Chapter 10 - Gift

Nigel finally feels that weak feeling again as he slopes down the couch and grabs his head as a headache rushed to him.

The feeling this time he got was not so intense as the first time the delivery took place. Nigel stared at the end of the line connected to his forehead as he got startled by the bulky black sphere.

He finally knew why Iris said he can die if his energy is too weak. Because at that time, a toenail size sphere alone can make him lost all of his vigors, not to mention the bulky size they send this time.

After some time had passed, he got up from the couch and approached the black sphere where a table used to be.

With a hissing sound, the sphere opened up just like the first one. When he gazes at the inside, he wondered why Iris make it so grand as they only send three items.

Nigel picked up the first item, it's a piece of black paper that was cold, like touching metal as he plays around with the 'paper' before placing it to the ground.

Then he proceeds to the second item he picked up, a 30cm black circular tube with a curved side and an opening on the other side. Nigel can't think of the function of this item besides the teleporter thingy.

When he was done touching the circular tube, Nigel picked up the last item sent to him. It is a small piece of two round things connected to each other like a contact lens holder. When he opened it, it really is a contact lens with many tiny lines crisscrossing, looking a bit sci-fi.

Looking at the disappearing black sphere, Nigel shrugs before looking at the three items on the ground.

"Iris, do you mind explaining this to me?" Nigel asked Iris.

[The first item you picked up that looked like paper is your 'Personal Tablet' and it is our product services that we set for anything you wish to do, from accessing our Shopping System, playing games, watching movies, etc. The tablet battery runs for a year before you must replace it.]

"Personal Tablet? The naming is too long... I will call it P.T for short." Nigel mumbles to himself.

[The second item is the Quantum Teleportation device I talked about in the past. It uses the 'Origin' to make up the energy for any delivery from now on. The curve side of the tube is for teleporting the delivery item while the opening on the other side is for replacing the 'Origin'. Do take note that you must be careful when using it.]

'Yeah... Right, just like my coffee table that evaporated.' Nigel thought as the Quantum Teleportation device can replace a weapon.

[The last item is our complimentary product for you. It is a smart contact lens where you can adjust the setting of your eyesight you want to capture, from night vision, thermal vision, x-ray, and various other settings.]

"So, does it mean I have overpowered eyes?" Nigel feels exhilarated by the notion of having a various vision he can change into depending on the situation.

Nigel hurried to put the contact lens on his eyes before closing his eyes and after that, he blinks his eyes rapidly.

He waits for some greeting or anything that different, but as time pass and he still didn't see anything, he complained to Iris, "Why is there no difference?"

[Duh, you need to activate it. The button is in the contact lens holder.]

'I thought it was automatically turned on!' Nigel thought as he presses the lens holder everywhere before a click could be heard.

When he heard the click, the sight before Nigel change as there occurred a blue line scanning his retina before various complicated information shows and passed in his eyes. He then takes out his phone to look at his eyes on the front camera. Nigel got creep out by his eyes that keeps changing, from green, yellow, red, reptilian eyes, cat eye, and many others.

As the various information ended, Nigel could understand how the lenses operated as the information from before transferred itself into his brain.

Nigel changing eyes also stop at his original black eyes. He then stood up and went into the window to try the night vision.

When he looked to the outside of the window, Nigel got shocked as usually the night vision is green or something but the vision before his eyes are just like looking at the day where there is sunlight.

A dirty thought found itself on Nigel as he remembers the X-Ray vision setting the lens have before abandoning that thought.

Nigel then gets back to the couch and picks up the P.T that looks so much like paper, he played with the tablet before turning it on.

The black 'paper' suddenly glowed blinding white as Nigel turned it on and he waited a while for the P.T to function.

The Personal Tablet operates just like an ordinary tablet and there are the setting button, cart icon, entertainment, etc.

"Is this the legendary Shopping System?"

Nigel taps the cart icon and it finally showed a welcoming message plus a tutorial on how to search, picking categories, and purchase.

When the tutorial end, he navigates all the categories from electronics, clothing, appliance, vehicles, cuisine, services, entertainment, weapon and etc.

Nigel eventually understood the difference between traditional e-commerce shopping and The Apocalypse Shopping System.

The Apocalypse Shopping System had several things he didn't imagine before to exist from science fiction to all walks of life, things such as robots, lightsaber, hover shoes, rocket, exoskeleton to food, beverage, laptop, tv, etc.

Nigel can't wait to buy all the items the shopping system offers but sadly the thing he wants is expensive, he still needed to wait for the apocalypse to commence so he can pick Energy Nucleus Core or what Iris called The Origin from the zombies.

He put the tablet down, closed his eyes, and exhaled a mouthful of air to calm himself down from his excited mood as Nigel still can't believe all of the experience happening to him, it all feels just like a novel he used to read.

'I wish this time I can be someone dependable in the apocalypse with the system help.' Nigel quitely though as he doesn't want to be a burden to his future teammate.