4 004 Factory System II
04 Factory System II
A series of notifications rang in his mind
Factory System booting...
Diagnostic complete...
Registering user...
Registered complete...
Scanning...
Scanning complete...
Displaying Old Status...
Name: Arc D Grand
Age: 20yrs old
Strength 1.6
Agility 1.2
Intelligence 2.6
Endurance 1.1
Health: orange
Skills: none
Displaying New Status...
Strength: 2.1
Agility: 1.8
Endurance: 2.0
Intelligence: 2.8
Health: green
Privilege: 1
Skill: none
Arc bounced up from his bed with a terrified look on his face
"who!!!? Who is it?" asked Arc with a panicked voice.
Silence...
"Eh, what the hell is that? Am I losing my mind? Factory System? What the hell is that?" ask Arc in confusion.
He started looking around but saw no one
"HELLO, ARC, I'M 009-27DAG568. I'M YOUR GUIDE IN THE FACTORY SYSTEM."
What he heard made him jump. He looked around, then he took a deep breath and said to himself.
"Relax, relax; it's just the drug effects," Arc said, trying to calm himself.
Scanning...
No drugs in the user's system were detected...
User health is green...
No abnormality was found...
"Eh? Hahaha, no way, I am really losing my mind? Noooo, no way..." Arc said with a look of panic and fear on his face.
Scanning...
"NO PROBLEM FOUND IN USER'S MIND. NO EXTERNAL INFLUENCE DETECTED."
System green...
After several panic attacks, Arc finally started to calm down...
"Who are you again?" ask Arc
"I'M 009-27DAG568, YOUR GUIDE TO YOUR FACTORY SYSTEM..."
"Shit, is this real? I'm not hallucinating? 0099 something what's the factory system?" ask Arc with a skeptical look on his face.
"IT'S 009-27DAG568, FACTORY SYSTEM IS A SUPREME CREATION OF THE MIGHTY SOVEREIGN EMPIRE. IT'S A PROGRAM TO HELP WITH WAR LOGISTICS AND PRODUCTIONS," said 009-27dag568 in a synthetic voice.
"Sovereign empire? I never heard of it. Is there something like that in our history?" Arc started thinking in his mind.
"Anyway, 099 whatever I'll call you Nine, no wait hmm, let me think, Facty? Nope, Nah sounds bad... I've always been bad at naming things. Nine, it is simple and easy to remember, alright from now on, your name is nine." said Arc while shrugging his shoulder
Loading… Overwriting serial number...overwriting completed.
"So it's not a name but a serial number. How many of you are made," asks Arc?
Arc, without realizing it, began to converse with the one he called hallucinations.
"No data found..." said Nine.
"What's this sovereign empire?" ask Arc
"USER PRIVILEGE, NOT ENOUGH. USER PRIVILEGE RANK 1, NEED RANK 7 TO UNLOCK THE REQUIRED INFORMATION..." said Nine with a machine-like voice
"Eh, so my rank is not high enough. Well, it's understandable, we only just. Eh, did I just converse with you, so you're real.?" ask Arc.
Nine…
Arc...
"Right, can you explain to me what a factory System is?" ask Arc as he started to calm down a little.
"THE FACTORY SYSTEM IS MADE TO PROVIDE LOGISTICAL SUPPLY AND TO SUPPLY WAR-RELATED WEAPONS."
"So, in other words, you're like a war factory?" said Arc.
"NOT COMPLETELY, THE FACTORY SYSTEM CAN PROVIDE ALL ITEMS A FACTORY CAN CREATE..." Nine replied.
"Ohh? Can your factory System create a machine that creates money?" Arc asks
Searching...
THREE FACTORIES WERE FOUND...
Type 1 factory to create paper/plastic/silicon base currency.
Type 2 factory to create metal/gemstone base currency.
Type 3 factory to create energy base currency.
"Whoa, are you for real? You can really make the machine to create money?" Arc said in surprise
"Do you need materials to create it?" ask Arc.
"NEGATIVE, ENERGY UNIT IS ALL THE SYSTEM NEEDS TO CREATE A FACTORY..." Nine Replied.
"Energy unit? What's that?" Arc asks Nine.
"EVERYTHING IS MADE OF ENERGY, SO ENERGY IS REQUIRED FOR THE SYSTEMS TO CREATE ANYTHING, DOES THE USER NEED A COMPLETE EXPLANATION?" Nine replied.
"Nope!" Arc answers instantly.
"Well, whatever I don't really care, I'm not a scientist or anything, so how many energy units to create a factory?" Arc asks Nine.
"THAT DEPENDS ON A FACTORY YOU WANT TO BUILD..."
"Well, that makes sense," said Arc
"So, in other words, the energy unit is like a currency in the factory system. And I need this energy unit to use the factory system, right?" said Arc.
He still can't believe this is real, but at the same time, he was intrigued and curious about where all this will lead.
"YES!" nine answer
"so, how much is needed to create a factory, I mean to create paper thingy currency?" asked Arc.
"50 ENERGY UNITS TO BUILD TYPE 1 PAPER/PLASTIC/SILICON BASE CURRENCY FACTORY, FOR UPKEEP IT REQUIRES 5 ENERGY UNITS FOR 5 DAYS..."
"Hmm, 50 is that big? So how can I earn an energy unit?" ask Arc.
"ONE ENERGY UNIT IS AUTOMATICALLY EARNED EVERY 10 DAYS. YOU CAN ALSO EARN AN ENERGY UNITS BY COMPLETING FACTORY SYSTEM MISSIONS", said Nine.
"Mission, huh, this is getting more unreal, fuck! Just what kind of drugs did I ingest? Whatever, I'll just play along, I have nothing to lose anyway," Arc said in his mind.
"YOU CAN ALSO EARN BY BUILDING A FACTORY THAT PRODUCES ENERGY UNIT..." said Nine
"Right, whatever. So do I have any energy unit available right now?" ask Arc.
"100 ENERGY UNITS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE SYSTEM RIGHT NOW..."
"So if I want to create a type 1 currency factory, I need 50 energy units, and I need 5 more for every 5 days, correct?" Ask Arc.
"That's right."
"So exactly how big is this currency factory?" Arc asked Nine.
"TYPE 1 CURRENCY FACTORY IS 3 METERS WIDE AND 1.5 METERS TALL..." said Nine
"It's smaller than I thought. But it's still not something I can easily hide." Arc said.
"PAPER CURRENCY FACTORY IS THE SMALLEST OF ALL CURRENCY FACTORIES, AND A METAL CURRENCY FACTORY CONSISTS OF 2 MACHINES, ONE IS 15 BY 35 SQUARE METERS, AND THE OTHER MACHINE IS 26 BY 47 CUBIC METERS..."
"THE ENERGY CURRENCY IS..."
"Stop!" Arc said, cutting Nine explanations.
"I don't need to know; I don't need it anyway, not right now, at least.," said Arc impatiently
"This hallucination is good, is this actually real? No way! Let me see how it ends. So I need to think this through as I only have 100 energy units. I need to Budget it.
And if for some reason this is real, I can't let anyone know about it. It's dangerous if anyone else found out about it." Arc said, thinking in his mind.
"Hmm, wait, you said earlier that my stats have changed? I seem to remember you saying something like old stats?" Arc said.
"USER STATS ARE ENHANCED TO ACCOMMODATE THE FACTORY SYSTEM..."
"Oh, so that's why I feel different the whole day today. Does that mean I've been under drugs all day? What kind of drugs last that long, is it a new drug? Sigh, I really wish this is real." Arc said in his mind.
"What about the mission or system mission?" Arc asks.
"SYSTEM MISSION IS GIVEN DEPENDING ON THE CURRENT CIRCUMSTANCES AND THE ACTIONS OF THE USER," said Nine.
"Oh, is that so? So a mission will be issued depending on my future decision," said Arc
"CORRECT," said Nine
"So do I have any mission right now?" asked Arc.
Suddenly, a holographic screen was projected in front of him. The screen format is like those retro games he used to play.
#### MISSION LIST ####
* BUILD YOUR FIRST FACTORY
REWARDS: 50 EN. UNIT AND 1 LOTTERY BOX.
"Whoa, this is cool. Lottery box?" asked Arc.
"LOTTERY BOX IS AN ITEM THAT CAN GIVE YOU RANDOM ITEMS FROM THE SYSTEM..." said Nine
"So you mean to say, lottery box can give me a free random factory?" Arc said.
"LOTTERY BOX CAN ONLY GIVE YOU A SINGLE RANDOM ITEM FROM THE SYSTEM STORE..." replied Nine.
"Eh, system store?" asked Arc with a confused look on his face.
"System store is where you can spend your energy unit to purchase a single-use item or any Item a factory can create..." said Nine
"Oh. Hmm… but if that's true, then isn't it better to buy the factory that can make them?" ask Arc thinking
"THAT DEPENDS. SOME FACTORY REQUIRES A LOT OF ENERGY UNITS, BUT IT'S NOT THE SAME FOR THE ITEM IT PRODUCES..." said Nine
"Oh. Now I get it, for example, if I need a car, I can either buy a factory that can make it or I can just buy a car. So I assume it's a lot cheaper buying a car than a factory?" ask Arc.
"YES!" Said Nine.
"Well, thinking about it, buying an item from the system shop is cheaper, especially if I only need one of that items. Since it's wasteful to build a factory if I only need one item, it produces..." Arc said.
"Well, that makes sense."
"Correct..."
"Well, show me the System store."
#### STORE ####
Rank 5 body armor 1 en
Rank 6 energy shield 2 en
Rank 5 health potion 1en
Rank 5 cleansing potion 1en
Rank 5 mobile phone 5en
1 star Mobile phone 30 en
1 star Gun 15 en
1 star Health potion 3 en
1 star Cleansing potion 2en
2 star Body armor 35en
"Hmm, what?? What's the difference between rank and star ?" Arc asks.
"1 STAR IS EQUIVALENT TO 10 RANKS."
"Oh, so wait, what's the rank of the mobile phone I'm using right now?"
Scanning...
"STATS ANDRO35.... IS BEING DISPLAYED. RANK 1.8. EARTH'S CURRENT TECHNOLOGY IS RANK 2.9."
"Ohhhh, even with all this advanced technology the earth advanced into, our technology is still only 2.9 rank, then just how high is the sovereign empire technology.?"
"INFORMATION IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE, PLEASE INCREASE PRIVILEGE..." said Nine.
"Hmm, that's disappointing. I guess all the topics regarding this sovereign empire are unavailable right now?" asked Arc.
"CORRECT, IT'S FOR USER PROTECTION..."
