Chapter 14 - System 2

Arther was happy to have got the chance to enter the black market, now he can try to obtain few restricted things from there. After he left Robert's place he hurried back to his home, While returning home he noted down a few shops he will try to clean up after the apocalypse before leaving the city, those can become their traveling rations. And anyways those shops containing many things to sell inside will never be opened again. Most of those owners will become undead and join other undead in this city forever, while few lucky ones might be able to escape from the city.

City F was a middle-level city, it got most of its income from the farms in its suburbs. Though it was a part of one of the strong countries among world. It was not much developed due to none natural advantages. Hence the living standards of the people here are also average, hence the shops and markets didn't have many high-cost products, on the supermarkets near the city center have relatively higher product qualities, luxuries, and cost.

After noting down about most of the shops that might contain a high amount of food and other luxuries of the apocalypse. He went back home.

After reaching home he found that everyone from his family was present there and was discussing something. Whatever they were discussing he was not much interested.. So he went to the stairs to go to his room, as he went inside his mom noticed him and called.

"Arhter comes here I wanna tell you something."

"Our neighbor Aunt Mey called yesterday, she said uncle Will had got in an accident yesterday on his duty, so she had to be there in the hospital to take his care until he gets well and is discharged from the hospital. Till then Nanny will be staying with us, she will be living in Jessy's room, Mey has not told anything to Nanny so make sure you don't create any problem.", Arther's mom told him with a serious expression. Seeing everyone being so serious Arther felt something big must have happened but they are not sharing it with him.

"And yes Arther you are not allowed to go in the city for a few days", his father stated with a stern voice.

"What?! Why?", hearing what his father said Arther was shocked and confirmed that there must be something wrong. But he doesn't something such happening in his previous life.

"No questions Arther, go to your room.", this time his father had anger visible in his voice.

Arther knew what will happen if he tried to argue with his father now, he had to find another way to eave at night.

So he went to his room and decided to ask Robert if he knew anything. And today while returning he did feel a bit different in the city, it shouldn't be so empty with anyone outside.

After entering his room he freshened up and went to bed. While laying on bed he tried to recall the screen again the same way as it disappeared. The moment the thought went through his mind the screen reappeared again.

This time though it was a bit different.

[ Main Vessel Status

Carrier Vessel Status ]

Seeing the screen Arther had an idea of what this might be, being an otaku it was common knowledge that this must the system/Goldfinger that all reincarnates in those novels get.

There were two options, seeing this, Arther was confused as he knew that when he first received that prompt it stated for a vessel but here there are two vessels does it mean it already has one vehicle?.

After thinking about it Arther didn't remember having touched any other vehicle. After not finding anything he tried to click the first option of the 'main vessel' but his finger passed through the screen. Seeing this Arther was even more confused as he didn't know how to select any option.

Since he was the only one who can see this screen and the system was able to understand his thought maybe he can control them through his thoughts. So he tried to concentrate on the first option. As he did so the screen blinked and changed, it felt very real.

[ Body Scanning initializing...

Body scan complete. ]

[ Main Vessel Status:-

Name: N/A

Body: Carbon-based organism

Level: -100(Based on the previous vessel)

Energy source: None

]

[No carrier vessel found

Main body not sufficient for the entire system to reboot.]

[Energy level: 0.00001

The system will remain dormant till a sufficient energy source is found

Current energy source: Star energy](Solar)

As the screen changed there were many prompts on the screen, a green light scanned Arther's body, this must be what it said as body scan, after scanning the screen was filled with few data containing Arther full-body 3D scan which kept rotating in the upper right corner of the screen. As he tried to manipulate it Arther found that he can zoom in and out and manually rotate the body.

After that, a few alert prompts were showing low energy, and then the screen disappeared. But seeing the last prompts Arther had an idea of this system.

The main body is stated must be like a control center that passed all the decisions and orders and that must be his body, and his body doesn't contain any energy source which the system can rely on to complete the reboot. The light source that collided with him on that day at night must be this system that integrated with him. The system showed that it was using the sun's energy for accumulation. It must have been activated when Arther touched that car at Robert's garage and thus notified Arther about it using the stored energy, but he has now resulted in it going dormant. So now Arther had to find an energy source sufficient for the system to work and a vessel. What made him confused was what does the system consider a vessel. If he can he would rather make an airship carrier his vessel. It must be cool to drive it in the apocalypse he might even be able to recruit more people there and create a small kingdom for him to rule.

As he was in his dream of being a king with many beauties and delicacies in his hands there was a knock on his door bringing him back to reality.

After clearing his thoughts Arther went to open the door,

Nanny was standing there looking at him, "Brother Arther Aunty has called for you for dinner."

Arther went downstairs with the nanny to have dinner, the atmosphere at the dining table was a bit silent than usual, Nanny was happily was eating while watching TV as she didn't know about her father, everyone else thought were a bit silent. Seeing this made me more worried as a normal accident should not make everyone so tense. And in lockdown what accident might happen in a closed metal warehouse without anything precious inside.

After dinner Arther went to his room, he had decided to go meet Robert first and try making a deal with the weapon smugglers in the black market, he knew a bit about someone their expert in those handlings. And also try finding out about the accident from someone inside there as he knew Robert being an otaku would rarely know about anything happening around him except about his cars.

Then after returning at night he had to also cremate his lovely grandmother sleeping in their backyard before she wakes up to greet them. He also had to find anything that can be used as an energy source.

Todays night was not gonna be peaceful for Arther.