2 Congratulations

Year 2124, June 24, 1:01 AM. Sunday.

Capsule Room Rental Apartment.

Inside the game, Shen is still lamenting on the fact that Kwan deserted them for money.

"Hmm?" Shen looks ahead and saw that there are still a few items on the ground.

Two blue items, one green, and four white ones. Shen slowly moves ahead and picks it up.

Rusting Sword (Common)

Thief's edge (Rare)

Bandage

Wolf's Blood (Rare)

Silver Fang (Uncommon)

...

All useless things that wouldn't even cost more than $10 are scattered on the ground.

Shen couldn't help but chuckle sadly as he presses the window for logging out.

[Do you want to survive the apocalypse that's to come? [Yes] or [No]]

The window that kept annoying him appears in front of him yet again but this time, Shen has no energy to even be mad. With a brush from Shen's hand, he left the window in a corner before pressing the log out button.

Shen slowly gets out of the capsule and removes his helmet. The tears on his eyes clearly expression his demise.

"Hey, what are you guys..." As soon as Shen goes out, the shop keeper approaches, but seeing Shen's appearance, the Shop keeper felt bewildered and started to calm down.

He saw the group of students running away and tried to chase them for the case of play and run. But due to his stamina, he couldn't even move half as fast as them and decides to return and check the room, here, he saw Shen.

The Shop keeper calms down and spoke: "Brat, what happened?"

Shen looks up and stares at the shop keeper sadly: "Mister... how much do I need to pay?"

The Shop keeper is a man with a huge build and seems to be at the age between 40 and 50. The Shop keeper sighs as he calculates in his mind before speaking: "That's a total of $48.36 for all five capsules."

Shen's face darkens upon hearing his words. The shop keeper notices this and spoke: "Well, tell me what happened first and we'll decide what to do next."

Shen didn't want to share what happened, but all that he could do is speak of it now, what can he do? He's just a 17-year-old boy that lacks knowledge about how the World works.

Just after a few minutes worth of time, Shen has retold what the Shop keeper about what happened.

"Haaa... Seriously, so that's the case." The shop keeper sighs as he shook his head pitying Shen.

"Just call me Uncle Mok, I`ll pay the money for now, but be sure to pay me afterward, get it?" Mok chuckles as he touches his nose.

Shen looks at Mok as tears started to flow down from his eyes again: "Mister... I`ll definitely pay you back."

Mok chuckles as he pats Shen's shoulder: "Relax, if what you told me is real, your friends will come back here and pay for their own. In the end, you will only owe me $4."

"Shen!" Right as Mok finishes speaking, a shout was heard and it is none other than Hisao who's covered in sweat together with the other two.

"Did you get him?" Shen asks half-heartedly.

Hearing Shen's words, Hisao couldn't help but sigh; "Truly, you are too kind, you'd even wish that Kwan would've gotten away right?"

Shen couldn't hide away his guilt and looks down on the ground. But still, his eyes burned in passion: "Yes, but the next time I see him, I`ll be the first one to make him realize something he shouldn't have done."

With Shen's words, the other three approved: "Well, let's go for now."

"Wait!" Mok spoke.

"Hmmm?" All four of them simultaneously look at him in bewilderment.

Mok sighs as he continues: "All of you haven't paid yet."

"AH!" Immediately, each and every one of them took out the thing in their wrist and starts pressing the buttons in it and directly transferring their money. The device in their wrist is called 'Cyber Link', this is what the people replaced smartphones with.

Automatically transferring money, data confirmation, and also a form of identification with inclusion to all kinds of smartphone technology.

But in Shen's watch, there's something else other than his usual information.

[Do you want to survive the apocalypse that's to come? [Yes] or [No] ]

"This..." Shen felt speechless, even in his cyber link, the virus actually followed.

"Is that the phishing site that's been bothering you earlier?" Hisao asks.

"Yeah, it's been showing in front of my monitor ever since we started killing the boss." Shen replied with a frown.

"Hmm? A phishing advertisement? You should immediately let the municipal to have a look at it before it worsens, you know, something like your information getting corrupted or you being framed." At this moment, Mok spoke seemingly worried about Shen.

"I will uncle Mok, I`ll also pay you as fast as I can." Shen smiles at Mok as he bid his farewell together with his friends.

"Let's go." All of them finally departed and left the room.

Mok looks at them as he sighs; "It's definitely a bad way for children to play for a living. It's just becoming a daily occurrence."

Mok took a final sigh as he returns to his post.

A few minutes later.

Shen finally arrives in his house as he rest, laying his whole body in the bed; "For the money, best friends can betray each other. If it wasn't Kwan that took the items, would it be Hisao? Zumi? or even me?"

"Greed is part of being a human... But I`ll try my best to not succumb to it..." Shen spoke as his eyes slowly close, making his consciousness fade little by little. But right at this moment.

[Do you want to survive the apocalypse that's to come? [Yes] or [No] ]

"Hmmm?!" Shen woke up drastically due to the alarm that came from his cyber link.

[Do you want to survive the apocalypse that's to come? [Yes] or [No] ]

This time, the phishing messages were showing in front of him even without the cyber link's holographic help.

"What the hell?!" Shen felt bewildered but he immediately took his steps and took his cyber link.

"I`ll just get a new one." Although it's a pain for the process, a cyber link actually only costs $1.

Shen threw the cyber link on the floor and steps on it. As soon as the cyber link disables, Shen stops and looks up, but what he saw shocked him even further.

[Do you want to survive the apocalypse that's to come? [Yes] or [No] ]

A lot of the phishing ads are floating without the hologram's help. Shen felt frightened at first, but if he does nothing, it might continue to linger there.

Without any means to remove it, Shen figured that clicking the 'NO' button is the last resort.

"Hmm?" As soon as Shen clicked it, it vanishes without any resistance like some other ads appearings again.

"Hahaha, if I had known, I would've clicked 'No' earlier." Shen sighs as he continuously removes the ads one by one.

After just a few seconds, Shen finishes everything and finally came to the last one.

"Goodbye, I hope you don't appear again." Shen chuckles as he prepares to sleep afterward. But it took a different turn again.

[Do you want to survive the apocalypse that's to come? [Yes]]

Shen looks at the screen in front of him and couldn't believe it as the second option actually disappeared.

"Wha... What the hell?!" Without even thinking, Shen starts punching the ads but it's only moving away from his direction like it's guided by something.

But like some cliche move, the option 'YES' actually moves in front of Shen's fist when it's about to hit.

"Wha?!" Shen felt speechless as the ad actually forced him to do something he does not want to do.

[CONGRATULATIONS PLAYER!]

[[You have been and will be the only player of this World! I wish you all the good luck!

Sender: God]

*Status*

Name: Kas Shen

Class: None

HP: 15/15

MP: 21/21

Fatigue: 74%

Strength: 6

Agility: 8

Dexterity: 9

Intelligence: 12

"What the hell?!"

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