Chapter 14: A Place to Stay
Chapter 14: A Place to Stay
"Okay, bro, so are we heading back in to keep partying, or are we off to the place?" Song 6PUS asked, just as the building behind them exhaled another massive plume of white fireworks.
"Party? Are you kidding me? Let’s just go to the place." After everything that had happened today, Sun Jack’s nerves were strung tighter than a wire about to snap. He desperately needed to rest.
Song 6, clearly wired differently, had no issue diving into this chaos right after a brush with death.
As the car started moving, Sun Jack stared out the window at the bizarre, vibrant cityscape. The kaleidoscope of lights and colors made the world outside feel surreal, like something out of a fever dream. After a while, he turned to watch Song 6, who was driving with one hand while casually live-streaming with the other.
Despite how unreliable he seemed, this guy was loyal to a fault. "Song 6, I’ve got to say, you’re broke, yet you still splurge like crazy. You even treated people to drinks? At first, I thought you were some rich kid."
"Sh*t, what kind of logic is that? I risk my life to earn @coins—why would I save them?" Song 6PUS replied, stomping on the gas pedal and sending the car into a sharp acceleration. "If you’ve got money, you’ve got to spend it like there’s no tomorrow. What if you die with your savings unspent? That’d be a real tragedy."
Sun Jack shook his head slightly. He just couldn’t wrap his head around Song 6’s view on money—or life, for that matter.
Back in his old life, he’d seen plenty of sci-fi depictions of futuristic worlds on TV. But he’d never expected the real thing to be so chaotic.