"I guess this is it. If the world can abandon a person, then I can be considered to have been abandoned by the world." Vincent murmured to himself.
He was currently standing on a rooftop of a building that was located in the outskirts of the city. It was currently night time, and he was gazing towards the center of the city where the flickering neon lights made the city look dazzling.
But when he looked at the area around him, the situation was completely contrasting that in the center of the city. The lights in this area could only be found in a few areas, with most of the parts of the outskirts of the city being covered in darkness.
Taking a deep breath, Vincent looked at the sky, before exhaling deeply. He reminisced about what had happened ever since he was young.
He did not know his parents, but as long as he could remember, he had always been the only person living in his house. According to the neighbor, it was said that he was brought over and was left in the house.
That was when he was 7 years old. The neighbors were the ones that were mainly taking care of him, and as he continued growing up, he had no other choice but to look for job opportunities. He could not continue depending on the neighbors, especially considering that they were in the same situation as himself, poor.
As for school, that was something that he had never attended. Even though he was not that much knowledgeable, but at least he had read quite a few books, and had learned how to write and read.
As something like mandatory education, that was not something that existed in this world. At least not in this nation, considering that the government was currently in turmoil.
Without any education, it was quite difficult to be able to find any sustainable job. And to make matters worse, any part-time job that he got would not pay him enough. With the cost of living continuously going up, the amount of money that he earned continuously had reduced value.
Well, it was not that the value of the money was producing, but instead, it was just that items were getting more expensive.
The thing that made Vincent feel that he had been abandoned by the world was that, he had never gotten a job that he would remain working there permanently. It was as if he was a jinx, with some of the places that he had gone to work either closing down, or maybe changing owners.
Regardless, different things happened, leading to him losing the job. This would lead him going out to look for more job opportunities.
Simply put, Vincent was currently barely able to sustain himself from the income that he was earning. As for saving, that was an impossibility, considering that he had already borrowed money from different people, and the time for making the payment was due.
At this moment, the only thing that Vincent remained with was the apartment that he lived in. It was the only asset that he had, considering that when he turned 18, a lawyer came over and asked him to sign a document, fully receiving the ownership rights of the apartment.
As for asking where the apartment came from, the lawyer never responded. And considering that Vincent was already struggling, he was obviously more than happy to receive the apartment.
But at this moment, it seemed that only two years after he had received it, he had no other choice but to sell it again. This was the only way to generate the money that could be used in repaying the debts, and starting a small business.
As he sighed once again, feeling heavy hearted, a flicker of light suddenly appeared in front of him.
Initially, it was just a small spot of light, but this light began expanding, and in no time, it was the size of an adult's thumbnail. It then exploded, making Vincent dodge. But he had only dodged when he realized that it seemed that the explosion of the light did not have any physical impact.
Additionally, it seemed that this light was stuck in front of him. No matter what direction he faced, he would be looking at this light.
And with the explosion of the light, a blue holographic screen suddenly appeared. Then in the next moment, several prompts began appearing one after the other.
[The Daily Box System binding… Binding completed.]
[The Daily Box System activating… Activation completed.]
[Calculating what the host most requires at the moment… Calculation completed.]
[It has been determined that the host has an urgent need for money. The daily boxes will contain money, but the amount will depend on the luck of the host, together with other factors.]
[The initial daily box has been activated.]
Together with the appearance of this prompts, Vincent suddenly felt a large amount of information being dumped into his mind. He felt a slight headache, before the information began registering in his mind.
In just a little while, he had completely understood what was happening. It turned out that somehow, he had been chosen by the system, and the binding had already been completed.
This system was capable of granting him boxes on a daily basis. Just like in the prompts that he had received, the contents of the daily box that would be revealed would always be in line with what the host of the system wanted the most during the time of the binding.
This implied that from now on to the time that maybe he would die, or maybe the system would disappear, all the daily boxes would have money inside them. It was just a mystery on the amount of money that would be contained within the boxes.
Basically, the contents of the box would depend mainly on black and several other factors. And this was not the only thing that he had learned, considering that there was a weekly box, then there was a monthly box, semiannual, annual, decade, century, millennia and so on.
And according to what he understood, it seemed that the value of the weekly box content was higher than the one that was within the daily box. For the monthly one, it was obviously above the one that came on a weekly basis. This went on with the others as well.
But the difference here was that, these boxes that could only be gained on a weekly, monthly, semi-annually, annually and so on, they would not necessarily contain money, but they might contain other things. They might be items, or maybe skills, abilities and so on.
As he digested this information, Vincent began getting excited. He might be in an illusion right now, but he definitely did not want to get out of this illusion. After all, as long as there was money, he would be able to solve much of the problems that he was currently having.
As for the system, this was not the first time that he was encountering something like this. He had already read quite a number of novels online, with some of them containing ideas about systems.
Just after he finished contemplating on this information, something else happened. Just below the screen that was floating in front of him, another flicker of light appeared.
It went ahead and expanded, then formed something like a small gift box. The size of the box was not that big, only big enough to be able to fully fit in the hand of an adult, but of course only in terms of width and length.
[Tap the box to unlock the daily box.]
Vincent hesitated for a moment, before stretching his finger and tapping the box that was floating in front of him. The moment that his finger came into contact with it, the top of the box suddenly opened.
The moment that the box was opened, another prompt appeared on the screen that was floating in front of him.
[You have received $30,000.]
Vincent was momentarily stunned, not anticipating that this box actually contained such a huge amount of money. $30,000! This was an amount of money that he had never dreamed of holding in his hand.
For a moment there, Vincent wandered if this was not a prank that he was being played on. He looked around, only to realize that he was the only person that was standing on the roof of this building.
And from the looks of it, gazing down from the top of the building, he could see that a few people were still moving around, and they did not seem to notice him at all. It seemed that the light in front of him was only visible to him, considering that he only realized at this moment that this light was not being reflected on his body at all.
Maybe this was something that was just visual? But how could that explain how he touched the box?
As he was still thinking about this, the phone in his pocket suddenly rang with a notification. Vincent's heart skipped a beat as a thought suddenly appeared in his mind.
The tune of the notification from the phone was very familiar to him. So, with a racing heart, he took out his phone, and realized that he had received a message. And, it was from the bank that he was banking with.
Holding his breath, he unlocked his phone, before checking the message. And, the message that was displayed on the broken screen of the phone made him realize that everything was real.
{$30,000 has been deposited into your account. Current account balance, 30,076.}