changing.

The game developer came up with a coding so complex it changed the clues every time someone opened the game. There could be no cheat codes.

Players who livestreamed their activities had to restart every time they paused the episode. When they went out for a snack, the game restarted, and their progress was deleted.

Online, people were able to connect with each other and attempt to work together to beat the game. Each team had 50 clues still, but they were divided into how many people there were in the team. However, every time the 50 clues were split into a team, the game got increasingly more difficult.

No one was able to beat the game, and it was nicknamed 'The Impossible'. Lawbreaker's Code soon became the most popular game in the world, and the game developer became rich.

The news channels caught wind of this game, and a cash reward was to be given to the person who could finish the game successfully. As the months passed, no one was able to beat it.

The government became interested in this. They hired professional programmers, game developers, and even illegal hackers to try to beat the game. Their efforts were fruitless.

The government, realizing that this game was, in fact, unbeatable, they found a new use for this game. They gave computers and controllers to prisoners and criminals in jail cells and prisons, saying that if they beat the game, they could leave the prison free of charge.

It was a hit. Everyone in the jails and prisons began to play. No one was able to beat it, but they kept trying.

As technology advanced, in the year 2057, a different game developer invented a chip, that once implanted in a person's skull, sent vibrations and pulses that mimicked that of a game. This chip could be turned off at any time, and the game could be ended.

In 2061, another person built off this invention. They invented something that could literally transport someone's subconscious into a video game, and they could control the game with chips implanted in hands, feet, chest, and back, and they could play with other people's subconscious' in the game dimension.

The government once again took advantage of this, giving the inmates a better chance to free themselves of jail. No one had ever beat the game still.

It was 2067 that someone had finally beat the game, and they had died a couple months later due to severe trauma. Before his death, he had revealed that as the game progressed, it got harder and harder, forcing the players to kill, steal, and basically scavenge to survive. It was 2068 that 'Lawbreaker's Code' was outlawed due to trauma.

However, the government kept using the game for their prisons. They had implanted chips everywhere on the inmate's bodies, but only if the prisoners chose to attempt to free themselves of a long time in jail.

Most prisoners chose to not go in the game, but the murderers and other severe crime committing prisoners ventured in.

Inmates died, their subconscious dying in the game and their bodies not being able to live without the soul. The government still continued to use 'Lawbreaker's Code.'

"Guilty. I sentence you to a life-time in jail."

Jesse Wilson lowered his head, shame filling his eyes.