'Did I really go back in time?' Michael thought looking around him.
"Hey, what is wrong with you?" The man beside him asked.
"It's nothing John" Michael replied calmly and turned to his working section and continue loading the goods.
"Always a weirdo" John shook his hand and walked toward his own section.
"All you lazy slackers should work faster!!" A middle-aged man with a big belly, putting on a black suit walked over, yelling at the surrounding workers.
'This man again.' Michael groaned inwardly.
He really hates this man, How can someone this fat thinks he's a God? because he owns a factory and also a lot of life times. If it wasn't for his fat stature or his oversized suit, Michael would have taken him for a military commander who like bossing people around.
'So I die tomorrow, it's kind of weird knowing when you will die and who is going to kill you. Should I enter the game again? everything in that game is not new to me, so it will be easily won, and I can also get back at Sara.'
"Hey you! Dopey!! What are you doing? Get to work!" The fat boss yelled at Michael seeing him standing still like a fool, while others are busy working.
Michael was preoccupied with his thoughts so he didn't heard the fat boss yelling at him. Seeing getting ignored, the boss got angry and walked up to him in long strides.
"Hey fool!!!" He stopped in front of Michael and yelled out to him, bringing him out of this thought.
"Yes, oh... boss!" Michael eexclaimed in mild surprise. He stood straight, waiting for orders.
"Are you stupid? Everyone is working and what are you doing here? now get to work or get out of here!" The fat man yelled, turned around and walked away.
"Asshole" Michael said under his breath.
The man stopped and turned around sharply. "What did you call me?!"
Michael was silent for a moment and looked down at his life times in his AI bracelet.
< 0 yrs, 0 months, 0 weeks, 2 Days, 15 hours, 59 minutes, 48 seconds > He sighed.
'I'm going to die in two days, so what's there to be afraid of, this asshole will also reduce my life times because of my mouth, that Is if he let me continue working here.' Michael thought inwardly.
"Are you deaf?!!" The man roared at him, now every single working staff's attention in the factory have been drawn over.
Michael stared at the fat boss for a while before opening his mouth.
"Yeah, I called you an asshole! What can you do about it? Tell me!!"
The man was taken aback by his loud roar and yelled back not planning to be intimidated by a twenty-two years old.
"How dare you?! Don't you know it's because of me you are still standing. If I haven't employed you back then when you were begging on your knees, would you be standing here?!"
"...And thank you for helping me back then, for that I will not take my payment for today, I quit!" Michael said, taking off the manufacturing uniform. With that taken care of, he walked away.
"Take your payment for today? Who what to pay a rascal like you? now get out of here and go die with that pathetic sister of yours!!"
These last words touched something in Michael making him stopped on track, his sister was his last and only relative in this run down planet, their mom left them when she gave birth to his sister, while their dad was killed by someone outside the city for his life times when Michael was just fifteen years old and his sister eight, everyday they were on edge, afraid that someone or some thugs will break down their door and asked them for Their live times or else they'll kill them. He had suffered with his sister, sometimes even going to bed with empty stomachs.
As the world now runs on life times because of AI, all currencies became useless and everyone sells their goods and provisions with life times. 2 hours of life times can buy you one hard loft of bread, time to eat it was like going on an unknown war, 'cause the bread will be difficult to even bite through, to talk of swallow.
He and his sister faced all these hardships and suffering together, that was also the main reason he entered the game for the first time and ended up getting killed by his ex-girlfriend.
So when he heard someone insulting his sister, the most precious treasure to him, no Matter how they suffered she never complained or got angry. That's why he stopped, turned around and walked toward the fat boss.
"What? Are you coming back to beg?!!" The man asked with a smug smile.
POW!!!
A straight punch from Michael on his fat cheek threw him butt first on the ground.
"Don't you ever mention my sister with that filthy mouth of yours, if you do again; I won't go easy on you!" Michael said coldly.
He might not be as strong as those high level gamers in AI, who were granted with skills and powers, but he surely knew how to throw a punch.
"Nice Work!" John shouted from the crowd. While the other workers had pleased smiles on their faces.
"Who dares?!" The Boss turned around but couldn't find the one who shouted just now, he then turned his attention to Michael while holding his right cheek.
"You dare hit me young man! Good, I will make sure to let you pay! Now get out of my factory!!!" He roared at Michael as he slowly stood up.
"Who want to stay in this pathetic place!" Michael spat on the ground and walked away, not even looking back.
"You will see what I will do to you and your bitch sister." The fat man threatened in a low voice.
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"Sighed"
Michael sighed as he walked out of the factory, he looked at his life times one last time.
"I should buy something good today, if I don't make it in the game. At least I should enjoy my last meal with my sister." Michael muttered and head toward the market, he would rather walk for hours than entered a cab and spend his life times, life times aren't gold, but life.
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