My eyes were abruptly opened. It didn't feel like I had just woken up or had any desire to sleep, and my thoughts were completely collected, unlike what usually happens after waking up in the morning. It does feel a little stressful, like I'm some kind of robot, but that doesn't take away from the fact that it was still way too cool. And I wanted to check out another feature that this personal computer most likely has to have. "Clock."
And again, as if by magic, although it is magic no need to lie to myself, another window appeared before my eyes that looked like a regular clock on my phone. It now showed 4:21, which was the time I'd set, so I counted as my alarm clock. By the way, about the function I saw at this point, it was the usual clock functions, which included world time, a stopwatch, and even a timer. And it was all in my brain or soul, as strange as that really sounds.
I was lying in a crib next to the bed where the woman who gave birth to me was lying, I suspect I had been dragged by the court after I fell asleep, but that was even better and I wouldn't have to worry about anyone watching me. Deciding to look around as my options allowed me, I saw that the whole room was engulfed in night darkness, and the only thing that brightened the room was the light that shone into the room from the panoramic window on one of the walls.
And only now I realized, or rather it came to my awareness that I was reborn in some other world, and all my family and friends are unacceptably far away or even possible that they may have already died, I still do not know how much time I spent in the dark. And now I'm all alone. I sank into my sad thoughts for a few minutes.
However, I came out of them just as quickly as I went in. Perhaps the "Player's Mind" had something to do with it, if I had one, or maybe I just realized that this was not the best moment to be sad, and I needed to calm down and understand the whole situation. Maybe this world is incredibly dangerous and suddenly in a couple of years there will be some kind of Armageddon or an alien invasion, but I can always get close... close people I can always get more. After all, these are connections that are made over a lifetime, and my new life has just begun. So, there's still more to come.
Before going through the basic tabs that were in the system, I decided to see what other features I could call on. Calendar, weather, notes, camera along with gallery, compass, tape measure, music player that had almost all the music in the world, translator and already used calculator. It was the only thing that popped into my head and it all appeared in front of my eyes and leads God it was incredibly cool, consider a built-in phone, but I don't even know how to react to it all. It was all creepy weird, and I couldn't imagine that the system could have so many functions.
And if it all works, is there any chance that one of the strongest abilities in gaming would work. "Saving/Loading." Opening my eyes, which I closed because of the excitement, I saw nothing, which made me let out a sigh of relief, or whatever I can squeeze out of myself. But the fact that it wasn't there made it all the more pleasant, or I think with this ability I would have become too reliant on it.
Okay. I guess we'll leave all that for later, but for now we need to familiarize ourselves with the basic functions. "Assignment." It was on my mind. And the familiar blue window appeared before my eyes again.
This tab was completely empty. There wasn't a single task. Which meant that I didn't have any task that caused me to be reborn, and I could just live in peace. It's also possible that tasks will appear over time. Well I can't deal with that right now, so I'll leave that for later. "The Map.
It wasn't really anything special and was just a normal map that didn't really have anything new on it, except for the fact that it was hanging in front of my eyes, but I guess I'll have to study the "Map" more anyway. It now displayed the little room I was in, which showed the view from above and was displayed as if it were a photograph, and around this room was only a gray space that showed the unexplored area. It was also possible to switch map plans, from rooms to the whole planet, but of course for now it was all painted in the familiar gray. I guess it would all have to be discovered, and the gray was still unexplored territory.
I also tried to put a marker on the map. Which I succeeded, though, and there was an icon right in front of me that showed me where I had placed this blue marker. It was just hanging in the air and was only in that direction. Also trying to adjust it, I saw the usual settings starting with "Show only on map" and ending with "Delete" which is what I clicked to remove the marker so it wouldn't hang in front of my eyes.
The next item I was interested in was the "Relationships" tab.
It was pretty sparse as far as I was concerned, there was the same search engine and a small filter, but it was still pretty logical and there was only one item in this tab.
[Mai Matsuda] [Alive.]
[Status: Happy that, she had a child/Exhausted]
[Attitude: 200%]
[Description: Your mother. She loves you as the mother of her son and would do anything for you]
Makes sense and is quite pleasant. And it was still like the games. Does it mean that the friendship and love that will be given to me will be created by the system? Could all people be bots to me? No, I don't think this is the best time to think about it, and it's better not to think about it at all.
Just now I realized that, most likely, I have no father and most likely no relatives either. If they were, they would know about me and their status should be displayed here, but even if I do not have them, then I should not be particularly upset, especially me, I am a grown man, though in the body of a child and this situation should not affect me in any way. Or it doesn't work that way, after all at least I know two other people, namely the nurse who carried me and the doctor who delivered me, but maybe it doesn't work that way and I just don't understand everything yet. Okay, that doesn't matter yet.
Okay, next we have a rather strange tab whose purpose I don't really understand, which is "slot machine." In front of my eyes, as usual, a window popped up, which was quite different from all the others. In the window that popped up was, oddly enough, a vending machine. (From the author: I don't know what it's called, but simply, it looked like a Monomachine.) It was red, and on top was a big glass ball with colored round containers in it, in the center of the bottom was some kind of mechanism that I assume was needed to put coins in there, which in the upper left corner shows "0". In the upper right corner was a question mark, which was a help, which I focused on without slowing down. And another box came up.
[1. System coins are obtained once a year, namely on your birthday, or for completing world quests]
Only one... Which said that once a year I would get one coin! Yes, what will I do with that coin, but it also said about world quests, but I think they called them world quests for a reason and most likely they will be incredibly easy and hard. Kinda sounds unfair for something that could be considered cheats, but maybe it will drop something super cool? Like skills, genes, artifacts, and weapons that can overthrow the gods. Whatever. So, before my first legendary thing left to wait exactly one year, which is in ... "Calendar" ... September 22. No stop. I've been scrolling for a while now, which means my birthday was September 21.
Okay next comes the "Settings" tab and crap. It was an eerily large box that didn't even show up everything and there were at least a hundred different items and a scroll bar was visible on the right. I began to carefully read through each item that was here. My eyes widened and widened with each item, and my eyes would most likely show shock. Everything could be adjusted here, from whether my body needed to blink or go to the bathroom, the state of my vision, where you could make it "-" and "+", whether I needed sleep, you could even adjust my skin cleanliness, and there were system settings, like notifications or window colors. You could adjust literally everything here, well, except looks, sort of...
I think this was it for me, typing into the search engine the words "Needs" a dozen items came up for me. Now looking at it all in my mind, doubts arose, if I turn it all on, I would have to walk under myself and a lot of unpleasant things. Hell, I've been with this system for less than 24 hours and I'm already used to it like I've been walking around with it my whole life. But I don't think I have any other choice right now, because if I don't go to the bathroom, or rather under myself, it can lead to unnecessary questions that will lead to tests, and they will show that I am not a very normal child, and then you can go to the operating table, and later, when I'm a little older I can quite calmly give myself everything back. So...
[Need for food]
[-YES-/NO]
[Need for water]
[-YES-/NO]
[Need for sleep]
[-YES-/NO]
[Need for a waste outlet]
[-YES-/NO]
[Need to Blink]
[-YES-/NO]
[Need to Breathe]
[-YES-/NO]
[Need to Sweat]
[-YES-/NO]
[Saliva secretion need]
[-YES-/NO]
[Need for organ work]
[-YES-/NO]
[Hormone needs]
[-YES-/NO]
And a host of other items that could somehow set me apart from other people.
And immediately I felt my whole-body condition change. I felt a monstrous weakness all over my body and most likely wanted to sleep, even though I had woken up a couple of hours before. I don't think I will have to go under right now, since the system has most likely already processed all the food that went into my stomach, but after I eat, and this time I will be hungry. Creepiness which I do not want to think about and I think these problems are already the future me. Trying to calm myself somehow in my thoughts, I did not notice how I fell asleep.