Chapter 41: Spin The Lottery Wheel
Alto’s eyes opened weakly. After finishing his work on The White Blade, he had fallen asleep for a full 24 hours. His body was still a little heavy. He climbed out of his bed to get a drink from one of the bags of food he had procured sometime before. His head ached from the mental exhaustion he had been suffering from for a week.
After quenching his thirst, he decided to check the reward his system had handed to him upon completion. It was a gift box of some type. Alto was a bit intrigued as to what the gift box could be and what he would receive from it. He hoped it would be better than the fifteen creation points he had received from the welcome package.
Alto initiated the Mech Designer Protocol and opened its system menu. He tapped on the package icon to see the image of a white gift box tied with gold ribbons. Alto took the gold ribbons as a sign of good luck. He tensed up before choosing to open the box. When he did, it illuminated the room and blinded him momentarily. Alto wished this feature had a dimming option.
The light slowly dimmed out, and he could see the image of two golden tickets before him. The system responded with a new screen:
[You have received two lottery tickets. The lottery function is now available to the user.]
Alto proceeded to ask the system what the "lottery function" was, to which it responded:
[The lottery function is a place where luck is tested. Each spin can only be activated by a lottery ticket. Rewards given are random.]
Alto did not dwell much on his thoughts before bringing up the lottery function. What looked like a huge golden wheel materialized before him. It looked like a giant pizza cut into eight parts. On each part was a red question mark. If Alto had to guess, those would be his prizes, and they were hidden from him. Alto wondered if it would make any difference if he could see the rewards. Surely it would have no effect on the end result.
He supposed this was done only to increase the tension that came with the lottery wheel. But now that he stopped to think about it, why did the Mech Designer Protocol have a lottery function? Sometimes it felt like he was messing with a game, but personal experience had taught him that this was the real deal.