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Ling’s Mission Journal: Part III
Everyone’s ready. Thousands waiting in silence. DreamPlay glasses on. Phones and iPads in hand. The giant screen broadcasting a live feed of a hundred different kids. Some together in their front rooms. Others alone in their bedrooms. All with their own gaming devices. All with Exploding Pigs on standby. The feed cycles randomly. Thousands around the world. Zak waiting at the laptop, drinking Red Bull mixed with black coffee. DreamPlay glasses pushed onto his head. I wait on stage with Akihiro and Giles.
DreamPlay glasses of our own, connected to our smartphones. Zak raises an arm. “s**t, here it is, ” he says. “G-man, your girlfriend is a genius.”
Giles blushes. Shy and proud at the same time.
“Putting the code up on screen,” Zak says.
A six digit
