Virtual Attraction

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Parts 67
Time 13h 26m

Reads 56,597
Votes 5,756
Parts 67
Time 13h 26m

A journalist risks her career and her heart when she helps a convicted tech geek survive a real-life World of Warcraft game as he attempts to earn his freedom. 
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    On the heels of a catastrophic cyberwar, the prison population skyrockets, and a new form of justice is established to handle the problem. The Redemption Fields is a competition pitting convicts against AI opponents. Anyone who makes it out alive is granted a pardon, all while the world watches. 
    
    MERCY NIGHTINGALE is a journalist for the Redemption Fields, reporting the good, the bad, and the carnage. She hates the carnage, but she loves her job, and she does her best to humanize a mostly inhumane practice. 
    
    JJ WARNER is Mercy's next assignment, a so-called cyber threat with enough ties to the matrix to get him fifty years. But Mercy's sympathy kicks-in when she realizes JJ isn't a bad guy. He was arrested to catch a bigger fish, a hacker named Eon. 
    
    While JJ battles AI monsters, navigates booby-trapped labyrinths, and decodes cryptic messages to save his butt, Mercy goes beyond the call of entertainment journalism to discover the truth about a couple of things. One, she is falling in love with JJ. And two, humans are unwittingly becoming one with the machines.
    
    FORMERLY KNOWN AS: REDEMPTION MAN
    
    CONTENT WARNING: F-bombs get dropped in this story, among other expletives. And when you see this *content warning* at the start of a chapter, it was put there to alert readers of steamy content.
    
    COPYRIGHT NOTICE: This work is owned by the author. Please do not attempt to plagiarize or you might end up trapped in the matrix. IN OTHER WORDS: If you find this story on any online platform other than WATTPAD, I did not allow this. You may also be exposing yourself to malware. If you wish to read this story in its original, safe form, do it here on WATTPAD.All Rights Reserved

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A journalist risks her career and her heart when she helps a convicted tech geek survive a real-life World of Warcraft game as he attempts to earn his freedom.
*****
On the heels of a catastrophic cyberwar, the prison population skyrockets, and a new form of justice is established to handle the problem. The Redemption Fields is a competition pitting convicts against AI opponents. Anyone who makes it out alive is granted a pardon, all while the world watches.

MERCY NIGHTINGALE is a journalist for the Redemption Fields, reporting the good, the bad, and the carnage. She hates the carnage, but she loves her job, and she does her best to humanize a mostly inhumane practice.

JJ WARNER is Mercy's next assignment, a so-called cyber threat with enough ties to the matrix to get him fifty years. But Mercy's sympathy kicks-in when she realizes JJ isn't a bad guy. He was arrested to catch a bigger fish, a hacker named Eon.

While JJ battles AI monsters, navigates booby-trapped labyrinths, and decodes cryptic messages to save his butt, Mercy goes beyond the call of entertainment journalism to discover the truth about a couple of things. One, she is falling in love with JJ. And two, humans are unwittingly becoming one with the machines.

FORMERLY KNOWN AS: REDEMPTION MAN

CONTENT WARNING: F-bombs get dropped in this story, among other expletives. And when you see this *content warning* at the start of a chapter, it was put there to alert readers of steamy content.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE: This work is owned by the author. Please do not attempt to plagiarize or you might end up trapped in the matrix. IN OTHER WORDS: If you find this story on any online platform other than WATTPAD, I did not allow this. You may also be exposing yourself to malware. If you wish to read this story in its original, safe form, do it here on WATTPAD.

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