Chapter 16: Another Bald

Alex was very pleased with the growth of Minecraft, but he didn't know that the game was actually being the focus of a major agency to prevent it from spreading.

The more than a thousand players came only from people who told their friends about the game, as this agency was doing everything to prevent the game from being known.

Initially they ordered the game store that was selling the game to take the game off the air, but the store said it didn't even know the game was there. They suspected that the developer of this game had hacked their website in order to sell the game itself, but after some time trying they found it impossible to remove that game.

There was even an emergency maintenance on the store, taking all pages offline, but despite that, the game page was still available, as if it had its own dedicated host.

The government agency also tried to shut the game store down, but the same thing happened, the Minecraft page was still there, like it could hit that.

Their only luck was that they were able to control their store's promotion so that the game didn't appear on the home screen or as a recommendation to players.

The same was done at Twitch, the place where players could livestream playing. Neither the agency nor the site's developers were able to take down the players' livestreams.

But just like the game store, they managed to hide the livestreams from these players, so no one would know about Minecraft.

Unfortunately, in both cases, it was impossible to prevent the game from being known by other people, causing the amount of hits on both sites to increase every day.

If this government agency weren't trying to keep Minecraft from making itself known, it's very likely that news programs or internet influencers would have already been talking about the game and getting hundreds of thousands of people to start playing it.

"Culson, give me good news." Nick Fury said as he looked at Culson as he entered his office.

"Sir, even Stark said he had no idea how to do something like that. In his words, 'If this had been done by a human genius, I would be the only one who could do it.'" Culson said with a tired expression.

He had been busy with the 'Minecraft' mission for a week, where he had to find out who the creator of this game was, or at least some hint of it.

"So Stark thinks this was done by aliens?" Fury asked curiously.

"He didn't say it was made by aliens, he just said he would be the only human who could do something like that." Culson replied.

"This is within my suspicions, this technology is very advanced, to the point that I just believe it's Alien Technology, a mutant power, or magic, but among the three examples, the first two have a higher probability." Fury spoke his thoughts, which made Culson raise an eyebrow in astonishment.

"There is a small piece of news, but I still haven't been able to confirm the basis for this." Culson said in a slightly hesitant voice.

"Which is?" Fury asked.

"Players say there is a player very different from the others. He was the first player to appear in Hypixel with a different skin, as well as being the first to find out about the skins, but unlike other players, he was treating it with a lot natural, as if it were no surprise, unlike how the other players were acting. His name is Notch." Culson responded in a professional tone.

"Notch..." Fury repeated this player's name so he could remember it in the future. After hearing Culson's explanation, the best spy instincts in the world were screaming at Fury that there was something wrong with this person.

"Romanoff has already finished her mission with Stark, so you'll instruct her about Minecraft and make Notch's information available so she can contact him inside the game. Because he's a man, the chances of her finding something out of it will be higher ." Fury gave an order that made Culson nod his head before leaving the room.

Fury was also doing his own investigations into the game, he had played both Singleplayer and Multiplayer modes. In the other world he had a black character, with black clothes and long black hair to match the outfit.

If Xavier or the Crone saw Fury's character, they would know right away that he was just like them.

As Fury explored the Singleplayer world with his character, a transparent screen appeared in front of his face with a message from the game.

[A new update is available. ]

Fury was curious about what would have changed in this world for such a sudden update to come.

When exiting the game, he clicked [Patch Notes ] to see what had changed.

[Minecraft Version 1.0.4 ]

[The 'Dragon Slayer' event has been updated, so a new feature has been added to the game.

Item Withdraw: Special items can be taken out of the game to the real world for a certain cost.

Available items:

Ender Dragon Cape - Available to 'Dragon Slayer' Event winners. Gives whoever uses +1 Charm.

Strength Potion - Available to the 20 players with the most wins in Hunger Games mode at the end of each week. Gives whoever uses +0.1 Strength (Cumulative).

Lucky Potion - Available to the 20 players with the most wins in Build Battle Mode at the end of each week. Increases the probability of a little good thing happening during the day. (Using more than one potion on the same day amplifies this effect).

To make gaming even more fun, Hunger Games and Build Battle have received a Duo mode, where players can team up with friends to play against other players. (Duo wins will count as 1 win for each player.)

With these changes, we hope players will call friends to play our game modes together, we guarantee the rewards are better than you can imagine, and it will be as magical as Minecraft was the first time you decided to play.

- _Jeb. ]

Fury was shocked by this news. If what the game said is true, which he doesn't doubt it is after he's experienced the game himself, this will cause word-of-mouth to increase exponentially!

"Son of a bitch!" Fury yelled inside his office.