"I want to die, but I have to live" said Remond dol as he was starting his day as a construction worker.
Remond prepared his water that he got from the river yesterday to be boiled, using the branches he collected from the woods and an old pot he found. He then takes out a stale bread he got a few days back to eat with the water. Remond had nothing to eat with all the debts to be paid.
Remond was lucky this time, the bridge near his village had broken and had to be fixed and he wouldn't have to stay some where else. When there was a construction work in the near by city he had to stay under a bridge for several months to not walk ten of kilometer back home.
When he was at the site the workers had just began to come to work. During lunch he went to the woods to find any edible mushroom but was unable to find any as the winter snow had covered the ground.
While all the workers had a fulfilling day working hard and heading home with there salary there was Remond taking his hard earned money to the man behind a building for the money to be paid.
As the man asked for all the money Remon got, he begged the man for sparing him a little for food.
The man lashed out saying "why do you have to do this every time man fuck off" Remond was desperate as now he had nothing to eat now that the last piece of bread had eaten before and at this time the forest near him had nothing to give him to eat.
Desperate Remond grabbed his legs and begged him to give at least the money for a piece of bread then suddenly the man punched him in the face and started to kick him recklessly in the stomach when trying to block the man's leg Remond broke his finger as Remond cried while getting hit he thought to himself again "I just want to die".
Face bruised broken finger limping towards his old cabin he built using the wood from the forest the cabin was built under a tree using its roots as its base.
As he laid on his bed he was thinking about the time when he 10 and was happily living in his home with his parents and sister, playing with his sister and parents. Then suddenly an earthquake hit the city they were in. The building crushed his parents and sister he was devasted then when the rescuers arrived, the parents had died, the sister was alive but needed immediate care and was admitted in the ICU.
He was shocked as a child but he had no one to rely on. The house which he lived in was destroyed during the earthquake so he has no place to sleep he slept on a bench in the hallway of his sisters room. His sister was in a coma and was not responding to any thing so the doctors tried every thing they can but were not successful.
The disaster fund was given to everyone involved, but most of the money was taken by a gang that was ruling the area. While others were not happy about it they can do nothing to the Red Devil gang so they kept quite. Remond was also silent as he was just a child.
The bills of the hospital was paid directly to the hospital by the government so his sister was safe but this only covered for maximum of two years. So, Remond had to work hard for his sister in case she needed more time.
One evening when Remond was 11 and doing odd jobs at different places he was picked by a man in a red suit and taken to abandoned factory with a few others to do the Red Devil gangs jobs for them. Remond was scared as they were the ones that took his money from him.
The group of children were selected into two groups one into muscle and one at skinny. The children with good physique were the muscles that would be trained to do the ground work for them and skinny were the one with the task of spying and collecting information from other gangs, cities, businesses. Remond fell on the later side as he was scrawny and weak.
The muscles were trained and hard to replace and were treated well where as the skinny were dime a dozen they were treated poorly and were often extorted by their supervisor. Remond was a victim of that the man who took all his money was his supervisor's lackey he is tasked to look over Remond and take his money.
Remond is crying under the tent thinking about his sister and how she is, as it has already been 6 years since he last saw her. She the only reason he is living and working had to save money.
It has also been 6 months since he last sent any money to the hospital. Remond was paying in 3 months installment from a loan he took, so that was another thing he was worried about.
As he was worrying about his sister he drifted to sleep.
The next day, when he woke up he couldn't move properly as the beating from the day before was too rough this time. He had work to do otherwise the gang would come for him again so he forced himself to stand up and head to work.
While walking slowly towards the construction site to work he was struck by a strange red lighting. As he was losing consciousness he heard a voice saying
"The required condition has met, booting up the system"
[Ding]
The system has been unlocked, integrating the system into the user.
[Failed]
The user is dead...
Reviving the user...
Revival successful
[Ding]
The system is fully interlinked with the user.
As Remond opened his eyes the system welcomes him as the user for The Survival system.