Jack was 22 years old this year, and he was an orphan who grew up in an orphanage.
Since childhood, he led a tough life. The name orphanage sounded divine, but life inside the orphanage was hell. There were lots of child abuse cases happening there, but no one would ask questions about what was happening inside the orphanage.
After some years of survival in that hell, he left the orphanage and started his life in the streets of the Milford town.
Milford town is a big town with a big population and is always lively. On the outside, people who looked at the town would feel it was a really good place to live.
No, that was only for wealthy people. Ordinary people always struggled to survive, and there was exploitation everywhere, both from government forces and underworld forces.
As Jack first entered the life of the streets, he was bullied and struggled at first in many ways.
He was a quick learner since childhood and more mature than a person of his age.
So he learned the ways of the streets quickly and made his own ways for survival.
He was just a simple street thug who bullied the weak and feared the strong, especially the gang members who ruled the darkest part of the town.
He often did odd jobs here and there, and small thefts in the streets, barely surviving until now.
Jack recently picked a new endeavor because he needed money urgently. That was night robbery on a lone road with fewer street lights. People traffic at night there was extremely low, and it connected the Milford town to the other areas.
He selected this area after so much research. He wore a mask and threatened people with a knife who came alone and robbed them. Even though it was an old method of robbery, it had shown great results sometimes, but it would also backfire when he judged people wrong.
Tonight was the same. While he was roaming around the same road, which was extremely empty tonight, not even a single living being could be seen. The area remained deathly silent.
He muttered under his breath, "Why was there no prey appearing tonight? Had these people become aware of the happenings on this road?"
After some thought, it seemed normal for people to be aware now. Since so many incidents happened here on this road, it must have been someone who got robbed by him here and started spreading rumors about this place.
It must be the reason, or his luck today was not good.
He sighed in his heart and started to roam around the road silently without making any sound.
As he walked around the road, the side of the road was filled with strong bushes which were not cleared properly and were left to grow uncontrollably.
As he walked by the side, something strange caught his eyes. He stopped walking and looked closely.
Inside the bushes, there was some pink-colored light glowing inside. His curiosity was piqued.
He started to walk toward the pink glowing thing and decided to see where that pink-colored light was coming from, and entered the bushes, which had nearly grown to the height of his chest.
As he moved away the bushes in front of him and entered inside slowly, the pink glow he had seen before only started to become visible clearly, and the light started to glow brighter and brighter as he got closer.
Finally, he went near the place where this mysterious light was coming from and looked at what it was.
There was a stone lying there on the ground and shining brightly. As he looked closely, suddenly an idea came into his mind.
Was it some kind of diamond? The color was extremely unique, and the glow it was giving was extremely strange. As soon as he thought this, the excitement in his heart started to burst open like a dam full of water. A wide smile appeared on his face.
He immediately tried to take the diamond, but as soon as he touched the stone, a bright pink light flashed before his eyes. His eyes couldn't see what was happening in front of him.
Suddenly, a strange pink stream of light flashed and entered his forehead in the center place between his two eyebrows.
At that time, Jack felt a strange presence controlling his body. He lost control of his body completely. He couldn't move a muscle and stood there silently for a minute.
After some time, he finally regained control over his body and looked around, only to find there was nothing in front of him. He touched his forehead where he felt something had entered, but there was no visible wound or pain in that place.
After some thought, he decided to immediately leave that place. He didn't dare linger around there any longer.
He walked toward the direction of the Milford town, and after walking for half an hour, he finally reached the old apartment building where many small apartment units were located inside it. There were also many big units suitable for families in the building, but he only rented the small apartment unit because it was both cheap and suitable for a single person like him.
As soon as he entered his apartment, there were not many things inside the apartment, only a bed and a set of tables and chairs.
Jack tiredly lay on the bed, and suddenly he thought that his rent had been due for almost three months.
That apartment building owner bitch will definitely fry me alive with her scoldings. I think I need to vacate this house and move somewhere else after this.
With that lady's temperament, she would definitely make him vacate. Jack made a silent sigh in his heart.
His mind silently drifted to sleep after a few minutes without any worries because he was already used to this kind of thing.
The night was cold and remained extremely silent. Inside Jack's small apartment unit, there was a pink glow that started to slowly surround Jack's body and started to make unknown changes inside his body.