“Who’s there?” Gabe uttered in a moderate voice. “I can feel your presence, so come out.” “I was wondering who intruded my home in the middle of the night,” a soft voice came out as a man walked out of the shadows, wearing a night suit. “It turns out to be a guy with systemic power. If you’ve come here to steal oranges… then pluck as many as you can and leave quietly.” He stopped at the right spot where his features above his chest were still hidden because of the shadows. Gabe and Systa looked surprised because this man was able to see through them so easily. “Does he have a system?” Gabe asked her. [I don’t think so.] Her eyes were wide open. [This guy… I don’t feel any energy from him at all. He’s right in front of us, but it feels as if he’s everywhere, like the sky above us.” “English, please.” [He’s not someone we can deal with right now. Since he doesn’t seem to want to fight, let’s run.] Systa said. Gabe frowned. “Isn’t running something you’d never do?” Systa also frown
Gabe’s phone rang in the middle of the night, waking him up at once. It turned out that the sim company was calling, so he cut the call.A little bit of sweat formed on his face, as bad memories of the past kept coming back.Gabe had learned to work hard from a very young age. He worked so hard, he would get a stomach ache often. The stomachache was not due to indigestion but hunger. It was an all familiar feeling for those who lived a poor life.There were countless days where Gabe ate only once a day. Because of that, he’d feel weak and weary during his job more often than not. Though he avoided heavy weightlifting jobs as much as he could, he couldn’t completely avoid them. So during the times he lifted weights for his job, he experienced such severe hunger he was afraid of passing out during work at some point.But he would always tell himself: A few more hauls to make.It wasn’t just for himself but also for his aunt.There were times when he would receive messages at midnight to
The next morning.Gabe went to the grocery store, and Leona was there, working diligently. He gave her an orange.“I don’t like citrus fruits,” she blurted, looking at him coldly. “They burn my heart.”Gabe raised his brows. “Are you roleplaying a vampire now?”She was startled. “H-How did you know? Now that I know vampires are real, I’ve been trying to imagine what kind of lives they lead. What things do they eat? Can they eat vegetables like us? Do they poop everyday? You know, there are a lot of questions that I’ve been noting down in a book.”“What for? You think you’ll meet a vampire soon?” Gabe asked.Leona smiled rather confidently. “Since I’m with you, I have a feeling that I’ll meet a vampire sooner or later.”Gabe put the orange in her hand. Her eyes widened because the orange was as big as her hand. “What’s this? You’re giving me a shitty hybrid orange? These things look big, but they taste like water gone bad.”“No, they’re organic oranges that grew in a specific environme
After eating the best orange she had ever eaten in her life, Mia came to Gabe’s house to thank him, but he had already left the house. Nicole was there, so she asked her where he bought the oranges.“I asked him the same question,” Nicole said, “but he told me that he didn’t buy them, and that some landlord gave them to him.”“So these are grown on private land,huh…” Mia could see the small bag that had more than ten oranges. “No wonder they tasted like heaven. C-Can I take two of these with me?”Nicole smiled and took two oranges out of the bag and then put the bag in her hand, surprising her.“I-I don’t need all these,” Mia quickly. “I only need two.”“Orange seeds are good for your hair,” Nicole said. “And young women like you need to eat them, so don’t forget to eat the seeds. They are more powerful than any fruit nuts you can find out there.”“M-Mm, thank you,” Mia thanked from the bottom of her heart.“Don’t thank me. You’re not a stranger,” Nicole quickly said. “You’re my daugh
“Ranked 111,111 on the UTS board,” Rica introduced one of the contestants to both the offline and online crowd, “the guy who drinks a deer’s blood and a bear’s blood alike, the guy who smokes marijuana 16 hours a day, the guy who shamelessly scares elderly and children alike, the guy who’s hated and also loved by many, the one and only, Superfreak Saul.”Saul, a big guy imported from the Middle East, received a massive cheer. He was almost eight-foot-tall and had long hair that was decorated in locks. He was currently pumping blood to his biceps using 100 pound dumbbells, which greatly pumped not just his blood but also the blood of many onlookers. So many people placed their bets on him because he had an unbeatable record of 43 wins to this day. And most of his opponents were relatively higher ranked people, which brought his victories quite some attention, and this made him a star within a span of a year.“Do you think Superfreak would win?”“We don’t know who will be placed against
Rica came to check on Saul since he wasn’t getting up. It turned out Saul only lost his consciousness, and didn’t suffer any external injury, which made Rica believe that Gabe went easy on him.She briefly looked at Gabe who was waving at the fans, some of whom said they wanted to meet him in real life outside, to which Gabe responded, saying, you will get an uppercut if you do. But the fans only loved his response, and some of them didn’t even care that they lost their bet. And they demanded Gabe to fight another random match right away.Rica put her hand on Saul’s forehead, and two seconds later, he opened his eyes.“Where am I?” Saul looked around and realized that he lost. He lifted his hand and put it on his face in shame.Because Saul lifted his left hand, the smell of his armpit almost made Rica vomit. She immediately pulled his arm down while covering her nose. “Your armpit smells worse than drainage.”“H-Huh?” Saul was shocked by her words. “W-What are you saying? I bathe twi
Having worked in Tuna Waves a few weeks now, Nicole understood one of the main goals that the restaurant had.It was to make the best-selling burgers and pizzas in three categories: fruits, veggies, and meat. The reason was simple. The Creed Zone, where the restaurant was located, was a big hub to all the gamers of Dream Creed, the most popular game of the world, so the company’s goal was to feed these gamers healthy food that could be eaten quickly.So, everyday, a different chef was given the opportunity to make the pizza of their choosing, and then slices of that pizza would be sent to important people of the company and would receive the reviews. The result needed to be perfect, which meant that everybody had to love the dish.To this day, nobody ever succeeded in making something that received a perfect score.Today, it was Nicole’s turn.In the afternoon, she was given the recipe book that the previous chefs had used. She spent multiple hours just reading that book and noticed h
At Tuna Waves.Russell was having a meeting with some of the board of directors of the Creed tech company, which included the likes of Adam Conreid, Kyra Lynn, Marlon Myers, and Jim Blake.“Why aren’t you agreeing to this new project where we can create new souls using artificial intelligence?” Jim Blake, the son of Lucas Blake, asked Russell. “This will take our game to another level, no, it will take the world itself to another level. You can even bring the dead people back with as accurate personalities as possible. Of course, we’ll need to implant their personalities in another person’s body that’s near death, or just make clones with synthetic bodies. Whichever is profitable, we should do that. If we succeed, then real estate wouldn’t even compare to this. People would pay millions to get their loved ones back, even if it's through AI.”“My grandfather strictly told me to use AI for nothing but the game,” Russell said. “It can be used for entertainment, but not for education. You