05 New Life
"So it's for my protection. Then I won't ask for any more details then, since I don't really care right now," said Arc nonchalantly
"Display the specs of the 1-star Mobile phone."
"NO NEED TO ASK ME, JUST USE YOUR THOUGHTS TO CONTROL THE SYSTEM..." said Nine
"Hmm, alright, let me try." Arc closes his eyes and concentrates, he imagines what he wants in his mind
Ding!
"Well, that was easier than I thought. Let us see"
he began browsing the specs of the 1-star mobile phone in his mind.
*Mobile phone
device model: SE mobile military Unit 0SE-alpha
Ram: 10 yottabyte
Storage: Unlimited
CPU: S.E.M Alpha Sovereign core 255
Camera: true capture
Features: auto-mapping
Omni projection.
Auto personnel identification.
2-star AI support
Rank 8 energy shield projection...
Arc reads all the specs, which most of it he can not understand, but those he can make him extremely astonished like 10 yottabytes!! He didn't even know that exist.
"Whoa, unlimited storage, holy-shit that's f@#k up."
"So, this is a System military-grade phone. AI support. Wicked, no wonder it's so expensive, 30 energy unit that's more than half of the paper currency factory."
"I bet it's worth it." he mused
He browses the available factory in the system. "Darn so many, there are even factories to make robot soldiers like Terminator."
"200k EN shit! So expensive. Eh, no way! Deity production factory, able to create 5 stars to 8 stars deity being WTF."
"Factory to create a god? Whoa, so many numbers there more than one hundred digits, I don't even know how to say it. But damn that's so sick."
"Cloning factory, Battleship factory. Mech factory, Droid Factory, Drone Factory... darn alright I'm getting way out of perspective. Display factory in between 100 energy and below."
Over a hundred factories ranging from rank 5 to rank 10 weapons factory, rank 5 to10 combat vehicles, rank 5 -10 food factory, and many more...
The more he browses, the more astonished he feels, at the same time he was excited. If this is all real he cannot imagine what awaits him in the future, but one thing is for sure it will be amazing.
"So many. Well, I have to check my priority." he took a deep breath as he made a mental note of his priority
#1 Money
#2 Security
#3 money again
"That's my priority right now, looks like I need to clean up the basement." he stood up, his eyes shining, hoping all this is all true.
"So my priority is to build a type 1 currency factory, then for security, should I go for a 1-star rank mobile phone? Producing so much money is suspicious, and it will attract unwanted attention if I make a wrong move, I and my sisters and my parents will be in danger. That needs to be avoided at all costs" Arc said in his mind
"By the way, why can I only see a few items in the system store? Is it because of my low privilege?"
"CORRECT" Nine answers
"I see if I can build a currency factory, I'll be able to complete my current mission, meaning I can get back what I spend on building the paper currency factory."
"And if I buy the 1-star mobile phone, I still have around 65en left."
"Let's see how much is for the energy factory. Shit so expensive, let's see the cheapest is rank 5 energy factory it costs 45en, and can produce 1.5 energy a day that's not so bad..."
Arc keeps thinking of what to do.
"Energy factory has no upkeep. Well, it makes sense. Since it can produce the energy, it probably deducted all the energy needed to run the factory, right?"
"CORRECT," said Nine.
"Right, so I can have about 16en units every 10days. That's not so bad, if I can make two rank 5 energy factories I'll have 31en every 10 days."
"Hehehehe, I'm rich, hahaha. Alright, no time to waste..."
Arc runs into the basement excitedly.
"eh? Big brother, you're not sleeping yet? What are you going to do?" Ask Anne looking confuse normally as soon as her big brother enters his room she will soon hear him snoring.
"I'm not sleepy; don't worry about me. But you should sleep early." Arc said not looking at his sisters as he went straight to the basement.
"Ok... but don't stay up too late." says Anne shouted back
"I wonder what's he up to? He looks so excited, well, whatever, yawn! I'm off to bed," said Anne while rubbing her eyes.
In the basement.
Cough cough!!
"Shit so dusty in here, time to clean up."
It took Arc three hours to organize and clean the basement thoroughly. He underestimated the junk and dust that accumulated in the basement over the two years.
"I remember I used to play here a lot when I was a kid, but after the accident, this becomes a warehouse of some sort."
He throws away all the junk that's been pilling in the basement. Their basement is quite spacious because it used to be his father's workshop. His father used to work in a company that creates all kinds of machines.
He doesn't know much about what his father did for a living; all he knows is his father used to work for a big company as a chief engineer. And most of the time, his father brings his work home, so the basement becomes his workshop.
After his father's accident, his company came to their house to collect all the materials and machines his father brought home from work. So now there's no trace of his father's old workshop in the basement anymore.
Patting his now dusty shirt...
"Alright, this is the moment of truth."
In reality, he wasn't really convinced about all this, part of him still thinks it's all a hallucination. But a huge part of him wishes this is all real.
"Build a type 1 currency factory."
He shouts in his mind...
"BUILDING TYPE 1 CURRENCY FACTORY 50EN CONFIRM?"
He saw a small screen in front of him, he also saw a mental map of the basement, so he chooses where the machine would be built and mentally click confirm!"
Suddenly, a black cube appears in front of him. It's like a Rubix cube, but all black. It started spinning and growing. Five minutes later, a Type 1 currency factory machine was in front of him. It's like an oversized scanner printer type of machine with a 3d projection display on the side.
He looks at the 3D projection at the side, showing some windows. He walks closer to the machine and saw a list of currency available for printing.
He clicks United government currency called Ugcredit. Ugcredit has 6 denomination 1,5,10,20,50 and 100. He chose 100 and clicked 100 copies. 10sec later, 100 pieces of 100 Ugcredit bills are in front of him. He stood there for a while dumbfounded.
"It's all real! It's real, hell yeah!" he pumps his fist excitedly.
He almost shouts out loud. Luckily, he stops himself in time otherwise, his sister would be able to hear him. He picked up the money and checked it.
"Nice, it's real."
He opens his wallet and picks up the 100 bills he got this morning from working in the market, compares the two, it's the same...
-I'm rich, I'm rich...-
A few minutes later, he began to calm down.
"I need a plan." he began to walk back and forth, thinking.
He picks up a big brown cloth that used to be white and covers the paper currency factory machine. He arranges some boxes and items to hide the machine in the corner. After rechecking it, he nods and smiles, "alright!" And went back to his room and saw his sisters are already in their room sleeping...
Back in his room, Arc sits on his bed, took a deep breath, and began to think...