Prologue

I’m sure you’ve see the shows and movies about the future. Flying cars, robots walking around, drones flying about, and neon signs? It seems like it’d be a pretty cool time to live in. But the problem is that it isn’t. With all this new technology there are people to abuse it. And with people that abuse it are other people to keep things from getting chaotic. Now if you are thinking the first “people” I mentioned are hackers and the second “people” are the police then you and I are on the same page. In this...future there is crime but it’s far more advanced since criminals have more at their disposal. Before, the threat of hackers being criminals were at a minimum. Now, hackers are some of the primary sources of criminal activity. Everything is done through the web now. Paper is considered an old tool for writing. Now things are done on tablets and electronic transferring. It’s easy for the common folk to go through and is pretty safe. But for the hackers and organized criminals they have something a little further to access. It’s Cyberia.

Cyberia is what was referred to as “the deep web”. It’s pretty much the same; explicit sites, criminals, child pornography, hitmen and women, etc. are all located here. You can’t find or access any of these sites on the regular web. Or at least not easily. Access to Cyberia is risky to even browse around. With the number of hackers doing their hobbies well and more of them becoming a part of Cyberia, it wouldn’t be too much of a surprise if your computer got hacked into just for going to one of the many Cyberia websites.

To lessen these chances there are a lot of unspoken rules. It’s common sense, really. If you are on a streaming video site that has a chat box and you are seeing something...illegal, then don’t type anything like, “I’m calling the cops.” If you do that you’ve pretty much signed your death warrant. People of Cyberia don’t mess around and will take immediate action. Your name, address, phone number, etc. will be made available to them and they will find out exactly who you are in about a few seconds. Did i mention hitmen and murderers being pretty common on Cyberia? You can expect one or some of them to come to your door or through your window in only a matter of hours.

Why am I telling you all this? Well, I was stupid. I did something stupid and now I’m being sought after. I’m just giving you all a warning. So you don’t end up in the same situation as I am now. I definitely stuck my nose where it doesn’t belong. If I told you this much then I mind as well tell you my story, right? If you read up to this point then you must be interested…


-Cassandra Lenotte