Chapter 10 - 10

2nd March 2000, Morning 9:00.

Arther was lying on his room's floor, his eyelids fluttered for a few seconds before slowly opening, after opening a small slit in the eyes he had to close them immediately due to the light shining from the window, after taking some time to adjust to the brightness he slowly opened his eyes, after observing the surrounding he was surprised. He was lying on the floor with dirty shoes and normal clothes, he slowly tried to stand up, there was a change in his expression as he felt a splitting headache and fatigue washed over him, he endured the pain and slowly supporting himself toward the bed. On the bed, he checked for his tab for the time.

He was relieved after seeing the time, he was afraid that he would be unconscious for a long time as it might delay his plans as he was already falling short on the time, after organizing himself he looked at his surrounding, his shoes were dirty resulting in mud prints on the floor, those tools were thrown in a corner seeing it Arther had a wry smile on his face she knew if his mom was to see his room in such conditions he will be in grave danger.

Being an otaku Arther was used to sleeping late at night and waking late. It was very common of his behavior, sometimes he might even skip his breakfast resulting in a weak pale body, he was not much interested in looking good or having a healthy body doing any hard exercises. After he adjusted his state he tried to stand up still feeling a bit of fatigue he still endured it and went to clean his room and went to get a bath.

After changing his clothes he went into the kitchen to eat something to gain some energy. He went to check the upper shelf in the kitchen took a packet of instant noodles boiled some water and poured it into the packet, after smelling the fragrance of the noodle though they were the lowest quality noodles he still felt very hungry. He didn't wait for the noodle to cool down and wobbled them up.. Even after has finished eating the entire packet of the instant noodles he still felt very hungry. He went to prepare another two packets, after eating three full packets of instant noodles he felt satisfied.

Though he still felt a little weak it wasn't as weak as he felt in the morning. After eating and feeling a bit better he went to his room.

In his room, Arther was thinking about what had happened yesterday. As he had planned he went to cremate his grandmother's skeleton but just as he left he was hit by a fast descending light. He hasn't heard about such a thing even in his past life. After the light hit him he didn't feel any pain and wasn't even injured but felt very dizzy. Thus he hurriedly came back to his room and lost consciousness after that.

After remembering everything he checked on his right hand which was hit by the light, but there was nothing different. Even though there was nothing uncommon he knew that light wasn't ordinary and must have some meaning. After thinking for a long he didn't have any clue so he gave up. What was more important for now was to find a way to earn some money for his further plans. After thinking about various ways he decided on few ways though he was not sure if he will be successful due to the lockdown. He decided to give it a try.

Arther went to a site of a well-known firm about which he had heard from one of his friends in his past life. His friend had told him that he used to work as the firm's branch manager in the city F when the lockdown was imposed due to the loss faced by the firm, their higher management had decided to announce a lottery, the branch with the highest tickets sold will get a reward. He said that many other companies and firms have used these methods to attract customers towards their products for online sales.

This method was a very great way to earn as one has to know the highest price for the lottery was 5-9 million WC and more than a dozen million people were staying in a small city. If even a tenth of these people buy the ticket of 3 WC which will be the procurement of the prize money and the people from other cities will only result in profit for the company. And there will only be one winner among these million people.

It means it had a 1:million winning ratio which makes it almost impossible for anyone to predict the winner, but it was easy for Arther who was a return to win most of these lotteries as he had read about most of the winners. In the apocalypse, there were no TV and other means of entertainment so Arther had got a habit of collecting any readable material like magazines, books while he went with material accumulation teams for reading at night or when he didn't have any work. This was also a way he found to keep himself from thinking about the past.

He signed up on the websites, even though he knew about many lotteries he still only selected four of the best sites to avoid suspicion as all these four companies were not much strong and had their business in different fields and were not related to each other in any way and the announcing of this lotteries and prize distribution will be online due to the lockdown hence he will not have to explain anything to his parents as he has decided to prepare secretly and will find some reasons to keep safe when the apocalypse is struck.

After applying for the lotteries he selected the numbers that were going to be the winners, the amount he will earn with lotteries was totaled to 23 million WC. This will be enough for him to find a base and reinforce it and store enough food which if used in minimal quantity will be sufficient for 20 people for 2-3 years. He has decided to find a place near the inner city S as he knew most of its surroundings, though a bit far away will be the safest place for them since he knew even if he had the money he can't enter the inner city.

Firstly if were to request any official about it it might bring him danger as the news about the construction of the base cities was not disclosed to any common public. Secondly, the places inside the inner city were only for those who according to the higher-ups were useful for their survival and might become their chess pieces. They won't tolerate any unstable piece to be placed inside and Arther didn't want anyone else to control his destiny.

Though city F was near it fell even before the base city was established due to the cemetery on its west, it was a huge cemetery with thousands of dead tombs. This resulted in a huge inflow of undead and the fall of government before they reacted.

The nearest base was of city A but that also will fall and he didn't want to live there since, in his past life he lost his sister on the walls of that base, he didn't want to remember that scene and memories.

He wanted to have a strong base at the start of the apocalypse and find ways to strengthen himself since in few years they will have to move from that base to keep moving and avoid the dangerous events.